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YouTube via sounddoctorin
"Bob Weigel goes through some repair tips and plays around with the Elka Panther organ. This unit is actually going to be used by "The Like" and was purchased by Pete Thomas recently for the band his daughter plays drums in. I love as I mention the construction but if you get one plan on replacing all those 61 electrolytic capacitors and possibly the lamp for the tone decay (which is a decay envelope for the mixture tabs.)"

ARP Odyssey/Little Brother: synced Osc FM with footpedal

ARP Odyssey/Little Brother: synced Osc FM with footpedal from Jochen Bohnes on Vimeo.

"The intention of this clip is to show, how the Odyssey can be controlled easily but quite complex with the footpedal.

IMO the Odyssey has one of the best interfaces, small synthesizers ever had."

St. Nikolaus plays Solaris

flickr set by solaris synth
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"While I was working late at the German office, who should drop by but St. Nikolaus! (Nicholas in English.)
You see, in Germany Dec. 6th is celebrated as St. Nikolaus Day. Obviously, he was in the neighborhood, and had heard about the forthcoming Solaris synthesizer. Wanting to get his own private tour, I heard a knock at the door, and a loud, low voice ask if there were any children here. When I opened the door, he started laughing, saying he wanted to see what this Solaris was all about, having heard so much about it himself."

http://johnbowen.com/

via http://twitter.com/solaris_synth

John Bowen Solaris - New FX routing and Input/Output pages

via John Bowen on the John Bowen Synth Design forum, via http://twitter.com/solaris_synth

"The latest OS has a new arrangement for the FX pages, and adds new inputs/outputs assignment pages. I was hoping to get some video showing these before I took off to Germany on Sunday (Feb. 7th), but it may have to wait.

Basically, one of the coolest things about the re-design is that now there are 4 Effects busses (channels), and you can have any output receive any of the FX buss outs. This means you could use the 4 stereo analog output pairs ( (or the S/PDIF) to send out a

separate effect (there are currently only 4 effects). Or, you can put any combination of effects in series, however once you use an effect, it is removed from the available 'FX Pool'. You can even put the FX busses in series themselves, so that one set of outputs has just chorus, but another output set has chorus routed into delay (as shown in the pictures below). All in all, an extremely flexible setup!

On the Output page, each Output set is listed with a selected signal source. This source list is as follows:
OFF, Synth, Ext 1/2, Ext 3/4, S/P-DIF, FX Chan 1, FX Chan 2, FX Chan 3, FX Chan 4.

Selecting Synth, for example, will route the dry, direct synth output to the associated Output assignment.

I'll see if I can get a visual of some kind posted before I leave. Busy packing and getting things together today (and I have a gig tonight!)
-john b.

-edit- here we go"

VANGELIS-THE MAN AND HIS MUSIC(PART 1)

video upload by ANDREASROCKY

"VANGELIS INTERVIEW IN HIS NEMO STUDIO(1984)!"

VANGELIS-THE MAN AND HIS MUSIC(PART 2)

"VANGELIS INTERVIEW IN HIS NEMO STUDIO(1984)!"

VANGELIS-THE MAN AND HIS MUSIC(PART 3)

VANGELIS-THE MAN AND HIS MUSIC(PART 4)

properboy l.d.r. passive resistance pedal

YouTube via theproperboy
"www.properboy.com

this unit is capable of controlling volume, as well as control voltages, by the amount of light that enters the cell."

circuit bent boss ds-1 by properboy

"www.properboy.com
transistor modification, two mode switch, capable of self oscillation, not subtle "

Synth movie themes from the vault- Francis Monkman (the long good friday) remix

YouTube via mik300z
"Always loved this soundtrack, and its not heard very often. Also very hard to find a stereo recording of it. Francis Monkman was a great synth player and composer. This is a cover, but I kept the original sax part (no synth can replace a real sax played by a real sax player!) Took me a long time to sample it and bring it back into the track, but ableton is one powerful tool. Lots of EQing and compression/delays etc. Hope you like it!
Juno 6- sequence, bass
Ensoniq ESQ1 - sequencer, sawtooth bass
Juno G - Elec piano
Microkorg-strings
Akai s3000 - drums, opening countdown
Ableton live 7- recorder /arranger and effects"

Awakenings 060210 Astrogator, Norman Phay & Nick Robinso

via the forum where you'll find more images of the performance.

pictured:
Astrogator [top two shots] - Steve Humphries aka Create and Jez Creek aka Modulator ESP with a set of sequencing and space music

Norman Phay - keyboardist of Vietgrove with an experimental modular set

Nick Robinson - looping guitarist extraordinaire with a set of improvised ambience

Huba&Silica feat. Jahricio

flickr by hubasilica

"foto x pablomurillo
Jazz Café San Pedro // 01 feb.2010"

KORG MicroKORG used as a controller for Ableton Live.

www.jazzrobot.com