Now this might be interesting. A keyboard controller with built in iPhone slot. I might want the iPhone sitting horizontally though. via
Sunday, August 09, 2009
iPhone Synth
Now this might be interesting. A keyboard controller with built in iPhone slot. I might want the iPhone sitting horizontally though. via
Synth Jam live !!! play Minimoog, little Phatty, V-Synth, Synthesizers.com
YouTube via Synthiefrau
"Hello lovely Folks, this is my new song. I work with the 119 Sequenzer from my Dot.Com Modular, Minimoog,
Moog little Phatty ( I want to sell him!!!), Roland V-Synth, Welcome and enjoy to the analogue Sound Universe!!!
Greetings from Germany"
Bach's Bourrée #1 from Orchestral Suite no. 2 on synth
YouTube via syntesen. follow-up to this post. more
"For this fast-paced piece from Bach's second orchestral suite, i chose the Native Instruments Pro53 software synthesizer (emulation of the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5) as the logical continuation from the Moog Modular on the Gavotte (suite #4 in Bm).
Even though the Pro53 only has two oscillators, a single filter, I was able to coax some very nice sounds from it, naturally tuned in Werckmeister III-tuning for maximum authenticity.
The continuo (improvised chordal and ornamental line, typically played with a harpsichord) is one of my finest yet, I believe. And it was fully improvised in one go to guarantee that taste of synthetic authenticity you just don't find these days ;)
Anyway, I hope you enjoy it."
ARP 2600 restoration
YouTube via MusicMiK
"Another small video series. This is the first part of my efforts to restore an ARP 2600 for a friend. It shows the unit immediately after the friend dropped it at my place, showing all the problems it has.
This video handles repair of the electronics, especially my way to fix faders and potentiometers with isopropanol and vaseline, which was quite successful up to now and much less aggressive than the classic contact sprays, which tend to just give a short-time effect.
2 more videos will follow showing the results of those efforts."
ARP 2600 first tests
"The second part of the ARP 2600 restoration video series.
This video shows the result of the fader cleaning. Besides this, i replaced all the tantalum capacitors, also washed the jacks with the isopropanol spray, while one jack even needed disassembly to clean the contact spring, as the switch function didn't work reliably.
I also cleaned the enclosure and the knobs.
See the repair photos here:
http://www.mik-music.org/gallery3
(The last page holds some photos of a mod i did a while ago and doesn't belong to this restoration)"
Musette Johann Sebastian Bach
YouTube via jopachelbel
"Musette,Johann Sebastian Bach,Hofberg Harmonium,"
Zwei altniederländische Weisen Samuel Scheidt
"Zwei altniederländische Weisen,1. Ach du feiner Reiter,2.Wehe,Windgen,wehe;Sam uel Scheidt,
Hofberg Harmonium."
Impromptu FranzSchubert
"Impromptu from Franz Schubert,Hofberg Harmonium,"
Sonomute-sonoscape.1
"nano step micro digital electronic minimal live
live session performed with Chimera bc8 and ipod touch."
via Timur in the comments of this post.
More Details on the New Fairlight
via failed muso via the Fairlight list:
"We’re hoping to have some more detailed specs this week, however I can answer a few questions in general terms.
The CC-1 can perform very complex algorithms and lots of them, with almost no latency. So yes, we are modelling the quirky hardware of the CMI. The sound of each CMI was subtly different, due to their analogue bits, so it won’t sound exactly like any one CMI, but lined up with a few CMIs you won’t be able to tell the difference.
The sound will be user selectable, to be like a series I,II,IIX, III etc. Or you can dig deeper and make it sound like nothing else.
One of the many nice things about the CC-1 is that it has no inherent bit width. “Normal” processors generally offer say 32 or 64 bit operations, where as the CC-1 can be configured to any number of bits. So if something works most effectively as 33 bits, so be it. And the bit widths can be mixed within the one signal path.
The “n” polyphony is achieved by “n” individual circuits set up in the FPGA working in parallel, as opposed to the software emulation model which is necessarily sequential. The channels can have different configurations is required; in any case there will be subtle coefficient differences between channels to reproduce the individuality of outputs that has often been cited.
How much polyphony? All we know at this time are the extremes – it will certainly be at least 16 like the original Series III but given that the Crystal Core when used in a DAW delivers up to 230 channels of mixing ALL of which have full processing (8 bands EQ, 3 stages Dynamics), you can safely assume a lot more than 16 will be possible.
Re pricing: yet to be finalised, but the choice to go with the CC-1 does come at a price. Although the CC-1 is not sold currently as a separate card (it would be no use without the software etc that goes with it), the retail price would be around the $5,000 mark. So you can do the sums, the CMI 30-A is not going to be price competitive with the mass-market synths which abound.
Peter"
"We’re hoping to have some more detailed specs this week, however I can answer a few questions in general terms.
The CC-1 can perform very complex algorithms and lots of them, with almost no latency. So yes, we are modelling the quirky hardware of the CMI. The sound of each CMI was subtly different, due to their analogue bits, so it won’t sound exactly like any one CMI, but lined up with a few CMIs you won’t be able to tell the difference.
The sound will be user selectable, to be like a series I,II,IIX, III etc. Or you can dig deeper and make it sound like nothing else.
One of the many nice things about the CC-1 is that it has no inherent bit width. “Normal” processors generally offer say 32 or 64 bit operations, where as the CC-1 can be configured to any number of bits. So if something works most effectively as 33 bits, so be it. And the bit widths can be mixed within the one signal path.
The “n” polyphony is achieved by “n” individual circuits set up in the FPGA working in parallel, as opposed to the software emulation model which is necessarily sequential. The channels can have different configurations is required; in any case there will be subtle coefficient differences between channels to reproduce the individuality of outputs that has often been cited.
How much polyphony? All we know at this time are the extremes – it will certainly be at least 16 like the original Series III but given that the Crystal Core when used in a DAW delivers up to 230 channels of mixing ALL of which have full processing (8 bands EQ, 3 stages Dynamics), you can safely assume a lot more than 16 will be possible.
Re pricing: yet to be finalised, but the choice to go with the CC-1 does come at a price. Although the CC-1 is not sold currently as a separate card (it would be no use without the software etc that goes with it), the retail price would be around the $5,000 mark. So you can do the sums, the CMI 30-A is not going to be price competitive with the mass-market synths which abound.
Peter"
Manuel Göttsching and Kinga Trailer "Postcards from Japan"
YouTube via MS805. KORG Poly-800. via Asia Synth Station where you'll find one more.
"Manuel Göttsching and the Visual Artist Kinga live at the Anoyo Prism Festival on 29.04.06 in Japan."
Time Domain Processor
samples on Buchla Tech"There's no art here, it's just an ARP sequencer, 259, 281, 292 together with the delay unit."
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