Goodbye 2008 - The Most Important Decision of 2008

Two vids. One good, one bad, you decide below. Not sure if this is fair as the bottom video isn't even from 2008, but neither is most of the content on this site, so... :) Vintage or...

Guru Josh Project - Infinity 2008 (Official Video - Klaas Vocal Edit)

YouTube via HammerDontHurtEm. via Lt. John Rambo's Goodbye 2008 post which obviously instigated this post and thus gets the title. "A freak like me... just needs the Trinity."

Disclaimer: so as you've probably figured out by now, my number one rule in putting up a post is that you have to be able to ID the synth. I'm usually pretty strict on this, but during the holidays I lighten up a bit. As for this post, the excuse for posting is the KORG Trinity. Or is it the Triton? Who knows... Enjoy the sax... or not.

As for the second video...

Fluke - Atombomb (Video Version)

The synth connection is... the KORG Trinity... and the Synth Babes of course, although the only real Synth Babe is in Fluke. I actually saw Fluke live over a decade ago. I remember the female in the band playing the Trinity live. I was quite impressed. At the time my friend gave me a call and let me know Spectrum was playing the same night. I already had tickets to Fluke so I went with Fluke. My friend told me Spectrum had this funny little suitcase synth which turned out to be the EMS Synthi. In hindsight, Synthi aside, I made the right choice. Fluke was indeed impressive and this video was a track for the times. Good memories... New Years shouldn't just be a reflection of the prior year in my opinion, but rather your life up until this point. Past. Present. Future. Make it all good.



The vote for the hell of it...



BTW, I'll be putting up my traditional Happy New Years post with stats for the year tomorrow on the day. As the festivities will obviously happen before then, have a VERY HAPPY (AND SAFE) NEW YEAR! SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE!!!

MB-6582

flickr by SineSurfer
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inside the MIDIBox SID

Noisebug Buchla and Plan B at Winter NAMM

http://noisebug.net/
http://buchla.com/
http://www.ear-group.net

Dictee Supreme

YouTube via bubagoo.
"This is a heavily modified learning toy called La Dictee Magique.
That's the french version of the much more common Speak&Spell.
I added the standard range of glitch and pitch bends and also added:
-Pitch modulation LFO
-2 Baby driver toy sound circuits
-Voice changing megaphone sound processor circuit
-Atari joystick control port (for triggering sounds and glitches)
-Defibrillator paddle control jacks (trigger sounds and HOLD effect)
For more info go to casperelectronics.com"
The Magic Dictator! as in dictation of course.

Roland TR 700 Rhythm 1974?

YouTube via abertronic. "its big and from the 70'S"

Big Toad with Newt Sequencer Demo

YouTube via bluelantern320
"Demo of a rare Big Toad Synth with all CV's routed for Semi Modular action. Only 1 was made and auction on ebay."

BIGTOAD alone

"DEMO OF A RARE SEMI-MODULAR TOAD SYNTH USING A KORG EA-1 AS A MIDI CONTROLLER (NOTES ONLY)."

Doepfer Analog Modular Synthesizer System

via this auction
"Livewire:
Frequensteiner multimode filter

Doepfer:
2x A-110 VCO
A-146 LFO
A-131 Exp VCA
A-143-2 quad ADSR
A-119 Ext. In.
Blanking panels"

Update: this was supposed to go up on MATRIXSYNTH-B. Oh well... there you have it. Click on each for the full size shot.

Oberheim Matrix-12

via this auction

via N o n p l u s

Paul McCartney - Coming Up (Music Video)

YouTube via beatlesfan4ever13. Yamaha CS80. I'm guessing the brass is the CS80.

Transanalog Casio SK-1 MIDI Retrofit

via TRANSANALOG
"Works for SK-1, SK-5, SK-8, SK-10, and DM-100 (top keyboard). Available soon for PT-1, VL-1, Yamaha VSS-30 and many others.

All features accessible from side of keyboard!

User selectable MIDI channel or set it to respond to all MIDI channels. Can also be set to respond to the first MIDI channel received after reset.

SK-MIDI retrofit turns on and off with the keyboard. Will not drain the batteries.

Responds to MIDI notes 53 to 84.

Optional out of range loop feature allows the SK-MIDI to respond to MIDI notes 0 to 127.

Best of all - the internal speaker is retained!"