L by FrankieBellani Featuring Analogue Systems French Connection

L by FrankieBellani
via Frankie Bellani on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

"French Connection in action!"

Analogue Systems French Connection Video

French Connection.mov

YouTube Uploaded by AudioCentralMagazine on Apr 8, 2012

"Frankie Bellani is using his French Connection for playing the big Dotcom System 110 Modular Synthesizer"

Analogue Systems French Connection SN 048

via this auction
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French Connection

YouTube Uploaded by peterkeys88 on Aug 31, 2011
"I had the oppurtunity to mess around with an Analogue Systems "French Connection", an imitation of an early electronic instrument called the Ondes Martenot. This controller is CV'd up to an MFB Kraftzwerg. Just a demonstration of some of it's capabilites. I'll make a more musical video soon."

Analogue System Videos by equinoxoz

YouTube via equinoxoz

Playlist:
Analogue Systems rs390 Echo rs100s Moog modular filter Eurorack
Analogue Systems EMS Synthi filter RS500E VCS3 on joystick with Sorcerer
Analogue Systems filters rs100 rs100s rs110 rs120 rs500e
Analogue Systems rs120 & rs440 Modular Synth filter and phaser
Analogue systems RS15 Modular Eurorack Modular Synth EMS Filter
Analogue Systems Reverb rs320 rs310
Analogue Systems modular synth rs95e, EMS Filter and EMS Trapezoid
Pink Floyd On the Run sequence with Analogue Systems Modular Synth
Synthesizer External Processor Analogue Systems RS35 Radiohead synth solo
Radiohead - How to disappear completely and never be found (cover)
A Fm drifting on French connection Ondea Analogue Systems
Flying saucer arrival at Equinoxoz, Six Tracks Analogue System RS15 synths
RS90 & RS100 Modular Synth modules
The Mad Scientist Analogue Lab
Analogue Systems percussion Modular Synthesizer
Analogue Systems rs40 Sample hold modular synth
Analogue Systems percussion test 2 Modular synth
Analogue systems rs230 rs100s Stereo pan modular synth
Analogue Systems rs95e VCO modular synth oscillator

NAMM: Winter NAMM 2010 Pictures via Big City Music

You can find a link to the set on the Big City Music blog here.

Pictured:
Analogue Systems modular with The French Connection Ondes Martenot style controller.
Metasonix D-1000 Vacuum-Tube Drum Machine

Nortec: One Hundred and One Synthesizers in Two Minutes

YouTube via pepemogt
"You can see here at least a knob or slider from Analogue Systems modular, LL Electronics, Metasonix, Cwejman, Mellotron, Sherman, Jomox, Vermona, System 8500 modular, French Connection Martenot-style controller, rs-420 Octave Controller, rs95e VCO, rs370 Polyphonic Harmonic Generator, rs300 CV to MIDI and others.
This is one our many visits to Bigcitymusic, one of our favorite analogue synthesizer store around, we really thanks to Roger and all bigcitymusic family we love you guys.

Pepe and Ramon..
http://www.myspace.com/tijuanasoundma...

BigCityMusic
http://www.bigcitymusic.com"

Persephone Deluxe Ribbon Controller - VEMIA

via this VEMIA auction
"As new, scarcely used at all (used just once for a project) - a hand-made controller, made in France. Ribbon controller with midi/cv and nice internal synth. A whole lot easier than playing the Theremin, French Connection or Ondes Martenot, but producing equally interesting playing modes. This particular model seems to be the deluxe version, with 'crocodile-skin' covering to its suit-case style casing. Really rare, unusual, and out of the ordinary. The serial number implies it is the eight ever made. Here's the blurb from the Eowave website (where it is still available at 1090 euros plus VAT: about 1025 GBP):- 'At the first sight, the Persephone reminds of the first electronic fingerboard instruments developed in the 1920s. But beyond this vintage look, the Persephone allies sensors technology and digital controls to a pure analogue generation of sound. The Persephone musicality will be determined by the way it is played. The Persephone respects the traditional play of the first non-keyboard electronic instruments with the right hand controlling the pitch and the left hand controlling the velocity. The ribbon zone can allow all kinds of play. When scaled, the Persephone can be played like a regular keyboard. Though there are no fixed preset notes with the ribbon, keyboard players will easily find their way. Guitars and bass players will certainly play it like a chord instrument and get sounds that are closed to cello or violin, especially when using vibratos. Jazz players will enjoy slapping the Persephone’s ribbon to get wonderful sonorities. Movie music writers and fans of sci-fi effects will enjoy its bi-dimensional structure, which allows creating eerie sounds very easily. A new fingerboard synthesizer Just like any synthesizer, the Persephone offers a classical synthesis architecture with an oscillator section, a filter section, a modulation section and a LFO section. With its 100% analogue oscillator, the Persephone can generate notes with a range of 10 octaves. Its lower frequencies go from a deep and resonant cello tone to a nearly human voice. On the highest pitches, it can reach very high frequencies. The oscillator waveform can be set between triangle and sawtooth for a more or less brilliant sound. The filter is a 12dB low-pass filter. Its ribbon control surface is pressure and position sensitive. While it requires the most advanced sensor technology and allows all kind of glissando a Theremin or les Ondes Martenot would allow. A scaling potentiometer allows scaling the Persephone’s ribbon from 1, 2, 5 to 10 octaves. The expression key, controlled by an optic sensor, can transmit the slightest vibrations on the key with an accuracy the mechanical systems never had. All the controls are digital. The four play modes - A, B, C and D - offer different hierarchy of control between the pitch, the velocity, a filter modulation and a LFO. Connections are located on the rear side of the front panel and are protected from dust and other source of deterioration by the Persephone suitcase top when not used. The Persephone like a CV/MIDI controller The Persephone has a CV out and a MIDI in/out. With its CV out, it can control any other analogue synthesizers and modular systems. With its MIDI in/out, it can also be used as a MIDI controller, what turns it into a powerful new kind of instrument.'"

AnalogSuicide.com at Big City Music: French Connection!

YouTube via tarabusch
"http://www.analogsuicide.com
http://www.bigcitymusic.com
http://www.analoguesystems.co.uk
Tara Busch leads us through a mini tour of the fabulous Analogue Systems French Connection...a sweet remake of the classic Ondes Martenot."

Radiohead Broadcasts on New Years Eve

via DEAD AIR SPACE:

"Dear Reader

Hope you are having a peaceful christmas.

As you may now have heard we will be broadcasting a pre-recording of some songs and other bits on New Years Eve.. you will be able to view it online from here at midnight new years eve, uk time that is...

radiohead.tv

as well as other places that i am not sure about. this is a wee celebration of the release of the physical manifestation of 'in rainbows'.

yours hopefully
Thom"

Picutured: Johnny Greenwood and his Analog Systems French Connection and Modular. The French Connection is based on the Ondes Martenot.


Recuerdos de la Alhambra played on a French Connection

The above features the French Connection by Stretta (previously posted)

"After watching the Jean Laurendeau Ondes Martenot video on youtube, I was inspired to seek out an Analogue Systems French Connection controller. It so happens that I came across a used unit, so I jumped on it. I received it two days ago and I was eager (perhaps too eager) to contribute a demo of my new toy to youtube. Yes, my intonation is questionable. My apologies.

All the music was generated exclusively with a (primarily Doepfer) modular synthesizer, one monophonic line at a time. This exercise is somewhat of a test balloon for a long form modular project I'm currently sketching out.

Correction: the original piece is Recuerdos de la Alhambra by Francisco Tárrega"

SCREAM 2007: ANALOGLIVE! - Instrument List

Via Peter Grenader on the Plan B list:
"as of Friday all of the ensemble performers have arrived in the Los Angeles area, with Richard coming in from Atlanta and Thighpaulsandra making the long trek from Wales. We begin work early in the week in a sound stage before commencing formal rehearsals in the theater on Thursday afternoon.

As far as the equipment we'll be using, we've put together an orchestra of oscillators: Off the top of my head - three rather large Plan B systems, a Doepfer/Plan B/Livewire system, Arp 2600, two cabinets of Aries, one nine panel and a medium-sized three panel Serge fitted with a custom Plan B model 13, the largest Wiard system in the world, an EMS Synthi-AKS, the EAR Performance system, a Buchla 200e, Nord Modular, a Novation, a Waldorf Wave, two tcelectronic reverbs (a 2000 and 60000), tons of delays and a Yamaha SPX90. Controller include a C-Thru-Music Axis, a Continuum Fingerboard, a Doepfer PK88 and MAQ 16/3, Roland A-33, a Fatar workstation and an Analogue Systems French Connection.

Along with a wall of effect racks, Chas Smith will be bringing two of his own instruments: the Guitarilla and the Towers. Guitarzilla is a steel guitar made of machined aluminum and welded titanium tubing. It has a 12 string neck tuned to a diatonic scale and an 8-string bass neck. It is also fitted with a small waterless Waterphone-type instrument which is bowed. The Towers are eight 1 1/4" diameter grade 9 titanium rods with titanium plates welded on the ends which are both bowed and struck with a variety of mallets. The longest Tower is 109", standing over 10 feet tall in it's hanger, and the shortest is 55". They have been cut to form a scale which can be obliterated by the complexity of the sounds that the plates generate. They're sonically and visually majestic, bordering on astonishing. Go here for a photo:

http://www.ear-group.net/towers.jpg (pictured)

We will be performing six pieces, one each from the six players, all of which performed by the ensemble - it's not a series of solo performances. Three of the pieces will be world premiers."

click here for more info on the event.

Blinken Park

YouTube via stretta.
"A demonstration video of my 'Blinken Park' Max patch which produces a random LED pattern on the monome 256 and MIDI notes."
Music application starts about 1:40 into it. Note the Analogue Systems French Connection based on the Ondes Martenot.

Recuerdos de la Alhambra played on a French Connection

YouTube via stretta.
"After watching the Jean Laurendeau Ondes Martenot video on youtube, I was inspired to seek out an Analogue Systems French Connection controller. It so happens that I came across a used unit, so I jumped on it. I received it two days ago and I was eager (perhaps too eager) to contribute a demo of my new toy to youtube. Yes, my intonation is questionable. My apologies.

All the music was generated exclusively with a (primarily Doepfer) modular synthesizer, one monophonic line at a time. This exercise is somewhat of a test balloon for a long form modular project I'm currently sketching out."

Jean Laurendeau and the Ondes Martenot

YouTube via unidaddy. Another great vid found by AudioLemon.
BTW, I just added AudioLemon to my Blogroll on the right.
For a current approximation of the keyboard with ring check out the Analogue Systems French Connection.