MATRIXSYNTH

Ashland Sound Collective

"Ashland Sound Collective is a loose federation of people in the Ashland/Southern Oregon area who interested in electronic music, synthesizers, drum machines, circuit bent items, or other sound sources , ranging from asymmetric microtonal noodling, to drones, to full out composed music. This site is a chance to put them in contact with each other and hopefully something positive will come out of it."
via brian comnes

Kent Loop Collection Volume 6 - EMS Synthi

"KENT LOOP COLLECTION VOLUME 6 – EMS SYNTHI

EMS Synthi was a portable synthesizer done in the early seventies by EMS, used by Pink Floyd, Todd Rundgren, Steve Hillage and other similar artist. This volume contains 50 synthi-like loops made with XILS Labs XILX 3 plug-in in the tradition of synthi-like sounds, sequencer patterns, odd bleeps, effects, as well as leads and bass lines.

Some of the loops use a compressor but most of them are clean so you could experiment with various compressor and other effect settings.

APPLELOOPS-LOGIC

These are green AppleLoops. If you don’t the plug-ins, just drag the loops into an audio track so the pure audio is used.

Drop the folder inside your loops directory and Logic will index these loops.

ABLETON LIVE

With Ableton Live, just drag them in from any location.

LOOP INDEX NAMES

synthi - synthi/XILS loops

bass - bass lines
pat - patterns, sequences and so on
lead - melodic loops
drum - drum loops
pad - pads and athmospheric loops
varispeed - varispeed

khx is my personal prefix.

LICENSING AGREEMENT

You are not allowed to make crappy music with these loops. Make hippie-electro music with these loops.

Have fun, Kent Sandvik (http://wwww.kentsandvik.com)
Release date: Nov 26, 2010
The set "Kent Loop Collection Volume 6 - EMS Synthi" by KentSandvik_Samples_Loops is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Be aware that the related tracks might have a different license."

Michelle Moog-Koussa on NPR World Cafe Thursday, December 2

"Hello Friends Near and Far,

Below, from the World Cafe newsletter, I'll be featured on World Cafe on Thursday December 2, 2010 -- 6pm in Asheville on 88.7 WNCW. Here's a link to locate a station in your area: http://www.npr.org/templates/stations/schedule/?prgId=39.

You can also stream live from 2-4pm on WPXN. Here's the link: http://www.xpn.org/music-artist/xpn-stream.

Thanks all for your continued support and thanks to Bob for a lifetime of inspiration.

Warm regards,
Michelle"
http://moogfoundation.org/

"Coming Up On World Cafe, Nationally
11/30 Folk newcomer, Dan Mangan, shares tunes from his album, Nice, Nice, Very Nice.

12/1 Junip, the side project of folk-rock songwriter Jose Gonzalez, debut their first full-length album, Fields.

12/2 Hour 1: Made the Harbor showcases the enchanting vocal harmonies of female indie-folk trio, Mountain Man.
Hour 2: Michelle Moog reflects on the legacy of her late father, sonic pioneer Bob Moog, and the Asheville, North Carolina music festival in his honor, Moog Fest.

12/3 Guster returns after a four-year hiatus with the new pop record, Easy Wonderful."

Pattern synth

YouTube via bubagoo | November 29, 2010 |

"This is part of a complex pattern sequencer. It's been in the works for quite a while and we finished our first working prototype last night. It's based on Rob Hordijk's benjolin circuit with a bunch of tweaks.
I'm working on a rhythm matrix unit which will interface with the complex pattern synth. More will be posted on that once it's done. For more info go to casperelectronics.com"

Olivia =)

flickr by By honeyhoneybear

Em-Tronic

flickr By rarebeasts
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videos posted here

Decillionix DX-1 Sound Effects samples on the Apple II

YouTube via FOCtv | November 29, 2010 |

"These are sample playback routines for the Decillionix DX-1. All three soundbanks are represented. The first one hear is "Cycle Sounds", where each sample in a soundbank is played at five different pitches before cycling to the next. Next each sample from every soundbank is put through the paces of routines 3 to 9."

Update: video is back up. Re-embedded above.

ChipTrickPocket (Take2)

YouTube via denha | November 29, 2010 |

"ChipTrick modulated by XR-NoizBoxII"

Aalto 1.1 Demo Available

via Madrona Labs
"Aalto 1.1 demo available.
Hold onto your hats! The Aalto 1.1 demo is now on the product page. Updates will go out to all registered 1.0 customers later today.

Much faster: Aalto now runs 25 to 50% faster than version 1.0.

Installer: Easy install using Apple's Installer puts Aalto's bits where they belong.

New preset management UI: Load and save presets from the Aalto window.

Copy and paste presets: From the preset menu to and from the clipboard, for easy sharing, editing, and backup.

Host sync: Aalto's sequencer now has rock-solid synchronization with your DAW's clock.

Tuning tables: Load tunings from the Scala .scl file format. Over 100 different tunings categorized by musical tradition are included.

Sequencer modes: Key trigger and loop mode allow new uses of the sequencer.

Presets: Aalto now comes with 30 new presets from programming guru Simon Ball of SoundsDivine, and 10 fun sound machine constructions from synth innovator Alessandro Cortini.

Many minor bug fixes have also been implemented. See the bug tracker for a complete list."

Melloman for iPhone and iPad in the Works

via Omenie, makes of the Mellotronics M3000 for iPad and various Ellatron apps.

See the Melloman label below for videos of the hardware Melloman by Mystery Circuits. You might recognize the pic from this previous post. The Melloman is essentially a Sony Walkman based Mellotron. See the videos for more.