"We are now selling our Euro Power Distro boards (aka "bus boards")! These are fully-featured, including resettable fuses, on-board 5V generation, and a bunch more. Available as a kit or a pre-built unit. More here: http://4mspedals.com/eurorackdistro.php"
"a test of a polyphonic modular patch using four VCOs but only one VCF/VCA, a Doepfer A-107 Multi-type Morphing Filter. I used an MCV24 MIDI/CV/Gate converter which allows for several polyphonic modes. Patch settings were altered during the recording. Accompanying sounds were added after the modular recording. All notes of the polyphonic chord were triggered at the same time, programmed in a sequencer."
Published on May 29, 2013 SoundsAndGear·502 videos
"Today I'm checking out a collection of 11 iconic analog string synthesizers from UVI called String Machines. It works in the free UVI Workstation or MachFive 3.
"Buchla System # 1 sequenced by Korg Micro X
Access Virus C XL bass
Korg micro X chords via Alesis Filtre & paradiddled Low Pass Gate
drums &sequence by Logic Ultrabeat
FX :Lexicon MX 400 & Line6 echopro"
Published on May 29, 2013 AnalogAudio1·106 videos Update: Re-Published on Jun 1, 2013 due to technical problems.
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The Roland TR-707 is a classic programmable digital drum machine from 1985.
Accent is programmable. It has MIDI and also the Roland SYNC-Interface. It has single outputs for the drum sounds. The TR-707 has fifteen digitally sampled sounds and also shuffle functions.
The TR-707 was a staple in early house music, particularly with acid house."
"Making music on iPhone, iPad, Samsung and Nexus with music apps?
Some excellent music apps offer users innovative digital musical instruments and remarkable music creation platforms. I want to invite you to an international App Music seminar that takes place from July 29th to August 2nd at the Berlin Summer University of the Arts.
date: July 29th-August 2nd 2013
place: UdK Berlin, Bundesallee 1-12
fee: 400 € (from June 10th 2013: 420 €)
no. of participants: 12 to 15
language: English
application deadline: July 1st 2013
DigiEnsemble Berlin spielt im Berliner Dom am 16. Dezember 2012
Published on May 29, 2013
Das DigiEnsemble Berlin spielte mit Smartphones und Tablets ein umfangreiches Musikprogramm im Rahmen des sonntäglichen Gottesdienstes am 3. Advent 2012 im Berliner Dom.
http://www.digiensemble.de/berliner-dom
Mit Musik-Apps spielten sie vor 600 Gästen Händels Konzert-Arie „Ombra Mai Fu" aus der Oper Xerxes, gesungen von der bezaubernden Sopranistin Anna Gütter. Außerdem wurde es eine experimentelle Raumklang-Collage nach einem Konzept von Sven Ratzel gespielt, die den Choral „Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" und seinen altkirchlichen Vorgänger, den Hymnus „Veni redemptor gentium" des Ambrosius von Mailand (339--397) zur Basis nimmt. Ein weiterer Höhepunkt ist die Premiere unserer Interpretation der anspruchsvollen Bass-Arie „Großer Herr und starker König" aus J.S. Bachs berühmtem Weihnachtsoratorium. Für den Gesangspart konnte der bekannte Bariton Roman Trekel gewonnen werden.
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Steve Fisk wrote in to let me know his Yamaha CS60 is for sale in Seattle. If you are interested contact him at shfisk@gmail.com. For those of you not familiar with Steve Fisk, he's a Washington based audio engineer, musician and producer of quite a few bands including Nirvana, Soundgarden and more. Check out his Wikipedia article for the full list. Steve's involvement with synths goes back to the USC Moog studio circa 1973. He also gave a talk on the ARP 2600 at the 2011 PNW (MMTA) SynthFest (video posted here).
As for the CS60, here is what Steve has to say about it:
"YAMAHA CS-60 for sale. Excellent condition. Keyboard sliders, switches and ribbon controller all working great. No legs or pedal. The door to the powerchord storage nook is funky. Currently this synth's tuning is out of adjustment. It needs to have the oscs calibrated with these sensitive little trim pots. Its close to intune when you warm it up. Still the bug is the voice swapping and the individual oscs drift away from each other as it heats up. Even when its tweaked to spec there's a jankyness to the sound from the oscs flipping under your hand. If you play a C chord 4 times each one sounds different. The tuning knob helps. The tuning tweak can be upwards of $200 and needs to be done fairly often if you plan to use this live. If it sits in a studio or home the tuning should hold for a year or more. Its pretty sensitive for being so heavy. It likes to be moved flat. This all helps keep the tuning. Also heat and cold throw it out of tune. I give it a good warm it up for a half hour before I record with it. The Cs-60 got used in my bands Pigeonhed and Pell Mell and many other things I produced.
NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE CS80, the CS60 is the one osc version of the CS 80 (two oscs) and while that may not seem like much, it's a big diff. 2 oscs bring the chorus and warble where the one osc CS 60 is fat and huge it don't chorus and waft like the CS 80. Somebody pointed out on virtualsynth.com that a double tracked CS 60 gets you in CS 80 territory for under $10,000, an odd but valid point. Also I suspect the CS 60 is less buggy and more stable because it has fewer things to go out of tune and less internal heat too by dint."
Published on May 29, 2013 AudioCentralMagazine·144 videos
"Kinetik Labs produces some really interesting hardware machines for Drone Music. At the last Turin Synth Meeting, Andrea Reali and Claudio Granzieri plays and demonstrates their pretty dense drone instruments. Enjoy."
