Elaine Walker

Elaine Walker aka.
Elaine of ZIA
the gear

via Sendling



ZIA @ Rogue in Scottsdale, AZ - May 2008 (Buchla Rise)
YouTube via miselaineeous

dreamwatcher_olivier briand

YouTube via oliveworld. "Improvisation with my analog synths"

Doepfer LFO MIDI Sync & Analog FM Glitch

YouTube via isotopeofme
"The LFO of the A-191 is triggering the envelopes. One envelope opens the VCA, the other modulates the frequency of the A-121 filter. The LFO from the pro-solo is FM-ing one VCO while the resonance of the A-122 LPF is FM-ing the other VCO for varying LFO effects each time the envelope opens. The frequency of the a-122 is being modulated by the A-147 LFO. The timing of the square LFO triggers the envelope on the upbeats. The combination of synced and free running LFOs FM-ing the VCOs provides a nice pseudo-random glitch-like accompaniment to the drum track that comes in about a quarter of the way into the video. The rest of the instrumentation joins about half way into the video to show how it fits into a full track."

Happy Knobbing 2008 Teil 9

YouTube via elektrosurfer. Happy Knobbing via elektrosurger here.

"Happy Knobbing 2008 Teil 9
Jam [ACA & Moondust & Tronique]
Doepfer Modular
Theiss Modular"

Happy Knobbing 2008 Teil 3


"Happy Knobbing 2008 Teil 3
scaff
doepfer cwejman"

Oberheim OB-8

images via this auction

Roland SPV-355 PV Synth Module

images via this auciton

"super rare vintage 1979 Roland SPV-355 analogue pitch to CV monosynth module... Absolutely awesome sounding analogue module. Can do some really crazy stuff and is extremely flexible. Definitely one for the creative experimentalist in you. Can be used as a crazy guitar synth, voice synth, whatever-you-put-into-it synth, Pitch to CV converter i.e. you can control all your other CV/gate synths too with a guitar or another keyboard using this, or can simply be used as an analogue keyboard module by using it's CV and Gate inputs. Feed your boring drum machine through it...feed an 808 or a 909 into it etc etc. Ideal to use with the VP-330 vocoder synth. Sounds similar to the the Roland Promars and Jupiter 4 as it uses very similar architecture:

The Promars shares its unusual oscillator structure with just one other synthesizer. This is another Roland: it's the SPV355 rackmount synth. Designed as a guitar or wind synth, the SPV offered pitch-to-voltage conversion (hence the name) and an envelope follower that, in principle, allowed you to play it from other sound sources. However, in common with other instruments of the era (such as the Korg MS20) it was never very successful in this role, so it's fortunate that the SPV also offered CV and Gate inputs and outputs. This makes it an ideal expander for the modern analogue studio, and for this reason you will probably find that the SPV355 now commands a higher price than the Promars itself.

The features are all pretty well explained below but I would like to add that effecting the VCO pitch or VCF cutoff is very easy by using the LFO from your Kenton Pro Solo or pro 2000 or other MIDI to CV converter and also by hooking it up to the Pedal Control section. You can do so much with this analogue module that other synths won't do and it does most of the usual mono synth stuff very, very well."

Click here for a review on Sound on Sound.

Tijuana Sound Machine / Nortec

YouTube via pepemogt.

Be sure to watch this one through - analog synthfest at the end. BTW, also checkout all of pepemogts videos posted here as well as this post I did for CDM on Latinsizer. Great stuff.

video details
"Nortec Collective presents:
Bostich+Fussible
Tijuana Sound Machine

Fisrt single from our Album,
video by Checo Brown

enjoy!

Stnths:
EMS VCS3, Arp Osyssey, Avatar, Arp 2600, Sequential Prophet 5, Oberheim Four Voice, Eml Electrocomp 200, Orgon"

Making Music with Muscles & Electrodes

YouTube via HELOSMTP. via Music Thing where you can find some more info.
"analog muscle synthesizer demo"

DrNI:EM - Electronic Music as free as in Free Speech

YouTube via DrNIx123. I asked DrNIx123 what synth was used in this video and he replied:
"the synth is an Oberheim(-Viscount) OB-12 with some minimal modification to a factory preset ("A-064 Chimney" from the timbres) and the on-board arpeggiator.

I recorded it just for fun for a little review on that synth, it's nothing special but I think the "tune" is good enough for a little experiment in the video domain.

The review is in German and can be found here" You can find it in Googlish here.

Video Description:
"A little trash-artistic promotion video for DrNI: EM, my electronic music project. Created by minimal means (digital photo camera, Cinelerra). This video may vanish in the future or it may be replaced by a an improved version.

This video and the music are distributed under a Creative Commons license. Read this: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...

Further information about DrNI: EM is available here: http://www.drni.de/em/"

Elektor Retronics presents: Formant Sound Demo

YouTube via ElektorIM.
"The Formant Synthesizer was published in Elektor magazine during 1977-1979. It was the first mini analogue synthesizer around with modular construction that could be built at home at an affordable price. A tribute article appears in Elektor, April 2008.
** best played LOUD **"