Thursday, December 09, 2010
Squidfanny - Circuit Bent KAWASAKI DRUM
YouTube via squidfanny | December 09, 2010 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes
S-CAT on eBay
"Lo-Fi Beats from Kawasaki drum. PITCH, DISTORTION, REZZY-OSCILLATOR, PHAT OSCILLATOR & Digital GLITCH KNOB (My personal favourite)."
FunkBox iPad app MIDI synced with an x0xb0x
YouTube via syntheticbits | December 09, 2010 |
"This is a demo showing our FunkBox drum machine iPad app synced up with an x0xb0x synth, using CoreMIDI and an iPad camera connection kit with an m-audio uno MIDI interface. This will be included as a bonus feature in the next FunkBox 2.0 update which is coming soon! FunkBox is available for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch from the App Store"
iPads on eBay
iPads on Amazon
iPod Touch on eBay
iPod Touch on Amazon
Midi Guitar Electric Piano, Synthesizer Blues
Midi Guitar Electric Piano, Synthesizer Blues from Paul Hamar on Vimeo.
"You Rock Guitar Midi Controller Midi Guitar with Logic Express Software All Synth Instruments Original Music: Midi Tracks Song Title: Trans4Mind
'Best listening through headphones'"
It is interesting to think how things might be different if the guitar was the de facto interface for synths. The technology obviously wasn't there at the time.
Midi Guitar, Korg Micro XL & Nano PAD from Paul Hamar on Vimeo.
"Paul Hamar
You Rock Guitar Midi Controller
Micro Korg XL Midi Controller
Korg Nano PAD Midi Controller
Logic Express Software
All Synth Instruments
Original Music: Audio & Midi Tracks
Song Title: Blue Sax Carpet Ride
"Best listening through headphones""
See the Inspired Instruments for more posts on the You Rock Guitar MIID Controller.
YAMAHA CS01 Vintage Analog Mono Mini Synth
via this auction
"Very simple, straightforward analogue design VCO-Filter-Envelope. Pitch bend wheel & assignable Mod wheel for Vibrato or Wah effects. 4 wave shapes & a great & buzzy PWM setting!"
Update via Thatsnotmydad in the comments: "When Lionel Richie was the musical guest on SNL, his keyboard player used the CS01 with a breath controller for the opening synth solo. It was the coolest thing I'd seen.
Also, I owned a Casiotone 405 -- the keyboard upon which the Yamaha is displayed. So, these photos are a serious rush."Curious if it was the 1982 season mentioning Lionel here.
Play Him Off Keyboard Cat - CHRISTMAS VERSION!
YouTube via chuckieart December 09, 2010 |
"On iTunes NOW! http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/its-... It's not Christmas, until it's a Keyboard Cat Christmas! E.P. Available now wherever fine records are sold!"
Update: another video in case you just can't get enough... This one does feature a Yamaha SHS-10 keytar.
It's A Keyboard Cat Christmas! OUT NOW!
AcIdIc Promo Video 01.wmv
YouTube via TekTooG | May 09, 2010 |
"New Psytrance acid sound VSTI by Tekky Synths"
AcIdIc Promo Video 02.wmv
More Tekky Synths vids here
Tekky Synths - Fly-Drums - set up&live demo.avi.wmv
YouTube via TekTooG | October 19, 2010 |
"Tekky Synths - Fly-Drums - set up&live demo
Fly-Drums by Tekky Synths is a drum-machine to make drum patterns on the fly.
With lots of random options (samples, pitch, pan, decay, pattern...), real-time midi control, an intuitive GUI, an efficient workflow, save/recall presets when closing/opening projects in host, an open architecture to load user drum-kits...
Fly-Drums shows itself as one of the most powerful and creative drum-machine in the VST world...
As Fly-Drums accepts all wav files (44100Hz-16bit Wav), you cannot only load your own sample-based drum-kits, but you can also load your vocal samples, drum loops or entire songs... Fly-Drums becomes then the perfect tool for stutter effects, glitchy sequences or sliced/reordered new creative patterns...
Add a complete multi-pole filter section and a powerfull FX unit to that...
Fly-Drums will be available by the end of the year (2010)
Visit http://tektoog.zapto.org/"
G-RAiN DEMO VIDEO.avi
YouTube via TekTooG | November 10, 2010 |
"G-RAiN by Tekky Synths is granulizer sampler.
It also features a stepLFO filter modulation as well as a gater.
A complete FX section with stereo widener/boost, flanger, reverb and delay.
A few random options help the user to create sounds."
Analogue Solutions 6 voice midi/modular
via Tom Carpenter of Analogue Solutions on Facebook"My 6 voice midi/modular nearly complete! Just the PSU and an LFO to do...
the blank module on the left is a polyphonic MIDI-CV converter, so splits the MIDI notes to 6 channels (it will also do mono MIDI-CV)...
it will exist soon. seems to work OK but I must do some thorough testing before releasing. It also does Hz/V and hpefully S-trig.
You can assign any channel to be part of the poly 'group', so for example could have 3 voice poly, and 3 mono c...hannels. Each channel has a CV2 output (assigned to velocity) and an accent on/off output (goes high with velocity over 80)"
Blofeld patches
YouTube via mc202dotcom | December 09, 2010 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes
"These are patches from the "Easter Soundset" released by Waldorf.
Visit my blog at http://mc202.com/ for more audio from the blofeld and other synths."
Innerclock Systems Sync-Split²
Innerclock Systems Sync-Split²"Four functions in the one well-built package:
Midi Thru – 1 Input to 5 Outputs
Din Sync Thru – 1 Input to 5 Outputs
Midi Clock to Din Sync Conversion
Din Sync to Midi Clock Conversion
LEDs show Midi Clock and Din Sync Tempo/Activity.
Ships with Manual and Universal Power Supply."
Optical Turntable Sequencer Demo
YouTube via
audio comes in just after :51
"Obsoletetechnology | December 08, 2010 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes
This is a demo of my Optical Scanner triggering a midi note each time a black object passes underneath.I mounted the scanning device on my turntable and use a white platter as a surface. In this demo I control a virtual drummachine with the midi output of the scanner. First part of the video shows the setup of the trigger threshold to the current ambient lighting conditions, then the usage with the black trigger dots. The whole project is realized on a PIC16F88 microcontroller and the full documentation as well as the code can be found at: www.obsoletetechnology.wordpress.com (for non-commercial use only)" [link to post for the archives]
Av sampler @MADATAC 2010
flickr set By www.malaventura.net(click for more)
"Switch off party of the MADATAC 2010 in Madrid. Photos by MªCarmen Gutiérrez & Reo MartÃn."
Custom white Novation Launchpad.
4 delays shruty box
4 delays shruty box by khn
"Simple shruti box drone recorded with ableton live manipulated in real time with four different delays (live recording)"
"Simple shruti box drone recorded with ableton live manipulated in real time with four different delays (live recording)"
Yamah CS-70M string sound
YouTube via noddyspuncture | December 09, 2010 |
"Here I tried getting a string patch and played with different waveforms, filter settings and octaves up and down the keyboard. There is a slight portamento added and a very slow mod to the oscillator pulse width."
Update:
Yamaha CS-70M ... modulation fun!
YouTube via noddyspuncture | December 09, 2010 |
"This time I am messing with the modulation parameters and routing destinations on my CS-70M. Sorry about the focus here and there - looks like a camera problem, but hey... you can still hear it. Actually, the accidental *visual effects* make it a little more interesting....?! My CS-80 also makes a cameo appearance - she was just itching to join in...;c)"
Sequential Circuits Prophet VS
via this auction"The Prophet VS uses four oscillators per voice with 127 waveforms (32 of those user waveforms) and dynamic waveform crossfading."
Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 CORPSE
via this auction"Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 revision 3 corpse... What's included is the original walnut case, control panel, pot boards and knobs, mod wheel-box with original wheels, original and complete Pratt-Read j-wire keyboard with ribbon cable, chassis with serial number and warranty label, and the power supply with PCB-3 connector cable."
Diabolical Devices Circuit-Bent Alesis HR-16
via this auctionvideo at the auction and posted here. Spec at the auction and captured in this prior post.
Diabolical Devices on eBay
Roland Super Card MSL 15
via this auction for it and a Roland E70 intelligent synth."Professional synth together with the MSL 15 style card to give 60 extra music styles for your playing"
[cubisteffects] TECHNO-TARI 2600 ANALOG SYNTH
via this auctionvideo at auction and posted here
"The Techno-tari 2600 is an analog synthesizer that replicates a basic square wave synthesizer . It is a synth in its most basic form – but with a handful of controls, can provide anything from squelching Techno bass lines to glitchy arpeggios and droning bass notes. The Techno-tari 2600 provides thick analog synth sounds in a rehoused Atari 2600 console.
The core of the synth is from Forrest Mims' Stepped Tone Generator (STG), also known as an Atari Punk Console. I used this circuit to produce the square wave sound. The circuit has two PITCH knobs that control the frequency of each step in the waveform. So by having the VCO at its core, I added a circuit that emulated three more elements of an analog synth; a voltage controlled filter (VCF), a low frequency oscillator (LFO) and a voltage controlled amplifier (VCA).
The RATE knob is used to control the speed and can give anything to a throb to fast Techno-speed beating to a drone. Setting the control at maximum is like having the original sounds of the STG.The FILTER knob acts a tone control or VCF. Swept to its minimum, it acts like a high pass filter i.e. all high frequencies above a fixed point are passed through, cutting out the lower frequencies below the threshold. At its maximum, it acts like a low pass filter. This is subtractive synthesis at its most simplest – subtracting frequencies away from the whole (VCO) to provide a synthesised sound.
A FREQ switch allows a shift in octave of the oscilltor so you can go from chirpy, glitchy sounds to rumbling deep drones with one switch. Due to the change in frequency, the PITCH knobs act in a different relationship than before so experimenting here will give you a different low end result. Switch to the left is low frequency, to the right is high frequency.
Finally, I added a bit of a fuzz boost to beef up the filtered pulse wave, The stock sound was thin but by adding this VCA-esque stage, a thick squelchy sound is sent from the Techno-tari straight to the mixer/amplifier. The LEVEL control is the large knob and controls the final output of the signal.The Techno-tari 2600 operates off 9V DC using a standard 2.5mm negative tip power supply commonly used to power effects pedals. It has an on/off power switch and OUTPUT jack for plugging into headphones, mixer, amplifier or effects pedals."
SOLARIS Estradin 314
via this auction"rare soviet analog polyphonic synthesizer - Estradin 314 SOLARIS. It was manufacture on the same "Estradin" military radio plant in Zhitomir city where was produced power moog-type synths Altair-231, Estradin-230 in eighties. SOLARIS uses organ style drawbars to create the basic tone, and has a analog filtering as well. Inside it has 12 voice boards that correspond to each key in an octave, and then uses a divide down system to get to the other octaves. Because of this the sound of the oscillators are really thick and meaty. The filter is really extreme and sounds fantastic, as well the envelope is really punchy, so you get great synth stabs, sweeps and percussive organy sounds. If you use the envelope and filter sections carefully you can get great moogy leads out of it, warm organ sounds, flying ambient textures, in the high resisters it can sound like a string machine, or even a theremin if you crank the resonance. It has tons of character and can sounds really unique!
Estradin 314 Solaris CONTROL PANEL:-Pitch bend
FILTER section: Envelope amount, Cutoff, Resonance, Attack, Sustain, Release.
REGISTERS section: Harmonics 1-5 (8",4",2", 2 2/3", 1").
VIBRATO section: Lfo speed, Lfo pitch amount, Lfo filter amount.
-Amplifier release
-Brilliance ( Filter blend )
-Tune
-Power On/Off
CONNECTIONS: output 1/4 jack, pedal 5-din input, power plug, fuse.The supply voltage - 220-230V/50Hz. For use with 110/127V, a voltage converter is necessary."
Solina String Ensemble ( in the loop)
YouTube via elfferichfour | December 09, 2010 | 3 likes, 0 dislikes
"No balloons this time but my lovely Solina in the loop. Using the Boss RC-20 loopstation. Hope you like it !"
Kawai R-50e demo
Kawai R-50e demo by circuitbenders.co.uk
"Demo of a circuit bent Kawai R-50e drum machine."
"Demo of a circuit bent Kawai R-50e drum machine."
OakleyVC-ADSR as VCO
YouTube via krisp14u | December 09, 2010 |
"Prototype Oakley Sound System-Krisp1 VC-Looping-ADSR-VCA in use as a VCO
Driven by a Dot com Q119 No other modules used"
Livid Instruments Ohm64 and Block
YouTube via lividTV | December 09, 2010 | 1 likes, 0 dislikes
Livid Instruments on eBay
"Livid instruments is an Austin, Texas based company that makes beautifully designed MIDI controllers used industry and world wide. This demo video shows the uses and capabilities of our controllers. Some of the artist's featured are Amp Live, Heyoka, Hitori Tori, Elliot Lipp, Naik, Chili, Pailo, Naked Pilotz, Monoque Live, Naik, and Signal Path. Content and videos provided by Abboriginal Productions."
Silent Night Mashup
YouTube via rishabhrajan | December 09, 2010 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes
"Silent Night performed on a custom built monome.
Original track: http://soundcloud.com/rishabhrajan/si..."
Silent Night (Vox by Annmarie Stanislaus) by rishabhrajan
easy-mr.stringer - Free VST synth - vstplanet.com
YouTube via vstplanet | December 09, 2010 | 2 likes, 0 dislikes
"easy-mr.stringer - Free VST synth http://www.vstplanet.com/News/10/easy...
Developer: easytoolz.de"
BBcut app video documentation
YouTube via stphnmnslw | December 09, 2010 |
"0809556_break beat cutter app video documentation"
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Make: Shorts - Limor Fried: Adafruit Industries
YouTube via makemagazine | December 07, 2010 |
Limor Fried aka Ladyada is the woman that brought us the x0xb0x (see this interview). See was also featured on Wired news (see this post). No synth talk in this new video but the influence on synth DIY is inherent, and of course gives us some insight to the person that created the x0xb0x.
"Limor Fried is the founder and engineer behind Adafruit Industries which makes electronics kits that teach soldering, tinkering, and technology exploration. One of their projects, the Tweet-a-Watt, is a wireless modification to a common off-the-shelf home energy monitor, the Kill-a-Watt. The Tweet-a-Watt not only monitors your energy consumption, it sends the information to Twitter so you can track it online, which reveals usage trends over time. Besides selling a Tweet-a-Watt kit, Adafruit has also put the open source plans online for all to freely build and share, creating a network of makers watching their usage and swapping energy-saving tips."
Machinedrum UW MKll+KP3
YouTube via lampeo | December 08, 2010 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes
"Electronic Ex. 12082010-Machinedrum UW MKll+KP3 recorded strait to a Zoom H2
1 Ram Machine used + Kp3 for Samples & Effects"
Novation Launchpad, Ableton Live_DJ'ing from behind the drums. Progtronica
Novation Launchpad, Ableton Live_DJ'ing from behind the drums. Progtronica from Nigel Sifantus on Vimeo.
"progtronica.com A Progtronica exercise in DJ'ing from the drum stool using Ableton Live as the engine, A novation Launchpad, Roland V-Drums for the live drums, and various iPhone sound apps for many of the sonic textures. All sounds produced from scratch by Progtronica producer, digital DJ, and Drummer Nigel Sifantus. Visit nigelsifantus.com for more information, Ableton tutorials, videos, and a free preview of the debut Progtronica Ep "Live For No One" on No Service Required Records."
Launchpad & Ableton Live at the Alpha-ville Festival
YouTube via NovationTV | December 08, 2010 | 1 likes, 0 dislikes
"As part of the Alpha-ville International Festival of Digital Arts, Music and Culture, workshop series, organisers equipped their East London facility with a suite of Novation Launchpads and Ableton Live.
Guest speakers included Subeena, an Ableton Live artist.
www.alphavillefestival.co.uk"
North Point's iBand
YouTube via northpointministries | December 07, 2010 | 417 likes, 11 dislikes
"Christmas music using borrowed iPhones and iPads at North Point Community Church.
Download more free music from North Point -- www.northpointmusic.org/christmas"
NLog
Bebot:
iPads on eBay
iPads on Amazon
iPod Touch on eBay
iPod Touch on Amazon
Spectral Audio Neptune 2
YouTube via DonSolaris | December 08, 2010 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes
"Spectral Audio Neptune II multi-tracked. No effects, just plain raw recording."
MOOG SATELLITE - HQ DEMO Pt. 2 vintage synthesizer 1974
YouTube via AnalogAudio1 | December 08, 2010 | 3 likes, 0 dislikes
part 1 here
"Here is the second part of the Moog Satellite demo. The sounds in this movie may be a bit raw, because it does not show any synth programming art. Nevertheless, it is very interesting if you want to know, how the Moog Satellite actually sounds dry, when you tweak around and how the sliders / buttons affect the sounds.
I am also showing, how every single preset sounds. Enjoy..."
Absolute Body Control Live in Brugge 2010
Absolute Body Control Live in Brugge 2010 from Vajra on Vimeo.
"Part ONE of an amazing LIVE performance by Absolute Body Control in Brugge.
My digital recorder failed to capture the audio....pardon the LOW quality sound.
TO BE CONTINUED....."
via Carlo: "In this video you can see an MS20 and an SH101 plus a KORG monotron in action"
Nina Belief LIVE In Bochum October 2010
Nina Belief LIVE In Bochum October 2010 from Vajra on Vimeo.
Some synth spotting with Nina.
"NINA BELIEF
LIVE IN BOCHUM
OCTOBER 2010
PERFORMING
"SHINER"
From the German Label
No Emb Blanc. Distributed by Geneticmusic.de
Electronic Act from Miami. Solo artist, one half of Duo Ronin.
For more information visit
myspace.com/ninabelief
myspace.com/roninsynth"
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