MATRIXSYNTH

Oberheim OB-8 Page 2 Panel Graphics Scan

via michael barber on the AH list, posted here with permission:

"i scanned the Page 2 functions a year or so ago for someone, it's been sitting quietly on my internets here.

enjoy!"

uda

YouTube via masuidrive
"宇田さんによるサビテルの演奏"
"UDA's played by Sabiteru"

via Jafafa Hots: "interesting controller being played at the Japan Make Mag fair.
Called a Uda"

ウダー練習 - 04/08/2008

電子楽器ウダー3.3

Make: Tokyo Meeting　手作り電子楽器「ウダー」 - 01

"2008年4月20日（日）「Make: Tokyo Meeting」にて、宇多さんの演奏"
"April 20, 2008 (Sun) "Make: Tokyo Meeting" at Uta's play"

You can find more vids in the thumbnails that come up after the video ends.

Update via Jafafa Hots in the comments:
"Found a little more info which I am swiping word for word from a poster on another message board:

'Found out a little more about this sweet music maker... The Uda is an ELECTRONIC instrument that is played with both hands by pushing down pieces of rope that correspond to certain notes. Each twist of the rope represents an octave, and each segment of the rope represents a different note. The resulting data is output as MIDI, and although it could technically be used with any MIDI sound, Uda-san (Uda is also the name of the person who made this instrument) chooses to stick with the flute-like textures. So basically its a funny shaped keyboard... i like it though!'"

Nikon D-5000 with real Cinema Lenses

YouTube via nathanielscott. Some DIY synth spotting. The video description is on the Nikon.

Silent Way Quantizer

YouTube via expertsleepers
"Demo of the basic features of the Expert Sleepers Silent Way Quantizer plug-in, processing a ramp signal from the Silent Way LFO plug-in."

Feelings on a screen (akai s612 slowmotion mix) Akai s612 + Korg ps900

YouTube via zaphid
"just me checking out a Korg ps900 before it ships to the new owner in Sweden. I made some samples with it on my akai s612's and made a short track (cover) with it. You should check Bochum Welt's original Feelings on a screen wich is an absolute masterwork of simplicity. Hope you don't mind Gianluigi ;-)"

Handmade Music Austin #4

"This Sunday we’ll be building the Nebulophone, an Arduino based synth with a Stylophone like keyboard. It has adjustable waveforms, a light controlled analog filter, LFO, and arpeggiator that can be clocked over IR."

Full details including some audio and video at Handmade Music.

via Dr. Bleep

Live Techno Series #4 - MC-909 & Virus - Simon Stokes

YouTube via siedgey
"Thanks for checking this out!

This is part 4 of my new series of live techno videos. For this one, the track ended up being quite a bit harder and faster, but keeping the funk!

This is the same setup as the last video, with the 909 providing all the sequencing and percussion and the Virus providing all the sounds (created from scratch, of course!). The mad IDM type noise you can hear from the start of the track is created by setting the decay of a sound right down while it runs on the 16ths. This is then fed through the Virus' awesome tape delay, and the feedback amount is set to above 100% so it feeds into itself. Tweaking the delay time then makes everything go mental, as you can hear!

Hope you like it, all comments are warmly received. Please rate this video if you enjoy it - the last video quickly soared to the 35th top rated / most discussed music video on YouTube - so thank you to everyone who rated / commented!

If you have any questions, I'm always glad to help out.

Thanks,

Simon"