Vesta Kaza midi to cv converter

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"Vesta Kaza midi to cv converter that was originally made to accompany a sampler by the same company. It funtions as a standard 1v/oct midi to cv converter, but it only works over 3 octaves. Which would be perfect if you had a compact keyboard controller, or triggering a bass mono synth line, or if you were triggering a freqbox (which only has a 3 octave triggering range, at best. ) Operation is very simple, by setting the desired highest note on your keyboard or sequencer, it will convert all midi notes 3 octaves below set point. limited range, but where are you going to find a converter at this price? I have been using this with a little phatty, and a freqbox, and works just like it should! i put a cooler knob on the tuning pot, but the original purple one will ship with it!"

Moog Rogue

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XLR8R TV Episode 70: Eliot Lipp

XLR8R TV Episode 70: Eliot Lipp from XLR8RTV on Vimeo.
"Brooklyn-based electro-hip-hop specialist Eliot Lipp has lots of reasons to stay inside: his amazing collection of analog gear, for one. In this episode, we pry him out of his studio and get him to talk about his new album, The Outside, as well as indulge in some bottom-of-the-barrel crate-digging and ice cream—but not without a good, old-fashioned in-studio synth nerd-out first."

Bathysphere Studio

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Plan-B ELF Wave Splicer and ASR Demos

Sent my way via REwire.
Also posted on Muff's Modules & More.

WAVE SPLICER DEMO
I put two waveforms into the WS and used envelopes and LFO's to mod the splice point. The splice uses the front half of one wave and the back half of the other to make a new waveform. The open sound has me manually turning the spice point. You hear a high sine then over to the saw and the mayhem in between. Mixing detuned or high and low waveforms makes the harshest sounds. The sweet spot of splice point itself can get real ring mod sounding and many of my sounds take advantage of that. Also two synced PWM pulses in each input plus an LFO to the splice point does a damn good AFG imitation.

ANALOG SHIFT REGISTER DEMO
For this demo I sent the outputs of the ASR to 3 oscillators set to same tuned saws. The speed of the clock you apply shifts the incoming CV to all three outputs at that clock rate. Using keyboard CV you can have each osc delay it's note change by clock speed. If you use clock at fast speed it will make the three oscs 10 times thicker sounding than if they were played normally and mixed. Also used LFO to dive the notes down and random to go all over the place. The end of the demo has the ASR send an env signal to two filters, one on left and one on right,. You hear the delay of one to the other.

I highly recommend both modules."

The Model 40 Headphone PreAmp

via Plan B

"The Model 40 Headphone PreAmp.

An ELF series 5532A-based Pre.

Alternate lives as an amplification stage for main system output or guitar pedals"

You can find more info on the Model 40 Headphone PreAmp product page.

The Model 37 ELF LFO

via Plan B

"The Model 37 ELF LFO

Broad range, 4HP wide triangle core VC LFO

Phase accurate Hard Sync input

Freq range of 1 cycle/30 seconds to 9Khz makes it the perfect audio band utility VCO

VC Input scaled to 1V/oct when attenuator fully CW.

Triangle, Ramp, Square and Pulse outputs"

You can find more info on the Model 37 ELF LFO product page.

Little Boots

YouTube via PureGrooveTV. via Kwerk. Titles and descriptions for each video:

1. Little Boots 1st ever gig @ Pure Groove

"for the full video and loads more videos, free downloads and the best new music around please come on over to http://www.puregroove.co.uk"

2. little boots READY FOR THE FUN!!! hot chip tenorion cover

"ok are you ready for the FUN?!? here is cover of hot chip's ready for the floor, its not exactly perfect but best i can do on the amazing tenorion!!! i turned the light off so u can see a bit better... and so u can't see my hair... i don't even wanna talk about it........

also can i just say the words were on the computer that's why i keep looking at the screen... like a berk

send me requests for next week... no one requested this i just wanted to make all the bleeps! LOLCONFERENCE!"

3. little boots MEDDLE bedroom version - acoustic on piano, tenorion and stylophone oo la la

"bonjour friends here is a bedroom version of my new song MEDDLE which is actually gonna be released properly... oooooo wow i hear you say.... on 7 inch vinyl in August with some super cool remixes hurray.... anyway here's a naf version i did at home with some of my gadgets, pretty messy as usual, sorry its not my fault... blame gold cat...."

4. Little Boots - Meddle [New Single 2008]

"A new single from the absolutely fablous Little Booys entitled Meddle. SHOULD BE HUGE IF THERE IS ANY JUSTINCE IN THE WORLD."

Microkorg organ presets

YouTube via Nismology5
"Running through all the digital organs on the microkorg."