QMMG Cautella Black Edition

via Richard Devine's Photos

Make noise Rene welcomed home

YouTube via DrOctave1 | November 29, 2010 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes

"a patch made with Rene by make noise. just got it today less than 30 mins ago and here is my first goof."

Korg ea1 mam mb33 novation dstation live4

YouTube via JVGmidi | November 29, 2010 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes

"live sequense.
effects: tc elektronics m-one for the ea1
boss os2 for the mam
mastered with the emu 1616"

1979 POLYFUSION SERIES 2000 SYNTHESIZER PRINT AD

via this auction

"1979 Polyfusion Series 2000 Synthesizer, Series 2050 Keyboard, Series 2000 Modules, SP-1 Stereo Panner, AS-1 Analog Sequencer, FF-1 Frequency Follower, QP-1 Quad Panner, FP-2 Volume Pedal & GP Series Guitar Preamp Magazine Ad."

"Ad measures approx. 8"X 10.5" inches."

See the seller's other items for more.

Update via jsb in the comments: "Note that the font they used is the same as what was used for the Prophet 5!"

26 Q127 Filterbank Showcase

YouTube via 7thDanSound | November 29, 2010 | 1 likes, 0 dislikes

"This is a showcase of the Synthesizers.com Q127 Fixed Filter Bank, fed with just a single VCO pulse wave. It has a very nice sound and the settings of the individual filters are virtually endless. The bass sound and percussion come from an Elektron Monomachine and so does the sequence driving the oscillator
NEW! HQ Audio Flac file available at http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ATGXVI22"

ether^ra RUPTURED NIGHT

YouTube via potterpaint2000 | November 29, 2010 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes

"an improv featuring my Buchla 200e live and looped. http://etherra.blogspot.com/"

SOMADRONE - Providence

SOMADRONE - Providence from Skinny Wolves on Vimeo.

via Peter:
"I thought you might like this video. It features synth cakes!

The song is from the record Depth Of Field, it was recorded using Moog Source, Prodigy, Voyager, 73 Rhodes, Doepfer 100, Buchla Series 100 Modular, Serge Modular, Juno 60, Hohner Pianet, Indian Drone Machine, Space Echo and many non synth instruments. Parts were recorded at the Institute of Electro Acoustic Music, Stockholm and at various studios in Dublin, Berkley and San Francisco.

Hope you like!
Peter

Record is available to order here from Friday 3rd on Vinyl, Cassette &
Digital.....
http://skinnywolves.bigcartel.com/products"

Additional details: http://vimeo.com/16881766

Have your synth and eat it too.

Stop the time

YouTube via attorks | November 29, 2010 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes

"This evening I was not that lucky with the recordings. The first take wasn't that good, the second I liked very much but it appeared I forget to start the audio recording and the third take was somehow distorted again. Then I had a webcam meeting with my friend and walked the dog. After that I decided to try one last take because it was getting very late. And the result is a 23 minute video of which you see the first 15 minutes.
The music starts with two 4-step sequences in Dm from the self-built Modular and the Ian Fritz Teezer Through-Zero VCO combined which the Blacet MiniWave. Some chords on the Roland XP-80 are played and after that an arpeggiated chord on the Waldorf Q Keyboard is heared. The volume of the sequence of the Synthesizers.com Modular is turned up which sequence length is varied during the track. Again some chords on the XP-80 where after the length of the first two sequences is altered to 8-steps. Then a bass note is played on the iPad using an Eden synth voice in NanoStudio (preset A02, 7th Heaven). The arpeggiated bass on the Waldorf Q keyboard is introduced accompanied by notes from the NanoStudio voice and the sequences are transposed to Fm, Am and Cm. I use the two X-Y pads in NanoStudio to alter the sound of the voice. After a while the solo is played on the Clavia Nord Lead 1. At the climax the music is brought back to a minimum and the individual synths are heared.
The title refers to a phrase my friend and I sometimes use when we are together."

NanoStudio - Blip Interactive Ltd
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Synths for a Good Cause

via Metrosonus who has contributed to posts on this site. He's looking for donations for a friend in need. You'll find the details on this HC thread. You can reach him there or directly at moscowbuzzer@gmail.com.

Alesis Andromeda A6 Synthesizer

via this auction

A-143-3 VS serge VCS

YouTube via popitem | November 29, 2010 |

"Z3000 win"

Google Translate Beat Box

click here, then click on listen.

Silicon Breakdown's Interview of Emu's Dave Rossum

Full interview here.

Some excerpts:

"My first encounter with Dave Rossum was over the telephone some nine years ago, when he prevented me from purchasing sight unseen thousands of dollars of E-mu equipment. Dave instead encouraged me to purchase a few submodules and test them out. I did and I was hooked. Dave is an original. His first E-mu modular system has set the standard by which all other modular systems will be judged. Brilliant and witty, Dave is a new breed of electronic music pioneer whose contribution to the design of equipment for other manufacturers may have shaped the nature of the synthesizer as much as did Robert Moog's original thinking...

JL: Your influence in the design of both the Prophet 5 and the equipment of Oberheim Electronics have been grossly overlooked. Would you care to comment on what you've done for both companies?

DR: Let me talk first about Tom Oberheim, whom I met at an AES convention in the spring of 1974. We both liked each other immediately and started talking about ideas. He was talking about his phase shifter, and said something to the effect that he knew it could be done with a 3080 transconductance amp, but didn't know exactly how to do it. So I scribbled out a circuit and said here's how you do it. He said "I bet that�s patentable", and I said "I'm sure it is". He asked how would I feel about patenting it and sharing the rights under the patent? I thought it was a great Idea, and that was the beginning of our association...

The involvement with the Prophet 5 was very similar. Dave Smith had come to us for design help with other projects, when he decided to get into a synthesizer, he came over and basically started picking our brains from the beginning, which was an intelligent thing to do. We did some specific circuit designs for the Prophet 5,reviewed virtually everything in it, and gave him access to lots of E-mu documentation. Again, we had a royalty arrangement, the product went over well, and we made a lot of money...but of course had the Prophet not gone over, we wouldn't have gotten anything for our time so essentially, we again invested in the company. Still, royalties are not a trouble-free way to conduct business. One reason why we have a bit of trouble right now in our relationship with Oberheim and Sequential Circuit* - I can't say I'm close friends with, or see a lot of, either company - is because of this arrangement where they're still paying us royalties for things we did a long time ago. Sometimes, people forget how much they appreciated you a long time ago. So we've learned that royalties aren't always best, not so much because they're not financially lucrative, but because they destroy friendships - and as far I'm concerned, friendships are probably more important than the money itself..."

Do check out the full interview. You'll find tons of interesting nuggets of synth history.

Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 Synthesizer Ver 3.3

via this auction

"Rebushed keyboard plays beautifully. Original machine was upgraded to Version 3.3 and had MIDI installed, according to SCI gurus at Wine Country Sequential. "G" key below middle C needs a contact adjustment, the key plays, but has to be "babied" - a light touch gets it, more pressure on the key causes an intermittent cut-out. No other issues with this machine. The original manual is included, along with a power cord."

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Diabolical Modified SK-1

YouTube via classaelectronics | September 09, 2008 |

"Circuit bent SK-1 modified by Diabolical Devices/Class A Electronics."

via this auction
"The Diabolical Modified Casio SK-1 (Version 3) is the new and improved circuit-bent glitch monster from Diabolical Devices. Create vast sound-sacapes, unique synth sounds and total chaos, all packed inside your favorite childhood toy. The Casio SK-1 is loaded with original features, sampling capabilities, and great sounds (for what it was....) Diabolical Devices aka Class A Electronics, LLC is a leader in Professionally Modified Synthesizer and Audio Equipment, Expert Repair Services, and has a full line of Hand-Wired Tubes Amplifiers and Effects (Diabolical Amplification). Their work has been featured at NAMM, art galleries, music videos, countless tech blogs, and used by musicians all over the world, professionals and enthusiasts alike. The circuit-bending and synth mods are the work of head-technician James Gramling who has spent the last 12 years in professional audio service and electronics prototyping. Check out the new www.circuit-bent.com for updated specs, custom work questions, and new releases from Diabolical Devices.

Diabolical Modified Casio SK-1 Features:

20 point circuit-bending interface: Heavy-duty banana jacks on hand made turret board panels. This patch-bay allows you to scramble sound data as the synth addresses it, and the result is an endless variety of weird effects, noise, filtered and modulated bends, and one of a kind sounds (seriously, you might one hear some things once). It's a mixed bag of playable bends and bends that play themselves. These patch locations will affect each preset sound differently and also affect samples and chord/auto-play functions. This patch-bay also allows you to cross-patch with other bent devices for more ROM scrambling goodness.

Dual Square Wave Generator: A Diabolical Devices original. This mod allows you to patch the output of two different oscillators into circuit-bending patch locations. One oscillator is an LFO (low freq.), when patched to this point it will create controllable modulation, pulsing bends, and other strange reactions. The second stage is an Audio Frequency Oscillator which will react similarly to the LFO and create tunable overtones. Each Oscillator has an on/off switch with LED indicator, pitch/speed control, and a corresponding patch point.

Skew Bank: This is a great mod adapted from Reed Ghazala's original SK-1 bends, basically its a bank of 5 switches, when activated each switch will generate a different pulsing or semi-looping bend which affects original keyboard sounds. 1/4" Audio Output

Blue Power LED

MIDI retrofit: This SK-1 as been retrofitted using Highly Liquids MIDI Input Kit."

Moog Minimoog Voyager Performer Edition

via this auction

via the listing: "I am putting my prized minimoog Voyager up for auction. This Voyager was personally selected for me by Linda at Moog Music. I ventured to Asheville, NC to meet Dr. Bob Moog and to get my Voyager tuned and up graded. This is the only time this minimoog has been moved.

This Moog has a beautiful walnut cabinet. There are plenty of Voyagers out there that have the most recent upgrades, but I doubt that you will find a more beautiful minimoog Voyager. It looks as great as it sounds. The wood grain is exceptional."

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bird sounds and cinima

YouTube via DrOctave1 | November 29, 2010 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes

"wiard malekko anti oscillator ring moding another with PP brains controling varios cv points on both of them."

It's Full of Stars Math-o-matic

via It's Full of Stars where you'll find more pics.

"Here are some pictures Joe took of me and John mixing the last few bits of the album. As you can see, we used 3 generations of mixing console on the record; an MCI 416 from the early 70s, a Studer 900 from the early 80s and a DXB from the mid 00s"

Mini Synth class

flickr By Mt Elliott Makerspace
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synthmate small demo

synthmate small demo from soh_la on Vimeo.

"A small demo showing basic functionality of my new ipad app 'synthmate'."


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Update:

synthmate : polyphonic synth for ipad from soh_la on Vimeo.

SOLINA STRING ENSEMBLE, threesome with Juno 6 and Yamaha CS 10

YouTube via elfferichfour | November 29, 2010 | 1 likes, 0 dislikes

"o.k. you can call me old fashioned but I still like to play with my analog synthesizers not using midi or computers. Just a simple trigger function on my DR 220 drumcomputer. The DR 220 triggers the YAMAHA CS 10 and I connect the Juno 6 with the YAMAHA CS 10 via the External In input. This track features the SOLINA STRING ENSEMBLE. I hope you like my ANALOG THREESOME !"

Mssiah CTRL for Mssiah synthesizer

YouTube via deathstarchris | November 24, 2010 | 2 likes, 0 dislikes

"A little insight on the Mssiah CTRL I built and what it sounds like. First you here the dry signal from the Mssiah, then I turn on the CTRL adding distortion. I have a little plate re-verb, but that's it. Obviously not a real guitar, but not too bad from an 8 bit synth on a Commodore 128D with the Sid2Sid installed. I also made it easy to switch between the potentiometers and the mouse with a multi-pole switch. Great for switching back and forth from the mono synth and the sequencer. Here is more detailed info. http://www.absolutextremes.com/blarsk..." Absolut Extremes
Also see the MSSIAH label below and this recent post.

1980 KORG ES-50 Lambda Ad

via Retro Synth Ads where you'll find the write-up.

Mochika 2

flickr By clocktrick
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AtomoSynth on eBay

Mini Moog Voyager

flickr By AndyFord69
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"Turn the lights down and it's like Blackpool illuminations!"

& a KORG Radias

The Studio - 2

flickr By AndyFord69
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Note the custom KORG ESX

from Bulevar España, Montevideo, Uruguay by Cooptrol

flickr By todaysart
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"minibluehelmets.com | an art project
sendername : Cooptrol
lat : -34.908458
lon : -56.170135
location : Bulevar España, Montevideo, Uruguay
locationdescription : Martin Craciun's apartament
uploaded_at : 1290929360"

Cabaret Deluxe

flickr By larskflem
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More Info on the Amazona.de Tyrell

German here, Googlish here.

"We can not believe almost a year has now moved into the country, since we had the idea to make a separate analog hardware synthesizer on their feet. STOP, I correct - since we had the idea to give the industry an impetus to once again develop a polyphonic, affordable analog synthesizer...

Incidentally, the name we have borrowed from BLADE RUNNER. TYRELL was in this cult film for the production of human duplicates charge, which carried the name NEXUS. As I recall, was Nexus 6, the measure of all things. Not entirely coincidentally, this name was chosen, and the critically acclaimed soundtrack by Vangelis helped that we liked the name TYRELL immediately."

Note this is a concept synth. It will be interesting to see if anything comes from it.

Update: Specs and a few more pics (be sure to see the article for more detail):
" * 2 oscillators
* Synchronisation of the oscillators, FM and ring modulation as well as pulse width modulation are intended.
* The waveform-shaping are flowing and rich of sine (for FM and ring modulation interesting) up to two special „intoxication “- forms, in order to be able to make on oscillator basis also Sync or FM with them and generally extend by the sound pallet. The waveform-shaping can be adjusted so also in their symmetry and modulated (pulse width modulation).
* Ring modulator with different points of pick-up. It hardly dares a manufacturer to feed the ring modulator differently than with the two oscillator signals. Here there is a choice to include the filter with.
* Modulation bus for filters and oscillator separately
* Special mixture range, which finally causes additionally saturation, in extreme attitudes distortion and feedback, therefore please never push the automatic controllers immediately completely upward.
* Multi-mode filter with the characteristic for the determination of the range of the bandpass filter, as well as special saturation and sound characteristics of different typical structure forms of filters (construction unit-oriented)
* Arpeggiator
* Retriggerbare and jagged ADSR envelopes through „LFOs “(here modulation oscillators called, since we do not attach importance on „slowly “.
* Modulation Sequencer can steer arbitrary parameters
* Two modulation oscillators beginning with MIDI Clock option and Shaping, as well as switchable different random variants, with the classical „SAM-polarize & Hold “and Fade in or Fade out alternatively and hue control"

Chronome Prototype

Chronome Prototype from FlipMu on Vimeo.

"This is the first version of the Chronome RGB/Pressure sensitive Arduinome"

Moon Modular 552 CV To MIDI Tracking Demo

YouTube via JohnLRice | November 29, 2010 | 3 likes, 0 dislikes
http://lunar-experience.com/home.html
"Just a quick demo to show how well the Moon 552 can track a clean voltage source and convert it to MIDI notes."

Analogue Solutions TBX-303 & Europa MIDI Step Sequencer

YouTube via rezfilter | November 29, 2010 | 2 likes, 0 dislikes

"Here's a brief demo of the new V2 Analogue Solutions TBX-303 (TB-303 clone) [www.analoguesolutions.com].

The Analogue Solutions Europa MIDI step sequencer was used to program the TBX-303 riffs as well as change the live patterns in the video. All TBX tweaking was recorded live with only minimal delay added for good measure.

TBX:

*Pure analogue voice circuitry.
*Accurate TB303 circuitry clone.
*Rugged steel construction.
*MIDI In for software sequencer control."

Yamaha Su700

YouTube via vectorass | November 29, 2010 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes

"Amazing Yamaha SU700 sampler running through amazing Yamaha REV-1. But camcoder`s mike kills all magic of the sound(("

Saint Eric as seen by Max Joosten.

via Eric van Baaren's Photos

iPhone App RADARHEAD! V 25 Buy For Cyber Monday! Featuring Tenori Kaoss Jam

YouTube via VJFranzK | November 29, 2010 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes

"Perfect CYBER MONDAY Gift! For the Human who thinks they have everything..."


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buchla vanity shots by citizenmori

flickr By citizenmori

"smitting over wavelengths measured in terahertz. my beloved instruments deserve a bit of drama, even on the topic of the mechanically mundane!"

In order:
"buchla vanity screw:
blue (for the 'naughties')"

"buchla vanity screw:
red (for the 70s)"

"200e, november 2010
composing."

Timetable Test 3 (Slowly Dripping Glue)

YouTube via amphonic | November 28, 2010 |

"This is a demo of the Pittsburgh Modular Timetable module. A combination of a basic clock divider and a voltage controlled pattern generator. The Timetable produces even divisions of the input signal and patterns that range from the simple to the convoluted. All of the sounds in the video are triggered with the Timetable Module."

Oberheim Xpander with Owners Manual

via this auction

"Software version 1.2. Can be configured as a six voice polyphonic synthesizer, a bank of six monophonic synthesizers, or any combination (for instance, a three voice polyphonic with three independent monophonic voices). This synthesizer is completely multi-timbal, again in any combination of voices.

Polyphony - 6 voices • Oscillators - 12 VCOs (2 per voice), Linear FM • LFO - 5 LFO's • Filter - 1, 2, 3, 4 pole low pass; 1, 2, 3 pole hi pass, bandpass, notch, phase shift • VCA - 15 per voice, 5 ADSR envelope gens per voice • Keyboard - None • Memory - 100 single / 100 multi • Control - MIDI In/Out/Thru, 6 CV/Gate Inputs, Trigger, 2 pedal inputs • Date Produced - 1984-88"

Thought it was interesting that the stripes / graphic style of the owner's manual cover is different than the Matrix-12's.

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MOTM Encore Frequency Shifter

via this auction

"The frequency shifting effects available with its use range from stereo infinite phasing, lush vibrato and rotating-speaker-like effects, to unusual and often bizarre inharmonic modifications of an input signal that must be heard to be believed. The Encore Frequency Shifter features two frequency shift controls (coarse and fine), and is a through-zero design. The Encore Frequency Shifter is capable of continuous frequency shifting from 0.075Hz up to over 2000Hz."

SketchWiz meets MorphWiz

YouTube via JCRUDESS | November 28, 2010 | 2 likes, 0 dislikes

"Lots of wizardry here as I filmed a MorphWiz bit using SketchWiz.
These are my apps for the iOS..."


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