Rick Wakeman Visits It's Full of Stars

on It's Full of Stars

PIF RARE SOVIET USSR VINTAGE TOY SYNTHESIZER

via this auction

"Specifications:
— Number of octaves in a keyboard - 2
— Number of timbres - 3
— Adjustable effects - Vibrato
— Output - built-in speaker / 5DIN Output
— Power sourcse - 9V adapter / 6 Batteries
— Weight, 2.5 kg (approx. 5.5 Pounds)"

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NAMM: Dave Smith and Tom Oberheim

A new batch of NAMM shots via synchro1 are up here.
"Highlights today (some are in the photos):
- Thanking Dave Smith & Tom Oberheim for making new instruments
- The Nord Piano looks to be a nice live instrument. The word "noise" is misspelled on the prototype.
- Seeing Gino Robair & Mike Peake again after several years
- Eigenharp demo - 3 models now coming out - Pico is $500 US, new T'au model will retail around $2800, out in May. Instruments only work with
Mac; PC version scheduled for March.
- meeting Jurgen from Jomox and scheduling my SunSyn upgrade
- Analogue Solutions has a prototype of a new hardware sequencer in the Noisebug booth
- watching Dieter Doepfer patch away like mad and *really* get into, so much so that he kept expanding the patch as security was turning off the lights and chasing us out. Seeing the joy on his face while he worked away at an excellent patch that sounbded a lot like Trans Europe Express. I had a chance for an extended conversation and we shared our love of the modulars that were out of our price range in our younger days.
- bought a pocket sax - which is a tenor reed/mouthpiece attached to a modified recorder body. Sounds a lot like a sax and only cost $70. My original instruments were alto & bass clarinet and since I stopped smoking I might even have my wind back. Embouchure will take a little longer..."

Voice of Saturn + PBR art entry

Voice of Saturn + PBR art entry from Travis Thatcher on Vimeo.

"boom!"

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.