ÄNGLAGÅRD - CHAPTER 8 - MELLOTRON AND SYNTHESIZERS

Published on Dec 13, 2012 by anglagardrecords

You might recognize Mr. Mattias Olsson from these previous RothHandle posts.

"ÄNGLAGÅRD recording Viljans Öga.
CHAPTER VIII : Mellotron & Synthesizers


ÄNGLAGÅRD ARE:
Jonas Engdegård -- Guitars
Anna Holmgren -- Flutes & Saxophone
Johan Brand -- Bassguitars & Taurus
Thomas Johnson -- Pianos, Mellotron & Synthesizers
Mattias Olsson -- Drums, Percussion & Noise

All music written and performed by Änglagård.

Documentary by Martin Gustafsson
www.vimeo.com/gusse"

Vintage Buchla at University of Victoria, BC Canada

This one in via Grant


"This device, in the pics (Al from BB), cost UVic $100,000 to build or procure (not sure how it got there) but it’s in the UVic school of music control room."

Update: Grant wrote back to say the $100k was guess, and according to Rick in the comments it didn't cost that much. You do have to wonder how much this system would go for.

Update via sealion in the comments: "I borrowed this for a music be-in performance a few years ago which we did to mark the death of Bob Moog. It is one of three such units bought at Don Buchla's famous garage sale when he moved his production in San Francisco. UVIC music prof and Tibetan chanting aficionado Martin Bartlett drove down in his VW microbus and bought three units from Don, that one, one for SFU and I believe a missing third one. It is still in use today. Cost may have been about $6,000 (total guess) and I know a decade ago a standing offer of $20,000 from a dealer in LA was regularly turned down. A technician said due to age tuning was an issue for some. I bought the surplus cv/trig op-8 to dcb to a midi box setup that they used with it long ago.
At that time the department was doing a lot of Electronotes building, serge kits, biofeedback as cv and trigger experiments. Back then I attended a performance in the Department of David Rosenbloom's pathbreaking On Being Invisible performance which involved handmade circuit boards controlled by an IMSAI kit made thing called a computer, programmed using toggle switches for each line of code. It read output from body sensors that monitored his brainwaves, pulse and muscle's electrical activity. He sat Buddha yoga style and barely moved to control the performance. The last time I saw Martin before his death was at a stoplight. I looked over and saw him leaning back from his VW wheel jaw and mouth shaped to do that deep Tibetan bass note drone with overtones thing he left electronics for, at the light by Mayfair and Denny's."

Update via Rick: "i restored this system in 2010.. its fully functional now and sounds wonderful"

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Monomachine song【Diamond Eyes】 MDUW, Fizmo

Published on Dec 14, 2012

11-26-2012

Published on Dec 14, 2012 by Oxix52

"I finally found a little bit of time to play with the Buchla a bit..."

Generation - 32 presets for PPG Wavegenerator

Published on Dec 13, 2012 by sunsineaudio

"Generation -
Sunsine Audio's new pack for PPG Wavegenerator features 32 presets including 5 basses, 7 leads, 5 keys, 2 arps, 9 pads, and more. In addition 20 unique wavetables have been included, and exchanging these between presets allows a large degree of tonal variation very easily. Each preset has parameters mapped to both the horizontal and vertical keyboard control for expressive performance opportunities.
*Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later and PPG Wavegenerator.*

Format:
• 32 Presets in 1 .bin file
• 20 WaveTables in .wts files
• Full horizontal and vertical key modulation support.
• Easy Installation Instructions

Price: $1.49

Available from - www.sunsineaudio.com
Free Preview Pack - http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/unlxtv"

iTunes:
WaveGenerator - Wolfgang Palm

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ESTRADIN-230 3-VCO Soviet Synth

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mechanical animals

"ESTRADIN-230 is a Soviet Minimoog equivalent.
If you are familiar with Soviet synths you might know that ESTRADIN-230 has absolutely identical schematics (all 6 PCBs) with ALTAIR-231.

ESTRADIN-230 is powerful monophonic 3-OSC synthesizer produced by Elektroizmeritel, millitary radio plant in Zhitomir, USSR, 1984. Synth has 4-octave keyboard (F-C) with velocity (sensitivity assign to vibrato effect). For live performance there is a wheel which provides pitch shift. ESTRADIN 230 is based on 3-VCO (OSC-3 can work as the modulator), 1 VCF (lowpass 24dB/oct) with ADSR, 1 VCA, 3 LFO, noise generator (white/pink), glide, memory. It has an EXTERNAL INPUT allowing to use FILTER and GENERATORS with OTHER INSTRUMENTS such as guitars, synths, etc! ESTRADIN-230 consists of 5 main sections - OSC, MIXER, MODULATION, FILTER and AMP."

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Freeform Analogue Technologies Freebass FB383 Synth

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"Freebass FB383, an excellent little rack mounted clone of the legendary Roland TB303 from Freeform Analogue Technologies. Made in the late nineties, these are becoming quite rare and sought after in their own right. Perfect working order. Cosmetically, it has a couple of very small dents in the top panel and scratch marks to the rack mounting holes - see pics. Comes with original power supply and description of functions as below (1 page printout)"

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Alias 8 and Ableton Live

Published on Dec 14, 2012 by lividTV

"This video demonstrates the Alias 8 with Ableton Live. There is no special scripting or templates used in this video, just simple MIDI learn. With 15 different banks the possibilities are endless."

Mattson SQ816 Sequencer with Lots of Jacklights

Published on Dec 14, 2012

"This a prototype of the Eurorack version of the Mattson SQ816 Sequencer. Each output has a Jacklight plugged into it for maximum shinyness. The lights give you a pretty good idea of what the output signals are doing.

More info at http://www.division-6.com"

Mattson Mini Modular Sequencer - first patch

Published on Dec 14, 2012 by hewstigator

"Just a quick cellphone video of a patch I built shortly after receiving my shiny new mattson mini modular sequencer - a quirky and versatile beast whose capabilities i have barely even begun to uncover, but i figured i would post a brief snippet in celebration of its surviving the voyage from the west coast (where these mmm modules originate) to my location on the east coast.

everything is being generated real-time on my mattson modular's three oscillators and a noise generator (albeit all through relatively primitive, simple patches... i probably spent too much time wrestling with the sound sync on this video and too little time actually making an interesting patch hah!)

PS sorry about repeatedly cutting the sequencer off at the top of the frame!"