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WHITE STAR (1983) - Vintage Synth Movie Spotting

WHITE STAR (1983) KORG PE-2000 ELKA Rhapsody PPG Modular Oberheim OB-X

YouTube Uploaded by cosmocorps2000 on Jul 16, 2009
Also see Synths in TV and Film
"Scenes from WHITE STAR by Roland Klick (1983)

Released in USA as LET IT ROCK

Plot:
Dennis Hopper plays the sordid music manager Kenneth Barlow.
Moody Mudinsky (Terrance Robay) is a young and naiv synth musician which believs on Barlow.
But Barlow thinks that the public isn't interested into Moody's music, and so he provokes fake riots and assaults in believe to push Moody's career. At the end, Moody recognizes how inability Barlow is.

About the scenes:
Moody plays his first gig in an punk shed (Barlow knew that the punks doesn't like Moody's synth music and initiated an riot) which ends in an free-for-all.

Then Moody left the alligator studios and pack his synths in the believe, that Barlow will push his career.

Moody works now in an professional music studio.

Frustrated about the fact, that Barlow never achieve any profitable gig, Moody sits drugged in front of the PPG Modular, unable to play any note."

Roland EF-303 User Manual Scan

You can find it here. This one in via obscotch: "a side note - the manuals pages
are out of order but if you print and then fold it the thing works
perfectly as a book."

For some reason it's not on the Roland Manuals site.

Orgon Enigiser test

YouTube Uploaded by copenhagennoiselab on Mar 28, 2011

"Testing out an Orgon Systems Enigiser. This synth is an analog 1 osc synthesizer with quite extensive routing capabilities and many filtertypes. The sequencing is done with a Acidlab Bassline2. No effects at all, the overdrive is internal, just straight into the computer. I recorded this little clip as there is almost no videos of it online.

I don't own this synth. I have only acted as a courier and got to play with it before I sent it to the buyer. So no questions about the machine, please.

My music can however be heard at:
http://kufrec.bandcamp.com/"

holocene

holocene from stretta on Vimeo.

"hardware: arc4
software: electric dharma wheels

I received a production-run arc4 with the final firmware on Friday. This signaled a mad scramble to update my work for that and the latest serialosc with arc support so it'll be ready when people start receiving their units in a few days. So what do I do on Saturday? Make a new app, of course. Sure, that totally sounds like the responsible thing to do.

After receiving the arc4, I thought it might be a good idea to produce an example that demonstrates a 'bank' of encoder values that you can switch between. That gave birth to an application idea involving triggering modal notes from a pool of probabilities across three octaves of scale degrees. There is a separate bank of pitches depending on clockwise or counterclockwise rotation so you can shift the harmony with a simple gesture. The weighting of scale degrees is programmable and editable in real time on screen or with a MIDI controller. This allows for a more controlled structuring of compositional development over longer periods of time. The speed of the rotation determines how often a note is triggered, and can also be used as a modulation parameter for the FM synthesis engine.

Relevant synthesis parameters are also editable on the arc as the notes are triggered. The state of these parameters is overlaid on the LEDs, so interesting patterns emerge when this mode is engaged. There was a really awesome bug where switching editing modes also transposed the output modally, so I built in a score feature that allows you to advance a programmed chord progression with a button push.

A sit-the-arc-in-your-lap-and-doodle app has been on my mind a lot and I have at least three good starts in this area, but other priorities have often pushed these out of the way. The prototype arc2 I had lacked the mounting bracket for the USB cable and the logic board was floating free inside the enclosure, so I always had to use it (carefully) on a stationary, flat surface. It is really nice to have an arc that can be moved around or used in the lap. My cat disagrees.

I recorded this video, holocene, as a demonstration of this app, which I'm calling electric dharma wheels. This is the raw output from the electric dharma wheels, with some Eos reverb added after the fact.

more information about monome can be found at monome.org

more information about me can be found at stretta.com"

YouTube Uploaded by timexile on Mar 27, 2011

"Jamshops - the interactive jamming experience. Come along, jam together with instruments like this. No experience required! The Jamshop opens 2nd April 2011 as part of the Ether Festival. http://ether.southbankcentre.co.uk/5/events/tim-exile-jamshops/. www.timexile.com/jamshop"