Tuesday, October 28, 2008
YAMAHA DD-11 by S-CAT.
YouTube via PHONICPOTION. "CIRCUIT BENT WITH 12 MODIFICATIONS." S-CAT/PHONICPOTION on Ebay
SWA Complete Reason 4
YouTube via StreamworksAudio
"Laura Escudé takes you into the heart of one the most powerful audio application, software synthesizers on the market today! Reason 4 is jammed packed with features, functions and devices that expand the realms of creativity to expectational levels! SWA Complete Reason 4 is the perfect companion to give you real world examples and demonstrations on how to get the best out each and every device that can be added to your virtual rack.
With this video Laura will show you how to get the best of Reason by setting up your preferences for optimal performance, giving you the low down on the included and potent analog modeled synths, offer clear instruction on getting the grips of Reason's sampler devices and drum machines, learn to create quick grooves with the groove based devices, tweaking your projects with the abundance of included effects, as well as optimizing your virtual rack with the Combinator, and the various mixers.
Take Reason 4's power and creativity to the next level with Laura Escudé's knowledge and expertise in SWA Complete Reason 4"
Testing MIDI-Controlled Skull with Keyboard
YouTube via Modd3d
"Here I am testing a MIDI-controlled Gemmy Animated Scary Skull with a keyboard. If you want to try this hack you can find a tutorial at www.automat3d.com."
OBERHEIM OBXa + JUNO 60 + SH 101 + TR 606 Part 8
YouTube via magevers. see the previous videos and more here.
"The fat "jump" Oberheim OBXa, the Roland JUNO 60, SH 101 and the TR 606 together. The recording was made with a small pocket camera"
Akai MPC 1000 cursor buttons fixing
YouTube via Dzhem
"Escape sweating MPC 1000.
more about fixing:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3141/2..."
Roland SVC-350 Vocoder Info-Sheet
YouTube via AnalogVocoder1.
Re-Uploaded on Nov 18, 2010
follow-up to this post. via robovoice on the forum. No vid, just sound.
"The Roland SVC-350 Vocoder is the first truly sophisticated vocoder to be priced within range of most musicians. The primary function of the Roland SVC-350 Vocoder is to analyze the spoken or sung human voice and use this information (or program) to trigger another musical signal (or carrier) giving the instrument the ability to 'speak' or 'sing'. This vocal synthesis is accomplished by processing the voice through a series of eleven 'Voice Character' analysis filters. All of the filters within the 'Voice Character Control' are active and control an envelope follower which reacts according to the volume of that individual frequency. This information is then used to shape those frequencies of the carrier (musical instrument) signal.
The Roland SVC-350 Vocoder uses ten filters for vowel sounds and there is also an extra filter with an extremely high slew rate allowing it to respond to the rapid transients of hard consonants, like the 'T' in the word 'today'. This consonant filter is a feature not found even on higher priced vocoders. The Roland SVC-350 Vocoder allows for both balanced and unbalanced program inputs and outputs and contains a special guitar input that permits attenuation of the guitar harmonics. Another remarkable feature of the Roland SVC-350 Vocoder is a special 'Hold' feature that locks onto the vowel sound quality so that one vowel sound does not have to be continually repeated while you play your instrument. With other features like the 'Ensemble' effect, head 'Phone' output, as well as guitar amp and line outputs...the Roland SVC-350 Vocoder is truly the next step in musical instrument effects.
SPECIFICATIONS:
Microphone Input (program): 1/4 phone jack or XLR connector 600 ohms -54 dBms min.
Instrument Input (carrier): 1/4 phone jack 100 k ohms guitar raw level
Guitar Amp Output: 1/4 phone jack 5 k ohms
Mono/Stereo Output: 1/4 phone jacks
Dimensions: 19(W)x 3.6(H) x 9.7(D) in."
night shot
via brian ctrack features "Bass station soft synth and filters"
Pic:
SCI Tom
Mam Warp9
SCI Prophet 2002
DSI evo rack
DSI evo desktop
Novation Drum Station
Novation Bass Station
EHX Bi Filter
Oberheim Matrix 1000
Oberheim OB3
A bunch of bench oscillators, frostwave and Metasonix stuff
Korg PadKontrol
KOrg ER1
Moog MP201
AHBA 2008 Pics via Brandon
click here for images of the event by Brandon Daniel.remember to click on the AHBA2008 link under labels below for all posts on the event.
WEM/watkins copicat
METZ vintage monosynth?
via Pal of the Hungarian Oscillator blog:
"In the early eighties I saw a monosynth with an upright control panel like the MS-20 and I am 99% sure it was called METZ, because I even found it on the map (it is a town in France). I understand there is a company manufacturing electronic stuff with that name but I have not found anything, NOT A TRACE of that synth on the web. Have you heard about it?"
If anyone knows feel free to comment or shoot me an email. My contact info is on the bottom right of the site.
Update via Dirk:
"i've just found some Informations for the Metz Synthesizer on synrise.de
http://synrise.de/docs/types/m/metz.htm
Unfortunatley all the Informations are german but i've just did an translation:
(Feel free to modify it)
There are also 2 Companys called Metz, the first one is from germany which is building tv's and satelitte receivers the second one is from france and building heater / radiator stuff
Best wishes
Dirk
METZ
The US American Mike METZ has developed an analogue synth for his own purpose
ANALOGSYNTH / mon syn exp kmi ?
Metz combined parts and construction units from various companies and putted it all together in an wooden case.
For example he used the oscillator bank and mixer (as used in the minimoog). All the parts were modificated. So the oscillator banks had PWM and the possibility for seperate pitch modulation
Also he had several outputs for each waveform. For each oscillator in the oscillator bank (there are in total 3 banks) there is the possibility of coarse- an finetuning. The vca and vcf are built from parts of the sequential circuits - prophet 5
There are also two envelope generators with cv controlls , an cv controlled lfo, an inverter, an attennuator, an gate delay and cv/gate interface."
I should have thought of looking at synrise! Someone once challenged me to find a synth not listed there. I thought I did, but apparently not. I forget what it was though. :)
Update via the maker himself, Mike Metz of Thesis Audio Service: "Here is all the info for the "Metz Synth", just before too much urban legend misinformation starts. This synth appeared in the Keyboard Magazine May 1998 issue as "Keyboard of the Month". I am amazed that someone remebers that.
It is a one-off synth that I built for my personal use out of "leftover" parts from my repair shop. The OSC section is made from an original Minimoog OSC board that I had in stock from repair parts. It has been built in a modular fashion with several options that the Mini never had. Each of the 3 OSCs has mixable waveforms, PWM, coarse and fine tune controls, and individual modulation inputs much like a modular synth. Thats the OSC section on the left.
The right half contains circuitry designed around the SCI Pro-1, not the Prophet 5, but the same thing. It contains a modular VCF with voltaged controlled Co and Rez. There are 2 voltage controlled envelope generators, a voltage controlled LFO, a VCA/envelope generator module, two attenuator / inverter modules, a gate delay module, and the master CV I/O module. All designed around the Curtis CEM circuits."
Side note: per above Mike Metz now runs Thesis Audio Service. It looks like we have a new (old) synth tech.
"Since 1976, THESIS AUDIO SERVICE has provided the midwest with quality, afforable repairs, maintenance, and restoration services on all types of equipment for musicians, sound companies and dealers."
"In the early eighties I saw a monosynth with an upright control panel like the MS-20 and I am 99% sure it was called METZ, because I even found it on the map (it is a town in France). I understand there is a company manufacturing electronic stuff with that name but I have not found anything, NOT A TRACE of that synth on the web. Have you heard about it?"
If anyone knows feel free to comment or shoot me an email. My contact info is on the bottom right of the site.
Update via Dirk:
"i've just found some Informations for the Metz Synthesizer on synrise.de
http://synrise.de/docs/types/m/metz.htm
Unfortunatley all the Informations are german but i've just did an translation:
(Feel free to modify it)
There are also 2 Companys called Metz, the first one is from germany which is building tv's and satelitte receivers the second one is from france and building heater / radiator stuff
Best wishes
Dirk
METZ
The US American Mike METZ has developed an analogue synth for his own purpose
ANALOGSYNTH / mon syn exp kmi ?
Metz combined parts and construction units from various companies and putted it all together in an wooden case.
For example he used the oscillator bank and mixer (as used in the minimoog). All the parts were modificated. So the oscillator banks had PWM and the possibility for seperate pitch modulation
Also he had several outputs for each waveform. For each oscillator in the oscillator bank (there are in total 3 banks) there is the possibility of coarse- an finetuning. The vca and vcf are built from parts of the sequential circuits - prophet 5
There are also two envelope generators with cv controlls , an cv controlled lfo, an inverter, an attennuator, an gate delay and cv/gate interface."
I should have thought of looking at synrise! Someone once challenged me to find a synth not listed there. I thought I did, but apparently not. I forget what it was though. :)
Update via the maker himself, Mike Metz of Thesis Audio Service: "Here is all the info for the "Metz Synth", just before too much urban legend misinformation starts. This synth appeared in the Keyboard Magazine May 1998 issue as "Keyboard of the Month". I am amazed that someone remebers that.It is a one-off synth that I built for my personal use out of "leftover" parts from my repair shop. The OSC section is made from an original Minimoog OSC board that I had in stock from repair parts. It has been built in a modular fashion with several options that the Mini never had. Each of the 3 OSCs has mixable waveforms, PWM, coarse and fine tune controls, and individual modulation inputs much like a modular synth. Thats the OSC section on the left.
The right half contains circuitry designed around the SCI Pro-1, not the Prophet 5, but the same thing. It contains a modular VCF with voltaged controlled Co and Rez. There are 2 voltage controlled envelope generators, a voltage controlled LFO, a VCA/envelope generator module, two attenuator / inverter modules, a gate delay module, and the master CV I/O module. All designed around the Curtis CEM circuits."
Side note: per above Mike Metz now runs Thesis Audio Service. It looks like we have a new (old) synth tech."Since 1976, THESIS AUDIO SERVICE has provided the midwest with quality, afforable repairs, maintenance, and restoration services on all types of equipment for musicians, sound companies and dealers."
Roland TR-606
via this auction. Note this is the same auction posted on MATRIXSYNTH-B earlier today. These are just some larger shots sent in by the seller.
Oberheim Matrix-12 Demo
YouTube via thegarranimal. via Switched On Synthesizer.
"This is an Oberheim Matrix-12 vintage analog polysynth, it is my personal favorite synth ever. Basses, strings, super-thick pads. Worth every red cent. Sound for this video was recorded into Cubase SX3 through an E-mu 1616M audio interface. Absolutely no effects were added. Probably half of the patches programmed by me! This demo is guerrilla style with mostly noodling - no rehearsing whatsoever - can you tell? So please take it easy with the comments....after all I spared you guys the Van Halen Jump riff the obies are famous for. Alas, maybe I make a better vid later."
Spin Semiconductor FV-1
"From the mind of the inventor who has revolutionized the music industry more than once with groundbreaking companies like Alesis and MXR Innovations comes the Spin family of audio effects solutions. These new Audio Effects ICs have been designed instictively to raise the bar and lower the cost of integrated sound effects with the same attention to features and detail that has brought so many innovations to the audio industry over the last 25 years""The Spin Semiconductor FV-1 is a complete reverb solution in a single IC. With integrated stereo ADC and DACs, the FV-1 can be treated like any other analog component in your products signal path.
The FV-1 can access a total of 16 programs, 8 are built in to the internal ROM and the designer may elect to connect a serial EEPROM with 8 additional programs. By using an external EEPROM, the designer can distinguish his product from others by creating a custom program set without the need for a microprocessor in the system.
With 3 potentiometer inputs, programs may have real time variable parameters such as decay time in a reverb, rate and depth in a chorus or frequency in a filter. These inputs are available as coefficients to your program and may be used independently of each other.
The rich instruction set allows users to program effects of all kinds. With instructions like LOG and EXP, users can easily program audio expansion and compression routines. Integrated digital LFOs and ramp generators allow for programming chorus, flange and pitch shift."
Note there is also a mixer solution built around the FV-1.
Flight of Harmony: Plague Bearer Demo
Flight of Harmony: Plague Bearer Demo from surachai on Vimeo.
"Ran through Flight's module for the first time. Signal path is Cwejman into Plague Bearer into your ear." See the write-up with more detail on Trash_Audio.
CASIO SK-200 by S-CAT
YouTube via PHONICPOTION. "CIRCUIT BENT WITH 11 MODIFICATIONS." S-CAT/PHONICPOTION on Ebay
Moog Music MF107 Moogerfooger FreqBox Is NSFW, R, S Or S*
YouTube via gearwire
"Plugging into the Moog Music MF107 Moogerfooger FreqBox is not for the faint of heart, or of signal. This hulking stompbox houses a VCO that feeds off your guitar's input signal, and even though it sports a nifty hard sync switch, it's hard to keep the MF107 from completely freqing out. All part of the fun, isn't it?
The Freqbox will accept any input source, though in this video, Owen chooses to enter battle with an instrument he feels he can trust -- an ESP XTone PC-1V he's dubbed "Hrunting." Does it aid him in his trial? You'll have to watch and find out.
See more on Gearwire.com."
x0xb0x And Roland TR-808: Roland Makes The Folger's Switch
YouTube via gearwire
"Shh!
Don't tell Roland TR-808, but we're switched his regular TB-303 bass sequencer with the new x0xb0x TB-303 clone. Let's see if he can tell the difference!
Sound designer Justin McGrath gives GW a little tour of the classic -- dare way say, played out? -- Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer. If you've ever been a slave to the beat, take a look at your master.
See more on Gearwire.com."
TANGERINE DREAM WDR German Language / Elektronische Impulse
YouTube via PlastikOD. Synth content first comes in about halfway in.
Mochika AtomoSynth Proyect song "Boreal"
YouTube via atomolab
"Original music video of the first single "Boreal" for the AtomoSynth Proyect, music made with the Mochika Analog Sequencer."
Jomox XBase 888 vs Cwejman
YouTube via dkimcg
"My first experiment with the 888 running through the modular. It's being processed through a bunch of Cwejman modules assisted by an Aanalogue Systems Inverter/Preamp and a PlanB M9 mixer.
The most drastic effect is the FSH-1, the Cwejman Frequency Shifter on the kick. The other effects are the filter running through the ringmod and the phaser on the claps."
synthPond 2.0 teaser
synthPond 2.0 teaser from zach on Vimeo. follow-up to this post.
"just a quick teaser to show one of the many new features im adding to synthPond version 2.0 (free upgrade from 1.0.x)
please wear headphones
app at: apps.stfj.net/synthPond"
YAMAHA DX7 MKII D / IID
flickr by Neil Vance(click for more)
full size
Yamaha DX7 digital FM synth (UK ad)
Now that's one big synth...
There's a ton more in Neil Vance's flickr stream so do check it out.
Tiila at the DeadZone Studio
via CatSynth.com"Tiila poses with a Roland XV-5080, a JoMoX SunSyn, and something from Waldorf."
Anyone know what the Waldorf is?
Jacques Chabot and the Acxel Resynthesizer
http://www.myspace.com/jacqueschabot"In the course of the second phase, I acquired an Acxel resynthesizer, which at last enabled me to make the most of the composition and interpretation method I had designed with less performing equipment. In some ways, my new album “Des musiques de fous” is both continuity and a culmination as regards this method. It also marks the starting point of a third phase, “Les installations instantanées” that should result in at least a new album in 2009.
COMPOSITION AND INTERPRETATION: TECHNICAL NOTES
I have been using an extraordinary device for several years: an Acxel resynthesizer. This musical instrument serves as a synthesizer with subtractive synthesis and additive synthesis as well as a resynthesizer, and has an unparalleled capacity (256 independent oscillators that are programmable in real time). Québec engineer Pierre Guilmette created it. About ten or so working Acxels can still be found worldwide.
Thanks to this device, I developed an interpretation technique that enables me, each time I play a piece, to add improvisations to it while keeping its “essence” intact. The Acxel is so powerful that I no longer need sequencers and I merely use the keyboard as an “On-Off” trigger. After I play some notes, I activate the sustain mode and interpret the music by “sculpting” the sounds on the Acxel’s touch screen. Each sound therefore becomes a complete music that can hold several melodic or noise-like themes. In addition, in order to increase tenfold the power of the device, I sample the sounds that do not need to be modified in real time.
I developed this composition and interpretation method some 13 years ago. However, putting it into practice before owning the Acxel was far more limited."
More info on the Acxel at: Technos axcel
elastic~ demo (Max/MSP object)
YouTube via simonadcock
"A demonstration of elastic~ a high quality pitch-shifting time-stretching looping Max/MSP object. Available from www.elasticmax.co.uk"
PNW2008: Jim Patchell Demos the DSM1 FPGA Synthesizer
YouTube via matrixsynth.
"Jim Patchell Demos the DSM1 FPGA synthesizer at the Pacific Northwest Synth Gathering 2008."
Remember to click on the pnw2008 label below for more.
Buzz Ambience electric riddim box
YouTube via otisvue
"moved the speakers closer so hopefully the volume is better"
Monday, October 27, 2008
AHBA 2008 Pics via synchro1
you can find the images here.
via synchro1 on AH:
"Also pictures from prior years:
Oakland - 9/9/2007
Marin - 11/12/2006
Oakland 10/16/2005
some day I'll find and post the old ones from the first gatherings, if only to see John Mitchell again.
oh yeah, and my new puppy"
One up for the pups!
MPS Studio
via MPS"I just took some pictures of the studio after squeezing the Philicorda GM760 in. It now joins the 6 Trak, DSI MEK and Alesis Fusion. The Elka Panther has moved to the far corner, behind the Roland v-drums."
Be sure to click on these for the full size shots.
Vocoder - What Is It?
YouTube via AnalogVocoder1. Update: Roland SVC-350 with Korg Poly-800 as the carrier.
found in da uncle's garret
flickr by polaranta"couple of old shaggy keyboards found alongside with some dildoes and toys"
full size
from the man who found a Polivoks in the potato cellar and brought us these videos.
Simple Alesis Micron Improv
YouTube via Chandlerbcliburn
"I got this two days ago. its not very good im still learing. leave comments if you like it."
Posnormal @Universo Experimental
YouTube via etonepan. "posnormal live eletronics at Universo Experimental"
Another simple theme
YouTube via attorks.
That's the Kawai 100f on top and Akai AX80 on bottom.
"Another simple theme; still no keyboard wizardry here. The first sequenced sound is a MFM VCO through an Ian Fritz 5Pulser through an Oakley Equinoxe Phaser. The second sound is a MFM VCO through a CGS Steiner Filter. The bassline is done by the Synthesizers.com modular. The MAQ16/3 is not visible in this video but is on top of the cabinets."
Synthesizer Swami
YouTube via Swamibamisalami
"it is no longer necessary to spend time on violin practice or piano lessons. With todays advanced technologies, no one has to suffer to make music. Divine extacy is now within reach for all beings under the Sun, all who are able to spend their earnings wisely. The machines used are a Fantom F6 and an RS5, all from the brand whose name ends with the same letters as the home country of Krysztoff Kieslowski. This is the Exhibition of the D Beam, and it is performed by a swami of the Uranian-Scorpian order of Sex, Electricity and Death - Sau Epsilon Delta - SED - All is one, One is three, six is seven, eight is nine, ten is Mine, mine is thine, let it shine. Don't miss the D Beam Action Bonanza 2012 at Wembley Stadium."
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