The Largest Roland TB-303 in the World

Well, not a functionl one, but there you have it.

via Camp303:
"I'm the organizer of the Camp303 campsite stage at the Norbergfestival (www.norbergfestival.com) and one of my friends donated this gigantic tb303 print to our camp! It's a photo of one of my 303's that he printed in 2,5x5 meter format."

Poll: Obeheim Xpander and Matrix-12 Displays

AG wrote in to let me know that the Oberheim Xpander and Matrix-12 Yahoo! user group, Xpantastic, is taking a poll on who would be interested in purchasing replacement displays for their Xpander and Matrix-12. He asked me to put a poll up here for anyone not on the group. So, here it is. I thought I'd put up two polls. One on whether you own or plan to own an Xpander or Matrix-12 just to get a count of how many are out there as well as interest, and one on whether you would be interested in picking up the displays.





Details via AG:
"I had an interesting topic come up and wanted to share. Matrix-12's and Xpanders use these discontinued VF Displays. No one makes them anymore. I have spoken with Noritake about remanufacturing the old ones as a custom order. The Xpantastic yahoo group is currently taking a poll of Xpander and Matrix-12 owners to see how many replacement VFDs they would buy if the price was less than $150 per display (each matrix-12 or xpander uses 3 displays). This is a weird part that may not have been used on anything other than these two machines (as far as we know) and it would be awesome if you could encourage owners of these Oberheims (and the techs/repair houses who work on 'em) to sign up and take the poll to get an idea if this project makes sense."

Update: an image of a Noritake display installed on an SCI Studio 4404, via Benny in the comments.

The Solar Powered Theremin. electronic music unplugged.

YouTube via MarbleMad. A great way to share nature with others.
"This is MORE than another optical theremin. This is a SOLAR POWERED theremin.

The Heliophone, an electronics kit available from:

http://www.clockworkrobot.com

The theremin was the worlds first electronic musical instrument and this tiny kit version has the added advantage of working with no need for batteries or external power. It works purely on solar power so when the oil runs out and civilisation crumbles to dust, you'll be glad it's not the end for electronic music.

More information about the solar theremin can be found here:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/kinetic-...

The kit is very easy to build and suitable for beginners in electronics. It does require some soldering though."

Solar Powered Theremin Part 2

"The Solar Powered theremin can be easily modified so it can be used with effects units and an amp. For more information see: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/kinetic-..."

Mint Tin Modular Synth

YouTube via MarbleMad. Sent my way via George. Hmm... this might actually be smaller than the MMM.
"A modular analogue synth system that fits inside altoids tins.
Here we have the synthesizer (a tweaked Atari Punk console) and a clock + power all housed in one altoids tin and an analogue sequencer housed in a second Altoids tin. Later a second sequencer module is added to increase the number of steps from 8 to 16.
I apologise for the darkness of the vid. Made it a little late in the day."

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TR-909 Not as Described

flickr by national.sickness

flickr set with the story behind this TR-909 here.

Japanese Synthesizer

YouTube via th0m4svu. Yes this is pretty stupid, but funny. Anyone know more about that song? I'm curious if it's an actual released track. I think the camera man at 2:20 sums it up well, but it just keeps going... For something more professional see this. I'm also wondering how many tracks out there mention the word synthesizer. I'm sure there's plenty. If you know of any post it in the comments.

Update: And... The original found by Beamer in the comments:
Petr Skoumal - I Am A Japanese Synthesizer (1994)

YouTube via Vaanek
"Music video from CD Hotelový pokoje_1994. Music+text:P.Skoumal"

Nobody's Diary - Yazoo Cover - feat. Marie Haddad & Casio MT-400V

YouTube via peahix

"This is a cover of the Yazoo song "Nobody's Diary." Marie Haddad did the singing, I did the music/production. This was largely an experiment to see what could be done with an old Casio MT-400V, which was used for all the sounds in the backing track. The video consists of a slow pan across the Casio's control panel. This MT-400V has a nice resonant analog filter, which was used heavily here. Some other effects were used on the Casio sounds, most notably a pitch shifter on the bass, to get it down an octave lower.

To hear this without the crappy YouTube mono/compressed audio, visit Marie at http://www.myspace.com/mariehaddad"

New YouTube Audio Compression Image

This post updated with a graphic of the compression from Sonic State. See Sonic State for their notes on it. And of course, don't forget Sonic State TV for video hosting. I'm moving my videos there as well.

Modified Stylophone

YouTube via lazenbleep
"Quick and dirty clip of a circuit bent 'new' stylophone. I added a more robust 3 way voice switch and a dirty feedback knob
http://www.haha-fresh.blogspot.com"