MATRIXSYNTH

YouTube via mutableinstruments. via Palm Sounds
"Playing with the Shruti-1 proto and a fat oscillator stack (osc1: pwm ; osc2: saw, slightly detuned ; square sub-oscillator mixed at 50%). Later, the volume of osc2 and the sub-oscillator is set to 0, and I scan through the waveform shapes (note that there's a fair amount of PWM routed to osc1)"

NOT NAMM: A Collection of Logic Modules via Ruin & Wesen

"There has been a lot of ideas being stewed around here at Ruin & Wesen. Some of these ideas come from the act of using digital logic as a sort of analog synth, patching between modules to create flexible signal flow. A lot of these modules have coalesced into what I've called the 'Cashbox', read more about it later. Technically it's not an analog synth but the way you work with it is sort of, well, analogous to... analog. This synth was inspired by what is known as a Lunetta synthesizer."
Full details at Ruin & Wesen

Sequential Drumtraks Vintage Drum Machine

YouTube via jpeg80. via this auction

Circuit bent Bliptronic 5000

Circuit bent Bliptronic 5000 from Michael Una on Vimeo.

"A modified Bliptronic 5000. I used a Getlofi Precision timer kit to replace the internal crystal clock, which results in some nice pitch bends- the sounds are samples played off a digital ROM chip.

I also found a nice bend point on the audio IC that results in a harmonic drone.

Also, I'm using a HighlyLiquid MD24 kit to send sync pulses to the Bliptronic from Ableton Live, which keeps it in lockstep with some programmed drums."

NAMM: More Details on the Teenage Engineering OP-1

Create Digital Music has a great article up on the Teenage Engineering OP-1. Definitely check it out.

"Teenage Engineering’s OP-1 is something unique in music hardware. It’s got a form factor inspired by the Casio VL-Tone series – you know, those cute little 80s-vintage synths. It’s a sampler. It’s a synth. It has an FM radio. It will have a variety of sequencers. It has, we’ve just learned, a multi-track tape mode that lets you do beat-synced virtual splicing as a performance technique. It is expected to integrate and interoperate with a design lifestyle including, if you like, a luxury-priced, meticulously-machined desk lamp, and according to one rumor I heard, perhaps even a specially-designed electric bicycle. (Seriously.)"