STA74095

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AVRSynth 32 PCB

"Collin Mel and myself , have designed a PCB layout for AVRSynth, instead of doing it on perfboard. It hasn't been proofed and debugged yet but I am on the process. If you feel adventurous and/or lucky, you can download the eagle files"

You can find the files and more on Synth-DIY.

Onkruid - diy instrument

Onkruid - diy instrument from subblicious on Vimeo.
"During the festival Onkruid this guy made his one instrument and after finishing he did a small performance. Just to let us know it exactly works"

via Califaudio where you'll find another image and a little more info. It appears to be a bowed spring contraption.

Prophet-5

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Special Edition Jomox XBase09

via cutandcover at gmail dot com who has is selling it for $850: "This is a special edition Jomox XBase09 analog kick/snare/noise drum machine with four sample sets for the Hat section which include samples from the CR-78, TR-808, TR-909, and special Jomox samples. The special sets include samples of the Closed/Open HiHat, Rim Shot, Handclap, Ride, Crash, and analog noise. The samples for the hihats, rimshots, claps, and crashes can all be played in reverse as well. The specs otherwise are identical to the stock XBase09 except the DinSync port does not function. Software version 2.09 (last and fully stable release), absolutely 100% mint with owner's manual and original power supply (110V). Perfect and unstoppable internal clock and syncable to external MIDI clock. Triophonic (kick, snare, 'hat' section) but can edit individual sounds per step (all parameters!). Kick has eight editable parameters (Env Tune, Pitch, Decay, Harmonics, Pulse, Noise, Env Attack, EQ Rolloff). Snare has five editable parameters (Tune, Snappy, Decay, Detune, Noise Tune). Hat section has Tune and Decay editable for all samples. X0X-style sequencer with pattern and kit saving. A true beast, and no longer made.

A video of me demoing this unit can be seen here:

More audio demos can be heard here: http://share.ovi.com/channel/mok.public
Note, mok also has a BugBrand BugCrusher '08 for sale (posted on MATRIXSYNTH-B).

SSB Syntec Banana

No that is not an Oberheim. This is the SSB Syntec Banana. The image here recently came up on AH and as you can see it is from sequencer.de. The person that posted it was looking for more information on. I dug through all the banana posts and found a post I put back up on October 1, 2006.

You can find more info at the previous post.
Comments disabled here to keep them all there.
I also put the images here.

OBERHEIM 4 VOICE FREESTYLE

YouTube via sonil23
"HAVING A QUICK MESS ABOUT ON MY 4 VOICE, SORRY ABOUT THE LOUD TAPPING ON THE KEYS, MY CAMERA FONE WAS A BIT TOO CLOSE AND THE SPEAKERS WERE QUITE FAR AWAY. AHH WELL! LOL"

Prophet 600

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inside a Prophet-600

The Madnoodle Phone Commerical

YouTube via madnoodler
"Here's a stop animation of the Madnoodler circuit bending a Madnoodle Phone. Music by the Madnoodler, one of his noodle jams. The Madnoodle Phone is available in 3 colors. Order one today."

Navs Patch of the Day - The Polyphonic Modular

"A quick demo of the Kenton Pro 2000 MkII's polyphonic mode.

The most obvious application would be to play chords, but why stop there? The beauty of the modular environment is that you can assign different waveforms, filters and envelope settings to each voice.

In today's patch I used 3 VCOs (panned hard left/ right and centre), a similar number of EGs, VCFs & VCAs and a touch of random modulation to add some movement to what would otherwise be a fairly static riff. The Kenton is in 'Regular Cycle' mode, which means it passes each new note on to the next VCO in the chain."

You can find the patch on navs.modular.lab.

Sonic Charge Synplant

"Synplant is a software synthesizer with a genetic approach to sound creation. Instead of creating patches the conventional way by turning dials and knobs, Synplant lets you explore a world of organic sounds by planting seeds that grow into synth patches. The purpose of this product is to move focus away from the sometimes intricate and difficult process of sound synthesis and instead let you develop sounds by simply using your ears.

You will find that creating synth patches with Synplant will be as easy as listening and deciding what you like and then having the sounds evolve in the directions you desire. Although Synplant is exceedingly easy to use, whatever you do, do not let its relative simplicity fool you. Beneath its straightforward and playful interface you will find a versatile synthesizer of the utmost quality with lots of character. Also, once you are ready to get your hands dirty and dig deeper into the anatomy of Synplant you will have the option to crack open your sound seeds and modify their underlying genetic code."

Update via brian c in the comments:
"I was fortunate to be beta tester over the last couple of months. This is one of my favorites, not just for the interesting user interface but because the sounds are also way better than average IMHO for a soft synth The BEST way to hear it is to go to the Synplant page and click the "Hear It" radio icon. That is a collection of the best of the best beta testers.

They also have a jukebox of SonicCharge products at http://www.soniccharge.com/jukebox?playlist=http://cdn.soniccharge.com/static/sctracks&start=Dirty%20Slip

The stretchy plant interface is really cool, you get over 400 base patches with the product which you can load and then tweek visually until you like the sound and when you've got it where you want it you just "plant" that seed, saving it if you want to keep it. The new seed becomes the base for further evolution. You use your ears to make the patch , not by remembering which dial to tweek. I have to say it's unusual, but it draws you in quicker than think.

You should also download the demo to see the double helix coiled DNA view of patch parameters, it gives access to the patch for those who want to precisely tweek the sound the traditional way, and then you realize it might , i.e. if you are really anal it's all there one parameter at a time.

Now GMO can stand for genetically modified oscillators"

modularjam_both_Z5000

via url50's public channel
"Modular recording of a patch using two Tiptop Audio Z5000 with VC Reverb."

Circuit Bent Casio PT-87

YouTube via radial77
"The "CHYNTH" Ebay Item 200273839870"

arduino synth noise demo

YouTube via mute01
"More controls for the arduino pocket piano! Mostly good for digital noise so far, but it works as a proof-of-concept."

Paia Oz Funny Little Synthesizer

YouTube via trashbaggage
"Paia Oz Funny Little Synthesizer"

Synthesizer Treffen Schweiz 2008

YouTube via Metunar
"Video of the Swiss Synthesizer Meeting/Ambient Jamsession in 2008."

Appendage Touch Ribbon Controller Fourth Video

YouTube via ScottStites
"Improved audio a bit. Appendage in Constant Current Mode, driving synced VCO with TFS, externally gated by Klee Sequencer."

Duo Blank - Raw Hardware Part 1

YouTube via thewhis
"Edwin messing around with Doepfer A100 controller and synth modules, Doepfer MAQ16/3 analogue sequencer and Elektron SPS1."

Flesh Works 2

YouTube via beckhusen
"Pure electronic sound made with Novation A-Station and Korg Kaoss Pad 3. I know, most of you won't like it, but be fair, your taste isn't the one and only ;)"

Oberheim Xpander

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EMS Synthi A Mk I

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Analog Solutions Vostok MK2

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Arp Odyssey PPC

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note the E-Mu-esque DIY modular in the background.

Roland Juno-106

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Moog The Rogue

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Korg Kaossilator Mess-up

YouTube via 9milNL
"As the title says, just playing a bit with it.. just got it 2 days, its a cool toy and extra to add to your collection :)"

Tom Carpenter and Leipzig keyboard

via /kroffe

"Here's two pictures of Tom Carpenter showing me the Leipzig keyboard at Jam store in Stockholm this weekend. I was very impressed by the quailty and sound of the Leipzig."

Oscillator panel

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星に願いを

YouTube via moog3p. isao tomita

Update: found it again:
Isao Tomita - When you wish upon a Star

YouTube via 5488773
"aca isao tomita tocando su MOOG III . hermosa cancion =)"

Paia OZ through Paia Phlanger

YouTube via Zolophile. "...through Atari Video Music"

Quick loop on the Korg nanoKEY

YouTube via grondo2001.
"Me making a quick loop in FLstudio with the Korg nanoKey.
Using FPC for drums, V-Station for bass, Sytrus for arped pad and SQ8L for Moog lead. Octave shifts and pitch bends are also done with little guy.
Check my blog for more- http://shepit.blogspot.com"

I actually picked up the Korg nanoKEY and nanoKONTROL myself. They are really nice devices. The knobs and sliders on the nanoKONTROL feel great. They nanoKEYs not so much, like over sized laptop keys, but they are functional and velocity sensitivity is a nice touch.

Hand Held Image Scan Sequencer

YouTube via ggijs
"This is a Hand Held Image Scan Sequencer
http://gieskes.nl/instruments/?file=i..."

Yamaha FS 1 r

YouTube via Donosidad
"Different Samples of FS 1 r.
The FS 1 is a synthesizer,that is
similar to legendary DX 7,which composes the sound with a huge set
of algorithms.
The Samples you can hear :
Xylo,Bell,Plucked,Harp 1,Harp 2
Strings,Xylo,Harp 3,Organ,Ether."

THE "DUBSTA" ANALOGUE DELAY by S-CAT.

YouTube via PHONICPOTION. S-CAT/PHONICPOTION on Ebay
"CIRCUIT BENT WITH 3 MODIFICATIONS, DEMO WITH VOX, MC-202 AND TR-606."

CASIO MT-70 by S-CAT.

"CIRCUIT BENT WITH 15 MODIFICATIONS."

Mellotron wineglasses through the electribe

YouTube via RothHandle
"A little experiment I did last week using two loopstations, a mellotron 400 with wineglassrecordings in it and a Korg electribe drummachine."

Rhytmic failure with a electribe

Sega Mega Drive Kit for LSDJ!

YouTube via littlescale. "I made a sega mega drive kit for LSDJ."

More Debussy LSDJ Action!

"This time from some orchestral material :)"

Atari 2600 Kit for LSDJ!

"I made an Atari 2600 kit for LSDJ! :)"

Chopin Kits for LSDJ!

"I made some Chopin kits for the Game Boy program LSDJ."

five g analogue synth store harajuku

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Modular 2003 Conference Review by mosc

Note the year is 2003, so this one is a trip back in time. You can find the full review by mosc on this electro-music.com thread. It's good to see electro-music.com threads do not disappear over time.

"The conference was attended by musicians and music technologists from many countries. They heard papers on a very wide range of topics. There were papers about Linux as a platform for music and audio, new concepts in musical instrument interfaces, using swarm theory to automatically generate free jazz, "circuit bending", and even huge concrete acoustic receivers built in England during World War 1 to listen to airplanes coming in over the channel. The meeting was provided with one of the first public looks at the highly anticipated new Nord Modular G2 Synthesizer, as well as reviews of several pieces of music software including MAX/MSP, Super Collider, JMAX, and CSOUND."

Buchla Matrix Mixer Clone

via vtl5c3 in this electro-music.com thread where you will find updates.

"In preparation for an upcoming surround sound gig, I built an 8x8 matrix mixer, using the Buchla 205 schematic as my guide. It was a fairly easy build - most of the wiring I did directly on the pots, creating a column style buss with them. That's really all a matrix mixer is - rows & columns, like an excel spreadsheet or an HTML table. You have your 8 inputs, that you can bring up at different volumes on each of the 8 outputs. In my first audio test, I simply connected 8 oscillators, using different waveforms and each running at a different frequency. Fading the inputs in and out on one of the output columns reminded me of wavetable synthesis, but very manual. I think you can do some incredible sound collage with a tool like this.

I'll try to record a few samples later on. I'll post the press & peel pcb layout, once I make some corrections."

Make: Tokyo Meeting 02 Personal Report

YouTube via MMTAKEDA55 "The Breadboard Band UDA 4.0" The Breadboard Band comes in at 2:30 followed by the UDA 4.0 and interesting, small, electronic accordion-like device.

Sequencer hysteria

YouTube via bubagoo
"I added a few inputs to my sequencer that allow you to advance the playback one step at a time using external clock sources. I connected two independent clocks to the sequencer. One is telling it to go forward the other is telling it to go backwards. As i adjust the two clocks you can see them fight for control of the sequence. Pretty simple but cool effect."

Crumar DS2 in Custom Case

via this sequencer.de forum thread.

via swissdoc

Rob Papen RG Getting started

YouTube via robpapen
"Introduction into the concept of Rob Papen's RG"

Synth Wankery Pt. 4: MIDI'd Bach

YouTube via snevelin
"I didn't play it by hand, just controlled the synths by a MIDI file of the song along with some overdubbing as they're monophonic. :P"

Quantized LFO's

YouTube via bigcitymusic
"Not only can the Analogue Systems rs260 quantize your analog sequencer's pitch outputs with superb accuracy, it also does crazy random arp stuff too! We took a slow triangle wave LFO and ran it into the Voltage Quantizer then ran the quantizer output into the rs95 oscillator 1v/oct input. The rs260 is nice too because it has two voltage inputs. The second input can be used to input a transposing voltage or in this case you can run a ramp up LFO into it and get more crazy modulations going. Start sampling!"

Quadatrix 4x4 Sequencer - 3rd demo

YouTube via dolphinicus
"This is a VERY short video, of the 4 x 4 step's Semitone + Vertical and 1 x 4 step Octave sequencers, playing a 4 bar bassline from a well known dance tune, from many a year ago. ;)"

Tenori-on + Sp-404

YouTube via foofighter013. "experimental jam"

Yamaha CS15

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Ensoniq Fizmo

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"This particular Fizmo is a very early unit, as you can see from the photos, it has no serial number or the usual nomenclature on the rear panel under Ensoniq. The operating system (OS) of this unit is 00:01 as shown in the display, the very earliest. The demo feature and the reset to original presets feature does not come up on this unit, due to it's early operating system. That may not be important to most people because they would probably program their own presets anyway. I also noticed that if you give it too many rapid commands or ramp the knobs really quickly it will sometimes freeze. You turn the unit off and on and it resets and its fine, it's in no way a chronic problem, but needs to be disclosed and it is a typical problem with Fizmos if either via MIDI or manually its given more rapid data than it can process."

Baldwin Synthasound

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"Extremely RARE early 1970s Synthesizer."