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skinnerbox - m4l analog style microtonal step sequencer

YouTube Published on Aug 28, 2012 by iftahbox

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"toying around with a self written M4L 9 step analog style microtonal (via pitch bend) step sequencer (the lower DIY controller) controlling the vermona mono lancet. the left side ft. pitch/gate/velocity controllers,while the right side is an additional parameter step-seq controlling dry/wet of a reverb. both sequencers can play forwards/backwards/back-forth and have variable pattern length. there is also swing control and interpolation between the steps of the midi parameter seq on the right.
the upper controller which controls the drums is the "sbx 16x4x3" which has its own video in youtube.

this will probably be published one day, so stay tuned."

Also see: skinnerbox diy arduino based stepsequencer and skinnerbox: iftah shows his new live setup

ARP 2600C behaves like an animal

YouTube Published on Aug 28, 2012 by MegaFeater

"Simple patch with S+H"

Livid Elements with Pailo

YouTube Published on Aug 28, 2012 by lividTV

"Musician, producer, and Livid extraordinaire Pailo does it again with integrating Elements modular MIDI setup with his eurorack synth modules. The Elements are integrated in his Soundmodular flight cases and all routed through Ableton Live."

New 2012 Optigan Discs - CHILTON TALENTMAKER FOUR-PAK #1

YouTube Published on Aug 28, 2012 by optigandotcom

"NOW TAKING PRE-ORDERS! This set will be available in a limited edition of 25 copies. We will go to press with it as soon as we have 15 pre-orders. Thanks for your patience!

In response to requests for the sounds of the Chilton Talentmaker ported to Optigan discs, we're proud to announce our first CHILTON TALENTMAKER FOUR-PAK! These are not simply direct copies of Talentmaker discs, rather we've taken the Talentmaker sounds and put them on Optigan discs, bundled them together in a single printed jacket, and are offering them at a special bundle price. Please note: unfortunately we will not be able to offer any of these titles separately from this bundle.

In this pak, you get these four classic Talentmaker titles: Hawaii 3/4, Bossa Nova, Guitar 4/4, and Cocktail Piano.

Some technical notes: Unlike the Optigan, the fate of the Talentmaker's original studio master tapes is unknown. In all likelihood, they were discarded long ago and are currently rotting away in a landfill somewhere. As such, the only way to get these sounds onto Optigan discs was to simply get the best quality recordings of the original Talentmaker discs that we could manage, and then transfer those recordings to Optigan disc format in the same way we master all of our Optigan discs. Since the Optigan master tapes have keyboard scale recordings very similar to the scales on the Talentmaker discs, we decided to use those instead of recordings from the original Talentmaker discs. But the SFX tabs and chord buttons are all directly recorded from the Talentmaker. Also, since Talentmaker discs have four chords not available on the Optigan (Ebmaj, Ebmin, true Amaj, true Emaj), a compromise had to be made in order to fit the most "useful" of these chords onto the Optigan disc format. First, we managed to keep the Ebmaj chord by putting it on the Optigan's SFX tab #5 (the Talentmaker only has four SFX tabs). We had no place to put the Ebmin chord, so that had to be discarded. Also, we decided to place the Amaj and Emaj chords on the Optigan's Amaj and Emaj buttons, though this also means sacrificing two of the Talentmaker's diminished chords. In other words, you'll get true A and E major chords, but these same chords will also appear on most of the dim chord buttons, rendering those buttons essentially useless. The only true dim chord left available is on the C/A dim buttons.

Assuming this set sells well, watch for the remaining Talentmaker titles to appear in future Four-Paks!"

Jordan Passmore Techno Demo - TR-808, MPC-60, SC-880

YouTube Published on Aug 28, 2012 by Jordan Passmore

"Jordan Passmore demo of the Roland TR-808, Akai MPC-60 and Roland SC-880. SC-880 is playing the rave patches, MPC-60 is loaded full of TR-909 samples and is also sequencing 909/synth, TR-808 is doing 808. All held together by a Garfield Nano Doc Sync/Clock adapter. All sounds are mixed live on an old Studiomaster mixing board; from there they pass through an Electra EQ, then finally into my Native Instruments Kore Audio Interface. The SCC-80 has an analog delay attached to it, which when I'm out of the shot, I'm usually messing with. I also have a Behringer Virtualizer Pro Reverb on an effects send (a bit of the 909 and SC-880 are send to this).

The MPC-60 loaded with 909 samples is pretty hard to beat for completely cutting through a mix. I personally love the 808 so of course I threw that on top as well. The SC-880 is very interesting and totally useful (multitimbral and full of many very usable effects). I found these patches on it and decided to do a short demo from there."

Anvil Machine 2 - Maiden Patch

YouTube Published on Aug 28, 2012 by RecoHead

"First time patching the new Anvil Machine."

Music Ipad App: Yamaha Arp & Drum Pad

YouTube Published on Aug 28, 2012 by musicgearvideos909

"Music Ipad App first look at some of the features of the Yamaha Synth Drum Pad. My first impressions are that this is one mother of an app. The sonic possibilities are great, although I'm a little in awe of it."

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Vintage Mego Muson Synthesizer

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"The fun part is the sequencer section. The color pegs are different notes. If you take the pegs out and plug them in you can make various sequences.
The two sliders on each side control the speed and the pitch of the sequence. It can go so incredibly fast and high pitched. The only thing I can describe the sound to is Pac-Man.
Some cool things about the Muson Synthesizer..
You can see it in Devo's "My Baby Gave Me A Suprise" video. Also, it was used in some early recordings by the synth-punk band Crash Course In Science.

Also here is a demo video of it in action:" Posted here.

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