CMS Modular

Just a nice CMS Modular shot that came up in my random picture viewer.

More Minimi Madness

Minimi123, aka 123synthland, that is. Title link takes you to his hord of gear for sale. Sheesh. Hopefully he will still be around when I have that kind of cash to burn. The one good thing about premium priced dealer gear is you can usually be relatively sure you will get what you pay for. Now if I can only convince minimi to give me this Oberheim FVS for plugging his auctions... ; ) I'll be the first to let you know if it ever happens.

Moog Song Producer

Update: Interesting comment in from Bohus Blahut:
"These aren't actually rare at all. I've seen them on Ebay dozens of times. I think that I got mine for $30 a few years back. I haven't used it yet (know how that feels?), but it is an amazing package. The thing that wouod make it even more amazing is if Moog had ever come out with the device mentioned in the manual; an analog sound module. How hip would that be?"

That would be pretty hip. : )

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Interesting bit of gear up on the *bay. Title link takes you the auction pictures saved for posterity. I found this via the C64 Blog. Pretty interesting piece.



Notes from the auction:
A super-rare Moog Song Producer MIDI and Trigger interface for the Commodore 64, with sequencing and MIDI-processing software. The Moog Song Producer boasts:

· 1 MIDI in

· 1 MIDI thru

· 4 (!) MIDI outs

· 8 drum trigger outs

· 2 Footswitch ins

· 1 Clock/sync in

· 1 Clock/sync out

Wow! That means the Song Producer’s capable of interfacing your MIDI and pre-MIDI gear. What’s most amazing about this package, though, is that it’s mint in box. Just check out the photos. It comes complete, with:

· Song Producer hardware interface

· Connection cable (it plugs into the Commodore 64’s expansion port)

· Ring-bound manual with software disk

· Original warranty card

· Technical service information leaflet (includes schematic, picture of circuit-board layout and complete parts-list)

· Quick-start/introductory guide

· Service-locations poster/leaflet

· Original quality-control slip (yes, it passed!)

In its condition (immaculate), the Moog Song Producer simply makes a great piece of memorabilia (as one person said: “I cannot imagine anything with a higher coolness factor: Something for the Commodore 64 with the Moog logo.”), but I used it with its supplied software. Perhaps most excitingly, though, is the possibility that – with the detailed technical information included – a competent C64 programmer could use it to control the C64’s SID chip through MIDI, as it just runs on a stock Commodore with a stock interface (the cartridge – ‘expansion’ – port).

Accentor Tool 1

At first I thought this provided the accent along with the distortion, but I beleive it's only distortion. If anyone knows please feel free to comment. It is a damn good distortion I must say. Rumor has it was designed to specifically give that 303 sound. Title link takes you to more including video and samples.

Hartmann

Looks like the news is making its rounds. I heard they were running into trouble via AH earlier today. I was going to post, but I didn't want to spread rumors. Well, the news is flying everywhere including Music Thing and Electro-Music.com. Title link takes you to more on Electro-Music. It's not over yet, but it doesn't look good.

Cyril Lance - Head of Moog Engineering

Music Thing has a post up on Moog's new head of engineering, Cyril Lance. Bob Moog's technology is the foundation of Moog. His ladder filter the soul of the Moog sound. Let's hope Moog keeps going strong in Bob's honor.

Kill Bunz - New Flickr Shots

Nice. My new wallpaper. Title link takes you a bigger shot and more.

Second Gen NeKo

Looks like the Second Gen NeKo made Gizmodo. Title link takes you there. I haven't seen a shot of it yet. Looks impressive.

Monome's MIDIBox SID

The C64 Sid. Love the bread-box wood and the yellow smiley. : )



"MIDIbox SID is a non-commercial & "DIY-only" project. Beside of the common SID functions (three oscillators, triangle/saw/pulse/noise and mixed waveforms, independent envelope generators for the amplitudes, sync & ringmodulation, 12db multistate low/band/highpass/notch filter)"

Monome's Synth Toaster

Yep. A synth toaster. : ). Via GetLoFi.