See you Sunday!

Well, I will be officially offline for the weekend in a few minutes. Every now and then you just have to do it. : ) I'll be back online Sunday. Have a synthtacular weekend! Sorry for the cheese. Every now and then you just have to do it. ; )

Hardcore Gear Porn Friday at Analog Industries

Analog Industries just announced Harcore Gear Porn Friday. Very cool.

Absolute Beauty

Check out these beautiful shots of the Orange Waldorf XTK and Yellow Waldorf Q from moose. Note the wood on the Q. He stained it a purple hue. Click here for more shots and close ups on the hue. Absolutely gorgeous. Man I miss Waldorf...

More OB-Mx Samples and Pics

Two more samples and some pics here. Me want one.

MOTM Madness - Featuring Yamaha GX1 Filter clone

The Yamaha GX1 was the great behemoth that led to the more affordable Yamaha CS80. The sweeping brass sounds in Blade Runner are the CS80 courtesy of Vangelis. One thing that absolutely makes the CS80 is the character of the filter. It is extremely distinct and offers a character to the CS series sound that is unmistakably unique. It's a gorgeous sounding filter and the MOTM-485 diode filter captures it. You can hear a bit of it in the demo. I asked Paul about the demo sounding a bit out of tune and he said that's just Dave Wright. Good enough for me. Enjoy. : )

Make sure to check out other MOTM demos via http://www.synthtech.com/news.html.

Track module listing from the man behind MOTM himself:

http://www.carrionsound.com/485plasticworld.mp3

- five tracks in multitrack
- one track - bassline - vco-485vcf-mixer-soundcard (midi 2 cv controlled)
- one track - fast bassline - vco - 485vcf-mixer-soundcard (midi 2 cv w/ gate on burst generator to adsr to vcf)
- one track - drone - vco-time machine-490vcf(w/ lfo on it) -mixer-soundcard
- one track - drone - vco-infinet melody generator-phaser-mixer-soundcard
- one track - mpc1000 w/ beats - 485 vcf (w/ hand tweaking) - to soundcard - to mixer
- MOTM-485 diode filter based on the Yamaha GX-1 circuitry (mainly) + other MOTM goodness

Paul S.

Update:
I was trying to figure out a good way to describe the GX1/CS80 filter. I wanted to say nasal, but not quite. I just realized how much is sounds like processing sounds through a swarm of buzzing bees. I also was trying to think of what this particular track reminded me of and realized it's Ultravox. Like something that could have been on a b-side from the Rage in Eden days.

Analog Table Sequencer

Found this on Music Thing. Would be fun for playing shots. Of course you'd have to convince yourself that any spilt booze ads character to the table.

Update: unfortunately the image is gone for this one.

Mmmm.... Magic Mushroom

Here's another nice shot recently added to Flickr. Made this one my wallpaper for now.

Update: unfortunately the flickr image for this one is gone.

Blacet Improbability Drive

In via Synthtopia.

- Analog White Noise
- Digital Noise with VC Level and Width (Window Comparator)
- VC BP or LP Filter
- Noise Mixer with Output
- VC Sample Hold Clock
- External S/H Clock Input
- Built in Quantizer
- Separate White, Digital, S/H, and Quantized Outputs

Oberheim OB-Mx Sound Samples!!!

Finally found me some OB-Mx sound samples [on Aliens Project]. Credit goes to Yahoo! and their new audio search.

Going through them now. Some interesting FX sounds so far.

Vengeance Sound Samples

Just discovered this site. They sell soundsets for various synths and have great (long and varied) demos online.

Synths currently listed:

- Access Virus - all models
- reFX Vanguard VST
- DiscoDSPs Discovery (Nord Lead 2 emulation)
- Native Instruments Pro 53
- Analog Essentials Powercore01
- Novation V-Station
- Waldorf Q
- JP 8000/8080
- Yamaha CS6x