Flight of Harmony - Infernal Noise Machine

via the Big City Music blog "Two oscillator, dual joystick, dual filter synth with CV inputs BCM's protoype - production should start soon!" bigcitymusic.com http://flightofharmony.com/

Diabolical Devices - Oscillatrix

via the Big City Music Blog

"Two oscillator noise box with body contacts
Available tomorrow."

bigcitymusic.com

http://www.classaelectronics.com/circuit.html

4ms Modules

via the Big City Music blog.


http://4mspedals.com/

Ian Fritz DoubleDeka VCO front and back

flickr by sduck409
(click for more)

Update: see the comment of this post for more including samples.

ZOe in the Making

follow-up to this post

"The Silk Screening is Done!

(Progress Marches On...)"

http://www.cyndustries.com

MagicSpace - Sound Demo - Korg Analog Synthesizer

YouTube via mediagateeisenach

"Korg Lambda Analog String Ensemble 1979, Korg 900PS Present-Synthesizer 1975, MFB 501 Drummaschine 1980, Recording: Samplitude V8 professional, Video: Autodesk 3dmax 9"

TimewARP Samples via cl516

see the write-up and more samples on cl516.

Update via Doktor Future in the comments: "Wouldn't it be awesome if they made a Dual or Quad ARP 2600? That is, let the VST be several 2600's that can be inter-connected with patch cables. That would blow my mind!" Indeed.

Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 Rev 3.0

via this auction

Ensoniq ESQ-1

via this auction

X-Series Synthesizer Modules and more

YouTube via macbethsynthesizers
"Here Ken MacBeth mixes the X-Series Synth Modules with a Korg CX3 and a Godwin...'I hope you enjoy my mediocre keyboard playing!'"

Modular Acid Track from Computer Controlled

via Computer Controlled on the AH list:

"Finally got something completed after days and days of goofing around =o] You can hear it here: http://www.reverbnation.com/computercontrolled

It's called Virus. The modular is the low grindy sound. Gear Used:

TB-303
modular
Machinedrum
TR-707 (simply to rest the modular's LFO at the beginning of the measure)"

Roland SH-101 with Mod Grip

via this auction

PSP NITRO for $10

"audioMIDI.com ANOTHER NO BRAINER DEAL!: PSP NITRO $10.

Chatsworth, CA (July 8, 2009) audioMIDI.com and PSP offering Nitro for $10.00 until 8/09/09 (reg. MSRP $149!). Nitro is a powerful Windows/Mac plug-in featuring four sound processing blocks containing a variety of filters, a phaser, bitcrusher and more along with a highly flexible routing scheme.

Said audioMIDI.com’s Russ Jones, “This is the third in our series of super “no-brainer” plug-in deals, bringing powerful music software tools to the end user at unheard of prices.”

audioMIDI.com will offer an affordable upgrade path to PSP’s full EffectPack bundle including the Lexicon PSP 42, PSP 84, PSP 608 MultiDelay and PSP EasyVerb for just $249.00.

Nitro is available for purchase via electronic serial number at this special price until 8/09/09, exclusively from www.audioMIDI.com."

Kriminal 2009 FELIX VSTi

"Inspired by the 1981 synth, the Octave Kitten
Features.
1 VCO (saw/tri/pulse) plus white noise generator
1 LFO - sine/square/S+H
2 SubOsc's : square (-1 and -2 oct)
VCF - 4pole LP self oscillating filter
VCA - ADSR
200+ Presets
The real powerful area of the Kitten was the modulation - the LFO / Sample+Hold routing to modulate the ADSR / VCO / VCF - it could produce many interesting effects and S&H sounds - ive tried to capture this in FELIX, as well as making it versatile in the normal spectrum of sounds.
thanks to Jonathan Styles for the 'big knobs, and Michael Cavallo, Steven West, Shamanix, Luftrum, DLN and musicorner for patches."

You can find it here.

MGMT - Time To Pretend cover on Alesis Ion synthesizer

YouTube via adzy31
"Another attempt at covering an MGMT track, randomly decided to start this yesterday morning. The drum track is from Reason, all other sounds are from the Ion, played live (apart from the plucking sound which i prerecorded as I didn't have enough hands :P)

Again, no vocals, i tried adding some but it was just bad. Unlike my previous MGMT video (Kids) i decided to do the whole song."

Vintage Jen SX-1000 Analog Synth

via this auction

"Superb little analog synth with its own character and sound, nice clean leads and low bass sounds can be created, very much underated synth but has been widely used by dance music pioners since the late 1980s. Future sound of london used this alot on early tracks. Great way of learning about synth workings and sounds.

Front controls
Tune - Waveform select - Glide - octave select - Pulse width - Vibrato - P.W.M - Wite/Pink noise + volume - LFO speed - and the usual envelope adsr settings"

Changing Postcards - BugBrand Newsletter

via the BugBrand mailing list:

"Hi all,

I know it has been quiet on the BugMailList recently!

Most of my efforts have been going into continuing work on the ever expanding BugModular. (http://bugbrand.co.uk/modular)
Plus ongoing building of the Board & Postcard Weevils.
These have been in- & out- of-stock over the last months and I've chosen not to send updates whenever I restock these items.

But, just to keep people in the loop...
I have just added more BoardWeevils AND PostcardWeevils to the online shop - http://bugbrand.co.uk/shop

This batch of Postcards will now be the last of this design - an updated version should be appearing at the end of the month.
While the old version Postcard has proved really popular, I've felt that some updates were called for.
More details when the new design is ready to go, but briefly it will include:
- similar 3-osc design
- but with improved dials (like on the BoardWeevil) for greatly improved feel
- extra IC to stabilize the output level on the minijack - previously things would get super-loud when the power starvation was turned off.
-- this will maintain similar sounds, but improve their usability!
- improved board design will now have silk-screen legends.
- new box for lovely presentation!
The new design will be slightly larger and the price will have to be increased a bit mainly due to the improved dials used.

So - if you want to get your hands on one of the last old version PWeevils at the pre-rise price, strike now!

***** ***** ***** *****
Background work has also been continuing on a new compact BugCrusher design, but this inches forward at quite a slow pace. Hopefully I can move things in the coming months... so stay tuned!

That is that for now..
Best wishes to you all!
Tom / BugBrand"

SYNTH JAM with Farfisa Syntorchestra, Moog Minimoog, Moog Satellite

YouTube via AnalogAudio1
"That's a spontaneous jam! I played a FARFISA SYNTORCHESTRA, a MINIMOOG and a MOOG SATELLITE through the ELECTRO-HARMONIX ELECTRIC MISTRESS Flanger. Reverb comes from a YAMAHA PRO R3, the delay comes from a ROLAND DEP-5. Enjoy..."

Drumtraks

YouTube via MIxbern

Suzanne Ciani Synth Commercials

GE Dishwasher Production Session

YouTube via SuzanneCiani. NED Synclavier. Note the Buchla in the background.

You might remember this video from this prior post on Suzanne Ciani.
"This video was filmed by Julio Cintron as a documentary about the GE "2800 Dishwasher" at my small studio in 1984."


The following video, just posted by SuzanneCiani, is the finished commercial from 1984.


GE Beeping Dishwasher


"Here is the finished product after spending a lot of time in my production studio putting it together. All that beeping won me a Clio (Awards for Excellence in Advertising) in 1984."


And a few more just posted by SuzanneCiani on YouTube:

Black and Decker Cutter


"How many times have you seen this commercial when you were young?"

Columbia Pictures Introduction Logo


"Now you know where the music came from (me). :-)"

Bull in the China Shop


"This is my award-winning commerical. Amazingly, nothing fell (that's no bull)."

I remember all of these.

BTW, be sure to click here and scroll for some great posts on Suzanne Ciani including more video.

Moog Taurus Bass Pedal Synthesizer

via this auction

Vintage Moog Prodigy

via this auction

"Early version 336A Moog Prodigy dual oscillator monophonic analog synthesizer in great condition. Professionally modded in the 90s with CV & S-Trigger inputs to control the pitch."

WMD Geiger Counter Eurorack Prototype

YouTube via bigcitymusic http://bigcitymusic.com/
"This is one of the craziest Eurorack modules ever. With CV control over sample rate, bit rate and the super-cool wavetable function, this thing is a monster! We're using a Cwejman squarewave oscillator and a Plan B Elf LFO to modulate the sample rate and wavetable. There's a CV amount control for all three CV inputs as well as a knob for gain/distortion amount. These little tiny knobs are awesome too!"

Waveform Permutation Hardware

YouTube via littlescale
"I've made a simple circuit that will generate all possible waveforms that have four bits of amplitude and are four samples long. It's very simple, and follows the same concept as my previous forays into this concept (which were all software based).

Basically, there is a counter that is 16 bits long, and is pulsed by a continuous square wave. This controls the speed of waveform change of the output waveform. Every four bits of the counter are fed into a multiplexer. There is a multiplexer for each bit of the output waveform, and so every first bit out of four from the counter is fed into multiplexer 1, every second bit out of four from the counter is fed into multiplexer two and so on up to multiplexer 4.

The output of the four multiplexers is chosen by a separate binary counter, which is clocked by an independent square wave. This controls the frequency of the output waveform. Thus, the output of the combined four multiplexers essentially "steps through" the waveform, and is then converted into an analog voltage using an R2R DAC.

http://little-scale.blogspot.com"

MFOS Sound Lab with Midi to CV converter

YouTube via PlanetSynth
"www.planetsynth.com
Just a little description of how to use the Sound Lab Synth with a Midi controller.
Thank you all for looking!!"

Simple analog envelope modulation - How to - part 3

YouTube via analogueak. follow-up to this post.
"Describing how I use a Roland piezo trigger and the ribbon controller to produce a gate signal. The gate output is sent to the gate input of the envelope. The envelope output is sent to the input of the amplifier, filter, and oscillator. Not trying to get to in depth. pew pew pew."

Meeting of the Knobs 2009 Gallery

You can find the full set of images here at synthesizers.com.

Pictured here:
Roger Arrick of synthesizers.com taming the dotcom modular

Mark Glinsky's Aries Modular

Mark Glinsky's Memorabilia (click the image and read the notes from Keith Emerson)

Cantos

flickr set by jeff pineau
(click for more)

shots of the Cantos synth museum

prior posts here

Note the EMS Synthi 100

Update via pineau in the comments: "Pictures taken by Stephanie D'Entremont."

Birdland BoardWeevil

Birdland BoardWeevil from Umcorps on Vimeo.

"Short demo performance on the BoardWeevil from Bugbrand (bugbrand.co.uk). Live and unedited.
BoardWeevil is connected to a noise gate plus some slap-back echo but no other FX or processing is involved." "Think of it as a riff on the sound design for Hitchcock's 'The Birds'"

Folktek Arts Magnetic Sequencer

"This piece was a collaborative effort between Ben Houston and Arius Blaze. It has no sound generating capability whatsoever and was designed specifically to control external anything so long as it's patchable."

More info and images at the Folktek Arts blog.

Folktek on ebay (I also added a link under the More Stuff section on the right)

CrudBox by Steven Litt at ITP

CrudBox by Steven Litt at ITP from Core77 on Vimeo.

via this Create Digital Music post on the upcoming Handmade Music NYC 7/16.
"The CrudBox is an original hardware step sequencer in a briefcase, which plugs into and sequences everything from cassette decks to power tools and turns them into musical patterns."

Geiger Counter Euro Prototype

via the Big City Music blog

"The WMD Geiger Counter eurorack module is under construction! (or destruction!) Look at all the CV inputs. Whew! This is a working prototype. Video soon!"

bigcitymusic.com

Update: vid here