impOSCar2 Impressions

Published on Jan 31, 2013 GForceSoftwareTV·73 videos

"An assortment of luminaries from the world of electronic music and music production give opinions of impOSCar2.

In order of appearance John Foxx, Karl Hyde, Darren Price, Tim Dorney, Rick Smith, Putte, Billy Currie, I Monster, Sean Charles, Simon Gogerly, Lee Groves."

Note the Synth-Project controller.

Dave Smith Prophet 12 - NAMM 2013

Published on Jan 31, 2013 soundonsoundvideo·562 videos

NAMM 2013: WNAMM13: Intellijel Modules

Published on Jan 31, 2013 sonicstate·387 videos

"WNAMM13: Intellijel Modules Korgasmatron and more"

NAMM 2013: Dave Smith interview

Published on Jan 31, 2013 FutureMusicMagazine·230 videos

"Future Music grabbed DSI founder and MIDI-man Dave Smith for a quick chat at NAMM 2013."

NAMM 2013: Arturia MiniLab + Analog Lab Intro/Overview

Published on Jan 31, 2013 SourceDistributionTV·57 videos

"Mike Hosker of Arturia shows us the feature packed little Arturia MiniLab controller system - packing more controllers into its form that any comparable product in its price range!

It also comes with the Analog Lab software giving you over 5000 presets taken from Arturia's incredible V-Collection software package.

UK RRP £99 inc VAT
Full Details: http://www.arturia.com/evolution/en/products/MiniLab/intro.html
Find a UK Dealer: http://sourcedistribution.co.uk/dealers/area.asp?item=arturia"

NAMM 2013: Korg Mini MS-20 en acción

Published on Jan 31, 2013 Hispasonic·129 videos Hispasonic·129 videos

"Una demo del nuevo sinte analógico Korg Mini MS-20."

Some light demos of the patch panel in this one.

MATRIXSYNTH NAMM 2013: Studio Electronics at the Noisebug Booth

Uploaded on Jan 30, 2013 matrixsynth·251 videos

At 5:12 you'll see "MIDI overflow" on the back.  Apparently you can chain these for polyphony.

Update: I heard back from Studio Electronics. You should be able to chain up to four of these, after there might be lag. Editing on one will not affect the other, so you would need to dial each up to mach much like SEMs in a two or four voice system. The plus side of this is you can slightly detune and alter the individual voices for potentially more interesting sounds. Think chords where each voice is doing something slightly different.

Studio Electronics debut of four new mono synths at the Noisebug booth.  Marc St. Regis gives us an overview of the new Boomstar 4075 (ARP 2600 filter), the Boomstar 3003 (Roland TB-303 filter, but "sounds more like an SH-101"), the Boomstar SEM (Oberheim SEM filter), and finally the Boomstar 5089 (Minimoog filter).   Audio demos are of the 4075 and 3003.  Although the Boomstars were first announced back on March 2, 2012 here, NAMM was the first time they made a public appearance.  You can find a demo of the 4075 posted on September 30, 2012 here, and one previous NAMM video recently posted by SonicState here.  The product page for the Boomstars is here.   I have to say these do sound great; they are incredibly thick and rich sounding analog synths. As you can see they have a small physical footprint along with substantial feeling knobs and they have quite a few extra features.  Click the pics below for some super size shots.

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MATRIXSYNTH NAMM 2013: Moon Modular at the Noisebug Booth

Uploaded on Jan 30, 2013 matrixsynth·250 videos

Gert of Moon Modular gives us a demo of their modular system focusing on the 506 Filter Modifier at the Noisebug NAMM Booth.  The brassy lead sound you hear in the background is coming from another booth, but oddly fits.  Moon follows the 5U  synthesizers.com/ Moog modular format.

via Moon Modular: "The M 506 MODIFIER MODULE is a combination of a voltage controlled amplifier connected in series. The vcf is a ladder type lowpass filter featuring switchable slopes (12/18/24 dB/oct) and voltage controllable regeneration. In addition to the manual frequency and resonance dials there are three attenuated control voltage inputs for filter cutoff frequency (bipolar), resonance and amplifier gain. The via bypass switch routes a fixed control voltage to the amplifier to keep it 'open' and ease control while working on a filter patch."

See the Moon Modular website for additional details on the modules pictured below.

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WHATEVEREST

WHATEVEREST from Kristoffer Borgli on Vimeo.

Synth Spotting, 4 tracks built around an ARP 2660, and an interesting documentary.

You can find "It's the ARPs" on iTunes, Amazon and eBay.

"WINNER OF SPECIAL JURY AWARD AT AFI FEST 2012

WHATEVEREST is a documentary about the unlikely inspiration behind a dance tune produced by Todd Terje called 'Inspector Norse'. 'Inspector Norse' is the internet alias of Marius Solem Johansen, a failed musician living in a small town, producing dance videos and drug recipes for YouTube.
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Directed by Kristoffer Borgli
DoP: Håvard Byrkjeland
Editor: Mikael Svartdahl
Music by Todd Terje
Colorist: Daniel de Vue
Sound design: Daniel Angyal
Produced by Bacon"

via Danny O'Malley on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

INSPECTOR NORSE : TODD TERJE - EURODANS

Published on Apr 30, 2012 inspectornorse·1 video

"Love this tune!"

NAMM 2013: Tiptop Audio Modular Synthesizer Demonstration

NAMM 2013: Tiptop Audio Modular Synthesizer Demonstration (20130126) from ICON on Vimeo.