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Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Richard Devine Interview & Gear Pics on I♥SYNTHS

via Richard Devine

"My interview and new studio tour with iheartsynths just went up today.
Some really nice pics there.

"I♥SYNTHS: When did you get into electronic music? Was it a certain musician or piece of gear that got you interested?

Richard Devine: I started getting into electronic music back in high school. I was a DJ at local clubs and raves back in the early 90′s, and became fascinated with making music after hearing a Aphex Twin remix of “Mind stream” EP from Meat Beat Manifesto. At age 17 I started to build up my studio, which around that time was mostly early analog drum machines and synths. I would go to the local pawn shops here in Atlanta every weekend to see what I could find. It was a great time to buy this stuff as it was at a point when no one wanted early analog gear. My first proper synthesizer was the Arp-2600. This was a completely life changing moment for me. I was completely blown away by the semi modular format of the synth. You could also use it to process other sounds via filtering, ring modulation, and spring reverb. I still to this day have and still use the 2600 for my day-to-day projects. It taught me the basic fundamentals of building and shaping a sound from pure synthesis."

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An evening solo....Moog Voyager XL and Moog delay

Published on Jan 7, 2014 Florent Faurie·61 videos

"Moog Voyager XL solo"

MacBeth E1/E3 Test 07/01/14

Published on Jan 7, 2014 macbethsynthesizers·101 videos

"A quick demo of the Elements One synthesizer in 84HP with the Elements Three Sequencer/Arpegiator test. On the Elements Three- this me doing a basic workout. Some voltages and resistances still to be corrected...but 85% there!"

ARP 2013 (a very compact eurorack with Flame Arp 2013 and Doepfer VCDSP)

Published on Jan 7, 2014 creativegallerysynth·27 videos

"First try out of:
MS-84S Silver 84HP Skiff with a complete ARP/Synth/FX configuration, containing:
Flame 2013 Arpeggiator
Doepfer A-124 Wasp Filter (for filtering external sources)
Doepfer A-140 ADSR (for envelope control of the X-outs of the Arpeggiator)
Doepfer A-111-5 (Dark Energy (my favourite soundsource)) out of production
Doepfer A-187-1 VCDSP (Effects)
Tiptop uZeus Powersupply.
pics at: http://www.creativegallery.nl
skiff's and modules available at: http://www.modularsynthesizers.nl/"

Buchla Music Clone by Roman Filippov

I heard from Roman and the Buchla Clone indeed his design, based on Don Buchla's design of course. The one pictured was built by Dave Brown of Modular Synthesis.

Monday, January 06, 2014

Arturia MicroBrute & MiniBrute Song : Lush

Published on Jan 6, 2014 francolamuerte·161 videos

"Petite composition de style ' improvisation d'un soir ' avec mon MiniBrute et MicroBrute d'Arturia. Tous les sons, mêmes les drums, ont été paramétrés avec ces deux seuls synthétiseurs analogiques.

Small improvisation with my Arturia MiniBrute and MicroBrute. All sounds, even the drums were configured with these analog synthesizers.

Franco La Muerte"

MicroBrute's on eBay | MicroBrutes on Amazon
MiniBrutes on eBay | MiniBrutes on Amazon

AtomoSynth KOE Board

via Alfredo Aliaga of AtomoSynth on Facebook

"AtomoSynth KOE board, so small yet a full analog synth... 〜(￣▽￣〜)"

AtomoSynth on eBay (RSS)

OTO Biscuit Bit Crusher / Sample Rate Reducer with Der OTO upgrade

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via this auction

"If you like bit-reduction distortion this unit is tops,. You can flip bits on and off via a MIDI sequencer if you are too lazy to push the buttons. Actually nearly all parameters are MIDI controllable.

OTO Machines’ BISCUIT is an 8-bit effect processing hardware from a boutique design firm in Paris. The essential effect is all 8-bit: using 8-bit converters and processing, you can add crunchy, digital waveshaping, delay, pitch shift, and step filter effects. But because those processes produce distortion and aliasing, BISCUIT combines its 8-bit effects with an analog resonant filter. (It’s switchable, so if you want to retain all the artifacts, you can – but you also have a filter at the ready.)

The BISCUIT is also fully MIDI-enabled: every control sends MIDI, and every function receives MIDI CC. Critical to its step-sequenced and delay functions, BISCUIT receives MIDI clock, as well, or you can use tap tempo.

Onboard controls include:
Drive: Input gain, up to +15 dB (which can clip your sound prior to conversion)
Naked: dry signal
Dressed: 8-bit (wet) signal
Filter controls: set to green (low-pass), yellow (band-pass), or orange (hi-pass), then adjust cutoff (20-15kHz) and Q
Brain: changes the function of the rectangular switches at the bottom, between selecting parameters and muting/inverting the 8-bit signal
Clock: 250-30kHz sample clock frequency
Bypass: a true relay bypass
Switches 1-8: mute or invert your 8-bits, select effects and parameters, and recall presets/snapshots

The main issue is that it’s using the 8 rectangular switches along the bottom of the unit that most directly shapes the sound, by allowing you to set each bit independently – literally, the eight bits of the signal itself. Switch off “Brain” mode, and you can directly manipulate the bits of the signal, then mix that signal with your dry source.

The presets portion can incorporate all of your own presets, with 16 slots and SysEx dump functions for storage and recall on your computer.

I/O:
Unbalanced 1/4″ inputs (2x mono L+R)
Unbalanced 1/4″ outputs (2x mono L+R)
MIDI in, MIDI out
9V AC adapter

Metal case 1.27 lb (580g)"