Title link takes you to shots via this auction.Details:
Specs: link
Review: link
Video: link
via Johan
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Restoring Patches From Tape
Good tip from David Hillel Wilson, curator of the New England Synthesizer Museum.
"There is an issue with downloading synth patch tapes from the Internet, and it goes like this: The Human ear can't hear absolute phase, so that an up sawtooth sounds exactly like a down sawtooth. However, the cassette input circuits on most synths CAN hear absolute phase. Many of the .WAV files are inverted, either by the sound card the poster used to digitize them, or the sound card you used to play them back. The answer here is crazy, but it works: After trying with no success for several hours to load up an OB-Xa from an Internet wave file, I tried this: I took two alligator clip leads and an extra patch cord, and used them to swap the ground and the hot on the EAR output jack on the cassette tape recorder. It loaded on the first try! You can also run the sound through any inverting mixer (such as on the ElectroComp 200). I have tried to send this info (and the Sequential Split Eight factory sounds as an .SYX) to the website that hosts these files, but my messages keep bouncing back."
Update via swissdoc in the comments: "Why not just inverting it in your soundeditor before saving from the soundcard to tape?"
"There is an issue with downloading synth patch tapes from the Internet, and it goes like this: The Human ear can't hear absolute phase, so that an up sawtooth sounds exactly like a down sawtooth. However, the cassette input circuits on most synths CAN hear absolute phase. Many of the .WAV files are inverted, either by the sound card the poster used to digitize them, or the sound card you used to play them back. The answer here is crazy, but it works: After trying with no success for several hours to load up an OB-Xa from an Internet wave file, I tried this: I took two alligator clip leads and an extra patch cord, and used them to swap the ground and the hot on the EAR output jack on the cassette tape recorder. It loaded on the first try! You can also run the sound through any inverting mixer (such as on the ElectroComp 200). I have tried to send this info (and the Sequential Split Eight factory sounds as an .SYX) to the website that hosts these files, but my messages keep bouncing back."
Update via swissdoc in the comments: "Why not just inverting it in your soundeditor before saving from the soundcard to tape?"
Friday, April 20, 2007
primitive two-oscillator synthesizer
flickr by jgb."two WaveTek signal generators connected in series. For crunk jamz. The last one in the chain drives a 1" speaker. It will easily deafen you. The front panel is set in Univers, BTW."
VAC: Toxic Coma
"All tracks were made with Renoise Tracker. No hardware. All software and samples."hefix93 of Velvet Acid Christ
Title link takes you to more info on the album including full downloads for each track.
Renoise Tracker
"Renoise is the next generation of music tracker software, combining studio quality sound and virtually infinite expandability with a clear and concise interface putting every parameter and option literally at your fingertips!"Title link takes you there. See this post for an album made with nothing but Renoise.
Mellotron EMI
Title link takes you to shots via this auction. Details:"MELLOTRON (produced by EMI, serial n°26 out of 100 !!!) *** 1973 *** These Mellotron have differents looks than the original, if you look under the keyboard, you'll see that you have more space for your legs, also the black plate is domino style, it can be inverted to the white side. sounds are the 3 classics: 8 choir, Mk2 Violins, Brass B."
via Johan.
Gristleizer
YouTube via masqueradeNpurple.
"Playing guitar through the gristleizers VCA for a slow chop and some self oscillation near the end causing octave down jumps."
Previous post with details. Note this is up for auction.
Max Mathews Remixed
In case you missed the update to this post, thumbuki sent the following in via the comments:"There is also an event for Berklee alumni the following evening in San Francisco:
Monday, April 30, 2007
Max Mathews Remixed
6:30 PM-9:00 PM
Recombinant Media Labs
763 Brannan St.
San Francisco, CA
Monday, April 30, 2007
6:30 - 7:30 PM Alumni Reception
7:30 - 9:00 PM Performance/Interview
Join the Berklee community as we celebrate the 80th Birthday of The Father of Computer Music - Dr. Max Mathews. The event will take place at Recombinant Media Labs and will feature: Dr. Richard Boulanger and Dr. Max Mathews reminiscing, demonstrating, performing, and jamming on Wireless Radio Batons, the $100 OLPC Laptop, and Wiimotes control Csound via OSC. The event will also showcase Berklee Alumni remixes of Max Mathews 1957 Computer Music Classics!
Refreshments will be served.
For more information, contact Brian Grzelak.
To register for this event, click here
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Berklee Events"
Red Roland SH-101
Title link takes you to some nice shots via this auction. Click the image for a larger shot. via loscha
Tube Gristleizer
Update: check out the update below.
via this auction
Details:
"ONE OF A KIND handmade and modified TUBEGRISTLEIZER. The gristleizer was an effect made famous by throbbing gristle which was played by everyone in TG and can be heard on many throbbing gristle recordings, live performances and is still on their solo recordings. The circuit itself is a fairly loud tremelo(VCA)/squelchy filter(VCF) under control of an lfo. The VCA gives you that dark brooding pulsing sound from a slow steady blast to helicopter fast chopping action. with guitar it can sound bassy or razor sharp and rather piercing, with synths it gives movement and can alter harmonic content. the VCF can scream when in self oscillation mode and turns any boring synth or feedback loop tone into a nice sounding near modular beast!
The LFO on the original gristleizer was slightly different, using a switch to change waveshape, the LFO on this circuit uses a pot to alter wave shape from ultra chopy to sloped triangle.saw shapes. This is the signature sound of industrial music! HEAVY pulsing and throbbing beats or lighting fast chop chop!
In addition to the gristle circuit, the effect also has a HI VOLTAGE (200v+) tube preamp/distortion for completely destroying the sound. the circuit was lo fi at first but now its plain garbage! By turning up the gain for the preamp the sound ranges from light harmonic clipping to a blown speaker blasting away. I take no responsibility for damage to amplifiers or recording equipment.
SPECS:
* tremelo/filter switch
* self oscillation switch
* tube power switch
* LFO shape Control
* LFO speed Control
* LFO Depth
* Oscillation Frequency Knob
* Tube Gain
* Tube Input Level
* 1/4" Mono Input and output
* powered by dual 9v and 120vac
No sound samples at this time but there will be videos on youtube by tomorrow night, showing off self oscillation (not on original gristleizer), with guitar or with a simple squarewave bass tone... just search it."
Update via BugBrand in the comments:
"I'm just about to meet up with Roy Gwinn (literally in a couple of hours time) who wrote the original article back in the 70s for Practical Electronics magazine (he was 16 when he published it!) from which the Gristilizer came.
If you're interested, Clone Analog Gear have a pdf of the article::
http://rubidium.dyndns.org/cag/
http://rubidium.dyndns.org/cag/pdf/gep.pdf
It was published as the Guitar Effects Pedal."
Update via Chris Carter in the comments:
"My original Gristleizers were based around the PE kit (PCB & components) produced by Phonosonics in the UK in 1977. I've never made any secret of this, and in fact for a while had the PE schematic on my site. However, I added some mods of my own and designed a completely new case and made units for myself, the band and friends, probably about 10 in total. Cosey's still works to this day but mine was unfortunately 'lost' shortly after appearing in a exhibition in London a couple of years ago. I'm going to upload some photos of an original Gristleizer to my site soon and I'm currently in the process of building myself a replacement.
original Gristelizer photos and additional info now available here: www.throbbing-gristle.com/gristleizer and/or here: myspace.com/chemistrylessons"
Also see this post including comments.
The LFO on the original gristleizer was slightly different, using a switch to change waveshape, the LFO on this circuit uses a pot to alter wave shape from ultra chopy to sloped triangle.saw shapes. This is the signature sound of industrial music! HEAVY pulsing and throbbing beats or lighting fast chop chop!
In addition to the gristle circuit, the effect also has a HI VOLTAGE (200v+) tube preamp/distortion for completely destroying the sound. the circuit was lo fi at first but now its plain garbage! By turning up the gain for the preamp the sound ranges from light harmonic clipping to a blown speaker blasting away. I take no responsibility for damage to amplifiers or recording equipment.
SPECS:
* tremelo/filter switch
* self oscillation switch
* tube power switch
* LFO shape Control
* LFO speed Control
* LFO Depth
* Oscillation Frequency Knob
* Tube Gain
* Tube Input Level
* 1/4" Mono Input and output
* powered by dual 9v and 120vac
No sound samples at this time but there will be videos on youtube by tomorrow night, showing off self oscillation (not on original gristleizer), with guitar or with a simple squarewave bass tone... just search it."
Update via BugBrand in the comments:
"I'm just about to meet up with Roy Gwinn (literally in a couple of hours time) who wrote the original article back in the 70s for Practical Electronics magazine (he was 16 when he published it!) from which the Gristilizer came.
If you're interested, Clone Analog Gear have a pdf of the article::
http://rubidium.dyndns.org/cag/
http://rubidium.dyndns.org/cag/pdf/gep.pdf
It was published as the Guitar Effects Pedal."
Update via Chris Carter in the comments:
"My original Gristleizers were based around the PE kit (PCB & components) produced by Phonosonics in the UK in 1977. I've never made any secret of this, and in fact for a while had the PE schematic on my site. However, I added some mods of my own and designed a completely new case and made units for myself, the band and friends, probably about 10 in total. Cosey's still works to this day but mine was unfortunately 'lost' shortly after appearing in a exhibition in London a couple of years ago. I'm going to upload some photos of an original Gristleizer to my site soon and I'm currently in the process of building myself a replacement.
original Gristelizer photos and additional info now available here: www.throbbing-gristle.com/gristleizer and/or here: myspace.com/chemistrylessons"
Also see this post including comments.
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