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at 3/03/2006 02:08:00 AM

Video link is up on the Roland site. Too bad it wasn't retro.

at 3/03/2006 02:05:00 AM

Title link takes you to the set. : )

at 3/03/2006 12:15:00 AM

That Micke is back. Title link takes you to his post on VSE with more links to video synth goodness, this time featuring the Oberheim OB-X and OB-Xa.

Japan - Ghosts Live (1982). Synths used for texture.

And of course.... Van Halen's JUMP. Synths used for dust.

Look at how dusty that OB-Xa is!!! Eddie is just smiling away. No respect I tell yah. No respect...

at 3/03/2006 12:04:00 AM

Shot by mathewspiel. Love the green. : )

at 3/03/2006 12:03:00 AM

Shot by bvincent.

at 3/03/2006 12:02:00 AM

Title link takes you to shots pulled from this auction. More info on the Wavedrum on SOS and SonicState.

at 3/03/2006 12:01:00 AM

Shot by amatecha.

at 3/03/2006 12:00:00 AM

Sexy mamma jamma. Too bad it has a dent. Shots pulled from this auction.

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at 3/02/2006 04:46:00 PM

I've been following the Origami buzz lately. If you haven't heard, it's rumored to be a UMPC or Ultra Mobile PC by Microsoft. I didn't think I was going to be putting a post up on it here, but then it clicked.

Image via Longhorn Blogs

Remember these posts?
miniMusic BeatPad driving a Voyager and 909
Multi-Touch Interaction Research
Apple Lemur?
Lemur Workshop
Live Lab - Tablet 2 MIDI and Live Slice
Audio Pad
Lemur-like Rear projection control
Lemur and a Continuum - Video

Well it just dawned on me that Origami might be an affordable alternative. I'd love to see a more robust miniMusic suite for it. We'll soon know... Title link takes you to the Origami site - still giving teasers.

at 3/02/2006 09:44:00 AM

Title link takes you to Seth Elgart's website. I recently posted Jim Aikin's thoughts on Melody Over Texture. This came from a thread on SynthSights on the topic of the musician and the synthesist and the topic of sound and texture driving a piece of music vs. the musician driving the melody and composition. Seth put up a couple of examples of Music vs. Sound. In one track, Fifty Five, he gets lost in textures from the Waldorf Q, he states that Q drives the composition itself (BTW, this is a good demo of the Waldorf Q 's swirly textures). He states, "It more or less wrote itself. I didn't have much to do with it really. I just played it." In another track, Celebrate Life, Seth critically composes and drives the music. It's interesting when you think about how you create music. I lean more towards the sound leading me - it seems more like an interaction between me and the synth. Two things immidiately come to mind when I think about this, one, Bob Moog's magical description of how you feel sound and the instrument - how you connect to it in an almost metaphysical way; and two, this video of Jean Michel Jarre where he talks about leaving room for the music to drive itself. How do you play?