Korg EX8000 - New Flickr Shot

Shot by Frisch & Ramires.

New Shots on the Wavemakers Site

John Liffink put up two new shots up on the Wavemakers site. Click on the Next Page link when you get there to see the second shot. I found the shots look better when saved locally and shrunk down a little.



Update via the comments:

chris said...
Have a listen to the MP3's, they are top shelf modular sounds !!!

Microcontrolers and the Milton 2 Model 21 Prototype

Peter Grenader of EAR and Buzzclick Music posted the following on AH.



"What you're looking at, while not yet complete, is operationally equivalent
to the Milton 1 engine board. Actually there are a few added features over
it's predecessor...with a ten of the componentry/cost and about a third of
the real estate (and this includes a host of parts which will not be
required on the final incarnation, such as the power supply, the 555
timer/trim pot we've slapped on here to facilitate an incoming clock and the
dummy voltage source - the large Alpha pot - for testing the VC direction).

You gotta love microprocessors!

Sorry for the quality of the photo, Regardless, I think it shows the 'big
picture' pretty clearly. Note that stage three is lit - although the light
blew out in this exposure."

- P

Mitchell Sigman - Celebutante and Berlin

Mitchell Sigman, keyboard player for Berlin, sent me some shots. Pretty cool as I grew up on Berlin, specifically Pleasure Victim, with Metro being my favorite track. The year was 1982.

Mitchell also has his own project, called Celebutante. Check out this video for some ARP Odyssey, Moog Polymoog, and green on black retro monitor action - gotta like that. Mitchell Sigman is on guitar and vocals. The video features both beauties on the left. Who is that btw? I sent Mitchell an email asking, but haven't heard back yet. Update: Her name is Diana Dencker. She's done a few commercials.

Title link takes you to Mitchell's My Space site. Make sure to check it out. I'm listening to the track Electrolux as I type this and there is some good Polymoog action happening on that track. BTW, definitely flattered Mitchell lurks on my site. Pretty cool... Thanks Mitchell. : )


Update: Udpate via Mitchell in the comments:
"Actually every synth in that song is either Logic Audio's ES2 or Native Instruments Pro-53 (except for the little square wave lead after the chorus which is Logic ES1). I swear it's true. If I fooled everyone with the Polymoog, well, cool, that was the idea (the strings are all ES2)." Nice. That definitely sounded like a Polymoog to me.

Links:
www.myspace.com/celebutantemusic
www.celebutantemusic.com
www.berlinpage.com
shots

The Sequential Circuits Pro-One Annotated Manual

Title link takes you there.

Analog Synth Record Collection

Check out this auction list while it's up. There is a slew of old analog synth records. I saved off the album covers, titles and any details given for each; title link takes you to one monster htm file. I listed the albums below as well for anyone that wants to search for them in the future.



-Moog Synthesizer, The Essential, Perrey & Kingsley
-Moog Synthesizer, Moog Indigo by Jean Jacques Perrey
-Amazing New Sound of Jean Jacques Perrey
-Spotlight on the Moog; Kaleido-scopic vibrations
-The in sound from way out, Perrey - Kingsley
-First Moog Quartet by Gershon Kingsley
-Yankee Transdoodle; ARP 2600 + Obenheim equipt.
-Giorgio; 1977, exclusively electronic keyboards
-It's about time, Tonto
-White Noise / An Electric Storm
-Plugged in Joplin, Minimoog and EMS Synthi AKS, 1974
-Firebird by Isao Tomita
-Ragnarok; Electronic funk by Paul Beaver and Bernard L. Krause
-Skylab; Electronic butterflies play instrumental hits
-Electronic Music for Jean Dubuffet's Coucou Bazar by Ilhan Mimaroglu
-All Good Men by Beaver and Krause
-Beyond the sun, the planets Patrick Gleason and the Eu Polyphonic Synth
-Electric Love Moog synthesizer and strings
-Good morning Starshine with Moog synth by Tartaglia
-Mother Mallards Portable Masterpiece Co recorded at R.A. Moog !
-Short Circuits by Ruth White / Moog Synthesizer
-Moog synthesizer album, Everything you always wanted to hear on the Moog but were afraid to ask
-Music to Moog by Gershon and Kingsley
-Quadradisc Highlights - quadraphonic record album
-Electronic Hair Pieces Mort Garson with Moog synthesizer
-Copper Plated Integrated Circuit - 1969
-Switched On Gershwin - Moog synthesizer
-White Noise 2 David Vorhaus, 1975, Concerto for synth
-Popcorn Gershon Kingsley's First Moog Quartet
-Apollo 100 Masterpieces includes Popcorn
-Hot Butter with Stan Free at the Moog synthesizer
-Realistic Life Mechanical Sound Effects record album
-Flowers Of Evil

WintherStormer

Ran into this one on Moogulator. Some nice gear shots here. Title link takes you to the WintherStormer music page with some samples. Check out the ahs grey wood/finish on this mini.

Update via the comments:
Mmm.. that's not a grey finish on the mini. :)
It's a mini that I built and is covered with temperature sensetive liquid crystal paint.
When it's black or grey like that, it's outside its color range.

Fusion Updates on Synthwire

Make sure to check on Carbon111's updates on Synthwire. Title link takes you there.

Synth Credit Cards

Yep. Title link takes you to more. Hmm... The Matrixsynth logo on black would look pretty sweet.



Via Dennis Verschoor (btw, nice blog!).

Catgirl Synth - Modular DIY

Title link takes you to Ken Stone's Modular Synthesizer site.

"It is a collection of notes, circuit diagrams and stories about the creation of my modular synthesizer, the "Catgirl Synth" as it has been dubbed by others. This synthesizer is mostly analog, and is based on the 1 volt per octave standards set by Moog."

Via ben shannon illustrator.

McDSP Emerald Pack

Saw this one on Sonic State News. $2395 for everything they make. Wonder if it's worth it.

Moog Movie Screening and Exhibit

Looks like someone on HC made it to the the Moog Tribute Movie Screening and Exhibit. Title link takes you to the post with pictures and thoughts. This has to be one of the coolest ideas in the synth world ever. What a cool way to appreciate what Bob left us.

ARP Odyssey MkIII Shots

via this auction

One pretty "interesting" detail below; well to me at least. : )

Details from auction:

"Reconditioned by Than Muir, this rare & classic synth is in immaculate condition, cosmetically and functionally. Serial # 2825 0005. The Odyssey is a duo-phonic, fully analog synth developed in the 1970's. It is a simplified, non-modular yet more gig-able version of their famous 2600 modular mono-synth (sharing many of the same components). This is the mark 3 version, distinguishable by its orange and black facia detailing. It is considered the superior revision of the Odyssey for its sound (-24db filter), technical capability, reliability and service-ablity (see: http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2006/01/why-white-arp-odyssey-is-not-always.html). Includes colour spiral-bound copy of user manual and patch sheets. Electronic copy of service manual also available. Famous users include ABBA, Depeche Mode, Bomb The Bass, Ultravox, Gary Numan, Vince Clark, LTJ Bukem, Air, Tangerine Dream, 808 State, Apollo 440, Nine Inch Nails, Astral Projection, Chick Corea, George Duke, Josef Zawinul, John Foxx, Vangelis, Elton John, Jethro Tull, Jimmy Edgar, DEVO, R.E.M. and Herbie Hancock. Please don't hesitate to contact me for more info. Includes colour spiral-bound copy of user manual and patch sheets. Electronic copy of service manual also available. Famous users include ABBA, Depeche Mode, Bomb The Bass, Ultravox, Gary Numan, Vince Clark, LTJ Bukem, Air, Tangerine Dream, 808 State, Apollo 440, Nine Inch Nails, Astral Projection, Chick Corea, George Duke, Josef Zawinul, John Foxx, Vangelis, Elton John, Jethro Tull, Jimmy Edgar, DEVO, R.E.M. and Herbie Hancock. Please don't hesitate to contact me for more info."

Yep, my first "reference" on the *bay. That shot of Pete pretty much captured my reaction when I saw it. And no, I don't mind being referrenced to one bit.

BBC Radio's The Sound Hunter and the ANS Machine

Fascinating. The ANS was developed by Russian engineer Evgeny Murzin from 1937 - 1957. You draw on the surface to produce sounds similar to a theremin. The worlds first touch interface? Title link takes you to the BBC session. For more on the ANS, see Wikipedia. Also check out The Moscow Altermedium Electronic Music Festival. Via this post on electro-music.com.



Update via the comments:

"Coil did a full album using nothing but the ANS, well worth checking out.

More info here: http://thresholdhouse.greedbag.com/release/~ans/"

100_5083 - New Flickr Shots

And more by gentle bakemono.

Arp service manuals

Arp model 2600-2606
Arp model 3620 keyboard

These were put up by Dennis Verschoor. He plans to put others up as well. Thanks Dennis!

Yamaha CS15 - Shots and Demos

Title link takes you there. Via Jordan Gibson. This one is for sale, more details after the hop.

GameBoy case 6 oscillator thinger-ma-bob

On GetLoFi. Title link takes you there.

Sintetizador de chocolate - New Flickr Shot

Have your synth and eat it too. Shot by sepugirl.

Marimba Lumina

I just really like this shot. I ran into it checking out Dr. Future's gallery again.

Emulator X2 on One Blue Monkey

Title link takes you there. Video link under date, under title. Good demo by EMU.

Welcome To Mars

Via Simon James. Details below. Title link takes you to the podcast where Program 1 is available. Upcoming dates below.



WELCOME TO MARS

1947-1959

Ken Hollings presents a live twelve-part series of unscripted reflections on the fantasy of science in the early years of the American Century
With electronic sound production by Simon James


Between 1947 and 1959, the future was written about, discussed and analysed with such confidence that it became a tangible presence. This is a story of weird science, strange events and even stranger beliefs, set in an age when the possibilities for human development seemed almost limitless.

Programme 1: 1947: Rebuilding Lemuria
Broadcast live on Resonance FM, 3.30pm, March 1, 2006
Repeated 10.00pm, March 3, 2006

Programme 2: 1948-49: Flying Saucers Over America
Broadcast live on Resonance FM, 3.30pm, March 8, 2006
Repeated 10.00pm, March 10, 2006
Programme 3: 1950: Cheapness and Splendour
Broadcast live on Resonance FM, 3.30pm, March 15, 2006
Repeated 10.00pm, March 17, 2006

Part Four: 1951: Absolute Elsewhere
Broadcast live on Resonance FM, 3.30pm, March 22, 2006
Repeated 10.00pm, March 24, 2006

104.4 FM or live stream direct from the Resonance FM website

Welcome to Mars will also be available as a series of podcasts from http://www.simonsound.co.uk/podcasts.html


www.kenhollings.com
www.simonsound.co.uk
www.resonancefm.com

A Project Thrust production – ‘The Name You Can Trust.’

100_5025 - New Flickr Shot

My new wallpaper. Another gorgeous shot from gentle bakemono.

Jordan Demonstrates His Really, Really Cool New Haken Continuum

Title link takes you to there. Absolutely amazing. Via RZ4 in the comments section of this post.



Thank you RZ4!

Update via Dr. Future in the comments:
"I love my white continuum. I think it's the only white full sized one in da world. And Lippold Haken is a really fine guy. http://www.paulsop.com/gallery/studio"

Also posted here: Haken Audio Continuum - Impressions

Rational Youth

Thought the following was a pretty cool shot. Rational Youth was a eary 80s synth pop band from Canada, heavily influenced by Kraftwerk. Title link takes you to their website.

Syntheway Organux

VST Orgarn with full MIDI control. Title link takes you there. Details saved below. There is a downloadable demo online.



Hybrid method that combines sampling and synthesis techniques.
Selector with 20 predefined types of organ sounds such as:

-Baroque Pipe Organ
-Cathedral Organ
-Farfisa Organ
-Ethereal Organ
-Chorus Organ
-Pipe Organ
-Church Organ
-Percussive Organ
-Gothic Organ
-Fast and Slow B3 Organ
-Rock Organ
-Blues Organ
-Detuned Organ
-Electronic Organ, and more...

-LFO (Low Frequency Oscillator) with modulation depth, frequency, offset, waveforms (sine-triangle-square) add expressive effects such as "Tremolo" by using the simple GUI commands, or also can be controlled by the position of a ball by clicking-and-dragging in an X-Y axis. The panning slider controls the output effect distribution between left and right speaker.

-Multiple-Mode Filter that includes LP (Low pass), BP (Band pass), HP (High pass), notch, peak, low pass and high pass shelving filter with adjustable cutoff and bandwidth. The values are automatically computed when you select any of the filter types.

-ADSR envelope generator with Attack, Sustain, Decay and Release parameters and several modulation targets.

-16 presets for effects ready to play.

-Portamento/Glide control: A gliding effect that allows a sound to change pitch at a gradual rate, rather than abruptly, when a new key is pressed or MIDI note sent.

-Reverb effect built-in: Customizable with user controls for: size room, width room, damping factor & mixer.

-Delay effect built-in: Creates a delay (echo) effect on audio signals controlled by amount of feedback and modulation of delay time.

-On-screen MIDI keyboard that can be played with the mouse, or keyboard (Q is Middle-C, Z two Octaves lower) The 'T' on the left of the keyboard sets Toggle Mode where each key stays held until you click it a second time.

-MIDI Channel selector : 1 to 16 channels.

-FULL MIDI Automation: Complete MIDI Continuous Controller. You can use this to automate parameter changes from a sequencer, or to control your synthesizers from an external MIDI control surface.

Rickenbacker 360 & Moog baby - New Flickr Shot

Savart's Wheel

Title takes you there. Beautiful sample of this obnoxiously putrid beast on site. "Savart'’s Wheel, designed by Bart Hopkin, is widely acclaimed for the fact that it makes the most obtrusive, obnoxious and irritating sound imaginable. The instrument is made up of a series of disks of graduated size mounted on a motorized spindle. The exposed outer edge of each disk is lined with ridged material, with ridges spaced about 1/8 inch apart. As the spindle rotates, the player holds a sort of plectrum against the ridges as they rotate past, producing some number of ridge-bumps against the plectrum per second. That frequency is the frequency you hear; it is what provides the pitch." Via Peter Grenader on AH.

A Tribute to Dr. Robert Moog - Santa Ana, CA

Tonight, Sat March 4. Via GB on AH. Title link takes you to more info.

MooT BooXLe's Synthesizers.com movie

Title link takes you there. Via bleepsandbloops.



"Me demonstrating the creation of sound using my Synthesizers.com Modular Synthesizer. I'm also using the Moogerfooger CP-251 Control Processor and a Roland RE-101 Space Echo. The video was produced and recorded by me. Visit http://www.mootbooxle.com!"

MIDI "fingerboard" - New Flickr Shot

Interesting piece. According to the caption that's a MIDI ribbon controller based on the Kurzweil Expression mate. Shot by royce. "This is a somewhat customized midi controller based on the kurzweil expressionmate. i used to play violin, and especially loved string quartets, so i wanted to have a "fingerboard" for glissando and vibrato effects."

Update: I asked royce how he positioned it when he played it. He replied, "i pretty much play it like a cello, although still use keys for discrete pitches. also use a footpedal extensively. this wendy carlos ripoff used it quite a bit for natural vibrato effects (i used to play alot of classical violin): rrooyyccee-aaddaaggiioo.html

pinkus - New Flickr Set

Title link takes you to shots of pinkus' studio. A bit blurry but that's some fine gear.



Thanks pinkus!

Blurry Roland - New Flickr Shot

Makes your screen look dirty doesn't it? Shot by unrest.

MS2000B Diagram - New Flickr Shot

Shot by floorvan. There is also a shot of Clara Rockmore in the set for theremin fans.

International TB-303 Day!

Well, sort of. Fiercefish posted that today is International TB-303 day. I asked if this was real, and he replied sort of. Robin Whittle declared International TB-303 day on March 3, 2003, 3/03, get it? The crazy thing is I remember this! I searched the archives and found the post on AH. Title link takes you there. Below is a shot of an AcidLab sent my way via Fiercefish and a demo. Thanks for reminding us Fiercefish!

TB-303 AcidLab via Fiercefish


Fiercefish AcidLab Demo

"As mentioned earlier, here http://s8.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1GUJ9UGH6SEHG01VTE4R8RO2N6 is a demo of my acidlab modded TB-303, for this demo I just concentrated on the FM, decay, and overdrive mods. It is a 2 bar pattern running with a 606 as a timekeeper, no eq was used just the 606 into the mix in on the 303 recorded in mono into audacity on my mac, I added a bit of reverb to the whole mix and did a small amount of audio editing to add a little interest.

I wanted to keep the sound fairly "acid" for this demo so the tweaking is limited to a slight extension of what a standard 303 can do, the acidlab can do some seriously crazy stuff especially with the controls at the extremes and I have recorded about 1 hours worth of other settings but need to edit them down to smaller snippets, they will be just the 303 on its own (no 606) and with no fx or eq, I should post them sometime in the next week.

Enjoy (or not!)

Happy 303 day!

FF"

Alesis Fusion on Synthwire

Carbon111 got himself an Alesis Fusion. Title link takes you to his first impressions.

Joe's Modular Synthesizer

Title link takes you to Joe's Modular Synthesizer site. Joe's modular was designed from 1974 through 1988. Via Analog Industries' HGCP. Make sure to check it out.

Arturia Prophet V Demo Is Up

And it requires one of these. Why did they do that?


Here's a shot pulled from this thread.

Roland Juno-G Video

Video link is up on the Roland site. Too bad it wasn't retro.

Yellow Rainbow - New Flickr Shots

Title link takes you to the set. : )

OB-X and OB-Xa Motherload on YouTube

That Micke is back. Title link takes you to his post on VSE with more links to video synth goodness, this time featuring the Oberheim OB-X and OB-Xa.

Japan - Ghosts Live (1982). Synths used for texture.


And of course.... Van Halen's JUMP. Synths used for dust.


Look at how dusty that OB-Xa is!!! Eddie is just smiling away. No respect I tell yah. No respect...

Accordian - New Flickr Shot

Shot by mathewspiel. Love the green. : )

Bit One - New Flickr Shot

Shot by bvincent.

Korg Wavedrum Shots

Title link takes you to shots pulled from this auction. More info on the Wavedrum on SOS and SonicState.

Korg EM-1 - New Flickr Shot

Shot by amatecha.

Waldorf Q+ Shots

Sexy mamma jamma. Too bad it has a dent. Shots pulled from this auction.

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Origami

I've been following the Origami buzz lately. If you haven't heard, it's rumored to be a UMPC or Ultra Mobile PC by Microsoft. I didn't think I was going to be putting a post up on it here, but then it clicked.


Image via Longhorn Blogs

Remember these posts?
miniMusic BeatPad driving a Voyager and 909
Multi-Touch Interaction Research
Apple Lemur?
Lemur Workshop
Live Lab - Tablet 2 MIDI and Live Slice
Audio Pad
Lemur-like Rear projection control
Lemur and a Continuum - Video

Well it just dawned on me that Origami might be an affordable alternative. I'd love to see a more robust miniMusic suite for it. We'll soon know... Title link takes you to the Origami site - still giving teasers.

Seth Elgart's Music vs. Sound

Title link takes you to Seth Elgart's website. I recently posted Jim Aikin's thoughts on Melody Over Texture. This came from a thread on SynthSights on the topic of the musician and the synthesist and the topic of sound and texture driving a piece of music vs. the musician driving the melody and composition. Seth put up a couple of examples of Music vs. Sound. In one track, Fifty Five, he gets lost in textures from the Waldorf Q, he states that Q drives the composition itself (BTW, this is a good demo of the Waldorf Q 's swirly textures). He states, "It more or less wrote itself. I didn't have much to do with it really. I just played it." In another track, Celebrate Life, Seth critically composes and drives the music. It's interesting when you think about how you create music. I lean more towards the sound leading me - it seems more like an interaction between me and the synth. Two things immidiately come to mind when I think about this, one, Bob Moog's magical description of how you feel sound and the instrument - how you connect to it in an almost metaphysical way; and two, this video of Jean Michel Jarre where he talks about leaving room for the music to drive itself. How do you play?

The ORT Synthesizer

Title link takes you to Tim Wade's blog on the ORT Synthesizer. Thanks Tim!

"This is a new blog about the ORT sythesizer that i have been building for about 25 years. Why is it called ORT you may ask? Well about 9 years ago it was sitting on the cupboard at a place i was working at and a collegue placed a label that was the last three letters of "Hyundai Sport" on one of the panels. It from that day on became known as the ORT. I started building it around 1979 or so during my last two years at High School. It has gone in fits and bursts since then. There was a bit if a hyatis between 84 and 2004 while little happened to it. My American Aunt bought me 4 Curtis Electromusic integrated circuits that actually kicked the entire project off. She bought me a set of dual VCA/VCO/VCF/VcADSR. The VCO was the first module built closely followed by VCF and then a selection of modules from the electronics magazine Elektor. Since the ORT has staged a renaisance in the last year or so two new modules have made an apperance. A MIDI to CV module that I have designed myself and a Spring Reverberation module that is based upon a design from the ETI synthesizer from the mid 70's. It is planned to go through each module one at a time and explain the issues with it and how well it worked etc. I then plan to kick off and ORT2 project that will introduce a new set of modules that are so audacious in conception they will take the Analog Sythesis comunity by storm... well probably not as we will be doing well to get that far... but maybe we will."