R.A. Moog Bode Frequency Shifter

Moog Bode Frequency shifter on the bay. Title link takes you to shots saved for posterity.



"Serial number 1001. According to www.moogarchives.com, this unit was originally purchased by Walter Sear in 1968. We acquired it through a VEMIA auction in 1998.

Overall condition is excellent, and all the electrolytic capacitors were replaced two years ago."

OSXTools

Update: Via the comments, "Stephan Bernsee wasn't a Hartmann programmer btw. he's the founder and former CTO of Prosoniq (http://www.prosoniq.com)"

And from Stephan Bernsee himself, on Moogulator:
"I used to work for Prosoniq who licensed the Neuron synthesis technology to Hartmann) and the company OSXTools has no affiliation with Hartmann, nor will it be a successor of that company or provide any support for the Hartmann range of products.

I thought this might be useful information - btw. you can find a very active forum for user-to-user support for the Hartmann range of products at http://www.surroundsfx.com/forum/ "

Title link takes you to OSXTools, a new company by Stephen Bernsee. New products will come in 2006. Note the design style in the image to the left. I can't wait to see what they bring to the table.

"OSXTools' founder and CTO, Stephan Bernsee, is the creator of many innovative products you may know or use, such as the (now discontinued) sonicWORX audio editing software, the Prosoniq range of plug ins including the OrangeVocoder, Prosoniq morph and Magenta and the basic technology behind the Hartmann Music synthesizer. He has developed the Timefactory time stretching products for Prosoniq which are used in almost all of todays major software products such as Cubase, Nuendo, Cakewalk, Pyramix and many more. He has recently developed a new time stretching/pitch shifting technology called DIRAC, now used to guarantee unprecedented quality DSP processing in the Smoke and Fire products of Discreet/Autodesk and upcoming products from other companies."

Via Moogulator's machinesound.

5 Voice Silver Omega 8 Shots

Liked the following groovy shot of the Omega 8 manual and silver Omega 8. Title link takes you to a bigger shot of the below and the rest from this auction. Some blurry, but so is life at times. ; )

Roland SH-101 Shots

Roland SH-101 in "pristine museum quality" via this post on VSE. Title link takes you to the shots saved for posterity. At first I thought there was a smudge on the synth and wondered about the "pristine museum quality," but then I realised it was the cammera.

More Spectralis Samples

Title link takes you to a VSE post with a link to some Spectralis samples by Zamise.

Korg Electribe MX - New Flickr Shot

Cool shot.

Gameboy Synced Sequencer

CDM has a post up on a DIY Gameboy Synced Sequencer. Title link takes you there.

Update: Looks like it's on GetLoFi along with another shot, as well.

The London Synthesis Orchestra

Matthew Hodson sent me a link to his site, The London Synthesis Orchestra.

"After examining the different composing techniques of the likes of Cage and Stockhause, Matt Hodson devised several pieces of music to be played and recorded that were a 'nod' to both of these pioneers, using the inspiration behind 'chance' recordings and 'IChing', steering away from rigid structure, melody, and performance with a greater desire for influence and interpretation from the performers."

Sounds like my kind of sound exploration. There are some samples on the Sound page - listening to a nice evolving drone on the Synthetic Landscapes page while I type this; it sounds like the OSCar (pictured below). There's just something about drones that are soothing to me. Title link takes you to the site. Make sure to check out the about page for more info and the visual page for some more shots.

Variphon

Analog Industries has a post up on the Variphon. I haven't seen one of these before. According to the Variphon site, the instrument appears to be an anolog synth with a low pass, high pass and band pass filter with pulse wave oscillators. Title link takes you to the site with more info, shots and samples.



"The Variophon is a monophonical electronical musical wind instrument, invented by Jobst Peter Fricke, Wolfgang Voigt and Jürgen Schmitz at 1975 at the Acoustical Department of the Musicological Institute of the University of Cologne. At the beginning it has been built up by the firm Ernest Martin KG."

Update via Clifford in the comments: "Talk Talk (Mark Hollis) used this extensively on the fantastic albums "Spirit Of Eden" and "Laughing Stock"- they said they were terribly unreliable- solo at 4min on After The Flood is a Variphon in all it's malfuntioning glory- wish I could buy one!"

Remembering Robert Moog - Binghamton NY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Remembering Robert Moog...

creator of musical instruments that changed the world.

An exhibit of rare Moog photographs, memorabilia, and historic instruments from the MoogArchives.com collection. First Friday Gallery Night, January 6, 2006, at Christ Church, 10 Henry Street, Binghamton.

As a teenager in 1954, Robert Moog built a few electronic musical instruments at his Long Island home. The instruments caught on and soon Moog's hobby turned into a small business that eventually paid his way through graduate school at Cornell University. By 1964 Moog had set up shop in Trumansburg and it was that year that he created the Moog Synthesizer. The rest is history.

On August 21, 2005, after a half-century of designing and producing innovative musical instruments, Robert Moog passed away.

The exhibit, by former Moog employee and creator of MoogArchives.com,
Roger Luther, will be on display January 6 at the historic Christ Church, 10
Henry Street, Binghamton (across from the Lost Dog Cafe).

To learn more about Moog visit http://MoogArchives.com . For more information on the exhibit send an e-mail to rluther [@] moogarchives.com