New LepLoop Lumanoise 808 Cymbal Drone Generator

Pictured: Chris & Cosey of Throbbing Gristle fame & more.
http://www.chrisandcosey.com

via Leploop where you'll find additional details. The following are the three versions of the Lumanoise (Update: you can catch a video of the Lumanoise in this previous post):

"Lumanoise V1

The lumanise V1 have one square osc, one 12bit sawtooth osc.
The oscillators pitch is controlled by a photo resistor, each oscillator have a volume pot.
A 12 db low pass resonant filter, specially developed by LEP for the project lumanoise, the filter cut-off can be controlled by the potentiometer or the photoresistor.

Lumanoise V2

The lumanoise V2 heve one square osc, one 12bit sawtooth osc. and 2 trautonium like sub oscillator.
We were inspired by the great Oskar Sala Trautonium synth oscillator.
We use one master oscillator under LDR control and 2 sub oscillator, where you can set the frequency.
The oscillators pitch is controlled by a photo resistor, each oscillator have a volume pot.
A 12 db low pass resonant filter, the filter cut-off can be controlled by the potentiometer or the photoresistor.

808 cymbal drone generator

The 808 cymbal drone generator use 6 fixed frequency square wave oscillators.
The oscillator frequency came from the cluster oscillator circuit used in the TR808 drum machine for creating cymbal sound, in fact these are the harmonic frequencies of the sounds of metal plate.
Each oscillators have a volume pot. and the 12 db low pass resonant filter, the filter cut-off can be controlled by the potentiometer or the photoresistor.

The Lumanoise box are made of plywood 3mm laser cut, different textures will be available soon."

OWL Programmable Effects Pedal on Kickstarter

"The OWL is an open source, open hardware, reprogrammable effects pedal designed for musicians, coders, and hackers.

With some coding and DSP knowledge, the OWL can become any kind of audio effect that you can imagine. Effects can be combined in any number of ways by chaining or switching between them.

Using a provided C++ framework, effects can be developed, compiled and loaded to the on-board ARM Cortex M4 chip with no proprietary tools or hardware-specific knowledge.

The OWL gives coders the chance to implement their own effects and become part of an open-source audio developer community. For those who don’t write code there is a growing http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/marser/owl-programmable-effects-pedalcollection of patches available for immediate download and use in the patch library.

With a strong emphasis on open-source hardware and software, the OWL is perfect starting point for anyone wanting to experiment with embedded audio, or for those wanting to to learn more about audio programming and Digital Signal Processing in general.

For musicians:

Load patches from your computer via USB
Collection of sample patches available and growing
Standard guitar pedal inputs/outputs
For developers:

Write code for a hardware DSP architecture in plain C/C++
no hardware specific coding required
Open source platform and tool chain
Access to all low level ARM functions..."

Additional details on Kickstarter.

Note this is the first OWL post.

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Powertran MCS-1 Overview 2012

Uploaded on Jan 26, 2012 reqordist·13 videos

Audio on left channel only.

"A rather rambling overview of the MIDI Controlled Sampler MCS-1.

I built this unit in the late '80s from the Powertran kit, which I had bought second-hand as-new from someone who lacked the confidence or patience to assemble it himself. The exercise took me 3 evenings, if I recall: no components were missing; the instructions were straightforward, and the silk-screen print on the PCB was comprehensive. It worked right from first power-up, and is still functional. Congratulations to the designers and Powertran.

A fine example of of 8-bit sampling from the early days of digital electronic music.

I may be disposing of this museum piece in the near future."

Serge & BugBrand Modular vid #60

Published on May 30, 2013 Phisynth·76 videos

Rick Moranis Gate Sequencer Module -- Sagittronics -- Charlie Slick

Published on May 30, 2013

http://www.charlieslick.blogspot.com
http://www.facebook.com/sagittronics

"quick demo of a gate sequencer module I designed around the CD4017. I etched a picture of Rick Moranis on the front of the module. It utilizes a diode "and gate" I borrow from the yusynth clock divider module and a circuit similar to the ken stone gate to trigger for external reset."

Korg MS-20 mini vs Korg MS-20

Published on May 30, 2013 Hispasonic·155 videos

"Comparativa del nuevo MS-20 mini con el original, gracias a la demo organizada por Musicom en Hangar.org (Barcelona)."

KORG MS20 Minis on eBay

Devo Treats Itself to Freedom Vintage Moog Liberation Ad

via Moog Music on Facebook

"Mechanical Men."

Rob Papen plug-ins go standalone with RP-Dock

"ECHT, THE NETHERLANDS: virtual instrument and effects plug-in developer Rob Papen Soundware is proud to announce availability of RP-Dock, a standalone Mac- and PC-compatible host application for all its current products, as of May 30...

Other than proving popular with an ever-increasing, diversified worldwide user base of music production professionals and amateurs, Rob Papen’s growing family of ear-opening virtual instrument and effects plug-ins all have something crucial in common: they cannot run as standalone products, but rather require a host DAW application to function. Or do they?

That was then, this is now. Today, thanks to RP-Dock, any Rob Papen product — from BLUE to Blade and any effects plug-in in between and beyond — can be freed from the confines of a DAW host application to run freely... perfect for playing live onstage or in the studio, or simply noodling with synth sounds and effects! The choice is out there for those music production professionals and amateurs alike.

According to George Michael’s programmer and co-producer, James Jackman, the multi-million-selling singer-songwriter superstar has been benefitting from Rob Papen’s namesake founder’s decades-long study of reverb by making much use of the stunning-sounding RP-Verb plug-in on his eagerly-awaited forthcoming album, for instance. Now it’s possible for him to use RP-Verb as a standalone reverb when working with a large-format mixing console courtesy of RP-Dock — software and hardware living in perfect harmony!

But Rob Papen being Rob Papen, there’s a whole lot more besides on offer here. In addition to its classic chromatic keyboard, RP-Dock boast several other handy onscreen features, including an audio recording/playback facility with selectable SAMPLE RATE ranging from 44.1 to 96kHz and MIDI INPUT to merge all connected MIDI controllers, plus MIDI CHANNEL selection and TEMPO setting.

Without question, then, RP-Dock is a user-friendly, flexible tool that Rob Papen’s ever-increasing, diversified worldwide user base benefits from full stop. But best of all, it’s free for all!

Mac (32-bit) and PC (32- and 64-bit) versions of RP-Dock can be downloaded directly for free from here: http://www.robpapen.com/rp-dock.html"

"About Rob Papen (www.robpapen.com)

Self-confessed synth freak and world-renowned sound designer Rob Papen started working with synthesizers at the tender age of 15 when purchasing an analogue Korg MS-20 semi-modular monosynth and accompanying analogue SQ-10 sequencer. Suitably inspired, he subsequently released several CDs as part of Dutch electronic music groups Peru and Nova — the latter featuring the same members as Peru, but with a more commercial slant — with whom he enjoyed number one hit singles in The Netherlands (Nova) in 1982 and Austria (Peru) in 1988. Peru disbanded in 1993, by which time Rob had already established himself as a sought-after sound designer, creating presets for the likes of Waldorf, Access, Ensoniq, and E- mu, before going on to found his namesake company in pursuit of creating a sound designer’s dream synth. That software dream soon became reality when Rob formed the RPCX (Rob Papen ConcreteFX) partnership with music software developer Jon Ayers to develop new Rob Papen virtual instruments and effects plug-ins, starting with BLUE — an exciting-sounding, self-styled ‘Crossfusion Synthesis’ affair (combining FM, Phase Distortion, Wave Shaping, and Subtractive synthesis into one powerful dream synth) — in 2005.Today Rob Papen soundware defines cutting-edge contemporary music production: powerful virtual instruments and plug-ins that intermix innovative design, uncompromising sound quality, and musical, production-grade presets to make tracks truly shine, whatever the musical genre... Inspiration Soundware, indeed!"

Monotron Delay Feedback

"Experimenting with the Korg Monotron Delay feedback. There are occasional short modular synth notes as an external sound source alongside some notes from the ribbon controller, and extra reverb from Logic 9."

via Paul Lawler on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

monotrons on eBay