Techno in 5 sounds - Modular jam live gonzo style

YouTube via darenager | January 07, 2011 |

"Live jam using the Bugbrand modular, all sounds created and sequenced from the modular. Gonzo!"

ether^ra CONJURING AND BLINK

YouTube via potterpaint2000 | January 07, 2011 |

"a Buchla 200e/Doepfer Dark Energy improv. http://etherra.blogspot.com/"

This Second Sleep - Organ of Corti (for D. Hassler)

YouTube via arthurpainter | January 07, 2011 |

"http://thissecondsleep.blogspot.com/
Another Buchla 200e improv using this quixotic device as the only sound source. No looping or editing here."

Evolver.fm: Ion Piano Master at CES

YouTube via eliotvb | January 07, 2011 |

"Ion plans to release the Piano Master in late spring 2011, allowing the iPad to form the brains of a nifty synthesizer, which soon will teach people how to play the keyboard."

Korg DSS-1 Gets A Floppy Upgrade

YouTube via KillKyleWeiss | January 06, 2011 |
Additional details on BURNCARDS here.
Nice T!!! :) Added to the MATRIXSYNTH Hall of Fame!
"A caffeinated, volume-unsteady adventure with the new HxC SD Floppy Emulator from www.lotharek.pl -- installed into a Korg DSS-1 Sampler/Synthesizer to replace the old 720K drive.

I am not a DSS-1 expert, nor have I owned this beast for any notable length of time, however, I couldn't stand the fact I couldn't use it fully without the floppy drive. Hopefully, problem solved! These are remarkable music machines, and people have done some incredible things with them, even after a quarter century of other synthesizers, manufacturers and trends changing all around."

KMI SoftStep and iPad

YouTube via KeithMcMillen | January 06, 2011 |

"SoftStep from Keith McMIllen Instruments is the first foot controller and class compliant hardware MIDI interface for the iPad."

vibrato and pitch fun with fsr box

YouTube via dudeohyeahable | January 06, 2011

stereo delay+fsr box

dudeohyeahable | January 06, 2011 |

"passing stereo audio through the dual fsr's just so happens to be a lot of fun!!!"

36 Modcan Scanner Envy

YouTube via 7thDanSound | January 07, 2011 |

"This video is inspired by the awesome Modcan 69B Scanner module and some of the stuff people have been doing with it, particularly JohnLRice. I though I might be able to achieve something similar with the modules in my synthesizers.com rig and here's the result. 4 channel cross fading using the Pan/Fade and 2 VCAs, all driven by the excellent STG Soundlabs Mankato filter acting as a quadrature LFO."

Arduino The Documentary (2010) English HD

Arduino The Documentary (2010) English HD from gnd on Vimeo.

"Arduino The Documentary 2010"

Moog Source PCB: Prototype(?) and Production

flickr set by kb_cheapmods
"Crazy cross-board jumpers that I had to create, along with my own added P24 header (wasn't on the original board), and mine and a previous owner's hand-lettered labeling."

"A few years back I bought both of these PCBs off the same seller on ebay, who said he received them in a package deal. He didn't have a Moog Source, and said he had no use for them.

They were untested, missing parts, as-is, but those words are my middle name! ;) So I did the Buy-It-Now for both.

When I got them, they were noticeably different. One seemed to be the production model, but the other had a different layout, no underside soldermask, no component labeling in the top artwork, some kludgy connections, etc. This latter one had the mysterious designation, "X-1132."
I figured it was a prototype.

So I set about getting them both to work: I downloaded the schematics from the web, identified the missing components and ordered them from various sources, then rebuilt them until they made sound.

For the X-1132, this was much harder than for the production version: I had to create and install some of the missing headers, decipher what connections were missing by following traces or checking pin connections, replace a few broken sockets.

They both work pretty well now. They're both fully recapped, with polystyrene caps for the oscillator timing, LM3045J (mil-std ceramic package) for the transistor ICs, in the hopes that they will be reasonably stable without microprocessor tuning control. I'm thinking of building a 4-osc, 2-vcf, fully-knobbed tabletop synth with them. The great thing about the Source design is that every CV is 10V, so if I want to, I could make it highly modularized.

This set is just a photographic documentation of these two boards"

inside a Moog Source