WHAT THE FUTURE SOUNDED LIKE

YouTube via VCS3DOCO.
"Film teaser for the documentary What The Future Sounded Like - the story of the Electronic Music Studios and their impact on music history." More info and shots
Upate: link to the official site.

The Qasar II

This is actually part two of the article posted below on the EMS VCS1. I'm putting up a separate post so there is not confusion with EMS.

"The Qasar II & M8 - towards the Fairlight CMI
Around 1965, Tony Furse became interested in the digital synthesis of sound. His early experiments in this field were small flip-flop circuits. These experiments soon advanced and by the early 1970s Tony had completed a prototype digital/analog hybrid synthesiser - the Qasar. Unfortunately the completion of this prototype coincided with the release of the minimoog synthesiser, a cheaper analog synthesiser. Because the Qasar relied upon expensive microprocessor technology, any ideas for a production model of the Qasar were effectively squashed."

The EMS VCS1

"In 1983 the Powerhouse museum purchased the music and recording instruments that comprised the Australian composer Don Banks' electronic music studio. The contents of this studio include the EMS VCS 1 (Electronic Music Studios Voltage Controlled Synthesiser attempt #1), a prototype for the VCS 3 - the first portable synthesiser."

Title link takes you to the full article.

New Electrix Products Coming 2008

Top down:
Filter Factory 2.o
Repeater 2.0
MoFX 2.0
Warp Factory 2.0
Title link takes you to more info. You can get OS 2.0 for your existing repeater as well. You can see the previous Repeater in use here.
via brian comnes

Happy Knobbing Modular Meeting

Title link takes you to more info on Sequencer.de.

FSOL - Equinox Interview

YouTube via splatterheezy. Via CDM.

Monodeck II

YouTube via roberthenke. Via awakened yeti.

"a video byAndrius Rugys /pb8 showing Robert Henke jamin`with the Monodeck II."

TR-606 Modifications

Title link takes you to the list of mods on Analog Solutions.

Update: BTW, if you have an opinion on the mods vs. leaving the 606 as is feel free to comment. I'm a bit of a purist myself however if a mod can leave the original in tact and add on top of it, I'd probably be for it. If you add MIDI, why not add other things.

Roland TR-808 Videos by Soundwave

Just the 808


TR-808


YouTubes via SoundwaveXX. via Sonic State.

3d Synthesizer

flickr by neiLnormaN.

Anyone know what that is? If it's a custom case, that's a pretty impressive job. Title link takes you to the bigger shot where you can see some of the buttons and the display.