flickr by gentle bakemono. Title link takes you to more.
Friday, August 18, 2006
Trent, Peter, Twiggy, and Atticus on YouTube
Warm Leatherette
Night Clubbing
Voyager provides the classic lead on Warm Leatherette.
via sequencer.de
Night Clubbing
Voyager provides the classic lead on Warm Leatherette.
via sequencer.de
Oberheim OB1
Nice shot via synthesizer-magazin.de - there's a nice Oberheim Eight Voice currently up as of this post. You might recognize the site from sequencer.de.
Sonomarinos
Via Brian Comnes: "Here's a link to some tracks I made with daddio, a fan of yours, a synth buddy of mine and sometimes AH contributor...you even did 3 posts on him (aka tapewarm) . Anyway he lives about an hour up the road from me and we try to get together every 5 or 6 weeks and do something. Last night we got 2 tracks in 81506a and b. These are one take affairs, mistakes and all, with only a little EQ post recording. Last night I was using Live's Operator and Big Tick Angelina soft synths with my MIDI guitar, drums courtesy of Microtonic and Gene was peppering it up with a Kaoss Pad and Nord Rack 2.The other 2 tracks (Daddio1A and 4) were from May and were our first collaboration we recorded - somewhere in there is an OB1, UltraProteus , Kaoss pad and miscellanea, again both are one takes.
I am definitely not looking for a post here.....I mean you do have standards....I just thought I'd grant your wish to hear something.... maybe next time Gene and I will snap some photos .... ..and be warned these are nothing like Stefan Trippler puts out, just a couple of old synth guys making up something on the spot.
Peace Brian
PS the handle sonomarinos is because I live in Marin County and Gene lives in Sonoma County"
Don't sell yourself short Brian. I like it. : ) BTW, I think you just made a bit of Matrixsynth history with the smallest image in a post ever, unless of course, you count my favicon post.
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Buchla 200e Demo
Sample via Todd on the Yahoo! 200e users group. Sent my way via Chris who got permission from Todd to let me post this and later sent my way via Reed. Enjoy. Also mirrored here. Image via the 200e group.Update via the comments: "the drawing of the 200e is buy Jason Butcher"
Update: looks like a couple more demos have been added.
Lost Signal
Charles of Lost Signal sent me some links to his MySpace site and studio shots. Check out that setup. Title link takes you to lostsignal.com.
Mark Demos His JOMOX XBase09SE on YouTube
Mark gave me the ok to post this video. It was originally on rapidshare which I can't stand, so I asked him if I could put it up elsewhere. I went with YouTube so I can embed it in this post and so others out there can check it out.
via Mark:
"I was wondering what any of you all thought of this drum machine. I just got one and I like it a lot, particularly the highly editable sequencer (you can store different sounds for each step in a pattern). Not really too concerned about the comparisons to old x0x drum synths, more if anyone else has used this and your +'s and -'s. For me, so far, so cool. I also made a small demo quicktime of me using it, where I just play stock sounds and patterns and screw around with the parameters... Seemed like there isn't too much demo stuff out there for this box, so I might start putting more videos up."
Definitely welcome here. Thanks Mark!
COTK Modular Video on Dailymotion
Found a new video source, Dailymotion. This video was uploaded by deb76. I'm wondering if this is our good friend deb7680 of Chroniques De La Mao. Deb, if you are out there, let us know.
Update via the comments:
"That's not a moog, it's a Club of the knobs modular.
You can sort of see it on this clip too."
"I second that - it is COTK-modular. There are plenty more videos on their page"
Thanks, title updated. I can't change the video name as I didn't put it up.
Sonicprojects OP-X
Remember the OP-X? The site's been updated a bit. Title link takes you to some samples and more info. And yes, there is a sample of Van Halen's Jump.
Moog Little Phatty Samples by Eric Frampton
Title link takes you to a 1.4M mp3 of Eric Frampton strolling through the Little Phatty presets.
"This is me very quickly going through some of the presets. No sequencers, no production, just a line out of the LP into ProTools, editing for time, normalized, and nuttin' else."
Thanks Eric!
"This is me very quickly going through some of the presets. No sequencers, no production, just a line out of the LP into ProTools, editing for time, normalized, and nuttin' else."
Thanks Eric!
EKO PONY Synth
via this auction.
If you know more about this piece, please comment, but it just looks like one of those combo string/brass/organ keyboards with preset rhythms. The auction details compares it to a Juno 60. Yeah right. Buyer beware. Interesting piece though. I'm putting this up for the archives...
via dmxkrew
Handmade Electronic Music
"Early electronic music (& the recording of music itself) was born of experimenting artists & engineers, patiently listening to the bleeps, swoops and crackles of electricity as it flowed through components loving soldered together by hand. The early pioneers of electronic music had to build their own instruments from scratch, finding new sounds as they went, inventing entirely new musical languages & forms, pulling new sounds from the ether.In Nicolas Collins’ book ‘Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking we shake off the bounds of mass produced software, of expensive consumer electronics and re-enter the exploratory worlds of early electronic experimentalists such as David Tudor & Alvin Lucier, riding the pulsating waves of sonic history through to contemporary hardware hackers & instrument builders such as Xentos ‘Fray’ Bentos, Phil Archer, John Bowers & of course Nicolas Collins himself."
via PS. On Amazon
Update: consensus in the comments is that this is a good book.
BTW, If you are into handmade electronic music also check out the NORCAL Noisefest. via Brian Comnes.
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Livewire Electronics Breaks off from EAR Group
It's official. Livewire goes solo."INTRODUCING LIVEWIRE ELECTRONICS
Livewire Electronics announced today that it has set out on its own and is no longer associated with The EAR Group.
"Demand for Livewire products has grown dramatically over the past six months and I feel we have outgrown the benefit of being part of a collective.", says Livewire owner and EAR Group co-founder, Mike Brown.
'I'm sure that the other companies still associated with EAR will continue to put out excellent products.'
More information about Livewire Electronics and their products can be found on their new website at: http://www.livewire-synthesizers.com.
Inquiries can be sent to:
info[]livewire-synthesizers.com."
Reverence by Audio Damage
Another by Chris of Analog Industries. Title link takes you to images, samples and more info.Audio Damage makes top notch products.
» Simple-to-use reverb settings, with pre-delay, time, and size, plus an extensive filtering section to shape the reverb tail
» Fluid and logical vintage-style user interface
» Optimized reverb algorithm for low CPU load
» MIDI Learn feature for full hardware control of all parameters (VST only; handled by host in AudioUnits version)
Roger Odonnell on Sonic State
Podcast and downloadable mp3 on Sonic State."We've got a bit of a treat for you all this week - we're talking Roger Odonnell who's been a touring and studio keyboard player since the 1980's where he began by playing with 80's pop sensation The Thompson Twins, then moving on to the Psychedelic Furs and finally a long stint with The Cure.
Roger talks to us about his recent work - including a new album titled "The Truth In Me" which was recorded entirely on the Moog Voyager, his involvement with the new Harmonic Table AXIS controller, the 80's and various thoughts on a number of synths."
Title link takes you there.
Synthesizer Service Vintage Synth Price List
We all know PrePal. Title link takes you to another price list. This one by the Synthesizer Service Center. The prices are in GBP, but you can easily convert them here.
Update: General consensus is that this is not a price list, but a list of what they have in stock. Dealer prices are usually higher so that's obviously something to consider.
Update: General consensus is that this is not a price list, but a list of what they have in stock. Dealer prices are usually higher so that's obviously something to consider.
Thingamagoop - New Flickr Shot
flickr by gentle bakemono."Thingamagoop Conquers the World!"
Hmm... I could see this turning into the gnome in Amelie.
Sanfrancisco Electronic Music Festival via Brian Comnes
Remember the SFEM? The following are Brian Comnes' notes on the last Friday of the event.
act 1 - Barbara Golden, a big Bay Area name in alternative music came out and read a piece of prose about getting lusty with some now dead poet, allegedly Lenoard Cohen's mentor, and there was a home slide show of her in the 70's with canned bouzuki music - a nice prose spoken word piece, but wierd for the SFEMF is you think about it Act 2 was Steven Roden, his rig is in the picture I attached and as far as I can tell it is a few guitar delay boxes and some sound sources, harmonicas, slide guitar, and including the wooden peach crate which is apparently rooted in some electronica history , very nicely done piece but it put me to sleep, hardly synth porn..... here is another shot from the sfemf press photos site, hey he's playin a harmonica, not biting his nails.
Act 3 part 1 was a 12 minute set of Risset Tones (Risset tones are based on the work of Roger Shepard in the 1960's and the further developments made later by Jean-Claude Risset, RissetTones is designed to create an acoustical illusion. Perhaps best explained as the aural equivalent of the barber pole, the product of the RissetTones is a gliding tone which seems always to be moving either up or down in pitch while staying in the same general position.) Bottom line is that it was about 9 minutes too long, heck I could have done that with a copy of AudioMulch and 2 mouse clicks, a lot of people were looking at their watched at the 5 minute mark, to top it off I think it was from CD and not genrated live.
Act 3 part 2 piece by Toronto-based James Tenney whose piece which was played back from CD with a live percussion overlay by percussionist William Winant. He showed up with about 80 pieces of kit, including tuned Bundt cake pans, assorted pan lids in addition to a gong, tympani and other more traditional drum stuff but look at that other attched picture and you will see a door bell buzzer (!) in a box that was fileterd by opening and closing the lid, the canned track part seemed to be random synth burps and gee if I had 80 things to bang on I'd like to think I could keep it going, he had some great techniques though with the gong and tympany by rubbing on them with a mic'ed stick of some sort
the best of the evening was before the show .....a multimedia installation at Recombinant Media Labs by Semiconductor....the venue is superb, you are surrrouned by ten 15 foot wide by 8 foot high video screens in a 30X45 foot room and it has 16 channel surround, the video was NASA video and still shots of the sun using the solar energy patterns worked down to audible levels and added harmonics, i.e. the whiter the screen the louder the music, ...its a really cool way to experience solar flares to say the least
also I didn't see it but on Thursday night Brenda Hutchinson was playing this rig"
The Horrorist Korg Legacy MS 20 Soundset
Title link takes you there. I don't have a Korg Legacy, so I couldn't try this out. There were created and sent my way via Oliver Chesler (The Horrorist).
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
The Synth Buckle
Little Phatty Champagne
In case you haven't heard, Little Phattys are shipping. Someone on AH had there's delivered. Hmm... Wonder if Carbon111 got his yet. image via CDM
Udpate via the comments:
"Mine showed up the friday before last.. It's everything they promised, and the presentation is perfect. There's also a CD-Rom with articles and audio from Bob and the memorial celebration, as well as a really cool poster of Bob."
That's pretty cool.
Linux Rock Star on the Alsa Modular Synth
For any Linux users out there, there is a new Linux music blog, Linux Rock Star. Click here for a post on the Alsa Modular Synth.
"This full modular synth (with "modules" that allow one to build a complete synthesizer) has one of the fattest sounds and most realistic I have heard from a virtual synthesizer (I've been using them since the days of Vaz Plus 1.7). There are thick basses, lush pads, searing leads, all the cliches plus all the weird sounds one can dream up. There are some amazing sounds that remind me of Klaus Schulze in the presets."
via CDM
Northern Air - The Wretch
Michael Weeks has contributed to quite a few posts on this site, so it's only appropriate I mention his new release Northern Air. Title link takes you to more info. Make sure to check out the video (there's an iPod formatted version after the jump as well). Congrats Michael!
Technomania on SonicState
Sonic State has launched Technomania, a video grab bag of randomn synth clips. Below are links to the first two episodes. Episode 1
James Anderson and Circuit Bending
The Fairlight on Discovering Electronic Music
Russian Polyvoks
Fumitaka Anzai and a Lego Moog Modular
Mootbooxle and his Synthesizers.com modular
Episode 2
Roland CMU-810
The Moog Modular on Discovering Electronic Music
ARP 2500
James Anderson and Circuit Bending
Fumitaka Anzai and a Mellotron 400 patch change
via sequencer.de
Denkitribe on YouTube
video upload by Denkitribe
video upload by Denkitribe
Two new Electribe EMX Videos via Denkitribe. The effect pedals are Behringer. Via HarriL whom you might remember from these Electribe EMX videos.
dj sofia loaf on YouTube
via jesse. That's his daughter rocking her sampled voice on the Korg Kaoss pads. : )
Defcon Badge Event Generator
Defcon 14 Badge Hacking Contest Winner - Proof of Concept on YouTube
Title link takes you to the full set of videos. If you don't know what DEFCON is, go here. In short it's a hacker convention. I pulled the following posted by shagghie on this VSE post before it dissapears into the ether:
"Don't ask me how, and definately don't ask me why, but I managed to win a competition I didn't even know was going on at Defcon this year... I hacked the defcon access badge and turned it into an event generator for my analog synth, using $20 of parts from Fry's and some god aweful zero-rosin solder and wayyy to hot of a cheap gun! Originally, I was trying to decipher the last 'mode' on the badge that put out random patterns for the blinking LED eyeballs on the badge...turns out it was a pseudo random pattern after all, but in the process I did discover it repleated every 58 seconds, and that the internal clock ran at exactly 64 bpm.... If you double that you get 128bpm, which is a nice healthy dancable pace... So that's when I thought to install a few piezo tweeters on the badge and tap directly off the IC in order to hear the pattern, and then realized I could install a 1/4" phone plug jack and tap both channels (left and right eyeball) and route it to my analog synth's envelope generator, so that i could great note shapes from both channels. Well, the rest is history, and I was able to get some nice phat techno beats out of it after tuning the synth for awhile. Amazing what redbulls and Fatburgers can inspire!
Little write-up in the Washington Post :/ link
Some pictures of other hacked badges and the badge's creater Joe Grand (aka Kingpin of L0pht Heavy Industries): link
Some VIDEOS of the badge in action, the "Blue Light Concert", the semi-lame demo at the awards ceremony, and a small clip of me setting up for what turned out to be a 7 hour long set at Caezer's Challenge private party. I had to jam for 7 hours straigh, performing live, with no loops, no .mp3's, and help from the occasional curious hacker that would step over to play the keys while I manned the machinedrum...
link"
Title link takes you to the full set of videos. If you don't know what DEFCON is, go here. In short it's a hacker convention. I pulled the following posted by shagghie on this VSE post before it dissapears into the ether:
"Don't ask me how, and definately don't ask me why, but I managed to win a competition I didn't even know was going on at Defcon this year... I hacked the defcon access badge and turned it into an event generator for my analog synth, using $20 of parts from Fry's and some god aweful zero-rosin solder and wayyy to hot of a cheap gun! Originally, I was trying to decipher the last 'mode' on the badge that put out random patterns for the blinking LED eyeballs on the badge...turns out it was a pseudo random pattern after all, but in the process I did discover it repleated every 58 seconds, and that the internal clock ran at exactly 64 bpm.... If you double that you get 128bpm, which is a nice healthy dancable pace... So that's when I thought to install a few piezo tweeters on the badge and tap directly off the IC in order to hear the pattern, and then realized I could install a 1/4" phone plug jack and tap both channels (left and right eyeball) and route it to my analog synth's envelope generator, so that i could great note shapes from both channels. Well, the rest is history, and I was able to get some nice phat techno beats out of it after tuning the synth for awhile. Amazing what redbulls and Fatburgers can inspire!
Little write-up in the Washington Post :/ link
Some pictures of other hacked badges and the badge's creater Joe Grand (aka Kingpin of L0pht Heavy Industries): link
Some VIDEOS of the badge in action, the "Blue Light Concert", the semi-lame demo at the awards ceremony, and a small clip of me setting up for what turned out to be a 7 hour long set at Caezer's Challenge private party. I had to jam for 7 hours straigh, performing live, with no loops, no .mp3's, and help from the occasional curious hacker that would step over to play the keys while I manned the machinedrum...
link"
Monday, August 14, 2006
Jean-Jacques Perrey and Dana Countryman Live
For those of you in the Seattle, San Francisco or Los Angeles area, here's your chance to see one of the pioneers of electronic music, Jean-Jacques Perrey along with Dana Countryman. You can read more about Perrey's influence on wikipedia. Title link takes you to more info on the shows. They play Seattle on August 27, San Franscisco on August 29, Hollywood on August 31, and a special in store meet and great at Analogue Haven on August 30. That would be a pretty sweet gear fest.Here are links to some excerpts:
Chicken On The Rocks
Furioso Disco
Atomic Twist
Harry's Rag
Podcast Interview
Via Dana Countryman on his gear and the upcoming shows:
"Hi Friends,
Jean Jacques Perrey and I have finished recording our upcoming MOOG CD. It will be out on September 25th, on Oglio Records.
We'll be doing special concerts in Seattle (Aug. 27th), San Francisco (Aug. 29th) and Hollywood (Aug. 31st).
Please check our web sites for more info.
http://www.jean-jacquesperrey.com
http://www.danacountryman.com"
"I have a big ol' modular synth in my home studio.
link
It's mostly Dotcom, with about 25% MOTM modules. I've been working with the legendary Jean-Jacques Perrey for the last couple of years, and we've just completed a new CD of crazy, "Moog" tunes. It comes out on Oglio Records next month.
We're doing a series of concerts on the West Coast at the end of this month to promote the CD. BTW, these are the FIRST concerts that Jean-Jacques has ever done in AMERICA. At age 77, he is still going strong, but who knows what will happen in the future. He is still one creative and brilliant guy, and it's a pleasure to be so lucky to work with him.
Meanwhile, I'm continuing to add to my modular -- trying out different modules from various companies, - selling off ones I don't use, etc. I have no problem, having a "Franken-synth"!"
The Sounds of Stars
Make sure to check out badscience.net for more, including Don Kutz, the man recording space.Via The Mail article:
"The astrophysicist said: 'The stars have sounds in them. In a sense they ring like giant bells or musical instruments. One of them sounds like African drumming and has been used in nightclubs in Belgium for youngsters keen on dance music.'"
"Stars vibrate at very low frequencies which have been boosted so they can be heard by humans. Each star has a unique sound - while some resemble a beating heart, others are more like an orchestra tuning up.
The vibrations are caused by reactions in the intensely hot core, creating waves of pressure that ripple through to the surface.
Because space is empty, the sounds cannot be carried to Earth. But the vibrations constantly affect the stars' brightness, the changes in which can be measured and converted back into sound.
The 'voice' of each star typically covers a couple of octaves in the range of musical notes it produces. The sound of the Sun, which pulses every five minutes, would have to be about 12 octaves higher for the deep rumbling to be audible to humans."
Title link takes you to the full article with samples. Also if this topic intersts you, check out this post on the rings of Saturn.
Note on sending me stuff
Just an FYI, but if you send me anything make sure it doesn't look like robot spam. Every now and then I get an email with something like, "I think you'll like this" or "check this out" with a link. I have no idea if it's someone sending me something synth related or if it's spam. I always err on the side of caution so it goes straight to the garbage bin. So, if you are going to send me something, please make sure it obviously for the site and not spam. BTW, I reply to all of my emails whether with a quick thanks or more, so if you don't hear back from me within a day, I probably thought it was spam and deleted it.
Update: Also if you want a link back to your site for the "via link" please be sure to include it even if you have sent it in the past. I'm bad at remembering people's URLs. : )
Update: Also if you want a link back to your site for the "via link" please be sure to include it even if you have sent it in the past. I'm bad at remembering people's URLs. : )
Concerto for a Vocoded Ring by Shepitology
Here's an interesting one. Grondo of Shepitology used his wedding ring to tap the microphone on a Kord MicroKorg to play lead with it's vocoder.
"I played the melody with my left hand while tapping on the connected microphone with the ring."
Title link takes you to the post and a link to the track.
"I played the melody with my left hand while tapping on the connected microphone with the ring."
Title link takes you to the post and a link to the track.
Yusynth DIY
Title link takes you to Yusynth DIY. You will find information on known DIY manufacturers and a ton of custom designs. The following is an example of some of what you can expect. via sequencer.de."The ARP4072 filter equipped mostly the famous ARP2600 semi-modular synthesizer. I always wanted to build one. In the first place I gave a try to the EFM VCF7b. After correcting some PCB design errors I found this filter was sounding real great.
Eventually, I designed my own version of this filter. I have included in the design an input buffer stage and an ouptut buffer stage. The output buffer stage is also used to compensate the loss of low frequencies that is generally observed at high resonance in 24db/octave filters such as the famous Moog ladder. Curiously enough, neither Bob Moog nor Alan Ron Pearlman cared to compensate for this loss. This is strange knowing that it is quite a simple modification. Such compensation was introduced by Roland for the filter of their nowadays very sought after TB303!
On the two boards I built of this filter I obtained pure sinewave auto-oscillation at high resonance within the range 20Hz-20kHz, for the first board, and within the range 60Hz-20kHz for the second board. My design uses japanese dual transistors (2SA798). Because people may have difficulties to source 2SA798 I have also designed a PCB to use regular PNP transistors (BC557), however I have not tested this second design yet."
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Cyrusrex
via Cyrusrex
To go directly to the gear p*rn, go here and make sure you have your bib on. Check out that MacBeth M5 to the left (track featuring it below). For music here's a link to the Cyrusrex MySpace page.
"Also.... an analog Machine music experiment i created using alot of the gear pictured... for those curious what the M5 and the pedals soundlike... This Is a experimental completely live track with the idea of using all modular and all analog machine music...
LINK:: yymmdd-LiveRecording.mp3
It's all running from a TR808s clock. Each output from the 808 is divided or sent as trigger or audio and sent to both pedal FX, and gates for modulars and start stop on analog sequencers. All FX are live modulated and pure old fashioned Pedals with CV or hand tweaked. A Turntable was used playing an "Pope John XXIII' speach on vinyl record with a peice of rubber stuck inside the side rotor area to slow and speed up the turntable based at -16pitch randomly, that was fed to a tape delay and moogerfoogers. Lots of hand movement. Minor Editing and EQ to the final Mix Stem.
Used in this recording----------------------------------------------------
Modulars Synths: The Macbeth m5, Korg Ms20, Korg Ms50, Korg Ms02,
Cwejman S1mkii, Moog Voyager with CV expander
DrumMachines Sequencers: Roland TR808, Analog Solutions Oberkorn-sliders,
Analog Solutions Oberkorn - mkII, Korg Sq10
FX Pedals: Metasonix TX-2, zVex Fuzz Factoy (x2), Moogerfooger AD MF 104z,
Electro Harmonix Flanger Hoax, Blackbox Oxygen, ReAMP,
Frostwave Resonator, Roland RE150 Space Echo, MXR DynaComp
Redwitch FuzzGod
Mix: Mackie 1202, Patch Bays, Event 20/20Bas, Universal Audio 6176,
Technics SL-1210, Sony MDR-V900"
Finally, Cyrusrex says Analogue Haven rocks.
"Also.... an analog Machine music experiment i created using alot of the gear pictured... for those curious what the M5 and the pedals soundlike... This Is a experimental completely live track with the idea of using all modular and all analog machine music...
LINK:: yymmdd-LiveRecording.mp3
It's all running from a TR808s clock. Each output from the 808 is divided or sent as trigger or audio and sent to both pedal FX, and gates for modulars and start stop on analog sequencers. All FX are live modulated and pure old fashioned Pedals with CV or hand tweaked. A Turntable was used playing an "Pope John XXIII' speach on vinyl record with a peice of rubber stuck inside the side rotor area to slow and speed up the turntable based at -16pitch randomly, that was fed to a tape delay and moogerfoogers. Lots of hand movement. Minor Editing and EQ to the final Mix Stem.
Used in this recording----------------------------------------------------
Modulars Synths: The Macbeth m5, Korg Ms20, Korg Ms50, Korg Ms02,
Cwejman S1mkii, Moog Voyager with CV expander
DrumMachines Sequencers: Roland TR808, Analog Solutions Oberkorn-sliders,
Analog Solutions Oberkorn - mkII, Korg Sq10
FX Pedals: Metasonix TX-2, zVex Fuzz Factoy (x2), Moogerfooger AD MF 104z,
Electro Harmonix Flanger Hoax, Blackbox Oxygen, ReAMP,
Frostwave Resonator, Roland RE150 Space Echo, MXR DynaComp
Redwitch FuzzGod
Mix: Mackie 1202, Patch Bays, Event 20/20Bas, Universal Audio 6176,
Technics SL-1210, Sony MDR-V900"
Finally, Cyrusrex says Analogue Haven rocks.
Gregg Janman's Modular Noodlings Part 2
Remember Darkflame? The following are a few more tracks of modular goodness.
"it's a completely self playing patch from the modular (plus sony r7 reverb), i didn't tweak any knobs while recording.
the first version is digitally post-processed with only the endorphin compressor/limiter/eq vst
Babaluma-Throb.mp3
the second version is digitally post-processed by splitting the stereo signal into sum and difference parts (or mono/stereo, or mid/side etc), then processing the mono part with a subtle "tube" like distortion, and the stereo part with 4 modulated band-pass filters. the m/s signals are then recombined into normal stereo and processed with the endorphin vst. i LOVE this type of m/s processing. notice how occasionally the stereo space and depth gets RIDICULOUSLY HUUUUUGE without it sounding like an overdose of reverb - nice trick ;)
Babaluma-ThrobMSMix.mp3"
Bob Moog Letter to MMR - February 1998 - New Mini Mentioned
So is this the first public mention of the Mini to become the Voyager? If you know of an earlier mention please post in the comments.
This is a xcan of an article sent to MMR by Bob Moog, published in February of 1998. I checked the AH archives and the first mention was on Monday, April 20, 1998, in reference to this interview with Bob Moog in the May 1998 issue of Sound on Sound.
The company Bob is referring to in the letter is Don Martin's as he owned the rights to the Moog name at the time. Don produced copies of the original Minimoogs and some modules. The minis were eventually referred to as the Donimoog or the Model E, as the Model D was the last of the original Minimoogs. Bob Moog took Don Martin to court and won the rights of his name back in 2002. You can find more on Moog with a mention of Don on wikipedia.
Kirikax Speaks on the SMS 2000, SMS 1000 and the Elebus-1
Update: Kirikai's Website: link.
And we have an update on the SMS 2000. If you remember, the man in the second shot of this post donned a badge with the name, "Mr. Kirikax." The badge was obviously meant to lead the viewer into believing that this was Mr. Kirikax showing his new synth, the SMS 2000, a follow up to the Seekers SMS 1000, which was never released. What follows is an email exchange between Fredrik in Sweden and Mr. Kirikae (Kirikax).
Via Fredrik:
"in the middle of the sms 2000 hysteria I did some research on the web, and found mr Kirikax's email adress - or at least I assumed it was his. I sent a mail asking if there was any such thing as a sms 2000(check the forwarded mail) and didn't receive any respons - until today! Assuming the mail is real, which it certainly appears to be, we can draw the conclusion that the sms 2000 certainly is a hoax : )"
The following is the reply from Kirikax in the forwaded email:
"Dear Mr. Fredrik
I designed SMS-1000 mono synthesizer, but I don't know about SMS-2000. I am treating [illness] now, so I can't make SMS-1000. SMS-1000 's formal name is Elebus-1. I append the image of Elebus-1. Elebus-1 is RackMount type Synthesizer. The keyboard has not adhered. My sickness is a serious illness, and doesn't have the capital either. So I cannot sell Elebus-1. Elebus-1 might be produced and be sold when the capital can be procured by recovering from an illness in the future.
Regards,
Masamichi Kirikae. (Kirikax is nickname. this is My real name)"
If this is real, I send my condolences to Mr. Kirikae, and I hope he gets the help and support he needs, both with his illness and in getting the SMS 1000/Elebus-1 off the ground. He mentions lack of capital or monetary backing. What's interesting is that the Elebus-1 above is different than the other Seekers SMS 1000 shots out there. However, before you dismiss the new shot, note that the old shots of the SMS 1000 are old in synth years, and designs and names can easily change prior to release, and sometimes even after. Title link takes you the the new images sent by Mr. Kirikae.
The Monodeck - New Flickr Shot
flickr by Jack Pine.Remember the Monodeck II? Here's a shot of the first Monodeck sent my way via Gerald. Here's a shot of Gerald with Ableton and Monodeck creator, Robert Henke: link. Robert is on the left.
Hartmann Neuron Revealed
You are looking at the inside of a Hartmann Neuron. Check out the motherboard and harddrive. Amazing. I remember hearing it was a pc, but to actually see it like this is kind of surreal. Beauty on the outside and a pc on the inside. Title link takes you to the post on sequencer.de.
bottom image via Noisetime.
Moog Voyager After-pressure Control Videos
"The improved afterpressure circuit from Moog gives you a wider sweet spot to do everything from vibrato and filter sweeps to oscillator syncs. It works by providing a voltage to the circuit proportional to the amount of pressure applied. By spreading out the change in voltage more evenly the player will notice greater expressiveness and control."Title link takes you to some videos.
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