White Roland SH-101

To go along with your white MC-202.

Thesse shots in via an anonymous reader.

KORG KAOSSILATOR OVERDUB

YouTube via jetdaisuke. I saw this one over on Music Thing and thought it was pretty cool and funny at the same time. I love the tune he does in the end.
"http://webdog.be/archives/071112_071409.php"

KAOSSILATOR（カオシレーター）便利アイテム

At the end of the clip you can watch more by clicking on one of the thumbnails in the bottom of the player.

Roland VP-330 Vocoder Plus by RetroSound (audio)

YouTube via retrosound72.
"short audio demo (string and human voice section) of the Roland VP-330 Vocoder Plus. more info: www.retrosound.de"

MOOG The Rogue

images via this auction

Thighpaulsandra on Scream 2007: AnalogLive!

Thighpaulsandra sent the following to the Plan B list regarding his performance. I asked him if I could put it up here, and he was kind enough to give me the ok. Enjoy.

"Here's my take on my piece for Analog Live. As with much of my material truly live performance is very difficult. I have no problem with that. Some things sound better sequenced (ask T Dream) and if I can get a computer to do all my patch changes too then I can concentrate on playing. On this occasion I opted for some written material, some improvised and some sequenced. Like Peter, I too recreated some of the more module intensive events from samples of the original work. One particular three second event would have involved the use of 24 modules and some very precise tuning. As this was clearly impractical for the purposes of this show I opted to replay a sample of that event. Another sample was the use of four VCOs and four Serge Waveform Multipliers for the opening drone. As Virgin Atlantic have pretty tight baggage restrictions these days I was unable to bring my whole Serge system from the UK for this show. I played as much of the score as was possible and practical and if you noticed I always had my hands full.

As Peter mentioned [on the Plan B list] the piano was a Steinway. The piano was micd with two AKG 414s. The original score had the piano ring modulated by two Synton Fenix ring mods. In rehearsal we tried to recreate this but the ring modulators seemed to add to the monitor feedback problems from the piano so I opted to leave the piano untreated. The rest of the gear for the show was as follows:

-Waldorf Microwave - used for bass sequences, and the long chords in sections 2 and 8. This also provided the filtered chords in the improvised middle section.

EMS Synthi AKS - used for effects in sections 2 and 8
Custom EH 16 sec delay - used to reverse and pitch change the EMS in the above sections

Nord Modular - Added sharp attacks to Moog bass notes in section 4

Aries Modular - (kindly lent by Roger Cordell at Big City Music) used to recreate the two

ARP 2600s from the original score. I was seriously impressed with this synth. I checked the tuning on my strobe tuner the day before the show and it seemed very stable. Five minutes before the show I checked it again and was pleasantly surprised to find that all four VCOs were rock solid.

Moog Voyager - (thanks again to Roger Cordell) used for fast intro sequences in section 1, bass in section 4 and the nasal solo I played in section 6.

Serge Modular - (thanks to Chris Pitman) used for Peter's SLOS

Kenton Pro4 - Midi - CV convertor used to run the Aries

Doepfer and Fatar midi controllers - (kindly lent by Analogue Haven) used to control the

Waldorf and Nord in both my piece and Alessandro's.

Apple Macbook with MOTU midi and audio interfaces - played samples via NI Kontakt,
sequenced the onstage synths and provided large visual cues (because I'm almost blind) via MOTU Digital Performer for sections 2 and 8.

During my piece Gary added various Roland textures throughout but particularly amazing bell-like textures in sections 2 and 8. Peter added more to the chordal sections and descending tones on my Moog solo.

Alessandro added some great French Connection/EAR to the chordal sections and evolving Buchla to the improvised section 5.

Chas played steel on the chordal sections and bowed his waterphone device in section 5.

Thighp"

Commodore Sound Sampler (with SX64)

via stamba on the Matrixsynth Forum:

"Here is the Commodore Sound Sampler (1985) used on a Commodore SX64 executive computer !

Yes ! This little (BIG) cartridge is a sampler for Commodore64/128 computers.Just received this one after MONTHS looking for one… and it works !

Here is the 1st sample i’ve been able to record: link


And for those who had the interface but no floppy or tape for this unit,
here is the .d64 file: link

And finally.. you can find the whole documentation (few pages) there: link

Question : How can I get my saved samples on a C64 floppy to my modern PC and sequencer ?


You’ll need a 1541(-II) or 1570/1571 floppy unit attached to the // port of your PC and run StarCommander under DOS (works great under Freedos, with both EPP/ECP // port allowed).

Once you got the file (the sample is a .prg file) back on your PC… Just rename the file as .raw and open it with Soundforge, it will ask you preferences to open the .raw file, set this : 8 bits / unsigned / 22khz

Last few things to do… cut the beginning and the end of the sample which are relative to the c64 software, your audio data is in the middle, resample at 16khz.. and you’re done.
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Techno.Elektro.EBM - DJ / Live Act / Producer - http://www.stamba.fr"

Yamaha cs-10 Synthesizer

YouTube via bookm97. via Nusonica.
"I'm no musician (obviously)!! I picked up this synth at the local auction a couple years ago, for $50. I'm just getting around to playing with it now. I love the strange analog sounds you can get out of it.

On key doesn't work. I would appreciate some advice on how to fix it... perhaps someone has a repair manual or something for it. Thanks in advance :)"

Logan String Melody MK2

Logan String Melody Mk2 by RetroSound "Some presets from the Logan / Hohner String Melody Mk2 (1977-1980). For me, one of the best vintage string machines ever. Sorry Solina ;-)
Sorry for the bad sound quality of my little camera." Logan String Melody Mk2 + NM phase shifter by RetroSound "The presets of the Logan / Hohner String Melody Mk2 and the Clavia Nord Modular phase shifter(the small stone is better, but is ok)." Logan String Melody 2 + Korg Mini Pops Junior by RetroSound "The presets from the Logan String Melody Mk2 (1977-1980). For me, one of the best vintage string machines ever.

the drums: Keio (Korg) MiniPops Junior"

Novation Supernova 2 II Power

YouTube via Gtechture.
"Hi, this is a video of the Novation Supernova 2. I am going through the presets. The third patch in the video was created by me."

clavia nord lead synthesizer

flickr by tomn7.

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