"Flying" Gattobus LIVE Experiment

YouTube via gattobus
"Just an experiment to try running all my gear in sync.
Sorry for this cheesy music but I hope you'll enjoy the sound...

Instruments used:

- Access Virus TI Desktop
- Clavia Nord Modular G2
- Elektron SPS-1mkII
- Roland SH-101
- Moog Little Phatty
- Yamaha Tenori-on
- Korg TR-Rack
- Roland Alpha Juno 2
- Doepfer Ribbon Controller

;-P "

Roland Jupiter 8 acting strangely

YouTube via zibbybone
"I just received this JP-8 I purchased from a seller that stated "ALL ORIGINAL LOW HOURS. WORKS GREAT, LAST OWNER USED IT FOR ONES AND TWOS." First, it pwoers up and 4 of 8 voices play. Both Solo and Unison mode produce noise. Arpeggiator does not work. Later, the synth just wigs out. Any Jupe 8 owners out there ever experience this or have any input? Sorry, the audio is a bit overdriven. "

Video Modular Synth - Happy Knobbing Meeting 2008 by ACA

info and dowload on sequencer.de

pearly gates and take off

two flickrs by breath.sound
(click for more)

ARP 2500
NED Synclavier

Blade Runner on the Alesis Fusion (cover)

YouTube via FailedMuso. Follow-up to this post.
"Using a patch created by a guy who goes under the name of Electrique at the Fusion Club (http://fusioneer.proboards102.com/index ), here is the melody line from the Main Titles of Blade Runner by Vangelis. I made this as a contrast to my other brief demo of the same tune using Arturia's CS-80V."

Roland TR-808 and Jazz Chorus JC-120

via swissdoc:

"I recorded some examples of the Roland Jazz Chorus driven by a TR808 pattern.

This one is recorded in mono with a Sony F-VS7 Dynamic Microphone, I had to do some noise reduction to get rid of the prominent hum:




This one is recorded in mono with a Monacor ECM-100 Electret Condensor Microphone:




The dry signal is recorded directly from the TR808.

I then allways tweak the settings of the amp.

Volume is set to very low value, max 1 out of 10. Otherwise the house would explode.

The distortion of the amp is not the best one on this planet. They should have labeled it destruction or shredder :-)"

Vocoded Drums

YouTube via Nismology5
"Putting the drum machine on my boss micro BR throught the vocoder on my microkorg."

Bladerunner MainTitles (cover)

YouTube via Lovesign aka Failed Muso.
"Just me, Arturia's CS-80V and my MPK49. Simply the melody line with no backing."

MS-20 Analog Monophonic Synthesizer Playing Chords

YouTube via CZRider01
"A video demonstration of a technique to play chords with a monophonic synthesizer.
Using an MS-20 drenched in reverb to get ambient type pads."

Alesis Micron FM Algorithmic Synthesis

YouTube via Gtechture

Flower Electronics LBB Double and TSP Teaspoon

YouTube via thetonewrecker
"Just running 3 Osc on the Flower synth modulating each other a little bit. Signal passes through the Squarewave Parade Teaspoon lo-fi sampler/glitch/stutter box."

Eminent Solina P275 - Patly Working

YouTube via zibbybone
"Just picked this up the other day. Half the keys on the upper manual do not work nor does the low "C" on the bass pedals. The rhythm section does not work either."

Machine sludge one

YouTube via thetonewrecker
"Frostwave sending CV into the Flower Electronics LBB Double. Also has TSP Moles20r getting its filter altered by a cv signal."

Machines push more sludge

"Frostwave sending CV into the Flower Electronics LBB Double. Also has TSP Moles20r getting its filter altered by a cv signal. Bryan B's new Ulti Mult is in there as well, splitting the CV signal to all 4 Oscillators from the single cv output on the Frostwave. Fantastic box he's made!"

A Track done only with Novation K-Station instrumental ambient

YouTube via PlastikOD
"A quiet track done only with the novation k-station. The images are different gifs (medic, physics and so forth) :)"

Analogue Systems Eurorack Modular Sequence 1

YouTube via bigcitymusic
"Here is a demonstration of just a few possibilities using the Analogue Systems rs310 Reverb/Chorus, rs290 Delay/Sampler, rs200 Sequencer, rs100 Low Pass Filter and other modules.

First you hear the bass into the Reverb/Chorus module, then the reverb time is tweaked. Then a sequence is sent from the CV out of the rs200 to the CV in of the rs310 Reverb/Chorus giving us some great sequenced overtones.

Next a random sequence is brought in with the Signal Mixer module. This sequence is going into the Delay/Sampler module. The delay time is then modulated by the LFO module and you can see the digital readout of the delay time rapidly changing.

The final bass drone sequence is brought in which is running the Low Pass Filter module. Then we tweak the frequency cutoff.

http://www.bigcitymusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/bigcitymusicdo...
http://www.bigcitymusicblog.blogspot.com"

unhappy prophet-600 needs help

YouTube via prinsenafprinsesseg
"help me repair my broken sequential circuits prophet-600."

Analogue Systems power supply & Eurorack Modular Synth Case

YouTube via bigcitymusic
"Here is a video showing features of the Analogue Systems eurorack power supply which is found in all current Analogue Systems cases.

Eurorack modules from a variety of manufacturers can be used in Analogue Systems cases as they come standard with both Analogue Systems sockets and Doepfer-style sockets. Analogue Systems power supplies are set up for both 115 volts and 230 volts (international power supply.

http://www.bigcitymusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/bigcitymusicdo...
http://www.bigcitymusicblog.blogspot.com"

Zoom Sampletrak ST-224 - ZMF Producer

via Plutonik9:
"Hi, I'm not sure if this is useful for your blog, but I found (very randomly) something that Zoom Sampletrak ST-224 owners may find quite useful & fascinating. Put simply, it's an unreleased (lost) piece of software called 'ZMF Producer' (I've never seen it mentioned anywhere ever) from Zoom corp. which allows (though a GUI) creation/editing of .zmf banks via computer! It's hard to understate the importance of this piece of software because it allows ST-224 users to do things that have NEVER (ever) been possible;

-Create custom .zmf banks though software (win95/98/2000/xp) GUI. Allows importing of AIFF & Wave Files and drag & drop assignment to 24 pads.
-Graphical control of start/stop & offset points of samples via a waveform display window
-Exporting (extracting) of wave files from .zmf bank files (Previously impossible without re-recording the analogue outputs).
-(Almost) full control over sample parameters in software (tune, trigger mode, panning, reverse & effect on/off & start/end/offset sample position markers). *Only lacking midi note number assignment to the pads, this'll still need to be done from the unit itself.
-Importing/Exporting .smf song files (not editing unfortunately).

Up until this piece of software was discovered, all these things had tobe manually (and tediously) set from the ST-224 front panel. Wave &Aiff import was possible, but required so much work that it wasn'treally practical. The only additional piece of hardware required for it's use is a smartmedia reader (I've got a SanDisk USB one) to dump the .zmf files from your computer for loading into the unit.

The version number of the software says 'Version 0.0.13.4' copyright 1999 (sounds extremely beta). No reference to this software is on Zoom/Samson's site or in the manual & a Google search for "ZMF Producer" yields no result.

Anyways the Sampletrak has been discontinued for probably 10 years, what a surprise to stumble across this randomly all these years later. Makes you wonder what sought of attention this 'poor man's MPC' would have gotten had this been made available to the public?
Truly a mystery for the ages!

I've started a Yahoogroup for Sampletrak users and added this program (plus some shareable .zmf banks) to the files section @ http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Sampletrak/"

"It occurred to me that this was perhaps what Zoom used internally (by development team) to create the demo bank (Jungle Man?) that is hard coded into the ROM (can be retrieved with factory reset). Hence, why it was created....and perhaps why it never was taken any further or released to the public?"

Trash_Audio: Modules with Dieter Doepfer

Trash_Audio: Modules with Dieter Doepfer from surachai on Vimeo.
"trashaudio.blogspot.com
Dieter Doepfer kindly showed us some of his modules at NAMM. They're new, old and often related to each other. His English is, not surprisingly, better than mine."

Synthorama - Moog Modular, Voyetra and Oberheim Room

images here

Some notes on the room:
Upon entering the area, on the left is a massive Moog vocoder and the Moog modulars. Yes, plural. In the far left corner is a Buchla Music Easel. From what I could tell it was not hooked up or working. To the right of the Buchla along the back wall of the room is a Steiner-Parker modular (hooked up and working) and to the right of that were two Voyetra 8s with keyboard controller, also working. On top of the Voyetra 8s was a Gleeman Pentaphonic not hooked up or working as far as I could tell. To my surprise the Gleeman's knobs felt rather light and cheap. For some reason I expected them to have a bit more weight to them. On the right wall of the room, opposite the Moog modulars, were the rest of the Octave Plateau synths followed by the Oberheims. See the images for the specifics.

Remember to click on the "All Sizes" link for each shot you'd like to see full size in the set. Click on the synthorama label below for the full set of posts on my visit to the Synthorama synthesizer museum. Note all images are going up including the "bad" ones.

Update: some notes on the Gleeman and Buchla via Martin: "The Gleeman Pentaphonic Clear also works properly. I have it not connected because I am still searching a better place than it has now. This synth earns a better place !!

Also the Music Easel is working fine. Actually it is not connected, I know. In the whole museum there are not a lot synths which do not work. Some of them have bad keyboard contacts or noisy potmeters or sliders but they are working."

Synthorama - Moog Keyboard Room

images here

Note the first shot in the set is the stairway down to the bottom floor of the museum.

Again, be sure to click on the synthorama label below for all posts of the visit. I don't really need to say this, but be sure to check out the full sets as there are some real rarities at the Synthorama synthesizer museum.

Next up, the Moog Modular room and more.

Four Analog Delays

Four Analog Delays from surachai on Vimeo.
"I received my Electro-Harmonix Deluxe memory man today (July 3rd 2008) and thought I would get it used to the walls of sound it'll be a part of. I just send a single signal from the cwejman and tested feedback on all the units.
The signal flow is as follows: Cwejman VM-1 (source) into Doepfer A-188-2 Tapped BBD Module into Ibanez AD9 into Moog MF104z into Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man"

ThingmamaKIT Assembly

ThingmamaKIT Assembly from surachai on Vimeo.
"Photos at: trashaudio.blogspot.com. Audio is the box running through my modular system. The things are too friendly by default so I decided to evil it up and make it uniform to the music I make. Thanks go to Justin, Byonic and Dr. Bleep!"

Body Music

Body Music from Rory Harnden on Vimeo.
"A video made for a presentation of a synthesizer made for an ergonomics class. The synth made music according to skin contact between wearers of wrist-bands.
Music composed one day, video made the next."

Noise Swells and other fun behavior TSP Teaspoon gets choked

YouTube via thetonewrecker
"Cutting the current all the way out and bringing it back up while the button is held down makes all sorts of glorious noise swells and squeaks and other tones.
Note that I have a toggle switch which simply duplicates the button being pressed. Came in handy so I could hold the camera to show this feature.
More info on both wild machines.
http://www.myspace.com/dwarfcraftdevices
http://www.thesquarewaveparade.com"

elektron monomachine + jomox 888 + futureretro revolution

YouTube via radambe
"10:30am jam - first experience with monomachine acid courtesy of the revolution of course"

My new M565 MoonModular trigger sequencer

YouTube via yusynthman
"A short video of my brand new M563 MoonModular Trigger Sequencer installed in my COTK/MOS-LAB modular synthesizer."

FM synthesis waveforms, abstract art?

YouTube via dkimcg
"I was looking at the waveforms after the last video, and started to try to just make cool looking waveforms not really thinking too much of what it sounds like. I can get a pair of eyes with the square morph output, not shown in here, but really like the way these waveforms look as a visual artist. Pretty interesting looking stuff that math can give you.

The oscillators are trying to sync to each other, which causes that jumpiness when the wave cycles back to 0, at least that's what I think's happening. There's a 3rd oscillator acting as an LFO modulating the 1st oscillator as well. both the oscillators are outputting raw waveforms, but the gate even though is wide open may be coloring it ever so slightly, my deaf ears don't hear anything tho. So these are raw, unfiltered, ungated waveforms you are hearing, not for the faint of heart. It can get loud and abrasive. :)"

Yamaha MR-10 Analog Drum Machine

YouTube via peglegjoe857
"MR-10 in action. It is a cool little machine. It is kinda similar sounding to the Roland TR-606 and the Korg KPR-77, but it is not programmable so it has gone pretty unnoticed. It is also somewhat like the early rhythm machines, the CR-68 and 78, TR-66, The Minipops, KR-55, except that it has pads for manually playing it! This makes me think it would make a prime candidate for a mod, adding triggers at it's pads. Probably an easy mod, but I never got around to doing it. I actually think it sounds a bit better than the KPR-77. I have the boss DR-110 as well, which is in the same class as these machines, just missing the toms. Anywho, the MR-10 is nifty sounding and analog. A few neat controls. Small, simple, and pretty cool."

Yamaha CS-5

images via this auction

Note the dash in CS-5. I think Yamaha is probably the most inconsistent when it comes to the use of dashes in their model names.

Moog Minimoog

images via this auction

LELL UDS

via this auction
"Drum channels - 2
Oscillators - 2 + 2 noise generators with ADR
Filter - resonant lowpass with mod
Pitch - tone tuning
Amplifier - attack, decay, release, volume
Inputs - 1/2 5DIN plug
Outputs - line 5DIN plug
Dimensions – 340x325x80
Weight – 7 kgs
The supply voltage - 220-230V/50Hz. For use with 110/127V, a voltage converter is necessary. The voltage converter is not added to the given auction. The drum synth ARE NOT MODIFIED!"

Sound Demo:
lelluds.zip (318KB)
leloops.zip (835KB)

ARIES MODULAR SYNTHESIZER AR 317 VCO MODULE

via this auction

"ARIES MODULAR SYNTHESIZER AR 317 VCO MODULE"

MOOG 903-A RANDOM SIGNAL GENERATOR

via this auction

"MOOG MODULAR SYNTHESIZER 903-A RANDOM SIGNAL GENERATOR
Still has the Moog label on the back with the serial number and date of manufacture at Trumansburg N.Y. which was April 21 1970. The module is all original and in very clean condition."

POLYFUSION 2080 MIXER MODULE

via this auction

"RARE POLYFUSION MODULAR SYNTHESIZER 2080 MIXER MODULE"

TSP Teaspoon as gate keeper = hang on

YouTube via thetonewrecker
"I decided to try feeding the gate signal from the Acidlab Bassline to control the MC-202, but feed it through the Teaspoon. The CV control for the pitch passes directly, but now I can control the resampling/repeats of the 202 playing back the pitch it is following from the Acidlab. I really like how it grabs part of the trigger pulse and you get these strange clunky chugging retriggers. The 202 is not the best synth to trigger externally since the CV and gate go through the digital section before it hits the analog synth , but it was what I had on hand. More soon."

Oscillostomy Incursion 667 - July 13, 2008

YouTube via smorestes
"Ogden Point Breakwater, Victoria, BC.
Coastal, Brutophilia, Froghat, griefer, C-le-Pink, Teen Girl Squad and Sealion enjoy the sun, wind, waves, boats, dancing, a helicopter and making some noise. "

MIDIBox of the Week

via MIDIbox.org
"This unit is now a stereo sid v.2 (6582A + 8580R5), control surface C (a few things weren't used: play button, volume on the modulation matrix,...). The design was created with adobe illustrator then printed on vinyl sticker, box is a Retex#5, PCBs are from SmashTV, and knobs are from ALBS (thank you Goblinz !). The work cost me roughly 350€, but because I'm a beginner I burnt a few things... This is far from perfect: the inside is full of cables, the printed sticker is 1mm much longer than the drilled surface, knobs aren't as close of the surface as I wanted, ... but it works !" via sendling.

Modular Synthesizer HDR

flickr by Peter Gorges
(click for more)

full size

"HDR front shot of the Modular. Bracketing with long exposure times, dark room - almost all light comes from the synthesizer itself."

Synthorama - Emu Modular

Click here for images of the E-Mu modular at Synthorama. Be sure to click on the Synthorama label below for previous posts on my visit to the museum. More will follow so be sure to check back. The E-mu actually sits in somewhat of a hallway between rooms.

Update via Martin:
"The EMU Modulars are both working completely. In one of them I have to
replace a broken potentiometer. And I had to build a new VCO. I copied one
original VCO (1201 ?) and now it works fine. Also I have replaced the complete wiring with the DIL-plugs and remade them all new with high quality DIL-plugs."

Steam Powered Synthesizer

YouTube via wessouthern
"This, as its name so clearly suggests, is a synth that's powered by steam. There's no electricity involved -- the instrument can be run on coal, hexamine, ethanol or propane.

he pressure delivered to the engine is controlled by a ball valve seen between the boiler and the engine. The dynamo is much like a brushless, permanent magnet motor which is spun by a belt attached to the flywheel. This creates an alternating magnetic field which is turned into electricity by an inductive pickup.

The steam synthesizer does not use any electricity -- only steam power. In fact it generates electricity! It generates about 6 watts of AC at high pressure and speed." Very steam punk.

the TEASPOON

"The teaspoon is a lo-fi instant playback looping sampler designed to achieve the classic glitching / stuttering / skipping effect by pushing a single button. this version is a limited run of fifteen designed with the AUDIOBULB RECORDS logo and trademark orange and black."

more info on the squarewave parade.

FM synthesis with the PlanB Model 15

YouTube via dkimcg
"Apologies in advance for the out of focus camera. This was one of the cool things I learned about using the PlanB (or any capable) oscillators. I have the oscilloscope up so you can see the waveforms. Too bad I didn't keep an eye on the camera. But I do these for fun, and doing it again would be no fun for me. But you can see enough to get the idea. You can get some very fat sounds with harmonic overtones this way. Look up FM synthesis if you're curious. That's frequency modulation. There's also another video on youtube that goes through the explanations better, this is just to show an example, not inform."

The tiny YMO click module

YouTube via denha
"This makes a model of MOOG moduller sequencer."

ARP 2500 3 - Analog Sequence 2

YouTube via psprojectbrazil. Sequence 1 previously posted here.
"5 oscillators, white noise, 2 VCFs, 1 VCA, 3 envs., cv & audio sequencers and some work..."

Waldorf Microwave Mk1 Demos

Two demos via Rasmus



"All is done by multitracking a Microwave in Logic Express 7 with some cheap reverb as only thing added. On the second demo the drums are from an Elektron SPS-1 Machinedrum."
MP3s:
Microwave-demo1.mp3
mwdemo2.mp3

360 Systems Slavedriver Guitar / Synthesizer Interface

images via this auction

DIY CNC PCB Mill & Drill

YouTube via cnightwing
"This a small tabletop size CNC Mill for milling my PCB's and drilling them as well"

vintage keyboards improv gig

YouTube via massonix. Spot the synths.
"Graham Massey and Graham Clark set up at the Wheatsheaf in Stoke ,ready for an improv gig involving vintage keyboards and electric violin 1995"

Opcode Studio 5 LX

images via Mark via this electro-music.com thread (note this is for sale): "The OpcodeStudio 5LX is a Macintosh MIDI interface. Bitd, this was a monster. It has twice the computing power of a Mac Plus , 256KB of RAM for internal patch storage, 15 MIDI inputs and 15 MIDI outputs. It has two foot switch inputs, a foot pedal input that also accepts logarithmic CV, SMPTE in and out, and an input to sync to audio.

Apparently, some people have been able to get it to work as an interface with OS X. Please take a look on the web. It can also be configured as an extremely powerful stand-alone patchbay/filter with any Mac that can run OS 9, 8, or 7. It can filter, merge, re-channel, split by note and velocity, re-assign and modify control values, etc. It can route MIDI data from any combination of inputs and internal programs to any output. These patches can then be recalled via program change.

This unit has been upgraded to the latest ROM, and includes the original ROM chips, original box, software discs, and all the manuals. It is in excellent cosmetic condition. I'm the original owner, and it worked perfectly the last time I used it, but I have no way to test it now.

Questions and comments welcome.

Email: mark (at) primatesynthesis (dot) com"