Mystery CV-controlled quad audio box - Buchla?

via Brian Kehew

"My friend found this in some surplus yard near the Bay Area. It's a CV-controlled quad audio box of some kind, with joystick control. Missing most of its guts and no labels. Obviously not a production unit. Wonder if it's related to the Grateful Dead concerts in quad?"

Anyone have any ideas?

Update via Cooper Sloan in the comments: "Looks buchla... Besides proximity to Berkley and aesthetics the blue pcb is a clue."

via Brian: "Not Buchla from the people I've asked, and the connectors etc are different. But it seems so similar in style, so maybe a related copy. He had a lot of people work for him that could have built this as well."

via Dennis Matana on the AH list: "Looks like something from Elektor. They also used blue pcb's...and the connectors look similar. I'm restoring a Formant at the moment and also the vocoder from Elektor."

Update via gchang (Gary Chang) in the comments: "The obvious Buchla nod is the jack selection - using banana jacks for the cv inputs, but none of the layout is at all similar to Buchla devices, who rarely created anything with conventional VCAs.

My guess is that it is a custom quad locator made for a studio that had a Buchla system as the main unit of the room... "

Pantomation (1977-1979)

YouTube via VintageCG | March 02, 2010

"Pantomation was a very early tracking chromakey system from the 1970s. Originally intended for music scoring, the system was adapted to other styles of performance art. While crude by modern standards, the concept was decades ahead of its time; it can reasonably be considered an early forebear of systems like Microsoft's Project Natal."

via Retro Thing, via Jimmersound

Update via Richard Lainhart in the comments:
"Coincidently enough, I was involved in this project - I hard-wired most of the computer interface for the Pantomation system, later called the Electric Pantograph. There's a history of the project here, some of which is used in the narration of the film"

http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/history/groups/gtext.php3?id=32

I was working as a musician/technician with EBA then, and knew Tom Dewitt, the main designer of the system, from the SUNY Albany Electronic Music Studio, where I studied with Joel Chadabe. You can see a brief shot of the mighty Moog CEMS system in that studio at about 3:35 in the video."

Pianist Pro V1.5 - Now with Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer support

YouTube via MooCowMusic | August 28, 2010


iPads on Ebay
iPod Touch on Ebay
Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer on Ebay

"Line 6 have recently made their API available for iOS developers to add support for their MIDI Mobilizer interface. We are pleased to announce that Pianist Pro will be the first application taking advantage of this, in a forthcoming V1.5 update.

Pianist Pro is the market-leading piano simulator for the iPad. Recommended by global media sources such as The New York Times and Rolling Stone Magazine, it was also recently used in a live performance by legendary band Squeeze on the Jimmy Fallon Show (NBC).

MIDI Mobilizer is currently the only hardware MIDI interface for the iOS platform, providing a pair of MIDI cables that can be plugged directly into external devices such as MIDI controller keyboards and modules, or a computer interface to control Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) software such as Logic, Garageband or Cubase.

With our existing MIDI-via-OSC technology, Pianist Pro can already be used as a wireless master MIDI keyboard to control external soft or hard synths. MIDI Mobilizer now allows us to offer a robust wired alternative for live performance, together with bi-directional control enabling Pianist Pro to also act as a MIDI sound source or sequencer driven by an external hardware keyboard. Now you can record your song ideas on the road with nothing more than an iPad and portable MIDI keyboard, and then import those songs into your DAW via a Standard MIDI File when back at the studio.

We have put together a short video [above] showcasing a few examples of using Pianist Pro and MIDI, both with the new Line 6 interface, and with a wireless connection using OSC.

The V1.5 Pianist Pro update is currently "In review" at Apple and so we would expect it to go live within a couple of days. In addition to adding support for MIDI Mobilizer, it also adds wireless MIDI via DSMI, and optimized wireless MIDI via OSC.

More information on Pianist Pro can be found here:-
http://moocowmusic.com/PianistPro/index.html

More information on the Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer can be found here:-
http://line6.com/midimobilizer/"

gorillabox 12U

via gorillabox

set 4 - 7 Tracks of Serge Modular by cebec

set 4 by cebec
"recent generative and rhythmic experiments"

Harold Bode 1961 Electronics Magazine article for download

see the update in this post.

FINN PETERS MUSIC OF THE MIND

YouTube via finnpeters | March 23, 2010

Code Controller Preview 2

Code Controller Preview 2 from Livid Instruments on Vimeo.

"Here is a preview of the functionality of the Code controller. This model is a prototype, so there is a little bleed in the lighting (not on the production model). And yes I did say open source, this controller is open source"
follow-up to this post. See the Livid Instruments label below for all posts.

Microphone Recycling

YouTube via organfairy | August 31, 2010

"It has been a while since my last DIY project. But now I will re-build a couple of broken dynamic microphones into electret microphone that can be used with a computer.

The music is something I made back in 2000 and it is a Patrick Hernandez medley - Disco Queen and Born to be alive - that I play on the Yamaha HE-8 organ with Roland SH-2000 synthesizer and CR-1000 drum machine. I also sporadically used the Yamaha VSS-30."

Plogue muddle (Plogue Bidule)

YouTube via GruithuisenCityMan | August 31, 2010

"Hello ! My name is Frederic Gerchambeau. I have made this movie. The music has been made in one take mostly with a very complex sequencer that i have made with Plogue Bidule and also with a monosynth also made with Plogue Bidule. Enjoy !
http://www.myspace.com/fredericgercha..."