"First thing to notice about the MK is the nice retro design… Ok, maybe second thing… the first being the awful mini keys. Why O why? Let’s deal with that right away and move on : the biggest issue with the MK might be the keyboard, and no, making it black don’t change anything."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/piao/ "Alan Freeman looks at the history of the synthesiser, from its origins over a century ago right up to the digital samplers." There's a link on the right pane of the site when you get there. It appears to require Real Player. via Ollie.
"This video is a quick demonstration of my guitar with 2 itouch ipods mounted onto the body of the guitar.
The ipod closest to the guitar pick ups is running Itouch Midi's Martix app which im using to send midi to Ableton Live on my Macbook via wifi.
And the itouch near the bottom is running Bloom designed by Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers, Bloom is a generative music application.
Note: in this video bloom is just being run through my mixer when i play live it is run through various patches to alter it a bit.
The reason i shake the guitar is to clear bloom and start a new pattern, each time i shake it, it clears the boards and lets you start again.
Note: this video is just me messing around with a quick live set i through together just for the video its nothing real special but it shows kinda what im doing for my live sets, one thing that im not using in the video that is in my live setup is various Pd(puredata) patches.
YouTube via BrianWilliamGreen "This is a video of my hand made synth made by kyle evans and i am processing the sound through ableton live and controlling it with my itouch. More Info On My Projects Like These @ www.ihatebriangreen.com
YouTube via griffinavid "RECEPTOR 2 PRO and RECEPTOR 2 PRO MAX These new models of Receptor are faster, smarter, and better in all respects than the previous generation. They feature entirely new computational engines including incredibly fast dual-core processors that offer twice the power of the previous generation, new SATA-2 storage systems that offer three times more disc bandwidth, 10 times the networking speed, and 50% more memory that is twice as fast as before."
"Early music synthesizers required patch cords to interconnect the modules, leading to a rat's nest of wires. This model eliminated the mess with a cross-connect panel, visible in the lower left. See the close-up photo."
YouTube via spunkytoofers "the scribbler. a circuit bent crayola keyboard. features include a switch to toggle between two "basscapes" two completely different glitches that makes the keyboard spit out rhythmic figures of bass tones, beeps, squalls, screams, and general rhythmic backgrounds. the switch toggles between two different head sets of the bass thick rhythmic sound textures.. the two note polyphony of the lofi keyboard breaks up both sounds of polyphony into possible bassscape voices. with that kind of breakup of lofi sound it produces all kinds of interesting modulation with and against those two notes of polyphony.. to make things more interesting modulation wise the scribbler features an lfo with depth and rate to help modulate and coax sounds into different rhythmic backdrops. besides the bass scape settings the instrument functions as normal as a warm lovely square wave sound of piano and organ. there is a simple onboard sequencer and some cheesy demos. it tends to sound really great with analog filters and other types of modulation devices..
in this particular demo the scribbler is utilized with a jomox t resonator and a electro harmonix tube zipper is routed in a feedback loop within the jomox t resonator. the scribbler definately sounds good to my ears in envelope followers, filters, delay and anything to compliments its thick sounding evolving rhythmic ambient nature.
the keyboard comes with pitch knob, a switch to control two different glitch bass rhythmic textures. an lfo with depth and rate, a switched speaker with a quarter inch out. lfo indicator in red and a vintage green pilot lens to indicate power. all components, knobs, switches, etc match the keyboard and the look is to blend in with the color scheme of the keyboard's original design. the scribbler runs on 4 AA batteries.
the circuit bent scribblers are available by sale and commision. i'll have a small run of original stock crayola keyboards. keyboard is over 10 years old and out of market. new in the box keyboards ready to go."
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