A huge hand changing the tape of a Space Echo.

YouTube Uploaded by repeatle on Mar 14, 2012

"The idea was to show how to change the tape loop of a Roland Space Echo. My hand is blocking some parts of it though.

Perhaps this will be of any help anyway."

DARK ENERGY II Initial Specs Released

follow-up to this post.

via Doepfer:

"preliminary without obligation

The Dark Energy (I) has to be discontinued because an important electronic part (CEM3394) is no longer available. We are working on the redesign of the Dark Energy at full speed. The new Dark Energy II will look like the Dark Energy I at first sight. Only the function of some controls and switches will differ from the Dark Energy I. These are the most important differences between Dark Energy I and II:

12dB multimode filter with lowpass, notch, highpass and bandpass (instead of 24dB lowpass of Dark Energy I)
the previous LM control of the filter becomes the filter type control (continuous crossfade lowpass - notch highpass - bandpass)
the LM function of the filter is no longer available
the waveform switch is used to select between saw and clipped/distorted saw (in the center position the saw is off)
the basic waveform of the VCO is saw (not triangle like the Dark Energy I).
because of the pure analog circuit and the temperature control it takes about 30 minutes until the VCO is in tune.
the VCA has a exponential scale (not the combined linear/exponential scale of Dark Energy I)

All other functions will remain unchanged. Even the price will be the same (currently Euro 428). The Dark Energy II will be probably available summer 2012."

The Paradiso Synthesizer

YouTube Uploaded by MITNewsOffice on Mar 13, 2012

Be sure to see the Paradiso label at the bottom of this post for prior posts.

"In 1973, Media Lab associate professor Joe Paradiso was an undergraduate at Tufts University, and didn't know anyone who had built an analog music synthesizer, or "synth," from scratch.

It was a time, he says, when information and parts for do-it-yourself projects were scarce, and digital synthesizer production was on the rise. But, he decided to tackle the project — without any formal training — and sought out advice from local college professors, including his now-colleague in the Media Lab, Barry Vercoe. Paradiso gathered information from manufacturers' data sheets and hobbyist magazines he found in public libraries. He taught himself basic electronics, scrounged for parts from surplus stores and spent a decade and a half building modules and hacking consumer keyboards to create the synth, which he completed in the 1980s.

That synthesizer, probably the world's largest with more than 125 modules (http://web.media.mit.edu/~joep/modlist.html), is now on display in the MIT Museum.

Every few weeks, Paradiso changes the complex configurations of wires connecting the synthesizer's modules, called "patches," to create a new sonic environment. The synthesizer streams live online 24 hours a day at http://synth.media.mit.edu; starting this week, visitors to the synthesizer's website can even change the patch parameters online.

Learn more about Paradiso's synthesizer! http://web.media.mit.edu/~joep/synth.html"


Update 3/15/12: it's actually programmable online here. See this post for reference.

Puremagnetik Releases Free Live Pack for Ableton's Analog

"March 14th, 2012 - Woodstock NY

Puremagnetik has released a free Live Pack for Ableton's Analog Instrument.

Analog Anomalies comes loaded with over 50 expertly tailored new presets. Each rack has been customized by Puremagnetik's industry sound design team and is packed with Drums, Voice, Pads, Brass, Index Finger Melodies and more. Special attention has been given for detailed expressiveness via 8 unique, finely tuned Macro controls per rack.

Analog Anomalies is available for free download at http://puremagnetik.com/freebies

Free access only requires a valid email address by registering with Puremagnetik.

System Requirements:

• Requires Ableton Live 8.2 with Analog

Please visit www.puremagnetik.com for more info."

Yusynth Modular First Flight

YouTube Uploaded by GoldenCardiganCult on Mar 13, 2012

"This is a quick video of the maiden voyage of my DIY modular synth.

Most of the modules are Yusynth designs, but it also includes a few Paia, CGS and Ian Fritz designs.

The patch is fairly straight foward. The two randomized sequences are generated by Reaktor (via a Paia MIDI2CV). A Kurzweil Mangler is adding a small amount of Delay.

About 2:05 you will hear the second VCO frequency modulated by an Ian Fritz Chaos module.

A big thanks to all of the DIY synth community, but especially the Yusynth designer Yves Usson. His designs are brilliant and sound unbelievably good! Hopefully this video does them justice.

Thanks for watching!"

Some additional info:

"The modules are:

Yusynth
2 x VCOs
2 x Filters (Steiner and EMS)
VCA
Mixer
Balanced Modulator
Random (S&H and Noise)
LFO
ADSR

Paia MIDI2CV and Triple VCA
CGS Joystick and MFOS buffered multiples (Voltage Distribution II schematic)
Ian Fritz Chaos (ChaQuo without the quadrature LFO)"

SimpleSeq MIDI Sequencer

YouTube Uploaded by treynorm89 on Feb 21, 2012
Not to be confused with SympleSeq with a "y" instead of an "i".

"This project was based off of Michael Roebbeling's SimplenZAR (http://www.roebbeling.de/wordpress/?p=85), which I modified and made my own. Below is a list of the changes I made and features I added.

For the hardware, I...

* added another button for navigation
- [left]-[enter]-[right] instead of [select]-[enter]
* embedded the microcontroller and power supply in the circuit
* used higher power LEDs with 220 Ohm current-limiting resistors

For the firmware, I...

* rewrote the "loop" section of the code, so the device is constantly checking for user input (every 10ms) - not just when notes are played
- the original device would "freeze" in between every note, which became a problem at slower tempos
* added the ability to navigate forward and backward through steps and menus
* added the ability to play two notes simultaneously (aka. two-note polyphony)
* added the ability to store presets (three total) in EEPROM
* added the ability to use the knob to control eight user-defined MIDI CC functions (eg. filter cutoff frequency, resonance, portamento, etc.)
* added the ability to mute all notes
- helpful when assigning MIDI CC functions in Ableton, etc.
* changed the way tempo is set (using BPM, rather than milliseconds of delay), and set its range to 60-300BPM
* changed the way new notes start
- repeats the previous note, instead of always playing a 'C'
- keeps the user/audience from hearing a wrong note when adding to the sequence if 'C' is not in-key
* simplified some parts of the original code (although, I'm sure parts of my code could be written more simply)

Here is my code: http://pastebin.com/Dg9SPRMc

No schematic or PCB just yet."

SympleSeq in dual mode controlling e340 and arp4072

YouTube Uploaded by log4p on Feb 4, 2012

"Assembled the second sympleseq. Using the arp4072 (yusynth) as a second vco. Percusive sounds are coming from the cloud generator.

Clocked from a a145 lfo."

SympleSeq first run

YouTube Uploaded by log4p on Jan 28, 2012

"Trying out the first row of the double SympleSeq sequencer I'm building

It is driving the math and cloudgenerator here."

Bach on Modular Synth BWV 886 praeludium and fuga A flat major

YouTube Uploaded by powerofthetruth on Feb 20, 2012

"Played with a YUSYNTH modular synth, built by Pavel Vancura, Synthservice.cz in Prague.
The synthesizers gives you the great possibility of creating each voice really independent with a different sound. Specially for the fugas this is great. Played and recorded by Daniel Philipp Stotz, see www.DanielPhilippStotz.info. The complete 2. vol of Bach "the well tempered clavier" is recorded (BWV 870 - 893) on 2 CDs, but still I am looking for a distribution."

SYNTHSERVICE YUSYNTH analog modular synthesizer

Uploaded by powerofthetruth on Oct 20, 2011

"SYNTHSERVICE YUSYNTH analog modular synth demo video, shows basic sounds and some interresting patches and sequences"

KORG MS2000R

YouTube Uploaded by FSK1138 on Mar 13, 2012

"tweaking the Korg ms2000r"

Some of the more vocal sounds it can produce. Note this is the MS2000R, which does not have the formant vocoder engine added to the MicroKORG and MS2000BR.

Innerclock Sync-Step: Dual Channel Rhythmic Pulse Generator

"-Dual Channel Analogue Clock and Reset Pulse outputs

- Discreet Output Pulse Step Interval Selection Switches

-Rhythmic Tempo Multiples and Divisions: 1/2/2T/4/4T/8/8T/16/16T/32

-Quantized Real-Time Pulse Rate Interval Switching

-Variable Pulse Width Output per channel: 1ms – 50ms

-Variable Voltage Output per channel: 0-15 Volts DC

-Analogue Step-Gate Input per channel

-TRS Step and Reset 1/4″ Outputs provide +ve Voltage (Tip) and S-Trig (Ring)

-Dedicated Midi Clock Thru Port

-Dedicated Din Sync Thru Port

-Internal Midi Clock to Din Sync Conversion with proprietry ICS-Phase processing IC

-Internal Din Sync to Midi Clock Conversion with proprietry ICS-Phase processing IC

-Selectable external Midi Clock or Din Sync as Master Sync Source

Designed for use with any Midi Clock or Din Sync Master Device or connect to any DAW software application with our Sync-Gen IILE or Sync-Gen IIPRO interfaces to provide zero jitter and latency-free external analogue step-sequencer synchronisation.

Available Now"