DIY Electronic Drum Kit [Yamaha DD-35 and Nord Drum]

Published on Feb 28, 2015 midierror

"A Yamaha DD35 slightly modified to trigger a Nord Drum machine.

This drum box also has a secret pedal input, if you look on the board next to the audio out."

Electribe 2 - it's cold outside, get your electribe and make it sound warm !!

Published on Feb 28, 2015 john bree

"Song produced on electribe 2"

Korg Electribe2s on eBay

Elastic Drums & MoDrum in sync

Published on Feb 28, 2015 Oliver Greschke

"Elastic Drum & MoDrum in sync with Elastic Drums sendeing external clock signals from coming update version"

iTunes: Elastic Drums - O-G-SUS | MoDrum - Synthesis-based Drum Machine - Markus Waldboth

Loopy Masterpiece: Track editing, Audio/MIDI types

Published on Feb 28, 2015 ATastyPixel

"I've done some more work on the revised design this week, exploring track screen ideas: editing, and track settings, where you can select between live audio input, Inter-App Audio, and – you'll like this – MIDI, with a twist. Some fun stuff in here. Lemme know what you think.

http://masterpieceedition.tumblr.com"

Deep Bass from the MOS-LAB Synthesizer

Published on Feb 27, 2015 Rhythmicons

"I recently acquired a 2 oscillator MOS-LAB synth voice centered around the 921ab compliment. This is just for everyone to get an idea about the power of these oscs, particularly for purposes of comparison to the recently re-released Moog System 15.

After the initial waveform analysis, I started a ubiquitous Moog style plucked bass sequence. Some noise was added for percussive effect.

Vive la France!"

Mochika X2 synth section

Published on Feb 27, 2015 atomolab

"Demo of the synthesizer section of the Mochika X2"

The Mochika X2 is new from AtomoSynth, first posted here.

Ecived Gnipool

Published on Feb 27, 2015 Stoss

"All sounds were made on an Elektron Analog RYTM using only one sample. This was an entry for Elektron's Science Lab Challenge February 2015. For more information about the competition, see this link: www.elektronauts.com/topics/view/11073"

Elektron Analog Rytms on eBay

RIP Tod Dockstader

Left: "Tod Dockstader works in the studio in the early 1960s. Photo: Courtesy Tom Steenland/Starkland"

Sad news in via Atomic Shadow and Cray of Vicmod Records.

Tod Dockstader was one of the pioneers of electronic music working mainly with tape. You can find his Wikipedia page here. Wired has a great interview/write-up posted back in June of 2012.

"Born in 1932, Dockstader was part of the first wave of electronic musicians, who, before the advent of synthesizers in the early 1960s, worked with whatever hardware they could find: reel-to-reel tape machines, sine wave generators and a wild array of homemade circuits and military surplus gear. In the process, they created a universe of electronic music that still sounds unique and prescient today.

The wire recorder Dockstader used to create electronic music was a piece of used military equipment. 'A lot of this [electronic music] happened because, after the war, a lot of the stuff was available,' Dockstader said. 'Normally a person, a civilian … wouldn’t be able to get that tube, this device or that device. That fascinated me.'"

Explore some sound in his memory this weekend.

Below are a few videos in via Cray.  The first is a short on Tod Dockstader recently on Kickstarter, followed by two pieces of his work.  You can find more posts featuring Tod Dockstader here.


Unlocking Dockstader (short) from Justin H Brierley on Vimeo.

The Unlocking Dockstader Kickstarter campaign was posted back in October of 2014.

Tod Dockstader & David Lee Myers - Assembly

Uploaded on Oct 5, 2007

"kaeru"

Tod Dockstader - Water Music, Part 3

Uploaded on Dec 10, 2010 -questasian-

"Taken from the release "Drone, Two Parts Of Apocalypse, Water Music" by Tod Dockstader (1966)

All copyright held by Owl Records. I have only uploaded this because there is not enough of this artist on Youtube for people to enjoy. :)"

RAZMASYNTH Cthulhu // feeding the monster (2) // miniature 26

Published on Feb 27, 2015 LESINDES

"Playing the very rare RAZMASYNTH CTHULHU. Only 10 were made worldwide. Feeding one of the rarest synth modules CTHULHU with Synthesis Technology E340 Cloud Generator"

RIP Leonard Nimoy

Spock's Logic - Modular Synth Jam (w/ MicroBrute) #TTNM

Published on May 13, 2014 The Tuesday Night Machines

RIP Leonard Nimoy. Your influence is everywhere.

"Mr. intellijel Spock and his helpers generate patterns and the Turing Machine does random melodies through a uScale.

Everything apart from the drums is sequenced by the self-playing modular synth patch (even the MicroBrute), which is only clock-synced to the MPC.

Questions or comments? Go ahead and post them below! :) Thanks for watching!

MORE INFO:

Gear used in this video:
- Eurorack Modular Synthesizer (with Vermona qMi, Malekko Wiard Anti-Oscillator, Intellijel, Koma Kommander, Sound of Shadows, Plague Bearer, Spock, RYO Optodist, Voice of Saturn VCF, etc. see: http://www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/vi...)
- Arturia MicroBrute (analog synthesizer)
- Vermona DRM-1 mkIII (drum synth)
- Akai MPC 1000 (clock & drum sequencer)
- Zoom R16 (recording & mastering)

Filmed with a Canon EOS 550D (Rebel t2i)."