TBX1 demo 1

YouTube via AaronAndrewHunt

"This is a demonstration of the H-Pi Instruments Tuning Box TBX1 ($299), a device which retunes standard MIDI keyboards so that any key can play any pitch you want. In this demo, a Yamaha PSR-310 ($149) plays an arpeggio throughout, sending MIDI notes of a C-Major chord, which you hear at the beginning going through the box in bypass mode (no retuning). That chord then gets retuned in 15 different ways, and I noodle around (not much keyboard skill shown here) over the arpeggio in each tuning. Each of the 15 presets stores a tuning and a bank / patch change. The box stores up to 128 tunings in 4 layers = 512 tunings, each 128 notes. Check it out here: http://www.h-pi.com/TBX1intro.html"

GEM WX2 Destruction

YouTube via Tittlekopf. via SubSynthesis. These videos always make me cringe.
Click here for the infamous video of Richard Devine setting an Open Labs Neko on fire.
Note Richard Devine will be performing at the City Skies 08 Electronic Music Festival.

Description of above video:
"Verschiedene Wege ein defektes GEM WX2 Keyboard zu zerstören: Hammer, Zaunstangen, Feuerwerk Bazooka und ein Pontiac Firebird. Von und mit Doktor Untenlieger.

Musik:
Alobar - Input
Welle:Erdball - Arbeit adelt
Welle:Erdball - Starfighter F104G
Tax-5 - Video Sports
Tax-5 - Iron Sun

(C)2008
www.Tax-5.ch
www.alobar.tax-5.ch"

Erasure-I Love To Hate You ( Brazilian TV Show -Xuxa)

YouTube via BetoFS. Anyone ID the keyboard?
"Great,funny and hard to find video on brazilian TV Show for kids named "Xou da Xuxa"
No programa infantil da Xuxa...um arraso!!!"

via Sasa:
"This is really hilarious. In the following video you will see Erasure playing 'live' at the show of Xuxa. She is a brazilian star well known in all South America. The green character is called Dengue. At about 1:50 you will see him joining Vince Clarke on the keyboard. The funniest thing I've seen in months. BTW, this video also shows how much Erasure was ahead of their time - the keyboard was completely wireless."

Synth: Modular demo, MFB into Polivoks into Frequensteiner.

via hexfix93:
"I love this modular I have built. This demo shows me what I love about both filters, the bubbly resonance of the harvestman polivoks, into the aggressive cutting sound of the livewire frequensteiner. I recorded this into my mackie onyx, out into the rme fireface 800 into logic, I used a limiter on it, 6db only. The mfb osc is a pwm sound. I could never make this sound on a Future Retro XS. The more I mess with this thing, the more I realize how great the doepfer rack is, how many great custom boutique third party modules are available for this format. Thanks to Analog Haven and the advice of Shawn I have been able to slowly build up a system that really fits my needs and gives me a solid mono synth that is capable of making alien soundscapes and rhythms. No digital synth gave me the bite and juicy resonance on filters like these have. It almost sounds like real water bubbling. Turn this up loud!" You can find the demo here.

Votrax SC-01-A Speech Synthesizer

YouTube via ThisIsATest000
"A Votrax SC-01-A Speech Synthesizer is dusted off and placed in-circuit for old time's sake. Amazing, but it works! In fact, I've set up a CGI so you can send your own phonemes to this very SC01A.

I've published examples, translation tables, and a live CGI interface so you can mess around with it.

Go to http://www.riana.com/electronics and choose 'Today's Experiment'."

CASIO VL-1 No.7 by S-CAT

YouTube via PHONICPOTION. "CIRCUIT BENT with 9 MODIFICATIONS"

Roland Jupiter-4 Analog Synthesizer by RetroSound

YouTube via retrosound72

"vintage synth demo by RetroSound

Roland Jupiter-4 Analog Synthesizer from the year 1978

used by: Vince Clarke, Human League, Duran Duran, Thomas Dolby and many more"

Matti Bye recording the Baldwin Orga-sonic

YouTube via RothHandle
"Yesterday we started working aon a n albums worth of Cirkus Music. And here is a short film of Matti recording an Idea on the Baldwin Orga-sonic organ.

For more information or booking please visit www.roth-handle.nu"

Coron DS8 Clones mods by Synthmonger

YouTube via synthmonger
"This was made for Jeswa.

Mods = Extended range on VCO, Decay, LFO, individual outputs and master output with attenuators, individual and master CV input with attenuators for VCO and VCA.

CV input is 0-5V. The trigger is an envelope follower and amplitude remains high as long as the gate signal is high."

MPC electronics The KIT drum Synth

via this auction
"Ultra rare MPC electronics The KIT analog drum Synthesizer. You trigger the sound by playing the pads with your fingers. The Syn kit enables the user to obtain a wide variety of syndrum sounds by altering the Sweep (which varies the depth of the sound), Decay (sets the decay time), and Pitch (sets the frequency range of the sweep) controls on the front panel. As well as force-to-volume sensitivity, tapping the pad harder will produce a relatively deeper sweep and longer decay time. the virtual version will give you an Idea of what it can do, but that is just a simple setting you can change that when you get the KIT unit."