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Arak and Legion

Legion sent me this funny video of his cats going at it. I noticed one of his cats looked like a black bombay. My cat JD is also a black cat and he's hasn't been doing too well lately. I mentioned the video reminded me of a younger more energetic JD to Legion and he said he knows the feeling. He lost his main bud, Arak. I asked him if I could ask a few questions as my wife and I were weighing options with JD. Legion was cool enough to oblige and I thank him for that. The picture in this post is a shot of legion and Arak. This post goes out to the pets that tolerate our habits. : ) Cheers Arak, and thanks Legion.

The SMS Yeti

There are some interesting updates on the SMS 2000 in the comments of this post as well as this HC thread. Entertaining stuff if you don't take all of this too seriously. I don't. Apparently all shots of the SMS 2000 have been saved with Photoshop 5 and have the same RGB profile as an image recently posted by Elhardt. Smoking gun?

Yeti shot by pizzamon. Good work pizzamon. : )

Another good one by mgd below.

JMJ Revolutions Performed by Carlos Feijão on YouTube

Sakata DPM48

Shots and details pulled from this auction.

"Very nice condition cool sounding 80's drum machine with volume sliders, lots of knobs and individual outputs. It comes with its original box. A rare item, it sounds retro and dirty...looks oldschool, it has no optical damage whatsoever. The sequence module is included with this auction. Sync this to a analog synth and you are in electro heaven"

If anyone knows more about this drum machine, please post in the comments. This one in via Rasmus A. Nyaaker.

Update via Roberto in the comments: More on the Sakata DPM48.

Update via hinotori mortal in the comments:

"hi
i am the proud owner of 2 of the DPM-48 drum machines.
they were originally made by SAKATA a company which, to my knowledge, only ever produced this machine. . . its design and name were then bought out by HAMMOND, and hammond produced this machine for a short time. . . before they decided their leap into the world of drummachines was a waste. . .largely due to the painfully high price that hammond were marketing them at.... . the machine was then marketed by JUGGBOX.
they are EPROM based drum machines and are incredibly incredibly difficult to use without a manual .
i have a copy of the manual in japanese. . and this helps a little. . but if anyone has the manual in english please let me know . . . :)

the only person i have heard of using this machine was prince .

it has an amazing sound to it, if you love the LINNDRUM / DMX / DRUMULATOR . .
very punchy lo resolution hip hop sounds .

i have another version of this machine loaded with the "electronic drum set"

as there is little information about this machine anywhere, im unsure as to wether the "electronic" version was actually produced by JUGGBOX or by yet another company . .

it is easily synced to my tr606, having a din sync in and out i chain them together in serial .

there is currently a midified version of this machine on an auction site in japan going for around 500 GBP.

!!!!!!!

i will put images of my DPM48s onto my flickr account for those whoare interested.

if you want the DPM sounds without the hardware then they are included in NOSTALGIA . in the "rare beat boxes" section . . . of course ;) "

elegant people - weather report on YouTube

Some Oberheim 4 voice, ARP 2600, Rhodes and more, although only the Rhodes seems to get the action in this performance. Via Pete.

Bruce Haack

Remember Bruce Haack and The King of Techno? Title link takes you to some audio of Bruce Haack's work courtesy of Pete.

Cooper Black in the Moog Documentary

flickr by sealine76. I just like this shot for some reason. More on Edd Kalehoff here. Anyone know what documentary this was from? I don't remember it from the current one for some reason.

Update via Max Kalehoff in the comments:
"It originally was from a Schaefer beer commercial, which featured my dad, Edd Kalehoff, playing the Moog. I recently wrote a post on it here: link."

I remember this from the recent documentary now. There was a clip from the beer commercial.

mdn303 - New Flickr Set

mdn303 just posted a buttload of synth shots on flickr. There are some really nice ones in this set. Title link takes you there.

Coagula - Industrial Strength Color-Note Organ

"Coagula is an image synth. This means that it is both a program for creating and manipulating images, and a program for generating sound from those images. You can use Coagula to generate rich and complex synth sounds. There are special drawing tools to help you create the pictures." Title link takes you there. Via Doktor Future in the comments of this post:

"I have solved the Buchla problem. Get Coagula, which can make music from a JPEG. Load the Buchla JPEG into Coagula, and hear the Buchla MP3. Finally we can hear MP3's of even retro synths too precious to record and share, or imaginary synths that don't even exist.

Thanks Coagula!"

Update via Brian Comnes in the comments:
"Well FruityLoops softare has had a picture to sound conversion tool for several years....stick in a shot of Pamela Anderson and you hear Kid Rock howling at the moon ....whether or not that is Buchla-like is another matter"