KP3-001

YouTube via F8sequence

KAOSS PAD KP3 (p002)


KAOSS PAD KP3 (p001)

BLACET DIGITAL PATTERN GENERATOR

via this auction
"unique, one of a kind Blacet Digital Pattern Generator for a modular synthesizer system. A real piece of synthesizer history.

It was planned for production, but never made it: instead, John Blacet wrote an article about how to make the module as a kit in the then popular magazine Synapse. See
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The DPG is basically the predecessor of the Blacet Binary zone BZ2300 Complex Control Voltage Generator. See http://www.blacet.com/BZ.html

This particular module was built as a prototype by John Blacet himself in the 1970’s, and served as the original for the article in Synapse. I know John built it, as I bought it directly from him years ago. This is not a production model, it's a hand made module on stripboard with a hand made front panel. Some functions are etched in the metal (see pics). This would be a truly unique addition to any modular system. It interfaces with mini jacks, though conversion to something like banana plugs wouldn't be difficult as they will fit on the same holes."

Korg DS-10 Daft Punk - Da Funk

YouTube via DSacid. "Daft Punk - Da Funk on Korg DS-10"

Korg DS-10 Acid "Slag"

"A tune that is a collaboration between me and my new lover, the Korg DS-10"

Korg DS-10 Acid "Flux"

"'Flux' a progressive house sort of thing"

Korg DS-10 Acid "Quack"

YouTube via DSacid. "Hello, I wrote a tune. It's called 'Quack'..."

DR-550 2

YouTube via anode8
"Circuit bent Boss DR-550 mkII drum machine with 2 distortion and 2 glitch switches."

DR-220

"Circuit bent Boss DR-220 drum machine with 8 point patchbay."

zimmifryl

zimmifryl from Stephen Drake on Vimeo.
"Here's some noodling I did on my homemade synth on New Years day. It's not a real composition, as it's improvised throughout, and I can't/couldn't reproduce the settings I found along the way. Most of the sound is sourced from my klee sequencer.

And, so there's no mystery - there are no industry secrets here...

This patch was put together over several days of basically a few minutes here and there of fooling with it. I also didn't have enough patch cords to finish it, so had to make new ones during the process. And there are still some odd ones in there.

Clock is the blacet binary zone, picked because it's about the only clock source that'll run the mfos sequencer. Clock into the klee, and also into the cgs pulse divider - woops, first big problem - the mfos sequencer doesn't want to work after the clock has been through the pulse divider. Yikes. Through some strange experimental urge, I try plugging the pulse divider out into the motm 510 wavewarper, and for some reason the mfos sequencer works that way. Odd.

The original idea with the mfos sequencer was to have a fixed sequence of bass bell tones, which I had set up at one point, but was never really happy with it, and kept on devolving it so finally it was just popping the gate on a fixed pitch triangle wave every 16 clock ticks - doh... doh... doh... doh... doh...

Pitch setting on the klee are basically very simple - just 4 basic intervals - 2 seconds, 1 minor third, 2 fourths, and 1 fifth. Tuned precisely with a tuner so the intervals will add up to diatonic pitches (I know, how boring, but I'm a classically trained musician, what can I do...). The gate bus switches are mostly in the center position, with just one or two up or down, and I changed them on the fly during the noodle. Mostly the thing is in 16x1 mode, invert off, although there are times when I change things. I also flipped the merge switches on and off at various points.

The klee driven sounds are pretty straightforward - the fixed pitch outs (all three) are all going to motm 300 vco's 1v/oct ins, saw outs, and the vco's are all tuned to the same pitch, except one thats up an octave. All of these through standard motm vca's controlled by my modded motm eg's, driven by the 3 gate outs. The first entrance is going through a motm 480 filter, the second voice is through a mankato filter, and the third voice is through the tellun doomsday machine and then a motm 440 filter (which is a really delicious sounding combo). I finally have a real mixer (motm 830), so no wierdness there this time. Some little fiddling that occurred during the thing - I ran cables from the various glide outs from the klee to the freguency mod ins on the various filters - mixed them up, so filter freq is different than the vco freq, and the various knobs that control all this are turned on during the piece. I also turned on a bit of bleed on the vca's near the end - I like that effect, and meant to do it earlier, but forgot.

Video is an attempt to have 2 cameras going - a stationary one on a tripod, and a handheld, my little flip thing. The handheld one was mostly useless - I couldn't really run the synth and keep the camera focused on anything except for some brief moments. Edited in Final Cut Express, my first time using it, and there was a steep learning curve, hence no niceties such as cross-fades and titles. Maybe next time. Had to get some help from the apple support forums along the way - very handy resource! The audio was captured seperately in cubase (stereo this time!), and a little reverb was added, but that's all.

That's it!

[no LPG's or wogglebugs were used in the production of this video. Rats.]"

TheRainbow - KMS StringsOfLife

YouTube via BIM0X. monome-like
"TheRainbow plays Strings of Life by Kevin Saunderson through Ableton Live 6"

Update: more vids:

TheRainbow - Sweep

"Présentation of my new MIDI controller : the Rainbow.
Soft touch buttons Monome like, each one has a RGB Led inside.
64 buttons, 7 colours available. Based on midibox (www.ucapps.de)
Powered by PIC18F452. Completly indépendant, it doesn't need a computer to work.
Midi and output via MIDI messages"

TheRainbow - Tests functions


TheRainbow - MIDI Feedback

"Playing the Rainbow with Live 6 and Battery 3 as it was a midi keyboard."

TheRainbow - Demo with Ableton LIVE #1

"playing the Rainbow as a midi controller and a midi keyboard with Live, FM8 and battery.
Totally MIDI, using feedback midi functions of Live and a routing inside the midi tracks (no thrid part software like Max/MSP, ONLY ABLETON!)"
"Testing the Test functions of the Rainbow : A, B and C.
Various sweeping of colours and positions"

Whacking out a pattern on the ESX in less than 10 minutes - M4M

YouTube via muzik4machines
"just for fun i started the stopwatch and settled to make a whole "song" in exactly 10 minutes, what you see here is what i did from start to finish, no edits or trickery"

Acid take 2 - Roland TB-303, Jomox 999 & Analogue Systems

YouTube via bigcitymusic
"We love the Roland TB-303 (who doesn't?), so we went nuts with some Analogue Systems rs95 oscillators, triggering them with the CV and Gate outputs from the 303. The sound of the 303 is given additional balls by processing it through the Malekko B:Assmaster Germanium pedal...sacrilege. You can hear the TB-303 without extra balls at the very end between 6:12 - 6:18.

Along with the A.S. rs95 oscillators we're also using the rs110 Multimode Filter, the rs120 Comb Filter, and the rs100 Low Pass Filter.

The drums sounds are from the behemoth Jomox XBase 999 and we're using the Kenton Pro Solo MIDI-CV converter to sync the 303. One of the cymbals from the Jomox is running through the A.S. rs310 Reverb/Chorus module, which is being modulated by the rs80 LFO's triangle wave. The rs290 Sample/Delay module is providing the delay for that cymbal as well. All of these sounds are being mixed by the rs165 Signal Mixer."

Roland V-Synth Jupiter Roots

YouTube via Gtechture
"This is a video I made to demonstrate the rich and more classic sounds the v-synth can produce. The programs are original. All sounds coming from a Roland V-Synth 2.0 VA-Engine"

ULT-SOUND DS-4

YouTube via denha
"Movie of ULT-SOUND DS-4 Yuuki plays."

Mondo Modular Episode 7

YouTube via scootermccrae

x0xWASP 2 - Kompakt intro

YouTube via BIM0X. It pics up about a minute in.
"an intro made with the x0xWASP #2 :)
Bassdrum at the beginning is produced by the x0x
X0X+Korg EM1"

Gösta Berlings saga recording Mini Moog

YouTube via RothHandle
"For the first session of 2009 I was very lucky and happy to have swedish prog band Gösta Berlings saga come to the studio to do some overdubs for their second album which is due out in March. The band is a four piece.

During this first day of recording we did a lot of really fun classic prog stuff. Mellotron MK II Brass section, Male choirs and even a moog melody line for good measure. The Moog we used in this clip is the old Abba Mini Moog as used by Benny Andersson. That is why it is painted white. But we also recorded some pastoral Celeste stuff, pump organs as well electric guitar noise walls. Well if you are curious about this band please check out their myspace page. http://www.myspace.com/gostaberlingssaga They are a really solid good band and we had a lot of fun throughout the day.

These little snippets were recorded at the Roth Händle studios in Stockholm. This is where I spend my days recording and producing bands. The studio started 1998 in my apartment with a akai dps-12, an acoustic guitar, a Mellotron and some stomp boxes. Since then it has been steadily growing and the studio is now housing Orchestrons, Optigans, Pipe organs, modular synths, Stylophones et.c et.c The idea of sorts is to blend good songs with unusual sounds so both sound better. If you are curious about the studios or the recordings that are made there please stroll by www.roth-handle.nu or www.myspace.com/Molesome If you have any questions about the studio please dont hesitate to drop me a line.

Take care and have a wonderful 2009.

// Mattias"

Furmitt the Krog - Mister Right

YouTube via ionraygun

"Furmitt the Krog, a lovable green puppet made out of foam rubber and felt sings a song about all of the good girls and what they appear to be looking for in mister right... apparently it is not him.

Nice guys finish last.. but do Krogs even finish at all?

Shot on a Nikon D90 in my home studio with a backdrop of modular synthesizers and various toy keyboards and drum machines."

KORG DVP-1

via this auction

"This early-80's vocoder/harmonizer has a unique set of sounds and features. Most vocoders do only one thing, but the DVP works as a harmonizer, a pitch shifter, or a MIDI synth. The pitch shifter has a huge range and can be controlled by MIDI, so it works like an early pitch correcter. You can sequence the melody of your vocal tracks! The built-in programmable synth has a whole set of vocal and choral sounds that are useful for pads, leads, or weird bass lines with vocal qualities. The vocoder itself is unique because it is permanently chained to the internal synth, unlike other vocoders that allow a separate carrier input. This vocoder requires a MIDI signal to work. I used a keyboard MIDI controller, but the potential for controlling the vocoded signal with other MIDI devices is vast."

Some close-ups of the editable parameters:

KORG Radias

via this auction

Roland MKS-30 / PG-200 / M-64C

via this auction

"This is a link to the owners manual: http://www.synthdiy.com/files/2008/RolandMKS30-OwnersManual.pdf"

Korg M1

via this auction

"Apparently, the most popular synth ever (in terms of sales). Has been used on countless recordings, by basically anyone who played keyboards in the late 80's and early 90's. Essential in tejano, latin, and early house and techno music."

Anyone know if it was the most popular in terms or sales, or was it the Yamaha DX7, or other?

KORG VCF FK-1

via this auction

"Rare Filter from the 70's, Used in the MaxiKorg, MiniMorg 770 and the early MS Serie's. It has lowpass and highpass filtering and a footnctroller which works on some older Korg synthesizers to (PEDAL NOT INCLUDED)."

Casio CZ-101

via this auction

"They also had interchangeable cartridges which stored a variety of sounds, each of which could then be further modified and tweaked the the users liking. This auction includes one such cartridge. It is the "Mean Machine 2" cart and it has some pretty wicked sounds on it."

Note the connections are on the right side of the synth.

stop_motion_synthesizers

YouTube via cretin4321
"671 still frames shot with Nikon D70. Sounds made with Roland Juno-60, TR-909, Omnichord, Yamaha CS-5, & hand made synth.
www.cliplead.com"

First Patch of the Year

Der Rasende Roland by navs

via navs.modular.lab where you will find more.

"Another P3 driven track featuring four elements: VCO-2RM cross-modded and 'thwapped' by a VCS to a Model 13 LPG and gated by an A-143-1, AFG FM'd by an A-105, MMF-1 dual sine pinged & VC'd and some white noise sweeps.

Happy New Year to all!"

ems synthi & co.

YouTube via ipnoteca
"hello, here is an experiment with old and new gear.
all the sound you hear is made using an EMS SYNTHI, KORG MS 20,ROLAND SPACE ECHO except for the melody played by IPOD TOUCH with BLOOM apps.

hope you'll enjoy!!!

www.myspace.com/ipnoteca"

Leehamster - 020109 - R3 Synthesizer

YouTube via DisplayUntil050707. inside a KORG R3.
"Bedroom
23 Mill Court
- Leehamster
- Media Shutdown
WWW.MEDIASHUTDOWN.TK"

Korg DS-10 Within a Deep Forest

YouTube via LPChip
"I was playing the game Within a Deep Forest by Nifflas, and got inspired by its wonderfull music. That made me decide to make another Korg DS-10 song :)

This time, I didn't record the song and then show a bit info about it. Instead, I made pictures of the important screens and embedded them in the movie during the playing. You won't hear the individual sounds, but you will see their settings.

I also used my new tripod that I got for christmas, which in this case produces a very good quality video. :D

If you'd like to play this on your mp3 player, then grab the song here: http://files.lpchip.nl/lpchip/LPChip%...
http://files.lpchip.nl/lpchip/LPChip%..."

「MIDI ＆ POPS」を聞け！youtube版_01

YouTube via dorafare. Crazy Yamaha Ads / demos.

「MIDI ＆ POPS」を聞け！youtube版_02


「MIDI ＆ POPS」を聞け！youtube版_03

How to convert Tau PCBs for Subtle Chorus Dim T and Dim TD versions

"Now that I've started shipping the boards, it's high time I finish the
documentation. :)

I just put a component overlay for the Dim T version "Tau" PCBs online;
which components to omit, where to place wire bridges: tau_dim_t_overlay.pdf

This is for those who bought two Tau boards for building a Dim T or Dim TD
effect only.

If you already have two completed Tau phasers, you don't have to change
anything - you just use them in Vibrato Mode and without resonance.

Next thing I'll work on: Drawings how to connect everything together.

Project description for the whole thing: link

JH."

Analog Russian Handclap Synth

via this auction
"This is a rare (I assume, since I've never seen another) Russian handclap synth. It has three controls: pitch, decay, and pad sensitivity. The big pad is meant to be tapped with your foot, but your hand works just as well. There's a single output jack and it takes a 9v battery. Here's an audio sample, raw and unprocessed. First I sweep through the pitch range while clapping, then I rest on a middle pitch and sweep through the decay range. Handclapper audio sample" [mirror here]

4ms/Commonsound Triwave Picogenerator w/cross-mods

via this auction

"The Triwave is a generalized noisemaking machine, great for weird drones, sirens, modulations, and hiss. Click here for a page full of audio samples and videos [below]. Mine is the basic version with cross-mod knobs (on the sides) added. You can also add inputs for guitar or other instruments, and a variety of other modifications. These go for $335 from 4ms, without the cross-mods."

Videos below.

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Nyle Steiner_Michael Brecker_ Joel C. Peskin EWI Video

YouTube via ireedman. Note the YouTube video has Nyler instead of Nyle in the title.
"Performance video of EWI Prototype in 1987. Sweet 4 CP, composed by Joel C. Peskin, produced by Joel C. Peskin & Andy Muson. Nyle Steiner performs on EVI, Joel Peskin & Michael Brecker perform on EWI. Michael Brecker is also heard playing tenor sax in the opening sequence."

This is an obvious follow-up to the prior post directly below. I found it on Nyle Steiner's http://www.sparkbangbuzz.com. Do check the site out for more.

Note Nyle Steiner is the Steiner in Steiner-Parker Synthacon.

Zinc Negative Resistance Sound Synthesizer

YouTube via nylesteiner
"More info is available at http://www.sparkbangbuzz.com

An electronic sound composition is made entirely of sounds produced using zinc negetive resistance audio oscillator circuits. No vacuum tubes or transistors were used to generate the sounds.

Several tracks of the zinc oscillator sounds were recorded one at a time. Some of the sounds were enhanced with the addition of reverb.

The morse code parts were sent in real time by manually keying a J-38 straight key. Yes, I can send that fast with a straight key by using a somewhat unusual technique that I developed."

Polymoog Coffee Table Graphics

via Elhardt:
"In case anybody wants nice scalable graphics I drew up of the Polymoog synth's panel, I have pdf file links below. It's what I used for my coffee table. It took probably 2 to 3 full days of constant measuring and drawing in Corel draw. It's good for reference or you can send the file straight to your local printer and print a full size image to hang on your wall.

The 1st file I used the include fonts option option, but I never know for sure whether they're in there, or whether it's still using the fonts in Windows. It looks better on the screen at smaller sizes than the 2nd. The 2nd file is the same thing, but with fonts converted to curves, so it doesn't rely on fonts at all. That's what Express Printing told me to send them. The 3rd file is the same as the 2nd, but with the keyboard included, so for those who might want to make a polymoog coffee table, I've just saved you a bunch of work.

http://home.att.net/~elhardt3/PolymoogPanel_Fonts.pdf
http://home.att.net/~elhardt3/PolymoogPanel_Curves.pdf
http://home.att.net/~elhardt3/PolymoogPanelKeyboard_Print.pdf

-Elhardt"

mirrored here

DIYtar

YouTube via larsby
"This is a little description of my DIYtar. more info at http://www.larsby.com/johan/diytar/"

My Minimoog Lives with a DotCom but loves a Buchla!!!

YouTube via angelometz. follow-up to this post.
"Trying to get some Buchla like sounds out of my dotcom."

bratigel Modularsystem

YouTube via heidibeerbel

"Big DIY Modularsystem with analog Sequencers"

bratigel Sequencer Part6


"The new bratigel DIY Sequencer with dual Quantizer and Sequential Switch"

Roland D50 and SH-201 Medley

YouTube via PingPong85
"Here's some presets found on the Roland D50 and the Roland SH-201.
Drum loop is from Garageband (I know, I know, drum machine is in the mail...)

Video is "DUCK AND COVER" (1951)(PUBLIC DOMAIN)

Sorry for the unimaginative playing/video... I normally play bass guitar.
Anyway, enjoy. Please comment, thanks!"

Crap kaossilator improvisation

YouTube via fubarded. Groovey...
"The title pretty much says it all. It's not that bad but compared to some of the other kaossilator videos on here it's a waste of time."

MS-Mod

YouTube via shotgunndunn
"Me demonstrating my Micro Synth mods. True Bypass, LED monitoring, FA (Fat Arse) switch, Octave Up mod, Sub Octave mod, External Control of Stop Frequency parameter for use with a Volume Pedal for Synth Wah effect. This was recording while my wife and kids were sleeping I was monitoring throught computer with about a 200ms delay. So my playing is a bit off, to say the least. shotgunn"

Lemur-based Tenori-On / flin clone.

Lemur-based Tenori-On / flin clone. from Andreas Wetterberg on Vimeo.
"A quick mock-up I did for a client. Very friendly sequencing, no nonsense.

The clock is a bit wonky, but that's alright, since I'll be using midi clock sync instead for the final version.

Hope you like the purdy lights :)"

Temp Music Setup HDR

flickr by zall164

full size

Alesis Andromeda (soundscape)

YouTube via GCom67
"All background sound was programmed on the Alesis Andromeda Analog Synth by GCOM"

Klee Sequencer: 3 32 Step Sequences Controlling 5 Voices

YouTube via ScottStites
"The Klee is generating a 32 step pattern because it is set to invert the 16 bit pattern each time it passes through. Each voltage output is unique, so there are three thirty step sequences. Each output controls a synth voice, plus two drum voices are driven from the gate bus."

Ear crasher

"'Ear crasher' noise machine was made using HT-8950 voice changer chip. Like my Lo-Fizer and Noise guitar it can produce noises by itself or process sounds like a lo-fi ring modulator, 8-bit pitch shifter and simple guitar synth/digital fuzz. I've also added two body contacts that change pitch or trigger sounds."

more info on ::vtol::

wanna buchla!!! Minimoog love story part 2!

YouTube via angelometz
"Jamming with the minimoog over a ramdom buchla like sequence out of the synthesizers.com"

AS220 Labs - 555 Noise Kit

YouTube via BrianWilliamGreen
"This is a video for the AS22 Labs 555NOISE KIT that i picked up from my trip to providence i built it when i got home from the holiday its a fairly easy and fun kit to build, they have step by step instructions on their site but if you look at the board its all layed out really well so you can do it without instructions.

AS220 Labs is a teaching space and community workspace for open hardware and software projects. It is located in Providence, Ri.

If you want to know more about AS220 Head over to their site at http://www.as220.org/about/front.html"

TMSS Modular II

YouTube via tronique

"TMSS Theis Modular Synthesizersystem

same patch as the first vid - but now with better sound :-)
For hearing this in STEREO add &fmt=18 at the end of the URL of this vid!!"

Xtreme Modular Noodling

YouTube via mancio1
"Some clueless noodling on my small modular.
MFB Kraftzwerg and some Doepfer modules.
No effects :-)"

Pointless Noodling on the Moog Opus3

YouTube via mee3d

"More noodling, this time on the opus 3 combi-organ/synth from Moog. Many years ago on the moogmusic forum I was asked to put up some examples of the Opus but never got round to it so here is a little video instead. This particular unit was recently sold on ebay and was my third opus3 over the 25 years that I have been mucking around with synths. Highly underrated for a moog synth... one of my favourite moogs along with the Model D, Multimoog, Source, Polymoog and memorymoog."

Flower Electronics Little Boy Blue Double analog synth

via this auction
"very rare (only five produced!) Flower Electronics Little Boy Blue, combining two Little Boy Blue synthesizers, along with white noise/dark noise generators, and a Mysterious Reactor chaos circuit. The synth has four sawtooth oscillators, the noise generators, two envelope followers, the Mysterious Reactor circuit, and two preamp inputs. The synth can run stand-alone or you can use it to process external audio via two 1/4" inputs. Unlike most modern analog synthesizers, the oscillators are transistor-based, no chips, for extra analog goodness.

More info can be found here."