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Friday, March 02, 2012

3 basslines and a 606


YouTube Uploaded by pac209 on Mar 2, 2012

KORG MONOTRON CV GATE MODKORG MONOTRON CV GATE MOD KORG MONOTRON CV GATE MOD


YouTube Uploaded by HOX808 on Mar 2, 2012

"126 bpm"

monotrons on eBay
monotrons on Amazon

Waldorf Micro Q: wavetable + comb filter


YouTube Uploaded by popitem on Mar 2, 2012

"I 've just received this, first run with the µQ, I made that patch with 2 wavetable osc then to the comb filter wich is modulated by a random lfo."

Alexander Robotnick's New Studio


YouTube Uploaded by mauriziodami on Mar 2, 2012

"My new studio in Florence is now fully operative!"

Blippoo Box Duet


Vimeo by Rastko Lazic

"An improvisation on two Rob Hordijk's Blippoo Boxes recorded in Berlin.

More about Richard Scott can be found at : richard-scott.net"

Untitled



Some devices by vtol.

Thursday, March 01, 2012

Sennheiser Vocoder VSM 201 Serviced by Studio Electronics

via this auction
"Selling a VSM 201 Classic Sennheiser vocoder. It literally looks brand new OUT OF A TIME MACHINE.. and its more than 30 years old! i believe. This piece was worth more than 20k when it came out and they only made about 30 of them.

What is special about this unit is that this unit its serial number 11. Most of the units that came out to the public where serial number 13 up, therefore this unit is one of the original, It comes with a custom case. I had it checked by David Kulka las week and its all good to go. Look at the pictures and feel free to ask me any questions.

THIS IS SOME INFO I FOUND ONLINE ABOUT IT

This is the famous vocoder used for the robot voicesin the Grandmix intro's. It has several inputs of which the voice input and the carrier input are the most important.
What it does is this. It takes a carrier sound (synth waveformor any other sound containing sufficient harmonics) and articulatesthat sound with your voice, much in the same way as your mouth articulates the sound coming from your vocal chords. It achieves this by detecting frequencies in the voice section, andopening the corresponding frequencies in the carrier section.The more frequency bands used, the better is the resulting effect.The sennheiser uses 20 frequency bands. Many more than most other vocoders, making it one of the best vocoders ever built. There are only 3 copies of this model in Europe, one probably ownedby Kraftwerk. Other people using this model are Herbie Hancock, the Cylon robots in Battlestar Gallactica, and some droids in Star Wars."

The Intellijel Mutamix


"Introducing the Intellijel Mutamix, the successor to the now discontinued Mutagen.

I went through many iterations and design changes to arrive at this final version (hence the long delay). Some of the designs involved elaborate integration of VC mixing, panning and bussing (based on the requests of many users) but the design became way too complex and convoluted. I have ended up with something that I think is unique and will allow for some creative applications (especially with regards to CV) but it is not necessarily meant to be a traditional audio mixer. I plan to make another companion product that will be purely focused on audio in the future (mono/stereo, panning, aux sends etc.).


So here is how it works:
In "NORMAL" mode all the buttons at the top act as mute on/off switches with a single click. The leds in the slider illuminate to indicate a muted channel. If I double click I will SOLO the channel and that channels led will flash on/off. I remain in SOLO state until all channels are unsoloed.

I can save the state of the muted channels into 6 possible locations (and recall them) by pressing the [SAVE] or [LOAD] buttons for about 1 second.

If I activate [KILL] all inputs and outputs are muted and all the leds flash at a rapid rate. Pressing any button will immediately exit KILL mode and return to the previous state.

[GATE] and [PULSE] allow me to select whether a corresponding channel MUTE CTRL jack toggles mute on/off (PULSE mode) or the channel is gated on/off (GATE mode) when the controlling signal is HIGH. On the mutagen this mode selection was done via jumpers on the back and the gating was inverted.

[XMODE] is a special mode. In XMODE single clicks of the buttons no longer toggle muting. Instead they instantly recall a mute state preset (the 6 possible memory locations that you would have stored using the SAVE function).
In addition to this, all of the MUTE CTRL jacks now become XMODE controls:
CLK: cycle through all the presets in a given direction (default forward) on every pulse
RESET: Start back at preset 1
DIR: toggle the direction that the presets cycle through
RANDOM: every pulse selects a preset at random.
INV: the current mute state is inverted (i.e if channels 1, 3 and 5 are muted then after a pulse, 2,4, and 6 are muted and the rest are unmuted)
MUTE-ALL: no matter what the current state, all channels are muted.

With all of these functions it becomes clear you can turn the Mutamix into an unusual sequencer!
For example: I could take a steady voltage source and feed it to a Buff Mult. I then take the 6 outputs of the buff mult and patch each one to one of the Mutamix inputs. Now the sliders will act as attenuators for the voltage and allow me to set a pitch cv level. If I then program 6 different presets where on each one only one channel is unmuted, cycling through the presets will give me a traditional pitch sequencer (although it is 6 stages).
It becomes more interesting if I replace some of the steady DC sources with audio or lfo cv and I store presets with more than one channel unmuted. Now I would get a weird sequence where different modulations are unmuted on different steps to get a very complex modulation control.

-18HP
-Skiff friendly
-6 led linear sliders for input attenuation control (leds can be easily replaced with other colors, they just slide out).
-jumpers to select pseudo log curve (instead of linear)
-All muting realised via VCAs opening/closing
-6 audio/cv inputs
-6 mute/function inputs (depends on mode)
-6 three way bus routing switches.
-3 audio/cv bus outputs
-2 linear master output level controls.
-6 control buttons + status led
-header to normal HexVCA output to the 6 inputs. (same as Mutagen).
-Expected price: $250.00

Availability. They are built! But I am just about to go on vacation and will be back in one week. When I am back Haven and I will program and test the batch and have them ready to ship out asap.

Big thanks to Haven for all the help with the feature set!"

via TRASH_AUDIO via Muff's.

shruthi-1 programmer complete!


flickr By MukSys

"After tons of troubleshooting, I decided to swap out some IC's. Got em in the mail and put em in. Fired right up! Yesss!"

FOLKTEK Modified Omnichord OM-84

via this auction
"Modified omnichord two(om-84) Touch synthisizer. This piece features 60+ touch points allowing you to produce rich and complex tones, drones, harmonies, filtering and distortion. Multiple tones/notes can be played at one time to create thick and complex tonal harmonies. The hand etched copper clad section on top features 3 rows of thirteen notes including ,mid,bass and grimey tones. The Bottom copper clad section features 12 sonorous chord tones as well as 10 amp points that in combination with any note section creates distortion, warble, noise, grime, noise and leval/bass boost. Omnichord functions regularly when no touch points are activated. This unit only runs on a 12v adaptor as the battery compartement has been utilized to house the modifications. Includes basic manual of the mods."

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