Question for you

Notice the Google Search box on the right frame? Now take a look at it on SparkleTrain. Which do you prefer for this site? I figure the box on top could be useful, but I haven't done it up until now because I thought it looked a little bulky and took away from the site. Also the whole ads thing, but now I'm having second thoughts. Please post your comments via the comment link below. Thanks! : )

8 Famicons and a 606

Check out this shot of a Roland TR-606 controlling 8 Nintendo Famicons (Japanese version of the NES). Ran into this on this VSE thread. Title link takes you to a post on Kotaku with a link to 6955's site and MP3s. 6955 is a Canadian born Nintendo artist residing in Japan. Oddly, I couldn't find the shot on the 6955 site.

How to make an HPF from an LPF

No title link. Mike Kent sent this to AH. He gave me the ok to post this. I figured others not on AH might like to try it.

"You can probably get a High Pass Filter or Band Pass Filter type of effect
from a modular system that only has a Low Pass Filter. You may need to make
one special patch cable, with its wires crossed to switch the polarity, for
it if your modular doesn't have a way to get reverse polarity outputs.

If you send a signal into a low pass filter and then mix it back with the
original signal with reverse polarity, you can emulate a High Pass Filter.

______ ________
| |--Polarity Switch--->| |
|VCO | _______ | MIX |---------->
|____|---->| LPF |-------->|______|
|_____|

Or:

______ ______ ________
|VCO |--->| |--Polarity Switch--->| |
|____| |MIX | _______ | MIX |---------->
|VCO |--->|____|---->| LPF |-------->|______|
|____| |_____|

The mix levels after the filter are critical. This depends on phase
alignment to cancel frequencies below the LPF's cutoff point. Filters
generally mess with phase so this may not work well on some modules.
Resonance can mess things up, too. But it does work on many systems.

Add another LPF on the end of that chain to get a Band Pass Filter with
variable width (the difference between the cutoff of the 2 filters). Drive
both filters from a common EG to get typical BP sweep sounds.

______ ______ ________
|VCO |--->| |--Polarity Switch-->| | _______
|____| |MIX | _______ | MIX |--->| LPF |--->
|VCO |--->|____|---->| LPF |------->|______| |_____|
|____| |_____|


Regards,
Mike."

Yamaha SY-2 Demo

Via this thread on VSE. That is one thick sounding synth.

Image via this post on the synth used for the track.

Corky Burger's Modular Mayhem Pt. 2

Update to Corky's Modular. If you missed my previous post on him, he's creating a Synthesizers.com modular and sharing the experience vie the ONE 40 FIVE store. Title link takes you to his latest updated including a nice sound sample.

Roland SH-101 - New Flickr Shot

It's interesting. I always wanted a Red SH-101 followed by a blue then grey, but the grey is beginning to look better to me every day. I wonder how the inspiration between colors would differ.

Moog Technical Manual and D.C. systems Mystery Module

A couple of shots in via this auction. Anyone know what that module is?

Juno Panel - New Flickr Shot

Physical Modeling Added to Korg OASYS

Update: Looks like Peter Kirn is on a Korg roll: http://www.createdigitalmusic.com. Make sure to check out the O'Reilly article on what went into the OASYS.

Via Create Digital Music. Title link takes you there.

MUX - Damn Ravers

I haven't been to a Rave in about a decade. What happened to all the Cat in the Hat hats?! : ) Joking aside, this is pretty damn bad-ass. Really starts to kick when the vocoder bit comes in. Gotta love the domo-kun shirt. In via AH.



Details:

"Holas,

I recently played a show in the Vancouver Planetarium, and am lucky
enough to have friends willing to spend the show manning cameras. :)
The same friends taught me how to do basic video editing, and as a
result, I now have a great little promo video for my live act. My music
is thumping acidic party stuff, suitable for late-night dance parties.

Analogue content: Roland SH-101, Waldorf Pulse+, samples from modified
Simmons SDS-800 and SDS-9, multiple stompboxes and rackmount filters, no
laptop.

AH-suitable digital content: Nord Micro Modular, Korg ER-1.

Non-suitable digital content: um, an MPC1000, that's it.

There's two versions of the video, an eight-minute promo version and the
forty-minute full version. The eight-minute promo is your best bet, 31
megs (yay modern compression!).

Windows:
http://lfo.fsck.org/~drew/mux_-_The_Listening_Room_-_8-Min_Video.wmv

Mac:
http://lfo.fsck.org/~drew/mux_-_The_Listening_Room_-_8-Min_Video.mov

The full 40-minute version is available on video.google.com:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3167185821695688176
Lastly, if you just want the audio, there's an MP3 of the set, mastered
with the crowd noise lower:
http://lfo.fsck.org/~drew/mux_-_Live_at_The_Listening_Room_Vancouver_-_20050910.mp3

Critiques and comments welcomed, and if you like my stuff, by all means
please pass these links onto other folks who you think may appreciate
them. :)

Cheers,
- Drew."