Steiner Parker Synthacon with analog "151 sequencer"

YouTube via b3nsf. See this post for the previous videos.
"I just got the sequencer 151 back from my tech, working great now with both channels, one controlling pitch, the other cutoff frequency... The Steiner Parker Synthacon sounds friggin awesome like usual... the sound!!!"

Korg DS-10 Boxart versions

flickr by Racum

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We're All Alone - Yamaha FX1 Track

via Jason in the comments of this post on Jimmy and the Yamaha FX1. BTW, if you haven't seen that post yet, do it, it's a pretty cool bit of history. That said:

"Add another FX1 to the list of found. This one was purchased new to be, of all things, a church organ! My father was a Yamaha dealer at the time and he was offered the chance to "test" a new model of the Electone series. It was actually purchased in 1982 (yep, before it was released). The serial number on it was "XXX" and there was nothing on the organ indicating it was an FX1. I always thought it was kind of strange Yamaha would send something like this to such a small town to be tested. Anyway, the organ is now gone after being struck by lightning in 1989. It sat out in an alley exposed to the elements for 7 years before it was finally hauled off to the dump. I tried to stop that, but I was only 15 when it was drug off, so I didn't have a choice.
I'll always remember that organ as being the "Star Trek" organ. The kids of the church would just sit at it and change the settings to make the sliders move on their own. Anyone else think it looked like a console out of Star Trek TNG? haha
btw, here's a link to an MP3 file of a demonstration of the organ playing."

drums through doepfer modular along with juno-60

YouTube via analogueak
"AUDIO PATH (hi hat and snare): drum mic, compressor, external input, audio divider, filter, wave shape r, waveform processor, reverberation, mixer, rec-
DRUM TRIGGER PATH (bass drum sound): mounted to bass drum, envelope generator, oscillator, filter, amp, mixer, re c
AUDIO AS TRIGGER PATH (bass line): external input gate out, clock divider, trigger sequencer, oscillator, filter, amp, mixer, re c
random voltage is modulating various parameters.
and a Juno on top."

POLIVOKS

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"The Polyvox is a duophonic analog synthesizer, with a 49-note (F-E) keyboard. It was made and sold in Russia (then USSR). It features two VCOs, a noise generator, one LFO, a filter (low-pass and bandpass), and two ADSR envelope generators. VCO1 can be cross-modulated by VCO2. Each ADSR can be switched to auto-trigger, each with independent rates.The sound is quite rich and somewhat harsh and aggressive. This is more of a space-synth. You can be sure that you will have never heard the sounds this one can produce. It sounds like these old Yamaha CS-30's, but then fat filters like in Moogs. Polyvox comes with a lockable hard shock resistant aluminum case covered with plastic, also there are two plastic compartments attached to the inside." see the seller's other items for more.
sounds
Panel translation in english

Formanta

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"Formanta mini soviet extremely rare guitar-like digital-analog poly synth!!!! It looks like moog liberation or similar... It was manufactured in same formanta polivoks factory, this model are from the latest formanta synths line as kvintet, maestro, formanta p-432, it has 32 very unique and powerfull preset sounds, 8 voices polyphony, unison mode, modulation control and other functions.

Panel functions:
preset select knobs - banks 0-3, sounds 0-7
unison mode -on/off
fine tuning +/- 1 semitone
vibrato - depth, freq level
main volume level

on the grip - 2 sustain, vibrato, solo knobs, glissando controller (slide pitch shifter)"

samples at the auction or here

Breakaway Vocalizer 1000 Voice Synthesizer

via this auction

"These units are great for bizzare instrumentation, hacking/circuit bending, and kids. If you don't know how it works, basically you sing into the mic and it generates corresponding synthesized sounds- you can pick the sound. It also allows you to accompany a bunch of built in songs and rhythms. A total trip."

Update via Musicwise in the comments: "I have one of these and the real value in the Breakaway is realtime Audio to MIDI. You have to power it up with the yellow button pressed and it will then output anything you sing into it as MIDI. You can bend or even switch octaves as you play. I use it to capture vocals as MIDI or to perform sax solos with Saxlab and for writing intricate bass lines. Fantastic box!"

arp odyssey 2813

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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