Sunday, January 06, 2008
syntezatory.prv.pl - Akai AX80
YouTube via Jexus.
"1984 Akai AX-80. No effects apart from small amounts of reverb/delay here and there. All sounds programmed by WC Olo Garb. Video editing by WC Olo Garb. ||| Syntezatory.prv.pl Videos: showing you not what a synthesizer can do, but what a man can do with a synthesizer."
Saturday, January 05, 2008
HUDSON FALL - (I CAN'T) DREAM FOR YOU MUSIC VIDEO
YouTube via rkruger. Yamaha CS80.
"BRAND NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR HUDSON FALL'S "(I CAN'T) DREAM FOR YOU", DIRECTED BY RYAN KRUGER
MYSPACE.COM/ENIGMAACE
EDITED BY MICHAEL S. DAVIES & RYAN KRUGER"
Waldorf Wave
images via this auction. via Rob. Note how thin the front panel is. In the bottom shot you can see the width from the back."Included in the auction: The Wave with the original english user manual in boxed ringbinder, the software boot floppy disk, 6 other floppy disks with extra soundbanks, a spare pair of new, unused shock obsorbers (lift the front panel up) and some new spare CEM chips x4 (filter / vca chips)
The synth is an absolute beast and sounds amazing. The Wave is a true pro flagship, that was certainly NOT made to budget. Its also a total dream for synth programming with 61 knobs, 84 buttons, 8 sliders and huge LCD display.Super rare synth, famous abusers include Hans Zimmer, the Orb, DJ Sasha, Depeche mode, R&S studios, Dave Angel etc. In total there were about 200 Waves made, i can only recall seeing a few turn up on Ebay in the last few years, but one just sold on Ebay germany for just over 6500 euros (over £5000), without any manuals or spares."
the timbre den
click here for more synth shots on the timber den. The site mentions the ATP Festival in the UK back in 2003. I'm guessing it's ATP as in the All Tomorrow's Parties festival? If you know otherwise feel free to comment.MOOG Minimoog
Roland SH-101
EMS Synthi
EDP WASP Deluxe
EDP Gnat
Ensoniq VFX
via AnalogSuicide
More Info on the Three Blofelds and Three 4-Poles
I updated the following two posts with more info from George (swissdoc).
Three Waldorf 4-Poles
Three Blofelds
Scroll down the posts to the last Updates.
Three Waldorf 4-Poles
Three Blofelds
Scroll down the posts to the last Updates.
Synthetiseur Vocal - French C64 Synth
I saw this one on Music Thing. It was posted by Stamba on the CBS.nu forum. You will find more shots and info there. If anyone knows more about this feel free to comment.
"Build in 1984 by the french company Techni Musique based in Clermont-Ferrand. This unit has also been massively produced for the Amstrad 464/6128 and distributed in primary schools with the “Plan informatique pour tous”.
Unfortunately the Commodore 64 hadn’t a big success in France so this Commodore 64 version seems to be quite rare! It plugs into the cartirdge port of the Commodore 64/128 and features 2 audio outputs"
Zerosum Inertia 3 - SCI Pro-One Tracks
click here for tracks featuring the Sequential Circuits Pro-One via Zerosum Inertia. Follow-up to this post.
Roland JP8000 Come Sail Away Styx
YouTube via synthartist69
"Here is my version of the synthesizer solo in the middle section of "Come Sail Away" by Styx."
Update: synthartist69 took the original down, so this is a new version of the video.
Apollo 8 -- Third Rock From The Sun
YouTube via Goldenthrush.
"You are sitting at a computer that could have handled the entire United States space program during the 1960s, as well as Russia's, with enough left over to rule the world if you were so inclined.
In fact, according to vintage computer sites, you could have done this with a cheap pocket calculator made today.
Yet the space program was built on such primitive technology, and that in turn pulled along home technology to give us in a small laptop more than they ever thought possible.
This is a brief retrospective of the Apollo 8 mission, from blast off to splash down, you can find the entire 20 minute piece on the Internet Archive, of course.
The music involves Filtered Coffee.
See, for Tedd's birthday, the older boy and I were going to get him a filter called... Filtered Coffee. So we call Analogue Haven. They don't have it, and they're the only place that would have it.
So I ask them to let me know when one comes in, thinking we'll get it for Christmas.
A few days before Christmas... They get it in. Yay! --Except it's right before Christmas!
BUT after Christmas, I email, and yay, they still have it! So we ran down and got it.
Of course, Tedd has to play with his new toy. He finally comes back in grinning and says "It's not timid!!"
Yes, dear, the entire neighborhood is aware of this.
So using a Yamaha (I think!) drum machine, the Hammond S6 with the Filtered Coffee, Moog Voyager filter sample and hold, and the Moog MG1 with an octave divider (I have to put all this down for you equipment junkies), Tedd went retro to the bone.
So, in the style of Telstar, but a lot grungier, we give you Third Rock From The Sun.
(Yes, as a matter of fact, I did re-upload this three times. But it's corrected now!)
Some Rights Reserved.
Welcome to Route 66."
Just can't get enough
YouTube via analoguecrazy4.
"Here is 'Just can't get enough' played on my Jupiter-4 and JP-8000. Roland R8 is doing the drums."
genoqs_tutorial01
YouTube via ripe909.
"this is a short tutorial on the genoqs octopus. I show how to use custom direction maps and step events to perform a simple modification on how a sequence plays"
enapa monomachine and machinedrum uw jam
YouTube via enapa1apa.
"made a small jam today, monomachine and MDuv... bleep!! mono: 2xfm+saw MD: RAMr/p + bd2, 3roms..."
Octave The CAT
images via this auction"This is the best of the 3 different Cat's made. It has the super thick -24 db low pass filter. It has the coolest Sample and hold features. You can S&H osc 1,osc 2, & the filter or any combo of the 3. I really like how the sine waves are on sliders so you don't have to change between them, you can use all of them if you like at the same time. You can even control the the glide with a foot switch. and/or Cv the filter, osc 1 ,lfo. Polyphony - Mono/Duo-phonic Oscillators - 2 VCO's (2 sawtooth, 2 square wave, and 1 triangle) plus 2 sub-oscillators LFO - 1 with sample-and-hold Filter - 1 with sample -and-hold VCA - 1 VCA, 2 EGs- AR and ASDR Keyboard - 37 keys Memory - None Control - CV/Gate Date Produced - 1980-81"
Update via microtonal in the comments:
"There are a few inaccuracies in the description. You can APPLY S&H to VCO1, VCO2 or the VCF. You cannot S&H VCO1, VCO2 or VCF, only Noise or VCO1. Also, there are no sine waves on the Octave CAT.
Note the missing knob caps in the photo. These white knobs are impossible to find today."
Motorola Scalatron Synthesizer
images via this auction
Anyone know what this is?
Update: be sure to check out the comments for more info.
MUSE Receptor
images via this auction"version 1.0. The unit comes with a 160gb hard drive and 256mb of RAM. You can easily upgrade the specs through MUSE. For those of you who do not know what the Receptor is, here is a brief overview.
The Muse Receptor Rev C is a 2U rack-mountable module that runs standard Windows VST instruments and effects. Receptor can process and play back 16 simultaneous audio sources, which can be either internal VSTi instruments or external analog/digital inputs. It can also run up to 57 VST effects at one time. But that barely hints at what you can do with Receptor!
* Play, edit and store VST plug-in effects and instruments on a hardware device
* Incredibly powerful and versatile
* Intuitive mixer-style interface handles up to 16 audio sources at once
* Connects to your Windows or Mac computer for downloading and editing presets
* Comes with free VST plug-ins!
This is the perfect tool for either live performance or in the studio. You can now use all you virtual instruments without the limitations of your CPU."
Friday, January 04, 2008
Kratzhaus
YouTube via acidmoongfx. Via sequencer.de.
"1st blood: Korg Kaossilaor and Kaoss Pad 3. Bank C sound is re-re-resampled with KP3 itself. A, B and D are Kaossilor sounds."
Come sei veramente - Jazz vsn su Clavia NS
YouTube via liar82. Sent my way via fischek.
"Come sei veramente riarrangiata in chiave jazz sul Clavia Nord Stage"
The Mae Shei - Run To Your Grave
Some Suzuki Omnichord action and more.
"Directed by: The Mae Shi Edited by: Jay Trautman Shot by: Jessica Brower
Co-Starring members of: Health, 14 Year Old Girls, Holi Buffaglo, and DJ Kyle H. Mabson"
The Mae Shei on Virb.com. Sent my way via Roberto.
Update: Interesting Buchla tie in via sir_dss in the comments:
"This is a great band from LA that Ezra Buchla founded with his friends. Ezra only makes appearances now and again with them and now is in the equally amazing Gowns.
http://www.myspace.com/gowns
It was crazy/awesome to see them with $10k worth of 100/200 system modules at a show at The Smell(local all ages punk venue) doing this totally modern hardcore with fucked up electronics in the mix.
I really geeked out when I first met Ezra and just wanted to talk about Lo Pass Gates...I was pretty annoying. If you meet Ezra don't bother him about his family business!
The Mae Shei are all great chaps! "
Hollow Sun - Akai AX80 and AX60 for the Alesis Fusion
click here for the free downloads as well as good overviews of the two synths on Hollow Sun. via Gwenhwyfaer in the comments of this post.
The Three Blomigos
George (swissdoc), Till and Boele at it again. They sent some images to the Waldorf list and of course this is what came to mind. Mini escapade by me.In order:
Earning their lunch with the Blofeld
Lunch at McDonalds
Blofeld Road - A good days work is complete!
And their three Blofelds. Note the MicroQ knobs on one. Close-up shot here.Update: Three more knob types:
evoblo.jpg
pulseblo.jpg
saffireblo.jpg
bloP08.jpg
You should be able to guess these based on thier names.
Udpate: More info from Georg on the three Blofelds
"Blofeld Messe Prototype
Frank Schneider hat to tinker around here during last night before the Messe to make the display fit (somehow the wrong displays have been delivered)
Blofeld Pre Series Version
Different labeling on the Matrix and the right display, so quite tidy internally
Blofeld Production Version
Midi LED added, Power Switch added
Non Waldorf content, upper row:
Electro Harmonix Phasers, two different black Russian Small Stones,
two different green Russian Small Stones (older model), a new USA
version and a Behringer UP100
We did in fact recordings of the Phasers (incl. a DOD one, not shown)
driven by the noise of the Blofeld. Maybe more on that later..."
Three Waldorf 4-Poles
image via Till Kopper on the Waldorf list."Boele, Georg (swissdoc) and Till having fun."
I'm guessing this is one of each.
See if you can spot the differences.
Below are the 4-Poles, Small Stone pedals, and of course the Waldorf Blofeld.
Update via Till in the comments:
"These are 5 (five) small stones. And only two of them are the same revision. Only the two black russians are identically. But soundwise the are all close, but not identically."
Update via Georg aka swissdoc:
"Again some detail on the 3 versions of the 4-Pole, from top to bottom:
4-Pole Beta Unit (Curtis)
This one was used by me during the beta phase back in time, hey, I was using once a postcard to report some bugs to Stefan while beeing on vacation in the "Fränkische Schweiz".
As you can see, the labeling was changed later to fit the features which have been packed in during development.
4-Pole Production Unit (Curtis)
The buttons are swapped, correct. I assume that happened during all the swapping of EPROMs during beta phase.
4-Pole Production Unit (Pulse Filter)Silkscreening slightly changed here, most important is the change from 9V AC power input to 12V DC. Usefull when you are chasing up one or the other version.
Looks like this version has a green/red LED to show the overdrive status of the gain stage.
Again, we did some recordings, 3 saws from the Blofeld run into the 4-Pole (Curtis vs. Pulse Filter). More on that later plus detail shots from the interior and back of all tree units. Georg."
Anxiety Psychosis
YouTube via SynthKraft. Follow up to this video. www.synthkraft.de
"Another prerelease of my upcoming album. This time a more psycho one, hope you like it."
"Synths used: Moog Rogue, Clavia NordModular, Oberheim Matrix 6, Korg Trident. For those strange soundeffekts is recorded the unfinished track via my Rode NT-2A mic and deliberately overload the signal. Lots of distortion and filtering did the rest."
Happy Knobbing 07
click here for some shots of the Happy Knobbing event back in May of 2007. These shots just went up. You can find previous shots and videos here (scroll to see all posts).
Leslie Sanford - Cobalt VST
"Cobalt is a VSTi software synthesizer inspired by many of the digital synthesizers from the 1980s.In the early 80s as digital technology became cheaper, many manufacturers designed synthesizers that combined earlier analog technology with newer digital technology. These were known as hybrid synthesizers. Well-known hybrid synthesizers are the Korg DW8000 and DW6000, the Ensoniq ESQ-1, and the Kawai K3.
In analog/digital hybrid synthesizers, the oscillators responsible for generating waveforms are digital while the filter section remains analog. This approach freed designers to use any kind of waveform; they were no longer restricted to traditional analog waveforms such as sawtooth, triangle, and pulse. However, by using an analog filter, these synthesizers retained the warmth earlier analog synthesizers were known for.
Though Cobalt is a purely digital synthesizer, its overall architecture is very much like those early hybrid synthesizers. It features a wide selection of waveforms, most of which were resynthesized from actual hybrid synthesizers, while providing traditional subtractive synthesis capabilities for sculpting its sound.
Key Features
* GUI created by grymmjack
* 26 waveforms - many of which were resynthesized from 80s hybrid synths.
* Flexible modulation routes.
* Apply PWM to any waveform.
* LFO delay.
* Polyphonic Portamento.
* Key tracked envelopes.
* Rich overdrive effect based on a custom algorithm.
* Stereo delay effect with MIDI synchable delay times.
* Easy to use.
Cobalt can sound at times warm and rich while at other times cold and stark. From gentle pads to screaming leads, Cobalt's gotcha covered."
Click here for more info.
New Modular Rack
click here for more images on SoNiCbRaT.Vermona RM-1 Ring Modulator
Doepfer A-100 Modular
Sherman Filterbank 2
Sequential Circuits Poly Sequencer
This one is labeled as a Tape Sequencer on Lt. John J. Rambo where you'll find another shot and other posts featuring more including the TB-303 vs. TBX-303 and Pro-One Circuit Board Art.Anyone know what size tape this took?
Update via Stephen Jones in the comments:
"It takes BRAEMAR Mini Data Cassettes which were used in a few other data recorders such as one used in a medical system. I've seen new old stock go as high as $50/ea. There is a medical equipment supplier that sells new old stock, but I think they sell them 5 for $90. "
max monomusic
One of NightBirds in studio (2008).
flickr by NightBirds (Electronic Music - France) (click for more shots)
Tom - An Oberheim Two Voice System
images via this auction"An Oberheim Two-voice (TVS-1) SEM synthesizer, built sometime in the 1977-1979 time frame. The serial number is #224, visible in the pic showing the AC plug-in. I have been the proud owner of "Tom" for 20 years now, ever since I found him as a tot abandoned in a music store during the digital blitzkrieg of the '80's.
I have kept him in my home all of this time; no gigging whatsoever. The unit is perfect, as if placed in a time capsule in 1977, and just now re-opened. All knobs, switches and other sundry controls function as new. The sequencer works, as does the portamento, unison/voice selection switch, transposition switch, tuning, etc. All LED's work correctly, as do all Vernier pots. The keyboard works completely, just a little noisy (typical Pratt-Read !!!). The SEM's are things of beauty, and, just thinking about the rich, astounding sounds they produce, it is difficult to continue typing this; I have loved "Tom" as a son. But, some things are just more important, and, as a good friend of mine keeps reminding me, we are but stewards of these items, keeping them as new, enjoying them, and then passing them on. The original power cord is included, just not in the pics. Neither the Fender Rhodes 73-key suitcase electric piano nor Tango the Bengal cat are for sale, nor should they be deemed to be included (!:P) Nevertheless, due to his age, "Tom" must be sold AS-IS, and with no return, as he works just fine. You will not be disappointed in his condition or operation.
"Tom" is not inexpensive. A similar Two-voice, once belonging to Billy Cobham, sold here on Ebay last year for a substantial amount of money. While not owned by a famous drummer, "Tom" is in much nicer condition. It breaks my heart to offer him for sale, but that, as they say, is that. Please do not bid on him if you do not intend to pay within 24 hours of winning (PayPal or by Cashier's Check overnighted to me; no other arrangements will be accepted). "Tom" weighs 45 lbs., and probably will tip the scales at around 50 lbs."
Yamaha SK50D
images via this auction
"Enormous analog synthesizer featuring two keyboards, a string section, two FM organ sections, a bass section, a polyphonic synthesizer section and a lead synth section. All the parts can be layered and played at the same time using the mixer section. This thing sounds great. It has built in tremolo and ensemble (chorus) effects. The organ is great. It can go from a B3 to the most haunting organ sounds ever made. The strings are very nice, and the synth parts need no introduction if you're familiar with the CS range of synthesizers. There is a lot of control over all the different sections. All the parameters you would expect to find on a synthesizer are there for the synth parts. Both organ sections have sliders that work as drawbars."
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Zerosum Inertia 2 - DSI Evolver Tracks
click here for tracks featuring the DSI Evolver via Zerosum Inertia."I made a (rough under construction) page for Evolver sounds. Of course it would be better if I would finish stuff and only post songs but these live jams were really exciting that I decided to share them in there live form, the way they were created. Its a little overwhelming, 30 tracks, but some are real short. I recommend the guitar tracks with the evolver processing my guitar and Truly Beautiful Disaster."
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