"TouchOSC for iPad layout with loop switching controls for the Dr.OctoREX loop player in Reason 5.
Using Osculator 2.10 beta to configure feedback messages that switch off buttons in TouchOSC. Osculator could really use a 'bang' event to make this work perfectly."
"an(live/looped) improv featuring my revived Folktek Subharmonic Fields, a Critter and Guitari Pocket Piano, an Arp Odyssey loop and various fx. http://etherra.blogspot.com" Folktek on Ebay
"As a sound engineer i'm always curious how records, and "sound-logo's" are built. Anyone can make synth POP, but a HIT sound is made by specialists who know their stuff.
In a free afternoon i got into my studio to find out.. HOW the SAW / PWL sound of the late '80-s was made...
I used stuff they also had, like the Jupiter 8, the D50, a bunch of Juno's and the best Drum Machines ever, the Linndrum, DMX, TR808 and so on...
The basis is a kicksound like a Linn, but longer, to get the dancefloor "banging" sound and the sound of a couple of DX bass sounds stacked to sound powerful and with lots of punch.
I skipped the Emulator 2 strings, but i'm sure that's what they used in the earlier work next to the Fairlight.
I'm a fan of quality men like the whole team of SAW, Pete, Mike Matt are the forefront but the tape-op's and Tim Harding, Ian Curnow and all the guys that programmed the sounds and worked the desk are equally great."
"the card came with the synth when I bought it and it says it's for CZ-3000 and CZ-5000 synthesizers; but it works fine with the CZ-101. It has two switches that depending on the order of the switches, will access a certain bank, four banks total."
BTW, on the last page of the current September issue of Keyboard magazine (with Devo on the cover) is a one page feature on "Keytars Past and Pressent." I was under the impression that George Mattson's Performance Music Systems Syntar (1980) was the first keytar, before the Moog Liberation (1981). It looks like Roger Powell's Probe may have preceded it in 1977. Anyone know if it was just a controller or if it had a built in synth like the Syntar? Jan Hammer apparently also had a newer Probe, which you can see in this video and this video. Before everything was the Orphica from 1795.
Roger Powell image via audioholics
Orphica image via realsamples where you'll find a sample set of it. This might be a newer model though. The image or the Orphica in Keyboard looks much older and more like a mini harpsichord with neck attached.
Update via plaztec in the comments: "The Probe, as invented by Powell (& Jeremy Hill) and refined by Jan Hammer in the area of the pitch & mod wheels (note the left-hand sides of their respective keyboards are quite different, Hammer preferring the Minimoog-style wheels), was a controller and not a self-contained synthesizer. Both had custom rigs; Powell had a bank of Oberheim SEMs, IIRC - and Hammer the same, blending the SEM sound with the Minimoog in order to get his signature lead tone. Jan also experimented with a cruder, squarish remote in order to get the placement and angle of the wheels exactly right for him, prior to the building of his custom Probe. IMHO, those two guys in their heyday were, and remain, the single most credible-looking and compelling rock keyboardists to use remote keyboards on stage, especially considering the musicians they shared the stage with..."
Update via Jimmersound in the comments: "There's also info on the Probe in this Synapse issue."
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