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VINTAGE UNIVOX MODEL J6 VALVE AMP Keyboard

Moog Memorymoog

via this auction
"On the surface the Memorymoog is laid out similarly to the Minimoog. Except it is like having six Minimoogs in one unit! Three oscillators with saw, triangle, and square waveforms with variable tuning and range for each. The mixer section provides level controls for each oscillator and the noise source. The filter is the standard issue Moog 24db/oct ladder filter with variable cutoff and resonance. Note that the filter IS self-resonant. A dedicated ADSR is assigned to the filter with variable depth, and a myriad of modulation sources are available from osc 3, the LFO section, and the external inputs. The VCA section also has a dedicated ADSR, and can also be modulated by several other internal and external sources. And finally comes the master VCA with programmable level (a handy feature) and better yet, a headphone jack with level control! Having a dedicated LFO section is a great addition to the osc 3 mod functions available in the original Minimoog. As mentioned earlier, there are several assignable external CV inputs, along with a nifty arpegiattor."

Thomas Henry VCO-1

This one is not new, but I don't believe I've posted it in the past. It recently came up on the SDIY email list as a simple affordable DIY VCO.

"The VCO-1: An Uncomplicated VCO That Truly Delivers
Designed By Thomas Henry

Preface: Towards the end of May, 2007 I began to grow excited over the possibilities the summer of 2007 might hold. Through fall, winter and spring, Thomas Henry pursues his career of teaching mathematics in Mankato, Minnesota, but during the brief respite he has from that over summer, he always manages to unleash some new design that has been tickling his imagination throughout the school year. In the summer of 2006, Thomas developed the XR VCO, the SN-Voice, the UD-1 Drum Voice, then nonchanlantly capped off the season with a design *for an entire synthesizer* that contained two different VCOs, a phase shifter, a VCA, a multi-mode filter, a very unique LFO (which would occupy many pages ot text just to describe all of its uses), a sample and hold, a power supply, and a digital noise circuit, the specifications of which are quite astounding. This collection of schematics turned into the publication "An Analog Synthesizer for the 21st Century" which will be available from Magic Smoke Electronics towards the end of Summer 2007.

So, I was not terribly surprised (but very pleased) when Thomas contacted me about a design he wished to make freely available to the public. He sent me the schematic, and I was amazed to see what appeared to be a very simple little VCO circuit..."

KORG FAMILY!!

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Spot the gear

The Blue and Yellow is an ULT sound [Ultimate sound] DS-1. Click on the Ultimate Sound label below for prior posts with more info.

IMG_7480

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"2k9 - 6 / 365: B&W Picture from rack."

KORG MS2000R
Novation Drum Station
Roland JP-8080

NAMM: Open Labs Big Secret

"January 15, 2009 – Anaheim, CA. Open Labs®, the leader in computer enhanced musical instruments,
announces it will release six new products at the upcoming Winter NAMM show.
A special press conference will be held at the Open Labs booth, #5900, starting at 10:30 a.m. Thursday,
January 15, 2009.
Products released will include hardware, software, and other technologies that provide even greater performance and capabilities to Open Labs current products.
A few surprises are planned for the event, which will be hosted by Open Labs Chairman and Co-founder, Victor Wong. The event will be taped for delayed airing on the Open Labs LIVE BROADCAST via its website: http://www.openlabs.com.
Product demonstrations, special performances, and interviews will be broadcast concurrent with NAMM show hours Thursday, Friday, and Saturday via the Open Labs BROADCAST, live from Austin, Texas.

Complete listing of the programming will be made available at http:///www.openlabs.com by Monday, January 12, 2009.
Please RSVP for the press conference to insure seating."

aspects of physics - song form shitteo

aspects of physics - song form shitteo from Jason Soares on Vimeo.
"audio visual work by aspects of physics January 2009. Another addition to the shitteo movement."
via peahix
"featuring realistic moog mg-1, some casios, etc."

MusicMiK Site Updates

You might remember MonoMiK from these posts. MiK wrote in to let me know he has found a new host and made updates to his site which will include info on the MonoMiK as well as his other projects. You might also remember him from this how to repair a KORG Poly-61 post.

"after taking down my website a while ago, i found a new hoster this year and took the opportunity to give the site a whole face-lift. During this, i also rewrote the articles about the Poly-61 repair. I sent you the link to the old pages a year ago:

http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-to-repair-poly-61.html

I fixed the bad structure of the old document and added some minor information about the inner workings of the Poly-61, besides this, more repair stories will appear as time allows. All the other things can also be found there, like more information about the MonoMiK including the blog about the development: http://www.mik-music.org/MonoMiK"

Percussa Audio Cubes at NAMM

More info at the Percussa blog.

"AudioCubes VST Wrapper 1.0
Existing VST plugins or instruments in your DAW can be instantly used with AudioCubes through included VST wrappers from Percussa.The wrapper is compatible with popular DAW software such as IL FL Studio, Ableton Live, …

Plugins can be instantly mapped to cube sensors without MIDI Setup. Sensor info can be scaled, inverted and limited to plugin parameters and colours can be linked to incoming MIDI notes in the case of VST Instruments.

With just one cube and VST wrapper software, you can apply effects to your tracks very easily. The tiniest gestures of your hands and fingers are instantly audible."

Alan Marcero sound banks

via Mr. Array:

"My buddy Alan has been working diligently on some new sound banks. Right now he has banks for the Virus TI, Prophet 08, and the Nord Lead 3. All of the above have great accompanying demos. Also, the P08 bank is currently the only commercial full bank of sounds that is available on the market:

http://www.alanmarcero.com/

Notice how all of the banks are being sold on a "name your price" basis :)"