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iRig MIDI Core MIDI interface for iPhone / iPod touch / iPad and SampleTank for iOS

YouTube Uploaded by ikmultimedia on Jul 18, 2011

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iRig MIDI is an ultra-compact standard Core MIDI interface for iOS that connects any MIDI compatible device to the iPhone®, iPod touch® and iPad®.

iRig MIDI connects MIDI keyboards, drum machines, drum pads, pedal boards and more to an iOS device to control not only the included SampleTank FREE* but also a world of MIDI-compatible apps such as GarageBand®. You can also use iOS apps to control external MIDI equipment such as sound modules, DAWs or lighting systems right from the mobile device.

The included SampleTank for iOS also offers a high-quality mobile alternative to traditional software and hardware sound modules and has been studied from the ground up to work as a live performance instrument where it can access as a vast 1GB library of over 500 ready-to-use sounds."

Dave Vosh & Venus Slick Live

A chance to see some interesting instruments live.

"Friday, Nov. 4 – Dave Vosh brings “bag of analog tricks” to the Lou!

Dave Vosh
Special guests Dr. Mabuse and Venus Slick
Friday, Nov. 4, 2011 – 8 pm
Floating Laboratories
4528 Ohio [St. Louis]
Admission: $5

HEARding Cats is excited to bring east coast synthesis sensation Dave Vosh to St. Louis for a rare Midwest performance. Vosh has had a lifelong passion for electronic music. After years of toiling in autodidactic obscurity

he summoned-up the courage to contact one of his idols, Karlheinz Sctockhausen, by mail. To his great shock, Maestro Stockhausen not only answered his letter personally but continued the correspondence with Vosh up until his death; offering advice and discussion on all sorts of musical issues. Emboldened by Stockhausen’s attention, Vosh assembled an arsenal of sophisticated electronic instruments and recently decided to take the bushel-basket off his lamp in the active DC/Baltimore avant garde scene. He now performs regularly in the Electric Possible and Sonic Circuits series, as well as at the Red Room, Hexagon, and Pyramid Atlantic. He appeared in the 2008 and 2009 Electro-Music Festivals.

In an unusual appearance on Baltimore’s Rams Head Live stage Vosh’s solo performance was described:

'He comes in, hobbles up to the stage on his cane, opens up a big briefcase of mephistophelesian landscapes, and settles into a chair. Then he takes up his little baton and calmly conducts a tour across the terrible beauty of the vast frozen steppes of Hades. …and when the show is over, he quietly packs it all up and lumbers off into the night.
It’s a hell of an act.'

Dr. Mabuse has become a regular at Floating Labs over the last two years. His talents and iterations are wide-ranging: a synthesist; a bass player; a keyboardist; a composer. Mabuse plays as a solo artist (often on analog synthesizers of his own building and design), and collaborator in various ensembles, including the tory z starbuck project, SANE, and “The Dark Secrets of Dr. Mabuse.” His performances are largely improvisational, and explore both rhythmic and textural concepts at the edges of music.

Venus Slick is a painter by trade, a musician by night, and a grifter by day (hence the name “Slick” – careful, she’s liable to steal your wallet!). Her talent on the custom-made, one-of-a-kind analog synthesizer “Il Viaggio di Marconi” is only surpassed by her beauty. She’ll join Vosh for several transmigrations throughout the evening."

Casio Casiotone MT-65 Keyboard

via this auction

"This vintage Casio MT-65 yields from 1983.These were the first keyboards of the “classic” NEC D930/D931 family, which undisputedly is the most versatile and successful hardware in Casio’s history. Especially the accompaniment chip D930G, already used in the MT-45, is pure genius: With 12 basic rhythm/accompaniment patterns, switchable arpeggio, and four independently selectable patterns for bass, chord and arpeggio, this gives you over 1,500 accompaniment patterns (3,000 when you count rhythm-only as accompaniment) — an incredible number at that time, and impressive still today. (The first wavetable keyboards in 1989 had no variations at all.)

The main voice chip NEC D931C fades in comparison, but with its 20 presets, vibrato/delayed vibrato, sustain/reverb, and two envelope variations per voice (the latter only on the Casiotone 405), this still makes 360 voice variations in all. I know of no other home keyboards with such a wealth of options. As with all Casios of this time, all of the controls are simple analog switches and sliders, which makes these keyboards perfect for live play, creative exploration and experimentation."

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Roland TR-66 Analog Drum Machine

via this auction

"Roland TR-66 analog drum machine. It's got a bunch of preset patterns like slow rock, jazz waltz, rhumba etc. It's also has a tempo knob, volume knob and balance knob. The balance knob allows you to blend between kick & snare and hi hat & cymbal. On the back you have hi and lo Z outputs and a power cord."

Arduino MIDIfied HAMMOND Autovari64 + Ableton sequencer

Arduino MIDIfied HAMMOND Autovari64 + Ableton sequencer from MP19 on Vimeo.

"come alive again,,"

Club Of The Knobs C951 Test

YouTube Uploaded by JohnLRice on Jul 21, 2011

"Just some exploration of this new module."

BEAT THANG LA PREMIERE

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MOOG Taurus II vintage analog synth bass pedal

via this auction

SN 2105

"The Moog Taurus II is a Moog Rogue without a keyboard. It can be used as a desktop module, using CV and gate, or as a bass synth with the pedal controller (included!). The Taurus II is the most flexible analog bass synth because it is a complete monosynth capable of leads and effects--as well as fantastic bass sounds."

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MOOG Taurus vintage analog synth

via this auction

SN 1608

"The Moog Taurus is legendary for its gigantic bass sounds and it is certainly no myth. Versions two and three can't come close."