Collin's Lab: Homebrew Piezo

YouTube Uploaded by makemagazine on Mar 11, 2011

"Piezoelectric materials are about as close to magic as you can get. They turn physical pressure into electricity and can even turn electricity into physical pressure - an amazing sort of bidirectional converter for mechanical and electrical energies. Perhaps even more amazing is the fact that you can easily 'grow' your own piezoelectric crystals overnight using just a couple of common ingredients - awesome."

SimpleMidiPad Now Available

"SimpleMidiPad is an easy-to-use MIDI CC source for driving software or hardware synths and effects, and remote control of a DAW. Each of the four pads sends X, Y, and Z MIDI control messages, with user-selectable destination addresses.

Note that SimpleMidiPad makes no sound of its own. It requires either a CoreMidi-compatible USB MIDI adaptor (via the Camera Connection Kit) or an OS X computer running the Network MIDI interface for WiFi usage."

SimpleMidiPad - Naughty Panther
iPads on eBay

YAMAHA SU10 Sound Module Synthesizer with Original Box

via this auction

Korg MonoPoly

via this auction

Beatie Bop Percussion Synthesizer analog drum synth

via this auction

videos posted here
"Beatie Bop Percussion Synthesizer
Analog Drum Synth and Optical Theremin
Infinitely Wild Sounds with a Unique Look.
It has a rubber drum pad for triggering the sound.
It has an Light Sensor for changing the pitch.
It has CV inputs for Pitch, Volume, and Trigger.
Possibilities are endless. Fun is endless.

Knobs for
Trigger Sensitivity, Decay, Pitch, Sweep, Mod Rate, Mod Depth, and Initial Volume.

Switches for
oscillator waveshape (triangle or square), mod waveshape (triangle or square), mod range (low or high),
Light Sensor (on/off), and "L" LFO trigger (to trigger the drum by the mod rate)

Jacks for
Trigger Input
Volume CV Input (can be used with expression pedal or voltage in)
Pitch CV Input (can be used with expression pedal or voltage in)
Audio Output

Funky rhythms can occur if a cable is plugged from the Volume In Jack to the Trigger In Jack.
It somehow re-triggers the drum in an infinite loop.

Takes a 9v Battery or standard 9vDC adapter.
Metal Case. Silkscreened graphics."

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Buchla 223e Merge

Buchla 223e Merge from todd barton on Vimeo.

"scrolling through a few newly created patches and occasionally interacting via the 222e-223e. this is the third, and for now, final piece in a set of three explorations.
for a higher resolution audio, go to:
soundcloud.com/​user7621213/​buchla-223e-merge"

The patch:

Lev Theremin & Clara Rockmore Reunite

Лев Термен и Клара Рокмор from Sergey Teterin on Vimeo.

"В 1991 году, через пятьдесят с лишним лет, Лев Термен вернулся в Нью-Йорк, в места своей необыкновенной славы и успеха 30-х годов. Теперь ему уже 95 лет. В Нью-Йорке Термен после многих десятилетий разлуки встретился с Кларой Рокмор, своей давней возлюбленной, самой знаменитой терменвоксисткой мира. Документальные съемки, фрагмент из фильма "Лев Термен: электронная одиссея" (1995), режиссер Стивен М. Мартин."

Googlish:
"In 1991, fifty-odd years, Lev Theremin returned to New York, in place of his extraordinary fame and success of the 30-ies. Now he has 95 years. In New York, Theremin, after decades of separation, met with Clara Rockmore, his longtime lover, the most famous termenvoksistkoy world. Documentary footage, a fragment from the movie "Leon Theremin: an electronic odyssey" (1995), directed by Steven M. Martin."

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Bluelantern Dual VCO & Polyvoks Filter

VCO via this auction

"This is a dual VCO on a 5.0" x 6" panel. I drilled the holes to be mounted on a EuroRack format case. The power connectors are also EuroRack compatible. I don't supply the idc power connectors. It will need (2) of them because there are (2) VCO's

This is the same VCO found on the Evila Modular Synth. Please visit the site above to know the specs and good stuff. I calibrated under a 12v Power Supply to the 1v/oct standard."

VCF via this auction

"THIS IS A POLIVOKS VCF FILTER. It has LM4250 op amps... It's Called LM4250 Rev5 VCF."

"This is the new Diode Ladder Based Filter. It has 8 Diodes. It has a very nasal quality to the sound. The resonance is very stable and does not screech what so ever."

Moog Etherwave Theremin Black

via this auction

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Two Launchpads & Boing

YouTube via Uploaded by evenfloyd on Mar 11, 2011

"something that came out while messing around with two Launchpads and Boing

aren't they beautiful?

Launchpads/Monomeemu/Boing"