click here for the audio on SoundClick. via Christian on AH.
"It's just a straight drumloop ran into the phatty."
Friday, February 01, 2008
Korg 900PS Manual Added to the Korg Kornukopia Site
You can find it in the manuals, service documents & schematics and sounds section of korganalogue.net.
Update via Paul of punkdisco:
"If anyone wants to hear what one sounds like, listen to our All Available Space track. It's the main octave line that runs from start to finish. I once spent half a day with a butchered wire from my MS20's CV outs, randomly poking it into anything keyboard related on the 900PS. I was hoping to discover where I could add CV/Gate ins. From memory, I got the pitch working but not the gate (might have been the other way around). CV on a 900PS would be fab! Huge thanks for this Ben.."
Synthesizer
flickr by wooster_synth (click for more)"Synthesizer based around a MFOS Soundlab."
full size
via sequencer.de
KORG X50 Camouflage
"For a limited time Korg is making available a special camouflage version of the X50. Now add some cool style to your rig while you get the great sounds and features that only an X50 delivers. There are very few of these available in the US so act now to get this sure-to-be collector’s edition version." Click the image for a full size shot.
ARP 2600 Demo Series Introduction
YouTube via AutomaticGainsay
"Marc Doty tackles the ARP 2600. This is the introduction to an extensive series which will demonstrate the functionality and sound of the ARP 2600 synthesizer."
Roland RS-202
images via this auction"The Roland RS202 string synth was the successor to the largely unsuccessful RS101.
It used the standard method for creating lush, swirling string sounds of the time - take a simple organ 'divide down' sawtooth oscillator as the basic sound source for unrestricted polyphony and throw the whole thing through a chorus unit. Add simple vibrato, a choice of registers and and a simple attack/release envelope shaper and you have the perfect recipe for rich strings.
That the Roland RS202 could deliver silky string sounds is undisputed - it sounded gorgeous and I remember being full of envy when a friend of mine bought one and let me play it (and I borrowed it whenever I could!). It was simple to operate, a joy to use and as soon as you played it, a unique sound just dribbled out through those rear panel jacks! The RS202 wan't quite as 'mushy' as other, competing string synths of the time and it had its own sonic identity.
The RS202 came in its own flight case (the principle reason for my friend buying it... he was gigging and touring extensively at the time) and it had a simple front panel. It had controls for tuning and master volume and various large rocker switches that allowed you to select different string sounds: Strings I and Strings II (an octave up from Strings I). Like other string synths of the era, there was also a brass sound that could be selected and, like other string synths of the era, it was next to useless! No.... it was the string sound(s) that defined the RS202.
At the heart of the RS202's string sound was Roland's 'ensemble' or chorus effect. For whatever reason, Roland got this just right not only on the RS202 but also in the chorus effects pedals that they (and their subsequent subsidiary company, Boss) were to release. This rich ensemble effect was enough to guarantee the RS202's success.
However, unlike the competition of the time, each key also had its own envelope shaper so that each note articulated properly. This was a huge improvement on other such string synths at the time and made the RS202 far more playable and expressive - it's just a shame that the sound's attack was limited to just two preset values determined by the setting of a single grey rocker switch labelled 'SOFT ATTACK'. By way of compensation, there was at least a totally variable 'SUSTAIN' (i.e. release) control so all was not lost. The other grey 'TONE' rocker switch allowed you to select two different timbres for the string or brass sound.
The RS202 was also 'bi-timbral' with different sounds for the bottom two and top three octaves respectively and flexibility was enhanced by the fact that the lower and upper sections were (almost) completely independent of each other thus you could have solo 'cello in the bottom half of the keyboard and a lush string ensemble in the upper half of the keyboard. Or you could have combinations of lower and upper brass and strings and so on according to the settings of the five identical rocker switches for each lower / upper section. Two sliders allowed you to balance the two sections. However, whilst being flexible for the 'power player', for someone who just wanted a uniform sound across the RS202's 5-octave keyboard range meant setting the separate lower and upper sections identically which was potentially a problem for live use. That said, the layout of the controls was such that this was not difficult to achieve.On the surface, then, the Roland RS202 was unique in the market at the time and potentially looked unstoppable.
Except that the Roland RS202 did have some serious competition in the unlikely form of the MX202 from American manufacturer, Multivox. However....
Not only did the RS202 and MX202 share almost indentical numeric product names, it would appear that the resemblance didn't end there. Apart from a few minor differences, the front panel layout was almost identical in every respect and was only differentiated with the use of slightly different switches and control caps. Furthermore, the underlying circuitry in the MX202 was also almost identical to the Roland RS202's. In short, the Multivox MX202 was pretty much a carbon copy clone of the RS202 and Multivox had ripped off the design almost component-for-component! However, somehow the two managed to have a different sound.
Roland, of course, won out in the end and are still here to tell the tale. But Multivox... who?
What's on offer here is the genuine article. Hollow Sun contributor, Paul Marshall has (once again!) gone to extreme lengths to provide detailed multi-samples of this Roland classic. With long, luxurious samples taken every major third across the original's F-F 5-octave range, what we have here is a truly authentic representation of what is arguably Roland's finest string synth. There are two sounds - straight 8' Strings 1 and the two registers Strings 1+2 (16' and 8') layered in octaves."
MFOS Mini-Controller (+/9V to +/-15V)
"Features* The MFOS Mini-Controller has a twenty nine note stylus keyboard (C - C - C to E)
* It can be used to play your Sound Lab Mini-Synth or 1V/Oct modular.
* The MFOS Mini-Controller supports four CV outputs (2 with portamento 2 without portamento) My prototype (shown) only used two.
* There is one trigger output and one gate output.
* Just the coolest thing EVER!Quirks
* Rare, rare (did I say rare) mis-sampling that grabs the raw buss voltage. Remember you are jabbing a PC trace with a piece of metal (slightly bouncy). But even so this thing is just too much fun to play with."
More info here.
MusoTalk 118-NAMM Report 2008-Solaris,Doepfer,Future Retro
YouTube via musotalk
"weitere Informationen auf www.musotalk.de -Versteckt im oberen Stock der Halle,neben den Gitarrenanbietern erspäte ich die " Deutsche Insel" in der auch John Bowen mit seinem Solaris Unterschlupf gefunden hat. Zu sehen gibt es den Solaris, neue A 100 Module von Doepfer, der Halbmodulare von Furture Retro, und einen exotischen Stepsequenzer."
ARP Odyssey + SCI Pro-One + Roland Juno-60 + TR-606
YouTube via retrosound72
"bassline: ARP Odyssey, triggered by the SCI Pro-One internal sequencer and sync with the TR-606 drum machine sweeping metallic sound: SCI Pro-One through EHX Small Stone
pads and strings: Roland Juno-60
drums: Roland TR-606"
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Circuit Bending on OBP TV
"Circuit bending is the creative short-circuiting of devices such as low voltage, battery-powered guitar effects, children's toys and small synthesizers to create new musical instruments and sound generators. Emphasizing spontaneity and randomness, the techniques of circuit bending have been commonly associated with noise music, though many more conventional contemporary musicians and musical groups have been known to experiment with "bent" instruments."You can watch the episode here.
Via Jesse who is featured in the video.
A Noisy Afternoon
Click here for the full flickr set by sentencesintensenses. There are some great shots in this set so be sure to check them out. As always click on the image in the set followed by the All Sizes link on top for the full sized shots.via David
Frostwave Sonic Alienator w/ Machinedrum 1
YouTube via bigcitymusic
"This is just one pattern from an Elektron Machinedrum into the Sonic Alienator. This incredible little box offers bit crushing "sonic decimation", distortion, analog filtering with resonance and variable routing/orientation of the filter, decimator, and distortion. Available exclusively at www.bigcitymusic.com"
New Percussa Forum
"I am Bert Schiettecatte, the founder of PERCUSSA, and the inventor of the AudioCubes, beautiful and intelligent cubes which work with your computer and music software to stimulate your creativity.
Several of AudioCube owners have sent me emails with feedback over the past few months. I am grateful for your input and try to feed as much as possible into software updates.
Some have asked about the existence of a forum, so they could exchange ideas about applications of AudioCubes with other people and ask questions.
I've now put a forum online and I'd like to invite you all to register and participate. Together we can explore the potential of this promising tool for sound and music exploration and live performance!
================================================================
You can find the forum here: http://forum.percussa.com/
More info about AudioCubes: http://www.percussa.com/
================================================================
Warm regards from Belgium,
Bert Schiettecatte
PERCUSSA"
Several of AudioCube owners have sent me emails with feedback over the past few months. I am grateful for your input and try to feed as much as possible into software updates.
Some have asked about the existence of a forum, so they could exchange ideas about applications of AudioCubes with other people and ask questions.
I've now put a forum online and I'd like to invite you all to register and participate. Together we can explore the potential of this promising tool for sound and music exploration and live performance!
================================================================
You can find the forum here: http://forum.percussa.com/
More info about AudioCubes: http://www.percussa.com/
================================================================
Warm regards from Belgium,
Bert Schiettecatte
PERCUSSA"
NUSofting Broken Drum Machine - BDM
"To the fact that the broken sound is desirable. Yes! Knobs turn for satisfaction defective! Inspired by a combination of several old school beat boxes and the circuit-bending culture that revolves around cheap, and old, hardware musical instruments (such as the “toy” Casio and Yamaha keyboards of the 80s), Broken Drum Machine brings the lively, "ever changing", circuit-bent drum machine sounds to your DAW.
BDM is a plugin instrument designed for the musicians who love chaos and usually find the unpredictable behaviour of an uncontrollable sound machine stimulating and inspiring.
BDM offers four drum pads in the style of an old beat box- one each for Bass Drum, Snare, Hi-Hat and Stick. Each pad features the usual suspects for shaping the synthesized sound, including tone, decay, pitch, pan and gain. On top of the standard controls comes the broken factor - each pad features its own sliders for chaos and chance. Chaos sets the amount of variations to the original sound, and chance is the probability algorithm for the chaos to occur. By varying and automating the chaos and chance sliders, you can achieve a range of wild and unpredictable sounds, similar to creating glitches and bleeps by manipulating an analog circuit."
more info including audio.
PS3100 KORG in colors (NightBirds Studio - 2008)
flickr by NightBirds (Electronic Music - France) (click for more including the Oberheim Xpander)full size
Ken MacBeth's Studio
via Ken MacBeth:"Hi Matrix- just thought I'd drop you a line! I think that the matrixsynth blog is great and keeps people well in touch with everything synth- I visit everyday to see what's going on! Anyway for your interest or others- here are some pics of what I use and record with mostly. As you can see, it's pretty minimal- but none the less fun! When I get the time, after building, this is not only where I test what things sound like, but it's an opertunity to record too. Hopefully people will recognise some of the stuff I use. There are also, in the pics, other interesting devices- notably Function Generators which are serious fun to use with modular gear- or infact, any gear with CV inputs- I see them as way complex modulators- ebay is perfect for getting this stuff cheap! Look under Test and Measurement in the electronic parts dept! On my next run of M5N, I hope to have one myself! Kind Regards to All, Ken"
Thanks Ken! Click here for more shots of Ken's studio and of course check out MacBeth Studio Systems.
The Con Brio Rises! - Update
I just updated this post with some interesting info from Brian in the comments. Be sure to check it out. Scroll down to the red Update at the bottom.
AHMW Year 10
"Analogue Heaven Midwest Get-togetherApril 12th, 2008
The TENTH annual Get-Together will be Saturday, April 10th at the PHHS Media Center. I'll have the doors open at 9:00am. All synthgeekgearheads are encouraged to join us and spend some time with awesome gear and great people.
Past gear includes:
All sorts of Modulars (MOTM, DotCom, Blacet, Metalbox, Wiard,Doepfer, Cynthia, Modcan, etc), Voyagers, PPG, SunSyn, Evolvers, Prophet T-8, ARP, XOX & DIY gear, and much more!"
Where are they now? IRCAM’s Buchla
Barry Threw dropped by this prior post on the IRCAM Buchla. He actually found it."Last week I was down in San Deigo working on some ongoing projects with Keith McMillen (of the BEAM Foundation) and Miller Puckette (of Max and pd fame), and ran into this gem, the Buchla 100 from Ircam, in a spare bedroom."
You can see and read more about it on his blog.
Udpate: see the comments of this post for more info as well. I removed the references to 100 from this post so there is no confusion.
Recording a song with only Mellotron sounds
YouTube via RothHandle. Parts 1 - 7
"A short series of films from my sessions recording music for a documentary on probably my favorite instrument, The Mellotron. The idea I had was to record music solely using the Mellotrons at the studio and the Rhythmate (more on that later). So far I have recorded two pieces and this is the third one.
My name is Mattias Olsson and I am a Swedish musician and producer. My studio is located in Stockholm, Sweden. I have collected weird and odd instruments for almost ten years now and the Mellotrons, Optigans and Pipeorgans have a tendency to show up on almost all of the albums I work with. It isn't a museum but an alive and creative workplace for bands and artists who want to record "real" sounds away from computers and digital synths.
I filmed it holding the camera with my left hand with my old sony digital camera and playing with me right hand. So if you find the camera technique annoying...blame me.
For more info on the studio and the music recorded there please visit...
www.roth-handle.nu
http://www.myspace.com/57224022"
Korg Kaossilator Right Out of the Box!
YouTube via bigcitymusic
"Here's a quick demo. I didn't read the instructions. Its a lot of fun. Even our snooty engineer friend likes it. bigcitymusic.com" BTW, these are currently available via Big City Music here on the bay along with other items.
Cwejman S1 MK2: DJ Puzzle Examines A Semi-Modular Monophonic
YouTube via DjPuzzle73
"DJ Puzzle, known to his parents as Jason Donnelly, starts this video off by pronouncing one of the most awkward looking brand names in synthesis before showing us how to make a sine wave bassline with the Cwejman S1 MK2.
I made a sine wave bassline in second grade art class out of glue, macaroni, and glitter, but if you prefer to make them with semi-modular, monophonic, analog synths, you should probably stop reading this and watch the video.
Seriously, you have no choice because this is the last sentence."
"I wish" Sp404 - MC09 - PodX3 - Xbase09 - Midi Beats (Old vs
YouTube via massivebeatzz
"'I Wish' (Beat Builders Unite Mix 2008) - grooving around a bit with some old and nu skool hardware. Could be applied to a combination of other machines such as AKAI MPC 2000, 3000, 2500 better. Workflow: If u really wanna know: Midi Axiom TO MIDI record Logic 8 EXS Bass + Synth lines TO MTC out port: Presonus Firebox Midi: sync out TO MC09 TO XBase09 . And: Sp404 Sampler, Fender Stratocaster, PodX3 Wah + Delay, Sure SM58 Mic Behringer Delay to SUM into VMX 200 Behringer DJ Mixer. To out rECord with Imovie08 - Mac/analog Audio Line In (gee i could have used the Presonus audio instead...but preferred a wire running across)."
ASMO : Improvisation pt.2 [ circuit bent ]
YouTube via eddie23a
"Improvisation for Chaos Sequencer, Pulse Machine and Echo Destruktor pt.2 http://www.myspace.com/asmomusik"
Play Seconds by The Human League
YouTube via totaltwit
"More on how to enjoy your synth. Once again The Human League provide more synth playing fodder. Have a go at this one."
A Brief Conversation Resulting in One Less Child
YouTube via stretta
"This is an early prototype of Josh Boughey's stribe project. I'm attempting to write some software to turn the hardware into a musical instrument.
After a few nights of communicating with the firmware to light up LEDs in a meaningful manner, I switched gears and created a quick application that would hopefully result in a musical statement, albeit without the LED feedback I'm looking for. I'm still working on this.
If you're interested in what the stribe is, more information can be found here:
http://www.soundwidgets.com/stribe/
The software I'm using was created in Max, you can download the software at:
http://www.stretta.com"
ARP Odyssey Analog Synthesizer - Sequenced by RetroSound
YouTube via retrosound72
"The ARP is triggered by the SCI Pro-One internal sequencer, sync with the TR-606 drum machine. The drums come from the Roland TR-606"
enapa RAMjam machinedrum uw
YouTube via enapa1apa
"manging RAMmachines, 1b2+piSD and all ram... the camera falls down in the end: haha!!"
Ludwig Phase II Analog Synthesizer
images via this auction"HERE IS THE GRAIL OF GUITAR EFFECTS. (OK... IT'S NUMBER 2 -- EMS SYNTHI FLI IS NUMERO UNO !!) BUT THIS IS CLOSE. ONLY A FEW IN EXISTANCE."
They actually come up surprisingly often on Ebay considering - click on the Ludwig label before to see how often.
Crumar Steiner Masters Touch CV Breath Controller SN 00179
images via this auction
"Steiner Masters Touch CV breath controller for analog synthersizers.Made by Crumar in Italy. Get some new surgical tubing and your soldering iron and have some fun. Bite and chew your way into sonic madness."
Chris Carter's DSI Evolver For Sale
flickr by Chris_Carter_ (click for more)full size
"These are the last shots of my DS Evolver as I'm selling it. More details at: www.chriscarter.co.uk"
Great Hits Of The 70s Moog Style
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Synton Syntovox 222
images via this auction
"Synton Syntovox 222. As VC-10 VP330 Moog EMS SVC350 A+
110v or 220v configuration.
On auction this rare and vintage analog vocoder by Synton from the Netherlands. In production during the golden age of analog synthesizers Synton has gained cult like status by making superb gear like the Synton Syrinx, vocoders, modular systems and the later produced Fenix. This is the Synton Syntovox 222 handbuild in The Netherlands, serial number 107.
Synton can be compared to EMS, Sennheiser, Roland SVC350/VP330 and other high end studio vocoder manufacturers. A very rare instrument indeed that produces some of the smoothest and silkiest vocoder sounds possible...WOW Synton was Wendy Carlos's favourite vocoder brand, Aphex Twin is known to love Synton etc etc... These machines can be found in boutique studios around the world. Machine is in excellent condition, looks great, all knobs in place only one white knob-inlay is missing. Great addition to high class analog studio. BUYER GETS TO CHOOSE 110V OR 220V."You can find some more images not included in the auction here. While there be sure to check out the header menu where you will find some other rarities including nice shots of the MOOG MinitMoog.
The Groovy Music Machine
Yellow Graniph T-shirt with MOOG Modular and VCS3. You can find one more image and more info on SoNiCbRaT.
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