The Secret Life of Synthesizers

The Secret Life of Synthesizers (TSLOS for short) is a blog by Craig Sue & Steve Jones. The site hosts an incredible amount of content on each individual synth featured, including hi-res pics of both the externals and internals, and how to properly care for them. Currently you'll find the Roland Juno-106, EHX Mini Synth, KORG PS-3300, Minimoog Model D, Sequential Circuits Pro-One, Yamaha CS-80, and the KORG 35 Filter. TSLOS are also synth techs, located in Sydney Australia, so if you need work done, contact them. The following is the intro from their site:

"Welcome to our blog about the inner world of electronic music synthesizers. This is a site for those who use and love vintage electronic musical instruments or who are interested in joining the community of people who are continuing the legacy of creating music using these machines. TSLOS is run by Steve Jones and Craig Sue at our service centre in Sydney, Australia.

The purpose of this blog is to take you inside these synthesizers with little photo essays detailing the inner workings of the vintage instruments that we use ourselves and that come through our restoration workshop. The posts will provide a little technical information without being too nerdy, the idea being to provide a photographic tour under the hood of each synthesizer with insights into how and why they work and sound as they do. If you are into vintage synths and have wondered what things such as Curtis chips and Moog ladder filters actually look like, Why a CS-80 weighs 100 kilo’s or why a Roland MKS-80 is most definitely not a 'Jupiter 8 in a rack' then our blog will show you.

With each post we will also work to demystify issues around reliability and servicing, buying, tuning and maintaining these instruments in the hope that it will help you to achieve the satisfaction that comes from playing a perfectly working synthesizer that is a part of the history of electronic music. Tap or click on the images for a larger view!"

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Euclidean Sequences

Published on Sep 20, 2016 Oren Levy

"Frames Parasite in Euclidean Sequence mode driving Tides (Sheep), 2 X uBraids, going into Rings and Elements, with some clouds, Terminals, Wogglebug, and 606"

Modular on the Roof - Improvising with Eurorack Modular Outdoors

Published on Sep 20, 2016 pyrofiliac

Playlist:
1. Modular on the Roof - Improvising with Eurorack Modular Outdoors
2. Modular on the Roof 2 - Dreadbox Erebus and Intellijel Atlantis sequenced with Korg SQ1
3. Modular on the Roof 3 - Colin Benders (Kyteman)
4. Modular on the Roof 4 - Myles Avery
5. Modular on the Roof 5 - Nick Kwas (W A N D E R T A L K)
6. Modular on the Roof 6: Sean Krames
7. Modular on the Roof 7 - Federico Chiesa (Oora)
8. Modular on the Roof Episode 8: Simone Pomposi [Pianosa]
9. Modular on the Roof 9: Collin Crowe
10. Modular on the Roof 10: Bubba Ayoub [Juggable Offense]

Tiptop Audio: Mantis (Eurorack modular synthesizer cases)

Tiptop Audio: Mantis (Eurorack modular synthesizer cases) from Tiptop Audio on Vimeo.

Here they are. We got a glimpse of them in this 360° video, followed by the cool Mantis art yesterday. We now have full details. Note these come in at only 3kg/6.5lb. Update: the price? $335.

www.tiptopaudio.com

Music by ANGLE

www.angleproject.net

"With Mantis we took our years of experience with Eurorack to create a low cost case that makes the Eurorack modular synthesizer look, work, and feel like a professional instrument. Mantis is an instrument that is at home on stage, touring or in the center of the studio.

Mantis has two rows of 104HP for you to rack your modules. It comes fully powered and assembled, just drop in your modules and play.

Using its sophisticated leg mechanism you can set it to three different positions: 0, 45, 90 degrees.

Power Power and more Power! With Mantis say bye bye to the tedious, never-ending calculation of current consumption for the ±12V power. Mantis comes with a juicy Zeus power supply that delivers plenty of power both now and for the future.

Mantis is beautiful and the color contrast between legs and body gives it its identity. Legs are offered in 4 different colors so anyone can find the right look.

Mantis does not come with loose sliding nuts in aluminum extrusions or rails with wrong mounting holes. Mantis is easy to operate because it comes with real Z-Rails according to Eurorack enclosure standards. It also comes with keyed power connectors to help protect your modules from burning by plugging power in reverse.

Mantis is easy to move around with, it weighs only 3kg/6.5lb, with a case so light traveling had never been so relaxed."

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Pittsburgh Modular In-Store Presentation at Perfect Circuit Audio

Published on Sep 20, 2016 Perfect Circuit Audio

"Richard Nicol & Michael Johnsen present the Pittsburgh Modular Product Line and new Lifeforms module at the Perfect Circuit Audio store in Burbank, CA.

Michael Johnsen's performance video coming soon."

http://www.perfectcircuitaudio.com

Update:

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Wake by mudlogger

Wake by mudlogger from mudlogger on Vimeo.

Live improvisation using Buchla Easel

instagram - http://instagram.com/mlogger

vine - https://vine.co/u/1012919210692796416

soundcloud - http://soundcloud.com/mudlogger

modular magazine - http://flip.it/I7jHq

Synth Stories 005 - Portishead's Adrian Utley - SOS & Minimoog

"Portishead's Adrian Utley explains and demonstrates why he loves the special sound of the Minimoog analog synthesizer and how he used it in the creation of the recent Portishead cover of ABBA's SOS."

You can find the write-up for this episode with some pics on Ask.Audio here.

The following is a playlist for all episodes of Synth Stories to date:



For those on the go, you can grab a podcast on iTunes here.

Double Harmonic Major Scale

Published on Sep 20, 2016 Ebotronix

4ms Peg, QCD/Expander² , QPLFO, VCA Matrix
Analogue Systems RS 100², RS 110²², RS 360²
Arp Odyssey 2821 white noise
Bananalogue Serge VCS
Doepfer R 2m², A101-2, A131², A133², A134²² , A143,2
A151²², A152, A156², A160, A175²²², A185-2(12x), A138m,a²²b²²c²²²
Flame 4 Vox, Arpeggiator, Q Slider², Tame Machine
foh choices
Make Noise Brains ,Pressure Points², Maths², Moddemix², Optomix, QMMG, René, Wogglebug²
Malekko Anti ²², Unkle²², Jag
Moog Taurus 2, Freqbox²², MP 201
SSL Modulation Orgy
Tip Top Audio Z 8000
Toppobrillo Quantimator² (Double Harmonic Major ) Sportmodulator, TWF
Logic masterclock to Kenton Pro 2000
FX : Boss VF-1, Lexicon MX 400
mackie the mixer²
drum Ultrabeat
vid #1598

Makenoise Rene Eurorack Sequencer

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"A modern classic. Spotless condition, run off aTipTop powerbus it's whole life."

Expert Sleepers Eurorack: ES3/ES6 & USB streamer

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"Only a few months old & spotless. Connect your computer via USB to your Euro. This is the full kit for output/input including the MinDSP USB interface. Two nice chunky lightpipe cables as well (the ones that ship with the interface are pretty bad).

Edit: Because it's just audio io: MacOS (10.9/10.10) no extra drivers are needed (uses CoreAudio). Windows: ASIO driver provided on disc...

I'd advise reading this quick tutorial.

The MiniDSP/ES combo can also play out/capture audio to/from your modular (just choose what you want a lightpipe channel to do...) - It's a pretty flexible setup."

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