MATRIXSYNTH

HATSKI: HOW TO ACID HOUSE WRANGLE KNOB EXPLOSION WIGGLE

YouTube via nevenen.
"track title: hatski. mc202+606+metric shitload of fx track download"

Goblin Box Demo

"The Goblin Box is roughly based on the concept of a theremin, utilizing light sensors instead of radio waves. Two coarse tune knobs allow for a wide variety of sound, from simple tones to static chaos. This video shows it being used alone, then processed through a filter + delay."

Goblin Box Demo #2

YouTube via nevenen.

Optigan Vocal Choir (Vox Humana Disc)

YouTube via RedRoomNW.
"Super-rare Vox Humana disc on the 1970's Matell Optigan optical organ. Features cello sounds, pipe organ and sampled real human voices. This is the same sample used on the orchestron that kraftwerk used for many famous tracks, including Radioactivity, Show Room Dummies, etc..."

Decibel Festival 2007

"The 4th Annual Decibel International Festival of Electronic Music Performance, Visual Art and New Media will be happening September 20th through the 23rd in Seattle. This year's program will be featuring artists from 9 countries in 14 showcases across 7 venues, each of which will be outfitted with custom sound and video. In keeping with the tradition of the festival, you can expect to experience a broad range of cutting-edge electronic music based performances, featuring international talent of the highest caliber."

Title link takes you there.

James Joyce Wallpaper

Title link takes you to more including more info on Music Thing.

Xpander Shootout - USA vs. Japan

Via Matt
"I had an xpander here for service last week, a Japanese version like mine. At the same time, a friend brought over his US made version, and for no other reason than nerdy synth-geek gratification, we racked the three up together as in the photos. While we had them all together we thought we would test the Japan made models vs the US made model. There has been much speculation in recent times as to the comparitive quality of the different units.
So the test was a very simple one, we loaded Kid Nepro preset banks on each machine via sysex, daisy chained midi through them and A/Bd the output from each unit.. The result was immediately very obvious.. no difference in sound whatsover. We tested various patches.. pads, percussive sounds, bass sounds, fx etc.. there was no difference in envelope times, tone, brightness, thickness or fatness, resonance or anything else. We were rather surprised how identical the units sounded considering the board layouts are quite different. I expected some difference in the sound between the units, but there was none, to our ears anyway. So there you go. It could of course be said that other units may sound different to the three we had racked up.. We didnt do any recording or any scientific testing.
Some other xpander trivia, aside from what I have read before.. the US version has nicer wood sides, the jacks on the rear of the US version are black as opposed to silver in the Japan versions. The rotary encoders on the US version click louder and do not roll as smoothly/softly as the Japan version encoders.
Lastly it is written in Xpander folklore that the Japanese power supply is of poor quality and made from cheese. After very careful scrutiny I can say that the Japanese power supplies were not of poor quality, but I can confirm however that the power supply in the Japanese version is indeed made from cheese.. very tasty.. "

Roar Studio

via catsynth.com.

Forat

No new news here, I just realized that although I've put posts up featuring Forat gear, I've never put one up on the site itself. For those of you not familiar with Forat, from the history page on the site: "Since 1982, Bruce and Ben Forat have provided the entertainment community with first-class music electronics. Since 1986 they have provided service, parts, and modifications to all Linn Electronics products. They revamped the original line including the LinnDrum, LM-1, and LinnSequencer and introduced the world to the F-9000." Title link takes you there.

DIY M NES CONTROL

YouTube via donaconfuse.
"Mister DIY M NES CONTROL is cool. by Anagram. asquelo(at)yahoo(dot)fr"

via Axel
"the DIY M nes CONTROL is my creation
PAD NINTENDO NES WITH MIDI IMPLANTATION"