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Dutch Space Mission- 3rd set @ E-Live

YouTube via filbyhyde22. follow-up to this post.
"part of the opening of the 3rd and last set recorded at E-live in Eindhoven on 11-10-08."

2 cool videos from Different Skies 2008

"We'd like to thank everyone for their support and their patience; after some
delay, two videos are available now for viewing on the Different Skies site.

http://www.differentskies.com/DS2008/differentskies2e.html

These are links to movies streamed from vimeo.com that should work without a
password.

One video is a short piece by Jeff Kunzelman called "The Process" which is
more artistic/atmospheric than outright informational; it interleaves footage
of music being made at Arcosanti with shots of the surrounding environment and
some footage of our reaction to the sudden rainstorm that inundated the stage
and drove us all to shelter the day before the concert. (The soundtrack is an
unedited live improv session from one of the nighttime "all star jams", btw.)

This video is of particular interest to music historians because it
conclusively documents that at least once in our 20-year musical association,
Nick Rothwell gave me musical direction and I took it without arguing. It also
shows off how Jim Combs looks in a burnoose, and showcases Jeannie Allen's
expertise at catching skinks running loose in the backstage lounge.

The other video is the long-awaited Different Skies 2008 "gear porn" video.
These videos, wherein the participants in DS describe precisely what they're
using for that year's show, have been very popular since their inception some
years past. Giles Reaves and Greg Hurley have done them before, and they've
been very extensive and detailed... this year's version, by Nick Rothwell, is
(we believe) the most comprehensive one yet, covering absolutely everything
used at DS 2008 (and showing the results of the aforementioned rainstorm at
one juncture in the film).

Audio from the concerts and from the improv "all star jams" is forthcoming;
it's in the edit and assembly process. In the meantime, we hope that DS fans
and armchair participants around the world will enjoy setting aside a chunk of
time to watch these movies and enjoy a little taste of what the festival is
like.

My apologies for the crossposting; please feel free to pass these links around
to anyone you feel might be interested, especially since so many people seem
to really get off on the gear-porn movies.

Best regards,

mike"

via Cikira

Sea Devils Filter filled the 44th space - Synthesizers.com

YouTube via angelometz
"I finally completed my 44 spaces! This patch features the Sea Devis Filter by STG Soundlabs, and the dotcom clipper/rectifier."

Vintage Synthesizers

flickr by ▬ nelson ▬
(click for more)

"...Hiding in the closet."

full size

Moog Minimoog
Oxford Synthesizer Company OSCar
Roland JX-3P

Dutch Space Mission @ E-live

YouTube via filbyhyde22
"the second part of the first set recorded live in Eindhoven at E-live on 11-10-08. Dutch Space Mission is a collaboration between the artists Phrozenlight and Von Haulshoven"
via the forum:
radias
an1x
nord rack 3
jp 8080
ks-rack
m vs1
motif xs rack
two maq`s

Palm Sounds Live May 2008

YouTube via PalmSounds

"Some excerpts from my live show earlier this year. I've finally got around to editing them into something that can be watched. Find out more about mobile music making here:
http://the-palm-sound.blogspot.com/"
Tags: Palm Treo Tungsten Bhajis Loops Buzzer Kaos Pad Kaossilator SunVox iPod NinerPaint PDA

Magic Smoke Electronics Thomas Henry 21st Century LFO

via Tim Servo on this electro-music.com thread:
AS21C "Super LFO" PCBs available
"Call it the "Super LFO," call it the "TH-301," call it the "Cucamonga," call it the "LFO with the three page schematic from Thomas Henry's AS21C book," call it anything you like, but we finally have some available!

With some assistance from the ever-talented Dave Brown, we've finished shaking down the first run of PCBs for the TH-301 "Cucamonga" LFO. This is a nifty little unit with some interesting features:
*VC frequency
*Selectable Sine, Tri, Saw or Ramp output
*Gate and Trigger outputs
*Sync Input
*Built in Lag function for delayed vibrato and other similar effects
*Built in Delay (acts like a gate delay) to delay the onset of the "Lag" function
*Delay time period can be started by a keyboard gate (or other similar signal) or by an NC footswitch
*LED frequency indicator, since we all like blinky lights!

PLEASE KEEP IN MIND: These boards are Rev01. As such, they need a few tweaks for things that will be fixed on a later rev. You'll need to do two cuts, add two jumpers, and add a couple of parts. I would NOT recommend this for a first project. You really should have built a few things before this, and have an oscilloscope for tweaking the waveform trims. Still, if you've been wanting a very full-featured LFO, this just might do the trick for you. The LFO schematic in AS21C really is a three pager, so this is something you'll definitely want a PCB for. To my knowlege, Scott Stites is the only person brave enough to have attempted this circuit on a breadboard (more likely two or more breadboards). Note that you'll need an 8038 function gen chip, LM555 timer, 3080 OTA, TL074 quad op amp, 1458 dual op amp and CD4016 analog switch chips for this board.

The normal selling price for the TH-301 LFO board will be $20, but we have about ten of the Rev01 boards and since they need the tweaks mentioned above, we're selling them for $12 each. Shipping will be $3.50 in North America, and $5.50 to UK/EU/Aus. If you're interested, PayPal funds to <see the thread>. If you need more info, either shout out here, or send us a message at the magsmoke Gmail address.

Again, I have to give a huge THANK YOU to Dave Brown for helping with this. I've got other Magic Smoke projects in the pipeline, we've just reissued two Thomas Henry books (with another on the way), and our day jobs keep John and I hopping, so there is NO way we could have gotten the TH-301 out the door this soon without some extra assistance. Dave was a great help, and as always, has made a nifty web page with some details and o-scope screen shots:
http://modularsynthesis.com/magicsmoke/as21c-lfo/lfo.htm

Other AS21C boards will follow, but I wanted to get the most complicated PCB finished first. I should have a TH-301 "Cucamonga" with a quickie DIY face panel at the AH Nor Cal show on the 25th if you want to come check it out (and you happen to be in northern California).

Cheers!
Tim (happens to be in northern California) Servo"

Dübreq iStylophone 2008 - iStylophone Trilogy

Classic (front)
Bass (back left)
and Treble (back right)

more images

Coming from The Very Cool Software Company

"Welcome to The Very Cool Software Company web site. Very Cool Software is a new London, UK based company that specializes in developing and bringing to market music and games software applications for the Apple Mac OS X operating system and the Apple iPhone, iPod and iPod Touch platforms.

Very Cool Software is coming soon..."

DIY electronics and Arduino Workshop Merz Akademie

"Electronics workshop at Merz Akademie.
Pictures and videos here: http://gieskes.nl/pix/
School site: http://merz-akademie.de/
Workshop by: http://gieskes.nl"

Image Scan Sequencer

YouTube via ggijs
"This is a scanner that can scan a image and play it back as midi notes. For more info go here: http://gieskes.nl/instruments/?file=i..."

Arduino Image Scanner