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Nord Wave

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Published on May 2, 2014 Make

"The Sand Noise Device (SND) is both a complex generative music system as well as a novel and intuitive interface for influencing and interacting with this system. The interface consists of a table height box filled with sand, a Microsoft Kinect (which provides an RGB camera and depth sensing capabilities), an overhead projector, and several internally lit tangible objects. The Kinect is used to track object position, object color, and sand topography. The projector is used to provide visual feedback. Sound is provided by a multi-channel loudspeaker system arranged around the box.

The various parameters that determine the functionality of the SND's generative music system are influenced by the user's interactions with the sandscape and provided tangible objects. By manipulating the sand and objects the user is able to influence various aspects of the generative music system.

See it in action at Maker Faire Bay Area 2014 on May 17 + 18: http://makerfaire.com/ [video here]

More information: http://sandnoisedevice.com/"

EREBUS - New Paraphonic Analog Hardware Synthesizer From Dreadbox

Dreadbox EREBUS factory demo Published on Oct 26, 2014

"The very first Erebus demo, made with the prototype unit on a standard 24 midi key."

"Full Analog Paraphonic Synthesizer
Full Analog 2-voice Paraphony or Unison sounds, only with Through Hole components
2 x VCO with seperate glide controls
2 pole (12dB/ocv) pre-fed resonating VC Low Pass Filter
VC LFO with additional VC Depth
2 x Envelope Generators (1xADSR and 1xAR dedicated to the AMP)
VC Delay/Echo
14 patches for an astonishing Modular experience
CV Outputs: LFO, Envelope (attenuated), Modulation Wheel (attenuated), Gate, Osc1 pitch (1V/ocv), Osc2 pitch (1V/ocv)
CV Inputs: Osc1, Osc2, Echo time, VCF, Resonance, LFO rate, LFO depth, CV/Gate
MIDI interface: Midi in/through DIN socket, Pitch note/gate on-off, retrigger function (on-board), Mod wheel (patched on-board), Pitch wheel, MIDI Channel select 1-7 or Omni (DIP switch)
Paraphony CV/GATE outputs allows you to turn monophonic devices into Paraphonic, or even combine 2 monosynths into a paraphony orgy.
Audio input: Max 3Vpp
Audio output with a huge maximum gain of 10Vpp"

Analogue Heaven North East SynthFest @ MIT Media Lab

Published on Oct 25, 2014 Pirx Modular

"A few clips from AHNE SynthFest at MIT Media Lab, October 25th, 2014. Great crowd, fantastic synths, amazing location and beautiful weather! It couldn't be better."

Teenage Engineering OP-1 & Arturia Beatstep

Published on Oct 26, 2014 space travel made easy

"Arturia Beatstep is sequencing the OP-1. The beat is coming from Ableton Live running on a laptop just out of shot. This is my first jam with the beatstep. I'd programmed in 3 preset sequences and in this song I'm alternating through the three.

Really impressed with the Beatstep, it's a greta bit of kit for the money - it's great for coming up with random sequences.

I can see it working well as a midi controller for the likes of Ableton Live and other DAWs too.

The one complaint I have is having to need to use the Editor Software for doing some of the additional functions - I'd have preferred the unit had buttons for these and wouldnt mind it being just a little bit larger for that reason - still I guess it was a cost-saving thing."

Stylophone S2 - CUCKOO Jam

Published on Oct 26, 2014 cuckoomusic .

"Support me at Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/cuckoomusic
Time for a Stylophone S2 Jam. Would you be interested in a tutorial of the S2? It's pretty complex, yet very limited :)"

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Mini Korg-700 Monophonic Electronic Music Synthesizer

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"Although it was Keio Electronic Laboratories' first foray into additive electronic music synthesis, the Korg 700's design and engineering contained may innovative features, such as the low-pass/high-pass filter section with associated 'Traveler' controls, chorus settings, very stable tuning and novel envelope controls. Despite its compact design and uncluttered under-keyboard console layout, the 700 includes no less than three low frequency oscillators, one for vibrato, another for chorus and a third one to drive the repeat envelope feature..."

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