New 2010 Optigan Disc - SITAR

YouTube via optigandotcom | August 21, 2010

"New 2010 Optigan Disc - SITAR

Now available for pre-order at http://www.optigan.com/shoptigan/inde...

The original Optigan owner's manual tantalizingly lists "sitar" as one of it's many featured instruments, but in fact no sitar sounds ever appeared on either an Optigan disc or even the original studio master tapes. When we first started making new Optigan discs, "sitar" definitely made the short list, if only to rectify that situation.

The only question was- how to do it? Putting a straight-ahead sitar sound on the keyboard couldn't really work all that well, since it's not a sustaining sound, and we didn't want to do something like our Pianoscape disc with this one. We thought about doing a "raga rock" type disc, with sitar-laced riffs on the chord buttons and a more typical keyboard sound on the keys, but that didn't really get us fired up either.

So we decided to try a pseudo-traditional take. Since Indian classical music consists of melody and percussion accompanied by drone (ie no Western style chords or harmonic motion), we decided to put various drones on the SFX tabs, tabla loops on the chord buttons, and 37 different sitar riffs on the keys. Given the way the Optigan's sounds constantly loop in sync with each other, this allows for an endless recombination of sitar riffs. For instance, you can play the first half of one riff, then play a different key and get the 2nd half of another riff. The video shows clearly how this works.

This is NOT a traditional Optigan disc setup. You can't play your own tunes with this disc, rather it's sort of a "raga generator" of sorts.

Sitar by Rama
http://www.myspace.com/ubuv
Rama resides in San Diego, CA and is the leader of UBUV (Universal Beats Universal Vibe), an electronic music and dance performance group focused on raising the vibratory level of consciousness within individuals through his art.

Tabla by Justin DeHart
http://www.justindehart.com
Bio: From Sacramento, California, Justin DeHart has studied tabla under the tutelage of maestro Swapan Chaudhuri at the Ali Akbar College in San Rafael, CA, and at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. He has furthered his studies recently with Arup Chattopadhyay and Kartik Seshadri in San Diego. In addition to learning tabla, he has traveled to India on a Fulbright scholarship to study the South Indian Mridangam (barrel drum) for a period of nine months with T.H. Subash Chandran in 2001."

Roland Gaia SH-01 hard times

YouTube via cresshead | August 22, 2010

"just a mess around on the human league track Hard Times.
brass sound roland sh-01
bass waldorf blofeld
drums yamaha rx5"

Morgan Orange: UN:TIME

YouTube via pmanderson70 | August 22, 2010

"Drum, bass & synth: Yamaha RS7000
Orchestral and percussion: Yamaha MO6
Additional synths & effects: Yamaha AN200 and Akai Miniak"

Korg microSTATION Music Workstation

YouTube via KorgUSAVideos | August 22, 2010

Novation Launchpad Cake

via Illuminated Sounds

Happy Birthday James

Yamaha CS 5

via this auction

SYNARE 3 1978 ANALOG DRUM SYNTH

via this auction

"1970's Star Instruments Inc. "SYNARE 3" Portable Drum Synthesizer. The STAR instrument company was founded in 1976, and this PS-3 drum pad came out in 1978."

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Inside a Roland TR-808

via SV Synthesis where you'll find more.

soundythingy

YouTube via 3plans | August 15, 2010

"pre-schoolers are introduced to iPad app 'SoundyThingy'."

supercoddler

3plans | April 18, 2009

"Toddlers play with SuperCollider"

Soundythingie - Beer turns good music into a futile luxury

YouTube via hansiraber | February 16, 2010
more vids here
"My latest soundythingie song:
Beer turns good music into a futile luxury."

via wire to the ear

Metasonix KV-100 "The Assblaster" demo.

YouTube via asktehdust | August 21, 2010

"Demo by Nicolas of the band Ask the Dust of the Metasonix KV-100

The Assblaster is a one of a kind tube multi-effect for guitar, synth, drum machine... really anything.
I believe this is the only video demo on youtube that shows what it sounds like with a guitar.

It's composed of 4 indepedant modules : a preamp, a filter/ring modulator, a pulser and a VCO. There's also a built-in gate that can trigger a really cool envelope follower effect with the right settings of filter and input level. Like a ll Metasonix devices it takes quite some time to see how all parts interact with each other, but once you get familiar with it there are literally thousands of possibilities.

People usually know about how great Metasonix products are to destruct any kind of audio source, and of course they are,, but there is a lot more to them. Actually I find them really usable in a recording context, cause the one of a kind texture they bring to an arrangement never fails to lift a song .
It's the exact opposite of harsh digital distortion, the fact that it's tube based makes the tones really organic and warm...perfect for fuzzy walls of sound, synth like guitars, etc...

Official description :
The Metasonix KV-100 is not called the "Assblaster" for nothing. We've taken all of our knowledge of extreme vacuum-tube audio processing and combined it into a single convenient, easy-to-use package. Inevitably, the end of the TM series will cause shit-eating, ass-fisting guitar players to whine about how "underappreciated" they are. So, we're feeding them a foot-long fecal sandwich of audio penis.


It's complete with disgusting and juvenile cartoon art by Dave Lovelace, of Retarded Animal Babies fame.

The KV-100 contains the following:

--five goddamn real new-old-stock VACUUM TUBES.
--the basic preamp stage of our TM-7 Scrotum Smasher, driving:
--the waveshaping (pulser) and ring modulation functions of our TM-1, minus the ring-modulator carrier oscillator, which then drives;
--a VCO derived from our TM-3 (it is NOT intended for use as a synthesizer pitch source, only as a special effect for signal degradation), leading to;
--an all-new wide-sweeping bandpass filter, with envelope filter function plus wah capability (external pedal);
--plus an envelope follower, which also makes a gate signal;
--and a noise gate on the output, which is always active and is driven by said gate signal.

Plus relay-based true bypass for the main circuit, plus relay controlled activation of the VCO and pulser. Controllable with manual switches or external Fender-type amp footswitches.

Plus plenty of processing inputs and outputs for control voltages. No MIDI, dammit.

Only 8 knobs allow for vast ranges of distortion and effects, from subtle to flaming-enema. It's for those filthy, nutsack-sucking guitarists. Because they deserve, and love, flaming enemas.

Yes, you can plug your damn guitar into it, Yes, you can plug line-level sources into it. Yes you can run the output to a guitar amp or any mixer. Yes, all the inputs and outputs are compatible with modular synthesizers.

Full dealers list on metasonix.com
This pedal is used by the french band Ask the Dust
Become a fan to download 2 free tracks, as well as most of our first records.
Our last EP is available on this same facebook page for 4€.

Recorded with a 63 Fender Jaguar through a Fractal Audio AXE-FX with a Shiva emulation then in a RME Fireface 400 soundcard." Metasonix KV-100 "The Assblaster" demo.