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Rheyne - Live Jam #87

Published on Oct 14, 2013 Rheyne·120 videos

"Live looping with Ableton Live, with lighting controlled entirely by the instruments. The audio from each instrument triggers a specific set of lights and colors via a DMXIS and Max for Live. The monitors are displaying Nullsoft's Winamp (Milkdrop) reacting to audio input in realtime. Nothing was pre-recorded for the jam.

Download or stream the audio at SoundCloud: http://snd.sc/1bt4G5U

Equipment:
DSI MoPho keyboard
Akai APC20
Novation Launchpad
DJ TechTools MIDI Fighter 3D
iPad running Lemur w/ iConnectMIDI
iPad running Animoog
KMI QuNeo - NI's Battery (drums)
KMI QuNexus NI's Kontakt (piano)
Oxygen25 - NI's Massive
Enttec DMXIS
PreSonus 1818VSL
Macbook Pro running Ableton Live and Max"

Elka Drummer One SUPER ULTRA RARE VINTAGE Analog Drum Machine

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Video at the auction and previously posted here.

"This unit has 16 preset rhythms and 9 individual drum sounds that all have volume knobs on the front of the unit.

Just as an FYI, when I was testing the circuits, I also casually checked out the "Solo Rhythmer" plug on the rear of the unit. My best guess, considering the vintage of this unit, is that it was used to interface with an Elka organ and provide some sort of gating/arpeggio CV-type functions to the organ. When I made connections to different points with a volt meter, I found the following functions which could be accessed if you were willing to hack into the unit and put 1/8" ins and outs instead of the very odd connector that it uses-

· trigger outputs (kick for sure, perhaps snare)

· different drum patterns (making one connection for example would trigger the snare to play more often within a given pattern- seemed like a "fill" function of some sort)

· clock outputs (one of them was 1 ppqn if I remember correctly)

· something that shorted the audio, which I would guess might be individual outs for the drum machine

· there could have been trigger inputs, but I wasn't very thorough with my testing of this function as it's not a main feature of this unit

DISCLAIMER- I make no claims that the 5 previous features will work for you, as they might not work exactly as described (after all, I don't have the service manual to tell me what they do, so I'm just poking around and guessing)

The flaws for this unit-

1. somebody painted it black at some point, but not very well. it's a very glossy black as you can see in the pictures
2. the top lamp is not working (but the bottom light is working)
3. the "short cymbal" sound is not working (although I can hear it very faintly in the ouptut)
4. the faceplate is in good, but not perfect condition- see pictures for details

The original unit had a wood finish, but this specific unit has been painted a glossy black at some point. The paint job wasn’t done very well (please see the pictures that show the quality of the paint job), but it does look pretty nice from a distance. It's nothing that a good paint-stripping and varnishing job couldn't take care of to let the original, beautiful wood shine through.

This drum machine was used on the Kraftwerk records ”Kling Klang” and “Tanz Musik”, as well as by many German Kosmische/Krautrock bands such as- Cluster, Roedelius, Tangerine Dream, and Popul Vuh."

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MOTM-730 Through Mobius Test

Published on Oct 14, 2013 John L Rice·230 videos

"The Synth Tech MOTM-730 Pulse Divider works well as an 'solo organ' creation module by using a VCO controlled by a keyboard to drive it and then taking several of the 730 outputs and mixing them together. I wanted to try this sort of patch through the Strymon Mobius Rotary effect to see how it would sound. Sorry for the mindless noodling on the keyboard! ;-)"

Buchla and Tetrax Organ experiments - Oct 6th 2013

Published on Oct 8, 2013 tastysoilrecords·31 videos

via Chris Pottinger on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Mutable Instruments Shruthi-1 4-Pole Mission The Polymorph Synthesizer

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"This is a Fresh Built Mutable Instruments Shruthi-1 4-Pole Mission The Polymorph Synthesizer. Only the Most quality Parts are used in my Professional Clean builds. This is an Extremely versatile Filter board, its got everything.

This unit has two special features. It has a Power Switch built into the DC Jack! It also features two Trimpots with Backpanel access to set the Input/Ouptut levels required by your setups!

This enclosure is Hot! Pretty in Pink!

-Flouro Pink Acrylic Enclosure
-White on Blue LCD Display
-Blue LEDs
-Tight Alpha Pots
-DC Jack w/ Power Switch!
-I/O Trimpots w/ Backpanel Access!

'One board to rule them all… This filter board is probably the most advanced 4-pole core for the Shruthi-system! It uses the same “Pole-mixing” technique introduced in the Oberheim Xpander to provide a cornucopia of filter responses. It also provides 4 different settings controlling the “flavour” of the resonance, clean and liquid, MS-20 style, wobbly/chaotic, and a combination of the MS20 and wobbly modes.'"