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Thursday, December 27, 2007
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Alesis Ion. via catsynth.com
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Alesis Ion. via catsynth.com
Bruno Spoerri - Iischalte (Switched-on Switzerland)
via swissdoc in the comments of this post:"Synthi-100 is used on other Spoerri Records as well, i.e. his Swiss version of Switched-On "Iischalte" He still has some records left."
Wolfgang Dauner - CHANGES
via swissdoc in the comments of this post:"There is a Jazz Record (still available as CD) from Wolfgang Dauner "CHANGES" on the mood label. He is using Steinway--C-Flügel, EMS-Synthi-100 and Oberheim-4-Voice"
Oxygene 4 Live
YouTube via biodroid. Per Kristian again. Follow-up to this post.
"Two norwegians performing a classic song of Jean Michel Jarre live."
The 8Bit Philosophy Trailer
YouTube via quqo.
"This is the official trailer of the upcoming documentary 'The 8Bit Philosophy'. A film about commodore 64 musicians. Coming 2008. Have fun."
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Radiohead Broadcasts on New Years Eve
via DEAD AIR SPACE:
"Dear Reader
Hope you are having a peaceful christmas.
As you may now have heard we will be broadcasting a pre-recording of some songs and other bits on New Years Eve.. you will be able to view it online from here at midnight new years eve, uk time that is...
radiohead.tv
as well as other places that i am not sure about. this is a wee celebration of the release of the physical manifestation of 'in rainbows'.
yours hopefully
Thom"
Picutured: Johnny Greenwood and his Analog Systems French Connection and Modular. The French Connection is based on the Ondes Martenot.
Recuerdos de la Alhambra played on a French Connection
The above features the French Connection by Stretta (previously posted)
"After watching the Jean Laurendeau Ondes Martenot video on youtube, I was inspired to seek out an Analogue Systems French Connection controller. It so happens that I came across a used unit, so I jumped on it. I received it two days ago and I was eager (perhaps too eager) to contribute a demo of my new toy to youtube. Yes, my intonation is questionable. My apologies.
All the music was generated exclusively with a (primarily Doepfer) modular synthesizer, one monophonic line at a time. This exercise is somewhat of a test balloon for a long form modular project I'm currently sketching out.
Correction: the original piece is Recuerdos de la Alhambra by Francisco Tárrega"
Useless but Interesting Bit of Trivia
Note the placement of the names Dave Smith and RogerLinn in the top two renderings for the LinnDrum II Analog. The third shot is the LinnDrum II Digital (minus the analog engine from Dave Smith). The top image is the official from the DSI website. The bottom two are from this post.
Update: In case it wasn't clear, what is interesting about this is that the names Roger Linn and Dave Smith are swapped in the two images of the Analog version. Same version of the synth with the the names in different order. The top has Roger Linn's name first and the second has Dave Smith's name first. My guess is they decided to go with Roger Linn's name first as that is what is on the DSI site.
Metamorphoses
[Switched-on special] Various Artists - Metamorphoses. Electronic Interpretations of Classic and Modern Musical Works (Melodya, 1980)"Take a regular switched-on xxxx record like Wendy Carlos' Switched-on Bach, play it on an EMS Synthi 100, and you'll get this lost diamond of Russian electronic music, and possibly one of the rarest "switched on" records ever made.
Since the Synthi 100 is perhaps the most versatile synthesizer ever build (at least that's what Karlheinz Stockhausen once said) and given the lack of recordings with it (I remember Stockhausen's Sirius, some early Rolf Gehlhaar stuff and Bruno Spoerri's Toy Planet) this record might also appeal to the vintage gear fetishists."
via Orpheus Music where you can find the download (Sharebee link at bottom)
Equinoxe 4 live jam
YouTube via Sydreyc. Sent my way via Mr. Array: "Per Kristian is the dude on the left playing the Synthex."
Video description:
"Me and a friend of mine is playing Jean Michel Jarre's Equinoxe 4, totally live and without rehersal :)
Instruments used are:
Access Virus TI
Roland D-50
Eminent 310 U
Elka Synthex
Mooog Etherwave Theremin
Roland TR-909"
perkristian
Linndrum II Drum Machine on Dave Smith Instruments
Looks like the Linndrum II is up on the DSI website. Click the image for the full size shot."Many of you have been anxiously awaiting news of BoomChik, the collaboration between Dave and Roger Linn announced at Winter NAMM 2007. As information becomes available, we'll be posting it to this page. The most obvious development over the last year is that it is no longer called BoomChik: it is now the LinnDrum II. There will be two models: the all-digital LinnDrum II and the LinnDrum II Analog, which adds a 4-voice analog synth and 27 dual-function voicing knobs. The LinnDrum II will be available from Roger Linn Design and the LinnDrum II Analog will be available from Dave Smith Instruments.
The operating system emphasizes real-time performance with the ability to drop in and out of record on different beats, play multiple beats simultaneously, switch in and out of song mode, and much more, all without stopping play. Both MPC-style real time and XOX-style step recording are provided, and the 16 velocity- and pressure-sensitive pads—backlit for visual sequence animation—can be assigned to sounds, tunings, beats, pad mutes, or sequence steps. Dedicated buttons exist for touch sensitivity, sound restart, real-time erase and pressure-sensitive note repeat or rolls. 16 megabytes of internal flash memory exist for sound storage, but because sound data is read directly from flash, expanding sound memory is accomplished merely by plugging a compact flash card into the rear panel slot. Inputs and outputs include four audio outs, two sampling/audio processing/drum trigger inputs, phones, USB, MIDI in/out, two expression pedal/foot switch inputs, and four additional direct voice outputs for the Analog model.
Sample playback is enhanced with 8-level velocity switching, dynamic filters and resonators, distortion and lo-fi algorithms, two complex modulation matrices and the ability to use sequence events as modulation sources. The Analog model enables significantly richer voice timbres with its four Curtis chip-based analog voices, analog feedback resonator paths, and dedicated voicing knobs. Performance enhancements include two programmable sliders and dedicated on/off buttons for filter, resonator, amp sim/compressor, EQ, delay and reverb effects.
We hope to be shipping by mid-2008."
Thanks to MG and J for sending this in.
MOOG Little Phatty and Akai MPC500
images via jsrockit on the Matrixysnth Forum. Note these are for sale. More info and images on the forum.
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
I hope everyone is having a great holiday!
Merry Christmas (Dec 25 - Jan 6), Happy Hanukkah (Dec 5-13th), Kwanzaa (Dec 26 - Jan 1), Yule (Dec 24), Boxing Day (Dec 26), Festivus (Dec 23, or whenever you choose), et al! Let me know if I missed any. Like last year, may your Holidays be synthfully warm. Pictured is the Novation Nova a particularly special Synthmas gift for me this year. click here for some more shots.
Update: My wife got me a Casio VL-Tone!!! Woot! Da-Da-Da... If you got anything synth related feel free to post it in the comments.
Monday, December 24, 2007
TB-303 Acid Reflux 006
YouTube via RRKS69.
"The second track from The Reflux Experience EP. Due out when someone signs me (LOL)... You can listen to the stereo version on my MySpace page. Another 8 minutes of Acid Madness here.
PEACE & CHEERS,
RRKS"
Form 12
YouTube via thedeepelement.
"The patch is somewhere in this video. I've always been compelled to use harsh tones that simulate distortion but don't actually incorporate it into the signal flow. *Some of my modules are in for repairs."
1981 Moog Rogue Synth Schematics Program Manual Ad
via this auction"1981 Technical Service Manual. 8 fold out pages. 1981 Factory Service Bulletin. Authorized Dealer Logo Page. 2 page info on the Prodigy. Even an Original Moog Envelope"
1981 Moog Minimoog Synth Promo Ad Service Bulletin
via this auction"1980 Promo Ad on the Minimoog. Printed on both sides. Descriptions, specs and more. Also includes an Original 1981 Factory Service Bulletin. 3 pages. Gives info on Oscillator tuning"
Secession 'Touch' 1985
YouTube via AGESOFTHEROD. Via sequencer.de. KORG Poly-61.
"Performing on BBC TV's Oxford Road Show .... 1 February 1985"
Weird Sound Generator demo
YouTube via sduck409. Sent my way via Steve.
"A brief demo of my Weird Sound Generator - built from a pcb/plans from Music From Outer Space."
Casio CZ-1 Spelunking - CZ-1 Easter Eggs
It looks like the Casio CZ-1 has some functional Easter Eggs in it. If you are not familiar with Easter Eggs, in software they are basically hidden or previously unknown features or other functionality. They can be credit rolls of the people that worked in the software, secret levels, a flight simulator in the old version of Microsoft Excell, or in the Casio CZ-1, extra functionality.
"I was in the process of making a program that would let me edit Casio CZ-1 sysex dumps. A Casio CZ-1 is a synthesizer. I wanted the program to also be able to take advantage of any known easter eggs in the CZ-1. I was reading about these easter eggs on the Sealed web pages. Those pages were the basis of all of the studies I have been doing. Without them I wouldn't have even started.
However, those pages left me with a lot of questions, so I started doing bit-by-bit analyses of my CZ-1. I wanted to do a really systematic study of those easter eggs, and to document them better so that they will be more usable. I was originally just doing this for my own interest, but I've wasted so much time on it now that I figure I ought to make it available to everyone.
The easter eggs I'm working on concern the waveform types, the "window function", and the modulation type. For example: There are more basic waveforms than the Casio documentation admits to. The "resonant" waves are created by passing a certain waveform through a window function, and if you manipulate the window function separately you can create all sorts of new waves. Also, if you program the CZ-1 from the front panel you can only combine certain waves. But when you use sysex you can combine any wave with any other wave and run it through any of the windows. And lastly, there are more types of modulation available than Casio has documented. All of these things were written up on the Sealed website, and I just wanted to do more thorough documentation and samples of those things."
Click here for more detail. This one sent my way via swissdoc.
"I was in the process of making a program that would let me edit Casio CZ-1 sysex dumps. A Casio CZ-1 is a synthesizer. I wanted the program to also be able to take advantage of any known easter eggs in the CZ-1. I was reading about these easter eggs on the Sealed web pages. Those pages were the basis of all of the studies I have been doing. Without them I wouldn't have even started.
However, those pages left me with a lot of questions, so I started doing bit-by-bit analyses of my CZ-1. I wanted to do a really systematic study of those easter eggs, and to document them better so that they will be more usable. I was originally just doing this for my own interest, but I've wasted so much time on it now that I figure I ought to make it available to everyone.
The easter eggs I'm working on concern the waveform types, the "window function", and the modulation type. For example: There are more basic waveforms than the Casio documentation admits to. The "resonant" waves are created by passing a certain waveform through a window function, and if you manipulate the window function separately you can create all sorts of new waves. Also, if you program the CZ-1 from the front panel you can only combine certain waves. But when you use sysex you can combine any wave with any other wave and run it through any of the windows. And lastly, there are more types of modulation available than Casio has documented. All of these things were written up on the Sealed website, and I just wanted to do more thorough documentation and samples of those things."
Click here for more detail. This one sent my way via swissdoc.
Roland D-50 demonstration
YouTube via VintSynth.
"One of ther most beautiful synthesizers of the late eighties can still impress."
The Mill
via Chris Muir:"A granular file player. Great for warping XMas music, enabling you to enjoy songs in a new way. This current version does some calculations based on a 44.1K sample rate, so if you use other sample rates things will be a little wacky.
There are two versions here, a Max patch and a stand-alone Mac OS X application. If you are on a Mac and you don't have Max, you can run the application. If you're on Windows and don't have Max, you can run the patch version, if you install the Max Runtime for Windows."
link
HC KSS Synth Demos
Swissdoc sent me a link to the HC KSS Synth Demos thread on Harmony Central. The thread contains a massive list of synth demos started by clustorchord back on 10/11/2004. Do check it out.
ARP 2500 modular sequence
YouTube via polyvoks.
"the fantastic king ARP 2500 playing with 2 vco's / 2 filters / 1 vca / 3 env & the sequencer"
Ken Stone and MFOS DIY Modules
Two pics via Mitchell Sigman of Celebutante, and Keyboard Magazine. You might also remember Mitchell from these previous posts.
"I have a .com system with modules that I've built from Ken Stone and Music From Outer Space PCB's, and I just finished doing my own silkscreening for the panels (I'm not that good at it yet though... you can see some glitches). I did all the artwork in Photoshop. I got the "tic mark" patterns for the knobs from yusynth.net, who has a lot of his own .com style art on his site.
Here is a single panel with both a Ken Stone CGS31 Digital Noise module as well as a CGS RR Real Ring Modulator (my system needs some passive attenuators to make the ringmodmodule more useful)."
Update: one more image via Mitchell.
Waldorf Blofeld Synthesizer Bass
YouTube via Porcu68. "Preset Bass Patches from Waldorf Blofeld and Photos."
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Analog Suicide - GIVE THIS WOMAN AN OSCILLATOR...
click here for AnalogSuicide a new analog gear oriented blog by Tara Busch. You might remember Tara from these previous posts."Welcome to my brand new dot on your radio wave...Analog Suicide!! It is dedicated to all things wild & wonderful in the world of analog & vintage gear as well as the newest, coolest developments on the digital side including software & sound design.
Hosted by me, Tara Busch, this blog welcomes creative approaches from all aspects....it stems from a personal fascination with how other artists create & to learn more about this beautiful and aesthetically & sonically stunning world of instruments & machines...
Please send my way your wildest , oddest finds ...circuit benders & synth scientists!! MIDI controlled Tesla Coils & Fairlights!!! EMS synthis, MS-20's & OB-8's!! Odd pedals, Guitar synths, Filters, triggering devices, & theremins!!! Films & clips are most welcome as well as links & pictures & stories!"
Be sure to check out some of the contributors. I'm subbed and looking forward to what comes in.
analog synthesizer buchla
YouTube via emssynthi100.
"259 and 261 with 250. i met DON and these modules are actually the ones from his own system since he didnt have any ready to sell he was kind enough to let go some of his system. thanx DON"
Simmons sds7 Pwnd again by the 909
YouTube via MADRRRRR.
"This time i'll show again how different the sds 7 reacts to changes in the accent of the 909. Later on i use the same pattern and scroll through some sds presets.
Very nice wet towel snares. That will slap around your ears.
Lovely hihat type of hiss. Raw claps en snares with nice noise
And that instant raw noise sound of Reese - Funk, Funk, Funk ... Or Lil Louis Video Clash type of sounds
Enjoy ...
( Next up is sampling the sds sounds with my sp1200 and beat the hell out of it .. but that's later ) "
Alesis Micron Song FM Sounds
YouTube via Gtechture.
"Hi, This is a song I created in Setup mode. I made all patterns and sounds used in this composition. All patches utilize the microns frequency modulation capabilites."
Waldorf Blofeld
YouTube via Porcu68.
"Problems with waldorf Blofeld. Others can not be showed. For instance freezing patch selection menu."
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