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Boards of Canada sound on Arp Odyssey | Vox Humana sound on Roland JP-8000

Published on Jan 30, 2016 Mistaken For Robots

"Having a go at making a BoC sound on my Korg Arp Odyssey analogue synth"

And super short but nevertheless cool:

Vox Humana sound on Roland JP-8000

Published on Apr 3, 2016 Mistaken For Robots

"Recreation of Polymoog preset Vox Humana on Roland JP-8000"

STEIM Cracklebox | 2005 edition #287 of 500

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"From the STEIM Website, by way of introduction:

'Welcome to the world of Crackle.

Michel Waisvisz designed and built the very first Crackle circuit in the late 60ties together with Geert Hamelberg. This was simply a wooden frame with some print boards mounted rear-side up to be touched by the fingers. The circuits were ‘malformed’ oscillators that were very unstable and highly sensitive for finger connections. The Crackle circuit, as well as the powered speaker box, were battery powered to avoid hum and repeated exposure to dangerous electrical shocks. In 1973 Michel Waisvisz joined STEIM and started working on more touchable electronic instruments together with Peter Beyls, Nico Bes and Johan den Biggelaar, and by the mid-seventies they had created both the ‘Crackle Synth’ and the ‘Crackle Box’...'

I bought this item from STEIM in 2005 when I was in a band, doing this kind of stuff. I'm not anymore but I do need cash to pay the rent, so I'm going to let this delightful and crazy machine go to someone who'll use it for what it's meant for, which is making weird electronic music.

The cracklebox is a beautiful thing. The wooden case feels amazing in the hand, and this example, mine, is in perfect nick. I treasured it and kept it safe from knocks or scratches. The playing surface is so tactical. Anyone who sees it, has to touch it. And anyone who touches it, smiles when they do as it responds to every nuance of movement. Now, I used to mic this up and run it through an ableton channel - I've seen folks add an audio out for a 100% wet line, I always meant to do that but never did, it worked just fine in the air - this cracklebox is 100% original and unmodded. It's lovely the way it's meant to be.

It's also 100% functional. It takes a little learning what that means; the cracklebox is a strange beast, but she'll reward your investment and give you back more than you give.

If you're looking for a way to set yourself apart, then this box will turn heads wherever and however you play it."

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Sonica #269 of 650 by Frank Eventoff of Serge 1979

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"Much has been written online about this unique, rare, beautiful piece of electronic music history.

Sonica #257 sold at Bonhams auction house in 2011 for £2,671. Thats a lot, but like a Minimoog, this instrument is WORTH that much money. It's so beautiful.

I'm not going to copy and paste other people's words here. OK, just two links:

Some Sonica Info (matrixsynth.blogspot.com)

History of the Sonica (alsrecordsandtapes.com)"

And of course, check out the Sonica label at the bottom of this post for more.

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Hexinverter Orbitals Eurorack Synthesizer Module

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"Orbitals is a 42HP Eurorack analogue step-sequencer that offers a lot of useful features in a very playable and affordable sequencing package. Of all the features offered by this design, perhaps the most interesting are bipolar output modes as well as the voltage controlled step select features.

There are two different modes of voltage controlled step addressing: In both modes, the step is selected from a 0-4V control voltage (in 8 step mode, each step is in 0.5V increments. 0.25V increments for 16 steps then, of course):

Mode 1: Voltage Control (clocked)

In this mode, it works somewhat like a sample and hold. That is, the step only updates and generates a new gate/CV based on the input control voltage each time a new clock pulse is received. That is, the voltage control of steps is slaved to the clock source you input. If the voltage stays the same, but it keeps clocking, you'll get the same CV and gate each time the clock input pulses.

Mode 2: Voltage Control (quantized)

This mode differs from mode 1 in that it is not clock-driven. The clock input for the sequencer basically does nothing in this mode, and instead, each time the input CV steps into a new voltage increment, the sequencer will go to the relative step and generate a new CV and gate for that step. In this way, it basically derives a clock from whatever CV source you input. If you are using a ramp wave to generate a linear sequence with CV, and you increase the frequency of the ramp wave LFO, your sequence speed will automatically follow along with it."

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