Sensomusic Usine

"Usine is a universal audio software especially designed for live or studio utilisation. Usine is made by musicians and audio engineers to respond to their specific problems in a lot of domains like live sampling, effect processing or sound design. Usine is a real musical instrument, flexible and powerful if you like to transform, resample the sound on stage (not only push the play button of your sequencer!), improvise and create unusual effect."

Title link takes you there.

Aurora at SDIY 2005

Looks like the Aurora made an appearance at SDIY 2005. That's Paul Maddox of Modulus Electronics and the Monowave playing it. Some notes on sound according to two that have actually played it: according to Chris Strellis "It was OK - a bit confusing routing some of the modulation sources to destinations. Definately Moogy sounding and probably worth the money. It was for sale then at something like £400. I passed on it." According to dmxkrew, "just saw your post on the aurora, it's hand built by adrian who runs SRS in bedford, UK, which is where my mum lives so I usually go there when i need something fixing. adrian is a nice guy and good at fixing stuff, he let me have a play on the synth when it wasn't quite finished, sounded great, the design owes a lot to the SCI pro one in my opinion." At the price under 600 Euro, I'm thinking this might actually be a great little monosynth. More on the Aurora here.

Update via the comments of this post: " have had the AR1 for quite a while now and have used the synth on many recordings for solo projects under Brendan Pollard and Rogue Element.
She is extremely versatile, moog sounding but with careful manipulation even ARP. Fantastic for sound effects, leads, basses, etc.
Our studio is 90% analogue and she was definitely a worthy addition to our collection,
Cheers
Brendan www.rogue-element.uk.com"

Bottom Line - New Flickr Shot

flickr by donalhanley. What is this and what does this knob do? Looks like a Novation to me. Bueller? Bueller?

Update via the source himself:
"Its an X-Station. The Effects section (which features delay, reverb, chorus, compression, distortion and EQ) has three generic knobs - Level, Top Line and Bottom Line. It adapts to whichever effect is currently selected, so for Delay it controls feedback, for Chorus it controls Rate, for EQ base level etc."

The Alchemists of Sound

"ALCHEMISTS OF SOUND
Saturday 28 May 2005 8.30pm-9.30pm; 3.15am-4.15am

"The BBC's Radiophonic Workshop was set up in 1958, born out of a desire to create 'new kinds of sounds'. Alchemists of Sound looks at this creative group from its inception, through its golden age when it was supplying music and effects for cult classics like Doctor Who, Blake's Seven and Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, and charts its fading away in 1995 when, due to budget cuts, it was no longer able to survive.

There are interviews with composers from the Workshop, as well as musicians and writers who have been inspired by the output. Great archive footage of the Workshop and its machinery is accompanied by excerpts of the, now cult, TV programmes that featured these sounds."

Title link takes you to more info.

Bamboo Spaceship

Title link takes you to another shot and some mp3s. Roxy Music meets Japan, 80s synth pop. Jason Proctor on synths.

Update via BariaBlog in the comments:

"oh my god! what we do as youths comes back to haunt us doesn't it!

Jason and I were doing this stuff inthe early eighties and believe it or not we are still at it - across oceans and time we still have a mad desire to make a racket.

Watch out for invasion of the fat traingle players in future - the other half of the spaceship!"

TB-303's Unique Characteristics

Title link takes you there.

Fat Controller Driving a Monowave

Click here for a demo of the Frostwave Fat Controller driving a Modulus Electronics Monowave. The track is Sequence 1. A Virus Indigo provides textures and a Multimoog provides lead. Via Seth Elgart on AH.

Analogue Jeff

Title link takes you to JeffreyKoepper.com, home of Analogue Jeff's website. I've seen Analog Jeff on AH a number of times, and I've been meaning to check out his site for some time but haven't gotten around to it. You'll find a nice set of synth pics and some samples of his work. Hey, where's the cat?! : )

Korg EMX-1 - New Flickr Shot

flickr by JSRockit.

Electro Kraft Space Synth - New Flickr Shot

flickr by JSRockit.

"Very cool synth based on the chip from the original arcade game Space Invaders. You can control the parameters via the Tandy joystick."

Update via the comments:
"Here is a video from the guy who makes them:

spacesynth.MOV"