MATRIXSYNTH

【Mac音ナナ】キラッ☆ feat. Nana

YouTube via F8sequence
"original『キラッ☆』sц〜мi
http://gbuc.net/modules/myalbum/photo...
music：sц〜мi
words：邪楽
PHOTO：Caesar Sebastian

I played with Mac音ナナ [Mac-ne Nana]
it's human voice synthesis library, recorded AIFF data of 104 pronunciation of the hiragana letter such as voiced sound, in a voice of familiar voice actor / Ikezawa Haruna."

Clavia May Release Limited Run of Nord Modular G2 DSP Expansion Boards

If you have a G2 or plan on getting one, read this now. via James:

"There is a tread on electro-music.com that would be of keen interest to all Nord Modular G2 owners who don't have the DSP expansion, It appears that Clavia may do a new run of PCBs if the order numbers are high enough, in this case over 50. Here is the post that started it all:

'Clavia reacted possitively on the request to make a new run of the G2 expansion boards.
There are some restrictions though...

1 Clavia wants to sell at least 50 expansion boards to make it profit able.
2 All the components have to be available still
3 Clavia doesn't sell to private costumers, so there has to be a kind of distributor
4 The price isn't set yet.

So at first a poll how many users want an expansion board.
After 50 positive reaction will be counted in this poll, to which a post must be added containing your name and country (which will give an indication about distributing the boards over the world), Clavia can investigate if production is possible and calculate the price.
electro-music.com will notify everyone by Personal Mail.
Note the prices may not be the same world wide due to distributors and shipping costs.

Maybe it's a good thing to arrange something about 'payments in advance'.
Note Wout Blommers is only the go-between!

This poll is only a first step in the whole process...
If there are any problems or a break down I'll let you know in this thread. '

Also another user contacted Clavia not knowing of the previous thread and got this response:

'Hi

This is usually not feasible, since we do not sell direct to end users. Theoretically, we then need to find a way to have dealers in various locations (europe and the US e.g.) to take prepaid orders, and this is a huge undertaking, which dealers usually are not up to - it may seem simple enough, but it is quite difficult to administrate.

We do not have the actual PCB anymore, and the smallest run we could possibly manufacture would be 50 units. We are not going to put this expansion in stock, so the only chance would be if e.g. one european webshop and one US based webshop would be interested in purchasing the whole, final production run of these units. The retail price would then be the same as the last retail, before we cut the price for the "last" units that we had in stock, in the realms of approx. 300 euros plus tax per unit.

In short, if we get an order from a distributor (who then probably would have to have an firm order from a retailer/shop) of 50 units, or two orders from 2 distributors equalling to the same number of units, this could be done.

Best regards,
Tomas Johansson
Product Manager - Clavia DMI AB'

So please spread the word - Matrixsynth reaches so many people that I'm sure it will help allot - I need one of these myself!
-James husted"

If you are interested go vote on the electro-music.com thread.

Update via TonyK in the comments: "And the link to the Encore DSP expansion board is: http://www.encoreelectronics.com/cont_dsp1.html"

Onar3D - Maria Louiza

Onar3D - Maria Louiza from Onar3D on Vimeo.
via Ilias: "The synths I used were: Roland JD800 for lead and arpeggio... and pad I think; Love that synth! Virus C for bass and other pad, and JX8P for bell-like synth in the end. The drums are my TD20 kit Smile emoticon"

See this Onar3D post for more details.

video description from Vimeo:
"The graphics are procedurally rendered in real-time, and are controlled primarily through musical notation data (MIDI).

The software used for the visuals is Mother 0.3, a program I've developed for VJ-ing with multiple Processing.org sketches.

The music I have also made myself, using all hardware musical instruments. The synthesizers are mostly programmed, but the drums I played live on an electronic drumkit.

Please excuse the visual quality! Until I get my hands on a high end frame-grabber for recording from my computers VGA output, my simple little scan converter will have to do. Note that the dropped frames are a capture artifact as well, on my PC it runs smoothly...

Have a look at the screen grabs on flickr.com/photos/10401337@N05/sets/72157616429723122/ to get an impression of what it really looks like!

For more information, visit onar3d.com"

CSI/Speco SS-1 Audio Generator

via these auctions via this electro-music.com thread

"Solid State Sine/Square Wave Generator. It offers a frequency response of 20 to 200 kHz square and 20 to 2 MHz sine. It features a 0, - 20 dB, and - 40 dB output attenuation."

via appliancide

see the labels below for other devices from CSI and WaveTek.

RHODES CHROMA

via this auction

Rather a rude noise

flickr by Pighood

"Would you believe it?"

full size

MOOG 907 Filter Bank on VEMIA

listed here
Unfortunately there isn't a new image of the actual item. The history is interesting though: "Brand new original new old stock Moog 907 Fixed Filter Bank from 1973, being sold by a recognized figure in the field who was formerly Vice President, Studio Systems Division, Moog Music, Inc. and worked with Bob Moog for more than 20 years. Here's what he says:- 'The unit offered has never been mounted, there are no screw marks whatsoever. It is brand new as of its date of manufacture, which is 08-28-73 (August 28 1973), and inspected on 08-29-73. The assembly is by J.P. which is undoubtedly Mr. Patronski. The serial number (P) is: 7338, and these data plus the handwritten number 11728 are written on the yellow Moog Music Inc. cardboard/paper attached to this filter. It is clean as a whistle, and has been stored in a humidity controlled environment since the day it left the Moog factory in Cheektowaga, NY, USA. in the 'seventies. I took it from the Moog factory in lieu of salary, as per agreement with management at the time, as the old Moog Electronics, Inc. was going under. Note that this is the relatively rare 4-wide Model 907, not found everywhere.' VEMIA NOTE: Although this has four fewer frequencies than the 914 that we had been hoping for, it is still one of the nicest individual lots we have ever had in the auction. These filterbanks are simply irreplaceable and impossible to copy exactly, and to find a brand new one with such provenance is amazing. This is the only module being sold by this owner at this time - and it's been hard enough persuading him finally to part with this one piece of history! A photo has not been possible, but we will show a photo of a similar (not completely identical) used module, taken by the seller in the 70s. The module is untested (since 1973!), and it is possible it may need minor servicing although it is brand new. It will be packed with great care, and a written provenance provided by the seller."

Note the VEMIA auctions end this Saturday.