Des choses et d'autres - New Video Blog by deb8076

deb8076 of Chroniques de la Mao just launched a new blog, Des choses et d'autres, which will feature videos. So far he has a performance by Soft Machine and some killer Synthi AKS videos on YouTube. I'll be putting up a post on the Synthi vids with tomorrow's set of posts in a bit, but if you want to see them before then, check out deb8076's new blog. Via deb8076 in the comments of this post.

Warning - Hongkongsupersellers

I've been hearing a lot of bad things about hongkongsupersellers, suppliers of ICs and other parts. Title link takes you to the latest on GetLoFi. Here's a bit from somone on AH who wishes to remain anonymous. Consider yourself warned. Chipsforbrains on the other hand is apparently all good.

"This guy sells a lot of out-of-production IC's on E-bay, I've seen him offer SSM filter chips & 4096-stage BBD IC's. The latter is what I got screwed on, it seems he's selling counterfeit (knock-off's) MN3005 & MN3205's........what I got was a 2048-stage BBD (still in production & cheap to buy) that had been relabled as a MN3205 (discontinued). What's worse, I've let him know they are counterfeits & about to send 'em back for a refund, but he is still selling them....so he's got no scrupples.

Both the MN3205 & MN3005's look fake comparing them to the panasonic chips I've got & Chip4brains stock. He's sold a bunch of them already (in sets of 10), so I'm sure a lot of folks are gonna be pissd off."

Kelly Osbourne Synth Tattoo?

According to Music Thing, Kelly Ozbournes has this synth tattoo. Title link takes you to the post. Hmm... Someone tell her about my blog! : )

Rudiger Lorenz

loran modular
formant modular
terzvocoder
analog sequencer
frequency shifter

Title link takes you there.

ELP Tribute: Modular Sunth - New Flickr Shot

flickr by poligraf.

Dewanatron Birdhouse

Two shots of the Dewanatron pulled from this electro-music.com post, which came from the Dewanatron site. I bet Thomas Dolby would like these.

Title link takes you to Dewanatron.

"Dewanatron: a family of instruments which hazard unpredictable behaviors and self playing tendencies. They make all previous and future instruments obsolete."

Modded Roland TR-606

Via mono-poly in the comments of this post.

"I got a modification done with my tr-606 and i am really happy with it.
My 606 got now trigger outputs for all sounds. And trigger leds to show witch chanels get triggerd. Now the days i use the 606 most times to clock my analogue sequencers and other stuff witch use trigger sources. It also got the the modification wit the noise output from the hihat circuit i am really happy with it!

link

There i am using it to controll a wiard sequantizer and vco i just got. and made quickly a little demo with it.

Here are some pics of just the 606
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I am really thinking about another one because i could use more 5 volt triggers. And perhaps i want a module to control the gate time."

Update via Rogo in the comments:
"Check out http://www.numberofthebeast.org/ as well. Julian is a very nice guy and his mods are awesome"

I also put up a post a bit ago here.

Tanz Dandy - A6 Demo

Title link takes you there. Via this post on HC.

"SFX Pro, Space Designer were accomplices."

DJ Shakey on One Blue Monkey

Some Ableton Live action via the Warper Party. Title link takes you to the video on One Blue Monkey.

Ableton Live rules for live play.

The First ARP 2500

You are looking at the first ARP 2500. It's home is at the New England Synthesizer Museum in Nashua, New Hampshire. I was fortunate enough to actually see it in person a couple of years ago. It was an amazing experience, standing in front of it, realizing what it is. I took a few shots including this one. Title link will take you to them including a much larger version of this one. Also note the SYNTHE license plate on top. : )

What is just as amazing is how Dave Hillel Wilson, the curator of the museum, acquired it. There are amazing deals and then there is this... But don't feel to bad, as you will see, somehow karma has a way of balancing things, but somehow I think Dave still came out ahead. : )

"Many years ago a man tried to sell an ARP 2500 to Daddy's Junky Music in Nashua, New Hampshire. They didn't want it, so they referred him to me. I looked at it and was afraid to offer too little; I offered $500 US. He was expecting to get $50 for it, so he was so happy he threw in his gray meanie 2600 as well. Later Alan R. Pearlman confirmed that this 2500 was the first ever made.

Best purchase I didn't make - I looked at a Buchla Music Easel (before I knew much, but after I thought I new everything) and said it wasn't as good as an ARP Axxe. The guy offered it to me for $400 US dollars and I said no. Boy have I made some stupid mistakes in my lifetime!! (Some guy bought it for 400, turned right around and sold it to a dealer for $1200, who sold it to someone in Europe for $2400, so it's long gone)."

- David Hillel Wilson
Curator
New England Synthesizer Museum
_DWilSynth[]aol.com
_www.synthmuseum.com/nesm

Update: a few more pics below. Note David Hillel Wilson passed away in 2010.