Top Secret Optical Sequencer!

Via GetLoFi. That cardboard is ghetto!

Roland SH-101 Grey - New Flickr Shot

via Flickr

Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 - New Flickr Shot

via Flickr

Groove Analogizer

Via Harmnony Central News. Interesting bit is that it can be triggered by analog audio in. Click through for more.

Sound Lab Mini-Synth Makes Make:

Pretty cool. The Sound Lab Mini-Synth DIY made the Make: blog. I wonder if this means it will make the paper Make: magazine as well. I still need to check one out to see how it matches the blog.

Fenix , Modcan/Cynthia Samples

Samples here, in via Kevin via AH. Enjoy.

Also check out his:

Static Insect (music)

Static Insect (studio)


"I've created a profile on acidplanet.com to showcase
some of the snipets I've made over the past few months
using a Fenix, Modcan/Cynthia rig and some FX... and
the one track, "mcnm001" which is Nord Modular, ModCyn
and FX...

streaming WMA versions only for the time being, though
I'll be starting the process of adding mp3s for
download as soon as I send this msg...

anyhoo, here's the link:

http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?songs=413239&T=9264

enjoy (or not),
kevin"

Moog Memorial - Flickr Shots

Make sure to click through to see the whole set.

Flowers for Bob from Keith Emerson and Pur sein!

Moog Voyager, Moogerfooger Tower


Moog's Home


Moog Photo Album

It reads:

"Joy is not in things, it is in us."

"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would not see the beauty of their carvings."

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
1926-2004, Phychiatrist and Author

Virtual Drum Machines Online

In via AH. Wow, check out this list! I can't wait to check these out. There are also a few virtual keyboards including The Rheem Kee Bass, Technosaurus Microcon, and the Mattell Bee Gees Rhythm Machines. Bee Gees. Woot! ; )

List of drum machines:
Boss DR-55
Univox Microrhythmer
Electro-Harmonix Rhyth
Wurlitzer Swing Rhythm 5020
Maestro Rhythm MRQ-1
Oberheim DX
Roland TR-33
Roland TR-330
Seeburg Rhythm Prince
Yamaha MR-10
MXR Computer Rhythm 185
M.P.C. The KIT
Bos CR-110
Korg Mini Pops 35
CONN Min-O-Matic
Electro-Harmonix DRM-16
Electro-Harmonix DRM-15
EMU E-Drum
Rhythm Box Tronix
Rhythm Box Austin
ELI Computer Rhythm CR-7030
Boss DR. PAD (DPR-I)
Boss DR. PAD (DPR-II)
Boss Dr. PAD (DPR-III)
Suzuki RPM-40
Roland TR-66 Rhythm Machine
Siel MDP-40
Seeburg Select-A-Rhythm
Roland PB-3000 Rhythm Plus
Electro-Harmonix Space Drum
Synsonics drums by Mattel
Boss DR-220a
Univox Microrhythmer 8
Boss DR-220e
Yamaha EM-90a
Roland TR-55

KVR

One last post on virtual synths. If you haven't checked out KVR yet, do so. It is the most comprehensive source of software synths I have come accross. A lot of these are free.

PPG Realizer - the first virtual synth

The PPG Realizer was the first digital virtual synth. Pictured below you will see a number of knobs with lines for each making it's way to the green monochrome monitor. In that monitor you might recognize something very familiar - the Moog Minimoog. That's right. The PPG Realizer was to have a model of the Minimoog back in 1986! It was to be the ultimate synth in its ability to host software versions of other synthesizers. Unfortunately it never made it to production and it put PPG out of business. Click here for more and make sure to check out the rest of the site. It is a fantastic PPG resource.

Amazingly ahead of it's time:

"'An impressive exhibit from PPG was the Realizer (about $50,000). This consists of software versions of familiar synthesizer configurations. It allows you to design your own analog, FM digital, and sampled sounds, patch any of the components of one instrument into another instrument, and then sequence or sample the resulting sound. Wolfgang Palm, designer of the Realizer and head of PPG Instruments, earns the quote-of-the-show award for explaining how he designed it: 'I copied the circuit diagrams into software.' No easy task."