NOT NAMM: The Swarmatron by Dewanatron

"The Swarmatron was created to produce eight tones tuned approximately to one note, each tone slightly different in pitch to produce a complex and natural choral effect.

These eight oscillators can be played with a single ribbon controller (variable resistor) to move the pitch center up or down.

The span control expands the sound of a swarm of eight notes spread just a few cents apart into a wide chord of equidistant pitches spread over the entire spectrum. The player can "taffy pull" the resulting chord by using the span control and pitch ribbon in tandem.

Swarms of sine waves evoke swarms of angels congregating. Swarms of sawtooth waves evoke the swarming of bees. The sound of a host of voices, earthly or unearthly, has a unique character recognized by the ear even when they are folded together in unison."

If you've been following this site for a while you might recognize the Swarmatron from this post back in March of 2007.

Corso di formazione in SOUND ENGINEERING (corso intensivo)

YouTube via IITMRoma
"Lezioni di Sintesi del Suono -"

Big Briar minimug

flickr by andrewdalio

"PIcture's starting to wear off from years of use!"

Big Briar was Bob Moog's company prior to re-obtaining the rights to the Moog Music name.

NAMM: Coverage Coming in via CatSynth

Some shots in via CatSynth where you'll find the write-ups and more to come. I love how they have the little stuffed cat in every shot!!! Too funny. See him on top of the Moogerfooger? :)

http://www.moogmusic.com/
http://davesmithinstruments.com/
http://www.nordkeyboards.com

NOT NAMMM: Circuit Master's Circuit Bent KORG Kaossilator

details at GetLoFi

follow-up to this psot

NOT NAMM: New Roland Jupiter-4 Interface with full MIDI in the Works

via sequencer.de via covariance on The Roland Jupiter Series BBS

"Feature list:
- Faithful emulation of the original Roland Jupiter 4 programmer chip
- Memory is expanded to 32 patches and internally stored in non-volatile memory
- MIDI In and Out connections
- All 16 sliders and 9 switches are sending and receiving MIDI control messages
- MIDI channel change from control panel (press MANUAL + PRESET switches)
- Modifying stored patches is now possible
- Sending and receiving MIDI Program Change messages
- Patch dump

Planned features:
- Firmware upgradable thru MIDI
- Patch copy
- Patch morph
- LFO on any parameter
- Randomize parameters
- Elektron TurboMidi compatibility (10 times faster MIDI communication)

The second board is a usual MIDI interface that has the following features:
- Polifonic MIDI Note messages
- Pitch bend control
- VCF control
- Volume control
- Portamento control
- Arpeggio rate control
All these controls are parallel with the JP4 performance controls."

Update: a link to the user's manual is now posted at the thread on the BBS.

NOT NAMM: New Serge M-odule released: the 'Dual NTO' m-odule

The 'Dual NTO' M-odule.

it contains (from left to right):
NTO (New Timbral Osc), NTO, Active Processor.

Price is 1800 usd.

this M-odule offers Two High Quality VCO's with a huge frequency range and on-board (linear) FM-index vca, plus VC-slew limiting (portamento).
Also, it offers a VC dc-coupled X-fader, inverter and offset generator for mixing cv's and audio.

via Bakis

NOT NAMM: Vacoloco Defender

via Vacoloco Ramblings
"The board will handle 192 LEDs, 192 Switches and 32 analogue inputs. Here’s a picture of the PCB in Eagle, boards have been ordered"

Vacoloco is also working on the QiX project. "For those who don’t know what it is, it’s a hybrid CPU and DSP on a board. A bit like the Sound-Art Chameleon, but on Steroids."

First Tenori rhythm

YouTube via RothHandle
"Day one of recording the Magical Tenori-on. I saw one at a underground night club in Hong kong and realized I needed one badly. So I took the smart way out. It became my wifes christmas present. Yesterday I recorded some drum samples into it and today we used it as the rhythm track for a Andreas Morland song, all the time.

This film was recorded at my studio, Roth Händle. This is where I record and produce bands. Right now I am mostly working on two projects. Andreas Morland and Music for the silent movie Nanook of the North which we will be performing in tromsö next week. If you are curious about the studio please drop by www.roth-handle.nu
I am also on myspace...search for Molesome."

astat+astat synths demo

astat+astat synths demo from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

"more info samoletuvvp.narod.ru/vto/diy/astat.html"

::vtol:: astat + volfram synths jam from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

"volfram - samoletuvvp.narod.ru/vto/diy/vol.html"