"Flautina" - Flute Concertina for the iPhone/iPod Touch

YouTube via tradlessons | October 06, 2010

"Flautina is a two-octave flute played like an English Concertina.

It is very easy to play, extremely responsive, and sounds very authentic.

The sounds are recorded from my personal 1857 Metzler wooden flute.

The chromatic range is from D4 to C#6.

Touch the '?' icon to show the names of the notes on the buttons.

Touch the 'i' icon to bring up the settings page. You can also visit the app support website by touching the Tradlessons logo on this page.

You can play along with the music on your iPhone/iPod Touch by starting the track using the iPod app, then launching Flautina.

When Charles Wheatsone designed the English concertina, he set it up to match sheet music, the right side is the notes between the lines and the left side is the notes on the lines.

Because English Concertinas play the same note both on a push or a pull of the bellows, it is a very easy instrument to play on the iPhone or iPod Touch.

You simply touch the buttons on the screen to play the notes. The spacing is exactly the same as the real instrument.

To play, hold the iPhone or iPod Touch between your thumb and little fingers of both hands, exactly like a real English Concertina, and press the buttons with your index and middle fingers. Scales alternate between the fingers of the right hand. Notes are higher in pitch as you move from the outside to the middle of the screen.

Flautina runs on the iPhone and iPod Touch."

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Future Retro Revolution

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Alesis Micron Synthesizer with custom modifications

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"The LEDs were all changed to blue, pink and ultraviolet, and I made makeshift wooden end cheeks, stained a reddish tone to match the red and silver look of the keyboard. Moog style knobs were added to make the thing look more classic. I will also include the original knobs and end cheeks, so you can change it back to stock if you prefer."

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Technos Acxel Track - FRACTASTIC VOYAGE (To Infinity and Beyond) Part 1

YouTube via DonGarbutt | October 06, 2010

See the Acxel label at the bottom of this post for all posts on this unique synthesizer.
"Stunning fractal images have been added to a piece that was made back in 1988, using the Technos Acxel. Dense, random clouds of evolving sound emanate from the Canadian-made Acxel-1 (Acxel-2 is in development and is coming soon). Make sure that you watch part 2 as well."

FRACTASTIC VOYAGE (To Infinity and Beyond) Part 2

DonGarbutt | October 06, 2010

"Explore the wonderful world of fractal art. A fractal is "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole,"[1] a property called self-similarity. Roots of mathematically rigorous treatment of fractals can be traced back to functions studied by Karl Weierstrass, Georg Cantor and Felix Hausdorff in studying functions that were continuous but not differentiable; however, the term fractal was coined by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975 and was derived from the Latin fractus meaning "broken" or "fractured." A mathematical fractal is based on an equation that undergoes iteration, a form of feedback based on recursion."

Prophet-5 Synthesizer with MIDI

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"The Prophet 5 is the most classic synthesizer of the eighties! It is capable of a delightful analog sound unique to Sequential's Prophet series in which the P5 was King! Five voice polyphony - two oscillators per voice and a white noise generator. The analog filters, envelope and LFO all sound great and are extremely flexible. The P5 has patch memory storage as well, which scans and memorizes every knob setting for storing and recalling your sounds. This specific unit has original owners manual and original cassette with loadable factory preset sounds."

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Yamaha RM1x Videos

YouTube via meecek

Playlist:
RM1x: soundscapes (excerpt)
RM1x: glide, boost, 8 bit sounds
RM1x: trance gate on different way
RM1x: kraftwerk like sounds testing
RM1x: roll & play fx
RM1x: program change
RM1x: manipulation
RM1x: tron choir
RM1x: arpeggio

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Video above was linked in the auction, but no mention if it is the same one.

Tortoise @ Moog

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"Doug McCombs of Tortoise plays the Moog Guitar"

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Sekuensaa

Sekuensaa from Sensaa on Vimeo.

"This is a musical exploration experience in which multiple participants simultaneously interact with a sound synthesizer by arranging a special set of pieces on top of a multitouch surface.

Pieces exhibit different behaviours when placed on the surface - some act like triggers in a drum machine, some behave like a kaoss pad, while others add extra layers of sound to make the performance really come together. Pieces are sensitive to their position and orientation on the table, so users can cycle through different instruments or modulate sound parameters with a simple twisting or sliding motion.

We believe the key here is to design a system which is simple enough for people with little musical ability to enjoy, while providing enough control to allow people with a stronger background to deliver more complex performances. It´s similar to the reactable, but provides a simpler interface for everyone to enjoy.

Sound design and music production by Santiago Abadía

Please visit sensaa.com for more info."

ether^ra PRESENT SIGHT RESIDUE

YouTube via potterpaint2000 | October 06, 2010

"an improv starting w/my VTOL Volfram & Doepfer Dark Energy/Tenori-on with a Serge Creature/Seq A coda. http://etherra.blogspot.com"