Visual Synthesizer - How It Works

YouTube via ChannelLight

Jomox Xbase 888 Live Track2 by Priox

YouTube via Monolaend. Follow-up to this post.
http://www.myspace.com/hack999

Futre-Retro XS Bacon Session 3: Lesson 1 & 2 knobbery

YouTube via shagghie
"Bacon was exhausted after 1 and 2... on this one, he allows Shagghie to touch the knobs..even more than one at time. Video demonstrates lessons gleaned from a 1 & 2. Please note, and this is no joke, that my camera mic broke during these sessions during my first take..the bass coming out was so strong and subsonic, that now the mix has a white hiss noise and doesn't work the same. A Cannon Elf too!"

Future-Retro XS Bacon Session 1: Env 1 Amt to Filter

"Bacon demonstrates how to turn this knob on the all-new F-R XS. The only thing that sizzles more than Bacon is the XS. More to follow, but watch them in the right order, if you don't mind."

Future-Retro XS: Who's afraid of the dark...

Electro Harmonix HOG & Pigtronix Echolution

YouTube via Analogger
"This is to show some of the textures you can create with the EH HOG. It does a lot of cool things - but its not a "guitar synthesizer" in the sense it doesn't create sawtooth or square waves - what it does is give you different octaves and harmonies relative to your original pitch. It then puts that signal thru a 12 db resonant lowpass filter. It doesn't really work that well with chords - it does if you keep it to just a couple octaves and/or harmonies - but when you adjust your playing style you can coax all sorts of cool sounds out of it. Its really great for adding ambient textures to your music.

I hope this will help you decide if you can use the HOG in your creative process. I was kinda disappointed with the EH demonstration of it from NAMM on YouTube. Camcorder mics suck - especially in a huge convention hall. I would love to produce product demo videos for some of these guys!

I improvised some music for this video incorporating the Pigtronix Echolution -including a couple spots where I looped a short segment and played on top of it. I also ran the sound thru a little bit of reverb on my Lexicon PCM-80. I also used just a tiny amount of chorus from the Roland SDX Dimensional Expander.

My favorite feature of the HOG is the expression pedal - especially the "volume" mode which lets you blend in the amount of effected signal with the original guitar signal. Kind of like a volume swell. The other is the "filter" mode which gives you an awesome analog wah effect. Of course the whole idea here is to hopefully inspire your creative ideas - and think of ways you might use this tool."

Sequential Circuits Pro-One + Roland Juno-60 + TR-707

YouTube via retrosound72

"synth demo track by RetroSound

reso-bass: SCI Pro-One, triggered by the TR-707
analog strings and other sounds: Roland Juno-60
drums: Roland TR-707

live played, no sequencer software used"

Oberheim Upgrade for the Minimoog?

via old socks and new toys:

"I bought mine for about $300 from Hirsch Gardner at Daddy's Junky Music (MAIL ORDER!) around 1990. If I remember correctly he was selling it for a friend, he was told something about how it had had some sort of Tom Oberheim upgrade, whatever that might have been has been lost in my memory banks."

Anyone know more about this upgrade?

SIEL DK600

images via this auction

I almost put this one up on Matrixsynth-b due to the average images, but I thought the details were worth posting here.

"via the SIEL website:
The updated version of the Opera 6. Design improvements, a smarter and more restrained slik-screen job Improved program select buttons. Velocity sensitivity now programmable. Improved MIDI, including channel select and MIDI splits. VCA and VCF control voltage input sockets, curiously on 5-pin DIN. Re-badget as the Kiwi and also by Sequential Circuits as Velocity 6

Chips
3 SSM2020 VCA
6 SSM2024
6 SSM2044 VCF
6 SSM2056 EG"

You can find the full specifications on the SIEL website.

Akai EWI 1000 & EWV 2000

images via this auction

EWI 1000 wind controller
EWV 2000 synth engine

"A wealth of information on EWIs can be found here."

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Elio

flickr by rutt

MOOG Rogue

Anyone know what the white box is?

Roland Jupiter-2 in Custom Case

flickr by janvanvolt (click for more)

"a Roland Jupiter 2 Synthesizer. which i recently acquired from a forum sale. I will do another frontpanel with Schaeffer and re-optimize some of the circuits sooner or later.

it's sounding awesome ! Sound samples soon. "