Ionic Performer

flickr By Chris Kann

Ionic was the distributor for EMS.  The Performer was a clone of the SYNTHI.  You can find a ton of pictures on the restoration of one along with links to the history of Ionic in this previous post.

Total Technology Octron Modular

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Price sheets below.

First post to feature Total Technology. Anyone know more about them?

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Daphne Oram The Oram Tapes: Volume One Now Available

"Daphne Oram, founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, died in 2003 leaving a colossal archive of reel-to-reel tapes and documents behind. This important collection of material eventually made its way to Goldsmiths College, London, who have been administering it on behalf of the Daphne Oram Trust for the last few years. The collection holds over 400 tapes made by Oram during her lifetime, and 211 of those have been archived and catalogued by the college so far."

You can find the release on bookmat and Amazon here.

See the Oramics label below for additional posts. Also added this one to the Synth CDs post.

via Boing Boing

Tara Busch at Moog - What's That She's Tweaking?

"One for the synth heads :)
— with Tara Busch."

via Maf on Facebook

"Matrixsynth Jones this is one for you. Video out tomorrow :)"

Update: what's that she's tweaking? ...

Voyage Into the Unknown - Andy Barrow - Minimoog Voyager XL - Korg Radias - Kawai K4

YouTube Uploaded by MrRidgebackman on Jan 4, 2012

"Hi All,

Better late than never. Having issues making anything stick, Fell upon this idea and just went with it.....Suggest a Decent pair of Headphones or Monitors - Turned up!!!

A piece of music that started out in Reason 5 using Dr Rex Loop player, I exported a couple of loops to use in my Cubase Project and worked up from there. This piece was recorded live into Cubase using a total of 8 Tracks of audio. I hope to add more tracks and make it last longer for better effect and pad this piece out with some extra sounds to add to the ambient effect (located somewhere in this track)

Some big Pad sounds from both Kawai and Radias - earning them their right to stay in the studio. The Minimoog giving me that nice deep growling bass I wanted for this music and taking full advantage of the Pitch and Mod Wheels. The Radias and the XL set the theme to start the Music off into the Voyage into the unknown

The main part of this video is of me (apparently struggling) unpacking the Voyager XL - Yes this is a heavy unit and one I did not want to drop, not that it would hurt the Moog, just probably crack the floor :-) Probably the sexiest looking synth ever - if you like the retro look and love analogue (digital is nice ...But......)

The very last part of this video with the Drums and Moog - The stereo effect is direct from the Voyager XL by using the Touch Panel to effect change in EG and its Position in the Stereo image - This will form part of the continuation for this piece of Music - Not sure on what direction I am heading in yet with this, needless to say the Moog's will be out to play

Hope you enjoy this as much as I did putting this together.

Many thanks for dropping by and watching"

Mickey Mouse play synthesizer

flickr By Pierrick Levé
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Jarracoon - Water Harp ( Jean Michel Jarre ) / Riva

YouTube Uploaded by Stereokromatik on Jan 4, 2012

via The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

KORG SH2000

via this auction

"This auction is for an original Korg SH2000 vintage synth complete with rare original perspex music stand!!"

:)

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Megatsunami live at DigiTroK! with the LepLoop Lumanoise Drone Synth

YouTube Uploaded by xo00 on Jul 13, 2011

"Megatsunami live at DigiTroK!
Cascina Torchiera, Milano 10.07.2011
Video by Goldfish
otolab 2011"

Details on the Lumanoise on LepLoop.

CLOUT! WARP CORE DUB!

YouTube Uploaded by CLOUTmusictv on Dec 18, 2011

"IMPROV WITH MFB 522 DRUM MACHINE AND CASPER ELECTRONICS DRONE LAB.
DRONE LAB IS BEING FED INTO FOCUSRITE NOISE GATE THAT IS TRIGGERED BY MFB KICK CHANNEL.

COPILOT FX MOLECULE AND BOSS RPS-10 USED TO PROCESS.

LAPTOP USED SOLELY AS RECORDING DEVICE."