Red VCO PCB Demo

Red VCO PCB Demo from BLCLONES on Vimeo.

"A midi to CV converter is used to play a Full Scale Sequence to show you the Excellent Tracking. First run is a SAW wave, then a Square Wave, next a Triangle wave, then (2) VCO's to show tracking, and finally a Linear FM patch between (2) red VCO's." BLCLONES on Ebay

Cat Synths on a Whole New Level...

YouTube via cyriak. Sorry... meow mix
"my cat wrote the song, I just played the music and shot the video"
Of course, don't forget Keyboard Cat and Meow Synth.

Yamaha Tenori-On Synthesizer/Sequencer

via this auction

Includes
-AC Adapter
-Tenori-On Utility Disk CD
-2 gigabyte SD Card For Saving Tracks and Voices
-SD Card Reader (USB) For Adding Voices From Your Computer
-1/8 inch Stereo to RCA Cable
-Sleeve From Original Packaging

Clavia Nord Lead 1 Virtual Analog Synthesizer

via this auction

Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 REV 3.1

via this auction

Yamaha CS60

via this auction

CS60 on top CS50 on bottom

Update: the CS50 is listed here

Poly phonic...

flickr by Chris Randall of http://analogindustries.com

see the post accompanying this shot here.

Alesis Andromeda A6
Oberheim OB-Xa or OB-8
Roland Jupiter-6 or 8?

Probably wrong, so feel free to correct in the comments...

Gear in The Dark

flickr set by ArtemiyPavlov

three shots that came up in my flickr feed:

Roland Fantom-S night love....
Roland Fantom-G in motion
Roland Fantom-G buttons

hearts

InstantDrummer iPhone App Demo Movie

YouTube via sonomawireworks
"Coming Soon: New InstantDrummer iPhone App with professionally recorded, easily customizable drum loops that can be built into drum tracks for your songs. Heartbreaker is first in a series of InstantDrummer iPhone Apps that will soon be available in various genres. Jason McGerr, the acclaimed drummer for pop-rock band Death Cab for Cutie, recorded Heartbreaker on his signature Ludwig drum kit in his Seattle based studio, Two Sticks Audio. Hayden Bursk of Drummerheads was the producer. Subscribe to the Sonoma Wire Works newsletter to be notified when it is approved by Apple and becomes available in the iTunes App Store. http://www.sonomawireworks.com/newsle...

The InstantDrummer iPhone App will be part of the Mobile Audio Product Interaction (MAPI) Program. MAPI partners make quality audio tools for mobile devices work together to create the best user experience. In a future release, users will be able to easily move between InstantDrummer and the FourTrack multitrack recorder for the iPhone and iPod touch 2nd Generation.
http://www.sonomawireworks.com/iphone...

The InstantDrummer iPhone App is based on the InstantDrummer built into RiffWorks recording software for MacOS and Windows. http://riffworks.com"

some heavyhanded MIDIMuRF abuse

via Amos on the AH list:

"Hey all,

Just finished MidiMuRF firmware v1.0 and it's officially in production... woohoo!
I recorded a bit of messing about last night as I was doing the final testing and thought it would be fun to share.

This is a little mix of no musical consequence... just some string chords from a VST synth (Alchemy) run thru the MIDI MuRF in a couple of different modes, and two layers of percussion (sequenced samples) also given the MuRF-overkill treatment.

technical details: The string synth is samples-only; all of Alchemy's effects layers are turned off. The drums are sequenced by me using samples from Battery and Goldbaby's Cassette808 kit.

Sequenced, arranged and recorded in Ableton Live; output to 44.1kHz 16bit .wav and converted to 320kbps CBR mp3. Wave files available if anyone is interested (about 16MB each).

The drums have some VST compression after the MuRF to even out the dynamics a bit; no other effects. The string line in the full mix has a 25%-wet ping-pong delay after the MuRF because that's how I'd use it "in real life" -- the string solo track has no effects, just string synth thru MuRF.

In the full mix, you first hear the string chords that are the entire melodic content, dry with no MuRF. Then you hear the MuRF filtering these chords with a factory preset "animation" pattern synchronized to the MIDI clock. After this, you hear one of the new MIDI note modes, where the MuRF filters are gated/played directly from a MIDI keyboard using notes C4-C5 (1 octave of white keys). I preformed the MIDI "live" then quantized to 16th notes and played the quantized notes into the MuRF to get the tight yet humanized gate effect from the filters.

So ok... probably took longer to read all that than it will take to listen to the clips... so here they are. :-)

full mix:
http://seamslikereality.com/moog/midimurf/midimurf-liveplayedfilterstrings.mp3

strings solo (gated via MIDI notes played "live" (quantized after the fact)
from a controller keyboard):
http://seamslikereality.com/moog/midimurf/midimurf-strings-solo.mp3

drums solo (2 layers, each is dry drum samples thru MIDI MuRF synced to host
tempo):
http://seamslikereality.com/moog/midimurf/midimurf-drums-solo.mp3


This does not even begin to scratch the surface of what you can do with this pedal... The MIDI implementation opens up a world of new possibilities. I'm pretty excited.

Not sure if this message counts as "spam" or not... if so, please excuse.

All the best,

Amos"