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Cynthia ZEROSCILLATOR in MOTM Format

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PongFu - on the list

YouTube Published on May 3, 2012 by PongFuTube

"monomachine recording"

Custom painted with gold knobs and buttons.

YouTube Published on May 3, 2012 by DrOctave1

"Serge Modular TKB Drone."

Update:

Serge Modular Drone with hexinduction patch take 2

YouTube Published on May 3, 2012 by DrOctave1

"serge modular drone with the hexinduction patch tkb take 2"

My Man w/ Red Steam makes Quantum Relabi

YouTube Published on Mar 21, 2012 by petermopar

Let me explain. The new Laboratory Roolz-Gewei will have an added bonusius, namely a vintage ciat-lonbarde module-idea called "The Man with The Red Steam". OK, let me say also that "The Man w/ Resteam" appeared in several songs by the gongs, a band from Oberlin. The idea of steam, of course relates to both urban city streets, and the idea of "noise". As a drum machine, this nexus-name can offer us two facets:
-noise, shaped with an envelope as our hi-hat
-dust, an idea by Paul McCarthey in Supercollider 2, which is a special way of viewing noise as incidents.

The noise is created directly from transistors, reverse biased in classic noisy zener noise. This is in fact "quantum" noise due to the stochastically random nature of electrons jumping potential wells. Incidentally the core concept is patented as a "steam simulator for model railroads" here:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/3913097.pdf

We have added one nice twist- instead of using single transistor (quite coarse) amplifier blocks, we have converted this idea to using balanced transistor pairs, in the differential pair model. Thus there are two noisy junctions, proceeded by a balanced amplifier (rejecting common mode spurious anti-noises), and so on. For convenience, this is termed "Tektronix-Style", named for the early engineers there who pioneered the use of balanced stages.

In this video, the output of the dust generator is pulse-modulating a roll (simple transistor multi-vibrator), so you see hear, "quantum relabi"

Of course a definition of relabi can be had on John Berndt's website:
http://www.johnberndt.org/relabi/

John uses the chaos-lever modality of relabi, which is more related to the Sidrazzi organ, being a circle of oscillators that modulate each other. This seen-here "quantum-lever" may differ on a psychological level. I don't know? Do you?

The placement and stance of this module in the Laboratory Roolz-Gewei Modular Synthesizer is similar to that of the "Source of Uncertainty" in the Buchla.

In this video, I am also dancing with my feet to the beat of the uncertainty.

"The Gongs" use "The man with the red steam", which was one of the first synths i ever made, a drum synth!:"

The Gongs - Rob Reich

Uploaded by oliver8bit on Jan 15, 2010

"The Gongs 'Rob Reich'
from "Rob Reich"
American Patchwork Records 2002

Ampatch 004

The Gongs were an avant garde folk act in the early 20th century who released this single album on Momus's American Patchwork label. All the instruments they play are hand-made by Peter Blasser, who now plays in the group Skeletons and the Girl-Faced Boys.

Read about The Gongs here:
http://imomus.com/thegongs.html

Read about more of Peter Blasser's synths:
www.ciat-lonbarde.net"

Gene's Kiosk (listen to this)

YouTube Published on Mar 26, 2012 by petermopar

"Kiri sings. Test tones."

From Peter Blasser’s (Ciat Lonbarde) headquarters via musikgear

KSR Workshop and Studio Featuring The Dark Knight & Inception Modular

KSR Workshop and Studio, Surrey, U.K flickr set By manof2worlds
Click through for the full set and be sure to see them full size. These are some incredible photos. via Neil Fellowes Geigertek on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge. Neil won week #26 of the I Dream of Wires Modular of the Week contest.

"I received an invite from world-renowned synthesizer technician and restorer, Kent Spong [posted here], to visit his workshop and studio as part of my Synth Studio Photo Project. I duly accepted naturally.

The highlight of the visit was to meet and photograph the Moog/PPG modular synthesiser system, owned by Mel Wesson, that was used to on such block-buster movies as 'The Dark Knight' and 'Inception'. I also had access to Kent's celebrated modified Yamaha CS-80 synthesizer, dubbed the 'KSR80', which it's re-imagined facia and modified circuitry that gives it even more expression and sonic capabilities than it's original set up. It was a delight to meet Kent, a very unassuming man, who is something of a living legend in the music business with clients who top the A-list including film-score composer Hans Zimmer. he's also known as 'Mr. CS80' because of his specilalist expertise with that particular synthesizer. Please do enjoy my take on the KSR Workshop and Studio."

Related:
Posts featuring Kent Spong
Kent Spong and Richard Lawson of RL Music are the men behind Touch Digital Controllers who produced the incredible hardware ImpOSCar controllers. They were featured in this Bob Moog Foundation Raffle and announced here.
Posts featuring Mel Wesson

Serge Modular vid #12

YouTube Published on May 3, 2012 by Phisynth

MINITAUR + ABLETON LIVE PART 2: Minitaur as External Filter

YouTube Published on May 3, 2012 by MoogMusicInc

"In part two of this three part series, Moog Product Development Specialist, Amos Gaynes shows you how to integrate the Minitaur Analog Bass Synthesizer into Ableton Live. Learn how to use your Minitaur as an external filter, manipulate sounds in real time, and create a sequenced gate effect.

Learn more about the Minitaur at:

www.moogmusic.com/products/taurus/minitaur

Register your Minitaur at:

www.moogmusic.com/register"

Also added to Part 1 here.

MacBeth - Brothers Bass

via Ken MacBeth on Facebook

"Here's a promo shot of the MacBeth micromac 3U Eurorack version in front, and the desktop version to the rear. I re-did the front panel of the 3U version in keeping with the desktop!"

DinSync VCF303 prototype test run

VCF303 prototype test run by DinSync
"a quick workout on the prototype VCF303 eurorack module forthcoming from dinsync.info

other modules used
dinsync.info OSC303, DrumDokta+DDB
makenoise maths, rene, pressure points
doepfer a-132-1
mfb dual adsr
4MS RCD, SCM"