PNW06: Carbon111 Demos the Little Phatty

Carbon111 Demos the Little Phatty at this year's Pacific Northwest Synthesizer Meeting.

PNW06: Minimoog

Minimoog shown at this year's Pacific Northwest Synthesizer Meeting. This is a pretty good example of the symptoms in this post. BTW, I didn't catch the presenter's name, if you know it feel free to post it in the comments.

PNW06: James Gallent Talks About His Moog Etherwave Theremin

James Gallent talks about his Moog Etherwave Theremin at this year's Pacific Northwest Synthesizer Meeting.

PNW06: John Bowen and Stephen Play the Prophet 5 Rev 1 and 3

John and Stephen play and talk about the SCI Prophet 5 Rev 1 and Rev 3 at this year's Pacific Northwest Synthesizer Meeting. The Rev 1 is on the left.

Warning: For those of you that complained about the last Creamware/Prophet 5 video, you might want to skip this one as well. This is synth geek material.

SMS?

Posted by synthbaron on Synthwire. Anyone know what it is?

Update via anonymous in the comments:
"this is an SMS MARS with the planet 7 (?) expander. Neat little modules. Its a single rack space. 1 each of: vco, vcf, lfo, eg, vca. Patch point on the back of the rack. The planet module brings all patch points to the front (actually for 2 mars units) and adds a couple utility modules (mixers, inverters, etc)."

SMS (Synthetic Music Systems)


Upate via Chris in the comments:
"I was lucky enough to buy on of these from the designer 5 years ago, and was silly not to buy a second one that went through ebay a few months back, its that good !!! The two 1u racks sit above and below the 2 u unit which brings all the patch point to the front and include noise, ring mod and many more extras. I'll try to put up some samples up on the web site soon so you can have a listen. The filters are moog 24db and the VCOs have a very useful vc morph, from saw to saw and square to narrow pulse. I have to say again I love this synth, maybe evern more than my Organ system it is realy that good. The designer worked on a second version with analouge systems called the Spawn which was reviewed in SOS. I also have to say the designer was a lovely bloke, if anyone has his email I would love to get in touch again.

Chris

PS if people have a preference to alonger Mp3 or smaller wav files like my other samples let me know and any requests will be considered."

ASM-2

Remember the ASM-2? Here's one with a wooden faceplate via Sendling.

Daddio's LEGO MIDI Guitar

Via daddio:
"It's made with a DJMC, Digitar, and and Expressionmate for the "neck". Held together with Day-Glo legos - UV reactive!!!! Sort of a home made midi guitar I suppose, but I don't play it like that."

Click image for a much larger shot.

Roland PG-1000

Title link takes you to a few more PG-1000 shots pulled via this auction. The PG-1000 is the dedicated contoller for the Roland D-50 keyboard and D-550 rack.

Via anonymous in the comments of this post:
"The shear number of sliders on the PG-1000 is astonishing, but even more astonishing is the fact that each slider gets routed to one of four different active layers at any given time depending on the mode the box is in. On top of that, there is another mode that controls totally different parameters (labeled in a different color) that are common to pairs of tones. So, each slider has, IIRC six different fuctions. It sounds confusing, but it really isn't in practice.

The D-50 is an amazing pad machine. pulse width modualtion and four LFOs, resonant filter plus interesting envelopes."

Tapewarm on Sevcom

I've been listening to a bit of daddio's Tapewarm lately. Really good experimental synth music. Daddio also sent me a shot of his LEGO guitar. I'll be putting that up later as soon as I find out if it's a MIDI controller. In the mean time check out some of his music on Sevcom. BTW, daddio recommends Sevcom as a good place for artists to host a site (50M free), and it has a decent forum.




Tapewarm Kit List:
Nord rackII controlled with an expressionmate
Doepfer Modular run through a Kaoss pad
Digitar controlled Proteus2
Electribe esx1
Beat loops from Brian run through an instore Alesis stomp box demo rig.

Korg Poly61

via this auction