KORG X-911 Analog Synthesizer

via this auction

"The X-911 crams a lot of cool features into a small box. It is impressive as an effects processor, a pitch to voltage converter, a guitar synth, or a CV-controlled expander that can be sequenced or played from another synth. You can mix footages and waveforms for some pretty complex timbres. It tracks better than a lot of other guitar synths from the era, but one still has to play the guitar very deliberately and clearly to make it work best.

Here is a video, sequencing an X-911 from Korg's SQ-10 and triggering it with the audio from the KR-55 drummachine. The video shows the X-911's envelope filtering capabilities on the drum machine; it also demonstrates the X-911 as a stand-alone synth module."

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Gotharmusic

http://www.gotharman.dk/

Pictured:
Gotharman's deMOON
"Affordable 4 note polyphonic filterbank synthesizer with build-in granulator and distortion effects, step-sequencer and note randomizer. Small and compact in size with a great sound. The headphone output and the step-sequencer makes it ideal to express your musical ideas everywhere, and store them in 128 memory locations."

Gotharman's Deformer
"It's a granular effects processor. It's a polyphonic filterbank synthesizer. It's a MIDI note randomizer. It's an analogue style 2-track MIDI sequencer. It's the first machine in the world (I think), that can do REALTIME TIMESTRETCH ON A LIVE INPUT AUDIO SIGNAL. Add to this a granulator that cut's the input audio signal up in fragments, and lets you move these fragments around with the 16 step pots to rearrange beats and others in realtime. Use the two fully programmable filterbanks to tweak the sound further. Or create complete synth-patches by combining the internal polyphonic oscillator section with one or both of the filterbanks. Create two note and controller sequences and run them thru the note randomizer to create enddless non-mechanical variations. Store your arrangement in one of the 512 program locations for instant recall. That's the Deformer!"

The Gothar V
"Analogue synth with 3 VCO's, 2 filters, 2 LFO's, 2 envelopes and GotharMusic distortion."

GotharNorth MIDI keyboards
"A GotharMusic special custom design for the danish band Carpark North"

Be sure to see http://www.gotharman.dk/ for more.

via sequencer.de

MFB 522 drum machine first test

YouTube via pac209
"with a bit of X0xb0x and delay later on...this little thing rocks :-D"

Update via pac in the comments:
"here's a mp3 of a session right after this (same setup), with shuffle turned on
http://www.sendspace.com/file/0zsyx5"

The 500 Synthesizer by Peter Smith

YouTube via SmithComposition. follow-up to this post.
"A pulse wave demonstration of the free VSTi software synthesizer designed by Peter Smith. Download it for free from http://www.smithcomposition.com
This synthesizer features an LFO, filter, plus pseudo granular synthesis and a special 'destroy' mode which chews up the signal. Intended for experimentation, great for generating new rhythms.

This is the first piece of software completed by Peter Smith, so it will certainly be subject to fixes and modification in the future.

http://www.smithcomposition.com
http://www.myspace.com/smithcomposition"

Akai AX60 vintage analogue synthesizer

via this auction

Waldorf Micro Q with Grey Knob and Blue Display

This one popped up on the Waldorf list via this link. Typically the big gray knob is red and the display is green.

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Morton Subotnick on Bleeker Street

via Critical Terrain where you'll find a full post on Morton Subotnick. The images are from mortonsubotnick.com.

"These great stills from an educational filmstrip show a mod Morton Subotnick in his Bleecker Street studio, most likely in the early 1970s. The analog synth apparatus here is the Buchla Modular Electronic Music System 100 series, which Don Buchla constructed from a spec by Subotnick and Ramon Sender."

midisynced analogue 8 step sequencer with atmel tiny2313

YouTube via stereoping
"DIY-Microcontrolled sequencer is driven by an electribe and sends gate/cv1/cv2 to diy analogue synth. Starting with forward, 16-th note. The gate switches on top have 3 states: gate, off and gate&glide. Setting to the latter causes the note to be oprtamentoed. With the glidetimepot, the porta-rate can be adjusted. In middle of video the mode is set to random, later to 8th-notes and even later laststep is set to 3."

avr stepsequencer - advance by note

"A feature i like most on analag sequencers is step-advancing by note, means the sequencer advances one step when it gets a note/trigger. This enables you to let it shuffle or make special rhytmic patterns."

avr sequencer - dark dungeon of gatetime

"Nice sequence with variations just by altering gatetime."

mc909 as hardwarecontroller for parametertweaking korg dw8000

YouTube via stereoping

"I made little converterbox with a Atmel tiny2313 which translates midi controllerdata of the mc909 into Midi-System Exclusive-Data to change parameters in a korg dw8000 in realtime. This way, the mc909 is misused as a hardwareprogrammer. Most DW8000 parameters are implemented, not all though. Video shows live-parametertweaking. The wizard also maps data of midichannel 7 onto channel 8 to overcome the problem that the mc909-tracks cannot send on other channel as the default. I also made a box for the Kawai K3m. See other videos."

MC909 used as hardwareprogrammer for Kawai K3m - realtime performance


"The Kawai K3 and the Korg DW8000 are lovely hybrid-synths. But they arequite shitty to program cause of their lack of knobs. I made a little box which houses a microcontroller running a little selfwritten software. The wizard translates standard-midicontrollers (sent from e.g. the mc909) into manufactor-specific system-exclusive-mididata to tweak synth-parameters in realtime. Video shows a little knobfiddling on the Kawai K3. You hear the K3, the mc909 is just the hardwareprogrammer for it. It's not a fake, It's just midi :)"

MC909 Mididata converter - how it works


"little, bad video of what the midiwizard does, which can be plugged between MC909 and DW8000 or K3m to tweak parameters in realtime on these cool underestimated synths."

Elli et Jacno, "Main Dans la Main," 1980

YouTube via urbaniak. sent my way via Mark.

"Did you know that the eighties was invented by two French people?" ARP Pro-DGX. You can see one posted here and here.

Update via popman in the comments: "Elli Medeiros, ex French punk icon and ex- Brian de Palma Girlfriend"