Spectralis Ambient Soundbank

YouTube via complexy. "Teaser about Spectralis Ambient Soundbank"

Update via Complexsystems in the comments: "Visit http://spectralissoundpacks.blogspot.com/ for more info and download this new soundbank."

PlanB vs Cwejman with Others Droning

YouTube via dkimcg
"Cwejman PH-4 handles the bulk of the timing, it gates a Cwejman ADSR which is used bu the Model 17 Triple Timer to create new triggers and rhythms which fire off the 2nd ADSR and both Model 10 envelope generators which gates the main sound and send that through a pair of Model 12s to help finish off the woody plucky sound.

More info in the annotations as I see useful and remember cool little things about the patch, but it's all modular except the reverb and delay (digital hardware)."

Reality And Inexactiude

YouTube via RadiPho
"We usually play this song in E but this day it seemed to sound better in D for some reason unknown."

Jitterbug Transformations

"This is a rare example of music from the obsolete Electric Harmonic Frequency Angle And Phase Arbitrator in the main Diracistan Studio 0"

Spheres And Spaces

"Sometimes we use it to scare away bugs and rodents."

Buchla Uncertainty

YouTube via hyperguy61
"i did this when i first got the 200e. The stages of the 250e are being selected by the random The The stages of the 250e are being selected by voltages from the 266e. The tip of the sonic iceberg that is the 200e and the lovely uncertainty that Don so thoughtfully provided us! The old SFTMC 100 is helping"

RHYTHM MACHINE Brother Auto Emillion GX-151

YouTube via jajakubin. "retro Sound RHYTHM MACHINE"

Noise.io - iPhone Synthesizer

YouTube via jetdaisuke
"http://webdog.be/archives/0...
iPhoneアプリの高機能シンセサイザー＆ループシーケンサー 「Noise.io」 "
Googlish:
"http://webdog.be/archives/0 ...
iPhone apps RUPUSHIKENSA high-performance synthesizers and "Noise.io""You can get Noise.io here:

synthpond trio 1

YouTube via organofqwerty
"a simple synthpond composition with three effectors and three orbiting reactors, all with three-word color sentences. many thanks to synthpond creator zach gage."

You can find Synthpond here:

Yonac Software Melodifone

Yonac Software
"Now at a special introductory rate of 99 cents: MelodiFone, the virtual wind instrument!

Gone are the days when you were in the middle of a crowd and suddenly remembered: "Drat! I forgot my wind instrument." With MelodiFone, you'll be sure to have a pipe on you always! Simply press the keys and blow into your iPhone's microphone to play your tune-of-the-moment.

Modeled with ease of use in mind, MelodiFone has extra-large buttons, laid out in a fool-proof "oh, I remember this from my grade-school days" fashion. You can also shift registers, playing in any one of the three octaves below, at or above the middle C.

Additionally, you can vary the distance of the microphone (or the force of your breath) to add dynamics to your playing: MelodiFone will recognize this, and adjust the volume accordingly.

And when the mood takes you, get up on the stage, plug into a P.A. and play "Love Vigilantes." MelodiFone won't disappoint."
You can find Melodifone here:

Midi Thru Box

via Synth-DIY

"Say hello to my model: His name is Braska and will be posing on my stuff from now on! He is a cute guy and posing is the only chance to take a break from being beaten, tortured and gummed to death by the kids."

Jupiter 6 PCB Closeup

flickr by Cardigan Lane

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inside a Roland Jupiter-6

Musical Applications for Multi-Touch Interfaces

Musical Applications for Multi-Touch Interfaces from BricK Table on Vimeo.
"Short demo video of the various ways in which we are exploring creating and composing music using our custom tangible and multi-touch interface (BricKTable)."

Francis Rimbert - Bionic Orchestra (1979)

via 36 15 MOOG

spot the synths

Update: video below.


YouTube via cosmocorps2000
"A track called Games from the LP Francis Rimbert BIONIC ORCHESTRA (France, 1979)

Rhythms arranged by Marc Goldfeder
Photography by Bernard Berton
Bass by Tony Bonfils
Korg Synthesizers composed by Francis Rimbert
Guitar by Jacky Tricoire
Artistic Direction by Dominique Alas
Recorded & mixed at Nouveau Studio, Vincennes
Production Gamme - July 1979

The LP cover shows a nice collection of Korg Synthesizers, Mixers, Vocoder etc.

For my taste the cover is better than the music ;)"

Workspace and Environment: Distorted Memory

via TRASH_AUDIO where you will find the full interview.

"What are your current favorite pieces of hardware?
Either my Virus C or Ti. If I want a certain sound but can't get it on anything else I can usually make it on the Virus. Plus they look like something off the fucking death star, so you can't go wrong there. I also have to give props the the Blofeld, that thing is great, it can make some extremely noisy and evolving sound fx, has a wicked arpegiator, and is actually fun to program despite being mostly menu based."

Saving Private Fizmo

Sequence 15 has a post up on replacing the faulty regulator of the Ensoniq Fizmo.

Watch more nanoKEY mastery with Jordan Rudess

YouTube via NanoSeries

Jordan Rudess and his nanoKEY

Beyond the Point

Another EMS Synthi album on Amazon. You will find samples.

via THE SYNTHI

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flickr by gardenque
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Paper KORG MS20

Rhymes With More Awesome

flickr by _mpd_


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"Meet my new Voyager -- Whitewashed cabinet with Electric Blue LEDs."

Synthjam Afternoon

YouTube via verstaerker
"Jam with Machinedrum & Modularsystem: Mainly Livewire AFG & Cwejman DMF"

PLL Arabesque

YouTube via boobtube356
"Doepfer A-196 PLL attempts to track a pulse width modulated A-111. An A-147 is the modulation and clock source. The result passes through a Cwejman VCEQ-3."

Oceanus Poly Dub Siren aka the Beep Slider

YouTube via xd515
"This is an analogue 10 step sequencer with 2 VCO'c and a few other bits! Makes some unique Siren sounds. I have made 3 ( and only 3 ) of these. If you want one, drop me a mail xd515@tiscali.co.uk Cheers Oceanus"

Oberheim LeDX

YouTube via rolandsh1000

"Short demo of a modified Oberheim DX. The mods are: moved Pitch pots, added Decay pots, new Volume sliders, and all controls have integrated LEDs.

The great thing about the DX is that it has a pretty open architecture and the big control surface. The uP generates trigger signals for each voice channel that are pretty easily accessible. The control surface, however, only had volume sliders and the pitch control was put on the back of the unit where you can't see what you're doing.

So in this DX, I added controllable Decay to all channels by utilizing the preexisting holes in the PCB. I also brought the stock pitch controllability to new Pitch pots mounted on top of the unit, where you can see what you are doing rather than reaching around the back.

As you can tell, the most obvious thing I did was to use potentiometers that either had or could integrate LED's. I was inspired by CMS's Arp Lumina who swapped out all the sliders on a stock Odyssey for ones with integrated LEDs - do a websearch and find the pics - it's a great mod because it looks cool AND improves the functionality! Anyway, these type of pots are all available at Mouser, but you can't just plug and play with them. The sliders all have center detent, so you have to open them up and remove the ball bearing & spring from the slider. I also had to Dremel out some of the DX's upper panel PCB to make them fit where the old Noble sliders were and adapt the mounting thread holes. The rotary pots are really designed to be board-mounted, not panel-mounted, so they have T1 LED's that are held in by silicone. It actually works pretty well.

To get each button to map to an LED, I had to build some combinational logic decoding of the triggers for each drum sound. Not hard, but a lot of wire-wrapping.

I'm not showing pics of the inside because, while the externals are pretty, the innards are NOT! ;)"

stribe1 demo

YouTube via soundwidgets
"Using Scalar with 2 Stribe1 prototypes."

Xarp-56 Polysynth

"Xarp-56 (pronounced "harp") is a 56 string harp of Karplus-Strong string models. (56 voice polyphony).

The synth supports two ranges, one an octave above the other. The higher range is implemented by generating two samples for every DAC enable and decimating 1:2.

Each string model is an integer length 18 bit wide digital waveguide. Keyboard follow is applied to the bandwidth of the reflection filter.

Note that the highest note has 5.051 cents of tuning error. The rest of the harp tuning is better than 5 cents. I cannot hear the error in that one note.

This synth is targetted at a Xilinx Spartan-3A DSP 1800 Development board with a Cirrus CS4344 24 bit stereo DAC.

Ver_b: mono output signal to both channels."

You can find the project source and a sample here. No image as of this post.

via Scott on the SDIY list:
"The sound clip is a piece of Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" that I adapted for this instrument - the entire clip is played on one Xarp-56 instrument.

Verilog source is provided if you're interested.

While you listen, remember that this it is a single integrated circuit that is doing the DSP computations to make the sounds you're hearing."

Synthwood Sequential Circuits Pro-One

You can find more shots of the inside and outside here.

# Build Date July 2008
# Pacific Northwest Walnut

Note Shiva in the bottom shot.

Commodore 64 SoundExpander FM synth

YouTube via tretretretretretre6. Audio comes in at 1:14.
"FM Sound Module demo for Commodore 64" see the write-up here.

Oberheim 4 Voice

images at this auction

"Oberheim 4 Voice with Extra Micro Sequencer & enclosure"

Note people on AH are calling this auction a scam.

Midibox , preset sounds preview

YouTube via xtal202
"This midibox is not finished , I tested some sounds. I'm afraid my camera didn't capture the sounds with a good audio quality... this is my first video :-)"

Patch for Nov 15, 2008

YouTube via dkimcg
"I thought this sounded interesting. slower LFOs making slow interweaving changes. Sequenced by the Jomox 888, the MBase01 is heavily processed in the modular. All 888 and modular."

Vermona analog drum synthesizer

YouTube via Passie808
"This is a demo with the Vermona DRM 1 MK 3 analog drum module."

I Feel You - FUN WITH MOTIF VOCODER

YouTube via wendlinka
"mp3 version
my next cover song using vocoder of motif xs. created only with motif internal sequencer and using factory sounds.

enjoy my friends!

P.S. Dedicated to my Lovely Wife - Kisses!"

Aero Synth

YouTube via yudoinc. "Aero Synth for iPhone/iPodtouch"
You can get the full version of Aero synth here:

You can get the free version of Aero Synth here:

MFOS Modular

via wooster in this electro-music.com thread. You will find a link to more images there.

"MFOS modules include:
3x VCO
2x ADSR
2x LFO
1x SVF
1x Dual VCA
1x Noise Cornucopia
1x S&H

There are few a other DIY modules and a MOTM kit in there too. The strip in the middle is a mult/bus. The connections in the mult are ABCDABCDABCD etc... instead of AAAABBBCCCC... to make it easier to distribute signals."

The song of the Sun, Mike Oldfield - cover

YouTube via fischek
Synths:
Nord Lead 2X (lead)
Roland JD-800 (strings)
VST Korg M1 (choir)
VST Hypersonic 2 (harp)

Waldorf Blofeld Comb+ filter

via Boele of SCD on the Waldorf list:

"And another example of using the self oscillating combfilter. Now I used a Comb+ filter. It produces a very different sound compared to the Comb- filter (which I used in the two examples yesterday).

I have to say that there is a analog delay and also a reverb added to this sound, but still... :-)

http://www.synthmusic.info/mpdries/combfilter3.mp3

Too bad it swallows voices, those combfilters.

By the way, another method to make your sound more dirty is using the samplerate parameter in the 3FX effect. Little distortion and that samplerate parameter around 60-70 does miracles to a sound ;-)"

Admin: Calfiaudio Link for Plan B Post

Looks like I missed the link to more info in this post. If you missed it do go check it out.

Logan String Melody 2 + Korg Mini Pops Junior

YouTube via retrosound72

"vintage gear demo by RetroSound

Logan String Melody 2 + EHX Small Stone phase shifter (jarre phaser);
drums: Keio (Korg) Mini Pops Junior drum box"

Alesis Andromeda A6 Explained : best of Digital and Analog

YouTube via nikkoid
"Detailed demonstration of the Alesis Andromeda A6 synthesizer. The best of analog and digital worlds"

MFB-503 Drum Machine Demo

You can find it at the forum.

Casper Electronics @ Vanishing Point 11-13-08

flickr by Pendu Org Arts & Actions

"Damaged! Aktions & Visions #1, curated by Pendu Org @ Vanishing Point, Brooklyn, 11/13/08 photo credits: ©Todd Brooks 2008"

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Human Synthesizer T-Shirt Design

flickr by Network Osaka

"This is a design proposal for a threadless shirt i've been working on for a long time... I have not yet submitted it because I want you guys to critique it before I send it out for approval.

You guys may critique it either on this flickr post or over here:
www.threadless.com/critique/31470/Human_Synthesizer

but i'd prefer if you guys critique it over at threadless so that I can show you guys the different variations as each version is uploaded :-)

Thanks for stopping by here and I will really appreciate your input :-)"

Compact Clone Phaser Closeup

flickr by wooster_synth
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"Jurgen Haible Compact Clone Krautrock Phaser."

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Modular and Soundlab

flickr by wooster_synth

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Sergi Jorda's Reactable

YouTube via midicool. See the label for more.
"Fascinating synthesizer/sequencer."

keybdwizrd - Virus TI Demo #10

YouTube via keybdwizrd

"A demonstration of some of my favorite patches in the Access Virus TI Polar synthesizer."

PAIA Stereo Chord EGG

YouTube via Zolophile
"The EGG produces only sound. It is running through an Atari Video music to generate the color patterns.

'The EGG plugs into any stereo Amplifier to create soothing flowing environmental sound textures - and through headphones it's incredible. The chords and notes EXIST in your mind, they pan and swell and phase their way through your psyche in unpredictable patterns, never repeating.

The combination of LSI organ technology with synthesizer type processing and digital randomizing/control elements make the EGG an altogether intriguing package from either technological or metaphysical viewpoints.'"

Idioteque Rendition on Korg DS-10

YouTube via bigolblob
"Ids10teque! WITTY. I got the DS-10 a few hours ago and this is my rendition of Radiohead's Idioteque, although with only the first verse's melody because of the limited number of patterns. I whole-heartedly recommend the DS-10 ;D"

ARP 2600

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x0xb0x

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Sequential Circuits Prophet-T8

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