MATRIXSYNTH

at 3/21/2006 09:58:00 AM

Warm shot of the EML 400/401.

Title link takes you to some more along with an Akai MPC1000, both of which are for sale; which means the link will probably go down when sold, so grab them now if you want them.

at 3/21/2006 08:44:00 AM

flickr by geirarne. If you click through the title link you can mouse over the instruments to see what they are. There's a mini under that plastic. : )

at 3/21/2006 08:36:00 AM

flikcr by scraz. Shot of The New Pornographers, one of my favorite Indie Bands.

at 3/21/2006 02:59:00 AM

I sent Amanda/Cikira an email letting her know I put up the post below. She sent me a link to the shot of her "Moog Lives. Play On." T above. Very nice. The shirt is not for sale on the Moog site and was given to friends. She received her's at this years NAMM. Title link takes you to a bigger shot.

at 3/21/2006 02:01:00 AM

Robert Cash sent me a couple of links to Cikira's site. I realized that although I have put up a few posts mentioning Cikira, I hadn't put up a proper post on her and her site. If you don't know Cikira, she is the moderator of the SynthSights list (where the discussion is about the people and the music rather than the gear), she runs Red Moon Music (makers of maxWerk, and powered by the uberHamster), and she runs the Cikira website which hosts tons of gear p*rn of her most immpressive studio. Check it out. But most importantly, Cikira is one good natured, cool cat.

at 3/21/2006 01:38:00 AM

flickr by asobitsuchiya. Sent my way via DK. Check out the mixer, sax, and the red "TV Hat" in the back. If you don't know about the PSE law, check out these posts: one two three. Rumor has it that musical instruments may not be exempt after all. Title link takes you to more shots. Thanks for the link DK.

at 3/21/2006 01:36:00 AM

flickr by turboswami. Anyone know what that giant knobbed rack is?

Update: See comments.

at 3/21/2006 01:36:00 AM

flickr by JSRocket. Title link takes you to more.

at 3/20/2006 08:01:00 PM

Saw this one on Music Thing followed by Create Digital Music. I didn't think it was synth related so I held off checking it out until now. This software is a complete trip. Simply put it takes a video and slices it into a bunch of short samples of audio and video. You can then sing or speak into it and it matches the sounds you produce with the short samples it created. The end result is a crazy mix of the sound and video samples mapped to whatever you are singing - in real time. Title link takes you to the sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ! page on Popmodernism.org with video links. Warning, the video has lots of flashing, so if you are subject to seizures, be careful.

at 3/20/2006 07:31:00 PM

flickr by Kriton Music. Saw wave or sine?

at 3/20/2006 10:35:00 AM

Homegrown modular by Peng. More info and audio on sdiy here.

at 3/20/2006 09:51:00 AM

flickr by unrest. Title link takes you to more.

at 3/20/2006 02:09:00 AM

Title link takes you to more. via Pete on AH.

at 3/20/2006 01:54:00 AM

Title link takes you to another post and sample of the Zebranologic and a circuit bent TR505 on Subtlenoisemaker.

at 3/20/2006 01:51:00 AM

Title link takes you to a sample and a how too by Andrew Scheidler. Thanks Andrew!

at 3/20/2006 01:17:00 AM

Sorry, had to. : ) It's actually the Midimax Keyboard controller for Creamwares Minimax. It was showing in NAMM 2004. Just ran into it again on this VSE post.

at 3/20/2006 01:00:00 AM

One more shot from this link. I just love the way this one looks. Something about the contrast, the black and that shade of blue.

at 3/20/2006 12:59:00 AM

Title link takes you to a slew of gear shots including this one. I ran into this link on this post on the-gas-station, but when I reached the last shot I relized it was the same one in Analog Industries GPF post this week. PSProject. ARP 2500 and more.

at 3/20/2006 12:08:00 AM

flickr by Jaffa2004. There's another nice shot of just keys after the hop.

at 3/20/2006 12:07:00 AM

flickr by polaranta.

at 3/20/2006 12:06:00 AM

flikcr by killrobots. Looks like a Korg CX-3.

at 3/20/2006 12:05:00 AM

flickr by maxkalehhoff.

at 3/20/2006 12:00:00 AM

Title link takes you to Rhodes Chroma printouts added to the Rhodes Chroma site. "There are books for sets 1, 2, & 3; and sets 4 and 5. These are printouts, I believe from Fender's Apple II software, of the program parameters of all the factory patches." Might be interesting to try these patch settings on other synths and see what comes out.

at 3/19/2006 07:27:00 PM

Just a couple of shots pulled from this sale on Craigslist. Love the green velvet.

at 3/19/2006 07:25:00 PM

Remember the Bahn Sage? Word has it it's featured on page 14 of the April issue of Keyboard Magazine. Can't wait to get my copy. BTW, the same Elhardt that does the insanely impressive emulations, like the Jupiter 6 covering Freebird, was the man behind the Sage.

Shot via Sequencer.de

at 3/19/2006 07:25:00 PM

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

at 3/19/2006 09:16:00 AM

Update: Make sure to check out the comments in this post for some other interesting examples.

Thought this was interesting. Peter Forrest of Spheremusic and the VEMIA auction called out that the Korg PS-3100 up for auction had LIMITER misspelled as LIMITTER. Ron West posted a link to the image below where you can see it. According to Peter Forrest the mistake was caught and later models were corrected. I wonder how many other synths have unintentional misprints. I know many of my posts do. : )

"I was just having a last play on the Korg PS-3100 that is in the auction ending today, and saw that this one has the spelling mistake LIMITTER on its front panel. It's serial number 712139 - presumably an early one, before it was spotted and corrected."
Peter Forrest
Susurreal Publishing (A-Z of Analogue)
VEMIA auction (www.spheremusic.com)
fax +44 1363 777872

at 3/19/2006 09:15:00 AM

Two Korg Mono/Poly Samples.

One of my favorite Mono/Poly shots. Via the Zen Mono/Poly site.

http://www.retrosynth.com/tracks/joe_erwin_zippity.mp3
"The following tune was done by friend Joe Erwin on a Mono/Poly multritracked on a Tascam DA-88. I think this is circa 1998." Via Cary Roberts.

http:// www.baward.plus.com/mp3/MP4.mp3
I am jumping on this one a bit late (DSL has been down) but here's another example of the Mono/Poly solo which I originally I posted last year. 5 minutes of noodling, me getting carried away with the arpeggiator and lots of modulation options, as it is so easy to do. That's a Stage Echo tape delay it's routed through.
Ben
Korg Kornucopia - analogue synthesizers

at 3/19/2006 09:14:00 AM

They even have a spittoon. Shot by resonanced sky.

at 3/18/2006 08:36:00 AM

at 3/18/2006 02:08:00 AM

Apologies for being down most of the past 24 hours. Blogger had a few hiccups with affected not only me but a number of blogs out there. I've been catching up and WOW, Moogulator has had quite the burst of posts while I've been out. Title link takes you there. Some drool worthy stuff going on there. There is balance in the synthiverse.

Update: Moogulator tells me the post that featured this shot was about another commercial site that used the shot without giving credit. That is just wrong. It's the equivalent of stealing it, because people visiting your site have no reason not to assume it's yours. Bad mojo. It really pisses me off because I go out of my way to make sure I give credit when credit is due and I definitely don't mind people posting about stuff on my site as long as they give me credit. I won't link to the offender in this case but I will call them out - they are called Phonostar. You can see the full post on Moogulator.

at 3/18/2006 01:03:00 AM

Title link takes you to Li riconoscete, a website filled with synth shots from various band videos. Clip from Billy Idol's Rebel Yell below?... Via Moogulator who has Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran in Planet Earth up. Definitely remember that one...

at 3/18/2006 12:55:00 AM

Via Brandon Daniel.

at 3/18/2006 12:54:00 AM

Title link takes you to more. Shot by unyo303.

at 3/17/2006 09:57:00 PM

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."

at 3/17/2006 01:22:00 AM

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.

at 3/17/2006 12:14:00 AM

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. ; )

at 3/17/2006 12:10:00 AM

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"

at 3/17/2006 12:09:00 AM

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

at 3/17/2006 12:07:00 AM

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.

at 3/17/2006 12:03:00 AM

Korg Karma. Shot by level4world.

at 3/17/2006 12:01:00 AM

Nice Moog. Shot by lily pepper.

at 3/17/2006 12:00:00 AM

Shot by Omega_Helsinki.

at 3/16/2006 04:00:00 PM

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

at 3/16/2006 03:36:00 PM

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

at 3/16/2006 02:47:00 PM

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

at 3/16/2006 12:56:00 PM

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

at 3/16/2006 09:24:00 AM

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!