"A short video walkthrough of the Trash Audio Synth Meet hosted by the New Media and Art Sound Summit by Church of the Friendly Ghost. Special thanks to The Church of the Friendly Ghost,Trash Audio,Bleep Labs, Delptronics, The Harvestman, I/O Music Technology, LZX Industries, Make Noise, Noise Engineering, Super Synthesis, Switched On Electronics, WMD and all the Musical Artists in attendance."
"In this episode, I want to show you sequencing and jams with the KORG iMS 20. It's the emulation of the classic monophonic analogue Synthesizer MS-20"
"THE ELKA SYNTHEX CAMPAIGN ON INDIEGOGO HAS NOW ENDED. WE'RE SADDENED THAT WE DID NOT REACH THE FUNDING TARGET.
THIS UNFORTUNATELY MEANS THAT ELKA SYNTHEX WILL NOT BE COMING BACK AFTER ALL. WE THANK EVERYONE WHO CONTRIBUTED AND SUPPORTED US.
ALL CONTRIBUTIONS HAVE BEEN REFUNDED. CONTRIBUTORS WILL RECEIVE THESE REFUNDS IN THEIR PAYPAL ACCOUNT, OR ISSUING CREDIT CARD (WITHIN 5 DAYS). IF YOU HAVE ANY FUTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT THE REFUND PROCESS PLEASE CONTACT INDIEGOGO.
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN COOL TO BRING ELKA SYNTHEX BACK."
The campaign goal was $414,000. It is currently closed and at $0. Curious what it got up to before closing. If you know, let us know. Also curious what will happen to http://bringelkaback.com.
Update: There is still the digital Synthex 2 from original Synthex creator, Mario Maggi, in the works.
via the seller: "This is one of the most desirable synths of all time. I purchased this from Allen at Synth Spa last year and unfortunately haven't had much time to get the most out of it. This has been fully refurbished and the Europa mod was added as well. It's been painted white with custom graphics, back lit pitch bend, and custom wood end panels."
"From Brno, CZ - Synth Fest 2015, hosted by Bastl Instruments / Noise Kitchen. A one-of-a-kind instrument from Communist-era Czechoslovakia."
This is the ELEKTRON - 83 posted here. We now have some additional details on this unique system via CDM: "The Elektron-83 is the creation of Jožka Říhák, legendary in Moravia as a genius electronic instrument builder. His Syntezátor – 83 Unisono went into production, but the ELEKTRON – 83 is one of a kind. We got a live performance and demo/ explanation of the creation at Brno’s Synth Fest hosted by Bastl Instruments and their new Noise Kitchen shop in the Czech Republic.
And this thing is simply amazing.
First of all, it does so much that Jožka – now into his 70s and mostly retired from playing – was worried he wouldn’t remember everything he’d made it do. It’s really an early rendition of a workstation/arranger keyboard. It’s part organ, an analog synthesizer with loads of timbral variations. It’s also part drum machine, with a rich analog sound set that might be as at home accompanying techno as playing Czech folks songs. And it’s part effects box, with various additional processing onboard or accessible via a set of stompboxes he also designed.
It’s when you look closer at the design that you begin to realize how deep the rabbit hole goes. Some of the controls are obvious: okay, those are drawbars. But then the drawbars are augmented with switches, and knobs, and combinations of switches “unlock” other features, and then you find more knobs and more switches augmenting the other knobs and switches. If there was a spare bit of panel, he added a control. If he ran out of space for controls, he kept adding functionality anyway, by using combinations of additional switches and knobs..."
