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Novation Bass Station Keyboard Analog Mono Synthesizer

Roland Lucina® AX-09 Jordan Rudess SampleWiz iPad Demo

YouTube Uploaded by rolandmedia on Sep 7, 2011
Update: video reloaded Sep 8.
"Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater uses the Lucina AX-09 synthesizer to control his popular sampling program, SampleWiz."

SampleWiz - Jordan Rudess: Wizdom Music, LLC
iPads on eBay
iPod Touch on eBay

Unlocking Yamaha E70 organ into Yamaha CS80 synthesizer

YouTube Uploaded by allvek597 on Sep 5, 2011
Re-Published on Feb 12, 2016

Update via e man in the comments: "There is no CS style VCO, it's just the VCF's and VCA's - the VCO's in the electronic design are what's used to clock the waveform data from the basic waveforms in ROM. It's like the Korg DW series, only analog on the VCF/VCA side. It has very little pitch control other than minimal glide (semitone range) and same for the vibrato (if even)... the source oscillators are purely phase locked digital constructs."

And: "There is no analog VCO in this entire synth, certainly nothing resembling the CS80 or any other CS synth - zip, nada, zilch - anyone telling you otherwise is trying to sell you swamp water. This is a giant polyphonic that has much more in common with the Korg DW series (also having crude basic waveform in rom), but very much lacking in it's ability to do any pitch control - what little there is, is a an digital approximation of minimal range. The only place you could add modulation circuitry to any great effect is the VCF and VCA section of the Orchestra Voices - pitch modulation is either limited global vibrato or equally minimal vibrato on the upper manual via wiggling the keyboard that drives a photovoltaic shutter combo, again going to a digital interface having little effect - even the glide is minimal and digital. You will never get anything properly analog out of the the Wavetable oscillator end as it's a giant digital construct with loads of sample and holds to distribute the wavetable rom voltages that approximate the basic synth waveforms (ramp, pulse, square). It's basically 3 waveform samples in ROM with very little control over pitch other than basic notes (the speed that the sample is read out from the ROM)."

The following is the original post starting with the video description:

"Mystery is resolved. Chopped and completely electronically modified analog Yamaha E70 organ into Yamaha CS80 synthesizer. What You see now is 2 fully programmable polyphonic synths 2 OSC's per voice + fully programmable 2 OCS's per voice monophonic synth in a body of Yamaha E70. Same P.A.S.S sound technology, same analog filters and same sound, same offspring of legendary Yamaha GX1.
Any questions, please visit www.alvek.us"

via this auction

"Here's one more organ from my collection: Yamaha E70 . What You see in the pictures is completely modified Yamaha E70 in body and electronically. Organ after chop work went 327lbs down to 130-140lbs(Yamaha CS80 is 242lbs) and under the hood all electronic carts are located pretty close to like inside of CS80. It's been a while people talking about E70 which has same P.A.S.S technology like CS80 and electronic carts, all wiring are practically the same like CS80. Yes, E70 has absolutely the same analog filters like CS80, same sound synthes and it does sound like CS80. This particular E70 has beed modified from organ into 2 and half fully programmable CS80. All presets still have same functions except FUNNYII preset green buttons. Those 3 green buttons(1 for upper, 1 for lower keyboard, 1 for pedal board or extra keyboard) function now differently. When You push FUNNY II E70 starts to work as most powerful and expensive programmable synth-Yamaha CS80. On left top of organ You see control box. The box has 3 sections: 1st for upper keyboard, 2nd for lower keyboard, 3rd for footpedal/or extra keyboard you can hook up. You can see all signs under the switches(3 waves forms sawtooth and 2 square waveshapes) and pots, they have same function like on CS80. So after all this E70 has 2 polyphonic 7 voices 2 OCSs per voice CS80 synths and one monophonic 2 OCS per note synth (pedal or extra keyboard which can be connected to E70 is monophonic, it's perfect for bass lines and pretty good even for leads as far as You will move 2 OCS slider from 16' up to 4'). Oscilators can be detunes between each other and between keyboard. Does E70 sound like CS80?. Yes, it does. Main different between E70 and CS80: no velocity and aftertouch on E70. Big flaw. On another hand You have 2 and half CS80 under the hood. You can build sound on upper keyboard and MIX IT with sound you built on lower keyboard. Also you can add organ/orchestral section(they all can be saved in memory-see small control panel on a botton of organ to left-very much the same look like on CS80) from upper keyboard AND organ/orchestral section from lower keyboard. Same thing can be done between lower polyphonic and monophonic keyboard/pedals: monosynth also can be played on first 2 octave of lower keyboard. Now You realize CS80 is kind of kind of behind! PLUS very powerful arpeggiator! and even cheesy drum machine and 100 lbs less. From control box You can see 3 cables coming inside of E70, each cable has 25 pins . The connector 9 pins in a middle of a back of E70 serves expression pedal. 3 inputs 1/4 on back are not hooked up. Could be 1/4main output(original main output on a bottom of organ)or sustain pedals-it's easy to hook up. Same about 6 inputs on control panel-they are not hooked up. It's your choice how to use them. I didn't connected any inputs for 1/4 jack, coz basically all extra functions are on control panel of organ. I don't play on stage, so I can turn on sustain effect simply by hand. The organ is absolutely stable in tune and doen't have overheat problems like CS80 Anyway, if you are still skeptical about what You read here, please check some INFO on line about unlocking Yamaha E70 and Yamaha CS80 both children of Yamaha GX1. And don't forget how much money you will save not buying CS80. Please check, read and watch all links below and You will see it's not a dream anymore. You can get 2 and half CS80 more than 4 times cheaper... compare to ebay price for last month. "

Update: new video and description in this post.

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Native Instruments - Absynth - patch ( Olivier Messiaen L'ascension)

YouTube Uploaded by ANTsynth on Sep 7, 2011

"My Absynth 5 version of the first couple of measures of Olivier Messiaen's L'ascension ( Prière du Christ montant vers son Père ("Prayer of Christ ascending towards his Father") This was all done using Absynth's envelopes there was no over dubbing. You can download the original patch at the NI website Absynth user library."

DODECAUDION

DODECAUDION - preview #1 from panGenerator on Vimeo.

"Brief and spontaneous preview of what you may expect from Dodecaudion - a spatial a/v controller based on infrared distance sensors, arduino, bluetooth, osc, processing and (in this case) reaktor5. Official video is going to be released in mid august and the premiere concert will follow shortly after :)

It's only a preview and there will be a lot of refinements in terms of sound design and instrument characteristics.

Dodecaudion is a project by panGenerator that's
going to be released under HEDOCO brand.

Dodecaudion is totally open sourced:
> MIT license - source code.
> Creative Commons (probably CC BY-NC-SA) - form design, PCB layout & everything else.

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The noise making girl is Weronika Lewandowska
and she'll perform in the official video as well.

Most recent news on the subject:
facebook.com/pangenerator

Also check out:
pangenerator.com
hedoco.com"

DODECAUDION from panGenerator on Vimeo.

"DODECAUDION
a project by panGenerator / HEDOCO product.
pangenerator.com
hedoco.com

Dodecaudion is a spatial audiovisual controller based on such technologies as infrared distance sensors, arduino, bluetooth, processing and osc.

Most of the sound in this video was recorded live and edited/postproduced later on.

The project is in alpha phase right now but should be ready for production in following months and will be available via HEDOCO online shop.

Dodecaudion is totally opensourced:
MIT license - source code.
Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA) - form design, PCB layout & everything else.

You'll find source code, CAD documentation and PCB schematics on github ( please note however that they still need some cleanup, we'll post an update soon ).
github.com/panGenerator/dodecaudion

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deadmau5 @ the Cosmopolitan LV

via Seppe, spotted on deadmau5 on FB.

Click the pics for the close-ups.

Solvent Curtains - RDJCS5 EP w/Aphex's CS5 -- official video

"Slices / Electronic Beats, is hosting the video premiere of "Curtains" by Solvent, from the "RDJCS5-ep" - the whole EP was made entirely on Aphex Twin's old Yamaha CS-5 synth with the liner notes to SAW vol2 etched into the bottom of it. EBTV will host the video exclusively for the next 2 weeks.The video features more close-up shots of the synth:
http://www.electronicbeats.net/music/features/solvent-curtains-video-premiere

In the future it will also be uploaded to my Solvent YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/s0LVentCIty

The EP was released on Sept6, and can be ordered digitally via iTunes, Amazon, etc... Also available digitally or on limited edition 12" vinyl (300, currently less than 25 left) via Solvent's BandCamp page: http://solvent.bandcamp.com"

Nordwave guitar solo

YouTube Uploaded by graal7 on Sep 7, 2011

"solo improvisation with guitar sound on nordwave"

Ensoniq EPS Output Expander

via this auction

See Perfect Circuit Audio (RSS) for more.

Update via Doug in the comments: "The item in these photos is actually the output expander for the original EPS and not an OEX-6SR. The OEX-6SR is usually labelled as such on top, and only has 6 outputs."

You can see pics of the two here.