soundmachines Launches New Website - Eurorack Modules

http://www.sound-machines.it

Current eurorack modules (click through each link for additional details):

"RB1robotto is a voltage controlled singer, an irresistible source of pitched vowels, and much more. The product, the first in our line, was born as a sunday afternoon project, by putting together our modular, ad arduino board and a speech chip. The blending of the ‘voice’ with the noises, tones, and buzz from the modular was so good that we built a company around that.

Now, the production unit is real. Lush steel panel with thick silkscreened prints and deep red tones. You control the ‘voice’ of the robotto with your well known CV sources. Pitch and Gate are the usual dishes, accompanied by vowel and consonant control. Each of those are playable also by hand, and there is a manual gate too, ORed with the jack input.

But there is more.

Flip the board, before tightening the screws, and you can see a six pin connector that could open the product to many other uses. We chose to play with the Arduino platform and in the end we would like YOU to play with it too. Just buy a 5 bucks usb/serial adapter and download the Arduino 1.0 IDE. The platform is based on the soundgin/babblebot ic, a well known speech and sound synthesis platform. The RB1 is a little toy to play with waveforms, modulations, other than vowels and consonants. Up to three complex oscillators with many inter-mod capabilities. The datasheet is downloadable!"

RC1radiostar

"Straight Connectivity between your device (Android or iOS) and your modular, without passing through a PC at all. 16 CV outputs (8 0-5V, 8 0-10V) and 8 GATE output (selectable to 5V or 10V) and sync facilities to connect with your sequencers. The module is accompanied by applications to start using it, either Android and iOS and soon the protocol (OSC based) will be made public..."

LS1lightstrip

"The LS1 is a capacitive technology slider that will generate CV and GATE signals along with the movement of your finger on its surface..."

LP1lightplane

"LP1lightplane is an expanded, bi-dimensional LS1 lightstrip. The same functions are exposed on either axis for double the fun!"

Ruin Electronics ATOM mini modular synthesizer

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via this auction
Video at the auction and previously posted here.

"This is the Ruin Electronics ATOM Mini Mdoular Synthesizer. This is a one of a kind instrument. It was professionally built and designed by Ruin. The Case is white and black acrylic hand built for the ATOM with an aluminum faceplate. The ATOM is new; no previous owners.

The ATOM is a 100% Analog synthesizer. The ATOM has 5 modules with patching via 4mm banana cables. The modules are Two Voltage Controlled Oscillators with triangle and square waveforms, a Voltage Controlled Amplifier, Voltage Controlled Lowpass Filter, and a Three input mixer. There are also 3 1/4" to 4mm banana converter jacks so you can interface with external gear. The ATOM can create drones and noises easily, but can also completely destroy external audio such as from an MP3 player or Guitar pedals, makign it a versatile effect unit. The unit is powered from a 12v adapter.
Space sounds, crackles, hums, percussion, alien speech, warbles, zaps, clangs, bangs, basslines, sequencer runs, rhythms. This is a great unit for performance, sampling, or just plain old fun!

The units approximate measurements are:
8.25" width x 2.75" depth x 4.5" height

The unit features:
2x Square/Triangle waveform VCOs (Voltage Controlled Oscillators) with individual tuning per oscillator. The oscillators go from subsonic (LFO speeds) to ultrasonic with a twist of the control. Each oscillator has a frequency control and an amount control. The jacks are Tri out, Sqr out, and CV in.
VCA (Voltage Controlled Amplifier) The VCA is used to create tremelo and ring mod type effects, but can also be fed an envelope or other signals from external gear to operate. There are input levels for CV and audio, and output gain. Jacks are Audio in, CV in, and Audio out.
Lowpass VCF (Voltage Controlled Filter). This filter is a strange beast, a combination of Vactrols (smooth natural response) and CMOS (typically a digital logic IC but coerced into being an analog device). The VCFs have a Frequency and Resonance control and a switch for Lowpass/Bandpass response.
3 Input Mixer The mixer is used to sum signals together or to amplify external signals. The mixer has quite a bit of gain and can clip when fed a hot enough signal, such as that from an effect pedal. 3 Input jacks and an output. Each input has a level control and the output has a master level.
3 1/4" to 4mm Banana converters used for interfacing external gear to the ATOM.
12v Adapter input."

New Doepfer A-190-8 & A-180

"The A-190-8 is a MIDI/USB to Sync interface.
Basically this module divides the incoming MIDI or USB clock messages into smaller steps. You could see it as a modular version of the MSY2 MIDI-to-SYNC Converter that was announced in December last year, but with multiple simultaneous outputs and added USB support."

"For early in 2013 also a slim version of the A-180 Multiples module is planned. This will be called A-180-2 and will be half the size of a regular A-180."

Additional details at PatchPierre.Net

via Pierre on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Sequential Circuits Prophet-600 SN 5590

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Note this one is for parts only.

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QuNexus Feels You...

Published on Nov 23, 2012 by Keith McMillen Instruments

"Circuit Glyphs" - Analogue Solutions / Phobos Red Square

Published on Nov 23, 2012 by TimeSynthis

"An Abstract Electronic solo piece sequenced in 5/4. The Phobos (aka Analogue Systems) Red Square Semi modular mono synth is choosing most of the tones through it's Sample and Hold circuit. Rythmically driven with 10 step sequencer modulating LFO frequency in steps, a 4 step sequencer modulates pulse width at times. playing SD-1 keyboard strictly as a midi controller. No overdubs, one live performance,with some Lexicon MX300 spring reverb added.

Scene: Year 7800, Location: In the sands of Massachusetts, in an area formally known as technology highway. Archeologists discover fragments of circuit boards and believe it to be a lost language or art.

Note: Circuit boards shown are not of the Red Square's internal boards."

Korg Monotribe Drum Mods Kit

Published on Nov 23, 2012 by darenager
"You will need to listen on headphones or half decent speakers to hear properly.
A new pre-built mod kit for the Monotribe, this adds 4 switches to change the drum sounds, decay for BD, tone for snare, decay for snare noise, decay for hi hat. The switches have 3 positions, when set to centre the default sounds are heard, when up or down the mod sounds are heard.

To install it you need to drill 6 holes and solder 5 wires, the circuit board and switches are pre-built.

I also do midi mods for the Monotribe, and I have some other mod kits coming soon so stay tuned.

Send me a message if you are interested. Pricing is reasonable but not as cheap as DIY as it has to be worth my while. There are lots of good DIY resources for mods if you google for them."


monotribes on eBay

Once upon a time: Oberheim Matrix 1000

"Una rapida, essenziale demo del Matrix 1000 di Oberheim.
Articolo correlato su www.audiocentralmagazine.com"

Signed Moogfest Posters to Benefit The Bob Moog Foundation - The Signers

This is a follow-up to this post where you will find an image of the poster.  Here we have pics of the actual signings sent in via Michelle Moog-Koussa of The Bob Moog Foundation.  You can find the posters listed here.  The auctions end tonight, so be sure to bid now if you plan to.

Via The Bob Moog Foundation:

"Moogest Rockers and Legends Sign Moogfest 2012 Official Posters

At Moogfest 2012, a host of artists were generous and gracious enough sign the beautiful, official Moogfest posters (which are works or art in themselves) to help raise funding for the projects of the Bob Moog Foundation. Among those artists were: Orbital, Richie Hawtin, Santigold, Morton Subotnick, Thomas Dolby, Nas, Primus, Squarepusher, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Carl Craig, Bear in Heaven, Divine Fits, GZA, Magnetic Fields, Miike Snow, Death Grips, Shpongle and Explosions in the Sky and E-lp.


The one-of-a-kind Moogfest 2012 Official poster were designed by Eric Davis. Featuring clouds and the moon in hues ranging from pastel to neon, this work of art is a great addition to any poster collection. Printed on 100lb poster stock, this 24” x 36” poster also features the festival name, dates and complete line-up.

You can view the posters and bid on them here, but don’t delay. The auctions in the first few hours of the morning on Saturday, November 24th."

Pictured:
Morton Subotnick
Squarepusher (Tom Jenkinson)
Santigold
Carl Craig
Paul Hartnoll (Orbital)
Phil Hartnoll (Orbital)
Ana Sia
Bear in Heaven
Shpongle
Thomas Dolby
Explosions in the Sky

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ARP 2500 Modules Up for Auction

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Note the Cynthia panels below. Via the listing: "This is kind of a round-about story so please bear with me. Several years ago we purchased a wing for our ARP 2500 synthesizer. Although all of the modules worked, the wood casing was badly damaged. So we got the brilliant idea to remove the modules and convert them to rack mount (standard 19"). There begins our tale of woe. We contracted with a well-known Los Angeles synthesizer module manufacturer to undertake the project and paid a large sum of money as an advance. This company did a superb job of designing the front rack plate (picture 3) and the metal shop that fabricated them did a superb job, too. Several years later, though, the project was bogged down, nothing was happening. In fact we had to pay the metal shop directly in order to get the plates, then we had to retrieve the modules, etc.
We thereupon contracted with another well-known Los Angeles synthesizer module manufacturer to undertake the project and paid a large sum of money as an advance. A year later nothing had happened, in fact it proved difficult to retrieve the modules and the metal plates. At this point we no longer have psychological stamina to complete this project so we are offering it to somebody who can. Here's what you get. There are two complete, fully-engraved panels with all appropriate mounting holes (picture 3). You will need to supply all of the jacks (you will need 240 of them to fully populate both of the drilled racks). There are three panels that are engraved but that do not have holes (picture 6, sorry about the flash glare). We will give you the name of the metal shop that made these and it will not be costly to get them drilled should you want to. Our concept was to ditch the sliders, which were somewhat beat up (and as anybody who has used this synth knows, are not particularly intuitive to begin with). All connections are to be made directly to the modules via jacks that mount on the panel. Notwithstanding we are including the sliders, two of the "large" type and two of the "small" type (pictures 4 & 5). They do not have the little plastic colored slider caps, the wires are entangled and it would take a lot of work to restore them to full functionality, which is why we recommend you do not try to repurpose them for this installation. There are five edge card sockets, you will need to source two more however we understand they are not difficult to find. There are six modules (pictures 1 and 2): 1033 dual envelope generator; 1023 dual oscillator; 1005 mod amp (missing two switch covers); 1004-T oscillator; 1006 filter amp (missing a switch); and 1027 clocked sequential controller (missing two switch covers). Like I said all of the modules were working when pulled from the original damaged wood cabinet, however, we are selling them as is. They are clean with no missing or broken parts except as noted, evidence of electrical fire, etc. Cosmetically the modules are in G+ condition as depicted with some light scratching, nothing untoward given their age. In principle, to finish this project, after sourcing the remaining parts, you will need to hook the jacks up to the appropriate pins on the edge card sockets and provide a power supply (not included). Failing that you can just use the modules as spares for your pre-existing ARP 2500."