Groovesizer Alpha (proto) - new hardware

Published on Jul 23, 2013 MoShang·44 videos

"Follow the progress on the project at http://groovesizer.com
The Groovesizer is a 32-step midi sequencer and 8-bit synth that will be available as a DIY kit in September 2013.
The new PCB has an extra row of buttons for control functions, and (unlike the previous PCB) doesn't have to be purpose built for a particular Groovesizer firmware. Instead, the hardware setup for a particular firmware is selectable via jumpers (top left)."

Black Thread 4/27/12 Bleakhaus & primavera

Published on Apr 29, 2012

"Black Thread live 4/27/12 at Bleakhaus"

"Roland MC-202 on homemade tape loop. The 202 is providing the notes which comprise all the sound you're hearing! I play the notes one by one into the record deck (the Tascam on the left; the audience hears the output from the handheld on the right), so the set started with an empty loop and built into what you're hearing in the video. It's a sound on sound tape loop which bypasses the erase head, so each note sticks around until it's drowned out by new notes, which takes awhile / can be controlled by the performer. There's also a backing track which consists of more loops at lower volume on the floor Tascam."

primavera by mundo animal / dark spring / black thread


"The entire project is 202s and tape loops and, recently, doepfer filters and noise generators."

YAMAHA CP-11 Electric Piano with Auto Accompaniment

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Playlist:
YAMAHA CP-11 Demo by ihavezippers
Jugger Noodler Experiment 002.m2t - by madnoodler·87 videos (Looks modded)
Yamaha-CP11 Overview by Mike Jack
Yamaha CP-11 Analog Piano and Rhythm Machine Test by Eve PETALS

via this auction

"The accompaniment section is FANTASTIC! Think LCD soundsystem, I think he must've used this very keyboard, ESP on 'Losing My Edge'. Look this synth up on youtube!!" Here you go:

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My Beautiful Leah - Prophet '08 Demo

Published on Jul 22, 2013 Jackie Ananian·9 videos

"A song demonstrating the DSI Prophet '08 Analog Synthesizer.
All sounds from the Prophet with the exception of the drumbeat (A Vermona DRM1 Analog Drum Synthesizer sequenced by an Elektron Machine Drum).

Listen to this song on soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/my-beautiful-l...


My Beautiful Leah Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MyBeautifulL...

mybeautifulleah.com

Wise Machine EP for sale on itunes, Amazon, Bandcamp, etc....
http://mybeautifulleahband.bandcamp.c..."

Also see:
My Beautiful Leah: The Moog Minitaur Demo
My Beautiful Leah: Vermona

Yamaha QX-1 midi data sequencer HxC function demo

Published on Jul 22, 2013 TheSynthFreq·199 videos

"Hi everyone! Here is a new video of an amazing device (HxC) used to take the place of the 5 1/4 floppy disk drive of the Yamaha QX-1 sequencer. The Yamaha QX-1 sequencer is about 16lbs, steel construction, full keyboard data entry controls (that make all those lovely vintage key sounds we all love to hear!) , 8 midi outputs, one midi in and one midi thru. Did I mention you can travel back to the 80s with this thing?? hehehe its in the secret menus. :)

Contents: QX-1 FDD construction and design, Common age related problems with the FDD HxC power up and demo of loading procedure (moving through songs) HxC and QX-1 internal interface connections and hardware view

Please enjoy :)
Important:
I'd like to personally thank Dav.R.Bailey for the awesome and wonderful HxC unit and Jim Atwood for his video on the QX-1 and HxC demonstration and technical support with Dav.R.Bailey. Thanks so much to you both for the much appreciated assistance in bringing QX-1 back to life. The install was a success. :)"

1983 Boss DR-110 Dr. Rhythm Graphic Drum Machine Brochure

via Retro Synth Ads where you'll find the write-up.

"Boss DR-110 Dr. Rhythm Graphic drum machine 'A sound Innovator' four-page colour brochure from December 1983."

Note the above image is the inside of the brochure. The cover is much brighter.

Inside a Kawai R100 & the Drumware Inc. Soundswitcher

Some pics in via GrantB of the Music Technologies Group Blog.  Click here or here for what an R100 looks like on the outside.   There have only been two previous posts on the Kawai R100 Drum Machine and only two on Drumware, one featuring an Oberheim DX Drum Machine, and one a Sequential Circuits Drumtraks.

"Here are some photos of the ROM switcher board in my Kawai R-100 Drum machine. The expansion board is dated 1987. My unit contains three 4Mbit mask ROMs:

MN234000KAA, MN234000KAB, MN234000KAC

I think these ROMs are the original R100 and R50 and the R50e judging by what I’ve read elsewhere on the web. The sound format is 12-bit (non-linear) with a 32kHz sample rate."

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Yamaha RS7000 Demos by Ben Zimmerman

Published on Mar 18, 2013 BenZimmermanMusician·16 videos

Playlist:
Ben Zimmerman - Yamaha RS7000
Ben Zimmerman - Witch - Yamaha RS7000
Ben Zimmerman - "Juke Juke" - Yamaha RS7000
Yamaha RS7000 - Ben Zimmerman - "February 27, 2011"
Ben Zimmerman - "First RS7000 Piece"

Yamaha QY70 Demos by Ben Zimmerman

Published on Mar 18, 2013 BenZimmermanMusician·16 videos

Playlist:
Ben Zimmerman - Yamaha QY70
Ben Zimmerman - "All Bottled Up Inside" - Yamaha QY70
Ben Zimmerman - "My Dark Wave" - Yamaha QY70

Atomic Shadow Mobile Command Center

via Atomic Shadow

EMW 200 & 300

via Rod Mitchell on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge