Livewire AFG

One more shot of the AFG. I just really like this shot. BTW, if you haven't checked out the Livewire site yet, do it. The AFG sounds amazing. Be sure to check out the feature set in full. This is an oscillator on steroids.

The following is a short excerpt:
"Harmonic Animation
The Harmonic Animation section of the AFG controls the harmonic content of the Animated Pulses & Alien Saws waveforms.

The Animated Pulses waveform is synthesized by four control parameters, each having a manual adjustment knob and CV input with dedicated attenuator:

* Positive Pulse Width Modulation (+PWM) –
controls the width of the two pulses on the top (or positive) side of the waveform
* Negative Pulse Width Modulation (-PWM) –
controls the width of the two pulses on the bottom (or negative) side of the waveform
* Positive Phase Position Modulation (+PPM) –
controls the relative phase position of the two positive pulses (in relation to each other)
* Negative Phase Position Modulation (-PPM) –
controls the relative phase position of the two negative pulses (in relation to each other)

The Alien Saws output is a bizarre, multi-toothed saw waveform that is derived from the Animated Pulses waveform. It’s harmonic content is also synthesized by the four control parameters of the Harmonic Animation section, but in different and more enigmatic ways. "

follow-up to this post.

Sam Hoshuyama's Unusual Synthesizer Circuits

Unusual Synthesizer Circuits

via Scott S in the comments of this post

New Serge Demos via Cebec

click here for the new ones, and don't miss this for the rest.

follow-up to this post.

synthi-e

click here for a flickr set sent my way via jan.

I asked jan if the EMS Synthi-E was more yellow or orange color in person. He said, "more orangeish. but extremely good quality (except the slider keybaord, but i'll try to get replacement) "

Pondular demo

YouTube via ofrecordings. You might remember Pondular from this post last year.
"A demo of Pondular, a soft synth with an interactive, physics-based animated interface. You can download Pondular for free at http://www.pondular.com/"

Synth fun

YouTube via raulin. Kind of makes you wonder what things would be like if the Guitar turned out to be the de facto synth controller instead of the keyboard.
"Me, playing whatever came to my mind on my Fernandes Strat and a Roland GR-09 Synth"

ARP ODYSSEY - Vintage Analog Synthesizer by RetroSound

YouTube via retrosound72

"ARP Odyssey Mark III, triggered by the SCI Pro-One internal sequencer and sync with the Roland TR-606 drum machine

demo of various VCF and ADSR-envelope settings, Ringmodulation, Sync, FM, PWM and more"

MESSE08: A Quick Sherman

See the write-up on Sonic State.

MESSE08: A Korg Synth In Your Pocket

See the write-up on Sonic State.

Acxel II Preliminary PDF

Richard Lainhart was interested in the new Acxel Resynthesizer after reading this post. If you go to the new Acxel website, iDarca Audio, you will see a link to get more info where you can request a brochure. Richard did so and sent it my way. I wasn't going to put it up because I thought maybe Pierre Guilmette, the man behind the project would like to gage interest by having the requests come in, however what's out of site can become out of mind. I was interested myself but I was swamped so I was going to hold off until later, which probably meant indefinitely or until some news came in on the project. I was very happy when Richard sent me the PDF, because I was able to look at it in more detail. I thought I'd do the same for you. here it is

This really does look to be an amazing synthesizer. Some notes on the original from Richard:
"The original Acxel I saw demoed 20 years ago was an amazing machine, with a unique interface I've never seen equaled. It was much too expensive then for someone like me, but these prices seem pretty reasonable now - comparable to a Kyma system. If they can get the functionality of the original system and its interface at these prices (looks like around $5-6K, perhaps, and they're talking about a touchscreen interface for the rack system version too), it could be a hit, and a genuinely new paradigm in the synth world."