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YouTube via blindoldfreak.

www.blindoldfreak.com

DSI MoPho Kicks

YouTube via bigcitymusic
"Warning: This will not sound right on your laptop! Try some real speakers.

Here are some kick drum sounds using just the resonance of the MoPho's four pole low pass filter. There are no oscillators turned on. In a few of them you can hear some frequency modulation. You can use a ramp up LFO wave, turn on key sync and have a ramped kick. High frequency LFO modulation can yield some interesting kicks too."

Roland System 100 S & H Effects

YouTube via tardis454
"Gotta love analog!!! :o)
This is my LAST video with the 15 second camera..."

CASIO MT-100 by S-CAT.

YouTube via PHONICPOTION. S-CAT/PHONICPOTION on Ebay
"CIRCUIT BENT WITH 24 MODIFICATIONS."

Using the TSP Teaspoon on vocals

YouTube via RothHandle. The Squarewave Parade Teaspon.
"Polish songwriter Krysztof Antkowiak is back in the studio to put the finishing touches to his third album.

Roth Händle studio is located in Stockholm, Sweden. It is run by me, Mattias Olsson. If you are curious to read more about the studio please take a stroll by www.roth-handle.nu The website hasn't been updated for quite some time but there might be some little morsels of interest for you."

Roland JX-3P

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"six-voice polyphonic synth, having two DCOs (digitally controlled analog oscillators) per voice and MIDI capability"

Moog MG-1 Modded

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"This synthesizer has been completely internally cleaned and the foam which causes so many problem with this era of Moog's has been removed. We have also added an external audio input for the VCF, this allows you to process any audio signal through the MG-1 filter. The Input has a level control so that it can be mixed with internal keyboard sounds, or processed alone by turning internal sounds down at the mixer."

ROLAND SH-101

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Classic Portable Hammond Organ Synthesizer 102100

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Akai AX80 With Custom LED End Panels

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"new (oak) LED lighted endcaps just for FUN!"

Rheem Kee Bass

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"This item up for bid is the Rheem Kee Bass monophonic bass synthesizer. The Rheem company better known for their water heaters made 2 organs, the larger Mark VII and the strictly bass note model the Kee Bass. The Kee Bass was made in the late 1960's. This unit is in it's own carrying case that closes up like a suitcase (see photo)... This is essentially a 2 octave analogue organ that only plays bass notes. This is a mono phonic unit with high note priority meaning that if you play two notes at the same time it will only play the higher of the two. The Sustain/Percussion tab functions like this: Switched to "Sustain", it plays like a regular organ - press a key and it sounds continuously until you release it. Switched to "Percussion", it plays like a piano. Press and hold a key, and the sound dies out; how fast depends on the setting of the Decay Slow/Fast switch. In percussion mode the fade out of a note will sometimes continue on to the next note you play so you have to let the note fade before playing another note. The Bass Booster, Mellow/Bright and Fuzz tabs do what you'd expect, although the Mellow/Bright is a pretty subtle effect."

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Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene - concert - Slovenia - Ljubljana - 2008

flickr set by Sharky_MB
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Tiptop Audio Z3000 oscillator

flickr set by bdu
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Update: also see bleepology.

Moog MG-1

images at this auction

Note this is the MG-1 from this video.

inside a Moog MG-1

Fourth Annual Austin Analog Synthesizer Party Texas

via Chad A on AH:

"That's right: the Fourth Annual Austin Analog Synthesizer Party is coming up this Sunday. I hope to see many of you Texans on this list at the Salvage Vanguard Theater on 2803 Manor Road at 3pm this Sunday, the 16th.

I will likely bring my Sequential Circuits Pro-One, Korg MS-20 and accessories, and collection of analog drum machines (in lieu of the modular). In years past we've had a bunch of great synths, both DIY and vintage, including a polyphonic Blacet modular, a Crumar Spirit, an EMS VCS3, a Tridex Muse clone on a breadboard, and an ARP 2600.

This year, after the party, there will be performances by local synthesizer bands, starting at 7pm. Performing will be:
Douglas Ferguson: http://www.myspace.com/douglasferguson
Operation Playmate: http://www.myspace.com/operationplaymate
Low Red Center: http://www.myspace.com/lowredcenter

If you are bringing a synthesizer, please also bring a stand, a power strip or extension cord, and headphones.

See y'all at the biggest synthesizer meet in Texas."

ULTRAVOX - HYMN - ORS 82

YouTube via transceive. Spot the synths. Don't miss the ARP Odyssey solo by Billy Currie starting at 3:22.
"LIVE TV PERFORMANCE ON THE OXFORD ROAD SHOW NOVEMBER 1982"
Also... ULATRAVOX has announced a reunion tour. So far dates are only in the UK.

casio sk-1 w/ ltc1799 oscillator and lfo

YouTube via spunkytoofers
"kits available via www.getlofi.com
a single sample being looped on the keyboard is mangled and shaped in various ways via bends, ltc1799, and lfo."

Andreas Tilliander - Juno Chords

YouTube via repeatle
"Jamming in the studio, dubtechno stylee. 20081111."

Stribe1: Touchstrip + LED Bargraph Display

YouTube via CuriousInventor
"A touch-strip interface with dual LED bargraph columns. The video shows it being used with an Arduino, Max/MSP and Reason."

ARP 2600 GREY MEANIE + ARP SEQUENCER

YouTube via sonil23
"Just a quick show of my arp 2600 grey meanie which is super rare playing a simple sequence via the arp 1601 sequencer. Enjoy!"

Korg Micro-Preset monophonic synthesizer

YouTube via sounddoctorin
"Bob Weigel of Sound Doctorin' http://www.sounddoctorin.com (see the newly reorganized synth technical resource!) demonstrates the Micro-preset from 1977 or thereabouts. This one has a few non-original knobs but most are original. It was a wreck when it came in. Now it's awesome. I think it'd be great with a keytar apparatus. I should seriously mod a pitch bend neck into it. The sounds are sweet! It uses two Korg 35 filters, one for the left three buttons which allow use of the 'traveller' filter slider and one for the right three. The large knob is a footage selector but also causes on some of the buttons there to be variations. For example two of them on the 2nd button are pink and white noise. And there are various presets with different filter networks in the signal path to create a particularly nice Bassoon and other great tones. The buttons are generally a percussive synth with preset attack and variable release/decay on the first button from 32' to 2'. The short 32 key keyboard needs that :-). And the second button as I said has two noise settings but the other three are 32' 8' and 2' as I recall. Then the third button is brass from Tuba to high trumpet. Fourth button covers strings sounds, fifth woodwinds and sixth sax type sounds though none of them sound very saxy to me. Good sounds though. The winds strings and brass are more useful to me though and the synthe sounds. Very great machine to cover most of what you can get out of the early korgs plus some unique voicings in an often less expensive package."

SMule: Ocarina for iPhone [Played by The Mule]

YouTube via smuleage
"iPhone | Ocarina | SMule.
http://ocarina.smule.com/
http://themulewashere.blogspot.com
The Mule comes in style and busts out an old classic on The Ocarina"
You can get Ocarina here:

Stochastic Sequence

YouTube via boobtube356
"A Cwejman PH-4 and Doepfer A-147 compete with each other to create a chaotic lead sequence with varying rhythm. The part is played by a pair of Doepfer A-111s. The rest is another A-188-1 based Karplus patch and the usual percussion elements."

Oberheim DPX-1

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"OBERHEIM DPX-1 SAMPLE PLAYER. This is a 12 bit unit that can play E-mu II, Prophet 200, 2002, 2002+, Ensoniq Mirage DSK8, DSM8, and AKAI S900."

Dark Eyes - By Matryomin ensemble from Japan

YouTube via vitnetonline
"Dark Eyes - By Matryomin ensemble from Japan
for More www.Russianfolk.com"

Synth Cake

flickr by michaelforrest

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"It's my KORG microKONTROL in sponge form. Nice."

Untitled

flickr by -thefutureistheresultof ourlasthopes-

Little Boots - Meddle (Live at Jools Holland)

YouTube via nfallararo.

Yamaha Tenori-On and stylophone. You might remember Little Boots from these posts.
"Blackpool's Victoria Hesketh, aka Little Boots, had her demo picked up by Hot Chip's Joe Goddard upon her move to London. He then produced her initial single Stuck on Repeat and more recently debut single proper, Meddle. Following her BBC Introducing performance at Glastonbury this year we predict big things for Little Boots.
She was the vocalist of Dead Disco.

http://www.myspace.com/littleboots music http://www.littleboots.com"

Technos Acxel Resynthesizer

Three images via Kevin of Synthmuseum.com

Update: note a new Acxel is coming from iDarca Audio

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soniccharge drums and synth

via Baghead's sounds channel
"two synplant presets, and a microtoninc drum set up - simple safe & quick"
BTW, see brian c's mini review of synplant in the update of this post.

Korg MonoPoly and Polysix Synthwood Cases

synthwood.com

"new cases in figured maple, african pauduk, cascara and walnut"

Realistic MG-1 Synthesizer

YouTube via 00therabbit. Update: the video is for this listing.
"A video of a classic Realistic MG-1 Synthesizer by Moog for an ebay auction by seller brooksquickcash.As you can tell, I'm horrible at keys. Just wanted to show a small portion of what this awesome little synth can do."
Tip to those putting up videos for Ebay auctions: include the auction number. Moog MG-1s on Ebay.

Roland Juno Stage Ships

"JUNO-STAGE: 128-Voice Expandable Synthesizer
A New Synth Star for the Stage
Features

Designed from the ground up for live performers, JUNO-STAGE is a new breed of synthesizer that every gigging keyboardist will love. Decked out with an extra-large display, USB backing-track functionality, a Click output for drummers, dedicated performance knobs, hands-free patch select, instant master MIDI control functionality and much more, JUNO-STAGE sets a new standard for powerful onstage performance at a friendly price.

* High-quality, versatile sound set, including 88-key stereo multi-sampled piano, plus 2 open SRX expansion slots for soundset customization
* Newly-developed 76-note synth-action keyboard with first-class touch and response
* Live-performance features such as an extra-large LCD, dedicated Reverb and Master EQ knobs, Click output for drummers, and hands-free patch-select capabilities
* Top panel USB port enables accompaniment-track playback (MP3, .WAV, AIFF, SMF) directly from USB key
* Phantom-powered mic input, plus reverb and vocoder, great for playing and singing along
* MIDI Controller mode transforms JUNO-STAGE into a MIDI master keyboard with a single touch – perfect when using the JUNO-STAGE with a computer"

You can find more info here.

Siel DK80 Advert

via electro-music.com.

x0xb0x

flickr set by janvanvolt

"panel by sasha."

inside a x0xb0x

Oberheim DX drum computer at work

YouTube via h2kh2k
"An old Oberheim DX drum computer at work. Used for D'n'B track =)"

Programming an Oberheim DX drum machine

YouTube via Orrsome1967
"A short tutorial on how to program a rhythm pattern on an Oberheim DX. It also shows how to change the sound sample EEPROMs."

Programming a Roland TR-909

YouTube via Orrsome1967
"A crash course in programming a Roland TR-909 drum machine. Quite a catchy dance beat being produced in just a few minutes!"

Theremug

Theremug from Kyle McDonald on Vimeo.
"Instructions for turning a mug of tea into a Theremin:

1 Prepare some tea
2 Expose the L/R leads on an 1/8" cable
3 Immerse leads in tea
4 Plug cable into audio input
5 Start up max/pd/processing/etc. and average every 735 samples (882 if you're in Europe/running on 50Hz)
6 Scale value and drive oscillator

(The tea should not be neglected, be sure to drink it once you're done making noise.)
My camera's been acting funny, hence the jitter.
See the Max patch for a more in-depth explanation: flickr.com/photos/kylemcdonald/2126494098/"

On The Run sequence on a Dotcom

YouTube via invalidbuffalo
"This is the sequence from Pink Floyd's On The Run being performed on a Synthesizers.com modular synth."

Univox SR-95 (Korg Mini Pops 7) Preset Demo

YouTube via zibbybone
"Basic demo of the famed drum box's preset rhythms. First, I run through all presets without additional percussion (quijada, guiro & tambourine) and then later add them and lastly, percussion only. Be sure to subscribe to my Channel for future videos of vintage electronic instruments."

KORG Mono/Poly

via this auction

Click on each image to see the editable paramaters. Scan of features from the manual below.

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Moog Minimoog

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"Moog Minimoog, marked inside 4-19-74, 4536 (serial number)"

Workspace and Environment: K. Joseph Karam

You can find the full interview with more images on TRASH_AUDIO

"What are your current favorite pieces of hardware?
The Moog Voyager and MOTM synth are a lethal combo and what I’ve used most lately. The Ibanez AD202 analog delay is up there as well (great feedback). My piano is probably my favorite and longest lasting musical friend."

Korg PS-3100

images via Boele of SCD.
Note this unit is up for sale starting at 2500 Euros. If you are interested contact Boele via his site by this Saturday, the 15th. Notes (be sure to ask Boele for more if bidding): "rare fully polyphonic analog synthesizer. (serialnumber 809324) This one comes with custom midi interface and a audio input through the filter (both nicely added on the back of the synthesizer). It runs at 220 V, but on the back you can change that to 100 V."

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My KORG

flickr by Laurent DUCHENE

"My KORG 800 DV synthesizer"

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Customsynth.co.uk White Roland Fanton G

via CustomSynth.

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Elka Rhapsody 610 on Yamaha Motif ES7

YouTube via aemmezero. "No presets please!"

DEEP SPACE

"An Improvised Sonic Exploration featuring Richard Lainhart and Jordan Rudess.

Tune in on Sunday November 16th @ 2pm eastern standard time.

Join hosts Treavor Hastings and Gus Mason as RandoRadio broadcasts live from Richard's home studio. Deep Space is a live improvisational excursion featuring cutting-edge digital technologies along with old-school analog synths like Richard's Buchla 200e/Haken Continuum system and Jordan's vintage MiniMoogs.

RandoRadio will provide both live video and audio streams for this event so you get the best of both worlds.

Jordan Rudess entered the prestigious Juilliard School of Music for classical piano training at the age of nine. By nineteen, he began to include the rapidly developing world of synthesizers in his recordings and performances. Today, Jordan is a recording artist, composer, producer and performer. He is currently in the studio and on tour with the Progressive Rock band, Dream Theater.

Richard Lainhart is an award-winning composer, author, and filmmaker. He studied composition and electronic music with Joel Chadabe at the State University of New York at Albany, and has worked and performed with John Cage, David Tudor, Steve Reich, Phill Niblock, David Berhman, and Jordan Rudess, among many others.

So check it out Sunday November 16th at 2pm eastern ONLY on RandoRadio.com!

Visit the news page on our website for full details
Link to our Audio Stream
Link to our UStream Video feed

Richard Lainhart"

PERCIANTE ROCCO Studio Turin Italy

www.percianterocco.it
www.myspace.com/percianterocco
minimoog voyager anniversary edition
nord modular key
korg ms10
korg em-1
sakura digital delay stomp box
gakken theremin
motu ultralite
midisport 2x4
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