Friday, October 19, 2007
Japanese Korg 800DV demo
video by ApolloBoy
"That's right, another non-YTP vid. This time, it's a demo of the Korg 800DV (otherwise known as the Univox MaxiKorg K-3)."
JAPAN SYNTHESIZER BAND COSMOS
NAMM Diaries Day 1
YouTube via museumoftechno.
"Back in January we went to California, USA, to attend and report on the NAMM 2007 music trade show, in association with our sponsors, Novation. We're going to put them on Youtube now: have at you!"
Crumar DS2
images via this auctionWhen digital was in...
"The DS-2 is basically a monosynthesizer with an added 44-voice polyphonic strings section. The DS-2 was one of the first synthesizers to use DCOs (digitally controlled osc.) making it stable in tune. Especially if you use the polyphonic string. This is a very big and good looking synth with a lot of knobs for instant hands-on control. And you don't need a hardcase, it's built into one.
SPECIFICATIONS:
Polyphony - Monophonic synthesizer section; 44 voice polyphonic string section
Oscillators - 2 DCOs
LFO - 2 LFOs; LFO 2 has Sample&hold and Staircase waveforms
Filter - 1 4-pole LPF with Cutoff, Resonance, ADSR and ENV-amount
VCA - ADSR
Keyboard - 44 keys
Memory - None
Control - Gate
Date Produced - 1978"
MOOG Demo Record
Update: see this post for the audio.via this auction
"Ultra-rare private pressing, the first promotional recording produced by Moog, given out to prospective customers to demonstrate the capabilities of their amazing products. Both sides are identical and contain a wonderful montage of Moog-sourced sound effects and short original compositions created especially for this record by Wendy Carlos, ranging widely from experimental to classical to pop to ambient soundscapes and a real treat for collectors of her work. It is narrated by Ed Stokes who explains the different types of waves and filters available, the basics of sound synthesis, and Moog innovations like voltage control. This extremely hard to find record is an awesome artifact of early electronic music history and a gem for Moogand Wendy Carlos fans.
Wendy Carlos studied under Vladimir Ussachevsky and Otto Luening at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, worked with Robert Moog to develop and popularize the synthesizer and pioneer its performance techniques, and scored films for Stanley Kubrick and Disney. Some additional points of reference for this synth demo record: Jean-Michel Jarre, Paul Beaver, Bernie Krause, Stereolab, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Mu-Ziq, Matmos, Dick Hyman, Raymond Scott, Bruce Haack, Pierre Henry, Tomita, Vangelis, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Gershon Kingsley, Tom Dissevelt, Ondioline, Theremin, Clara Rockmore, Arp, Donald Buchla, Chappell Recorded Music Library, De Wolfe, Montparnasse 2000, Patchwork, Piero Umiliani, Roger Roger, Cecil Leuter, DJ Premier, DJ Shadow, Invisibl Skratch Piklz, Oskar Sala, trautonium, Morton Subotnick, John Eaton, Donald Erb, Bernard Parmegiani, Mort Garson..."
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Oberheim OB-X Voice Expansion Board
images via this auction. via Matt."This is the board needed to expand an OB-X with four voice capability to eight voices.No voice cards are included, this is just the board to house four extra voice cards. Included is the metal tray which it sits on, all the relevant cables/plugs, and the hinges for lifting the board up for servicing the lower voice cards."
LINN 9000
images via this auction. via Operator X."The Linn 9000 has
-Built-in 32-track MIDI sequencer with sampling capability
-18 sounds with velocity sensitive drum pads
-Programmable hi-hat decay, panning, and a nice big LCD screen.
-Floppy disk drive.
ONLY 1,100 EVER MADE
This specific LINN has the most up to date software upgrades done by
BRUCE FORAT. ALSO comes with extremely hard to find MANUAL which I bought from Bruce about a month ago. (www.forat.com)"
Project 9090
Remember the 9090 posted earlier? It's actually a DIY drum machine. You can find more info, including samples and instructions, on the official 9090 site.via amos_joseph in the comments of the previous post.
Flame Midi Talking Synth Demo
Previous post updated with the demo via JSRocket. Don't miss this, pretty amazing demo. I'm curious if the Yamaha FS1R could do the same with it's formant synthesis. Comments disabled here to keep them all in the previous post.
Roland System 100m Basic Modules
click here for another Roland scan via synth ollie.click here for all scans via synth ollie including:
Roland System 100m 190-191J Manual
Roland System 100m Patch Book
SUB-COMMANDER Guitar Synthesizer
DIY Guitar Synth from Music From Outer Space (MFOS)Features
* Generates sub-octave and pulse waveforms
* Generates gate and trigger signals
* VCF controlled by dedicated AD generator and LFO
* VCA controlled by dedicated AD generator and LFO
* Mix clean sound with filtered/modulated sound.
* Auto-Wah, Warbling Wah, Tremolo, Pseudo-Ring Mod
* Gives your guitar a bag of new tricks
* Advanced project for advanced electronics hobbyists
Yamaha TG33 Review on Celiar Structures
click here for the full review including links to the manual, a software editor, samples and more."TG-33 emerged as a rack version of the SY-22 and as a cheap vector synth option in front of the pro Wavestation. With a 32 voices polyphony (double as SY-22) and 8 parts, TG-33 weak point was their 12 bits AWM samples and the leak of filters, making it pretty noisy and lo-fi sounding that limits it for electronic or industrial oriented artists. It does not have even arpegiator o r sequencer but it can record vector movements in real time as phrases (some like OB-12 and JP 8000/8080 does). Edition is also pretty limited while you can access to hidden parameters from software editors."
Parallel Worlds
via Bakis on the Cyndustries list:"There is a Parallel Worlds Interview in the November Issue (out now) of the US Electronic Musician Magazine.
The interview is in the Pro/file section of the mag on page 154. the article is entitled “Modular Odyssey”, (talking about music technology and the latest Parallel Worlds cd album “Obsessive Surrealism”).
There are extra photos from the interview session in the Bonus Material page of the EM website (in the November issue EM web clips)
Here it is.
You can see lots of analogue modulars of course… (and more synths are out of the photos…)"
Also check out the Parallel Worlds website. You might remember it from this post.
Jam Sessions with AMP~!
YouTube via KristyLynn. Not sure if this one counts, but... oh well.
"lol, as you see, i am in my bro's room and hooked up to his amp. ;)"
Kinda looks like he's wearing a Matrixsynth T.
Protein DScratch - 2 - by Gorgull
YouTube via yarglaaaafr.
"DScratch module - Protein Project - Gorgull
This is the second shot of [DScratch] module - project codename Protein -
Since first video, I added some new features:
# more visual feedback
# a little sampler effect
# a resampling effect
# mute mode
# pitch control
# record the mic as base sample
# visual feedback on both screens
# midi out: control midi software wireless (VJ software for example) using DSMidiWifi
# a few bugs corrections
The base sample is a 5 seconds wav file running in loop.
demo available @ http://gorgull.googlepages.com/protein"
Weevil Update
Via Tom of Bugbrand. Sent my way via TSP."Hiya Bug-list. I'm happy to get some announcements out!
**1
There's a new batch of 8 Weevil07s just released in the BugShop - Priced at £130 plus shipping and all ready to fly around the world. The batch is all in brown as pictured here. There are 6 of these ones, plus two in a darker brown with different knobs like this. If you'd like one of the ones with different (?special!) knobs then send me an email while placing your order - this is first come first served!
**2There are new AudioWeevils brewing... Details will go online soon, but here's a quick pic of the proto. The proper versions will be a bunch more snazzy than this proto... Note the slope fronted case and the plentiful knobs..!.. This version adds a mixer so you can blend dry and squared audio with the Weevil heart (twin osc ringmod - one of the oscs can be replaced by the squared audio input) and powerful resonant lowpass filter. Oh, and a modulation LFO for warbling one of the oscillators and the filter. There will be a small batch right at the end of this month. No reservations, but do keep it in mind...
**3
And onwards -- unfortunately I'm not going to be able to work all through November due to an operation & this will obviously limit the output of any Bug batches... I'm not yet sure, therefore, whether there can be anymore BabyBugCrushers this year, but I'll do my best.. PostcardWeevils have also been popular but are currently out-of-stock while I await more parts..
**4
That's it for now.
Cheers & best to all,
Tom"
Moog Little Phatty and Jordan Rudess
"Jordan Rudess gives a quick overview of the sonic magic possible with a Moog Little Phatty, FreqBox and CP-251"
Moog Little Phatty and Jordan Rudess Filter Techniques
"Jordan Rudess shows off the incredible functionality of the classic Moog filter in the Little Phatty"
YouTube via MoogMusicInc.
9090 Analog Drum Synthesizer
Update via joseph_amos in the comments: "This is actually a DIY project. [link] It looks like whoever is selling just copied and pasted the text from the first page. "images via this auction
"serial No. 001 t page 2002
The 9090 is an analogue drum machine based upon the legendary Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer. Many people consider this machine to be the life and soul of house music and it's modern derivatives. Trance, techno, whatever. In some moment of insanity back in '99 I decided it would be a fun challenge to build an entire clone of this classic analogue drum box (having no appreciation of how such a project can take over your life) and, bored with using sampled beats, I wanted a real, tweakable analogue box. Just like the 909.
I chose to make my 9090 just a MIDI controlled unit without an integral sequencer. All original drums are in there, together with power supply and a new PIC-based MIDI interface. The complete project is built across two separate printed circuit boards, designed to fit within a 2U height 19" rack enclosure. I didn't develop a sequencer to go with this, but I'll do it if I get the time.
The voice circuits used within the clone remain faithful to those of the original machine. In other words they remain mostly unchanged, except where I've added controls for extra tweakage. Most semiconductors have been substituted for modern equivalents that are more easily available. Most of the TR-909 sounds are completely analogue and hence some pretty intricate discrete circuitry is involved. Only the hi-hat and cymbal are 'digital' since the TR-909 used samples contained within three 32K ROMs for these.
Roland Vocoder Plus VP-330
images via this auction"Oscillators - 3 VCO's
Effects - Ensemble (chorus)
LFO - Vibrato w/ depth, delay and rate
VCA - separate Mix Levels for Vocoder, String and Voice sections; 20 envelope followers
Filter - 18 VCFs: 54db/oct bandpass; 1 VCF: 54db/oct lowpass and highpass filters; 20 VCFs: 18db/oct lowpass filters w/ dynamic range of 60db
Memory - None
Keyboard - 49 Keys
Control - CV/Gate
Date Produced - 1979"
EML 200
images via this auction"The EML consists of the following components:
-Master Oscillator (LFO that goes well into the audio range). 6 outputs, 2 for each waveform.
-Noise (2 outputs)
-2 VCO’s. (2 outputs each)
-Spring reverb. (2 outputs)
-Electronic switch (2 outputs)
-Low Pass Filter (2 outputs)
-High Pass Filter (2 outputs)
-Waveshaper (2 outputs)
-envelope (2 outputs)
-2 ring modulators (2 outputs each)
-Preamp (3 inputs and 2 outputs)
- 6 channel mixer (with 6 outputs)
Here is a sound clip of the 200 in action. It's sorta long and noisy:
EML 200
I also have a copy of the user manual and schematics. If you have an EML 101 this makes an excellent compliment and is useful even on its own."
Flame Midi Talking Synth
flickr by JSRockit.click here for the full size shot.
Update via JSRocket in the comments:
"I made a noisy demo too: link "
Don't miss the demo. It's pretty amazing. I'm curious if the Yamaha FS1R could do the same with it's formant synthesis.
PNW Synth Gathering 07 Pics
click here for more shots of the event via brett.seattle.
click here for the full size shot.
Mattson Mini Modular pictured.
MFB Synth Lite II
image via stamba via the Matrixsynth forum. Stamba is curious if it possible to transpose a pattern while it's synced using external clock. If you know feel free to comment or reply in the forum thread.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Introduction to Modular Synthesizers
For those of you new to modular synthesis and actually analog synthesis in general, Innovative Synthesis has a short introduction worth checking out.
"Modular synthesizers are one of the oldest types of synthesizers around, as well as being one of the most expensive and interesting. The philosophy of a modular synth is that it is made up of modules which are interchangeable, allowing new modules to be added with ease, as well as the customization of existing modules. Because of the constant expansion of most users modular synthesizers, many systems end up looking like a telephone exchange – this is often referred to as GAS (gear acquisition syndrome)."
What's interesting about the GAS comment, is that although the start-up cost for a base system may seem high compared to getting a non-modular synth, the cost for that next gear fix goes way down. Itching for something new? Get a new module for much less than a new synth - new or used. I will be satiating my GAS next with a new Mattson Mini Modular. Next stop, most likely Plan B and Doepfer eurorack. Cwejman, Livewire... That's what they call Gear Aquisition Syndrome.
"Modular synthesizers are one of the oldest types of synthesizers around, as well as being one of the most expensive and interesting. The philosophy of a modular synth is that it is made up of modules which are interchangeable, allowing new modules to be added with ease, as well as the customization of existing modules. Because of the constant expansion of most users modular synthesizers, many systems end up looking like a telephone exchange – this is often referred to as GAS (gear acquisition syndrome)."
What's interesting about the GAS comment, is that although the start-up cost for a base system may seem high compared to getting a non-modular synth, the cost for that next gear fix goes way down. Itching for something new? Get a new module for much less than a new synth - new or used. I will be satiating my GAS next with a new Mattson Mini Modular. Next stop, most likely Plan B and Doepfer eurorack. Cwejman, Livewire... That's what they call Gear Aquisition Syndrome.
PROPHET 08 SE DEMO - LOS GAUCHOS FROM LAS PAMPAS
YouTube via gauchosinc. via Nusonica.
"This its a mini demo of PROPHET 08 - VAN HALEN - JUMP Sequenced by LOS GAUCHOS FROM LAS PAMPAS PROPHET 08 SPECIAL EDITION"
Admin: New Label: Scans
I created a new label for scans. If you see a post that should have the label, but doesn't, post a comment in that post and I will update it. If you see the label in a post that shouldn't have it, post a comment in that post and I will update it. Currently I just added the label to a blanket search on schematics, pdf and a few posts I knew to be scans. BTW, if you haven't been using the labels on the site, do use them. I'm currently at 10,118 posts with this one. That's a lot of synth content to peruse. Also use the search boxes. The official blogger search is on the top left and the Google site search is on the right. Personally I always use the one on the top left first and if I don't find what I'm looking for I'll use the one on the right.
BTW, I didn't put up a post at the time as I didn't want to distract from the MMM announcements, but... we passed 3 million page views since the site launched a little over two years ago. That's up from 2 million back on April 28th this year. We are currently at about 3.24 million since I started tracking the site.
BTW, I didn't put up a post at the time as I didn't want to distract from the MMM announcements, but... we passed 3 million page views since the site launched a little over two years ago. That's up from 2 million back on April 28th this year. We are currently at about 3.24 million since I started tracking the site.
SSM Data Sheets
Solid State Music data sheet scanned by Loscha. [link to pdf scan] SSM made various synth chips for early analog synths. The 2040 filter chip is one of the most respected filter chips out there. It was used in the Rev 1 Prophet-5. It is included in the data sheets.
4017 Step Sequencer
Sequencer built by Casper Electronics. Link to more including links to the schematics and another post with a sample."The recording was made using the sequencer to trigger three different synths.
–A casio SK1 was used to make the melodic sounds.
–and I had that running through an echo circuit I’ve been working on for a while
–the bass drum beat was made with a Korg MS20.
–The other rhythmic tones were made with a Paia modular synth"
Audio Damage Vapor Released
"Vapor's main purpose is to add top-end shimmer to pads, strings, and rhythm guitar to make those sounds cut through the mix. However, at more extreme settings, unique modulation effects can easily be attained."link
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