New Schmidt Analog Monster Polysynth Details - Price Rumors

See today's update in this post.

Update: rumored price on the Messe floor added to the post.

The BEFACO Slicer V2

You might remember the Befaco Slicer from this previous post. Nico wrote in to let us know the BEFACO Slicer V2 is now available.

"The Slicer V2 is a simple 8 step analog sequencer with Gate and CV outputs; it can also chop any audio signal into little pieces!

Made in Barcelona by Befaco, it's available as a pre-assembled unit or DIY kit.

Features:
>> Sync In and Out, to hook up with other Slicers, or any other (semi)(modular) analog gear.
>> Independent CV and Gate outputs.
>> 8 steps, 3 positions each: Long, Mute, Short.
>> Range of about 4 octaves per step.
>> Rate control
>> Works with a 9V battery (included) or AC adaptor.
>> About the size of a CD case!

To find out more, visit comunycorriente.com or befaco.org"

The passenger - sombre landscape 03

The passenger - sombre landscape 03 by the passenger

"korg ms20, yamaha cs30, akai ax60, roland jupiter 4, modular synthesizer"

Roth Mobot Experimental Electronics Events

via the Roth Mobot Newsletter:

1.Crowdsourced 1.0 @ The Empty Bottle

Sunday, April 10, 2011, 7:00 - 10:00 PM

The Empty Bottle, 1035 N Western Ave., Chicago, $3

Photo by Scott Rettberg

To the unfamiliar, "crowdsourced" means that the content that is the most popular "rises to the top" via votes--as in, the crowd chooses what's the most relevant. Threadless is a good example: only the designs that are voted hottest actually make it to production.

Electronic music fans and supporters were asked to vote on a number of submissions from Chicago artists to determine the lineup for a night of entertainment at the Empty Bottle. Approximately 600 online-votes later, the results were in, and the top four acts were picked, and will perform in order of the number of votes received.

Crowdsourced 1.0 Lineup:
dreamlogicc 9:15pm
Protman 8:30pm
Roth Mobot 7:45pm
Polyfuse 7:00pm

2.Tim Kaiser & Roth Mobot, Live @ TRANSISTOR

Photo by Tom Young

Friday, April 22, 8 PM
TRANSISTOR, 5045 N. Clark St., Chicago
$5 suggested donation ~BYOB~

TRANSISTOR presents experimental circuit bent performers Tim Kaiser and Roth Mobot. According to Art Tape, "Tim Kaiser not only creates compelling musical soundscapes, but he does it all with instruments he has built -- truly hand-made music for the atmospheric aficionado." Says Kaiser, “My music is atmospheric; I’m not as concerned with melody or rhythm as I am with texture and feeling… …perhaps I’m creating a kind of folk music from the future.” (Source: Theatre Intangible interview with Tim Kaiser). More of Tim's work at www.TimKaiser.org.

Roth Mobot's Patrick McCarthy and Tommy Stephenson have been transforming music composition from an activity of composition and "correct duplication" to exploration and "sonic discovery" with their strategically improvised "recursive jazz" performed on home made experimental and circuit bent devices since 2005. More at www.RothMobot.com.

3.The Boys & Girls Club of America

Photo by Michael T. Kennedy, Ph.D.

Recently Roth Mobot was invited by Northwestern University to give one of their lecture/demonstrations of experimental musical instrument construction to a the local Science Club chapter of the Boys and Girls Club of America.

Patrick explained the principles of constructive failure, acoustic exploration, and rudimentary experimental electronics hacking to a group of approximately twenty students and their teachers.


4.Roth Mobot Written Up in the DuPage Courier

The College of DuPage's student newspaper, the Courier, recently published an interview with Tommy and Patrick in their Arts section. It's a nice write up, focusing on our approach to music, our re-purposing of discarded technology, and our academic focus on community building.

Chicago Synth Event 9 - Harvestman Demo

Chicago Synth Event 9 - Harvestman Demo from Low-Gain on Vimeo.

"Scott demo's his new module. Sorry for the audio... people liked to talk over the gov while he was talking. *shakes angry fist*"

See the TAX label for all posts on the event.

Reco-Synth ::: EL DIABLO :::

Reco-Synth ::: EL DIABLO ::: from arthur joly on Vimeo.

"it is working !!!!"

Musikmesse Post Updates

Sonic State's Spark video added to this post.
Two new Jupiter-80 floor videos added to this post.

Remember to check out the Musikmesse label for more, and be sure to check out the comments in posts to see what people are saying.

Teenage Engineering OP-1 Unboxing Shots

flickr By chiasticon
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Rare Roland System 100m 172 Phaser / Chorus

via this auction
"The phase shifter and audio delay can be used for producing spatial effects. Both include convenient effect ON/OFF switches.
Both can be controlled from an external control voltage source so that two units may be used together for stereo effects, or may be used as a part of the sound synthesis process itself. The built-in control LFO has both normal and inverted outputs. The gate delay can be used where it is desirable to provide a delayed output from a pulse source, or it can be used as a pulse shaper. The gate delay also has a built-in high gain amplifier with a THRESHOLD control so that low level pulses recorded on tape can be amplified and shaped into a form which will trigger synthesizer functions."

Synthesizers.com Q116 Ring Modulator

via this auction
"This module was tested at the factory on 12/13/2010, so it's still fairly new. It has been used gently and only in a smoke-free studio, so it's in perfect condition.

The Q116 Ring Modulator performs a variation of amplitude modulation in which two input signals are multiplied creating an output that contains the sum and difference of the input signals (called sidebands), but without the original input signals themselves. The result is a very strange clanging, bell-like sound that can only be created with a ring modulator. Useful for producing gong sounds, bell sounds, and many strange sounds having no description. Sometimes referred to as a 'Balanced Modulator'.

Specifications
Panel Size: Single width 2.125"w x 8.75"h.
Signal Levels: 10V PP maximum
Power: +15V@30ma, -15V@30ma
Usage and Patch Tips

Basics
Simply put, the Ring Modulator makes strange sounds by combining two signals. A simple patch would include an oscillator driven by the keyboard into the X input, and another manually controlled oscillator into the Y input, then patch the output to an amplifier which is driven by an envelope generator. The result will be a bell-like sound."