HP Oscillators Used for Hollow Sun's Oscillosine

HP oscillators used in Hollow Sun's new Oscillosine, first posted here.

Pic via Atomic Shadow, posted in The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge Photos.

"I am recording a series of pieces using this equipment for the next Atomic Shadow project."

Update: on the oscillators:
"For the upcoming Oscillosine, from Hollow Sun, two Hewlett Packard oscillators were mutli-sampled at mini thirds for their across their audible range. The 200ABR model provided continuous tones. The 201CR model was malfunctioning at the time and was beeping so that was sampled at minor thirds as well. These sounds were used to create the two demos that are live on the Oscillosine site. Full Moon 3 will probably be on the next Atomic Shadow collection.

The smaller generator in the photo is B&K 301B Sine/Square transistor oscillator. The square waves were also sampled and may feature on a future Hollow Sun Kontakt instrument."

Update: one more pic here

TUTORIAL: Why we love the SERGE - Part One:

TUTORIAL: Why we love the SERGE - Part One: from Klaus Gstettner on Vimeo.

"This amateur tutorial shows how to get some sound out of a Serge Modular with only one 8step SequencerA and a clock."

TUTORIAL: Why we love the SERGE - Part Two: from Klaus Gstettner on Vimeo.

Totoros at 1:55.

TUTORIAL: Why we love the SERGE: Part Three from Klaus Gstettner on Vimeo.

"Finally the wave gets a bit animated - conclusion of the SeqA as waveform generator and only one of example what you can do with just CV processing blocks..."

TUTORIAL: Why we love the SERGE: Part Four from Klaus Gstettner on Vimeo.

"Fourth episode of the amateur tutorial series featuring the QUADSLOPE, maybe the most versatile Module of the SERGE M-Class System. Four slope generators, this time generating and processing sound. After an introduction to the module a simple waveform is generated, topped with some harmonics by a pulse divider and boolean logic modules."

TUTORIAL: Why we love the SERGE: Part Five from Klaus Gstettner on Vimeo.

"The QUADSLOPE M-Module, second part:
After introducing the Slope Generator as audio source and getting a static (=boring) sound out of it we use another instance to make it interesting."

Studio Pics From The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Some new pics in via The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge. Click through each for the captions.

Tomi Kuosmanen
Kyle Weiss
Nick Gentile

Roland JUPITER 4 vintage analog synthesizer

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Vintage PAiA for Parts

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"It measures 32" long 11.75"deep 7.5" tall."

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Moog Minimoog Voyager Electric Blue Synthesizer

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Quick test of rock band 3 squier stratocaster guitar midi

YouTube Uploaded by hewstigator on Mar 7, 2011

"So I just bought this rock band 3 pro guitar, and viola, my xbox 360 decided to give me that infamous RROD 2 years out of warranty, sigh...

...feeling weird about throwing more money into another xbox (or a repaired one) I decided to do some preliminary messing around with the guitar's MIDI. Here, there is one track with the guitar doing rhythm work into a wurlitzer EP patch (it's not a great interesting sound, i know, but i use it to show that the polyphonic tracking is pretty decent), and then, just for kicks another track with the guitar controlling my new addiction, the mattson mini modular, with some impromptu knob adjustment and then adding an octave saw with the moogerfooger freqbox.

the guitar is nice in that it is $280 for a guitar midi controller. it is not so nice in that (a) it will not detect any bent notes, (b) accurate transient detection requires putting up the string mute (thereby making it not well suited for using both the guitar's audio output and the midi output at the same time), and (c) if you are plugged into a bright amp, you can hear the midi messages clicking away if it's on... oh also (d) sometimes, depending on what you're connecting to, having both the midi and audio connected will cause the midi generator to "go crazy".. i think it's a grounding thing...

all that being said, i think it's probably unbeatable at this price - the entire fretboard is wired so that each fret is divided into 6 contact points (one for each string) meaning that polyphonic note tracking feels perfect - with the caveat that since it doesn't use the audio for any pitch tracking, it will ignore vibrato, etc.

the guitar attempts to compensate for this by adding two axes of position detection - lifting the neck will send a scattered bunch of pitch bend signals, that, with smoothing, could be made usable. tilting the face of the guitar down towards the floor sends expression controller data which seems a little more smooth than the pitch bend... so in theory you could re-map those to get back some of the functionality you lose by not being able to wobble the strings around on their frets...?"

blue key & space heater

YouTube Uploaded by drmoonstien on Mar 7, 2011

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space heater.mov

Uploaded by drmoonstien on Mar 7, 2011

Update: some pics of the "heater" via this auction

Side Brain - Double Meaning

YouTube Uploaded by yeudaba on Mar 7, 2011

"Two short beats - one for the hippies, one for the hipsters.
Made on MLRV 2.1: http://parallelogram.cc/mlrv/

http://sidebrain.net
@sidebrain"

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