Roxy Music - Ladytron

YouTube via Marquee84.

"From Old Grey Whistle Test (1972)"

Brian Eno and the EMS VC3S aka Putney. Anyone know what Brian Ferry is playing?

The ARP 2600: Oscillators Part 4

YouTube via AutomaticGainsay. All parts here.
"Here is the fourth in a series of demonstrations of the sound and functionality of ARP 2600 oscillators. It is a thrill-a-minute joyride which will have you on the very edge of your seats!"

Inside the Korg Polysix. Analog synths with Storage

YouTube via sounddoctorin. via Nusonica.
"Bob Weigel of http://sounddoctorin.com goes over the layout of some of the more significant components in the Korg Polysix, a synthesizer which sold around 22,000 units produced from 1981 to 1983 or thereabouts. Korg simplified and cut cost in many ways on these units but they stand as one of the few fully analog (with a discrete VCO for each voice if not two) polyphonic synthesizers ever mass produced along with the Prophet 5/10, the Oberheim OBX, OBXa, and OB8, which had BOTH memory and full editing from the panel without toggling through menus etc. Later a MIDI retrofit was also introduced bringing this unit and a rather nice one I hear. Hopefully I can get mine working that I just purchased broken :-). That unit is not shown in this demo though. The MIDI board lays over the top of the CPU's and a connector actually goes into the cpu sockets and the cpu's set on the new MIDI retro board."

Hologlyphic_Volumetric_Synth

flickr by Hologlyphics

full size

"Portable Analog Modular Volumetric Video Synthesizer-

Patch programmable by 'patch wires', just wire with no cable. Synthesizes a multitude of hologram quality 3D moving images. The smallest synth of the Hologlyphics system.

Inspired by when Synthi-AKS met R2D2 and saw him holographically project Princess Leia."

http://www.hologlyphics.com/

RozzBox One V2 Drum and Bass Demo

YouTube via JSBasss, via the forum.
"Demonstration of the RozzBox One V2 polyphonic synthesizer by L.L.Electronics, performed live by Kilian Leonhardt. Featuring (among others) envelope follower, bit crusher, sample rate reduction.
Other gear used: Roland PMA-5 (sequencing and crappy piano sound), E-MU e64 (sample drums), Behringer Virtualizer (delay)."

Does Your Synth Have Whiskers?

"As I was working on my [Hammond] M-2 I had a good view of the tone wheel generator in bright lighting. I thought that the tone wheel generator chassis was dusty but instead it was covered in whiskers. Zinc whiskers are crystalline structures that grow in the shape of a thin hairs emerging outward from a zinc surface. Every metal surface of the tone wheel generator is covered."
More info including why here.

Prague Synthesizer Gathering

Remember these videos?
Both peteness and Tiracon wrote in with some more info.
via peteness:
"Thanks for adding my unpretentious YouTube videos from Prague. That was the meeting of czech/ slovak internet forum "Electrozone". Electrozone is interested in mixing, recording, FXs, synthesizers since 2002....... The biggest analog freak of us is Bodyia. See his site [Syntetizéry].

There was a first synth's meeting in Bratislava one year ago. Here is some pics from Prague a week ago."

via Tiracon:
"pictures from prague meeting:
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ew-ezonesraz-audiopro.jpg
ezoneaudiopro.zip (cca 15MB)

And all known vids on youtube:

Links to the individual vids: V-synth, Oasys, Promars, Microwave, -"-, Wavestation, Moogy, SH-09

Update: one more via petenesss
eZone sraz březen 2008

Studiologic NUMA

I'm guessing this is a MIDI controller keyboard only. Not much info on the Studiologic site. According to juri on the Waldorf list the physical design (think appearance) was designed by Axel Hartmann who also designed the Blofeld's look.

Axel Harmann also designed the look for the MOOG Little Phatty, Alesis Andromeda an other synths. He also of course produced the Hartmann Neuron.

BTW, if you know what synths he worked on, feel free to list them out in the comments. It would be interesting to know them all.

Mochika

flickr by kernelslacker
(click for more images)

Mochika from Atomo Labs

Keio (Korg) Mini Pops Junior drum-box by RetroSound

YouTube via retrosound72

"vintage drum machine demo by RetroSound

Keio Mini Pops Junior drum-box:
10 preset rhythm (Ballad, Cha Cha, Latin Beat, Rock 1, Polka, Waltz, Mambo, Bossa Nova, Rock 2, Fox Trot)

used by Trevor Horn (Buggles)"