Sonic Core Scope Modular Madness

YouTube via insanic4 | December 29, 2010 |

"Some modular experiments with the Sonic Core Modular 4 synthesizer which runs on the Scope DSP card. See http://www.sonic-core.net for more information about the Scope Platform."

Scope Modular Glitch Drum Loop

insanic4 | December 31, 2010 |

'Another Scope Modular experiment with some glitch drum beats."

The Scope Glitch Machine :)

insanic4 | January 04, 2011 |

Suitcase Music Studio

YouTube via insanic4 | January 21, 2011 |

"Here is a little experiment with my suitcase music studio. It has the following devices:

Korg Kaoss Pad Mini
Korg Kaossilator
Korg Monotron
Korg SR1 Sound on Sound
MFB Nanozwerg
FM3 Buddha Machine
Rolls MX41b
Art PowerMix III
Nintendo DSI XL with Korg DS10
Apple iPod Touch with Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer
MAM Map1

The audio was recorded with the Korg MR-2000S."

BIT99 and COFFEE

via Davide

"Coffe break during the substitution of the dead battery in my Crumar Bit99."

MeeBlip and the Little MIDI Machine - Future of Music NYC Event

Cool pic via Create Digital Music where you'll find more details.

"Music making requires going beyond novelty or shiny gear lust and getting into how to make a technology expressive. Whether a camera or a synthesizer, you have to find a way to make a tool your own, and how to make it live with the other objects with which you create.

Working with Tekserve, the landmark independent Apple sales and service shop in Manhattan, CDM is co-hosting an event to dive into just that question. It’s called the “Future of Music,” because Tekserve has been running that series for a while. But it’s really about the present of music – perhaps your own musical future. It’s not about the iPad as the solution to everything; on the contrary, it’s about figuring out what an iPad really is, and how you can combine it with other music tools."

The Little MIDI Machine analog style step sequencer is free:

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Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer on eBay

The amazing thing is the price of this sequencer in hardware would probably be equivalent to the price of an iPad if not more. See this post for a video of it driving a Novation Nova.

Aliens Project EMS Putney

Cool custom back via Aliens Project where you'll find it doing some Buchla-esque sounds.

Black Waldorf Blofeld Keyboard Now Available

via Noisebug on eBay
"Not only on the outside did he gain weight, also his inner qualities have seen a remarkable step-up: besides the virtual-analog synthesis and the classic wavetables it now sports a whopping 60 megabytes of sample memory. Just imagine to add a vocal-like noise spectrum to a typical Wavetable pad, spice-up a virtual-analog solo sound with a strong attack sample or just process any other sample with the countless oscillator and filter modulations.

Play your sound creations on the high-quality keyboard with velocity and aftertouch. Pitchbend and modulation wheel are at your disposal and, as a matter of course, you can connect a sustain pedal. All this is packaged in a sleek metal enclosure with a big graphic display, endless stainless steel rotaries and an internal power supply.

Features
60 MB Sample memory
Virtual analog, Wavetable and sample-based Oscillators
High-quality semi-weighted keyboard with 49 keys, velocity and aftertouch
Internal power supply (100-240V, 50-60Hz)
Pitchbend wheel
Modulation wheel
Sustain pedal connector
Octave Up / Down buttons
Freely programmable button
Sturdy metal enclosure
7 endless stainless steel dials
Graphic display 128 x 64 pixels, b/w, white background LED
More than 1000 Sounds
3 Oscillators per voice
Frequency Modulation between Oscillators
All Q Oscillator models
All Microwave II/XT/XTk Wavetables
2 independent multi mode Filters per voice
Filter FM
2 Drive stages per voice with selectable Drive Curves
3 fast LFOs per voice
4 fast Envelopes per voice
Powerful Arpeggiator
Freely programmable Arpeggiator Pattern with up to 16 Steps per Sound"

via shad

Buchla 200e improvisation with Max for Live

YouTube via danp212 | January 24, 2011 |

"A short performance with some of my Max for Live software playing the Buchla 200e."

Just be... i don't care

YouTube via NetPierreTV | January 24, 2011 |

"NetPierre after-work Livejam. Unrehearsed and unedited as always.
Contains (randomly picked...not the best idea) samples from Dub International's 'Just be Good to Me' acapella version.

More on my Doepfer A-100 System at:
http://PatchPierre.blogspot.com

- Captured Live on Ustream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/NetPierre"

Old School instruments, Sequencer and Moogs at work

YouTube via Synthiefrau | January 24, 2011 |

"Hi lovely Synthfolk, this is a new song. I work with the sequence of the GRP A8, Minimoog and Moog Prodigy Solo, the effects comes from the Doepfer Dark Energy and Roland Juno 60. The chorus comes from the Roland V-Synth"

GrooveMaker Cool & Dre for iPad

- Cut Hard-Hitting Records For The Clubs On Your iPad / iPhone

YouTube via groovemakerik | January 24, 2011 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes

"GrooveMaker Cool & Dre is now available in the iTunes App Store!

More information on GrooveMaker Cool & Dre at http://www.groovemaker.com/coolanddre


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GrooveMaker Cool & Dre provides the elements for making 'West Coast' and 'Dirty South' style hip-hop beats for today's radio and dance floor hit anthems and club-shakers. If you love the music from major hit record labels like Cash Money, Interscope and Def Jam, or the beats behind today's super stars like Lil' Wayne, Trey Songs, The Game, Mary J. Blige, and Nicki Minaj then you are going to love making beats with GrooveMaker Cool & Dre."

Fairlight CMI 30A unveiled by inventor Peter Vogel

YouTube via musicradartv | January 24, 2011

CASIO VL-TONE VL-1 with Original Box, Case and Manuals

via this auction

"Boxed and includes the following
1x VL-1.......Is in excellent condition
1x Operation manual.......Excellent condition
1x Assorted melodies.....Excellent condition
1x Case ......Like new
1x How to play music book 2 VL-tone.....Has been folden in half so it fits in the box
1x Outer box with poly inserts......Showing signes of wear"

Moog Taurus Pedals

via this auction

video at the auction and below.

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MINIMOOG Model D with Kenton MIDI

via this auction

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FORMANTA P-432 Vintage Synthesizer with presets

Update via Dmitry in the comments: "it's not ANALOG"

via this auction
"This instrument is analog polyphonic synthesizer with preset patches and midi. Midi in this machine is early 80s soviet standard midi protocol and it produce some latency if You cinnect to it to western machines. Please notice thius is not issue, but Russian-Western system incompatibility.

• It has a 3-octave keyboard, 32 timbres and 4-voice polyphony.

• HAS 32 VERY UNIQUE AND POWERFUL PRESET SOUNDS,4 VOICES POLYPHONY, UNISON MODE, MODULATION CONTROL AND OTHER FUNCTIONS.

• It features a unique set of electronic parts, reliable keyboard (41 notes C–E) made in magnetically controlled contacts; synthesis modules consist of independent boards, which is convenient for maintenance.

The synthesizer has a two-digit display for representing a preset number and some other system parameters.
• Connection on the rear panel : on/off switch, OUTPUT on standard 1/4''jack, Pedal inputs on standard 1/4 jacks ( cables included)r, power wire connection (220/240V)."

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KORG MP-100 Music Programmer MP100

"Korg MP-100 Music Programmer is a professional compact sequencer with the installed(settled) loudspeaker and quite a lot of functions(offices) of edition(publishing).

MP-100 has a) MIDI/ Sync out, line out with adjustable volume.
Supply with piles (4xAA not included) or adapter DC 9 V (not included)

Dimension: hour 30 millimeters x L 190 millimeters x l 80 millimeters"

SN 002696

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CASIO FZ-1

via this auction

"Far beyond a powerful, high fidelity sound sampler, with unusually extensive editing capability, this synth/sampler has relatively unknown and undiscovered layers of multiple capabilities that others synths have become famous for, for just having one.
Hybrid Analog / Digital Synthesizer
Combines and Vectors Synthesized and Sampled voices simultaneously
6 Analog waveforms + Additive Synthesis of controllable 48 Harmonics
Samples can be used as source for synthesis
Hand-Drawing possible on Display for waveshape modification
DCFilters, Envelopes and LFOs.
WaveTable Synthesis - up to 64 different waveshapes addressable with Velocity.
Aftertouch (pressure sensitivity) & Velocity control of multiple parameters
Accepts Foot Controller
Cross-Mix + Resampling + Lots MORE!"

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2000 Roland VP-9000 Variphrase Demo Video

YouTube via jafafah0ts | January 23, 2011 |

"A promo video from 2000 for Roland's VP-9000 Variphrase sampler."

Synthesizers.com Q127 Fixed Filter Bank Demo

YouTube via FOCtv | January 23, 2011 |

"Demonstration of synthesizers.com Q127 Fixed Filter Bank module. Specifically this demo shows how in conjunction with a DAW, such as Logic, one can expand the uses of a fixed filter bank using multi-tracking techniques.

Here are the order of audio samples:

1 - Dry Piano from Logic's EXS24 sampler
2 - Output of all bands simultaneously of Q127 FFB module
3 - One band at a time of FFB module
4 - Addition of low to high bands of FFB module until all are heard simultaneously as in sample number 2
5 - Each band has an additional delay of a 32nd notes ( at 85 BPM ) from the lowest to highest frequency band, with various panoramic settings.
6 - Each band has an additional delay of a 16th notes ( at 85 BPM ) from the lowest to highest frequency band, with various panoramic settings."

Synths!!

flickr By Cutter Filtoff
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"Where the sounds are forged."

SuONOIO 4

flickr By Noise Transmissions
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"This is my SuONOIO, in a custom enclosure I made from a steel project box. I drilled holes, cut out a notch for the headphone jack in the back, and made a stencil of the logo, staying with the original color scheme.

The SuONOIO is a portable synthesizer inspired by SONOIO's music, custom created by The Harvestman (Scott Jaeger). SONOIO is the new project of Alessandro Cortini (Modwheelmood, Blindoldfreak, former keyboardist of Nine Inch Nails).

www.sonoio.org/
www.theharvestman.org/"

Dixon Analog Shift Register

flickr By sduck409
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"David Dixon designed a very nice fully featured implementation of an Analog Shift Register, based on the one by Ken Stone of Cat Girl Synth. He was kind enough to etch a pair of pcbs for me, and this is one of them."

Maestro Universal Synthesizer USS-1

via this auction
"This is a vintage analog multi-effect that has the following controls:
Waveform (with Intensity slider) a kind of fuzz effect
Filter (with Frequency and Brilliance sliders) envelope filter
Sample/Hold strange step Q filter effect
Phase (with Speed slider) Great sounding too
Envelope (with Attack and Decay sliders) another yet different envelope filter.
Sub-Harmonic (with a Volume slider and sustained or percussive switch) lower octave in quick hit or swell.
then there is also a slider for Sensitivity that works on the Envelope and Sub-Harmonic, basically increasing the volume of the effect compared to the natural sound.

Instrument plugs into the 1/4" furthest from the plug/transformer, closest to goes to the amp. No clue what the middle 2 do, and have never found any info on them."

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KORG WAVESTATION SR KEY BOARD SYNTH JAPAN

via this auction

more pics at the auction

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Arturia Origin Desktop Synthesizer

via this auction

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Roland GR-700 guitar synth

via this auction

Farfisa Antique Organ Keyboard Synthesizer Piano WORKS!

via this auction

"Orange colored - 48 Keys - Vibrato - Slow/Fast - Flute - Clarinet - Reed - Strings"

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Sequential Circuits - Phrophet 2000

YouTube via solidstatecollective | January 23, 2011 |

"Check out my blog at www.solidstatecollective.blogspot.com"

moog Filtatron / moog Little Phatty (by Eekkoo)

moog Filtatron / moog Little Phatty (by Eekkoo) from Eekkoo on Vimeo.

"The iPhone's audio output has been connected to the input of the Little Phatty. The Phatty's filter section is used to manipulate the signal generated by the Filtatron app."


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Read the Sine

YouTube via analoq | January 23, 2011 |

"Frequency and amplitude are sampled at 24fps from each channel of an Impulse Tracker module via libmikmod. The data is used for animation in Blender 2.5. Not fully realized, but functions as a proof of concept.

My sincere thanks to the very talented Mazedude for generously permitting me to use his music.
http://ocremix.org/artist/4313/mazedude"

NAMM 2011Robbie Gennet at the Mason & Hamlin piano booth (Day 2)

YouTube via keyboardmag1 | January 23, 2011 |
Stop talking and move the camera a little to the left...
"Keyboard Magazine filmed a group of talented piano players testing out all the top 9 foot grand pianos at the NAMM show. Here we have Keyboard's own Robbie Gennet checking out Mason & Hamlin's concert grand. Had to hit it multiple times because it was so good! Watch in HD for the best quality."

NAMM 2011 Tracy Martin at Young Chang pianos

keyboardmag1 | January 23, 2011 |

"Keyboard Magazine filmed a group of talented piano players testing out all the top 9 foot grand pianos at the NAMM show. Here we have miss Tracy Martin testing out the Young Chang full size grand. Watch in HD for the best quality!"

Musicianews NAMM 2011 Demo of Synthwerks New Resistor Modules FSR 4BC

YouTube via musicianews | January 23, 2011
http://synthwerks.com/
"James Husted with Synthworks, demos his new Resistor Modules based on FSR Technology. FSR 4, FSR4CB. They produce a control voltage based on how hard you press on the sensors. The modules can be found at Synthwerks, Analoguehaven.com, Noisebug and Big City Music. Priced $95- $375"

Dual 281e's and 250e jitter patch

YouTube via spindizzyman | January 23, 2011 |

"Buchla 200e experiments"

250e loop jitter

spindizzyman | January 23, 2011 |

"250e and 281e jitter technique"

BLARP

via contretedog

"For those into cmos/lunetta (!) it already contains, 2 x 4015 shift registers, 6 x 40106 oscs, 4 x XOR gates, 1 Kludgey area, 2 x 3 channel passive mixer each with jack outs (Jacks to be mounted in a flat panel at the top of the console), 2 x AREGVCA as designed by Richarius, 2 x 4069 LFO ala scott gravenhorst (modded for 9v), 1 x 4040 divider (only 5 outputs/divisions utilised). Also since this picture was taken a week ago it also now contains, 1 x passive LP filter controlled via LDR, 4 x 4093 gated oscs, 1 x 4046 VCO, and a 4 input resistance summer/CV mixer.

Not 100% as to what the final modules are to be as yet, I may include another shift register, another VCO and I'd quite like some form of active filter in there...but then I'd like more AREG's...a Sequencer, more oscs...more logic gates, a pseudo ring mod.....the list is endless!"

Continuum Controls Moog Synthesizer - All Blues [& Jazz] Miles Davis

YouTube via marksmartus2 | January 22, 2011 |

"Mark Smart uses the Haken Continuum Fingerboard and a modular Moog synthesizer to play Miles Davis' tune.

Continuum Fingerboard: http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/i...
Mark Smart: http://www.marksmart.net
Pogo Studio: http://www.pogostudio.net/
Pogo Studio's Moog: http://www.marksmart.net/gearhack/pog..."

Continuum Fingerboard - In a Sentimental Mood

YouTube via marksmartus2 | January 18, 2011 |

"Duke Ellington's beautiful tune played on the Haken Continuum Fingerboard driving Native Instruments' Reaktor software. I did the background track using an Ibanez AR-250 guitar with a Copeland hexaphonic pickup and a pedalboard I built for solo jazz performances.

Continuum Fingerboard: http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/i...
My home page: http://www.marksmart.net/"

The pogomoog

Haken Continuum Meets Tesla - Risky Business, Moog, The Cars Let's Go

Tesla Coil Music - Island at the Center of the World - Part II: The Strangers

YouTube via marksmartus2 | January 22, 2011 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes

"Recorded live in Urbana, Illinois on March 7, 2008. This outdoor concert was part of a student-run open house for the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois. Tesla coils were used to create musical pitches via a control system designed by university student Steve Ward. Two coils were used. The right coil is playing a prerecorded Midi track, acting as the bass, and the left one is performed live as a lead sound via the Continuum fingerboard. In spite of the frigid temperatures (4 degrees Fahrenheit, 26 mph winds), the concert was well attended and was voted the most popular event of the open house.

This is the second part of a prog-rock piece by Mark Smart about the history of Easter Island."

Tesla Coil Music - "Risky Business: A Tribute to Nikola Tesla"

marksmartus2 | August 10, 2009 |

"This piece was composed by Scott Wyatt and Mark Smart and was performed during the SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) conference at Sweetwater Sound in Fort Wayne, Indiana on April 18, 2009."

Tesla Coil Music - "Let's Go" by The Cars

marksmartus2 | May 02, 2009 |

"This tune was was played as an encore to "Risky Business: A Tribute to Nikola Tesla" (also on YouTube) at the 2009 SEAMUS conference at Sweetwater Sound in Fort Wayne, Indiana on April 18, 2009. Credits: Tesla coil parts arranged by Mark Smart; coils built by Steve Ward, Jeff Larson, and Terry Blake; control system designed by Steve Ward and Mark Smart. The video was made by jenaber27; I just added some of the original Cars track to balance the sound."

Continuum Fingerboard - Funk Loops

YouTube via marksmartus2 | January 22, 2011 |

"Mark Smart plays funk on the Continuum Fingerboard.

Continuum Fingerboard: http://www.hakenaudio.com/Continuum/i...
My home page: http://www.marksmart.net"

Parallel Worlds - Purple Skyline Featuring EKO Rhythmaker

Free music from Parallel Worlds here.

"there is a (reverbnation) music player with many tracks for free streaming and download, as well as two 'fan exclusive' tracks for free download: track 'Logic' (from 'out of print' album 'Existence' 2003) and track 'Purple Skyline' (from 'out of print' cd compilation 'Ikude')"

The drums in track 7 'Purple Skyline' is all EKO Rhythmaker.

Update via Bakis of Parallel Worlds: "on the 'fan exclusive' tracks ('Logic' and 'Purple Skyline') the machines used were (IIRC, its been more than 10 years ago... both tracks were made in 2000) :

Akai AX80, Roland JX8p plus PG800, Yamaha CS5, CS15, SH-101, Novation Bassstation rack, Waldorf Pulse, Nord lead rack, NI Generator, Nord micromodular, Korg mono/poly, Roland SH2, Korg MS10, EKO Rhythmaker, Yamaha FS1r, TG77, TX216, JP8000, MS2000r, ATARI 1040ST (yes!)."

2000 Year Old Man - Part 1 of 3

YouTube via dave2112c | March 15, 2009 |
Moog intro. This one in via Brian Kehew (www.curvebender.com).
"Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner Classic Improvational Bit..."

Trip to Hell - SWARMATRON Clone -

Trip to Hell - SWARMATRON Clone - by gattobus
"Headphones strongly recommended.
This is is just a demo to try out my new swarmatron patch made on Nord Modular G2, inspired by the Dewanatron Electronics instrument.
Hear hundred of angels swarming and screaming desperatly at 1:15 -> 2:35.
Almost everything was played with Modular G2 (on multiple tracks) except of course for the drums (elektron machinedrum) and the bassline (Moog Little Phatty).
A little of gleetchlab in the background just to add a little atmosphere and some glitches here and there...
Mounted and mixed with Ableton Live 8.
Enjoy!"

KORG OASYS 88 OPEN ARCHITECTURE SYNTHESIZER

via this auction

Octatrack acid demo2

YouTube via darenager | January 23, 2011 |
1st demo here
"Running the x0xb0x into the OT and resampling, the acid is due to be released on my digital album in March, this is just a rough demo."

Sunday Night #relaxation - #live #techno not #tvoh or #brea

YouTube via RobbieNerve | January 23, 2011 |

"Another jamsession with the Akai MPC 2500, Elektron Monomachine, Ensoniq Fizmo Rack and Korg Prophecy.
This time more action with the fizmo!"

MFOS Weird Sound Generator Controlling Moog Little Phatty

YouTube via Dovinia | January 23, 2011 |

"Here's a little demo of a WSG controlling my Little Phatty. One of the oscillators in the WSG has been patched out to provide a simple gate signal which is then fed to the gate input on the Phatty. I'm using the "Zany" oscillator (or LFO if you like) from voice A. I also added some LED's to show the LFO rates for both voices."

WSG random sounds

Dovinia | January 23, 2011 |

"Some random sound examples from a WSG I'm selling locally. This one has rate LED's for the LFO's and a gate output. The unit is built in a box of the exact same dimensions as Doepfer's Mini Cases."

casio pop.mp4

See the update in this post.

Module #3 - XR-VCO - Sync+linear FM

YouTube via Gameboygenius | January 23, 2011 |

"The XR-VCO has a nice hard sync. Add to that some FM, and you're ready for phatness."

Module #3 - XR-VCO - Cross-modulations

Gameboygenius | January 23, 2011 |

"In which I try various cross-modulations between the Oakley VC-LFO and my new XR-VCO."

http://www.youtube.com/user/Gameboygenius

Live solo Drum n' Bass: Ableton Live+Novation Launchpad+SPD 30

Live solo Drum n' Bass: Ableton Live+Novation Launchpad+SPD 30- Progtronica: Mad Live Beats! from Nigel Sifantus on Vimeo.

"nigelsifantus.com From No Service Required Records, Progtonica brings you “Introspective A.D.D. Galaxy” A blazing all solo and live produced and deconstructed drum n bass track using Ableton Live, The Novation Launchpad to control the remixing, and a Roland SPD-30 to play the sick drum beats live with additional V-drum triggers. This is the first Progronica production since the recent creation of the ‘Futuristic One Man Dum Ninja Band ‘Pod’”. Become a fan of “progtronica” on Facebook for regular updates and exclusive material and follow the drum ninja himself on twitter at twitter.com/​nsifantus"

Messing around a koto sound (Clavia Nord Modular G2)

YouTube via GruithuisenCityMan | January 23, 2011 |

"My first album is now available at Ruralfaune
( ruralfaune@gmail.com or http://www.myspace.com/disquesruralfaune )
SYNTH018 FREDERIC GERCHAMBEAU "3 Suites" CDR - limited 90 - file under : french avant-garde electronic, GRM music for theoretical minds
////////////////////////////////////////­/////
Hello ! My name is Frederic Gerchambeau. I have made this movie. The music has been made in one take using a Clavia Nord Modular G2. Enjoy !"

AWM Sequencer Test

YouTube via MarkOphidian | January 23, 2011 |

"MakeNoise Rene driving my modular synthesizer. AcidLab Miami (TR-808 clone) makes the beats. Captured in mono on my iPhone. FTW."

Yamaha CS-15D Dual channel Synthesizer

via this auction