DUNE performing Venus 1979

YouTube via rtermini | October 04, 2010
Oberheim TVS
"The 1970's Brooklyn Rock Band DUNE featuring Vicki Zollo on Vocals, performing their cover of 'Venus' after a about 60 seconds of the progressive number called 'Clockwork'. This video demonstrates to some degree the changes in musical direction DUNE went through from 1976 to 1980. That said ... they did continue to mix progressive songs like Clockwork and more avant garde material into their live shows. Dune's Inna Gada Da Vida cover was very interesting."

KORG POLY 61 PROGRAMMABLE ANALOG SYNTH

via this auction

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Moog Prodigy Analog Synthesizer Model 336A

via this auction

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CGS VCO with VC Waveshapers

via this auction

"Can you ever have enough VCO's? This is a full featured implementation of the CGS VCO. The left half is a great sounding VCO based on Electronotes ENS-76 VCO Option 1. The right half has a voltage controlled Tri/Sin waveshaper, and a Suboscillator/ Staircase generator. Please read the CGS page for more details.

Module is MOTM / 5U high by 4U wide, requires standard +/- 15v MOTM power supply. Includes power cable and black mounting screws.

Read more here:
http://www.bridechamber.com/bridechamber.com/C_VCO.html

and here
http://www.cgs.synth.net/modules/cgs48_vco.html"

Roland V-Synth XT

via this auction

"V-Synth XT comes preinstalled with VC-1 (D-50) and VC-2 (Vocal Designer)."

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Moog BassMUrF Drums

YouTube via 7thDanSound | October 04, 2010

"The Moog Bass MUrF (or Multiple Resonant Filter) pedal contains patterns and a sequencer. Feed it some noise and it will spit out rythms!"

The Syntar Turns 32

Today marks the 32 year anniversary of George Mattson's Performance Music Systems Syntar. You might recognize the name Mattson. George is the man behind Mattson Mini Modular. The Syntar, conceived in 1978, was the first all-enclosed keytar synthesizer. Before then keytars were just controllers. You can read all about the history of The Syntar on Carbon111.com here (you'll find a pic of Bob Moog playing Syntar prototype #1), and of course check out the Syntar label for posts that have gone up here. Below are two videos of Red Martian with the Syntar at the PNW 2009 synth gathering.



Pacific Northwest Synth 2009 - Red Martian
YouTube via matrixsynth | November 03, 2009


YouTube via matrixsynth.

Overview of the Syntar comes in around 1:55.

The Making of “Bob Moog Live” (Part 1 of 5)

via The Bob Moog Foundation where you'll find the full article.

"Leading up to our 'Bob Moog Live' CD Release Party on October 10, 2010 at the LAB, we are presenting a series of blogs written by Dan Lewis. Lewis is the only surviving member of the trio of Bob Moog, Mike Abbott and Dan Lewis who rehearsed and performed together for this recording. Dan will be performing and speaking at the release party.

'Bob Moog Live' is one of the very few recordings that exists of Bob Moog performing on the Minimoog..."

October Moog Issue of Keyboard Magazine

You might recall from this post, the cover and feature of October's issue of Keyboard Magazine is "The Minimoog at 40." It's worth noting there are a couple of other articles featured and currently online including "Bob Moog Lives" by Bob Moog's daughter, founder, and Executive Director of the Bob Moog Foundation; and "Beyond And Because of the MiniMoog" by Eric Norlander and Stephen Fortner. The latter features a number of synths "that shared similar design aspects, or whose makers got into the solo synth game after the market proved that Bob Moog was onto something." Below is one such synth.


Note this is not a Voyager, but the HELMTRONIC CHALLENGER
"Shown at this year’s Frankfurt Musikmesse, this aptly-named German boutique synth boasts four oscillators, two filters, and of course, a flip-up control panel."

Yamaha An1x control synth...the Blue beastie

YouTube via mik300z | October 04, 2010

"Only had it a week, but love it already:) The factory presets are totally 1997 dance scene so slowly going through and replacing them with my own. There is a monster of a machine lurking under the sheepish blue cover. These patches are my own edited ones apart from the step sequence part, a patch called "Alan". I'm not usually a tweaker but this thing screams at you to twist those control knobs. The An1x was one of the first analogue modelling synths, had great reviews at its launch and is still respected by musicians today. Nice to have a Yamaha in the studio:)"