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Friday, April 27, 2012

Rough Trade London Synth Day with Scheidersbuero, Wolfgang Seide & VXXY


via Rough Trade

Rough Trade East In-store - SYNTHESIZER DAY WITH SCHNEIDERSBUERO & WOLFGANG SEIDEL

"NO WRISTBAND NEEDED, JUST COME DOWN ON THE DAY/NIGHT

SchneidersBuero will celebrate a Synthesizers Day at Rough Trade East in London. There will be several workshops on tools and instruments all over the shop just for one day - apart from usual activities around their glass cabin, aka the testsalon. Moving through RTE will be a new adventure for the audience. All installations will be in sync with each other giving you beats and atmosphere all over the shop from a live performance, differing on where you are and what just happens.

At the front of the shop, HerrSchneider himself will moderate a workshop on several modular systems that will generate an experimental atmosphere of sounds and beats. You are welcome to join him. In other corners of the shop there will be fresh UK based manufacturers of electronic devices playing and presenting their own products in time: Steve Jones, director of Cronic will be playing on his VXXY and The Alphasphere, a controller for beats and performance will be presented by its inventor Adam.

The testsalon itself will, as always, be filled up with modular and desktop synth gear to play and will be performed by several clients and users over the day. Onur Oezer from Istanbul, T.Raumschmiere from Berlin and other artists are asked to come, still t.b.c. The very best moments can be heard over the shops audio system as they are performed live and visible from the cabin.

And as the highlight of the day and the usual daily rough trade instore live act, we are very much looking forward to a performance by Wolfgang Seidel a.k.a. Sequenza and the partner of Conrad Schnitzler (R.I.P) both headliners of the Krautrock era. Wolfgang has also been a headliner of this years Transmediale Berlin and is usually playing jams with old friends or tape concerts in memorial to his dear friend Conrad Schnitzler."

Synthi AKS Ableton Library by Soniccouture



"The EMS Synthi AKS is a legendary instrument with an illustrious history. First manufactured in 1972 by EMS in Putney, southwest London, the Synthi A was basically a portable version of EMS's famous VCS3 synthesizer, and the KS keyboard (an unplayable thirty-note touchplate) was added to make the Synthi AKS. It cost £420, and it was quickly adopted by the likes of Brian Eno and Pink Floyd, and has been used by experimental musicians ever since.

Our Synthi AKS is a surprisingly versatile library, giving you horror klangs and snappy zaps, snarling ring-mod leads and basses, and fat, rubbery mellow textures ready to slot into your productions. You'll be astounded at the sheer size and sense of life in the sounds. With complete control over filters, envelopes, and the spring reverb convolution impulse, you'll be able to tame the beast. Well, almost.

To capture the raw, unstable sound of the Synthi, we sequenced it using a CV-MIDI converter. This really shows the unique analog behavior of this incredible unit as the loops push and tear at your speakers. The loops are divided into a mid-tempo set (acid loops), and a down-tempo set. There is also a set of oddities that didn't fit into either category."

You'll find it and others at http://www.ableton.com/library/tags/synths/

Also see: Soniccouture Synthi AKS analog synth library review

Interview with Portal 2's Mike Morasky



Full interview on the Plogue website here. The interview covers some of the synth used with a focus on ChipSounds.

"Honestly, I probably used every chip available in chipsounds at one point or another. The only thing I purposefully avoided (after testing of course) was anything that actually sounded clearly like 8bit game sounds or game music. I was looking at those patches as if Aperture had actually sourced all these cheap chips as the voice boxes for the puzzle mechanisms in the test chambers. Although I tried writing some game style chiptunes, it really broke the immersive nature of the game and I ended up avoiding it."

"A unique characteristic of Portal 2′s soundtrack, apart from its sonic grandness, is that it’s generated in real time by an adaptive music system that react to the player’s actions. This dynamic music was also designed as a reward for successfully completing puzzles inside the game."

This one in via Chad

Synth Lab


Pic via Carlo Castellano on
The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

"Doepfer, TipTop Audio and MFB modules; Thingamagoop2 and Korg Monotribe."

Vermona PerFOURmer mk1 Demos by SCS Silent Crab Studio

Vermona PerFOURmer mk1 by SCS Silent Crab Studio
"Sounds made on Vermona PerFOURmer mk1 4 VCO analog synthesizer"

http://silentcrab.com/

Delta Music Reserch Modular SN 0006


This one spotted by Kaden on the Vancouver BC Craigslist.

"7 filters 4 vco 2 lfos much more 100 % working also has wooden controller not shown all custom made 64 note keyboard"


MacBeth Adds Osc 3 to Osc 2 Modulation to micromac


via Ken MacBeth on Facebook

"Just a quick update here- the micromac prototype #10 has fired up a treat- on board PSU is now excellent! Took a bit of thought that one! Anyway- one thing that I included for bothth 3U Eurorack users and the Desktop users is a tenth switch! This now allows Oscillator 3 to Modulate Oscillator 2- fantastic when Oscillator 2 is hard synched to Oscillator 1! So now we have the option via 1 switch for Osc 3 to mod Oscs 1 and 2 or another switch just to modulate Osc 3!"

NightLights-Alnitak(NEW and Longer Version)


YouTube Published on Apr 27, 2012 by Kobolnova

"No more 10 minutes timelimit here on Youtube,i have decided to upload a longer version of this song i made back into september 2009,i have used for this song 4 synthesizers:
Lead:Korg Triton TR-61
Strings:Roland JX-8P
Bass:Roland JP-8000
Noise:Roland JX-8P
The music is composed,produced and Live performed by Alnitak(Bert Anjewierden) c2009/2012
Original version is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FLkvA0_8ZQ&feature=plcp"

The Analog Lab NYC-Ary Barroso | Aquarela do Brasil


YouTube Published on Apr 27, 2012 by TheAnalogLab

"A Song for the upcoming Summer months...on a Jupiter 8.

Processed by The Analog Lab FU2 Filter Unit.
Based on Geoff Muldaur's version of "Brazil" used in Terry Gilliam's movie of the same name. Its awesome...you should see it. (Director's Cut)

www.theanaloglab.com"

Yamaha CS-5 SN 9581

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