Organ Studio Demo

flickr by vagro. Update via xonox in the comments: "There's a keyboard i didn't know about in this picture.

The Lionstracs Mediastation X-76 or something like that :

http://www.lionstracs.com/store/x76-am2-expanded-p-165.html"

The Droids - The Force

YouTube via magicwaves. via inner nerd
"more french robotic space rock, this time from 1976..."

KORG M-500

via this auction

ANALOG SYNTH RUSSIAN VCF FILTER

via this auction
"THESE ARE THE FEATURES AND HOW TO USE THEM:

-CV INPUT JACK: THIS INPUT STARTS AT ZERO AND GOES POSITIVE. THE CV KNOB THEN DETERMINES HOW MUCH MODULATION IS TO BE APPLIED

-FM INPUT JACK: THIS INPUT IS BI-POLAR AND SIMILAR TO THE CV INPUT. THE FM KNOB THEN SWEEPS FROM NEGATIVE TO POSTIVE. THE MIDDLE POSITION IS ZERO.

-(2) AUDIO INPUTS: THESE CAN BE LINE LEVEL, MODULAR VCO’S, ETC. THERE ARE (2) GAINS IF THE SIGNAL IS TO WEAK. WHEN OVERDRIVEN WITH A HEALTHY SIGNAL IT WILL SOFT CLIP AND SOUND TUBE-LIKE.

-THE LOWPASS AND BANDPASS JACKS ARE THE FILTER OUTPUTS. NORMALLY YOU CONNECT THIS TO A VCA NEXT. YOU CAN USE THE ONBOARD VCA. IT REQUIRES YOU TO MANUALLY MAKE THE PATCH.

-THE VCA KNOB IS TO ADJUST THE GATE MARK WHEN TOGGLING BETWEEN LOG AND LIN SETTINGS. THE LOG/LIN SWITCH IS FOR THE VCA. TO ADJUST THE GATE MARK TURN THE VCA KNOB UNTIL YOU HERE NO MORE SOUND COMING FROM THE VCA OUTPUT JACK. IT IS NOW READY TO BE CONTROLLED VIA THE VCA CV INPUTS. YOU CAN CONTROLL IT WITH AN ADSR/AR ENVELOPE GENERATOR OR LFO TRADITIONALLY. BUT YOU ARE FREE TO USE ALL KINDS OF SIGNALS TO CONTROL IT.

HOW THE SWITCHES FOR THE FILTER CORE WORK:

-THE TWO “REZ HACK” SWITCHES EITHER LOWER OR HIGHER THE REZ NOTCH. SO ONE WILL MAKE IT LESS HARSH AND SOFTEN THE REZ SOUND. THE OTHER SWITCH WILL MAKE IT HARSHER AND YOU WILL HERE THE DIFFERENCE. WHEN BOTH ARE ACTIVATED IT DOES NOT FULLY CANCEL OUT BUT PUTS THE NOTCH IN AN INTERESTING STATE. THE CUTOFF KNOB WILL ACT “BLOTTED” WHEN THE CUTOFF IS IN LOWER FREQUENCIES WHEN BOTH SWITCHES ARE ACTIVATED.

-THE BURBLE SWITCH: THIS WILL GIVE THE VCF A BLEED THROUGH STATE. IT WILL LET SOME OF THE HIGH FREQUENCIES THROUGH BUT WILL ALSO EFFECT THE REZ. WHEN ACTIVATE THE CUTOFF RANGE WILL ACT LIKE AN LFO. THIS IS THE SWITCH THAT MAKE THE STRANGEST BEHAVIOR."

Emko

flickr by Tomas Forgac

Yamaha CS1x

Paul Chambers at Bomb O Matic 04-07-09 excerpt 03 - including Bangalter's "Spinal Beats" remix

YouTube via bombomatic. via the forum. Cool seeing the Pro-One used like that in this setting.
"Paul Chambers at Bomb O Matic 04-07-09 excerpt 03 - including Thomas Bangalter's "Spinal Beats" remix (starting at 2:30)"

And... Rolands and Ensoniq:

Ceephax Acid Crew at Bomb O Matic 01-08-08 excerpt 04


more performance vids on boobomatic's YouTube channel

ether^ra Folktek mayhem

YouTube via potterpaint2000. via the Folktek blog. Folktek on Ebay
"An improv using Folktek sound generators and Korg Kaoss Pads...thanks to Ben and Arius"

ether^ra vs. Folktek Pyra-Bug, Pluton,and Korg MS20

"Yet another improve using great Folktek gear, a Korg MS20 and Kaoss Pads. Thanks Arius and Ben...Keep the great gear coming!" http://folktek.com/

Hohner String Performer

via this auction
"Extremely rare vintage keyboard, made in the early 80s! This is the keyboard Moby used for his string sounds on almost all of his albums. It will give you that huge fat sustained string sound, like at the beginning of The Killers' "Read My Mind", or a composition by Vangelis.

Sounds include Piano, Bass, Clavichord, Cello, Viola, Violin, Brass, String, Clarinet, Planet, and Octave setting. The Piano, Bass, Clavichord, Cello, Viola, and Violin have individual level faders for upper and lower registers, as well as a sustain fader. The Brass, String, Clarinet, and Planet sounds have a solo volume fader."

Anyone confirm the first paragraph?

SIGGRAPH 2009

"The SIGGRAPH 2009 Music & Audio programming will include a Keynote presentation by the pioneer of sound and two-time Academy Award® winning Sound Designer, Randy Thom, as well as a series of panels discussions, featuring musicians and composers from around the globe. In addition to music performances, courses on topics such as “Creating New Interfaces for Musical Expression”, and “Interactive Sound Rendering” will also take place."

"SIGGRAPH 2009 includes a variety of Courses, Panels, and Talks related to music and audio, see the list below. Also, the Computer Animation Festival has special screenings of Visual Music. In cooperation with the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) symposium, The Studio includes technology, software, and expert help for creating new musical interfaces. And we have daily Music Performances that combine music with imagery or demonstrate novel interactive techniques.

Musical Interface Workshop in The Studio
Participants learn how to apply sensor technology to develop their own concepts of electronic media control for research, teaching, tinkering, or art, without needing to become a hardware engineer. Special attention is focused on capturing human movements and using the data to control sound and music media using I-CubeX products." Sigraph website.
via Mark

BugBrand CTL1 - Touch Panel v2

YouTube via BugBrand. audio comes in at :31
"Here's an overview of the newly updated CTL1 Touch Panel - one of the most unique and fun parts of the BugBrand Modular system.

The initial idea came from an article published in Synapse Magazine in the 70s, but that is now a distant relative of this module. The 1st version was fun - with two 'Preset' rows, 'Pressure' CV outputs etc - but before production I wanted to update things a bit. The little update turned into a full rebuild!

It is now based on a kind of Sequencing core (uses the 4516 chip - tech geeks) - the Touch & Preset part still behaves the same (though has different circuitry) but this now has the great addition of four step sequencing - play it forwards or backwards, at seq. rates or at audio rates. This thing is versatile and FUN.

For further information check the BugBrand Modular site (www.bugbrand.co.uk/modular) and the BugBrand Blog (www.bugbrand.blogspot.com)."

Update: see the post on the BugBrand blog for images and more.