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Sunday, August 02, 2009

Using Percussa's Audio Cubes and MIDIBridge

"If you have a hardware MIDI interface and external hardware synths, you can send the MIDI data from MIDIBridge to your external gear, or receive MIDI data from your external gear and use it to control the cubes’ colours. For example, you could use an Elektron Machinedrum, and control its patterns using the AudioCubes, as well as its effects, and at the same time receive the MIDI clock from the machinedrum and use it to control the colours of the cubes, for example to display the beat using a flash of red light. If you happen to play in a band other people can visually sync to the colour pattern. In MIDIBridge, you can select per cube a MIDI input and output port, so you could use one cube with a hardware synth while using another with software on your computer through a virtual MIDI port." You can find the full article here. via twitter.com/bschiett

MetaSynth 5

"Many people consider the Image Synth to be the heart of MetaSynth. The presentations on this page will introduce you to Image Synth "Basics" as well as demonstrate some of the extraordinary sounds that the Image Synth makes possible.

The Image Synth is a composition and sound design environment where you paint music and sound.It is not a soft-synth or synth plug-in."

via twitter.com/parasitk

Moogist Talks - What Can You Do With 1 Note?


YouTube via timtsang3. via twitter.com/TaraBusch
"What can you do with a single note/sound? Besides its legendary tone, the Moog Synthesizer is known for its monophonic nature - the ability to produce only 1 note at a time. Therefore, the goal of The Moogist is to "think outside the box" with this certain limitation - whatever it takes - to make beautiful music with this amazing machine/instrument.

"Moogist Talks"
A short film by Tim Tsang, a.k.a. "The Moogist"
August 2009

*Moogist plays the "Minimoog Voyager Electric Blue"
Picture of Voyager taken by Wowee Posadas

www.moogist.com
www.moogmusic.com"

Inside the EMS SYNTHI

via twitter.com/_alka

ARP Having a Bath

Blurry, but when is the last time you've seen an ARP 2600 in a bathtub. Bottom shot is the inside of a 2600. via twitter.com/SynthMiK

Update: all clean below.

Acid Symphony Orchestra - Diamonds Of The Night


Acid Symphony Orchestra - Diamonds Of The Night from Jori Hulkkonen on Vimeo.


Note Acid Symphony Orchestra will be opening for Kraftwerk in Finland in August.
Also see this post.

video description:
"Official music video for
Acid Symphony Orchestra - Diamonds Of The Night.
Directed by Jori Hulkkonen & Jani Lehto, 2009.

Taken from the forthcoming Acid Symphony Orchestra 12" on Turbo recordings.

The Acid Symphony Orchestra live perfomances feature 10 Roland TB-303 bassline synthesizers, one TR-707 or a TR-808 drummachine and personnel to operate them.

Composer and conductor:
Jori Hulkkonen

The Orchestra:
Juha Matinmäki
Aku "Huoratron" Raski
Kalle Karvanen
Jussi-Pekka "Monoder" Parikka
Janne "Burdock" Puurunen
Tatu "Mr Velcro Fastener" Peltonen
Kimmo "Acid Kings" Oksanen
Pete "Sintetik" Salonen
Tuomas Toivonen
Johannes "TinMan" Auvinen"

Early 1970s Aries Music Synthesizer Demo Record


Side 1 of 2 YouTube via jafafah0ts

"Side one of a vintage demo flexi disc promoting the Aries Synthesizer."

Early 1970s Aries Music Synthesizer Demo Record, Side 2 of 2

Machinedrum Gakken Acid Jam


YouTube via darenager
"Poor Timmy wanted a TB-303 for Xmas to go with his shiny new Machinedrum, but his mummy could only afford a Gakken SX-150.

It looked like Timmy was doomed to playing out of tune stylophone cover versions, instead of the funky fresh acid of his dreams.

Then one day whilst getting his acid fix on youtube, Timmy discovered that all was not lost, and that the Gakken may work out after all......

Timmy, you owe me a beer."

Folktek Arts Book of Sound

The case for these are books. Click the images to get a better look. You can find more shots and info at the Folktek Arts blog.

The top is the previous version and the bottom is the new. The bottom has a magnetic patch bay - no plugging required. It's by Ben Houston and based on the bug/philanthropoid series.


Folktek on Ebay

OBERHEIM OB-8

via this auction

"This is a relative of the OBXA. The pros are the MIDI and the fact that the OB8 has a killer Arpeggiator. Both of which the OBXA did not. I have both an OBXA and this OB8. The OB8 sounds a little more Hi-Fi and elegant than the OBXA... cleaner like an Xpander. I've always found myself using the two as two different sources. I'd never say one is better than the other."



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