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Thursday, April 05, 2007

GOWNS

This came in on the AH list:

"The music band/group/entity Gowns are on tour right now. If you haven't heard of them, Gowns consist of Ezra Buchla, who has been known to use a 200e live, Erika Anderson, a fellow South Dakotan and therefore automatically a badass, and Corey Fogel, who I don't have anything clever to say about, but I'm sure is very nice.

They'll be in Chicago next friday the 13th (ooh, i'm so scared). I'll be there.

tour dates here: link

Go support somebody who actually tours with modular gear!"

Update via christian in the comments: "come see the fella with the ARP/cat tatoo play with gowns in phila. he's my bandmate, we play in br'rer."

tr-606+speak&spell=SYNC.mov


YouTube via cretin4321. Previous circuit bent sync.

Jupiter-8V at the Musikmesse 2007


YouTube via Arturiaweb.

Retrosynth PPG MiniROM for Blacet Wiard Miniwave


YouTube via therealretrosynth, aka Cary Roberts of Retrosynth.com.

"This is a demo of the Retrosynth MiniROM loaded with PPG wavetables courtesy of Jason Proctor. The Miniwave is being driven from the sawtooth output of a Serge PCO scaled and offset through an audio mixer and scaling buffer. The wave select on the Miniwave is modulated by a Universal Slope Generator with gain and offset from a CV mixer. The output of the Miniwave is patched directly into the dual channel stereo mixer module for final level adjustment and then it's off to a small Roland MA-8 monitor."

Update via retrosynth in the comments:
"There are 64 waves in each PPG wavetable bank and a stock Blacet Miniwave can only do 16 waves per bank. Plus there are only 16 banks in a stock Miniwave. The board I made allows for 32 banks of 64 waves each. That's 8X more samples per ROM. Jason Proctor provided me the wavetables. I'm just the hardware monkey that made them fit in a Miniwave socket. Some pictures here: [link]"

Kurzweil K250

Title link takes you to more shots.

via this auction.

Roland Jupiter-6

Title link takes you to more shots.

via this auction.

"A Brief Description:
The Jupiter 6 is a 6-voice polyphonic synthesizer with a 61-note (C-C) keyboard. Each voice consists of 2 VCOs. VCO1 is switchable between any combination of triangle, sawtooth, pulse, and square waves and can be switched between 4 octaves. VCO2 has the same options, except the square wave is replaced by a noise generator switch and it has a 6 octave range, with an octave above and below VCO1's range.

The Jupiter 6 also allows Oscillator Sync. VCO1 can be synced to VCO2 or vice-versa. Either or both VCOs can be modulated by either or both of the LFO and ENV1. The LFO features controls for rate, delay, and four waveforms, triangle, saw, square, and random (sample-and-hold). LFO2 is triggered by a big white button next to the pitchbend/modulation lever. There are two knobs, one for pitch (the level of LFO2 routed to the VCO) and the other for filter (the level of LFO2 routed to the VCF). In addition, there are also knobs that control the rise time (how fast LFO2 reaches full amplitude) and the rate of LFO2.

The VCF on the Jupiter 6 is unique amoung the Jupiter series in that it is a multimode filter, with either 4-pole lowpass, 4-pole highpass, or 2-pole bandpass. The filter is resonant in all modes allowing for some interesting resonant sweeps using the highpass and bandpass filter instead of the more common lowpass sweep. However, the Jupiter 6 does not have the separate fixed high-pass filter as do the other Jupiter models. The filter can be modulated by an envelope (either ENV1 or ENV2), the LFO, and keyboard tracking. There is a slider to determine the level of each of the three modulation sources. Both envelopes (ENV1 and ENV2) are ADSR (Attack Decay Sustain Release). A slider controls the amount the envelopes are modulated by key follow. ENV1 can be set to normal or negative polarity. ENV2 is hardwired to control the VCA, with a slider controlling the amount. The bender can affect pitch and/or filter cutoff, each of which has a slider for amount. VCO1 and VCO2 have separate on/off switches for bender modulation. There is also a "wide" bending option, which scales the bender to extreme ranges.

The Jupiter 6's memory can hold 48 patches, and 32 patch presets. Patch presets can store keyboard splits, along with the settings for the arpeggiator, voice assign mode, hold, portamento, as well as many of the modulation settings. The Jupiter 6 features keyboard split, allowing you to assign two voices to the upper split and four voices to the lower or vice-versa. The balance between both sides of the split is controlled by a slider. The arpeggiator is switchable between 1, 2, 3, and 4 octaves and three modes: up, down, or up and down. It can be assigned to work on either the lower or upper split or both. Portamento can be switched between Portamento and Glide. Glide quantizes the portamento into half-steps for a staircase effect. Portamento is separately programmable for both sides of a split."

Sequential Circuits Prophet 5

Title link takes you to more shots.

via this auction.

Steiner Parker Synthacon

Title link takes you to more shots.

via this auction.

A couple of vids showcasing the Synthacon:
one
two

Roland Jupiter Lapel Pin

via this auction.

Previous synth bling

Yamaha SK15 String Ensemble

Title link takes you to more shots. As always, click the image for a bigger shot.

via this auction.
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