Trixie

flickr by adam pritchett

"She likes to watch while I play the synth."

KORG R3

Flowers

Flowers from Jan van Nuenen on Vimeo.
More info:
janvannuenen.com/index.php?page=gameenginetest

CRUMAR SYMPHONIZER STRING MACHINE

images at this auction

MoeSqncr iPhone App

YouTube via tjkdougaman
"Moe Sequencer.
Make Music with Moe Voice."
You can get MoeSequencer here:

RealPiano the Grand Piano for the iPhone

YouTube via ArminSZ
"This is a short demo of the best Piano app for the iPhone and iPod touch"
You can get RealPiano here:

Angular Momentum MIDI Controller for the Jomox AiR Base 99

"MIDI Controller for the Jomox AiR Base 99.
Stand Alone and VSTi version
All controls neatly on 1 panel
99 Preset slots
Channel select
MIDI Learn
MIDI Learn Reset
MIDI Learn: Move slider or knob simultaniously with your hardware controller.
MIDI Unlearn: Double click control or press Reset all MIDI Learn
Use 2 MIDI Tracks...
MIDI Track 1...MIDI In = from Hardware Controller....MIDI out = AMVST AiR Base 99 Control
MIDI Track 2...MIDI In = AMVST AiR Base 99 Control....MIDI Out = Output to Jomox AiR Base 99 Hardware"
[Angular Momentum - be sure to check out their other software]

customized Oberheim SEM Module

via Aliens Project where you will find one more image and samples.

Custom Oberheim SEM with break-out patch points. Also note the Moog 993.

SX-150 modded

flickr by mesak
(click through for the mouseovers)

"'output' has switch for inverting pitch->filter tracking
output changed to big jack (to the side)
below resonance is a switch for 'resonance reshuffle'
thanks to masa"

Update via tm: "working link to the instructions"

Sound Design with AudioCubes

YouTube via Percussa
"A demo by http://alloyelectric.com/
(Chris Warren, UCSD)

Chris is controlling a soft synth developed especially for AudioCubes by Percussa, to be released in the next months.

No setup or configuration necessary to make the cubes talk to the software, since the software was designed specifically for the cubes.

No drivers necessary, and runs on Mac OSX 10.4 or Windows XP SP2 and later."

Oscillators on navs.modular.lab

"What a week it's been. First I get my AFG back from Livewire, then I finally get my hands on a Cwejman VCO-6 and yesterday Tiptop Audio's Z3000 arrives at Schneidersbuero. Oscillators. They're like buses..."

You can hear the samples on navs.modular.lab.

calculator music

YouTube via ajturley
"This is a demo of a project I built so that I could use my HP 48 to play a MIDI keyboard. The calculator is running a program that sends data to a Parallax Stamp Basic microcontroller over the built-in serial port whenever I press a button. The microcontroller is running software that converts the message from the calculator into a MIDI noteon or noteoff message that is then sent to the keyboard. This is a response to a createdigitalmusic.com poll in which a (small) number of users said they wanted the site to cover more calculator music."

Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue

Youtube via ChiliDogWithOnions.

The year was 1983. A synth filled track. Anyone have any idea what synths and drum machines were used?

Buchla 200e live

YouTube via cray56

Circuit Bent Laser Gun Mod 2.1 Special Limited Edition

YouTube via BentElectronics

"Limited Edition Circuit Bent Laser Gun...Modification 2.1...Bent By SKINSINK
Available for a limited time only! Follow this link to my ebay items:" [link]

ALESIS HR-16 by S-CAT.

YouTube via PHONICPOTION. S-CAT/PHONICPOTION on Ebay
"CIRCUIT BENT WITH 21 MODIFICATIONS."

YAMAHA DD-6 by S-CAT.

"CIRCUIT BENT WITH 10 MODIFICATIONS."

straker on monome and audiocubes

YouTube via cassieldotcom
"A pot-pourri of performance technologies. The sample manipulation is courtesy of the shard plugin, which is being controlled by the monome and the audiocubes using the straker sequencing framework, which itself is built on top of the shado rendering library for the monome."

Roland V-synth Demostration part 1, by S4K performed by Gilles

YouTube via Space4Keys

FX-1 and MDR-1 2008.11.15

YouTube via cnxww893
"My FX-1 was delivered on 14th November, 2008. The first thing I did was checking MDR-1 and 3 inch floppy disc if they are woking or not. It seemed to be OK, but suddenly communication between MDR-1 and FX-1 was failed. Anyway I will update my platying someday soon."

Korg Lambda baroque style

YouTube via kennykeyboard
"Just like something your piano teacher would have you play, this piece was created by me with heavy influences by Bach and Mozart some 25 years ago. Never mind the bobbles. My teacher always told me to keep playing."

Steve Scuilli - Hartmann Neuron Live

"Musician Steve Sciulli will perform on the Hartmann Neuron - a very rare electronic synthesizer on Tuesday, Nov 18th at Your Inner Vagabond. This is part of "Electric Larryville" the monthly series that "showcases the most innovative electronica that Pittsburgh has to offer."

Also performing will be Bureau of Nonstandards and from Black Moth Super Rainbow Power Pill Fist
Start time is 8pm and goes until 11:30. This is an all age show and is FREE. Your Inner Vagabond is located at 4130 Butler Street, Pittsburgh. Phone: 412-6831623

The Hartmann Neuron uses a form of Artificial Intelligence and memory recognition as it develops its binaural soundscapes. It builds internal neuronic networks that offers 3 dimensional sound choices. All in glorious 5.1 surround sound! This blends perfectly with Steve's core philosophy of connecting the sacred with leading edge technologies. "These are all steps in our evolutionary journey". Steve is excited to be premiering his new instrument at Your Inner Vagabond on Nov 18th.

The Neuron was designed and built by the German designer Axel Hartmann. Around 500 of these instruments were build. This just might be the first time that this boundary breaking musical instrument is played in the Pittsburgh region. Steve will also be utilizing the Akai EWI 4000s wind synthesizer for this show.

Steve Sciulli – Musician and ambient music pioneer. Steve built his first synthesizer at the age of 10 and started the flute at 14. Founding member of the early 1980's progressive group "Carsickness" (which Trouser Press compared to Van der Graaf Generator) and the Celtic rock band "Ploughman's Lunch" along with numerous other regional and national touring musical groups. Steve along with his wife Ami make up the trance healing musical duo Life In Balance. Life In Balance has toured from Alaska to Florida and have been featured on NPR. Their CDs are available on Koch Records and The Relaxation Company. Steve's flute playing can be heard in the new Robert DeNiro and Bruce Willis movie "What Just Happened""

Frac Plague Bearer

flickr by parasitk
(click for more)

Retrosynth MiniROM

You might remember the MiniROM from this video. via Retrosynth where you'll find more info including how to order the MiniRom:

"The Retrosynth MiniROM is a Blacet Mini Wave and Wiard Waveform City compatible ROM that provides eight times more waveform capacity than a traditional waveform ROM. The MiniROM can be installed in any open ROM socket on the Mini Wave or Hylander Expander. MiniROMs can be stacked with MiniROM selection handled by a panel mounted toggle or rotary switch....

The first MiniROM is available with PPG waveforms programmed by Jason Proctor. The PPG waveform set provides 32 banks of 64 waves each. A small wiring harness (provided) is soldered to the Mini Wave to facilitate access to the extended waves and banks." Blacet MiniWave.

Deep Space 11/16/2008

You might remember Deep Space from this previous post. You can find images of the performance by RandoRadio here.

"Deep Space
Improvised Sonic Exploration
A Special Live Remote Broadcast!

On Sunday, November 16th 2008,
Richard Lainhart and Jordan Rudess too the airwaves to perform improvisational space music. The program, called Deep Space, was hosted by Treavor Hastings and Gus Mason featured a mixture of interview and spacey sounds performed live. Richard performed on his Buchla 200e with Continuum and Jordan used his Moog Voyager and VSynth along with various gadgets and goodies.

The program was filmed and broadcast live to the entire world."

ookpikk

"the album is basically a showcase of the Sherman Filterbank and the DSI Evolver in a more obvious way than I've heard yet, and I figure that some matrixsynth readers might be interested...

you can find samples at www.myspace.com/ookpikk and http://ookpikk.googlepages.com/totalhome-job , as well as at itunes, beatport, and emusic.

To fully pick it apart, here's a track-by-track gearlist.

James Rocketface -
Drums: Samples (Filterbanked)
Bass: Nord Modular (FBd)
Lead 1: DSI Evolver
Lead 2: Waldorf uWave2

Hair Suite -
Drums: Samples (FBd)
Bass: Evolver
Lead 1:Evolver
Lead 2:Evolver (FBd)
Guitar: Samples (FBd)
Pads:Waldorf uWave2 (FBd)

Hooray For Public Healthcare!
Drums: Samples (Evolvered)
Bass: Nord Modular (FBd)
Lead: Evolver
Pad: Waldorf uWave2 (FBd)

Squire Twain, His Merry Men
Drums: Samples (Evolvered)
Bass: Waldorf uWave2 (FBd)
Lead: Evolver
Precussive Lead: Waldorf uWave2
Acid: Waldorf uWave2

Shop Teacher
Drums: Jomox Airbase99 (Ebbe und Fluted)
Bass: Nord Modular (EuFd)
Log precussion: Nord Modular (EuFd)
Lead: Evolver

Wisps
Drums: Jomox Airbase99 (FBd)
Bass: Evolver (FBd)
Lead: Nord Modular (FBd)
Pad: Nord Modular (FBd)
Bells: Nord Modular (FBd)

Sodafountain Of Youth
Drums: Samples (FBd)
Bass: Evolver
Lead: Waldorf uWave2 (EuFd)
Chords: Waldorf uWave2 (FBd)
Bells: Waldorf uWave2 (FBd)
Enchantment Under The Sea Guitar: Samples (FBd)

Total Home-Job
Drums: Jomox Airbase99 (EuFd)
Bass: Nord Modular
Lead 1: Nord Modular (FBd)
Hard Panned Lead: Evolver

Mr Carnivale
Drums:Samples (FBd)
Bass: Evolver (FBd)
Chords:Waldorf uWave2 (FBd)
Lead 1: Evolver

For Lloyd And Lloyd Alone
Bass:Waldorf uWave2 (FBd)
Bells:Waldorf uWave2 (FBd)
Lead 1:Evolver
Lead 2:Waldorf uWave2 (FBd)
Strings Waldorf uWave2 (FBd)"

Remember folks, the posts are about the synths. In this case you can hear a bit of the character of each synth used in the mix. The rule as always is you have to be able to focus on the individual synths either visually or via audio.

Digitana Atari Punk Console circuit bent synth

YouTube via DigitanaUK
"Brief video demo of the Digitana Micro Punk Console, based on the APC/Forrest Mims Stepped Tone generator, with added trigger button.

Limited quantities available to buy, visit www.digitana.co.uk"

Devi Ever Clearance Sale

Devi Ever has a ton of gear up for auction here including a euro-rack modular. Note the Truly Beautiful Disaster designs.
Green: "This is one of the very earliest TBD's I ever built... back in late 2003, early 2004. It's been updated to the latest TBD circuitry (louder fuzz), as well with the addition of a light jack and on/off flip switch for that, though there no light attachment, and I will not be making any more."
Biker: ""#171 Given to me by Amada of Ooh La La Manufacturing."

Moog The Rogue

images at this auction

Crumar Trilogy

images at this auction

MC303

flickr by Easy Skywalker

inside a Roland MC-303

full size

Circuit bent Oceanus Noise Box 2

via this auction
"Oceanus circuit bent noise box 2.
This is one for the sound freaks , bought - sampled to death and now being sold on.Its basically from what i can gather a Drum machine crossed with a Voice modulator , robot vocoder effector which also glitches.The drum machine goes through the effector and there is also an external input for freaking out signals.Theres also a 1/4 out.All working and sounding 'Bent ' :) A pretty unique device and a one off i believe.Heres video i found on you tube of the actual unit.



I personally giove the drum machine without the mods a 8/10 for retardedness.Its about as cheesy as you can get and through a delay or phaser etc sounds really pretty mad and like the salvation army sunday school band on a couple of hundred mushrooms.Add the voice changer mod and effect and glitch and its pretty unexplainable.I had a few to take the circuits and add them onto an sk1 or something but i just dont have time.No reserve and no compensation if this does your head in or freaks out the 'normal ' people in your street.It will up loud !

Rusty Insects

Carbon111's Rusty Insects Studio

be sure to click on this one for the full size shot.

BugBrand 40106 Quad-Oscillator + 4077 Quad-XNOR

"The 40106 is a great chip to play with - you can make up to 6 simple oscillators from it, but I've chosen to implement simple Syncronization, so only have four Oscs. Each Osc has three rates possible by using a 3way switch. The Sync possibilities use SPDT C/O switches allowing Oscs 2 & 4 to be sync'd to either Osc 1 or Osc 2 (or Sync off).
The 4077 is a quad XNOR gate which gives an effect like ring-modulation (you could also use a 4070 XOR for similar effects)."

via BugBrand (Note this is the DIY page of circuits to try out on the BugBrand website. You'll find more there).

BugBrand 4094 8-stage Serial Shift Register

"The 4094 is a very simple 8-stage shift register implementation - just a clock and a data input (same way as for the 4015 -- SPDT C/O switch). You get eight output stages and two complementary serial outputs."

via BugBrand

BugBrand 4089 Rate Multiplier

"The 4015 contains two independent 4-stage shift registers and require clock and data signals (along with a reset input which may be implemented or not depending on requirements). I wired the data input with a single-pole-double-throw-centre-off switch so that you can input a logic HI, logic LO or external data flow - in the Up position, the input is tied HI, in the mid position the input is pulled low by the pull-down resistor and in the low position the external input is connected. I also made use of small 5-way rotary switches to give a switchable-select-output - but its hard / expensive to get such switches.."

via BugBrand

BugBrand 4015 Dual 4-stage Shift Register

"The 4015 contains two independent 4-stage shift registers and require clock and data signals (along with a reset input which may be implemented or not depending on requirements). I wired the data input with a single-pole-double-throw-centre-off switch so that you can input a logic HI, logic LO or external data flow - in the Up position, the input is tied HI, in the mid position the input is pulled low by the pull-down resistor and in the low position the external input is connected. I also made use of small 5-way rotary switches to give a switchable-select-output - but its hard / expensive to get such switches.."

via BugBrand

AudioWeevils in November - Newsletter

"Not too much news this month as the ongoing 'developments' are still underwraps for now
- I hope to have announcements before the end of the year, but there are still a couple of areas to finalize...
There are, however::::::
- more AudioWeevils
- Workshop Osc Machine Kits + Documentation
- Postcards in yellow
- & some free BugModular mp3s

***
Batch #3 of the AudioWeevil08

15 boxes have just been added to the shop
These are black slope fronted cases with red panel.
(similar to the shown image, but the case is black rather than dark brown)
Priced, as usual, at £190 plus shipping.

(This mailout is being sent later in the day than the last two - those of you in the US hadn't been getting a fair look-in with midday mailouts)
(You're also in a good position as the £ is not feeling so healthy at the moment...)

Please strike quickly if you'd like one...

***
After holding a workshop event at the Hokaben Festival recently, I have finally completed the documentation for the Workshop Osc Machine kits.
You can download it here (1.5meg size) [pdf]
22 pages of info! Covering an introduction to parts, how to solder, kit construction and how the circuit works..

A limited number of kits are now in the shop with a further set later in the week.
Kits contain Printed Circuit Board, ALL parts and B&W printed instructions.
The only tools required to build the kit are: Soldering Iron (plus stand & cleaner) / Solder / Wire Cutters
The kits are priced at £40 plus shipping.

http://www.bugbrand.co.uk/pages/electronics.htm#workshoposc
There's also a Q&A thread now at the MuffWiggler forum

***
On the BugBlog: http://www.bugbrand.blogspot.com/

- the PostcardWeevil is now in yellow
- three BugModular mp3s to download & ..... space out to.....

***

More news and another batch of AWeevils in December.
Big thanks!"

Auduino

Auduino from Tinker.it! on Vimeo.
"Having a play with the Auduino synthesiser.

Auduino is based on the Arduino board. The audio is coming direct from Arduino PWM output with only a slight external reverb. No other effects were used.

Construction details and code here"

via Peter of Tinker it!:
"Me and the team at Tinker.it have put together a softsynth for Arduino entitled Auduino (a contraction of Audio Arduino) and I thought you might be interested. I've released the source and schematic, so everyone can hack around with it.

Video (above)
Construction and hacking notes
Source code
Eye candy"

Acidlab Bassline

The Acidlab Bassline from this post is now up for auction.

"Roland TB-303 Bassline Clone from Germany. Limted production usually only available from the manufacturer in Germany.

Features (from the manual):
- Tuning control for the pitch over +/- 8 half-tones.
- Tuning switch increased or degraded by a octave.
- Waveform switch for selecting the wave shape.
- Cutoff control determines the corner frequency, Resonance control increases the resonance of the filter.
- Env Mod control increases the filter envelope.
- Decay control increases the release time of the filter envelope.
- Accent control increases the portion of the accent.
- Sequencer can be synced to MIDI or (Roland) Sync, can also be used as Master to send sync (Roland) to external devices.
- Step switch between 12 or 16 steps for each pattern.
- Length switch changes the step length with external synchronisation (triole if on 8, 16tel if on 6).
- By different combinations of the switches, the same Line can be played with different pattern length and step length.

Comes complete with power supply."

Three Good Things in Life

via jesper

You might remember this little guy from this post.

Little Synth Dude and Jam Shop's Leipzig Release Coverage

Little guy with a Bleep Labs Thingamagoop.

Anyone know the organ/keyboard in the middle shot?

Note these images come from The Jam Shop's coverage of the release of the Analogue Solutions Leipzig Synthesizer pictured below. Click through for more shots.

via /kroffe

OBERHEIM SEM output module

via this auction
"It had been taken out of a perfect Oberheim 4 (or 8) voice, it is the output module, with pan options."

BTW, some people on AH are calling out this other auction as a scam. You be the judge.

I Love Synthesizers

via Scott:

"I have a synthesizer themed t-shirt design in the running at Threadless.com. here's the link to the design (I Love Synthesizers). The "I (Heart)" is hidden subtly in the knobs and sliders on the synth. If it gets enough high votes they'll print it up. Anyway, thought this might be of interest to you."

the FUNX CAPACITOR

YouTube via thebadhand
"Glitchy analog synth designed by Zippy. Controlled by tilt-detectors and a few knobs.
more info: http://pranksterdice.blogspot.com/200..."

Bloom, Rhodes & ER-1

YouTube via lesingemonotone
"A little sunday-jam with Lisa playing Bloom on her Iphone and me on Rhodes and Korg ER-1. enjoy! :)"
You can get Bloom here: