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Quantum Clockwork's Instrumental for iPad Now Available

video posted here
"Launch Special!! 50% off until June 21!!

Instrumental is a Wi-Fi MIDI Virtual Control Surface

Use your iPad with your favorite MIDI software as a 4x4 Drum Pad, Wicki-Hayden Hex-Keyboard, or full-feedback mixing desk.

Like a USB piano keyboard, except all the controls have full feedback, text readouts and dynamic labels, and you're not limited to just a piano layout. The Wicki-Hayden hexagonal layout is a great way to inspire your compositions.

Important Note: Instrumental does not make any sound on its own. It connects via Wi-Fi to MIDI software running on your computer.

See the website for demonstration videos and more information, including the complete user manual.

Instrumental includes 6 highly configurable surfaces, all with plenty of configurable, labelled controls:
- a piano
- a wicki-hayden hexagonal keyboard
- a 4x4 drumpad
- a 16 channel mixer
- 2 completely generic pages for controlling random devices like equalizers, compressors and other effects.

Compatible with any MIDI software, it works best when the controls are automatically labelled by the host software by sending MIDI SYSEX messages.

Drivers for Propellerhead's Reason and Record provide control maps for every Reason and Record device, with automatic control labels that update even when you override controls on the fly!

Features include:
- modular control panels that can be swapped around quickly and easily
- all controls can have labels and text readouts provided by the host, or edited on the fly
- all controls have feedback from the host, so you know exactly where everything is set
- supports the QB Conductor Protocol for reliable low-latency MIDI over Wi-Fi. Conductor servers are available for both Mac and Windows.
- supports the Apple Network MIDI Protocol, available on every Mac.
- connect multiple iPads to the same computer; have your whole band playing through one computer.
- musical layouts with customisable response curves"

Instrumental - Continental Laboratories - iTunes
iPads on eBay

SENSES June 18 special guest: Mark de Clive-Lowe

YouTube Uploaded by anoriginalknockoff on Jun 11, 2011

"Mark de Clive-Lowe will be performing this Saturday June 18 at The Drink @ Fox Theater in Downtown Pomona. RSVP at www.thenoiseacademy.com/rsvp

We got to sit down with Mark de Clive-Lowe and see what his project REMIX: LIVE was all about."

Olegtron 4060 proto test 2

YouTube Uploaded by jjuup on Jun 14, 2011

Joystick Journeys: The VCS3 Collection

Sample set via The Electronic Garden

"Welcome to the weird, whacky and wonderful world of the EMS VCS3. This unusual instrument was developed by EMS in the late Sixties and intended as a portable electronic music studio. Unlike more famous instruments of the day, the VCS3 was initially released without an accompanying keyboard. As such, it was embraced (often by those under the influence of certain mood enhancers) as a resource for special effects. It became an electronic voice for space rockers, psychedelic bands and sound designers. The VCS3 and its big brother the Synthi 100 were used by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop to create effects for many programs, including of course, Doctor Who. With clever marketing ("every nun needs a Synthi"), the VCS3 and its electronically identical suitcased brother the Synthi A became mainstays of the European rock scene. EMS itself was a hot spot, visited by many musical stars of the day.

What made the VCS3 so endearing? Why does it claim ridiculously high secondhand prices to this day? Perhaps because, keyboard-free, it invited atonal experimentation. Or maybe because it looked like the flight deck from a Gallifreyan time machine. It certainly wasn't because it stayed in tune! In fact, when the keyboard was eventually released, many musicians quickly discovered that its oscillators were hopelessly undependable, drifting and wobbling like spec of cosmic dust in a solar storm. Maybe its appeal came courtesy of that crazy push-pin routing matrix (which took the place of patch cords, but traded 'em for some pretty nutty cross-talk). It's an awful lot of fun to blindly stab pins into that thing and see what happens!"

Catgirl Synth (CGS) Opens Serge Site

via It's Full of Stars
"I have just supplied pictures of my Serge Modular system to Ken Stone, he of Catgirlsynth fame. He is into the early (pre-STS era) Serge synths, which are easily recognised by their paper-faced and laminated modules. So he has put together a website serge.synth.net which is a growing resource for these rare and beautiful beasts, with pictures of known systems, catalogs, manuals and stuff

If you have any pictures and info about other Serge paper-faces get in touch with Ken via his site..."

Studio Avalanche

flickr By J.Rai

"Final resting palce."

Beatie Bop Percussion Synthesizer

via this auction

"A handmade and unique Analog Drum Synth and Optical Theremin. Create cool spacey sounds, bangin' bass drums, ethereal spookiness, synth drones and more. It can be triggered by the onboard drum pad, voltage input, or audio input. Pitch can be controlled by the light-sensor!! Wave your hands in the air."

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RKY M-185 Analog Sequencer Module 5U MOTM

via this auction

"Rare M-185 sequencer from RYK, as published on the Electro Music forums, it is based on the Roland Sytem 100M modular synth 185 sequencer module, follows the same basic principle but adds many features. An absolute killer analog sequencer!

There was only a very limited number of pcb's, pics and switch sets available for this project so this now very desirable indeed for anyone with a 5U MOTM Style modular synth.

The panel has been assembled with all switches, including really nice feeling tactile click switches for start/stop and other primary functions. I have also fully assembled the PCB with all parts including V2.1 firmware pic chip. Just needs wiring up and its ready to go! You will need to be reasonably experienced at assembling synth modules to complete this, it is not a project for beginners!

More details of this module and assembly instructions are in the (Rather long!) thread on the Electro Music Forum:

http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27157

This is part of a huge 5U modular synthesiser I was building, but due to moving house and changing jobs I no longer have time to persue this project, so I'm selling up everything in a full life laundry. All of the components have been fitted to the pcb, it has been powered up but will require final testing and calibration. I am a very skilled at electronics and have built many synth modules over the years, I am also selling an Elby Pixie synth which is of rather higher complexity and this module is built with the same attention to detail - all of the components fitted have been checked three times to eliminate the possibility of a wrongly fitted or incorrect value component. Because I didn't get round to installing and calibrating this module I'm selling it as a project with no warranty with no returns rather than a finished item."

J Haible Frequency Shifter FS-1A PCB & Panel 5U MOTM

via this auction

"Jurgen Haible Frequency shifter, 2 pcb's with all components fitted, all caps and resistors carefully selected as per build instructions. Also includes Bridechamber MOTM style panel. Like all of Jurgen Haible's designs this is absolutely the best you can get, this will be a really superb frequency shifter when completed."