Serge Modular P*rn

Title link takes you to more. Sent to AH via Cary Roberts.

New FM-800 Sample Updates

I posted about the FM-800 filter FM mod for the Korg Poly-800 and EX-800 on April 15. New samples have been uploaded. Title link takes you there.

FM800 filter mod

Get More Bass out of Your Micromoog and Multimoog

Need more bass out of that Micromoog or Multimoog? Title link takes you to a mod that gives it.

"Micromoogs and Multimoogs have always been adequate for lead lines and noise FX, but they have a "fault" that restricts their ability to deliver bass timbres a'la the classic Minimoog bass. The VCF has a cap on the audio input that provides DC isolation, but it also forms a high pass filter; on the Micro/Multi, the cap is not large enough to allow low frequency components to pass through."

"I compared the modified Micromoog to the Minimoog, and the Micro can easily compete (on a one oscillator level, of course)."

Update via an aononymous reader:
"This mod is just plain wrong.
A bad idea.

There's a reason that Moog put in a .47 uf cap instead of a 100uf cap.
That's over 200 times greater capacity and DC will thump right on in!
.47's are not the most common of caps either. Moog could have easily put in a much more common 1uf or 10uf, but didn't."

Kick Ass Creative Drum Machine

"This is Rock and Roll." An oldie but a goodie.

And then there's Belinda and of course Zlad.

Pollard Syndrum QUAD Drum Synth

via this auction. Warning in case you are thinking of bidding: K/Modeless Factory on AH claims this to be an item he won and never received after paying. "This serial# says this IS what I won. Already reported to ebay.

Update via the comments: "For what it's worth, I believe those were the perfered synth drums of Yukihiro Takahashi of YMO."

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Awake Audio

"A boatload of utilities, manuals, docs, and most of all patches for the Korg Z1 and K5000s" Via this HC post.

Salvatore Martirano on Chroniques de la Mao

Click here for a post on Salvatore Martirano on Chroniques de la Mao. "I have just put on my blog an astonishing machine of Salvatore Martirano - American composer born on January 12, 1927 in Yonkers, New York, dead on November 17, 1995 - which I had taken in photograph in 1981 at the time of the international festival of Electronic Music, Video and Computer Art" The post includes an mp3 link, more shots and a link to The SAL-MAR Construction. Fascinating stuff. BTW, you might recognize the SAL-MAR Construction from this post.

Update via deb7680:

"Thanks Matrix. Attention, the MP3 is not Salvatore Martirano but duet HplanK with synths (RSF and Ems Synthi Aks), guitar and computers (Apple II and first IBM PC) which I created in 1981. I evoked Hplank because it is the festival of the Plan K in Brussels which gave me the idea of the name of HplanK.
For the meetings, since 1971, I work in the arts centres and as a critic musical in the newspapers. It is my work. I was likely to meet a great number of composers, Pierre Boulez, Xénakis, Pierre Henry Morton Subotnick, musicians like John Mc Laughlin, David Murray, Soft Machine, Cure, Jean-Luc Ponty, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Sun Ra, etc...
See this : http://www.deb7680.com/documentation/pierrehenry.pdf"

BTW, if you haven't already, check out Chroniques de la Mao for a lot more on these subjects.

More Synth Action on YouTube

Brain Damage - New Flickr Shot

flickr by lukas_y2k . Pink Floyd tribute band. Curious how that Korg X5D sounds. : )

Jen and microKorg - New Flickr Shot

flickr by simulacreant. According to the caption the microKorg was an anniversary gift and she's smiling about it. Now that is cool. : )