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Kawai Synthesizer 100F

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"This is one punchy sounding machine and has more fat than a packed out hen party in a Blackpool Wetherspoons! It is amazing and although it looks simple the sounds are really quite unique. I rate it second to the Pro One and considering it's only a one oscillator synth it does a very good job on bass, leads, effects, and you name it... If it had two oscillators the Pro One would have become very afraid of the competition back in the day. Oh, and there is an external input filter section.. Yeah!! This is not a sugar-free synth like many of the VA models manufactured today, it is a full fat chunky sounding monster. If it was a human it would be a sumo wrestler on steroids!

Compared to the Roland SH101, or similar synths, the 100F eats them for breakfast and will break windows, crack concrete, and wobble the building where you keep the studio! It is a beast and very underrated, due to its rare appearances in the classifieds.

You can see Vince Clark playing one/miming on Top Of The Pops performing New Life all the way back in 1981.

It is in great condition and easy to use, even though you can play on it for hours and never get bored because it produces so many different and cool sounds, it is nuts!!"

Teenage Engineering PO-14 Sub Pocket Operator Demo

Published on Jun 19, 2015 perfectcircuitaudio

Tyme Machine

Published on Jun 19, 2015 wellurban

"A quick play with my first patch using the Tyme Sefari Mk II and Sound of Thunder expander.

I sampled a quick plucky riff (Rubicon through Optomix) into TS, using a division of the main clock patched to the Rec in to make sure it was in time. Then I tweaked the riff, and used the TS to play back variations of the sampled version over the top.

Play is gated on and off by a clock division, while the loop start is modulated by A149-1's n+1 out and the SoT's Pitch input is hit by a random gate from Branches to occasionally double the speed. The TS's wet output goes through uVCF's high pass into Wow and Flutter, to give a sense of lightness and space."

ribosomal 16s vs music thing radio

Published on Jun 19, 2015 littlem4tt

"Heres an OTT test of a Music Thing Radio. The Ribosomal 16s provides CV control of the Radio stations, in this case speeches from the free world. The Radio is triggered from a MFB drum sequencer.
Resistance is futile!"

Cymru Beats - First Modular Synth Meet in Wales Set for Saturday June 27

via Cymru Beats:

"We have some manufacturers coming, namely AJH Synth, Roland Aira modular and Entrospec

The event has been kindly supported by Erica Synths, Vermona, Expert Sleepers and Innerclock Systems.

Sonicstate.com will be there filming and doing a live blog. They will be running a competition to win an Expert Sleepers disting module.

Anyone signing up to our mailing list at www.cymrubeats.com before the event stands a chance to win a Vermona twin VCAmp. Winner will be announced at the event. There are also prizes from Erica Synths and Innerclock systems.

We also have evening performances from

VCOADSR
Somatic Responses
Adam John Williams"

Analog Ladies Coming to Robotspeak San Francisco this Saturday

via CatSynth:

"We have covered several of the Church of the Superserge shows at Robotspeak over the past year or so. And now I will be performing in one as part of a special Analog Ladies edition. It will be an afternoon of analog synthesizer madness featuring several of instrument’s most talented women: Jill Fraser, Mint Park, Amanda Chaudhary, Miss Moist, and 7H1NG2. It’s a casual BYOB event, so if you’re in San Francisco (or anywhere on the Bay Area transit grid) and free tomorrow afternoon, please drop by Robotspeak (589 1/2 Haight Street in SF) to hear us.

I will performing on my analog modular plus Moog Theremini, and probably wearing something with a feline theme. Here is a photo of the modular as I start to set up the initial patch for tomorrow’s set."

Roland Juno-60 Analog Synthesizer "Cold War"

Published on Jun 19, 2015 RetroSound

"(c) 2015 vintage synthesizer demo track by RetroSound

all synthesizer sounds: Roland Juno-60 Analog Synthesizer (1982)
drums: Roland TR-808
recording: multi-tracking without midi
fx: reverb and delay

We want no new cold war in europe!!!
who need tanks and rockets? only morons!"

The 1932 Rhythmicon - World's First Rhtyhm Machine

Uploaded on May 8, 2009

"Demonstration of the third version of Rhythmicom built by Leon Theremin at Moscow State Conservatory in early 1960-s. The first Rhythmicon was developed by Leon Theremin for Henry Cowell in 1932. It was the first rhythm machine ever built."

Spotted this one on BoingBoing. Via the Red Bull Acedemy where you'll find the full post:

"The Rhythmicon was never mass-produced. Only three models were ever made. One of them has been lost to the sands of time – depending on whom you ask, it was either tossed in the trash by a janitor at Columbia University or disposed of by staff at Stanford’s psychology department. Another model was last seen in storage at the Smithsonian Institution.

As for the third Rhythmicon – a Russian model built out of junk parts by Theremin in the mid-’60s – it’s currently in safe keeping at the Theremin Center of the Moscow Conservatory.
It’s a very nice noise machine.

Andrey Smirnov, an artist, curator and instrument collector, got his hands on this smaller, DIY version of the Rhythmicon and refurbished it in 2004. Speaking by Skype from his home in Moscow, he says the machine is still in working order, though it usually requires a tune-up before you turn it on. But like most Rhythmicon experts, he believes this contraption is more valuable for its novel mechanics than for its potential as an actual musical instrument.

'You can’t start the rhythm from the first measure. It’s always on,” he says, noting that it’d be highly impractical to perform with live. “It’s a very nice noise machine.'

The Rhythmicon is universally regarded as the world’s first drum machine, but technically it’s not a “drum” machine. As opposed to other early devices, like the Chamberlin Rhythmate (introduced in 1957) or the Wurlitzer Sideman (1959), it doesn’t play beats according to typical time signatures. Instead it offers up a series of complex rhythmic pulses, each playing at a different pitch and each corresponding to different ratios from the harmonic series."

noyzelab's David Burraston Releases T.H. CYCLE on Cassette & Digital Download

via noyzelab:

DAVID BURRASTON
T.H. CYCLE

SAUNA26 C35

Limited Edition Cassette

Now available at Important Records

recorded 26 may 2014 at noyzelab
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ultra-minimal digital modular chaotics setup recorded direct to 2 track

Digital available via Cassauna Bandcamp

Cassette also available at Mimaroglu Music & Forced Exposure.

Korg MR-16 SN 001114

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via this auction

"• Outputs: 16, plus main stereo output.

• Sounds: 19, plus metronome. Bass drum; Snare; Rim Shot; Low and Hi Toms; Closed and Open Hi-hat; Crash and Ride Cymbals; Hand Clap; Low and Hi Conga; Timbale; Tambourine; Cow bell; Woodblock; Cabasa; Low and Hi Agogo."