NAMM: WNAMM09: Akai MPK25 Once Over

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NAMM: WNAMM09 Arturia Mini Moog 2 Demo

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NAMM: WNAMM09: Spectrasonics Omnisphere Upgrade Demo

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Clock Divider PCB front/reverse

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"the PCBs arrived today from PCB house. www.fonitronik.de"

Drum machine Orgy, May 28/03

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Anyone know where this event was?

Update via Konketsu in the comments: "analogassailant is correct. We had this happen in Vancouver at a community space called "Here on Earth" that was located in the industrial section of East Vancouver, and it was organized by several members of a now defunct electronic music collective called "The Black Hole Club". I found these and other pictures while I was cleaning up one of my hard drives, and I thought that I would upload it so I could share it on http://www.livepa.org/board and I didn't expect it to show up here.

We had somewhere around 30 machines show up and the idea was to get them all synced up to one clock source. Sort of a "hey, can we do this?" exercise more than a musical or recording one. It did work, but as you can imagine the sound was godawful and given the number of machines there obviously was a lot of slop in the timing. The hard part was actually getting a clock that each of the machines could recognize; there were a number of pre-MIDI boxes that had a wide variety of differing clock requirements so it was no small feat getting everything to talk to one another.

Before we did this, we had to define what a "drum machine" was, and we settled on a definition like "a stand alone hardware device that is capable of generating simultaneous and polyphonic sounds that are primarily percussive in nature and is capable of playing back those sounds in a preset or user-defined pattern, and is intended for use as a backing rhythm track source alone", or something to that effect which excluded MPC's, sequenced monosynths/modulars and workstations/grooveboxes.

Like I said before, it was really a try-it-and-see type thing, rather than a musical or recording exercise, as well as a great excuse to get together, geek out on drum machines and drink beer. Good times!

Thanks for posting it."

- Jenix -

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KORG MicroKORG
"Jenix (http://www.jenix.de/) again in Ilmenau. This time in the bc studentsclub (http://www.bc-studentenclub.de/) of the Ilmenauer Studentenclub e.V. (http://www.ilmenauer-studentenclub.de/). This concert was one of the events during the celebration week on the occasion of the 40th birthday of this club. (2009-01-14)"

Moog Satellite 003

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And now we know what the knob box in this post does.

The Chordica Interface

YouTube via ChordicaRevolution
"This brief tutorial video introduces you to the Chordica Interface. Learn how to distinguish the various parts of the instrument with their proper names."

Converting Alphabet Chord Sheets

"This tutorial video shows the steps needed to convert a chord sheet written in alphabets into a number sheet. For further assistance, do go to the Chordica Forum at http://www.chordica.com/forum"

Chordica: There Can Be Miracles

"Live demo of the Chordica playing a portion of the song:
When You Believe by Stephen Schwartz
For more videos and to join a growing number of Chordicans, check out chordica.com"

You can find Chordica here:

First lgpt run on PSP

YouTube via discodirt

"Started porting the piggy on Saturday. It's now Monday evening (after a day's work)... and bingo !!!!!"

Julie's Haircut - Epiphanies

YouTube via julieshaircut. via AtomoSynth.
"Julie's Haircut perform this improvisation for Rockit Webzine at Bunker Studio, january the 6th 2009. Filmed by Corrado Nuccini, edited by Luca Giovanardi."
Anyone know what the keyboard to the left is? I'm curious what the interface to the left of the keys is.


Update via MrLonghair in the comments:

"it seems to be a Concorde 811, http://www.elka-musik.de/schatz.htm (scroll down)
An industrial looking organ if I ever saw one."