FL Studio 9.5 Beta - What's New?

YouTube via imageline | July 14, 2010

"This video shows some of the new features in FL Studio 9.5 Beta. Check out your account for details on how to grab a copy.

Registered FL Studio owners can click on the link below...

http://forum.image-line.com/viewtopic...

Enjoy!"

259e Melody

YouTube via boobtube356 | July 14, 2010

"De rigueur shaky cam vid."

Sophie rocks tha mic on dat new sheet

YouTube via stylinghead | July 13, 2010

"trying out the new yamaha cs-01 mods while Sophie holds down the vocals."

We are all just waves in a wavetable...

Last month I received a Facebook message stating I had been tagged in this image from Billy Kurniadi's Photos. I noted the custom wood knobs, and thought, how cool, so of course I posted it. I saw a ton of other names tagged as well, many I recognized like James Maeier aka Carbon111 who hosts the excellent XT resource site, Stefan Trippler who hosts trippler.net, Wolfram Franke and Stefan Stenzel of Waldorf, Wolfgang Palm of PPG, the father of wavetable synthesis, and too many others to list here. See Facebook here for the full list. I thought we were all tagged to check out the wood knobs. I'm sure this was the case, however, there might have been another reason. What didn't occur to me at the time was what might have been the actual reference to the tagged names. We are all just waves in a wavetable, waves in synthesis. That is pretty cool.

For those not familiar with wavetable synthesis, in short, a wavetable synth uses wavetables for it's main oscillators. Rather than a basic saw, square, sine, triangle or sample as the source waveform, you have access to a table of multiple single cycle waveforms. A single cycle waveform is pretty much a single snapshot of what you'd see in an oscilloscope. Think of a wavetable as a spreadsheet with each cell containing a different snapshot. In the XT, each wavetable has 64 cells. You can either select one of the static waveforms and use it as an oscillator waveform like you would a saw, square or other waveform, or you can "sweep" through the table by applying any available modulation source like an LFO or envelope. This is how you get evolving textures out of a wavetable synth. For more see Carbon111t's site and Till Kopper's Waldorf FAQ site.

Update: I originally stated Stefan Trippler hosted the Waldorf FAQ site. It's actually Till Kopper.

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Roland Juno 106S

via this auction

Roland Juno-106 with built in speakers. Note the colors match the Juno-106, while the HS-60 does not.

Vintage Unique DBK Synthesizer

via this auction

"DBK Unique Synthesizer is USA imported version, of bit 99-1984, made in Italy."

Crumar Bit99

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Roland SH-101 - CUSTOM FINISHED IN WHITE

via this auction

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M4H03134 - Synare Tympani

YouTube via elmadave | July 13, 2010

This one just went up with no description. Not sure if it's for the one up for auction posted here.

Single Manual Keybord Version of the Sequential Circuits Prophet-10

via this auction
"Up for sale is an extremely rare Sequential Circuits Prophet 10 keyboard. This synth has just has $700 worth of maintenance put into it, making it flawless. It works great, and sounds better than any synth you have ever heard, HONESTLY. This once is a rare piece, sometime along the way a previous owner had cut off the second tier keyboard, effectively making it a single tier Prophet 10. This modification in no way hinders the performance of the synth, in fact I think the single tier version is optimal. This synth works PERFECTLY, keeps amazing tune and functions day in and day out. This Prophet 10 has MIDI, although I am not sure how to engage the MIDI, or rather how to get it to function. The repair tech had told me that the MIDI passes and should be functioning, yet it is not engaged, most likely a simple fix. Besides the MIDI, this synth is perfect inside and out. Looks great, every button and knob functions as you would expect and as I have previously stated, nothing comes close to this piece in sound. If in NYC, local pickup would be amazing, will ship globally." This one spotted and sent in by dump.fm.

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Atomic Shadow Lab

YouTube via MyAtomicShadow | July 11, 2010
Some synth spotting via Atomic Shadow: "Here is a quick look around the lab. The mic on my camera is having a spasm so no narration. Yes, I do wear the lab coat sometimes.

I have a new collection of recordings coming up. Please find Atomic Shadow on Facebook for links to free downloads. Thanks!"

Regarding the xylophone controller and double manual organ: "It is a Wernick Xylosynth, which despite the synth in the name is really just a midi controller. The organ is a Philips Philicorda GM-760."