The Thimbletron

"The Thimbletron, as the name suggests, is constructed from 10 ordinary thimbles. Certain thimbles are comprised primarily of nickel (exactly 4 rows above thimbletronium on the new perioidic table of elements) which can be converted into thimbletronium using proprietary ECC methods."

"For ease of use, the thimbles are mounted on cotton gloves. Wires connect each thimble to a power source and digital interface. Properly wired, the thimbles produce emissions of thimbletronic energy which are then detected by custom equipment. This equipment originally interfaced with a standard laptop computer running Operation Re-Information's Back To Basics software, but since version 3.0 of the Thimbletron Native Instruments' Reaktor software has been used. The end result is a sound triggered from the laptop through thimble manipulation."

Too funny. Sent my way via Brian Comnes. Also check out this link. Thanks Brian!

Pro One - New Flickr Shots

flickr by Jeroen van Gool. Yes that is the inside of a Sequential Circuits Pro One.
Title link takes you to more including the famous mushroom. Gorgeous.

12 Cab Roland 100M

Shot by Synth Ollie. Click image or title link for a bigger pic. One more shot.
System 100m Custom Engineering

Roland SH7 Samples Added to Sequencer.de

New samples added by Moogulator. Title link takes you there.

EDP Wasp Shots

Title link takes you to shots pulled from this auction.

The OSCar Pages

Title link takes you to The OSCar Pages. I didn't realize there were seven version of the OSCar.

Korg M1 - New Flickr Shot

flickr by The_WB. Title link takes you to more shots... of cats.

Beatles Redux by Matthew Davidson

Matthew Davidson posted a couple of Beatles remixes on SynthSigths. Both are done in the vein of NIN. They are well worth a listen. Links below. BTW, Matthew created the MX4 soft synth.

"The credit goes to the tools. This stuff would have been unthinkable years ago, but these days one can manipulate audio as easily as MIDI. And, it doesn't matter what software you use - all the major offerings are quite powerful. You can't go wrong no matter what you choose."

For Girl, all software.
Synth: MX4
Drums: Model 12
Bass: Nanosampler (loaded with a sample of a SH101 that I use constantly)
Girl (3.3MB)
Girl (lossless 16.7MB)

Only Eleanor is simply a bunch of audio editing.
Eleanor (2.4MB)
Eleanor (lossless 11.7MB)

HP Model 200B Audio Oscillator

Title link takes you to an amazing slideshow of the HP Model 200B Audio Oscillator on Flickr. This on sent my way via Steven Pilker. Link to static set here. Thanks Steven.

Update via Steven in the comments: "My buddy Blake Howell took the pictures and is hosting the Flickr page, just wanted to put in a shout-out!"

Update via Brian Comnes in the comments:

"FWIW and as far as I know the very first product sold by Hewlett Packard from their famous garage was an oscillator like this one maybe a model or two earlier, I can;t remember, and the legend is that then Disney bought a bunch of them for Fantasia and the rest is HP history, prior to HP oscillator's a workbench would have a beat frequency oscillator which was basically a theremin with no antennas , it was just 2 40K coils that were slightly out of synch and you had to calibrate them every session, HP did away with that with that BS with stable accurate frequencies and they sold a lot of them.....then they bought Compaq , oh well"

The University of Iowa Electronic Music Studios

Moog Synthesizer Demo (1979)

This one sent my way via Jay. Title link takes you to 19 mp3s of the University of Iowa Electronic Music Studios (EMS) Moog Synthesizer Demo (1979). The recordings were created by Peter Tod Lewis, EMS Director, 1968-1989. Fascinating listen. Thanks Jay!