"If you have a hardware MIDI interface and external hardware synths, you can send the MIDI data from MIDIBridge to your external gear, or receive MIDI data from your external gear and use it to control the cubes’ colours. For example, you could use an Elektron Machinedrum, and control its patterns using the AudioCubes, as well as its effects, and at the same time receive the MIDI clock from the machinedrum and use it to control the colours of the cubes, for example to display the beat using a flash of red light. If you happen to play in a band other people can visually sync to the colour pattern. In MIDIBridge, you can select per cube a MIDI input and output port, so you could use one cube with a hardware synth while using another with software on your computer through a virtual MIDI port." You can find the full article here. via twitter.com/bschiett
"Many people consider the Image Synth to be the heart of MetaSynth. The presentations on this page will introduce you to Image Synth "Basics" as well as demonstrate some of the extraordinary sounds that the Image Synth makes possible.
The Image Synth is a composition and sound design environment where you paint music and sound.It is not a soft-synth or synth plug-in."
YouTube via timtsang3. via twitter.com/TaraBusch "What can you do with a single note/sound? Besides its legendary tone, the Moog Synthesizer is known for its monophonic nature - the ability to produce only 1 note at a time. Therefore, the goal of The Moogist is to "think outside the box" with this certain limitation - whatever it takes - to make beautiful music with this amazing machine/instrument.
"Moogist Talks" A short film by Tim Tsang, a.k.a. "The Moogist" August 2009
*Moogist plays the "Minimoog Voyager Electric Blue" Picture of Voyager taken by Wowee Posadas
Blurry, but when is the last time you've seen an ARP 2600 in a bathtub. Bottom shot is the inside of a 2600. via twitter.com/SynthMiK Update: all clean below.
video description:
"Official music video for Acid Symphony Orchestra - Diamonds Of The Night.
Directed by Jori Hulkkonen & Jani Lehto, 2009.
Taken from the forthcoming Acid Symphony Orchestra 12" on Turbo recordings.
The Acid Symphony Orchestra live perfomances feature 10 Roland TB-303 bassline synthesizers, one TR-707 or a TR-808 drummachine and personnel to operate them.
Composer and conductor:
Jori Hulkkonen
The Orchestra:
Juha Matinmäki
Aku "Huoratron" Raski
Kalle Karvanen
Jussi-Pekka "Monoder" Parikka
Janne "Burdock" Puurunen
Tatu "Mr Velcro Fastener" Peltonen
Kimmo "Acid Kings" Oksanen
Pete "Sintetik" Salonen
Tuomas Toivonen
Johannes "TinMan" Auvinen"
The case for these are books. Click the images to get a better look. You can find more shots and info at the Folktek Arts blog.
The top is the previous version and the bottom is the new. The bottom has a magnetic patch bay - no plugging required. It's by Ben Houston and based on the bug/philanthropoid series.
"This is a relative of the OBXA. The pros are the MIDI and the fact that the OB8 has a killer Arpeggiator. Both of which the OBXA did not. I have both an OBXA and this OB8. The OB8 sounds a little more Hi-Fi and elegant than the OBXA... cleaner like an Xpander. I've always found myself using the two as two different sources. I'd never say one is better than the other."