Quicksilver 303 MIDI RESYNC tutorial

YouTube Published on Jun 26, 2012 by ripe909

"This video demonstrates the MIDI RESYNC capability of the Quicksilver 303 CPU. MIDI RESYNC allows the Quicksilver 303 to switch back and forth between an external MIDI clock and the internal clock without stopping the sequencer.
For more information: http://www.socialentropy.com/quicksilver"

Shapesynth +Sphero NEW Controls test

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YouTube Published on Jun 26, 2012 by humbletune

"Testing out some code having sphero control arpeggio, delay and the filter in shape synth."

iTunes:
shapesynth - Erik Sigth
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Six String Smomid

YouTube Published on Jun 26, 2012 by nicnut210

"New instrument built in June 2012. Features 9 sensors that act as string modelers, 2 joysticks, 2 force sensitive resistors, many knobs, many buttons and some really bright blue and red LEDs. Designed and built by Nick Demopoulos, but credit goes to Ranjit Bhatnagar for programming the 2 arduinos that are inside of it, Malcolm Pepin for fabricating the wood body and Josh Dotson for consulting in many design issues. More info at www.nickdemopoulos.com"

See the Smomid label below for previous posts.

Kelpe - The Blankout Agreement (live at home) (GoPro POV)

YouTube Published on Jun 26, 2012 by KelMckeown1

"Rehearsing at home, a run through of The Blankout Agreement filmed in my home studio. Filmed on Gopro Hero 2."

KORG Monotribe & Monotron, Doepfer Dark Energy & Teenage Engineering OP-1.

Kelpe - Toy Castle (live at home) (GoPro POV)

Published on Jun 26, 2012 by KelMckeown1

"Rehearsing at home, a run through of Toy Castle filmed in my home studio. Filmed on Gopro Hero 2."

Arturia Updates Origin to V1.4 with New Oberheim Filters & More

"This new version includes:

New Oberheim SEM Filter module.
New Voice Modulator module inspired by the classic Oberheim 8-Voice.
Multi FX Mode introducing a new FX routing with 2 Inserts per channel, 2 Auxiliaries, and 2 Master Bus.
New Tonewheel percussion parameter.
Trig inputs now accept any modulation."

Available here. Discussion on the Arturia forum.

Baltimore Electronic Music 2012 Summerfest Concert

"Hello to all. This Electronic Music/Experimental Music/Electro-Acoustic Music event, herein known as the BALTIMORE ELECTRONIC MUSIC 2012 SUMMERFEST CONCERT, is being sponsored by the Baltimore SDIY Group & Friends. This will be a really nice musical endeavor, so we are really looking forward to this event.

Please come out & join us for a really fantastic night of knob twisting, pitch bending, wiring mazes, sound shaping & visual explosions that will coincide with an absolutely awesome musical voyage into another galaxy of sound alterations.

Thanks to The Windup Space for booking us again for our 3rd performance at this venue. We greatly appreciate your generosity.

This concert will consist of 4 performance sets of our standard electronic music, then 4 continuous performance sets of our newly incorporated electronic dance music. Check out the performance schedule & list of performers below.

This event is also listed on the EVENT page of the Baltimore SDIY Group's FACEBOOK website at http://www.facebook.com/events/386535998056786/

Event Date & Times: June 28th 2012 (Thursday) 8:00pm to 12:30am

Event Location: The Windup Space 12 W. North Avenue Baltimore MD 21201 410-244-8855

Event's Entrance Fee: $5.00 per person

This venue serves alcohol drinks."

Current lineup:

1. 8:00pm - 8:30pm: Julius Bucsis "DrDistorto"
2. 8:45pm - 9:15pm: Jeff Bagato & Richard Sheehe "Mercury Fools the Alchemist"
3. 9:30pm - 10:00pm: John Sullivan, Ed Baldi, Jeremy Berlin & Colin Barnhill "The Duc D'Angelos"
4. 10:00pm - 10:30pm: Andre Cholmondeley of Project Object www.projectobject.com (Frank Zappa tribute music band guitarist)
5. 10:30pm - 11:00pm: Bev Stanton "Arthur Loves Plastic"
6. 11:00pm - 11:30pm: Rebecca Drumm "Bounge" (pictured above)
7. 11:30pm - 12:00am: Michael Cobaria "micFreak"
8. 12:00am - 12:30am: "Dubathonic"

Links and additional details here.

July 21st Serge Negative Slew Workshop at Robotspeak

"Directly across the street from where the original Serge Modular Music Systems store was on Haight st. in the 70s and 80s Robotspeak is celebrating its 10th year anniversary as a store and independant center for music technology learning. With encouragement from Ken Stone and Serge him self the second official Serge module building workshop at Robotspeak will focus on the Serge 1973 Negative Slew. One of Serge Tcherepinin's many contributions to the art of music and synthesis. The Negative Slew is the perfect example of a multi use Serge module. The predecessor and the back bone to what became west coast synthesis. It can be an Envelope Generator, an Envelope Follower, a Voltage Controlled Oscillator, an LFO and a Slope Generator. This multi functional approach to producing modules was an integral part in the design of the circuits being built at robotspeak. An innovation made 40 years ago by Serge Tcherepinin's and celebrated today with Ken Stone's recent re-release of the original 1970s circuit on PCB. The monthly organized group of builders at Robotspeak affectionately named The Church Of The Super Serge are dedicated to the preservation of the lower haight area's rich synthesizer history and the revival of the modular synth hey day in the district. Catch one of these workshops any 3rd saturday 589 1/2 Haight Street San Francisco, CA"
http://www.robotspeak.com/

Vintage Synthesizers | Korg DW-8000

YouTube Published on Jun 26, 2012 by MusicMarketingTV

"A voyage into the heart of the Korg DW-8000 from the year 1985.
Exploration by Marko Ettlich

DWGS (Digital Waveform Generator System) Synthesizer with 16 digital waveforms
analog filter and amp
arpeggiator
digital delay

It has been used by Depeche Mode, Dream Theater, Joe Zawinul, Keith Emerson and many more."

Bee Gees Synthesizer/rhythm machine

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via this auction

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Ensoniq ESQ-M Sound Module

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"In 1986 Ensoniq released the ESQ-1 synthesizer at a list of $1,395. The ESQ-1 became a big seller and continued the company’s good fortune they had with the Mirage. Due to this success, Ensoniq released the ESQ-M, a rack mount of the ESQ-1 which had all the features of the ESQ-1 except for the sequencer, 5 octave keyboard , and the 80 character display. However the ESQ-M allowed you to set individual volumes for each track (patch) of a mix.

The ESQ-M features eight voice polyphony and is eight part multitimbral with dynamic voice allocation. It can also do basic splits and layers which can be saved as part of a patch and split key is designated by the user. (Very impressive for a synth that was released in 86/87.) The unit features no on-board effects but does allow you program the pan position of a voice and the position may be modulated any modulation source. Also ingenious (other manufacturers please note) is that while you are playing a voice you may change the voice and the original will continue to sound and any new keys will reflected the newly selected voice. While using the unit in full multitimbral operation I did not notice audible delays in the machine’s performance.

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