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Sunday, October 16, 2011

Morton Subotnick's Buchla at the Unsound festival


"It really was a stunning performance, actually based around Silver Apples of the Moon, one of my all time favourite albums. HE HELPED INVENT THE VOLTAGE CONTROLLED SYNTHESISER by commissioning Don Buchla to make his very first modular system."

via It's Full of Stars where you'll find the full write-up along with some video.

LFO (289/365)


flickr By ottoeuropa

Sherman - Quad Modular Filter, QMF, Analog SN 09


via this auction

"Item Description:
- 1 x Sherman - QMF: Quad Modular Filterbank (4 x Sherman Filterbanks with modular patching! Connect all 4 Filterbanks for 98dB Filter!!).
- 1 x Power Cable.
- 4 x Patch Cables (I no longer have the original 10 patch cables supplied from Sherman).
- 1 x Normal Sherman Filterbank Manual.
- 1 x Original QMF Instruction Insert (2 page).
- 2 x Sherman sticker Sheets!
- Limited Edition, number 9 of 95 units worldwide!!!...

Description from the Sherman website:

'What is the Sherman QMF ?
4 Sherman Filterbanks in 1 box, numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4. The numbers also apply to the MIDI channel at which the 4 filterbanks are programmed. E.g. filterbank 1 has MIDI channel 1, filterbank 2 has MIDI channel 2 etc...

The 4 filterbanks have a separate input (i.e. you can plug in 4 different sound sources into the 4 different filterbanks, so actually it's some kind of weird mixing desk), or you can link them all together (i.e. when 1 input is used, you can process the source through all 4 filterbanks, and then you may have a filter slope of 96dB...)

EXTRA FEATURES IN THE QMF (that are not in the regular Filterbank):

Filters 3 & 4 have the following 6 extra switches (so 12 extra features in total) :
- BRIGHT : Boosts high frequencies at input
- LIMIT : Clips input signal at lower level, in favour of the self-resonating behaviour of the filters. Setting the in level extremely high will not blow away the filter reso waves in "limit".
- SLOW : In position "SLOW" the average speed of the AD(S)R / env.follower slopes is as in a regular Filterbank. If "slow" is switched off, the AD(S)R / env.follower slopes are about 5 times faster.
- TRIGGER : Enables "a kind of" LFO restart at the "on"going AR TRIGGER.
- SAWTOOTH SELECT : Selects sawtooth waveform for the LFO.
- +1 OCTAVE : Doubles the center-frequency of both filters, even if in "no signal" position of the harmonics. Overrides the MIDI +1 octave function.
- 2 EXTRA JACK-SOCKETS ON EACH FILTER :
- LFO OUTPUT : To connect to ANY input : eg : AM, AM Depth, FM, AR trig; ADSR trig.
- AM DEPTH CV INPUT : Control Voltage input for the internal VCA that controls the flow from the AM source to the signal VCA's for Out1 and Main out. (in the manual, here is a drawing of the above described VCA connections)

FINISHING:
- Top layer of extra varnish on the painting (so the print of lines / numbers stays longer)
- Wooden side panels, canberra wood
- Internal power supply, with a normal power PLUG cord
- 10 extra JACK-JACK cables of 60 centimeters delivered with each QMF

SPECS:
- Voltage : 230 V / 115 V alternate current, switchable
- Power rating : 18 VA
- Weight : 9 kg Packed

DIMENSIONS:
- HEIGHT : 15 CENTIMETER (= 5.9 inch)
- WIDTH : 54 CENTIMETER (= 21.25 inch)
- DEPTH : 41 CENTIMETER (= 16.14 inch)'"

Rare Yamaha GX-1 Programmer Videos & fanfare for the common man

How to abstract sound date from preset

YouTube Uploaded by cnxww893 on Oct 16, 2011

How to create user voice for GX 1

YouTube Uploaded by cnxww893 on Oct 16, 2011

fanfare for the common man

Uploaded by cnxww893 on Oct 16, 2011

Also see this version with the original.

Barcelona Synth Gathering

This one in via Hector.

"15 / 10 / 2011... First analog synth meeting in Barcelona (Spain.) Organised and promoted by Jan (Bollinote) and Diego de León (Befaco).


Link of event and photos in Hispasonic forum..." [Googlish]

Blue Ice GrooveBox

Custom Roland MC-909 & MC-307 with blue LEDs by Julian.


Korg Radias my little test


YouTube Uploaded by hayeye on Jun 25, 2011

"Nuovo progetto"

Reaktor ParamDrum TR Edition


YouTube Uploaded by peterdines on Jul 13, 2009

"http://reaktortips.blogspot.com/

The main idea behind ParamDrum is to have a fun and fast way of not only prototyping beats, but of creating variations that can be saved and recalled either in live performance or recorded and arranged into the backbone of a track.

You can download a PDF that explains the MIDI controller mappings and other details at http://drop.io/paramdrum/asset/paramdrum-0-4-pdf"

Lainhart NYC Performances October 20 and 23

A chance to see the Buchla 200e, Haken Continuum & Kyma System live.

"On Thursday, October 20 at 10PM, I'll be performing a set of new works for Buchla and Continuum at The Stone, an East Village not-for-profit performance space dedicated to the experimental and avant-garde. My performance is one of a series curated by Phill Niblock, director of Experimental Intermedia Foundation, featuring recording artists on the XI Records label. The Stone is located at the corner of Avenue and Second Street in Manhattan. For more information: http://thestonenyc.com/calendar.php

On Sunday, October 23 at 4:30PM, I'll be performing 100 x John 2, in honor of John Cage's 100th birthday year, as part of Ear To The Earth's New York Soundscape 2011 series. 100 x John 2 is for New York City environmental sounds processed with the Kyma System and activated by live electric guitar "to transform the ambient noise of Manhattan's streets and alleys into a magically lyrical sound". The performance takes place in Union Square Park at 14th Street in Manhattan as part of the Green City Challenge Race and Family Expo. For more about Soundscape 2011: http://www.eartotheearth.org/events.html

For more about Green City Challenge: http://greencitychallenge.org/

Finally, on Sunday October 23, at 10PM, I'll be back at The Stone performing as part of Phill Niblock + Guitars with Robert Poss, Byron Westbrook, and Matt Rogalsky, where we'll be playing Phill's Stosspeng for Ebow electric guitar quartet: http://thestonenyc.com/calendar.php"

Dirty Electronics ICA Synth x2 Cubed


YouTube Uploaded by eddie23a on Oct 16, 2011

"2 Dirty Electronics ICA Synths linked and synced. Circuit and PCB designed by John Richards, housed in a wooden cube by Stu Smith (A.S.M.O.)

www.dirtyelectronics.org/"
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