Moogy module

flickr by corkyburger.

10,000 Gallon Hat

YouTube by bigtex. Caption: "This is a video I made for the track 10,000 Gallon Hat. The track is from my Big Tex album Authentic Songs of the Old West, released in 2002 on the Crunch Pod label. The album is available from crunchpod.com, iTunes, Amazon, etc."

via bigtex:
"Even though you can see an Octave Kitten in the video, the music was made entirely with just three things: a Casio Rapman, a delay pedal, and a distortion pedal. I modified the Rapman to have an adjustable internal feedback, using one of the onboard capacitors as a lowpass filter. It really makes the normally wimpy "bass" drum on the Rapman kick! That feedback, coupled with the Rapman's built-in audio input (also in a feedback loop) made for some interesting pseudo-melodic elements. I was rather impressed by how much I could do with such simple ingredients.

I made the music back in 2002 and didn't get the Kitten until late last year, so music featuring the Kitten will be on my next album. The video is just me messing around with various things found in my studio that day, plus a little bit of walking around downtown San Francisco.

So enjoy... or don't. But you've got to admin, the Kitten just looks cool!

-bigtex"

Indeed. Cool video.

ARP Little Brother

Title link takes you to shot pulled from this auction.

Via Brian Comnes.

Light Harps

"The 'Light Harps' are an immersive installations using movement and laser light to trigger sound. The use of light instead of a physical string plays with our perception of space and matter. What is physically not there (the virtual string), responds as if it were."

via Analog Industries.

ARP 2500 Brochure

Scans are courtesy of Bill Sautter.

Roland RF-303 Vocoder Samples via Chris Strellis

Via Chris Strellis on AH:

"I haven't played with many vocoders before but I've got simple and effective results from my Roland EF-303. Here's the vocoded section from one of my tracks in isolation: link.

I'd be interested to here what other vocoder it most sounds like. There aren't many controls on the EF-303 to alter this sound much but I think it's pretty decent enough. The EF-303 can do a fair Air's "Kelly watch the stars" at times.

BTW the song it comes from can be downloaded from here.

As a comparison, I have also used NI Vokator which is absolutely brilliant. I used it in another track of mine called Skylab.

Vokator_Solo.mp3
Vokator_Poly.mp3

The full track is here: link.

Over and out
Chris

www.strellis.com
www.voynich.co.uk
www.strellis.co.uk
www.chromic.co.uk
www.myspace.com/strellismusic

Fourier Synthesizer

Anyone know what this is?

via Synthesizer-Magazin.

Update via cornutt in the comments and confirmed by Moogulator: "I see a Pasco logo at the bottom right. Pasco Scientific makes instruments and lab equipment for classroom use. They've got some interesting things on their Web site like lab power supplies, function generators, ripple tanks, and decade boxes. This box was probably used with a scope to teach students about Fourier analysis and sum-of-sines."

Korg MS20 patch panel

flickr by DavidMenting.

Gearp*rno Galore! on Sythesizerforum.de

Title link takes you to a thread on synthsizerforum.de with currently 53 pages of gear shots. Note the forum is one of Moogulator's many sites including sequencer.de and synthesizer-magazin.de

Furious LFCO (low freq. chaotic oscillator)

This one in via Gerald:
"In this one, X is modulating a CGS Bi-N-Tic filter, X-dot-dot is modulating a Blacet StonZ phaser, and X-dot is modulating the mix of these two sources. A Bleep Labs Thingamagoop is hanging out, communicating on some primal level with the oscilloscope. Unfortunately, his squelches aren't audible this time - he's just there to look ultra-cool.More details / schematics, and a PCB layout at: link."

Another video:

"A video, and some audio recorded later of the Furious Low Frequency Chaotic Oscillator. The audio is of the x and x-dot-dot outputs modulating a lowpass and bandpass filter respectively, while the x-dot (first derivative) mods the PW of a square-wave. The freak knob is adjusted, then the offset knob."