"Ude på det blå ocean" - Yamaha and Technics organs

YouTube via organfairy | September 21, 2010

"One of my colleges are constantly referring to me as the "organ-ferry" - I don't now if he sees me as an old barge!!!

Anyway, I visited this nice little place in the northern part of the Danish main land and decided that it could be a fine setting for a video. The melody is called "Out on the blue sea" and was a big hit in Denmark for the band Dodo and the Dodos (what a silly name).

It is one of the melodies that I recorded many years ago on my Fostex multitrack taperecorder. The melody is played on Yamaha HE-8 and Technics SX-C600 organs. The piano arpeggio is played on the little Kawai MS-20 and the rhythm comes from the Roland CR-1000. The solo is played on the Roland SH-2000 and I use the Yamaha PSS-12 for some of the chords."

Voice to Spirit : Synth Session 02

YouTube via voicetospirit | September 21, 2010

"Recently got a few new modules so I decided to see what I could do. Running a sequence into the modular via MIDI as well as running the drums and bass. Playing the lead by hand. Everything's in real time. The modular is passing through a Lexicon MX200 and a Behringer Bass V-amp Pro.

Modular: Synthesizers.com
Pad lead: Access Virus C
Bass ' Lead: Sequential Circuits Six Trak
Drum: Casio RZ-1 Circuit Bent"

MIDI Decontroller

Custom MIDI controller via Robert
"CC control is very important to me - what I really care about is the ability for live control over as many possible aspects of sound generation/effects at the same time.

The Yamaha A5000 has CC controlled effects and a few other things which are very inspiring - from the receiving CC messages point of view.

Actually, inspired by internal architecture of my A5000 I've build something called MIDI Decontroller - I didn't build it form a scratch - I "reshaped" an alesis photon 25 midi controller - which was desperatly boring control surface

First I decided to make a 2 octave keyboard more interesting for my fingers by attaching a few small objects to it, then I rearranged CC knobs into sliders and made them more ... well - more body orientated I would say - as you can see in photos, the whole thing is quite mad, but works perfectly :)"

Electric Independence: Chromeo

some synth spotting via motherboard.tv where you'll find the write-up.
You can find more synth centric Electric Independence interviews posted here.

Distort+Delay Demo

YouTube via signalsandstuff | September 18, 2010

"Product demo of Distort+Delay, a real-time audio effects processor for iPhone.
Available from the App Store.
More information at: http://distortdelay.signalsandstuff.com/"

iPads on Ebay
iPod Touch on Ebay

Update: 4 Promo codes:
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Atari Punk Dub Siren

via this auction

"The Dub~Step~Arcade console is an analogue square wave synthesiser based around two popular audio circuit’s, Firstly the dub-siren which is simply a pitch that rises and falls in relation to the speed and wave-shape of an LFO (low frequency oscillator), and secondly the stepped tone generator by Forrest Mims (Known as the Atari punk console) hence the name Dub Step Arcade!"




DSA-tone-mod.mpg

YouTube via magicmodulator | May 06, 2010

DSA-envelope-loop.mpg

magicmodulator | May 06, 2010

DUB~STEP~ARCADE KITS NOW AVAILABLE AT
http://www.magicmess.co.uk/"

Drumfire DF500 In Line Effects

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"1980s vintage Drumfire DF500 analog drum synthesizer... This unit was made in Japan and operates on 117V power, it has an attached 3-prong plug.

There are 5 identical channels, each has the following:
---1/4" trigger input with a sensitivity knob that can accommodate various trig voltages
---oscillator decay
---noise decay
---sweep
---pitch
---click on/off
---osc/noise balance
---volume
---pan (for stereo out)
---1/4" channel audio output
Additionally, there is a stereo output with individual L/R volume pots, a headphone output and a footswitch input. I'm not sure what the footswitch is supposed to do since there is no sequencer to stop/start but everything else is tested and working well."

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guerrilla

YouTube via comemelinhos | September 21, 2010

"bent pedals vs mc 505 and walkman"

Mickey Mouse Fuzzy Sequencer - Seq Description

YouTube via sailormouthdotorg | September 07, 2010
via GetLoFi where you'll find full details.

Expert Sleepers ES-2-2 prototype

flickr By expertsleepers
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"This Eurorack format module interfaces CVs from an analogue synth to a computer audio interface, so that CVs may be brought into the computer for processing as audio.

Designed for use with the Silent Way plug-in suite by Expert Sleepers.

www.expert-sleepers.co.uk/silentway.html"