TR Brothers

Via Brandon Daniel.

Juno 106 - New Flickr Set

Title link takes you to more. Shot by unyo303.

HGPF on Analog Industries

And it's a synth one. Title link takes you there. Thought the following intro was kind of funny: "Old Schoolers Anonymous. Check this shit out. No computer, beeyatch! He makes songs the old fashioned way. He types them in to an MC-4, one note at a time, like Real Men Used To."

Metasonix S-1000 Wretch Machine on One Blue Monkey

Title link takes you there. Video under date, under title. Eric Barbour controls it with the Eowave Persephone picutred below. He also triggers it with the on board joystick. Thought that was pretty cool in that it actually does the triggering in addition to pitchbend so you can control the joystick with one hand and adjust knobs with the other sans midi controller.

Synth Demos by Ron West on StudioB12

Title link takes you to some synth demos by Ron West. Synths featured: Korg Mono/Poly, Moog MicroMoog, Yamaha CS-15, and Roland System 100m. Also check out his other links. It's worth noting Lenny the Lemur helped him with these. Who needs a cat when you have Lenny the Lemur. ; )

Jupiter 6 Does Freebird

Another from Elhardt. Title link takes you to the MP3. Has to be heard to be believed. I have no idea how he does it....

"The entire demo is all JP6 through the Johnson J-Station amp simulator,
except the bass which is straight JP6 by itself. No other keyboards or
synths used.

-Elhardt"

The ErsatZ Planet Oberheim Databank

Title link takes you there. Focus is on the SEM, 2-voice, and 4-voice. Schematics, Manuels and more.

Psychotropic Carousel - New Flickr Shot

I was checking out Mark Pilkington's Flickr set after reading this post on GetLoFi. I ran into this shot of Psychotropic Carousel with a Jen Synthtone SX1000. Title link takes you to the set with tons of shots of Einsturzende Neubauten, Coil, Genesis P Orridge of Psychic TV, Cosey Fanny and much more.

My Synthesizer - New Flickr Shot

Korg Karma. Shot by level4world.

Hobo # 615 - New Flickr Shot

Nice Moog. Shot by lily pepper.

My Moog Rules the Nation! - New Flickr Shot

Shot by Omega_Helsinki.

The Samchillian Tip Tip Tip Cheeepeee

There's been some buzz on The Samchillian midi controller. I just took a look at these two videos (one, two) and it does look interesting. The first video is the current design floating around while the second video is the original design using what looks like a custom ergonomic qwerty keyboard; just like the one you use with a PC. The Samchillian website (title link) actually has a sofware version of The Samchillian so you can try it out yourself. You will also find instructions on how it works. The second video does a good job of showing you it's flexibility - you can chose various scales including some in depth microtonal scales that allow you to have 40 notes to the octave instead of the standard 12. Pretty interesting stuff.

New Samchillian Design


Original Samchillian

zebranologic 5osc Synth Soundsamples

Sound samples are up on SubtleNoiseMaker. Title link takes you there.

Short Vangelis Vid

Title link takes you to a short snip from a Vangelis interview. Nice Yamaha CS80 in the background. Via Simon Gouldstone. Thanks Simon!

OCP

Joao Ricardo sent me a link to his site where I pulled the nice shot below. Title link takes you there, make sure to check out the links on the right nav. BTW, I didn't see Matrixsynth on his links page, but I did see Moogulator! What's up with that! ; ) Update: Turns out Matrixsynth is linked under blogs. Thanks Joao! : )

Red Square and MX3

Fred's Mini Sound Lab

Title link takes you to a post on Fred's Blog on his Mini Sound Lab. He took an old videopac and used it to house the Mini Sound Lab. I love the color on this design, especially the red knobs. More shots on the project after the hop. Thanks Fred!

Sidcontrol and Pong VSTs

SidControl is a VST controller for the MIDIBox SID.



Pong is... well a pong VST you control with your mod wheel.



Title link takes you there. Via C64Music!.

New Moog?

Another tease? : )



Image cutesy of sizzlemeister on this HC thread.

Korg K-Series & PadKontrol on One Blue Monkey

Title link takes you there. Video link under date under title.

Analog-Lab

XPass Filter by Analog-Lab

They make an XPass Filter, Fluid Preamp and Vocoder X-32.

Update: Here's a link to some info on the X-32 in English.

Here Again - Stefan Trippler

New track by Stefan Trippler. Sick, sick, sick! Features the Mono Evolver Keyboard and Stylus RMX. Title link takes you there - 2.64M mp3.



Make sure to check out Trippler.net for more samples and shots including a much bigger shot of the above. Man, I love that shot.

SubtleNoiseMaker and the Zebranologic

Remember the Peruvian Zebranalogic? Well it looks like Sascha Renner picked one up. Title link takes you to a post on his brand new blog SubtleNoiseMaker. The Zebranologic isn't as shiny/polished as I was expecting, but that clear case is cool. Samples will be coming. I'll be subbing to his blog so hopefully I'll see the samples when they come in. I added SubleNoiseMaker to my blogroll on the right as well. Thanks Sascha!

Update: samples are in.

Toys - New Flickr Shot

Moog Etherwave Theremin. Shot by TheWaz.

Stacked Synth Shots

Some killer shots from this thread. Sent my way via Dennis Verschoor.

Prophet 5 Armada


Yamaha CS80-Go-Round


OSCar Ladder


Jupiter-8s - Just Lounging Around


The Boys Club - Anyone gotta light?


Title link takes you to more shots on Synthforum.nl.

Bob Moog Tribute Concert - UK March 25

Title link takes you there.

New Moog Will be a Keyboard?

On Sound and Sound: "Turnkey and Moog were remaining tight-lipped on this, but they were heard to say ‘Brian will have the keyboard with him, yes’."



Moog Clue #2

Also check out this new shot on the Moog website. Looks like wood end cheeks to me. I ran into this on Music Thing catching up this morning.

Update: Grabbing the text from Moog for the clue #2 shot above before it is gone.

"Could it be Wood? It must be a Boomerang...

Clue # 2

Two weeks until the Musik Messe and Moog’s new product unveiling - but why wait. Take a look at your next clue now.

Feel like discussing the hints with a community of creative and intelligent folks?

If so, Join our Moog Forum!"

Twiddle - New Flickr Shot

Yamaha CS1x. Shot by hazabaza.



I remember picking up this synth when it came out because it was so cheap. Surprisingly it's a great little synth. I'm not the biggest PCM fan, so it actually stood out with my non-PCM gear. Very crisp and squelchy sounding synth. Icy strings as well. Cool to see it being used like this. Jazz is cool.

Adventures in Analog Synthesis

Video tutorials on modular synthesis. It's $25 for the full tutorial but there is a pretty leanghty sample clip worth checking out. Title link takes you there. Via Synthtopia.

Roland Synthesizer Clan

Title link takes you to the synthesizer page on the Roland Synthesizer Clan website. Make sure to check out the right nav for what else the sight offers. For some reason the gear links are puking in Firefox on my end, but IE works fine. Via Moogulator.

Roland SH-7

The Novachord Restoration Project Updates

New audio sample up. Title link takes you there.

Arkanoid Re-Created

Lawrence Eldrige posted a track centered aroudn the C64 and SID sound. He is working on building a uCApps C64 MIDIBox. For this track he had MIDI working and that's about it. Knobs will be coming next. I thought the track was pretty well done and as he listed the synths used, I asked him if I could put it up. He gave me the go ahead, so here it is. Title link takes you to a 6.94M mp3 (right click and save). Note's below from Lawrence. It's a really cool track. Enjoy.



"So, I've been re-living my past love for the SID sound, and decided to
re-create the C64 theme tune to Arkanoid... using analogue synths. :)

http://www.obscuresounds.com/obscure_track2_f.mp3

Roland SVC-350 (main melody, verby sound @ 0:51)
Octave CAT (bassline @ 0:10)
C64 (beats, computer blip @ well, err, all over.)
ESQ1 (beats, main melody, pads @ 0:10 & 2:13)
ARP 2600 (guitar accompaniment, bass @ 2:13)
Mellotron Choir @ fading in & out throughout.
Rhodes Chroma (loading noise at start @ 0:04)
Solina String Ensemble @ various points.
MS-20 (white noise) @ 0:03


Hopefully I have the mixture just right!

...sadly the SID sound is either love or hate :)

Modular Planet

Title link takes you to the Modular Planet website. The sites hosts a bunch of mp3s and patch mappings to make these sounds on a Doepfer modular. Pretty cool. Click on the Patches link when you get there for the full list. Gotta love the retro site desing. : )

ARP 2600 Patch Book

Right title link and save. If the file won't open post a note in the comments.


Via Dave Manley on AH.

Vintage Analog Advert Scans

Analog Industries has a couple of posts up on some nice scans of old vintage analog advert scans. One. Two.

Musical Instruments in Japan Exempt?

Update2: Rumor has it musical isntruments may not be exempt after all.

Udpate: Via synthetic in the comments:

"He tells me that this article says musical instruments and photo development machines are not affected by the law. The reason is that equipment might become damaged during PSE testing, or the owner may claim that it became damaged during testing The government doesn't want to be held liable for paying the replacement cost on these expensive items."

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Anyone know Japanese? Title link takes you to an article in Japanese on the Electrical Appliance and Material Safety Law that goes into affect on April 1. Someone on AH pulled the following translation from the article which sounds like electronic musical instruments and photograph baking machines will be exempt. : )

"The economic industrial ministry on the 14th, decided that the used electronic musical instrument and the photograph baking machine etc are designated as outside the object of electric supplies safe method. Including the used item, it shows safety, sale of the electric product which does not have the “PSE mark” is prohibited from April 1st. Assuming, that as for the electronic musical instrument and the photograph baking machine etc during electric leakage inspecting there is danger where the equipment breaks down, it makes outside the object, also after of the April continues and can transact in the old market."

Antenna of Doom

Modular theremin video by REwire. His cat makes a guest appearance. Via this post on VSE. Also check out this video if your into cats, or not. A covered Korg M1 makes an appearance.

Rare Kenton Controllers - Videos on Sonic State

Title link takes you there.

Rough Mixes on Gnostic Rocket

Title link takes you to a couple of cool mixes on Gnostic Rocket. The gear used is listed including this ARP 16-voice electric piano and of course, the Springboard Dub. I particularly like "a huge blubbery creature with piggish eyes." Both solid tracks in the making.

sendling

Title link takes you to more shots put up by softfreak of his first electronic improv concert as sendling. The synth in the shot below is a Yamaha RS 7000. Via this post on electro-music.com. Shots by anne rosset.

Anykey Studio and the Andromeda A6

Title link takes you to Anykey Studio with tracks featuring the Andromeda A6.



"The A6 is used on every track, but also the S.E ATC-X. ATC-X do a more
of the vintage sounds, leads ,drones etc. But I also us the DX200, it's a
nice contrast to the analog sounds."

Verde! - New Flickr Shot

Verde means green. I like green. Shot by JoNiuX.

Korg Trinity

The Inside of an OSCar

Two shots via Brandon Daniel.



http://www.fdiskc.com/syn/ahba/2004/nakedoscar1.jpg
http://www.fdiskc.com/syn/ahba/2004/nakedoscar2.jpg

Update on Matrixsynth Ts

This is what they were supposed to look like:



This is what mine looks like:



Horrid! I'll be closing the shop, refunding the couple of people that bought one and letting them keep this little bit of Synth history. : ) Sorry about this. I'll be looking locally at shirts next. BTW, I'll be closing the shop as soon as the orders are done and I receive confirmation from those that ordered them, so technically you can still order shirts, but if you do, I will NOT refund on new orders because I simply can't afford to. So PLEASE DO NOT order unless you actually want one of these soon to be rare collector items! Heh, sorry, had to to. : ) Apologies to the two that ordered. I sent each of you an email so I can reimburse you. If you do not get that email, send me an email.

Casio CZ1000 Featured on Gnostic Rocket

Specs, shots, samples and part of a cat. Title link takes you there.





A book on synthesis by Casio. Trip.