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Novation Bass Station LEADS! aka Lead Staion

YouTube via vinyljunkie07 — June 16, 2010 — "Just jamming over some great old tunes with some random shit thrown in for variety lol
This little analogue keyboard is so much fun to play on it's great and the affordable price makes it even more enjoyable."

NewManiac E-MU MP-7 KORG TR-Rack

YouTube via nem221 — June 16, 2010 — "The MP-7 provides all of the drums, percusion and bass. The TR-Rack provides the keyboard and string sounds. All music and frequencies performed by NewManiac. Tracks 1-8 are the drums tracks, Tracks 9-16 are bass, keys, strings. Everything was sequenced on the MP-7."

Swarm Music Album Black Allegheny

Swarm Music Album Black Allegheny from Evan Merz on Vimeo.

"In this video, I explain my new album, Black Allegheny. The album was created using algorithmic composition software that utilizes swarm intelligence. In this video, I explain how this music differs from traditionally composed music.

To listen to the album or buy it, go to evanxmerz.bandcamp.com/

For more about the composer, see computermusicblog.com/blog/evan-x-merz/"

This reminds me of Audio Damage's Automation.

Swarm Controlled Sampler - Becoming Live from Evan Merz on Vimeo.

"Becoming is an algorithmic composition program written in java, that builds upon some of John Cage’s frequently employed compositional processes. Cage often used the idea of a “gamut” in his compositions. A gamut could be a collection of musical fragments, or a collection of sounds, or a collection of instruments. Often, he would arrange the gamut visually on a graph, then use that graph to piece together the final output of a piece. Early in his career, he often used a set of rules or equations to determine how the output would relate to the graph. Around 1949, during the composition of the piano concerto, he began using chance to decide how music would be assembled from the graph and gamut.

In Becoming, I directly borrow Cage’s gamut and graph concepts; however, the software assembles music using concepts from the AI subfield of swarm intelligence. I place a number of agents on the graph and, rather than dictating their motions from a top-down rule-based approach, the music grows in a bottom-up fashion based on local decisions made by each agent. Each agent has preferences that determine their movement around the graph. These values dictate how likely the agent is to move toward food, how likely the agent is to move toward the swarm, and how likely the performer is to avoid the predator.

Buy the album: evanxmerz.bandcamp.com/

More: computermusicblog.com/blog/evan-x-merz/"

via Califaudio

Future Retro Revolution MK2 Analog Synth

via this auction

"This is the newer black model which has longer battery life than the white and beige version. The Revolution has onboard FX and audio in unlike the X0XB0X. You can jack in another synthesizer's audio and midi out to its inputs and use the 303 filter & reverb! You can also use it as a Midi to CV converter and sequencer for your modular setup. It has pattern, pattern linking, and a seperate song mode. The Remix button and two remix knobs will shuffle your patterns in realtime while playing live! I have not seen another machine with this feature."

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Roland MKS-80 Super Jupiter 240V& MPG Programmer clone

via this auction

"Roland Jupiter MKS-80 Rev 5 240AC model for UK,Europe and AU with M64c memory cart loaded with Kid Nepro patchs."

Painting with Sound Patch Editor

TAMA Techstar TS-305 Drum Synth

via this auction

"Each channel has it's own trigger in (pad and external) and it's own output. Also has XLR master out for all mixed. Works great with external trigger outs from Roland TR-606 or gate out from Roland MPU-101 or from Tama TSQ-1000 six channel step sequencer"

SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS Prophet-5 Poly Sequencer

via this auction

"This is an early pre-MIDI sequencer made as an add-on for the famous Prophet 5 polyphonic synthesizer, (and built in to the larger Prophet 10). See here for some background - http://www.synthmuseum.com/magazine/0011bc.html"

Waldorf Pulse - Analogue Synthesizer

via this auction

"- Three Analogue Oscillators with variable waveforms pulse with variable pulse width (saw, triangle and cross modulation)
- Oscillator sync
- Waldorf 24 dB lowpass filter with resonance up to self-oscillation, frequency range 25Hz to 35kHz.
- 100 programs, divided into 59 ROM presets, 40 user programs and one random sound
- Two envelopes each with selectable trigger modes
- Two LFOs with different waveforms (triangle, sin, saw, pulse and sample&hold)

- LFO frequency range from 0.008 Hz up to 261 Hz
- Internal Arpeggiator (tempo from 50bpm to 300bpm and 16 predefined rhythm patterns)
- All parameter changes sent/received as MIDI controller
- Four routable modulation units with adjustable source, amount and destination
- Six knobs and four buttons for convenient editing
- 19" 2HE Rackmount
- Stereo Line out
- MIDI In/Out/Thru"

MIDI Keyboard Visualizer [experimental]

MIDI Keyboard Visualizer [experimental] from VJFader on Vimeo.

"Real-time visualization of experimental keyboard music. This is kind of like playing Rockband or Beatmania in reverse, very satisfying.

Visuals coded in Processing, sound from Alesis Ion keyboard.

vjfader.com" Also see: Projection Mapping Music Sequencer - Rubik's Cube