Synsonics Terminator guitar

via this auction and this auction

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Mattel SYNSONICS DRUMS Foot Controller

via this auction

"Vintage Mattel Electronics SYNSONICS DRUMS "Accent" and "Bass/Tempo" Foot Controller"

1981 Mattel Synsonics Drums with Original Box

via this auction

1981 mattel electronics synsonics drums

via this auction

1983 Synsonics Drums Electronic Jamming Device Print Ad

via this auction

"Approx 10 1/4" x 12 1/4"."

Synsickness

YouTube via stylinghead | January 12, 2011 |

"Synsonics stereo pro with Korg Monotron."

RC CIRCUIT BENT 'VOODOO PRIEST' MYSTIC GLITCH PATTERN DRONE SYNTH

YouTube via djwidow420 | January 12, 2011 |
Resonance Circuits on eBay
"THE SECOND UNIT IN THE PARANORMAL DEVICES RANGE FROM RESONANCE CIRCUITS"

A musical analysis of Oxygene 2 - Jean Michel Jarre - Part 1

YouTube via tlnet37 | January 12, 2011 |

"this is a basic test : I will show you that it's possible to play Oxygene 2 with minimal equipment : 2 synths, 2 effects, one VSTi ... here 4 tracks are tested : phased wind (sh-101 + small stone) ; sequence 1 : internal sequencer of the sh-101 + memory boy ; rythmus by elektrostudio ; mellotron tape choir and bass (Alesis Fusion 8hd)"

Update:

A musical analysis of Oxygene 2 - JMJ - Part 2/3 : "light cover" by Thierry Lebon

Uploaded by tlnet37 on Apr 8, 2011

"- download the mp3 file here : http://goo.gl/gaxar -

How to make a soft version of Oxygene 2 with minimal equipment : only 2 synths !
All is hand and by ear played .This is a very "light" cover ! I recorded 10 audio tracks with Presonus Studio One, but without automation and I have to add 2 tracks for noises with the Roland SH-101.
I only use Rythmus (by ElektroStudio), Alesis Fusion 8 HD, Roland SH-101, Electro-Harmonix Small Stone (Phaser) and Memory Boy (Tape Delay).
I'm beginner, and not a musician, so ... sorry for bad hand playing and tempo not respected sometimes !

Cheers from Thierry ! next step : Equinoxe & Rendez-vous ..."

A musical analysis of Oxygene 2 - JMJ - Part 3/4 : Final Cover by Thierry Lebon

YouTube Uploaded by tlnet37 on Apr 10, 2011

"One Alesis Fusion 8 HD + one Roland SH-101 + one Electro-Harmonix Small Stone + one Electro-Harmonix Memory Boy + software Rythmus by ElektroStudio, one USB AudioBox Presonus + Studio One + very much time to analyze = one cover of Oxygene 2 - Jean Michel Jarre, by a non musician, newbie in music, but working by ear and all hand played with errors on tempo and fingers position, ... so SORRY for mistakes !
thierry"

A musical analysis of Oxygene 2 - JMJ - Part 4/4 : sounds from Roland SH-101 by Thierry Lebon

Uploaded by tlnet37 on Apr 11, 2011

"Noises, electronic sounds, effects used in my Cover of Oxygene 2 - Jean Michel Jarre, all sounds go thru analog pedals (E-H Small Stone Phaser and Memory Boy)"

Kyma and Max. The constant down pour

YouTube via cray56 | January 12, 2011 |

"Symbolic Sound KYMA,Max 4 ive"

BitBlobnOrgan

YouTube via ISOTROPOSPHERE | January 12, 2011 |

"Bleep Labs Bit Blob 2 being given a little delay effect from the Alesis mixer, Korg ER-1 MKII and Korg ES-1 MKII, and Korg Z1 Organ patch.

The Bit Blob is a sonic powerhouse, so much fun. Short clip, ran out of video tape while recording, sorry, enjoy...."

Iced Melodica

ISOTROPOSPHERE | January 12, 2011 |

"Stayed home due to ice storm here and broke out the 1967 Hohner Melodica student model my friend gave to me. His Mother got this brand new back in the day. I had to replace a broken screw on it and acquire a new mouthpiece, now she's up and running again.

Korg ER-1 MKII and Korg ES-1 MKII provide rythums. Melodica has a generous amount of Hall effect on it from the Alesis mixer. Enjoy....."

New Mobile Application Transforms Every Guitar Player into a Rock Prodigy

"Interactive App Teaches and Hones Skills Using a Real Guitar, Any Guitar

LOS ANGELES (Jan. 12, 2011) – All guitar players, from beginner to advanced, can now reach prodigy status with the launch of a new mobile application, Rock Prodigy™, that teaches users how to play a real guitar, any guitar, with the help of an Apple® iPhone®, iPad® or iPod® Touch. Using polyphonic pitch-recognition, Rock Prodigy allows all guitar players to learn, experience and absorb the music from legendary rock guitarists including James Hetfield of Metallica, Jerry Garcia of Grateful Dead and Joe Trohman of Fall Out Boy.

The app immerses users in original master recordings of popular guitar-centric songs, while simultaneously providing real-time feedback as players strum along with a real guitar. The interactive app also has the ability to auto-pause and uses tab-like performance cues for all four levels of play, which show precise rhythm, timing and note durations with real-time interaction and performance evaluation.

Allowing players to learn on the go, Rock Prodigy requires no additional hardware as guitarists can play directly into their mobile devices using the built-in microphone, a standard headset with microphone or a basic line-in guitar input adapter.

'Rock Prodigy was truly created for musicians by musicians,” said Harold Lee, co-founder of Rock Prodigy and CEO of The Way of H, Inc. “By combining mobile technology, modern apps and a guitarist’s favorite bands, Rock Prodigy offers a solution to the usual hang-ups of learning guitar. Guitar masters can also learn a thing or two.'

Fusing mobile technology with a real guitar, Rock Prodigy is available for free in the iTunes App Store, with premium feature packs starting at $9.99. More information at RockProdigy.com.

About The Way of H, Inc.
The Way of H, Inc. is a music technology company based in Los Angeles focused on changing the way people learn, play and interact with music. Rock Prodigy, the company’s first product, is a revolutionary interactive music app powered by patent-pending polyphonic pitch-recognition technology that allows musicians of all skill levels to use any instrument and provide instant performance feedback to accelerate learning. For more information, visit www.RockProdigy.com.

vintage buchla 207

flickr By citizenmori

"at long last (eight years on the hunt!), my 200 series has found it's last piece.

i am only so fortunate because of the generosity of a fellow buchlaist - a person of particularly magnificent designs.

i've no words for this sort of kind gesture, only gratitude."

Klaus Schulze with his setup in the late 70s

via Wolfgang Palm of PPG

"The top cabinet is filled with PPG modules, and he also used a PPG-custom keyboard."

You can read about it site here (Googlish here).

Synthwerks Setup - NAMM 2011

YouTube via watchelectronicmusic | January 11, 2011 |
http://synthwerks.com/
"James Husted & Steve Turnidge from Synthwerks prepare for NAMM 2011, with a little help from electronicmusic.com editor Paul Clark."

Added to The NAMM List. Remember to check it out for red updates daily (a few went up today), and also check out the NAMM label below for all NAMM posts.

tossing and turning in bed had to get this out my head.

YouTube via DrOctave1 | January 11, 2011 |
synth wookie?
"restless leggs and cant get comfy so i made some beats to get bumpy"

Update:

more tossing less turning

DrOctave1 | January 11, 2011 |

"a patch and some sounds i made after trying to fall asleep and tossing around .

oh sorry for the 5 sec mute in there from my cat stepping on a solo button"

Vako Orchestron - Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express & Radioactivity

YouTube via dietervanmarcke | March 02, 2010 |
via Pea Hicks of http://www.optigan.com/
"Playing some snippets of "Trans-Europe Express" by Kraftwerk letting you hear the Orchestron's "Violins" sound.
The sound you hear is the actual sound used by Kraftwerk."

Vako Orchestron and Eminent 1600 Orchestra - Radioactivity (Kraftwerk)

YouTube via dietervanmarcke | February 25, 2010 |

"Playing some snippets of Radioactivity (Kraftwerk) demonstrating the "Vocal Choir" sound of the Orchestron.
This sound is the exact sound (not a replica, it IS this sound) Kraftwerk used on Radioactivity and a small number of other songs.
As you can hear, I've got some problems with pitch stability. This is due to a worn out belt that connects the motor and the wheel that actually spins the record.
More info about the Orchestron: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestron

The thing underneath the Orchestron is the Eminent 1600 Orchestra. This is not the intrument used by Jean-Michel Jarre (that's the 310U) thought it features the same sounds, and has a built in String Ensemble which is more or less the same than the Arp Solina String Ensemble. As you can see, I've got some problems with the contacts of the bass pedals.
It's also a pity that you can only hardly hear the sound of the bass pedals. That's because I captured this with my Nokia N900, the audio and the video...

And, sorry for the bad playing. :-)"

Vako Orchestron Inside

dietervanmarcke | March 02, 2010 |

"The inside of a Vako Orchestron Model C."

37 MiniMoog Testing

YouTube via 7thDanSound | January 11, 2011 |

"I just bought another vintage MiniMoog Model D and thought I'd do a video while testing that everything works. It turned out a decent walk through of quite a few of the sounds a MiniMoog can make.

I don't really know if one "needs" two MiniMoog but the price was right so I kind of had to. Also, I think there are some cool things that can be done with two Minis I suppose :) So keep an eye open for that!"

1 μp SID DEMO

YouTube via crudface | January 11, 2011 |

"A demo of our custom EEPROM for The Harvestman's Piston Honda wavetable oscillator."

Vintage PPG Wave 2.3

via this auction

"Vintage PPG Wave 2.3 in very clean condition. See pictures. Everything works. Keyboard is flat. No sticky keys. OS V6. Comes with a Hard Case, a Power Cable and a CD ROM. CD ROM contains User Manuals, Service Manuals, Factory Data and more. Do not miss the rare opportunity."

via Kyle Weiss

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LoFi Freq Modular 1-11-11

YouTube via LofiFreq | January 11, 2011 |

"just another fun patch
Cwejman - D-LFO just added to my new project modular"

Update:

LoFi Freq modular 2 1-11-11

LofiFreq | January 11, 2011 |

"Future Retro Sequencer
Mix of Modular components Cwejman Doepfer Metasonix Malekko Tip Top"

Doepfer modular w/Nord modular improv

Doepfer modular w/Nord modular improv by RossT
"Improvisation done with basic Doepfer modular system. No MIDI. Uses pulse divider to trigger various modules forming a beat. Clavia Nord modular adds synthetic vocals. All in one take."

Vintage Roland Rhythm 77 TR-77 Analog Drum Machine

via this auction

"This is an extremely clean unit. It looks like it came out of a 1972 time capsule, it's so fresh. It was Roland's very first product. It really should go to the Drum Machine Hall of Fame if there is such a thing, but hey, it could be yours. And besides being remarkably well preserved for being nearly forty years old, it seems to be fully functional. Everything seems to work as it should. These are highly prized among analog drum machine fans; it's said that this is the warmest sounding of the Roland analogs..."

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StudioBLADE - more sounds than anyone else

YouTube via musiccomputing | January 11, 2011 |

"This video describes how the StudioBLADE keyboard production stations now ship with essentially an unlimited number of sounds built right in."

iKeyDock for Mac Mini, PowerMac and PCs

musiccomputing | January 10, 2011 |

"The video talks about using the iKeyDOCK - laptop keyboard productions station dock with a Mac Mini, PowerMac and other PC laptops and desktops."

Vintage Electro-Harmonix DRM 32 Drum Machine

via this auction

Update: video of a DRM here

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1977 and 1978 PAiA Product Catalogs

via this auction
Top four shots are from 1977, bottom two are from 1978 according to the auctions.

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Electrix Mofx, Akai MFC & Boss DM-100

YouTube via electroboodiac | January 11, 2011

Alesis smashup, Bitrman & filtre

YouTube via electroboodiac | January 11, 2011

fatcontroller

YouTube via electroboodiac | January 11, 2011

LFO FUNCTION 8 step sequencer+synth5

YouTube via panote09 | January 11, 2011
panote09 on eBay

Crumar DS2 synthesizer-1978 magazine advert

via this auction

"Size approx in inches 11 x 8"

Crumar DS2

YouTube via synthmaven | January 11, 2011

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eyoControl for the iPad

YouTube via eyosidosoft | December 02, 2010 |

"eyoControl is a set of MIDI controllers for the iPad, including a control surface, a dual keyboard MIDI controller, a pad set, an X/Y controller. It connects to your Mac or Windows Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) through the native iPad MIDI wireless connection, or optionally the dedicated eyoControl Server app (Mac only) for advanced connectivity options. Check out http://eyosido.com for details."


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1980 Moog The Rogue Shift Into Overdrive Print Ad

via this auction

"This Ad measures approximately 5+1/2 " by 8""

Unfortunately not the best pic.

Phatty Tuner Alternate Scales Editor

YouTube via MoogMusicInc | January 11, 2011 |

"Chris Rosser takes us on a sonic world tour with the Slim Phatty and Little Phatty. For decades, Moog instruments have been used by adventurous musicians to map the sonic universe. Now they can be used to explore the more exotic reaches of our own planet. With Moog's Phatty Tuner software, musicians can retune each note of the octave and compose in scales once available only to players of hard-to-find world instruments. Indian, Chinese and Turkish scales are now easily accessible along with Meantone, Pythagorean, Just and other historic and experimental temperaments.

Available for the Slim Phatty and coming soon for the Little Phatty with OS v3.0, this free download makes experimenting with alternate scales a breeze. Tuning data is easily editable and is displayed as a ratio, frequency and in cents. Scala files (www.huygens-fokker.org/scala) can be imported and exported for use with other tuning software. An unlimited number of tunings can be saved on your computer and the synthesizer's hardware can store up to thirty-two different tunings; enough to take you around the world and back again.

If your musical explorations actually take you around the world, the Little Phatty and Slim Phatty's convenient size and universal power supplies make them ideal travel partners.

Visit www.moogmusic.com/slimphatty for more information."

Tua - Vodka Beat

YouTube via Multitalent
"Tua baut einen Beat ausschließlich mit Geräuschen einer Vodkaflasche.
European multitalent Tua produces a beat solely with sounds of a vodka bottle."

Full description on YouTube

OSCeleton With Quartz Composer

OSCeleton With Quartz Composer from Matti Niinimäki on Vimeo.

"Testing out OSCeleton with Quartz Composer.

What is OSCeleton?
"As the title says, it's just a small program takes Kinect skeleton data from the OpenNI framework and spits out the coordinates of the skeleton's joints via OSC messages. These can can then be used on your language / framework of choice."
github.com/​Sensebloom/​OSCeleton

I had to make a small Max/MSP patch to convert the OSC messages to a format that QC understands. You can download it here:
mansteri.com/​2011/​01/​osceleton-with-quartz-composer/​"

I wonder if you can get this going with The Missing Link.

Update: links above updated.

NAMM1-YouTube sharing 1920.mov

YouTube via Novamusik | January 11, 2011 I'll be posting the synth vids here on MATRIXSYNTH.
http://novamusik.com/

Novamusik.com - NAMM Outake!

Novamusik | January 11, 2011 |

"Lighting + Snow = boom! :D"

Anime "Urusei Yatsura/HachaMecha Daikonran 3 part 4

Added to this post.

Urano - JV Reactable live

YouTube via JVreactablelive | January 11, 2011 |

"Urano - JV Reactable live"

iPads on eBay iPod Touch on eBay

Shruthi-1 SSM2044 filter board

via Mutable Instruments

* A bare PCB for the Shruthi-1 SSM2044+SSM2164 VCF/VCA board.
* A tested SSM2044.
* A SSM2164 (original chip from AD).

Bit crushed modular trip hop rave

YouTube via popitem | January 11, 2011 |

"More experimentation with the A-189-1 and drum modul + some repeating synth loop from the maq 16/3."

Sauerkraut Synthesizer, Sounds and the Machines That Make Them

YouTube via gordogordo56 | June 08, 2010 |

"Gordon Monahan uses fruits, vegetables, and a jar of sauerkraut as voltage controllers for a software synthesizer built with ppooll-max/msp and an arduino interface. Performed live at the Subtle Technologies Festival, on board a cruise ship in Toronto Harbour, June 5, 2010.

The Sauerkraut Synthesizer is based on a technical prototype using lemons (The Lemon Synthesizer), developed as a collaboration between Gordon Monahan, Akemi Takeya, and Noid, in Vienna, March, 2009."

Sounds and the Machines That Make Them

gordogordo56 | August 28, 2009 |

"Installation performance by Gordon Monahan at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, presented by the DAAD Inventionen Festival, 1994"

Tiny Synth

flickr By Mochimochi Land

Buchla 297 Phase Shifter

via this auction

"brand spanking new Buchla 297 Phase Shifter."

E-MU Drumulator with MIDI

YouTube via Somnambulistx | October 18, 2010

via this auction

The CLAP Analogue electronic sound module

via this auction

"The CLAP electronic simulator

Analogue electronic sound module/playing pad which is designed to simulate hand claps.

Made by MPC Electronics in the UK in the 1980s

4 knobs - Spread, Mix, Decay, Volume.

Can be triggered externally (positive pulse of 3v or above)"

Access Virus B rack synthesizer

via this auction

Note the black wood side panels.

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Kawai SX-210

via this auction

"The filter on this synth is magical - same as the Korg Polysix. Great way to get that classic analog sound for less than you'd spend on some of the more popular synths like the Juno-60, Polysix, etc. 8-voice polyphony. Stackable DCO waveshapes with sub-oscillator. Portamento, Glissando, Mono and poly modes. Synth is in nice physical shape, fully functional except the end-caps have some chew on them. It's been serviced, battery replaced, key contacts cleaned and it works 100%. The only downside to this synth is the ensemble effect will overdrive (distort unpleasantly) pretty easily, which is common on the Junos as well (I have had 4 Juno-106s and 3 Juno-60s), but the Junos seem to have more headroom. I can't be sure if this is a factor of age or a design quirk, as I've never played another SX-210, but in practical use you have to back off the VCA volume if you get distortion as the VCA runs before the Ensemble effect."

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Endangered Audio Gristleizer version 1

via this auction

"For the first time ever, Throbbing Gristle's legendary effects unit, The Gristleizer, is now available in its classic tabletop form. Though the original design by Roy Gwinn is over 30 years old, The Gristleizer had never seen commercial production until the summer of 2009, when Endangered Audio updated and improved the circuit. The tabletop version is designed to sit within hand's-reach for easy parameter control, e.g. while playing synthesizers. In essense, The Gristleizer is a synth module that works with any audio signal. The audio path is modulated by an LFO using four selectable waveforms (ramp, reverse ramp, triangle, & square), functioning in one of two paths: VCA (voltage controlled amplifier) or VCF (voltage controlled filter). Ranging from light and sweet tremolo to extreme, raunchy ring mod, The Gristleizer is a 100% analog, hand-assembled unit built to last."

See this post on the history of the Grisleizer.

1986 CASIO CZ-1 SYNTHESIZER AZ-1 MIDI KEYBOARD PRINT AD

via eBay

"1986 Casio CZ-1 61-key Synthesizer, AZ-1 MIDI Keyboard, RZ-1 Sampling Drum Machine & TB-1 MIDI switching thru box 2-page Magazine Ad. Ad measures approx. 16"X 11" inches."

see the seller's other items for more.