The Auteurs - Junk Shop Clothes - Tenori-on Cover

YouTube via newgirlintownvideo.
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A song from one of my favourite bands of all time, The Auteurs, from one of the best albums of all time, 'New Wave'."

Elbow - Powder Blue Cover on Tenori-on / Casio / Glock

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Hello you. There is a reason why I covered this song, check out the blog on the above website to find out...

Also check out the Batgirl-style leap at the beginning of the video (I STILL haven't worked out how to edit properly) and the inability to play a simple glock. Those music lessons at primary school clearly paid off.

The Tenori-on here is brought to you in association with The Green Lady."

Modular Synthesizer Pictures on electro-music.com

I haven't posted on the thread in a while. Quite a few nice modular shots like this one have gone up since then. You can find the thread on electro-music.com here. Pics of modulars and their descriptions.

Pictured here is an Aries modular in custom case from kkissinger.

Regarding the green buttons:
"When I upgraded the Aries to nine VCOs, it became apparent that I would need a LOT of patch cords just to support the routine patching of control voltages and gate/triggers from the keyboards to the VCOs. Additionally, the synth has two VCFs and a Phaser/Flanger that would often track along with the VCOs. The solution to this situation was the green buttons." You can find more info on the thread.

TR-60x (diy modified TR-606)

follow-up to this video post. You can find more info and images via phono1337 on the forum.

Update via Le Singe Monotone. Also see phono's post on the ladyada forum.

technoBox demo 1

YouTube via audiorealism.
"Demonstration of song playback and tweaking in technoBox. Visit http://www.audiorealism.se/technobox for more info!"
Available on iTunes here:


"technoBox is your virtual techno studio on the go for iPhone / iPod touch featuring stunningly accurate emulations of three classic boxes: The legendary 303 bass line machine together with the smooth 808 and punchy 909 drum machines. technoBox has easy to use sequencing capabilities which lets you tie together patterns, or use it live by improvising pattern switches on the fly!"

technoBox demo 2


technoBox demo 3

Diabolical Devices Juno-106

via the Big City Music Blog. Diabolical Devices are back in stock at bigcitymusic.com.

Diabolical Devices is http://circuit-bent.com/. You can find more info on the Roland Juno-106 mods in the Analog section under Diabolical Devices.

Bitfinder LiveSets

A couple studio shots from Bitfinder LiveSets. Check the site out for more.

Update via fischek in the comments. Note the Elektron posters on the wall in the bottom shot. Anyone know where to find them online? I did a quick search for Elektron poster here and didn't find it, but I did find this, which is very cool in it's own right.

Update via creekree in the comments: "you can buy elektron posters directly at the elektron.se webshop"

You can find them at the bottom of the extras page. No good shots online though.

EMS Synthi A with DK-1 Keyboard

Updated images for this auction. Click on each for the full size shot.

"This is something special! A good looking Synthi A from the Electronic Music Studios in London. Both the Synthi and the keyboard are recently serviced and there are a some very nice modifications on this one! The following modifications have been performed by a pro synth tech:

Osc-sync 2&3, filter keyb follow, filter slew/unslew, filter 18/24 dB. Also new internal trimmers and elco's have been installed. Oscillators 1 & 2 have the temperature compensation mod to make them more stable. These are the same mods as performed at EMS London.The 3 black (Serge) knobs: 2 are the sync-switches for the OSCs, the one near the filter controls the keyboard follow of the filter. Left of and above the Cutoff knob are the toggles for filter slew/unslew en 18/24dB"

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Kraftwurst

Hotdogs, Stylophones and Kraftwerk. What more can you ask for.
via fabio

Interview with Frank Serafine

"Frank Serafine is an award-winning sound designer, sound supervisor and sound editor, who created nearly all of the sound effects for Tron. In this exclusive interview, Tron Wiki founder Max Petrosky discussed with Mr. Serafine about how some of the movie's most memorable sounds were created and how they were put together using technology no one have ever used before for sound editing."

You can find the interview on Tron Wiki here. There is mention of the Fairlight, Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, and Minimoog.

via Mix Architekt

Modified Yamaha CS01 CS-01 Analog Synth

YouTube via rolandsh1000
"This is a brief video demo of a modified Yamaha CS-01 Mk1 battery-powered analog synth. I'm not going through the internal speaker here, but rather using the line-out to a Roland MicroCube amp.

The mods are:
1) expanded resonance and continuous control of the resonance
2) VCA drone mode

Except for the fact that the breath controller will no longer work on this unit (how many folks actually use it anyway?), both are 'non-destructive' mods, which means you can return to stock functionality if you want.

The 12dB low-pass filter on the CS-01 isn't terribly stable at high resonances, which is probably why Yamaha kept the stock setting to be a bit tame.

I make some odd comments here: why am I calling the footages "high sounds?" Please ignore some of the rambling!"