hand built experimental noise pedal circuit bent laser octave

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"This is a hand built noise pedal/machine built by me the plastic knobs are recycled. everything else is brand new. new electronics enclosure pots switches all that. it has true bypass to turn the effects on and off. it has a nice clean fuzz and 8 nasty octave circuit bent beefy static mutations that can be mixed together check out the video to see what it sounds like and how it works runs on 9v power supply standard -tip boss style not included."

Cool pics with comics.

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Announcing The Electronic Music Works EMW-200

via Electronic Music Works

“Next week EMW will be proudly launching the new EMW-200 Electronic Sound Lab synthesizer, an improved version of the old EML-200 synthesizer. Stay tuned.”

And some high quality audio demos of the EMW-200 (without external effects):

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Hiroshi Sakaguchi / Music for the Bride and Groom No.3 (2012)

YouTube Uploaded by FutureRetronics on Mar 7, 2012

"at Hotel Okura Fukuoka. Japan, on March 3. 2012,
Dedicated to Michinari and Narumi.
Composition and Performance is Hiroshi Sakaguchi.
Special Thanks for Kaori.
© 2012 frepi."

Roland GR-500. Created a Synth Weddings label for this one.

dub session with monomachine and modular

YouTube Uploaded by martinHETERJAG on Mar 7, 2012

"uploaded a dub jam 5 mins ago but forgot to record the sound. damn i suck sometimes :)
anyways this one is pretty similar, same patch at least but i think i liked the first recording better :("

Electrocomp & Univox

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Bottom is OSC 4 on the Electrocomp 101.

You'll find a post featuring the 101 on Oliver Chesler's Wire to the Ear.

Arp Omni 2

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"This Arp Omni 2 was recently serviced and all the tantalum caps replaced by Bay-Area pro tech Chris Hewitt. (Who sent the photos of the inside of the board).

It sounds amazing. It has the famous Arp string sounds used by Joy Division, New Order, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, the Cars, etc. There are a couple of really deep chorus settings "Hollow Wave" and "Chorus Phaser" that make this synth famous.

It also has incredible Bass sounds- really LOUD, punchy and warm.

The synthesizer settings allow for creating very musical, spacey sounds, especially using the resonant VCF and the LFO. Also cool is the separate outputs for "Strings," "Synth," and "Bass" in addition to the main "mixed" output. This way, you can process each part through different effects, and send them to different amps. Really cool feature, especially for live playing.

Some notes about the condition of this synth: I am not a tech, but the synth appears to function as designed. The keys play well and are in good shape. They are not perfectly even, and some show minor wear and tear- a scratch here, a mark there. ALL of the voice settings work and sound great. The highest key does not produce sound. Some slider caps are missing.

This is a beautiful old synth."

Pics of the inside below.

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Vintage ARP Pro Soloist 2701 SN 473454

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"The low pass VCF in this is the same as the 4035:

'Overview This is a classic "moog" transistor ladder low pass filter with the usual 4-poles and 24dB cutoff. In 1974 ARP went back to their "moog" filter design (the 4012 module used in the 2600) and updated it to use transistor array chips and put it into the Odyssey as the 4035, and the Pro-Soloist and Explorer 1 as the 4034. This two modules are virtually identical and both are temperature compensated.'"

Some pics of the inside below.

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japanese analogue synth book

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"this book is all in Japanese! it's thick and full of pics of old analog synths and Japanese bands like Yellow Magic Orchestra. ideal collectors piece if u are into old synthesisers"

Added to the Synth Books post. If anyone knows more about this one, feel free to comment or shoot me an email via the email icon at the bottom right of the site.

Update: some info via an anonymous reader:

"Meaning of the title: Electronic Music in Japan
Author: Yuji Tanaka
Publisher: ASPECT

Publisher's site on the book:
http://www.aspect.co.jp/np/isbn/9784757208711/

In Amazon Japan, a revised book is still available. [link
- note the cover is different]

This book is not beautiful because figures are gray, but it is still great because
it includes history of not-famous Japanese experimental and popular electronic music."

Update via the world of next tuesday in the comments: "The first version seems to have come out in 1997. It's about just what the title says "electronic music in Japan", it's not a book about Japanese Analog Synths. The cover of the first edition says 1955-1981, maybe that was the first edition. I have the second edition from 2001 with the grey cover. It covers up until 1987. I see the last entry in the back page timeline says "D-50" then "M1" under an otherwise blank 1988. I found it in NYC in the mid 2000s. It contains a CD of example recordings dating from 1969-1987 and it's about 600 pages long. There are hundreds of very small pictures averaging about an inch, 1.25" square and b&w. There are some synth shots that size but nothing to really study. Maybe about 20 pages are color and the bulk of the 100s of images are album covers. It covers a lot of Non Japanese albums for context. The author did a second book in 2005 called "Electronic Music in the Lost World". It has a lot more small color images of vintage electronic music albums."

KORG Bloggers Meeting 2012 Japan

コルグ・ブロガーズ・ミーティング2012 - KORG Bloggers Meeting 2012

YouTube Uploaded by CardiacTrance on Mar 6, 2012
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"コルグ・ブロガーズ・ミーティング2012の模様をまとめた動画です。Kaossilator2、mini-Kaosspad2、iKaossilator ver.2など新製品の紹介デモンストレーションの他に、monotron DUOとmonotron DELAYの回路図（KORGウェブサイトwww.korg.co.jp/Support/Manual/download.php?id=512でDL可能）の解説、ユ­ーザー試奏タイムで個人的に行った実験、monotronでキックドラムを作る際のリアルタイムなオシロスコープの映像、おまけのNG集が収録されております。
Vids from KORG Bloggers Meeting 2012. Includes: The demonstrations of new products such as Kaossilator2, mini-Kaosspad2 and iKaossilator ver.2. The special seminar by the KORG engineers about monotron DUO and monotron DELAY (The schematics are available for downloading at KORG website. www.korg.co.jp/Support/Manual/download.php?id=512), and some basic synthesizer physics. A weird experiment I did there - trying to find out if the click pulse noise from my geiger counter can be used as a control signal for the Monotribe. The footage of me making a kick drum using Monotron, demonstrated on the cool analog vintage oscilloscope. Bloopers. :-D"

Ikariotis.f4v - MOCM DIY Workshop

YouTube Uploaded by TheMOCM on Mar 7, 2012

"Module creation at the MOCM DIY Electronics workshop from the participant Giorgos Ikariotis.
http://www.mocm.gr"