Prophet 8 - Dave Smith Instruments

YouTuve via Lovesign.
"A teaser video of the forthcoming Prophet 8 synthesizer from Dave Smith Instruments, courtesy of Stefan Trippler" Prophet '08

DSI Prophet '08 Pic

via the VSE thread, via via HarriL.

Comment on this post.

Synth Clusters

Title link takes you to the individual shots on SoNiCbRaT.

Synthesizer

flickr by c_singh84.

KORG MS10

click here for the full size shot.

DIY Music / Making Your Own Cardboard Synthesizer

YouTube via lavieenjaune.
"Testing our cardboard synth. Based on the 'Your First Synth' how-to shown here via Music From Outer Space"
More info on fotosis.

Dead Presidents Society

"The Dead Presidents Society is a group of friends who share a passion for the influence of technology on music, and who meet every Thursday morning at a coffee house in Berkeley, California. The group's name was born out of the fact that a number of the members were formerly presidents of electronic music product companies that died. :)"
The members are... Click on the image and see if you can spot them. : )

Title link takes you there. via Johan

Laura Scarborough

Remember this post?

Title link takes you to Laura Scarborough's website where you will find more shots, vids, samples and more.

via Appliancide in the comments of the previous post.

More DSI Prophet '08 Samples

Copy the following link and paste it into your address bar:

http://www.trippler.net/files/p8/p8a.mp3

Then change the p8a.mp3 to p8b.mp3, then p8c.mp3 and so on.

Thanks to Mr. Array for the tip.

Comments disabled to keep them all on this post.

ZIZZLE Zoundz

Ok, this is pushing it as far as synth content, but there you go... If it only supported MIDI in and out.

"ZoundzTM creates a fusion of self- composed music with an accompanying light show. With it, users can create musical light shows never seen before. They can create their own riffs by placing one of Zoundz TM’ pawns on an interactive “hot spot” on the sound board. Each pawn associates with the sound it makes and by placing them on different locations and in different combinations, users can compose music all their own. The music portion can be fine tuned with the mode switch which enables users to adjust the tempo of the music, raise and lower the volume, increase or decrease an echo, or sustain and draw out specific sounds. Each interactive “hot spot” lights up when a pawn is placed on it and will groove to the tempo of your music. The color of the light also reflects what type of music the pawn produces with red indicating a sharper tone while blue reflects softer more soothing sounds."

ARP 2500 and More

via Francois on AH. Original link.
More:
"2 Polykobol from the 4 installed here. I am designing a full midi for it. For 8 voices poly and multi.
http://img508.imageshack.us/my.php?image=polykobolvu9.jpg

3 Korg PS 3100 midified: One of them is my first analogic synth.. bought in 1988.. 8-) http://img174.imageshack.us/my.php?image=korgps3100gl6.jpg
Below, description of the midification:
http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php?topic=9388.0

6 voices of Kobol.. From the 21 voices here.
http://img522.imageshack.us/my.php?image=koboltowerxx0.jpg

Home built midibox sequencer prototype
http://img240.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sequencersy7.jpg
Here, description of the final sequencer http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php?topic=9387.0

Another view of the music room:
http://img123.imageshack.us/my.php?image=room2yt7.jpg

You don't see on the picture, others Kobol rack, one ondioline, a clavinet D6, a VP330 and other synth as well as home built synth."

New DSI Prophet '08 Teasers

Two samples and a vid at the end of this post.

The LEDs for the 8 voices.

Tony Wilson RIP

via Mark:

"Tony Wilson, founder of Factory record label (New Order, Joy Division, Happy Mondays, etc) passed away on August 10th. http://neworderonline.com/News/NewsRoom.aspx"

monome-DS

This one in via Robert. You can find discussion and the download on this gbadev thread while it's up. If anyone has a screen shot of this, feel free to send it in. A monome for the Nintendo DS.

Details:
"monome~ds v1.0 by GrizzlyAdams

Simple simulation of a monome 40h like device with some artistic license.

40h buttons: send midi keydown / keyup events 0-63
40h lights : respond to midi keydown / keyup events 0-63

Channel buttons & Up/Down DPAD: select current channel

Connection light:
the small light at the bottom of the screen under the divider between the
40h buttons and channel buttons shows the status of the connection.
Yellow = Connecting
Green = Connected
Red = Disconnected/Error

By default it starts in local loopback mode, press START to connect.

There is no config menu in this version and you are stuck with the first WFC profile.

Future plans:
- glowing channel buttons showing data flow (33% = data, 66% = selected, 100% = both)
- actual emulation of a monome 40h / wrapper for running monome firmware
- wfc selection
- 2nd display-only monome

NOTE: this program is NOT from, licensed by, or supported by monome."

DSI "Prophet '08"

In case you missed the updates to this post, the new rumored synth is going to be an eight voice analog synth based on the CEM chips used in the Evolver with the sequencer, arpeggiator and memories. It will sound different than the Evolver. More details in the previous post. Comment disabled here to keep them all in one post. If anyone has more info on this including any pics or samples, please feel free to comment.

Ben Pringle (The Rentals) Repairs the Pro-One

YouTube via TheRentalsDotCom. Sent my way via Sean.
"a quick "how-to" on fixing a problematic key or two on the Sequential Circuits Pro-One"
Note there is also a j-wire version of the Pro-One. I picked one up for $125 due to a sticky note. I popped it open, bent the j-wire back in place and it was fine.

Update via the comments:
"hmmmm.that's more of a rig than a fix.... next time, use a pencil erases on the back of the membrane and on the metal contact on the PCB, it will actually "fix" it instead of introducing foreign materials like tape that will only make it work temporarily and then probably melt and gum up your control board and make things worse."

Oberheim SEM Modded for Keith Emerson?

via this auction.

Details
"Oberheim CPS-1 that have been modified especially for Keith Emerson back in the 1970's. We have no official documents that certify that but since it have really been modified for him, I'm saying it here on ebay and if someone knows him and ask him, he will remember this synthesizer because it's unique in the world. (the modification I mean)."

Update : for anyone considering this one, be sure to check out the comments of this post and of course be sure to check out all the feedback."

EDP WASP

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

Oberheim OB-1

Title link takes you to shots via this auction. Note the blue LEDs.

"-8 patch memories for saving user presets, VERY handy on a vintage monosynth!
-2 VCOs with Saw and Pulse waveforms.
Both VCOs have a voltage controllable width control (both can be swept by LFO or Vco2 by the Envelope) for both the pulse waveform (from square to narrow pulse waveform) AND rather uniquely the sawtooth waveform too (can be swept from sawtooth to a sine waveform!)
-2 Sub-Oscillators available, one for each oscillator! Can sound HUGE!
-Oscillator Sync and Cross Modulation. Oscillator sync is absolutely killer sounding, i dont think ive heard a synth that has better oscillator sync! Cross modulation is great too.
-Excellent discreet, Oberheim filter, either 2 pole or 4 pole slopes are available with keyboard tracking and resonance. Keep rolling up the resonance and the bottom end stays solid. Fantastic sounding filter, one of my favourites!
-1 LFO, three waveforms, Sine, Square or S+H.
-White noise.
-2 ADSR Envelopes.
-Portamento.
-Flexible modulation buss. LFO can modulate both oscillators frequency or waveform shape and the filter cutoff. Envelope can sweep Oscillator 2 or the filter.
-Excellent performance bender, you can bend one or both oscillators (has a broad or narrow range) or introduce modulation.
-CV, Gate and audio inputs."

Admin: Contact Info Update

Just an fyi, but I changed my contact info from matrixsynth at hotmail to matrixsynth at gmail. My hard drive crashed the other day and I had to rebuild it from scratch. I went with Vista (apologies to the Mac users out there but I need it for work) which no longer has OE, so I went with Outlook and the hotmail integration is horrendously slow even after downloading all my messages, 2.5 Gigs. : ) I keep everything. Anywho, I finally gave up and decided to try gmail integration with Outlook. It supports proper POP and is FAST, so... I'm on gmail now. If you have me in your address book, please take a minute to update it with the new address. Apologies for this, but my mind was going numb waiting for each individual email to synchronize with the server. It's literally like those dreams where you try to run but can't as you feel like you are running waste deep in water. Mind numbing, horrid stuff.

Instrumental Innovators - Dave Smith: Synthesizer Pioneer - DVD

"Dave Smith founded Sequential Circuits in the mid-70s, and in 1977 he designed the Prohet-5 - the world's first microprocessor-based musical instrument and first completely programmable and polyphonic synth, which set the standard for all synth designs that have followed. In the last few years Dave has returned to the hardware instruments with the Evolver and Poly Evolver synths, which combine real analog electronics with digital processing to create yet another new world of unique instruments. This DVD includes a 90 minute complete history of Dave Smith from Prophet to MIDI to the PolyEvolver and roundtable discussion with Dave Smith, Roger Linn and Tom Oberheim."

Available at Dave Smith Instruments. 

This one is in via brian comnes.

amza elvis

YouTube via elvisarmeanca. Via JZ.
"amza elvis play live casio cz 101"

Jordan Rudess playing the Memotron

YouTube via neilomac.
"Here's a vid of Dream Theater's keyboard player playing the Memotron, a digitally-modeled Mellotron. Looks and feels like the real thing, but smaller, and less prone to tape wierdness."

Something New from Dave Smith Instruments This Way Comes

Via David Bryce on this VSE thread. Sent my way via HarriL. And, no this is not the Boomchick developed with Roger Linn:

"This has been developed in almost complete secrecy. Only a few people know about it. This is the first time it's been mentioned publicly.

As I mentioned earlier- it ain't gonna be secret for much longer. The first run is being built right now, and will be ready for shipping next week.

dB
DSI"

The only hint as of this post is black with wood ends.

Updates in the thread (thx goes to ben of mus-ok for the tip):
"sizzlemeister wrote:
It's got to be a 5 or more voice simple Rev 4.0-like Prophet.

Basically correct.

Quote:
It'll be like a PEK using the CEMs DSI uses in the Evolver, but minus EVERYTHING digital excepting patch-storage and MIDI.

Again, basically correct.

Quote:
This to address the market demand for a modern, affordable analog polysynth from DSI that has 5 or more voices. So, keeping the voice architecture "simple" like a P5 with no bells and whistles allows to maintain a "lower" price-point.

Yes...but it does have some bells and whistles. We kept the sequencer, added the arpeggiator, and tacked on one or two more fun little functions.

Prophet '08. Eight voices, all analog. Shipping next week.

dB
DSI"

"It does use the same CEM chips as the Evo stuff, but they sound different because Dave tweaked them differently, and the system isn't the same without the digital stuff in the signal path.

I think you'll be surprised. I sure was...

dB
DSI"

regarding pics:
"
I don't have any good ones, and I believe we're waiting on the production models to take a formal one. We've all been working on hand built prototypes. I think I'm the only one who has one that has the knobs with the silver caps.... Very Happy

As far as the price point goes..$2199 MSRP, $1999 MAP.

dB
DSI"

Update (thx to Xavier for the tip in the comments):
And we have a teaser video from non other than Stefan Trippler.

And some samples:
"http://www.trippler.net/files/p8/p8k.mp3

Drums from Spectrasonics Stylus.

And one more old Style tune, all synth sounds:

http://www.trippler.net/files/p8/p8i.mp3"

Update via Mr. Array: More samples:
"Copy the following link and paste it into your address bar:

http://www.trippler.net/files/p8/p8a.mp3

Then change the p8a.mp3 to p8b.mp3, then p8c.mp3 and so on.

Thanks to Mr. Array for the tip."

Update: There have been quite a few more posts since this one. If you are just seeing this, click on the DSI tag below for the rest. Be sure to scroll as it will bring up all posts tagged with DSI.

Buchla Electric Music Box

YouTube via wotgorila.
"This is an old Vintage Buchla Electric Music Box was rescued from a dumpster and reconditioned by my friend chuck. As you can see, it takes a while to set up, chances are the previous owners could only get it to make fart noises and chucked it."

Update video re-posted here.

Rhodes Chroma Demo

download here
via Norman Fay of Vietgrove on AH:
"The "big job" of this year recently got completed - Tony Allgood of Oakley Synthesisers serviced my Rhodes Chroma and did some fairly major work (incl the power supply replacement as detailed on www.till.com, with mods to work on UK power).

It is awesome to have the Chroma running on 8 voices, to have the parameter slider working, and to have the instrument running in almost eerie silence with no buzz & hum from the power supply. I'm sure the thing sounds a bit cleaner as well.

Many thanks, Tony.

I threw this together in like 1hr, using Cubase, SIR reverb and digitalfishphones "blockfish" compressor. There is probably too much reverb on it, sorry! All of the sounds are derived from the chroma, I think there's 10 layers altogether, though not all at once. One of the layers was sequenced using "zeit", the rest played in by hand. It's just a faff about, really."

Twango'd and posted here with permission. Thanks Norman!

C64c / Prophet64 / Dtronics midi / Elektron MD

YouTube via stamba313.
"C64c running Prophet64 synced with Dtronics midi and Elektron MD"
Sent my way via Oliver:
"One of the artists on my record label sent me this video. You may like it:
http://www.thingstocome.com/blog/
permalink:
http://thingstocome.com/blog/stamba-makes-a-commodore-64-into-a-tb-303/"

MB-6582 PCB Orders 2

Remember the MB-6582?

via nebula:
"Hey guess what? You linked a while back to Wilba's amazing MIDIbox SID. Well he has just taken delivery on 100 PCB's (sorry, all spoken for) which are about to be unleashed on the MIDIBox community. Something tells me we're going to start hearing a lot more modern SID music soon. Thought you might want to share this one. I have one on order and will be sharing my experiences building the thing at http://nebulasdomain.blogspot.com"

Masaya Matsuura (Parappa) Releases musika For iPod

"Sony BMG Music Entertainment has announced the release of musika, an original music visualizer game on the iTunes Store for play on Apple iPod. musika, created by NanaOn-Sha president Masaya Matsuura is a "fresh and innovative experience that creates beautiful visuals using the title of any song."

Users can simply enjoy musika's imagery, or play along by pressing the center button in time with the letters in the song's name to advance to more difficult levels displaying different visual effects.

Masaya Matsuura was the creator of PaRappa the Rapper for the original PlayStation, and the title has been developed in collaboration with Method Solutions for the iPod."

Title link takes you to more info. Via CDM.

Modified Commodore 64 For Cynthcart

YouTube via IINewIIVirusII.
"Hey this is my C64 modified with a segment LED display and potentiometer."
via C64Music!

Commodore 64 - Commodulator Demo Video

YouTube via woostercode.
"Commodulator 64 video - you can get the real thing on E-bay: link."
via C64Music!

BMH Audio & Elektronik Pro-One Processor Replacement

"We are working on a replacment processor for the 8021 in Sequential circuit's ProOne. It is a little pcb board with a modern sufacemounted processor. The board has pins that fits to the socket on the ProOne's pcb. So it's just to plug it in. The replacment board has even some more features built in:
* Midi input and output
* Two analog outputs, can be used to midi control for example filter cutoff etc.
* One analog input, have not decided what to use it for. Maybe to send midi data from pitchbend or modwhweel, or other analog signal"

Title link takes you there. via JB

AS Modular in Ikea Rast 12082007

flickr by bambam4236.

click here for the full size shot.

Laura Laptop

flickr by Mikey Brick.

"Rockin' OR e-mailin' (?) Todd V Wolfson's opening at Flipnotics, July 13, 2007"

click here for the full size shot.

Guess the synth. More shots and the answer after the hop.

Alesis Andromeda Synth

YouTube via GCom67.
"Just a quick vid to show off some pictures and sounds from the Alesis Andromeda synth."

CASIO CZ 1000

YouTube via synthargentina.
"This sound is a combination of two different waveforms"

Evolver + LITE II

YouTube via Denkitribe. Note this one is in stereo.

KORG Delta DL-50

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

"For those of you unfamiliar with the Delta, it's pretty cool. It's a 70's string machine (like the Arp Solina) as well as a subtractivce analog synth. The synth and string sections have separate outputs as well as a combined output. You can use Voltage Control to control the filter, trigger gates, etc. The legendary Delta filter is what sold it for me, and it is indeed pretty aggressive."

Roland Jupiter-8

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

MOOG Satellite 5330

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

Analog mono synth.

BuchlaWorks

Title link takes you to a new Buchla 200e page by Richard Lainhart. You will find video, audio and more.

Acidlab modified TB-303

YouTube via darenager.
"One of my TB-303's, bought as a wreck and modded, just a quick demo showing some of the new sounds available, sorry about the audio quality but it gives an idea of what it can do."

TENORI-ON Videos

Looks like a TENORI-ON vid is up on the Yamaha site. Title link takes you there. It's on the bottom right.

via Robert:
"New Tenori-on info gleaned from the new videos, mp3s, and text:
* Tenori-on is made of metal
* It can sample
* A cat has already been photographed with one
* It comes in a nice box
* Every demo doesn't have to sound like Elektroplankton
* Yamaha says they are "test marketing" it in the UK before deciding to sell it elsewhere.

I think the cat photo and the brief box porn in one of the videos are deliberately trying to get you, Matrix, excited about it."

Be sure to check out the "Interview with Musicians" link for more.

HardSID MIDI Playing part 1

YouTube via gamorbab.
"This is me playing with my beloved HardSID with selfmade instruments. In this part 1 there are just a few example patches, in part 2 there is an arpeggio patch."
Mouse over the controls at the end of this video to see part 2 and 3.

Prophet 64

Prophet 64 2

YouTube via Awake1077.
"Commodore 64C and Prophet 64 cartridge available from www.Prophet64.com"

Prophet 64

Prophet 64 MIDI interface #01: CC to POT

YouTube via AxiMaxi. via Stamba in the comments of this post.
"How to assign CC to the 4 pots of FirestARTer's MIDI interface for the Prophet 64."

schooldays - Stanley Clarke / George Duke

YouTube via elimk.
Guess the keys. Keytar solo about halfway in.

Update: And one more.
billy cobham george duke band red baron

YouTube via hossenff.
"billy cobham george duke alphonso johnson and john scofield 1976"
Minimoog solo comes in about 4:20 into it.

KORG Research and Development

flickr by ario_j.

Can anyone confirm if this is KORG, the synth company, and if so, where this is?

click here for the full size shot.

md minimal

YouTube by daswesen.

Waldorf Wave

Title link takes you to some shots of the Waldorf Wave on alt-mode.

korg poly-ensemble

flickr by Breakfast for Dinner.

click here for the full size shot. More after the hop.