E-MU Command Station XL7 Monster

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Alien

Roland SH1000

via this auction

"Here's a piece of synth history. Its a Roland SH1000 manufactured in Japan in the early 70s. The SH1000 was the first synth produced by Roland and some sources credit it as the first commercially available Japanese synth. The synth has some interesting features including white/pink noise, random note generator, ADSR, portamento, filter growl and wah, plus hold function and lots of prestets that are all mixable!"

Modded Roland SH-101 with Black and Grey Reverse Keys

via this auction

Curious if this is this one.

Analogue Solutions Leipzig Rack Mono-Synthesizer

via Noisebug on Ebay
"KEY FEATURES OF LEIPZIG
* Pure analogue voice circuitry.
* Fat Moog style filter.
* 2 VCOs with Glide and Sub-VCOs.
* Plenty of modulation routing possibilities.
* Extra tone controls and circuits for more sound variety e.g. LFO, CrossMod.
* Rugged steel construction and 'vintage' wood design.
* 'Real' printed front panel. Quality silk screen printing. We do not use big stickers like M**g.
* MIDI In for software sequencer control.

Sounds:
Demo 1
Demo 2
Demo 3"

BugBrand BugCrusher Micro Sample Rate Reducer Pedal

via this auction

"BugBrand BugCrusherMicro Pedal
The diminutive uCrusher for compact sample-rate-reduction. Read the original description here. There are also some sound examples given there. I kept this one at the end of the production run of these Crushers and it is used, but in good condition. It runs off an internal 9v battery (new one supplied inside - you must remove the base to change!) or standard 2.1mm centre-negative power (boss-style) Shipping Weight: 0.50kg"

BugBrand BugCrusher Sample Rate Reducer Pedal 2006

via this auction
"BugBrand BugCrusher - Sample-rate-reduction pedal. This is one of the original production BugCrushers, built around the end of 2006. It is in very good condition as these were built in plain metal cases without any labeling (see archive link for exact knob descriptions).

Basically this is a BugCrusher with modulation from an internal LowFreqOscillator and an input for a volume pedal style control pedal (not included). The pedal input can also be used with external Control Voltages as long as the ring connection is left unconnected (ie use a stereo jack with floating ring connection)

There is a full description of this pedal on the BugBrand Archive site.

Sound samples and a diagram of controls can also be found there.

Notes:
* This pedal comes supplied with an AC power adaptor - this is AC output not the usual DC output! The pictures below show the UK power pack, but I have stock of EU and US supplies too so will ship with one relevant to your location.
* The linked archive pictures show pedals with a little circuit board label attached to the front of the pedal -- this one does NOT have one of these labels.

Shipping Weight: 1.25kg"

BugBrand Drone Machine

via this auction
"BugBrand DroneMachine - Portable Modular Synth
At the end of 2006 I built 5 DroneMachines (no easy task!), keeping one for my own use. Now that I've launched the BugModular range I don't use this portable system so much and feel that it could be better loved by going to a new home. Do note that there are a few smudges and dings on the outside case, and that the main panel has a few marks (see pictures below).

There's a description with three YouTube videos on my BugBrand Archive site here.

It may also be worth having a check of my current Modular System Details as the colour schemes for banana sockets are the same.

The main features include: Audio Input section, Ring Modulator, Voltage Invertors, 3 x Thomas Henry XR-VCO, Voltage Controlled Filter, Digital Delay, Output Mixer.

The system uses 4mm banana cables and comes supplied with a selection of 24 cables of various lengths and colours (not shown in the pictures).

The main input and output sockets are located on the back panel (an etched PCB) and these are standard mono 1/4".

The DroneMachine runs off an external 12V AC wallwart (not the more common DC supply!) - I will supply a suitable AC Wallwart dependent on the winning bidder's location as I have stocks of UK, Euro and US supplies.

Note that the lid is NOT removable from the case. And I don't now have any keys to lock it either!

Shipping Weight: 3kg"

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BugBrand Weevil06

via this auction
"Finally! After 5 years in the dark dungeon that has been the BugBrand Workshop I am just about to move to a better place! Over that time I have picked up quite a stack of bits'n'pieces and it is really time to have a serious clear-out -> to clear space, to pass on unused items and to generate some funds for setting up the new workshop. So! Over the next few weeks I will be running several Ebay auctions... BugBrand Weevil06 - my personal prototype

This is an early Weevil from 2006 painted in Brown with an insect touchplate (which was a standard design for the Weevil06) in good condition other than a few little scratches here and there (see pictures). The main difference from regular production ones is that there is a switch on the underside to switch the internal mini-amp-speaker on and off -> in the production versions I changed it so that inserting a jack plug would automatically disconnect the internal speaker.


For more details & sounds see the BugBrand Archive listing here.
There is also a PDF instruction sheet here.

Supplied with a fresh PP3 9v battery.
Shipping Weight: 1.00kg"

See BugBrand's other listings. I'll be posting the BugBrand items.

Roland SH-101 with Original Bag and Mod Grip

via this auction

Sold For: US $699 via selectivepressure in the comments.

Roland TB-303 Bassline

via this auction

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LEGO NXT and iPhone talk over Bluetooth

YouTube via retsyx | August 05, 2010

"Short demo showing an iPhone controlling a LEGO NXT brick using Bluetooth for direct communication.

Follow on Twitter @xysternet"

MIDI Converter Prototype 3 Channel Test

YouTube via shiftedphase | August 05, 2010

"Here is a test of the MIDI to CV converter I'm working on playing a Bach 3-part invention. Two MIDI converters drive 3 voices."

New Modular Case - Monorocket Lexington..

YouTube via BiggaBMusic | August 05, 2010

"Just showing off my new case.. its the Lexington from Monorocket.. Pretty sweet eh?"

Radias Sequence3 Riverfell

YouTube via Rothgar777 | August 05, 2010

minimal jam

YouTube via RobbieNerve | August 05, 2010

"playing a bit with MPC, fizmo [super rare rack version], monomachine and hooking up the korg 707. No hurry or something - Captured Live on Ustream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/robbien..."

juno60 demo

YouTube via squeakyfromme69 | August 06, 2010

"yeah, these things sound really good! sorry for the crackling noises. it's a project synth. reverb is the ableton reverb plugin"

KORG ELECTRIBE・MX / PATTERN PREVIEW - DUBSTEP -

YouTube via KORGINC | August 05, 2010

"SDカードに対応し、新たに発売となったELECTRIBE・MXの最新プリセット・パターンをご紹介。ダブステップ編。"
KORG EMXs on Ebay

Roland V-Synth XT - Working with a Touchscreen

YouTube via DrSqu | August 06, 2010

"For some days i've got a Roland V-Synth XT V2 in deepsonic. It's really a big synthesizer with a good sound. A lot of parameters for any kind of sounds. But in this demo i more like to show the good user interface: The touchscreen of the synthesizer. First time i want to say that you don't need a external editor for editing the sounds. Good machine with a easy interface. ... i'm sorry for my poor english knowledge ;-)"

Expert Sleepers Silent Way in Cubase 5.5

YouTube via expertsleepers | August 06, 2010

"Setup and calibration tutorial for Expert Sleepers Silent Way Voice Controller in Cubase 5.5."

Ben Liebrand studio 1991, FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE

YouTube via karelpostthuis | August 06, 2010

"I re-editted the documentary about Ben Liebrand in the studio.
There was another rap artist featured also, but i cut those peaces out because i wanted to contribute to the youtube videobase about Ben, and i couldn't find this one by any other uploader."

MOV02158

YouTube via scaffbeat | August 06, 2010

Update:

Brains+Funk

scaffbeat | August 06, 2010

Osmos (for iPhone) Now Avaialable

YouTube via HemisphereGames | July 27, 2010

"http://www.hemispheregames.com A little hands-on sneak-peak of Osmos on the iPhone"

The iTunes download button below takes you to Hemisphere Games where you'll find both the iPad and iPhone versions of Osmos. The iPhone version "feature[s] full Retina display and iOS 4.0 support, along with all the familiar features from the iPad version: addictive, physics-based gameplay, fluid multitouch controls, lush, flowing visuals, and a chill, ambient electronic soundtrack. ...priced at (the low, iPhone-market style) $2.99."



This is one great way to decompress and just chill out. Great game. I have the iPad version and just downloaded the iPhone version for when I don't have my iPad with me.

Guitar Pickup Simulator

This one in via Tom Whitwell of Music Thing. BTW, you can now follow him on Twitter.

"My latest DIY thing - good for plugging synths into stompboxes and guitar amps.

Simple passive circuit in a 1590a box.

Circuit comes from this article by Jack Orman: www.muzique.com/lab/pickups.htm

It's half a 10k audio transformer (a Triad TY-141P), a standard guitar volume/tone circuit with orange drop .1uf cap, then a 10ohm carbon comp cap and a 470pf cap to simulate a long cable run.

Basically, it rolls off some top end, but also makes the impedance of whatever source you plug it into a bit more like a guitar pickup.

So, synths sound better through stompboxes, particularly finickity fuzz boxes. It's also a bit like a DI box...

The switch selects no/half/full transformer coils. A bit like single coil v humbucker pickups."

flickr by Tom.Whitwell

Roland to Announce New Products Sept. 1st & Traveling Exhibit

"ROLAND TO REVEAL FALL 2010 PRODUCT LINEUP

Los Angeles, CA, August 3, 2010 — Roland Corporation U.S. is pleased to announce an exclusive online launch event, Roland Connect.

On September 1, 2010, all worldwide joint ventures of Roland Corporation will simultaneously announce a new and innovative lineup of musical products via a unique web exhibition at http://www.RolandConnect.com. This coordinated effort across all branches of Roland Corporation, with headquarters in Hamamatsu, Japan, is meant to promote worldwide brand awareness and cohesion across the entire company.

The web exhibition is currently staged at http://www.RolandConnect.com. On September 1, RolandConnect.com will be transformed into an interactive, engaging experience for musicians seeking to learn about the latest Roland products."

and...


"ROLAND AND THE GRAMMY® MUSEUM LAUNCH “INSTRUMENTS OF ART” TRAVELING EXHIBIT

Los Angeles, CA, August 5, 2010—Roland U.S. and The GRAMMY Museum are proud to announce Instruments of Art, a traveling exhibit debuting at Westfield Palm Desert, a popular shopping destination in the Coachella Valley. The one-of-a-kind, 1,000 square-foot exhibit features an interactive display of Roland’s state-of-the-art electronic musical instruments, alongside 33 never-before-displayed photographs of artist performances at The GRAMMY Museum.

The interactive portion of Instruments of Art recreates Roland LIVE, a permanent exhibit at The GRAMMY Museum in downtown Los Angeles. In both locations, visitors can try their hand at playing a variety of Roland’s innovative electronic instruments, inviting them to explore and think critically about how today’s music is crafted. Instruments on display at Westfield Palm Desert include the Lucina AX-09 Shoulder Synthesizer, the HPD-10 HandSonic® Percussion Pad, HD-1 V-Drums® Lite, SP-404SX Sampler, as well as BOSS® guitar effects and BOSS VE-20 Vocal Performer.

The photographs on display depict some of the most memorable performances to grace The GRAMMY Museum’s 200-seat sound stage, including noteworthy artists like Ringo Starr, Brian Wilson, Annie Lennox, Smokey Robinson, the Jonas Brothers, and Tom Morello.

Open to the public and free of charge, Instruments of Art will be on display at Westfield Palm Desert through August 15, 2010. After that, the exhibit travels to other Westfield Mall locations throughout Southern California.

For more information, visit www.RolandUS.com/Westfield."

Alex Chechile portable rig: Nuclear Football

flickr set by alexchechile
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You might remember this one from these posts (scroll).

via Analogue Haven's flickr feed.

Insides of an Elka EK-22

flickr by robo_lasers

"One of the voices on this Elka is bad. I thought it was the CEM 3396 chips but not really as it turns out. Still trying to figure out the cause."

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Snazzy FX: Mini-Ark, Tracer City and Wow and Flutter

via Kayzer on Harmony Central

"I picked these babys up on Friday from Thilo who is running the German Pedal shop effektboutique, props to this guy for getting me the Snazzy Landmines from the very first batch! Its probably the heaviest New Pedal Day of my life since these Boxes are Gigantic and Heavy as f**k! They are very well made and will properly withstand a 3rd world war…

The Mini Ark is an analog harmoniser, synth style pedal that adds up to 3 harmonies to your guitar signal, variouse vibrato shapes and noisy soundscapes, infinite hold of harmonies via infinity switch (while still be able to play over the hold note), sustain mode holds the note you are playing until you play a new one that will be hold and so on… The Mini Ark also has a CV out, that means you can connect it to the CV in of other pedals and control these. That’s a pretty sick feature and I will get a demo of this up as soon as possible… The Tracking is quite nice and the sound is very thick n chewy…!

The WOW and Flutter could be described as Envelope Pitch Vibrato Delay! It can be used as a normal delay or delay with a nice amount of modulation but where the pedal really shines are sick twisted down pitched repeats depending on how hard you pick… While playing some nice delayed and slightly picked stuff you can change your picking style and hit the strings a bit harder and stop the chord to achieve down pitched vibrato repeat insanity!

The Tracer City is probably the Pedal with the most knobs and switches I ve ever seen in my whole live. I will come up with a demo of this beast later since time was short and I focused on doing demos for the other 2 pedals! Feel free to subscribe to my youtube to dont miss these upcoming clips...

Dan Snazzle watched my videos and asked me about sharing his thoughts and additional infos with you. Here we go:

Quote:
"'Hi this is Dan with some answers to questions

1. The wow and flutter is a digital delay that is analog voiced. You can set it to do very basic normal delay.

2. The mini-ark can work for fast input signals (nintendo sounds, drum beats, etc) BUT you have to set the gate/sustain switch to GATE and mess with the INPUT SENS control. (all sources act a bit differently) and put the magical selector into preset one.

Also, you want to turn the HOLD knob to zero in those cases. The knob labelled HOLD is a normal octave down that is taken BEFORE the Octave and Interval switches. So it is much dirtier and is great for having an octave once you kick in the infinite turn on but often just adds grunge to the input (which is sometimes a great thing and sometimes makes it harder to get clean tracking)

I noticed in Dennis's videos that it was turned up. There is nothing wrong with turning it up BUT you get a much different sound when you turn it down. I also like to mess with using mainly dirty input and just a hair of octave and interval. There are so many ways you can change your sound buy just using the mixer section.

Also, depending on how high you set the octaves, you get a much more "normal" sound that responds differently. Presets 2-8 are meant for vibrato and will not track as quickly since they arent meant to.

thanks so much guys!!! and thanks dennis for the great videos!

dan'"

see this post for the videos

via Analogue Haven's flickr feed.

"Three new pedals from Snazzy FX have arrived! For more details: www.analoguehaven.com/snazzyfx/."

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Roland SH-101 & Kenton Pro Solo & 'Punisher' Skull Badge

via this auction

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Koass Pad 3 Jamming "Bizaroid" (Electronica/ Acid Jazz)

YouTube via djgalactic | August 05, 2010

"Jamming the Kaoss Pad 3, with Korg EMX-1 (Electronica / Aci Jazz) http://www.djgalactic.com
Bizaroid By DJ Galactic
DJ Galactic All Right Reserved 2010"

Yamaha TG33 - preset demos 1

YouTube via RanKirlian | August 05, 2010

"Yamaha TG33, desktop version of the Yamaha SY22, focus into vector synthesis while having FM synthesis too. The result is a nice and rare machine with lo-fi waveforms mixed with FM timbres, great to create ambient and new age complex pads and nice metallic, bell and pecussive sounds for industrial, noise and dark ambient.

This demo shows some TG33 presets with a little joystick edition. Reverb come on the recording process to DAW."

Live Analog Synth Jam w/ an Analogue Sequencer: ObieRack!

video upload by rezfilter | August 04, 2010

"LIVE! (Direct Audio Recording) *Wear Headphones*

Nothing mixed, just raw analog synths chained together the 'old-fashioned' way.

Playing w/ the new customized Studio Electronics ObieRack + a few other fun analog toys. Analogue Solutions Oberkorn is the analog sequencer here running all three analog synths simultaneously: Roland 100m, Sequential Circuits Pro One, and SE ObieRack. Oberkorn is also controlling filters on the ObieRack. The ObieRack is patched out extensively in the back (16 patch points) to interface w/ other modular gear - note the custom gray faceplate on the Oberheim SEMs. Lovely."

Pittsburgh Modular VILFO as an Ugly VCA

YouTube via amphonic | August 04, 2010

"An oscillator is patched directly into a Pittsburgh Modular VILFO used as a VCA to produce an interesting tremolo like effect. A square wave from a Synthesizers.com Oscillator is fed into the Variable Control Voltage of the VILFO. A Make Noise Brains/PressurePoints sequence is sent to the 1V/Octave input of the Oscillator to vary the pitch. The sequence is also sent to the Influence Control Voltage of the VILFO to control the rate of the VILFO. A lower pitch speeds up the VILFO and a higher pitch slows the VILFO down."

Buchla Beat V

YouTube via boobtube356 | August 04, 2010

"259e and 261e provide the beat, 261e also does the lead. Last bit at the end is 259e."

NANOSTUDIO ala Rudess

YouTube via JCRUDESS | August 05, 2010

"Blip Interactive's new Iphone app Nanostudio rocks on the Ipad. I just arrived in Japan and although I'm pretty tired I just had to share some of the fun I've been having with this app! It's incredibly deep as a full production music environment, but beyond that the pitch wheel and the playability is outstanding.... Thanks Matt."

iPads on Ebay

Curtis for iPad - 1st Granular Synth for iPad?

YouTube via TheStrangeAgency | August 05, 2010

"The first granular synthesizer for the iPhone comes to the iPad. Version 1.1 sneak preview!"

iPads on Ebay

Update via hersteiner in the comments: "Sylo Synth [link to post] is the first Granular Synth for IPad"

Roland MKS-80 Super Jupiter

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Roland MPG-80

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Korg MS-20

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Oberheim Xpander

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Oberheim OB-Xa

via this auction

"Oberheim OB-XA vintage analog synthesizer with 120 Programs, 8 voice."

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