"Interactive robotic music instrument/installation. Transparent plastic pipe of 2 meters long with passive magnet ball and magnetic field detectors inside. Each sensor triggers different sound synthesis algorithms. Can be controlled wireless using cellphone gyroscope/accelerometer, or using custom controllers.
- servo motors
- arduino
- reed switches
- magnet
- pure data
"Robert Becker has been making steady progress (in his spare time) on his new Optigan/Orchestron disc player, which we hope will be put into production at some point. There's still lots of work to be done, bugs to iron out, things to be fine-tuned, code to be optimized, etc, but it's currently playable (via MIDI), and the basic sound quality is quite good, so we figured we'd post a few informal/noodly sound clips of it in action. These are direct/unprocessed recordings from the unit, some featuring the onboard reverb. Sorry, no live video of it being played at this time. We don't cover ALL the features/functions in these sound demos, as some of them aren't quite working yet, but you can get an idea from looking at the photos what sort of things it will be able to do. Also, currently we cannot field any requests for pricing/availability, so please don't ask! We know alot of you will be interested in obtaining of one these, but at this time we simply can't give any estimates on that front."
Like an optical record player! Which, essentially the Optigan was/is.
This is the cable version of the 2HP uMIDI2CVlite module.
Same cheap price, different format.
It adds a simple USB-MIDI2CV to your eurorack or analog synth.
Features:
One Pitch CV output 1volt/octave, 5 octaves (C2-C7)
One Gate output key on/off
2x Drum trigger outputs
USB-HID compliant, no driver required
1 Micro-USB input for MIDI and power
Available now for $19 including shipping."
"I’ve recently bought a used Roland SH-01 GAIA, and try to make the famous sound of Pink Floyd “On the run” from 'Dark side of the moon'.
This settings are based on a video by Gattobus https://youtu.be/mR_8YKC1w-w .Thank you for sharing.
It’s a little bit long, so have patience .
I can send the file with the settings for the freeware GAIA tools by Grauw (http://www.grauw.nl/projects/gaia-tool/) so you can load it into your GAIA ,
so write me an email at serpa59@gmail.com and i’ll send you.
The music is property of Pink Floyd.
Thanks for watching."
"A Live Synth Jam journey into some bass sequencer lines from the Roland SE-02 monophonic synthesizer combined with some deep bass sounds from the ARP 2600 and Korg Volca Keys. The music is my blend of IDM, Ambient and Electronica with some traces of Berlin School of Electronic Music.
Here’s the full gear list:
Roland SE-02 (Studio Electronics), ARP 2600 with Arturia Keystep Controller, Korg M50, Arturia Microbrute, Roland Vocoder VP-330, Roland JD-Xi, Roland JX-3P, Akai MPK25 controlling Macbook with Logic Pro, Strymon BigSky, Strymon Timeline, Zoom MS-70CDR, Boss BX-600 mixer, MOTU Micro Lite USB Midi Interface, Soundcraft Signature 22 MTK."
"Backstage footage with Kebu and his live rig during a Roland promotional tour at 4sound, Stockholm.
Many of his analog synthesizers from Korg and Moog have been temporarily replaced with modern Roland virtual analog and analog synths.
With kind permission of Kebu I will share some moments from his live concert.
The gear list is below, well some of it anyway.
Roland alpha juno 1
Roland alpha juno 2
Roland juno 60
Roland jd-xa
Roland system 8
Roland boutique
Roland sh-01
Roland tr-8
Roland jx-8p
Roland jx8p
Akai mpc"
"For those who don't have much time I take a look at my Top 3 tips things for making your Korg Monologue! Let me know what you think."
The drum machine trick is pretty cool. The third oscillator at the beginning of course is filter tracking with self oscillation. It's a trick you can do on my other synths, however you are stuck with high resonance in the patch, so it's not the equivalent of a separate oscillator of course. Still useful though.
Jörgi's Reparaturen: Roland D-550 Display Reparatur
Published on Nov 13, 2017 Jörg Schaaf
"In diesem Video lernen Sie zum einen, wie man die Display-Leuchtfolie des Original-Displays beim Roland D-550 auswechselt und zum anderen, wie Sie das Original Display gegen ein moderneres Äquivalent mit LED Hintergrundbeleuchtung austauschen.
Bitte beachten Sie - im Inneren des D-550 liegen bei nicht abgezogenen Netzstecker an manchen Komponenten 220 V an. Eine Berührung dieser Komponenten im laufenden Betrieb ist lebensgefährlich. Ziehen Sie den Stecker von daher immer ab, wenn Sie nicht gerade einen Funktionstest durchführen. Sollten Sie noch nie einen Lötkolben benutzt haben, kann ich den Umbau nicht empfehlen. Ich übernehme keinerlei Gewährleistung für den Erfolg einer nach dieser Anleitung durchgeführten Reparatur. Das Gerät kann bei fehlerhaftem Umbau zerstört werden! Wenn Sie sich die Reparatur nicht zutrauen, sollten Sie die Finger davon lassen."
"On October 28th, 2017, Patrick O' Brien from Encino, CA played a live modular set for Binary Society in Vinyl Dreams at Robotspeak's Annual Synth Meet commemorating their 15 Year Anniversary in San Francisco. Live visual performance by Tim Thompson and Bill Wiatroski. Available for viewing in UHD 4K. For more info visit https://www.youtube.com/obrienmedia and binarysv.com"
"I took advantage of the amazing features of Expressive E TOUCHE' to play a physical model recreation of a classic cello built with my eurorack modular synthesizer.
I used Karplus/strong technique: a noise source through an analog BBD delay used as a resonator.
The sound may not be perfect but the sensitivity of this controller make it feel so real. :-)
You can find the patch description at the end of the video.
I hope you like it!"
And the original from the Studio Ghibli Hayao Miyazaki film My Neighbor Totoro. If you haven't seen it, make a point to watch it this weekend! Or as soon as you can. :) It's a great film along with all of Miyazaki's movies. Pure magic. It's like taking a vacation from all the burdens in life.
The latest video featuring the Tao Mata Band. Click here to bring up all posts in the series.
"The musical instruments and robot devices used in this episode are:
Rakit Drum synth (Tone Drumsynth), Boss HC-2 (Clap), Arturia BeatStep pro, Coron Rockaku-kun Drum synth (BD+Noise), DIY Glockenspiel, Sabian cymbals, Electro Harmonix Mini-Synthesizer (Bass Synth), Alesis Mod-Fx, TC-Electronics Hall of Fame, Korg mini Kaosspad, Mackie 1402 VLZ, Arduino UNO, Novation Launchpad, Adafruit motor shield."
"Time for a new episode of Toa Mata Band, this one is called 'Orkestrionicle'.
The Orchestrions were mechanic musical instruments that were developed in Germany in the early XIX century that would automatically play music and were designed to sound like an orchestra.
These music machineries were made of a complex system of gears, pulley and levers which were operated by a large pinned cylinder or by a piano roll*.
Their sound was usually produced by pipes, percussion instruments, but many orchestrions contained a piano player as well.
The 6th episode of Toa Mata Band is inspired by these amazing retro music machines, by adding to the LEGO® Bionicle robotic orchestra some acoustic percussions and a vintage mono synthesizer which creates (with help of a bunch of solenoids, robot arm and a MIDI step sequencer) a fully analogue electroacoustic ensemble.
This piece is the results of a live-robotics set recording, mastered in post production.
Giuseppe Acito (Opificio sonico)
:: Credits:
Making and Music: Giuseppe Acito
Camera: Maryanica
Performed: Toa Mata Band
The performance was recorded in October 2017.
*The PIANO ROLL is a punched paper roll that contains the note sequence arranged in length, height and time along the duration of the song.
It can be replaced and swapped for another roll with a different song."
"Rakit Drum Synth Kit based on the Amdek PCK-100 & Boss PC-2.
A DIY drum synth that is made almost entirely from PCBs and has only 2 wires making for a tidy build. Nicely interfaces with sequencers and other trigger/CV sources."
"Available as a kit or a fully made unit, the Rakit Drum Synth is based on the (now rare) Boss PC-2/AMDEK PCK-100 percussion synthesizer. The sounds produced by the synth are not limited to what you would expect to associate with drum sounds and can vary from big bass drums to tapping on glass to UFO space drum-wobbly things! Not only does this Drum Synth do sonic justice to the original but we have also put our own spin on it with extra modifications including:
"Our disintegrated cracklebox kit is inspired by Michel Waisvisz’s Cracklebox and his use (and abuse) of one of the earliest examples of an integrated operational amplifier. The original used the LM709, an old (and obsolete) chip by today’s standards. So in our kit we have effectively taken the integrated circuit of the operational amplifier and dis-integrated it, allowing it to live on forever in kit form.
What Is A Cracklebox?
The disintegrated cracklebox is a noise maker type instrument where the player becomes part of the circuit by interacting with the touchpads. Experimentation really is key to getting the most out of it, using fingers spread over multiple touchpads to get new, interesting sounds."
"It's actually one bass sound that I play around with and another bass sound at the end. First bass sound has effects over it but even without effects it sounds very thick.This synth is lots of fun !!"
"Volca Bass playing the chords being sequenced by Circuit. Volca Dample and Keys complete the set up. Recorded in AudioShare via a Behringer Xenyx mixer and mastered in Final Touch."
"Tom Darom is an Israeli producer, composer and keyboardist based in Tel Aviv, Israel. She tours and records with the Balkan Beat Box as keyboardist and programmer, is A&R/creative director for APE Records, and is also a composer for TV, film, and media. Her recent work, Shadow of Truth, is a 4-part documentary on Netflix. She received the DocAviv Best Original Music award in 2016 for the documentary Death in the Terminal. The movie also won the Best Israeli Film award.
“I live in an environment that is a melting pot of cultures, rhythms, religions, languages, and conflict. This obviously filters into the art that’s produced here. Many of my scores cover these issues. Much of the music I produce, and artists I work with are an intricate weave of eastern and western influences. Our generation is fortunate to be able to search for what defines our complex identity. From this a new, hybrid middle-eastern sound has been born.
We chatted with Tom about how she’s using the Prophet-6."
"Spring reverb is a strange, unpredictable thing. It’s a real electromechanical effect; boingy metal springs being jiggled by a little coil, with the jiggling captured by another coil at the far end. Compared with smooth, reliable software, it can sometimes be frustrating and fiddly to use, but nothing else sounds the same.
In 1935, Laurens Hammond was developing and selling his Hammond Organ. He’d brought the church organ into the living room, but found they sounded a bit underwhelming without the reverberation of the hall. He discovered that Bell Labs had created an artificial delay device to simulate long-distance calls, using wire and springs. He re-purposed and tweaked the technology to create the first artificial reverberation unit. At first, they were huge."
"Took off the display plastic piece over the screen as it got a scratched. If you would like to put it back on it’s super easy. Easy to do so but I think it looks better without."
"Octave-Plateau Cat SRM-I Synthesizer - 1976 - Serviced & Restored Early version Octave Cat. The entire signal path is purely discreet! Uses CA3080 Filter. Recently serviced by Duane R. Balvage of Synth Apothecary. Near mint condition. Clean. Fully functional. Smooth sliders, pots and switches. Original Moog like knobs."
"original owner instrument. purchased around 1980 from Sam Ash Music Store in New York.
this is the SRM model which is capable of duophonic play (2 notes played simultaneously). duophonic play capability was an improvement over the original pre-SRM model.
instrument comes with a hard carrying case which was custom made for this instrument.
problems I am aware of: all keys on the keyboard result in the same tone. the tone can however be manipulated and changed with the knobs and sliders. oscillator 1 appears to not be working. these problems may or may not be resolved with a calibration of the unit, or they may require more to fix."
Hopefully someone will get this one back to full functionality.
"On November 10th 2017 I had the privilege to play at 'Neural a night of Music and Film ' this is the video that was created by Raven Blue to accompany my live music set.
I ended up playing my music to match the excellent video , so this is the soundboard recording synched to the video that was behind me on a 16 foot by 9 foot projection screen
I hope you enjoy watching and listening to this as much as I did playing it
thanks to raven Blue for the video , and Dakota Quinn for the soundwork
gear used:
Elektron analog 4
Clavia Nord Micromodular
Strymon Bigsky
Get this recording and more live sets/releases at https://robertt.bandcamp.com/"
"This is a short jam I recorded when testing Vessek (the yet unreleased Vult oscillator). Vessek is blurred because still looks crappy and is unfinished."
"Prolific pop producer Jack Antonoff is a wellspring of creative output. When he’s not penning hits for Lorde, Taylor Swift or Carly Rae Jepsen, he can be found fronting his band Bleachers or as the lead guitarist for the Grammy-award-winning band Fun.
In this video, Jack Antonoff steps into the Moog Sound Lab to perform a stripped-down and switched-on version of the song “All of My Heroes” from Bleachers’ 2017 album 'Gone Now'."
"Nothing major just some Mother 32 Freestyle over a pad patch from Omnisphere called "Across the sky". I use the internal sequencer and play a couple of notes on the M32 keyboard. https://remixsample.bandcamp.com/albu...
Used in this video:
Moog Mother 32
Omnisphere
Valhalla Shimmer Reverb
Soundtoys Crystalizer (hear it @ 03:07)
I modulate the pitch with the midi keyboard under my desk. :D"
"With firmware update v.3.8 (R1) Shuttle Control supports Multidimensional Polyphonic Expression – or MPE.
Such amount of outputs is beneficiary to send an immense amount of controls from Roli Seaboard Rise 25, which we explain in the video (so you can see all outputs in action).
http://firmware.endorphin.es
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The general idea behind the MPE is an updated MIDI protocol in which every voice has its own MIDI channel with the multi-dimensional controls.
There is a lot of control from various kinaesthetic actions which we daisy chained to two Shuttle Controls to increase the overall amount of CV outputs up to 32. Every column of 8 jacks logically correspond to each voice, and modules correspond to the same voices in an allocation grid: first one, second, third and fourth. So far, each Shuttle handles two voices.
Every pressed key on Seaboard is a voice that generates the following MIDI data:
- Note translated into 1 volt per octave Pitch CV on the separate MIDI channel.
- Horizontal movement of the finger on the key or wave surface defines a pitch bender: X-axis control
- Z-axis (or depth) corresponds to channel aftertouch - how much finger pressure is applied to the key.
- Third dimensional Y–axis is vertical position of the finger on each key. By default it is assigned on CC number 74 and is called “timbre”.
- Note on/off and velocity as on a usual MIDI keyboard
Every one of the actions takes is 4 times, since we have four voices.
"Original Memorymoog+ with a Super Flight ATA Road Case that the synth will be shipped in.
Second Owner, purchased from a church in the early 90's. This has been in climate-controlled storage since about 2001."
"This synth is like a deluxe Roland SH-2000 preset, mono synth.
Works great.
The scan of the ad is from March 1979 Contemporary Keyboard magazine. So, even though the original Roland SH-2000 is from the mid-1970's. The Multivox MX-880 was sold beginning in 1979.
The Multivox MX-880 is almost exactly the same as the Roland SH-2000. But, the extra oscillator is what makes this synth better than the SH-2000. You can choose any frequency within the range (3rd, 5th, 6th, octave or any frequency in between) or select Unison for a thicker/phased sound.
Voices: Tuba, Trombone, French Horn, Trumpet, Saxophone, Clarinet, Accordion, Bassoon, Oboe, Flute, Song Whistle, Singing Voice, Cello, Violin, Bass Guitar, Hawaiian Guitar, Banjo, Fuzz Guitar 1, Fuzz Guitar 2, Harpsichord, Piano, Xylophone, Vibraphone, Percolate (called Pop Corn on Roland SH-2000), Space Reed, Outer Space (called Planet on Roland SH-2000), Frogman, Alley Cat (called Funny Cat on Roland SH-2000), Ring Modulator (may be the same as Growl Wow on Roland SH-2000), Wind.
The MX-2000 name is covered with an MX-880 sticker on the front. This was probably due to a complaint from Roland because it looks too similar."
