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Sunday, February 03, 2013

MATRIXSYNTH NAMM 2013: Dave Smith Instruments Booth Pics


Pics of the DSI booth at NAMM. The highlight of course was the new Prophet 12.  If you watched some of the previous videos on the Prophet 12, you should have noticed that the messaging has been that the Prophet 12 is essentially the best of the Prophet 08 and the best of the Poly Evolver keyboard (see :52 on in this video).  One thing to consider is that it does not share any of the oscillators of either the Prophet 08 or Poly Evolver keyboard.  The Prophet 08 has analog oscillators with sawtooth, triangle, saw/triangle mix, and pulse waves (with pulse-width modulation), and hard sync.   The Poly Evolver has two analog oscillators and two digital with the original Sequential circuits Prophet VS waveforms.  The Prophet 12, however, has new digital (software) oscillators which include wavetable oscillators.  It's not clear how the wavetable oscillators are implemented.  In PPG and Waldorf based wavetable synthesis each wavetable is essentially an oscillator with 64 waveforms that you can interpolate or step through.  You can pick different wavetables each with 64 waveforms.  On the Prophet 12 I was told that there are three wavetables that you can morph between.  What wasn't clear was how the interpolation between the waveforms works.  It does sound great.


Skönt v1

Published on Feb 3, 2013 bubzy1000·56 videos


via this auction

"You are bidding on the skönt v1 noise maker, this is the first of a unique series of noisemakers, i will only be building one of each type and each module will be totally different, in looks and in function."

Boss DR-110 & DR-220e in sync

Published on Feb 3, 2013 colthawker·19 videos

Prophet 10 FS on eBay Video

Note: Auction links are affiliate links for which the site may be compensated. Published on Feb 3, 2013

"Item 190791269481. Ends 02/04/13"

This is the one previously posted here.

Cyclone Analogic Bass Bot TT 303 Audio Click Problem

This one in via Tim Webb of discchord.  He wrote in to let me know he discovered a clicking noise when triggering his Cyclone Analogic Bass Bot TT-303 via an external MIDI sequencer.  I brought in Lorn Hammond, aka kidtronic, and Robin Whittle who produces the Devil Fish mods for the original TB-303 and plans to make them available for the TT-303.  Robin was able to confirm the problem.

via Robin Whittle's Real World Interfaces:

"When playing closely spaced notes via MIDI In, there may be clicking noises. These are moderately loud and have sharp edges, so they are quite audible. Please see this waveform: click-fix/click-pink.jpg . The magenta part of the waveform illustrates where the click occurs - the VCA gain suddenly drops to zero at the start of a new note, which in this case is while the decay tail of the previous note is still going. The previous note probably ended around 15:228 and the new note probably started around 15:230.

These clicks were reported to me on 2013-02-03 and the next day I reproduced the problem on our machine, determined the cause and wrote to Cyclone Analogic about it. I devised a relatively simple two component change for the circuit which solved the problem on our unit. I expect this would work well for all Bass Bots. This is not solvable via firmware changes. My suggested fix can be done without changing the PCB. Cyclone Analogic have asked me not to post any modifications to their machines, so I won't. However, for a technical description of the problem, please see: click-fix/ ."

Audulus Demo - Custom Step Sequencer Demo

Published on Feb 3, 2013

"I made an improved version of the standard step sequencer that comes with Audulus, it includes controls for start, stop, swing and step and sequence length. This is a demo of a song using made using it, all sounds are coming from the standalone version and shows how Audulus can be used to create custom performance setups."

Mac App Store:
Audulus - Wilson Holliday

iTunes:
Audulus - Wilson Holliday
iOS Devices on eBay - Daily Tech Deals

MIDI BANGER Collborative Hardware Project

via MIDI BANGER on Facebook:

"this is a place for brainstorming the concept of the MIDI BANGER.
MIDI BANGER is a NON PROFIT colaborative project .
MIDI BANGER will play/record/loop/modify MIDI files, while playing.
MIDI BANGER is a HARDWARE music/ video/ whatever you want to control with midi tool,
made for real time manipulation/ control/ playing...
First we need to write the specs... And you can be a part of it.
Later we'll defeny the human/machine inteface.
And finally it wiil become a Ulule project for those who will want to buy it.
Feel free to invite all those that you think they could be interested."

There is also a forum here.

Audible Disease IN-3 / joystick / noise / boutique pedal / synth

Note: Auction links are affiliate links for which the site may be compensated.
via this auction

"'The Audible Disease Infection IN-3 is a wild joystick controlled two oscillator synthesizer guaranteed to please any noise head! There's more to it than that, though. You can process the synth sound even further with the other knobs giving you a virtual cornucopia of noise making pleasure center. Twiddle the knobs and stick, please.

Operates with a standard 9-volt DC barrel type power adapter sold separately.'

Will ship with original manual, box, and sticker"

Apocalypse, Urgency and Chaos & Synth Cat


Published on Jan 17, 2013 hadesofspades·3 videos

"What Apocalypse? Silly Mayans.

Here's another performance on my Korg EMX1SD, Kaossilator Pro and Kaoss pad Quad. This time the Kpro has some reverb applied to it on my Behringer NOX606 mixer (not in frame), which I think sounds outstanding!

Once again, a couple of minor mistakes here and there, but I'm happy
with it!

More music to come!
Thanks for listening and liking ;)"

Urgency and Chaos (Korg EMX1SD, Kaossilator Pro, Kaoss Pad Quad)

Published on Jan 14, 2013 hadesofspades·3 videos

"... Followed by sweet relief... AND THEN MORE CHAOS!

This is the musical performance of a song I wrote on my Korg EMX1SD, Kaossilator pro and Kaoss pad Quad. In case it isn't obvious, I like Korg very much.

There's a couple of minor mistakes in there, but this was the best take I recorded.
I hope you enjoy it, and there's much more to come!"

These in via Tim Webb of discchord.com

Rosa in sketch


flickr By fsm vpggru

"A sketch of Rosa Ullmann with her trusty Alesis synth from this photo I took of her [below] back at the start of 2011."

Alesis Micron


"Portrait taken on Abbey Road, London of musician Rosa Ullmann who has spent time touring across Europe as a keys player and backing vocalist supporting the likes of Lady Gaga, Faith No More, The Gossip and The Offspring

www.RosaUllmann.com"
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