Roger Linn Akai MPC 60

via this auction

"ROGER LINN 3.10 UPGRADE.
MAX RAM for 26 seconds, with the ROGER LINN upgrade you can compress the samples for 52 seconds of sampling time.
NEW 3.5 DISK DRIVE."




YouTube Uploaded by WISSJE on May 30, 2011

More Korg Radias Bank Demos

New videos added to this post. I consolidated the videos into one embedded playlist. You can forward through videos you've already seen.

Circuit Bent Casio PT-87 + Eventide Timefactor + The Wizard

YouTube Uploaded by BrianWilliamGreen on May 30, 2011

Circuit Bending A Casio Pt-87


Casio PT-87s on eBay

Temporary Comments Fix

I set Blogger to post comments in the old comment format that brings you to a separate comments page. Personally I prefer comments underneath posts, but the old format is better than nothing. Hopefully the main comments list page will continue to work.

Analog Synthesizer Philosophy - Schneiders Büro [Ken MacBeth, 4ms & More]

YouTube Uploaded by SchneidersBuero on Feb 14, 2011 (date of first video)

"Andreas Schneider explains the philosophy behind the concept of Schneiders Büro and analog synthesizer buisiness."

Playlist:
Analog Synthesizer Philosophy - Schneiders Büro
Schneiders Büro - What is that?
Schneider Buero - Why Analog?
Schneiders Büro - Customers Opinion
Per Salzwedel -Schneiders Buero Analog Synthesizer
Ken MacBeth - Schneiders Buero Analog Synthesizer
Anthony Rother - Schneiders Buero Analog Synthesizer
Thomas Haller - Schneiders Buero Analog Synthesizer
John Price - Schneiders Buero Analog Synthesizer
Jessica Rylan - Schneiders Buero Analog Synthesizer
Dirk Dresselhaus - Schneiders Buero Analog Synthesizer
Analog vs Digital - Schneiders Büro Analog Synthesizer
Schneiders Büro "Introduction" Einführung
Schneiders Büro "Shop View"
Schneidersbuero interview with 4mspedal at tradeshow frankfurt

Maui Media Lab MIDI Controller for iOS

"USB MIDI Keyboard Controller with CoreMIDI Support for the iPad

May 30, 2011, Maui Hawaii; Looking for a dependable and inexpensive way to connect to your MIDI synthesizer? Maui Media Lab's MIDI Controller is a simple, reliable and easy to use USB MIDI Keyboard Controller for the iPad, built with CoreMIDI support. MIDI Controller requires no additional software, the only requirement is a Camera Connection Kit Accessory Adapter.

MIDI Controller gives you 2 octaves of MIDI keypad goodness, complete with full width keys. Just plug in your USB MIDI Synthesizer and play.

Maui Media Lab LLC, a licensed Apple developer based out of Maui, Hawaii, has more than sixty applications available for sale in Apple's iTunes App Store for iPad, iPhone and the iPod Touch in more than eighty international markets. Maui Media Lab LLC applications for iPads, iPhones and iPod Touch devices include games, productivity tools, remote controls, musical instruments and much more.

Maui Media Lab LLC - MIDI Controller - available now exclusively in the iTunes App Store. Made in Maui, Hawaii"

Promo Codes (grab them while you can):
XY6Y76LFXHWP
3EMWT4H9JPL9
YYJTJ3HLEREJ
Y9K3NHTN9AAM

MIDI Controller - Maui Media Lab
iPads on eBay
iPod Touch on eBay

Vintage Breakaway Vocalizer Pitch To Midi Synthesizer

via this auction

"Basically, it's a "toy" Pitch To MIDI converter. You can hum or sing into it and it will trigger the closest note of whichever synthesizer voice you have selected. It also has MIDI out, so you can trigger external MIDI synths as well. There are some built in rhythms and backing but I never really messed with that. These were sold at Sharper Image back in the 80's and now have become increasingly rare. It can run off batteries instead of AC adapter."

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VINTAGE UNIQUE DBK SYNTHESIZER

via this auction

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PAIA GNOME with Original Box

via this auction

"With original box. A very rare Paia and a super fun one w/ a little touch sensitive keyboard.

[from an interview with John Simonton, PAiA Electronics, Inc.]
"While it started out as purely an electronic instrument to make wind sounds, the Gnome turned into one of the smallest, most portable analog synthesizers ever manufactured." [It was also battery powered.]

"'The Gnome started out as an instrument that wasn't going to do anything more than make the sound of wind - not like a flute, but real wind. Ssssshhhhew. That kind of wind, which could be played with a little vinyl controller strip that was part of it. The Gnome was one of those things that just grew. After the instrument that did the wind sound was done, it became pretty apparent that you could stick other components in there and essentially come up with a small synthesizer, a thing that captured the central ideas of voltage-controlled synthesis at the time - Oscillators, filters, transient generators, and so on - but stripped down to the essentials or the core. It was an attempt to get rid of that keyboard that was always by far the single most expensive part of anything we made, by order of magnitude or more.'"

Sequential Circuits Prophet 600

via this auction

Snow Ghost Studio Pics

"Brett drives his 999 and Genoq’s sequencers off his DAW via two of our Sync-Locks.

http://snowghostmusic.com/about/studio"

BEAM FESTIVAL

"24-26 JUNE 2011

Sarah Nicols and her colleagues at Brunel University are hosting their first edition of the BEAM Festival (Brunel Electronic & Analog Music Festival) between 24-26 June 2011. The program features some of the best in today’s experimental electronic music including Tim Exile, Stelarc, Jennifer Walshe, Leafcutter John, Philip Jeck and more. STEIM is a proud partner of the festival, contributing to the concert and workshop programs. Check out the line-up, and participate in the festival!

http://www.beamfestival.com/

Brunel University, Uxbridge, West London, UB8 3PH

BEAM is a high-tech music weekender, an experimental playground of homemade instruments and sonic robots. Featuring three days of performances, installations, discussions and workshops, BEAM explores the physical virtuosity of electronic music; everything at BEAM moves. An international line-up curated for veterans and beginners alike, BEAM takes place at Brunel University, NW London (Metropolitan Line).

Tickets and programme at www.beamfestival.com

Festival pass £25 - ONLY £50 with accommodation until 9 June
Day passes from £10 Sunday, £15 Friday and Saturday Concessions available
Workshop tickets now on sale for Tom Bugs, STEIM & Dirty Electronics

Festival Highlights include:

PERFORMANCES

Stelarc and Jennifer Walshe; Chikashi Miyama (Angry Sparrow); Sarah Angliss; Ryan Jordan; Leafcutter John; Tim Exile; Stephen Cornford; Atau_and_Adam; Alex Nowitz; Philip Jeck; Tim Exile; DJ Sniff; STEIM and more

WORKSHOPS

Build your own WOM (simple electronic noise synth kit ) with Tom Bugs; create a Cracklebox with Daniel Schorno of STEIM; Dirty Electonics with John Richards Plus free workshops: Psychedelic Goggle with Ryan Jordan; AV Micro-Controllers with Chikashi Miyama and Music from Motion with Sarah Angliss.


INSTALLATIONS

Installed work by Aleks Kolkowski, Ray Lee and BEAM OPEN SPACE artists; Sonic Picnic with Paul Whitty & Felicity Ford; SARC's brain-powered sleepover on Saturday night - bring a sleeping bag!

See the website for full programme details and tickets www.beamfestival.com

BEAM Festival is funding by Arts Council England¹s Grants for the Arts."

This one in via brian comnes.

Ghazala iPad 2 Audio Desk

YouTube Uploaded by qrghazala on May 29, 2011

"I've been sneaking around Apple's garden for a long time, dating back to the Apple II motherboard hacked into my code-munching poly-synth of the early '80's. I've modded iMacs, towers, endless accessories, and I've drastically bent mac-centric code with wonderful result. This movie loosens another brick in Apple's wall, and opens the iPad's usability tremendously.

I know I'm not the only individual appreciating the experimental music apps available on the iPad. I'm anxious to support the developers' fine work. But for musicians, the iPad's interface can be frustrating. Do you really want to use dongles, mini-jacks and flimsy wire to get in and out of the thing?

This audio breakout solves these problems, is easy to do, and is inexpensive.

No bending here, just a quick, theory-true hack based upon iPad docking charts I found online. Not a superdock. No competition for the Alesis breakout. But if you want a slick, basic and functional DIY audio desk, on the cheap, check this hack out!

The breakout board is available at kineteka.com

Be sure to see the photos and REVISIONS, and pick-up the printable schematic at my iPad Audio Desk flickr gallery:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/moonbear3325/sets/72157626688587705/

This audio desk is really fun to use. Hacking the apple is always a good thing. I hope you'll enjoy the movie! (Let it download for full-screen 1080).

-Reed Ghazala"

Reed Ghazala is considered the father of circuit bending. See the Ghazala label below for more including the Ghazala Thereglyph.

First look at the Turnado multi-effect tool by Sugar Bytes

First look at the Turnado multi-effect tool by Sugar Bytes from Richard Devine on Vimeo.

"First look at the new Turnado multi-effect tool by Sugar Bytes. Just checking out the interface, and listening through a few presets on one drum loop.


sugar-bytes.com/​content/​products/​Turnado/​index.php?lang=en"

1978 Roland "Groupies Aren't Everything" Ad Featuring SH-5

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

Buchla Music Easel - with friends

flickr By rick604

Memorymoog Synthesizer Model 3458

via this auction

Moog Prodigy

via this auction

SN 3803X ?

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Realistic Moog MG-1 with Origina Box

via this auction

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Roland AMDEK COMPU MUSIC CMU-800

via this auction
"Branded as 'Amdek' but is actual fact exactly the same as the Roland branded cmu-800

'Although Roland were based in Hamamatsu by the early '80s, Kakehashi established the AMDEK Corporation in Osaka. Their main product lines were small effects units and computer monitors manufactured for Roland (but not by Roland) in Taiwan. For a couple of years, the company proved to be surprisingly successful but, as competition mounted, Kakehashi decided not to compete with the large computer companies entering the market, and in 1983 he ceased supplying monitors, simultaneously discontinuing the effects units. But this was not the end for the company. Kakehashi renamed it the 'Roland DG Corporation', and then used it as a vehicle to release a range of the company's own computer and music peripherals.'"

Moog Prodigy Synthesizer

via this auction

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Orgon Systems Energiser Synth Modules

via this auction
"If you are looking at this then you already know about Geoff Waterston and Orgon Systems. Orgon Systems Energiser Synth Modules. These modules are standard Orgon Energiser modules, they were made for me by Geoff (when we used to work together) to make a filter module like a QTron.

They include an:
Envelope Follower
Multimode Filter
LFO
Power Supply Module.

They come in a box made by Orgon Systems but it is a bit tatty, However the modules are immaculate and in full working order.

They sounds produced by the filter are unbelievable, I've never heard a filter sweep so low and high, phenomenal frequency response.

I used these with old analogue synths and it really improves the thinnest sounding mono or polysynth. (you can polish a turd ;) )"

See the Orgon label below for more.

Roland SH-1000

via this auction

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Moog Minimoog model D Analog Synthesizer

via this auction

SN 4846

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Allan Peters Us and Them

via FFFFOUND!, via Peters. The original was up for auction in November as part of Moogfest 2010.

Mandelbrot Drummer Tutorial - Introduction and Making A Conga Rhythm

YouTube Uploaded by MandelbrotDrummer on May 18, 2011

"www.mandelbrotdrummer.com
This video introduces the concepts behind Mandelbrot Drummer and shows you how to use the program to build up a conga rhythm."

Mandelbrot Drummer Tutorial - Make A 5/4 Conga Rhythm

Uploaded by MandelbrotDrummer on May 19, 2011

"www.mandelbrotdrummer.com
This demonstrates building a rhythm using careful placement of drum events and overlaying of sounds."

SILKROAD audiovisual performance

YouTube Uploaded by lukabunic on May 14, 2011

via Percussa
"A couple of days ago we received the video made during the live audiovisual performance of Luka Bunić and Emil Herceg, called “Silkroad“.

It is a very nice video where the AudioCubes are used to control the music as well as the video which is shown during the live performance.

The video part of the performance was done by Luka Bunić. Luka is a graduate from the School of Applied Art and Design and the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He is now professor at an art school in Croatia.

Emil Herceg made the music. Emil has a music production background and worked for several years in well-known music studios. He has now his own studio and music shop (SonarScope), in Varazdin, Croatia."

See video on YouTube for full description.

Korg Radias Bank Demos

YouTube Uploaded by SynthManiaDotCom on May 29, 2011

Playlist:
Korg Radias demos A01-A16
Korg Radias demos B01-B16
Korg Radias demos C01-C16
Korg Radias demos D01-D16
Korg Radias demos E01-E16
Korg Radias demos F01-F16
Korg Radias demos G01-G16
Korg Radias demos H01-H16
Korg Radias demos I01-I16
Korg Radias demos J01-J16
Korg Radias demos K01-K16
Korg Radias demos L01-L16
Korg Radias demos M01-M16
Korg Radias demos N01-N16

SCI TOM Contemporary Cartridge beatzzz

YouTube Uploaded by fuckingharpsichord on May 30, 2011

"The Sci Tom is my alltime favourite digital drummachine mostly because i have the contemporary 'ridge."

SID SELECTION.mp4

YouTube Uploaded by HOX808 on May 30, 2011

"C64 C 64 Sid 6581, SID MOS 6581 CHIP, SIDSTATION, TB 303, MSSIAH MIDI, Dark Energy, Machinedrum, JOMOX T- RESONATOR, TR 808,
AKAI S900 , AKAI S 2800i, MFB STEP 64, METASONIX R 52 TUBEFILTER,
MOOGERFOOGER MIDI MURF, MOOGERFOOGER ANALOG DELAY,
FUTURERETRO FR 777, FUTURERETRO ORB , JOMOX M_BRANE,
JOMOX X-BASE 09 DR WALKER,ELEKTRON, SHERMAN FILTERBANK 1, MOOG, ACID,
CURRENT IMPACT, HOX 808, SIDSELECTION"

Demo: Bontempi System 5 BT-705 / 666 Sounds

YouTube Uploaded by susarom on May 30, 2011

"Demo Song: Susan Rom

Instruments:
Bontempi System 5 BT-705 / 666 Sounds
(Modified with 3,5 mm Jack Line Out)

FX: Bontempi Reverb & VST MDE-X (Delay)

Multitrack Recording (No Midi)"

Synthestra & Tromine

Synthestra - Free VST synth - vstplanet.com

YouTube Uploaded by vstplanet on May 30, 2011

"Synthestra -http://www.vstplanet.com/News/2011/Synthestra_and_Tromine_plugins.htm
Developer: marvinpavilion.ojaru.jp/en/sound/vst.html"

Tromine - Free VST drum synth - vstplanet.com

ether^ra BECAUSE IT IS SHAPELESS

YouTube Uploaded by potterpaint2000 on May 30, 2011

"a Buchla 200e improv, live and looped. http://etherra.blogspot.com/"

ether^ra DETRIUS AND DARKNESS


This Second Sleep - Finger Tones

Uploaded by arthurpainter on May 30, 2011

"http://thissecondsleep.blogspot.com/
A piece of twisted aural architecture built with one finger, thanks to my Buchla 200e as the sole sound/modulation source."

ether^ra TUN-L

Uploaded by potterpaint2000 on May 30, 2011

Sequential Circuits Six-Trak iPad Editor

This one is for the MIDITouch editor. You can find it here. To install it, you email it to yourself and then open it on the iPad. Odd, but it works. Also you will need to enable the Six-Trak to receive MIDI CC messages by holding down the Control section record button followed by 4 in the Select section to the right of Control (see this pic for reference).

I created an iPad Editors label for synth specific editors on the iPad. These are for existing templates. Let me know if I'm missing any and I will post them. Contact email is on the bottom right of the site.


MIDI Touch - Domestic Cat - iTunes
iPads on eBay

Desierto*.*

YouTube Uploaded by pepemogt on May 29, 2011

"Textures and sounds from the desert
Sonidos y texturas del desierto.

Electronic music and video By Pepe Mogt

Nikon D90, Reaktor and Waves [reverbs]"

Korg Polysix Vintage Analog Synthesizer

via this auction

"A knob for everything and no menus! This is the way analog should be, and Korg did it right back in 1981. Nice chorus/phaser too.

This one has a new clone KLM-367 digital control board. The old one had some battery leak damage. The CPU, thermistor, and the Molex connectors were reused from the old board.

Features:
6 Voices
6 Analog Oscillators – Sawtooth, Square/Pulse, modulated Pulse
Suboscillators, -1 or -2 octaves
32 User Patches
LFO – Triangle with delay, targets VCO, VCA or VCF. Separate modulation generator for VCO pulse width.
Envelope Generators – ADSR, one per voice
Filter – Resonant Lowpass with Keyboard tracking and control from envelope
Arpeggiator – Up, Down, Up/Down – 1 octave, 2 octaves or Full, with latch
Effects – Chorus, Phaser, Ensemble
Pitchbend wheel
Mod wheel
Poly/Unison modes
Chord Memory
61-note keyboard
Hold
Tape interface – Save, Load, Verify, Cancel
VCF CV input
Chord Memory Footswitch input
Arpeggiator step trigger input
Audio Outputs – ¼” Mono, Phones
Internal 117v power supply with attached power cord."

SN 388422

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1975 Experimenting with Electronic Music by Robert Brown and Mark Olsen

via this auction

"This book covers the design of the theremin and Bob Moog's electrifying contributions to modern music."

See the seller's other items for more vintage books.

Gibson G101 Keyboard Organ Piano Synthesizer

via this auction

Update: Light My Fire on my Gibson G101 organ and Piano Bass video added to the bottom of this post via Tim Volk on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge.

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Roland Boss Percussion Synthesizer PC-2

via this auction

SOVIET VINTAGE SYNTH AELITA

via this auction

SN 502195

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Four Voice Analog Glitchjam

YouTube Uploaded by dtauvdiodr on May 29, 2011

"Current incarnation of a new synth I'm building: two 741 filters, four NAND gate oscillators (NTE4093) in a modulation chain, and a HT8950 bit destroyer / pitch shifter... considering the addition of a sinewave oscillator and a LM567 noise modulator."

Formant Classic virtual analog synthesizer

YouTube Uploaded by UPROAR24 on Nov 3, 2010

"Formant Classic virtual analog synthesizer a tribute to the legendary Elektor Formant synthesizer. apparently this synthesizer came with a manual in the late 1970's for you to build it yourself, but in this case Eef Fonken
has followed the manual and built it in synthmaker, there is a lot of information on the website about this synth and a copy of the original manual in pdf format for you to read video's and more.
Interested visit http://www.ftec-audio.com/formant-classic/

Please note that formant classic is donationware. so if you are impressed and use the synth a lot, please leave a donation for all the hard work thats been done for us all. but you can still download it for free.

in my case i haven't got a clue where to start to make an exact sound, but you could litterally spend hours fiddling around with the knobs and setting and make some great and crazy sounds. there are presets which you here in this video.

I can't beleive that this vst isn't being talked about more, because it looks like a synthesizer and works like one too. and its been around for a while now and recently updated this year for window 7, i believe ?

a reply from the developer of this classic vst plugin
if interested see below

Thank you for the video demonstration of my softsynt "Formant Classic"
for more information visit, EfoFtec youtube channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/EfoFtec

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