UAD-2 opens up to 3rd Party developers! And some beatboxing fun...

"Firstly, UA are proud to announce that the UAD-2 platform is now opening up to third party developers! The announcement is marked by the unveiling of their first collaborators - Brainworx and SPL. See here:

http://www.uaudio.com/press/releases/2011/SPL_Brainworx

Combined with the imminent arrival of the Satellite, things are really going from strength to strength at UA.

Lastly, UK beatbox champion Shlomo seems to have dropped his long-loved SM58 in favour of the mighty RODE M1-S, and was spotted on ITV’s Daybreak show alongside Lenny Henry, who gives the mic a whirl live on TV:

http://www.itv.com/daybreak/entertainment/coolbeforeschool/humanbeatboxer/

We have more to come from Shlomo, so keep your eyes peeled for future updates…"

A FUNKY CELEBRATION - APPETIZER

YouTube Uploaded by blackdiamondsberlin on Mar 2, 2011

"This is a short solo-action excerpt by The Black Diamonds.
Recorded at Chester's Music Inn (Berlin), 06.11.2011
Solo artists: Sabine Wenzl (sax), Sebastian 'Ray' Strahl (keys)
Check out the Black Diamonds on their next concert: 12.03. 2011, Chester's Music Inn (Berlin)
The Black Diamonds - feinster Funk und Soul aus Berlin
www.theblackdiamonds-music.de"

Via Stephen:
"this is "The Black Diamonds" - a Funk & Soulband from Berlin / Germany.

There's a nice video with some serious synth-madness on a Virus TI Polar"

Arp Odyssey MKII 2813 Demonstration

YouTube Uploaded by mtpsounds on Mar 2, 2011

via this auction
"* 2 VCOS, each with Coarse and Fine Tuning
* VCO2 Sync
* Square, Saw switching
* LFO
* Sample and Hold with output lag
* Portamento
* Transpose 2 Octaves Up/Down
* Ladder Filter with cutoff and resonance with self-osc
* Pink/White Noise Generator
* AR and ADSR Envelopes
* VCA Gain
* CV/Trigger/Gate : in/out
* High/Low gain out
* External Audio in
* HPF
* Envelope Repeat"
flickr set here

Synsonics 5300 Drum Synth and 5 Pads

via this auction

"Vintage 1980s drum synth
- 5 channels
- 5 pads
- mounting brackets (pearl style pipe)
- Power supply
- 1 xlr f to xlr f cable to connect one of the pads.
Replacement cables can be ordered from a company like markertek.

Each channel has the following parameters:
-decay
-bend
-pitch
-noise tone balance
-volume

Everything functions properly. Wooden sides are missing on synth box."

M4L : One minute synth Pt 2 : the ADSR~ envelope

Part 2 added to this post.

MATRIXSYNTH on iPad

No, it's not a forthcoming app. Just a cool pic sent my way via Mike. :)

"Here is a photograph I just took to prove to all the people who bought iPad ver1 that there is an easy upgrade to make it perhaps not work faster, but at least make it look amazingly better!"

DIODE VCF 004

YouTube via bluelantern320 on Mar 2, 2011

bluelantern on eBay

ZeNeRyC - DEMO -Demo Presets

YouTube Uploaded by TekTooG on Mar 2, 2011

"ZeNeRyC - Demo Presets;
This is the original patch bank coming within the synth"

ZeNeRyC - DEMO - MIDI pattern select.avi

Uploaded by TekTooG on Mar 2, 2011

ZeNeRyC - DEMO - MIDI pattern select;
This is how to select the sequencer options thru midi learn.
Independant pattern selection for pitch seq and groover is possible using 2 different CCs.
Independant On/Off activation for both modules uses the same principle...
The StepLFO has the same features..."

Additional Info on Barry Schrader: Moon-Whales

See the update in this post for some additional notes via Barry Schrader.

ether^ra ROCKS AND SMOKE

YouTube via potterpaint2000 | Mar 2, 2011 |

"a Buchla 200e improv w/delay. http://etherra.blogspot.com/"

This Second Sleep - Hopper Eye

arthurpainter | Mar 2, 2011 |

"http://thissecondsleep.blogspot.com/
A live improv using my two Buchla 200e boats, with particular emphasis on my two Arbitrary Function Generators and Quad Dynamics Manager."