blopad

A new years Waldorf Blofeld pad via Stefan Trippler.

www.trippler.net/files/blo/blopad.mp3

dx100 demo

YouTube via 909techno.
"small dx100 demo. quickly done with plenty of mistakes. Everything you hear is from the dx100. reverb, delay, eq, etc. from ableton live."

One Layer, One tenori-on, One Sound

YouTube via pepemogt.
"Here is my first track i did with the tenori-on after recive it from overseas, thanks to alt-vinyl in the UK. enjoy and happy new year! http://www.myspace.com/latinsizer"

Blacet Bar Graph 2520

via this auction

"The Blacet BG2520 provides a visual display of audio and CV waveforms on a 20 element LED display. The range is from -10V to +10V and from DC to audio frequencies. For DC or slow control voltages, one LED bar will light. For audio, a range of LEDs will appear to light, showing the signal peaks. Signals outside of the 10V ranges will light the upper or lower LED bars until the signal passes back into range. Three “multied” jacks allow a signal to be both monitored and sent to two other locations. Use the BG as a visual aid to track control voltages from ADSRs, LFOs, BZs, etc. Use the module to monitor audio signal levels for best signal to noise ratio and to avoid distortion."

Also see this post on Matrixsynth-b

Oakley Little Lag

via this auction
"This is a very simple but useful little module to introduce 'smoothness' to CVs and waveforms with the addition of a 3 way mult. It doesn't just have the usual 'lag time' pot that some simple lag generators possess, but two separate UP and DOWN controls. The UP control will affect the speed at which the output of the module rises. The DOWN control affects the speed at which it falls.

Drive the unit with a gate signal and the module becomes an effective AR envelope generator.

Use it to process those lumpy CVs you get from your midi-CV convertor. Remove that zippering to create smooth changes over time.

Use it also to process the output of an envelope follower to create more controlled filter sweeps when used with a VCF.

You have a choice of linear or 'logarithmic' output slopes, controlled by a simple switch.

The logarithmic output allows for longish times of lag to be set up easily, roughly 8 seconds maximum lag time. The output moves quickly at first then slows to reach the final value.

In linear mode, the output rises or falls in a straight line. It is classified in volts per second, as opposed to just time. The amount of time it takes depends on the front panel pots' positions AND the voltage change on the input. Generally, for small changes in voltage the linear output will appear to move quicker than its 'log' equivalent. The linear mode is very accurate and can be used to create linear portamento.

In addition to the LAG portion there is a 3-way mult which is normalled to the output of the Lag Processor. this allows you to send your Lagged CV to 3 different destinations (2 Oscillators and a Filter Cutoff control for example). When you have nothing inserted at the input of the Little Lag, the 3-way mult at the output may be used as a stand alone mult.

The construstion of this module is very nice. The panel is 6160 Aluminum, with silk-screened ORIGINAL graphics. There is only ONE other one like this"

Clavia MicroModular

via this auction

ARP Odyssey

images via this auction

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I hope it was a good one. Cheers to 2008 being better than 2007.

To the left is the world map for visits to the site. The shade of green indicates the amount of traffic from the given country. White means no visits. One year, I'd love to see the whole map green. It blows me away to think people from all over the world have visited the site. Happy New Year World!!!

Some stats for 2007:
When I took the snapshot (roughly 8:30 PST/11:30 EST) the total number of visits for the year was 1,383,337. The total number of page views was 2,519,686. The total posts to date including this post was 11,810. The total number of posts for 2007 is 6672 . That makes an average of 556 posts a month, roughly 18 posts a day on average. Total hits on the site since it started in July of 2005? Approximately 3.8 million. Amazing.

The reason I am putting up these stats is because this site isn't about me. It's about synths and the people who love synths. There are quite a lot of us. I want to thank everyone for a great 2007. The content and via links should speak for themselves. This site isn't just what I decide to put up, but what you, the synth community, sends me to put up. The site rocks because of you. THANK YOU!!! And have a VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Arp Synthesizers --- a little tribute page and Demo Record

"During my early years I fell in love with electronic music (this was the late 60s and early 70s), and then fortune fell my way when the high school I attended had a teacher with enough foresight to organize an electronic music class. This was my first chance to play on these exciting instruments, first on the high school's early model ARP Odyssey, then later on a Moog Mark II with extra modules at a local college. Since then electronic music has been part of my life, both as a listener and a musician, although the latter on and off as the years went by.

I was lucky enough to receive and keep intact a demo record from Arp Synthesizers that I received when I asked for one of their catalogues. It's both an interest slice of some of the electronic potential of those instruments back then, and also an interesting view of the company as it was back then, quite viable and with a lion's share of the market. Unfortunately, there was little warning about the internal power struggle that would melt the company to nothingness, and of the coming of digital technology." Click here for the page with downloads.

Electro-music.com Streaming New Years Eve Party

Just a reminder that this is on right now at electro-music.com. Richard Lainhart is set to go on at 9:30 PM Eastern, so that would be 6:30 PM PST for everyone on the West Coast. BTW, looks like the stream is a pls file. If you can't launch it try winamp.

And...

HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone! Have a fun and safe one. Make 2008 better than 2007.