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REON SYNTH with a way of playing the Theremin

YouTube via kaizokuhousou
"This is the new song "the voice of midnight woman spirits"
I play like Theremin with this BOX."

megaSynth, Being a Synthesizer for the iPhone

YouTube via YonacSoftware
"miniSynth's older brother arrives at last! Coming soon to an iTunes App Store near you (yeah, well...), megaSynth is one analog-modeling, user-friendly, respect-paying, feature-bloated, forever-grateful, tax-paying, wedding-anniversary-reminding, gum-flossing iPhone synth that's sure to not disappoint. Try our Crelm toothpaste next. Yum yum.

If interested, we're located at www.yonac.com"
megaSynth is not yet listed in iTunes at the time of this post however you can find miniSynth here:

Etherwave Plus Theremin Controls Minimoog Voyager Part 1.

YouTube via Rhythmicons
"This is a demonstration of the Etherwave Plus controlling the MiniMoog Voyager Analog Synthesizer. In the second part I demonstrate a spur of the moment Theremin Excercise in which the Gate CV activates a Sample and Hold, sent to the Freqbox for random note matching/harmonization.
Just in case any of you out there were wondering what it would sound like for a Voyager to be a slave to the Theremin, here it is a new Etherwave Plus demonstration. Not very melodic, this demo is just to give you an idea of the way the Theremin and the Voyager respond and react to this new area of control.

I had a Standard Theremin upgraded at the factory.

Thanks for watching!

Rhythmicons"

Etherwave Plus Theremin Controls MiniMoog Voyager Part 2

picsynth attempts basshunter

YouTube via picsynth
"The homemade PICSynth attempts basshunter "Now you're gone". I used the PICSynth's arpeggiator."

Pehr, live on VombatRadio.com, Part 1 - 7

YouTube via Pehr81 MFOS DIY modular.
"live set on march 1st 2009
high quality podcast here: http://vombatradio.com/arti..."

electro-music.com Super Klee Sequencer - JAM

YouTube via Pehr81
"This is the Klee driving two VCO-VCF-VCA patches and one without the filter. All modules used are MFOS-DIY (www.musicfromouterspace.com).

Pardon the sound quality and the light, it is filmed with a small digital camera."

Eduard Artemyev, Coil, and the ANS Synthesizer

Mr. Array wrote in after coming across this gem. "I think the original score was written in the 70's, so the photos of the Emulator and such are a bit anachronistic. Cool track. This theme was later remixed in 2001 by the group PPK"

Eduard Artemyev - Siberiade theme

YouTube via gobodrodiont

"Эдуард Артемьев - музыка к фильму Сибириада"
"Eduard Artemiev - music for the film Sibiriada"

After a little digging Mr. Array found an interesting bit of history regarding Eduard Artemyev. He was one of the few composers that used the ANS Synthesizer.

Regarding the ANS via Wikipedia [per GNU Free Documentation License]: "The ANS synthesizer is a photoelectronic musical instrument created by Russian engineer Evgeny Murzin from 1937 to 1957. The technological basis of his invention was the method of photo-optic sound recording used in cinematography (developed in Russia concurrently with America), which made it possible to obtain a visible image of a sound wave, as well as to realize the opposite goal - synthesizing a sound from an artificially drawn sound wave.

In this case the sine waves generated by the ANS are printed onto five glass discs using a process which Murzin (an optical engineer) had to develop himself. Each disc has 144 individual tracks printed onto it, producing a total of 720 microtones (discrete pitches) available to the user. These are arranged vertically from low frequencies at the bottom to high frequencies at the top. The convolved light is then projected onto the back of the synthesizer's interface.

This consists of a glass plate covered in opaque black "mastic" which constitutes a drawing surface upon which the user makes marks by scratching through the mastic, and therefore allowing light to pass through at that point. In front of the glass plate sits a vertical bank of photocells which send signals to band-pass amplifiers, each with dB trim switches.

The glass plate can then be scanned left or right in front of the photocell bank in order to transcribe the drawing directly into pitches. In other words, it plays what you draw. This process can be aided with a step geared motor drive (strangely similar to an engineering lathe) or can be performed manually. The speed at which the score scans has no relation to pitch, but serves only as a means of controlling duration. The ANS is completely polyphonic and will generate up to all 720 of its pitches simultaneously if required.

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