More AHNE 2006 Pics

Pics via David White

Pics via Bill Manganaro (aka Statemachine)

Both links via alt-mode on AH.

New Lectures by Aaron Lanterman

You might remember this post. Aaron Lanterman has added the following lectures:

4/19 - Demo of SSM2040/Prophet 5-style emulation VCF; Waveshaping and
Chebychev Polynomials
4/24 - Additive Synthesis
4/26 - FM Synthesis

Title link takes you there.

Roland SH7 - New Flikr Set

flickr by Heath Finnie. 

click here for the set.

DIY on KAADA WRONGROOM

Title link takes you there.

Hammond Synthesizer 102200

Title link takes you to one more shot. This looks like this 102200 with a white case rather than black. If anyone has more info on these and the original color of the case (just curious), please feel free to comment.

Update: Samples courtesy of pinkus via the comments.

"mp3 is without effects..strait into 002...no preamps or anything....sorry for my foolish keyboard playing...i was just fucking around."

Thanks pinkus!

The Source - New Flickr Shot

flickr by pinkbelt.

Interesting. I never realised it was "The" Source. Thought it was just the Moog Source. Ok, moving forward, it's the Moog The Source. And of course, don't forget it's Moog pronounced like Vogue, not like poo.

emily's sequential pro one - New Flickr Shot

flickr by misscaro.

Cybersonica 06

"Cybersonica and Encompass, in association with Phonica Records, present a two-week exhibition of contemporary sonic artworks. The exhibition showcases a range of sonic and audiovisual works which move beyond the ‘screen, keyboard, mouse scenario’ to explore new and exciting approaches to creative interactivity - responding to physical input, proximity, sound, kinetics, elapsed time and the surrounding environment. All the selected works are playful, engaging and accessible to all."

Cybersonica & Encompass Sonic Art Exhibition
Monday, 8th - Saturday, 20th May 2006
11.30am-7.30pm, Mon-Wed, 11.30am-8pm, Thurs-Sat
Phonica Records, 51 Poland Street, Soho, London W1F 7NG

Title link takes you to more.

vPipes

Midi Bagpipe Emulator.

"vPipes is an electronic Uilleann Pipes emulator (without regulators) affording the possibility of practising in a variety of situations which would prove to be impractical or impossible with a real set of pipes."

Title link takes you to more info.

via Music Thing.

Tom Moravansky's Sequencing Powerhouse

Check this wall out. Going from left to right then top down: Two Oberheim Cyclones, JL Cooper Synapse MIDI patchbay (16 in, 20 out), Grex MXF8 ("the
almost vaporware product from the Notron guy (Gerard Campbell)"), a GenoQs Octopus, Oberheim DMX, two Sequentix P3s. a LinnDrum, two Notron sequencers and a Linn LM-1. Here's one more shot.

So of course I had to ask how the sequencers compared. Tom had the following to say:

"Octopus, P3, Notron are all different. I've only had the Octopus for a day, so what you're reading is initial impressions.

The Notron is still the only hardware sequencer I know of that decouples the note on time from the length of a step. Everyone else forces a note on to be less than or equal to a step size or else used some type of tied note notation to extend it.

Why do I care? Well, it's easy on the Notron to set one element to play 2 notes with long overlapping times and then to have the pitch or sustain modulated over the course of a sequence. Ideal for slow spacey things like old FSOL or Orb stuff or for NWW/Coil drone things.

The Notron is also one of the few (only?) hw sequencers to send out MIDI CC messages 'between the notes'. Everyone else spits out a MIDI CC value at each step. Notron sends out a seemingly continuous stream so that modulations really do sound and feel smooth and flowing. So you can have a track running at a slow tempo and still apply a smooth modulation with it. Other hw seqs would have a large, grainy steppiness to them at slow tempos.

The Octopus has a very easy interface for zooming into the step level and back out to the track view (10 tracks at once) or grid view (multiple pages of tracks). It's also very easy to check and change things like MIDI channel for each track (one button press and one knob turn). Still in development so the modulations and 'extras' are not as fleshed out yet as the Notron or P3. It does have some nice touches already and the UI really does make it fast to use.

The P3 reminds me of the Oberheim Cyclone with access to it's programming guts. :-) It's easy w. the P3 to create those self-modifying sequences that morph over time and change and shift with each pass. It's a very inward looking sequencer - it's focussed on modifying it's internal patterns and play structure.

The Notron is an outward sequencer - it is designed to spit out as much different MIDI info as possible and let the source deal with it as best as it can.

The Octopus is inbetween. Lots of parallel tracks possible (90 max), with some internal modification possible, not much extra MIDI spit out (other than the standard MIDI cc info per step)."

Via Tom of Synth Services. Thanks Tom!