birfday

YouTube via analoq
"Every year for the last 5 years I've made an awkward performance of "Happy Birthday" to commemorate my (and Beatfox's) day of birthening. This year I've done an iPhone performance and got it on video. Tech details in the annotations. Sorry about the blurryness."
Anyone remember what keyboard type that is? I'm drawing a blank.

analoq.synthesizer

YouTube via analoq
"I'm trying to find synergy between my penchant for music making and programming. Here I've written a simple but complete subtractive synthesizer which I'm demonstrating by running a very old MIDI file I wrote thru it and manipulating the sound.

I coded everything except the band-limited oscillators and the filter, both of which I adapted from the excellent website musicdsp.org
- (Pulse/Saw)
- (Filter)"

Moog Prodigy

via this auction

Studio Electronics P-five

via this auction
"Prophet-5 converted by Studio Electronics to a P-Five rack mount. The original Prophet-5 3.3 was converted by Studio Electronics in the San Fernando Valley in California - the same company that converted many Mini Moogs. Fully MIDI capable. Vintage early '80s."

ARP Odyssey MK1

via this auction

Frequency Shifter

flickr by italo contador
(click for more)

full size

"Óleo sobre tela.148x140cms.2009"

Sounds of the Blue Tower

samples on Mark Griffiths Music

Moog Arpeggiator

samples at khoral's Cafe 80

Vector Surgeon

"Hello, good evening, and welcome to Vector Surgeon, the Prophet VS editor/librarian. This document explains some of the design principles surrounding the program, how to get started, and how to use it effectively.

What The Program Does
The program currently performs the following functions:

* Transmit and receive patches, singly or in banks, between your computer and your Prophet.
* Load and save patches, singly or in banks, between your computer and its disk drive.
* Transmit and receive banks of waves between your computer and your Prophet.
* Load and save banks of waves between your computer and its disk drive.
* Graphically view banks of patches, allowing copy & paste etc in the same window or between windows.
* Graphically view patches, allowing edits of most parameters.
* Graphically view waves, allowing visual editing by drawing with the mouse.
* Import wavs, aiffs, and straight binary files into wave locations.
* Edits of parameters are sent live to the Prophet, in theory keeping computer & Prophet in sync.
* Edits of parameters made on the Prophet are reflected in the computer display.
* Generate variations on a patch, with various rules determining parameter values.
* Play the Prophet with an on-screen keyboard.
* Play the Prophet from your controller keyboard via the MIDI Thru function."

NAMM: Blofeld Test Pilots

follow-up to this post
Pictures taken by three crazy Waldorf betatesters: Dr. Georg Müller, Till "keep on turning these knobs" Kopper and Boele "SCD" Gerkes.

http://www.waldorfmusic.de
Note: Waldorf stated that they have NO part in this and may consider looking out for more sane beta-testers... :)

Some notes and samples via Boele via the Waldorf list: "Here is an mp3 [samples-teaser1.mp3] showing a tiny bit what samples sound like in the BLofeld engine. Of course these sounds are my preferences which not necessairely have to be yours :D

Don't expect General Midi sounds from Waldorf please. The samples CAN sound like that, but the *real* fun is in mangling these samples with drive, filters, effects and blend them with wavetables and VA oscillators!

And THAT it does REALLY REALLY REALLY well! This mp3 is bare Blofeld recording. No external processing or FX. I was already VERY impressed with the Blofeld, but this option opens a whole new world. Boele takes his hat off for Waldorf. Again."

followed by:
"Two more sounds [samples-teaser2.mp3] using no wavetables at all. The second one has a nice phaser. Without using the phaser ;-) Again, no external FX or processing. Bare Blofeld."

Remember to click on the images for the full size shot. Yeah, I'm getting one...