Goth vs. Industrial

Not really synth, but I found these beauties on the Metropolitan Museum of Art website . Both are pianos. Click through for more. Man, I need a bigger studio.

You pick. I personally was into both at one time or another, so... ; )

Update: a bit Steampunk as well.

Oberheim Four Voice Hornimam Museum - New Flickr Shot

via Flickr

This is a beauty. Apparently this was taken at the Hornimam Museum in London.

Moog Moogerfooger Heaven - New Flickr Shot

via Flickr

Moogerfoogers, Theramin, Elektron Machinedrum and Alesis Andromeda.

Carbon111's Serge Modular Page

And Carbon111 has yet another dedicated page! Big surprise! : ) This one is on the Serge Modular. Some great info and more shots after the click.

Minimoog Voyager Reveiw

An oldie but a goodie. If you haven't checked out the Sound on Sound review of the Minimoog Voyager. Check it out. The reason I posted this is because the whole Voyager vs. original Minimoog cropped it's ugly head again. This review claims the argument is absurd and the Voyager is everything a Minimoog is and more. It also calls out an interesting point in that many original Minimoogs can sound different from each other. I've heard this numerous times before. The point is, if Minimoogs sound subtly different from each other than the base line of comparison is more of a blanket than a fine point. The Voyager is a Minimoog. Bob said so. : )

Korg LE - New Flickr Shot

Korg LE shot in via Flickr. Caption reads "My Korg, introducing Kilroy." I love that. Reminds me of Mr. Robato, in a good way. Very, very cool.

Virtual Analog vs. Analog showdown

Well maybe not an official showdown, but keyboards.de has a bunch of A/Bs of the same patches played with the same notes between a handful of VAs and their Analogs. I don't think I've ever seen a list this comprehensive before.

Synths A/B'ed:

- Arturia CS-80V vs. Yamaha CS-80
- Arturia Minimoog V vs. Moog Minimoog
- Audiorealism Bassline vs. Roland TB-303
- Creamware Minimax vs. Moog Minimoog
- Creamware Prodyssey vs. Arp Odyssey
- Creamware Pro One vs. Sequential Circuits Pro-One
- GMedia impOSCar vs. OSC OSCar
- GMedia Odity vs. Arp Odyssey
- Korg Legacy Polysix vs. Korg Polysix
- Native Instruments FM7 vs. Yamaha DX7
- Native Instruments Pro53 vs. Sequential Circuits Prophet 10
- Roland VariOS-303 vs. Roland TB-303
- Roland VariOS-8 vs. Roland Jupiter 8
- Waldorf PPG vs. PPG Wave 2.2

Yowsa! Guess what I'll be doing tonight. Note the Pro54 vs. Prophet 10, poor guys didn't have a Prophet 5 to compare it to. ; )

BTW, credit goes to Colin for finding this site. Amazing find!

Jomox - Jayemsonic Resonator Neuronium

The resonator has been making it's rounds accross blogs lately including Gizmodo of all places. The first 20 units are sold out and have been delivered. The second run is almost complete. Click here for more on Jomox's Jürgen Michaelis Resonator Neuronium. What makes the Neuronium unique is its six analog resonant neurons. Not sure how it works, but looking at the knobs and the description it seems like some sort of FM and mixing accross the six units using the six knobs. Interesting stuff.

"We have 6 neurons with 6x6 = 36 net connections for one parameter. In order that summation and FM is connected, we have 2x36 = 72 net connections with individual pots for each node."

Elka Synthex Electric Harp Samples

Some Elka Synthex samples of the Electric Harp patch made famous by Jean Michel Jarre.

G0_Lharp.wav
G1_Lharp.wav
G2_Lharp.wav
G3_Lharp.wav
C0_Lharp.wav
C1_Lharp.wav
C2_Lharp.wav
C3_Lharp.wav

Update: unfortunately these are gone. If anyone knows where to find them again, feel free to leave a comment.

Waldorf XT Resource Page

Carbon111 left this gem in the comments section of the Some Waldorf Resources post. It's an amazingly rich site with tons of information on the Waldorf XT and Microwave II including the users manual for each, charts of the wavetables, workshops, links to other sites, pictures and much, much more. Not surprising as the site is also home to the DSI Evolver and Polyevolver resource page. Thanks Carbon111! BTW, how many of these resource sites do you have?! : ) You need to add a link to the evolver page and any others to your main page.