Akai S5000 Hard Drive Madness

flickr set by Syd Heresy
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inside an Akai S5000

Pictured:
Top Overview of the Akai S5000
"Popped open the top of the sampler. You can see almost all of the internal board layout and wiring."

XLR8R TV Ep. 123: Max for Live!

XLR8R TV Ep. 123: Max for Live! from XLR8RTV on Vimeo.

"What You Talkin' Bout, Willits? Max for Live!

We interrupt our usual broadcasting to bring you a special preview of the unreleased Max for Live!

Ableton gave Christopher Willits the green light to show off some of the features from the not-yet-released Max for Live. If you're a digital-signal-processing dork like us, you know this represents an exciting leap forward.

Tune in once a month as Christopher shows us some of the ways he produces his own music, as well as the many cool things you can do with recording software. According to Christopher, "I simply want to excite people's imaginations and creative processes so they can more easily create the sounds and music and art they love."
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Synthesizers.com Q106 Sync Effect

YouTube via blwvideo
"This video is primarily intended as a comparison to an earlier one I posted today.

This is a stripped down version of the other video, consisting only of Synthesizers.com Q106 oscillators. There are no filters, VCA's, envelopes, sequencers, or other modules involved, just Q106's with me playing the same notes as before, straight into the mixer and recorded in Logic.

I wanted to offer this version in part to demo the sync effect, which I think is cool, and to better illustrate what the STG filter adds to the patch in the other video.

The patch involves two Q106's with identical settings, except that one is hard synced and one is soft synced to a pulse wave from a third Q106, with the pulse width being modulated by a fourth Q106 acting as an LFO. The third and fourth 106's aren't being used for audio. No other processing is added.

My apologies for the messed up timing in the slide show!"

Sequential Circuits PROPHET VS Rack

via this auction




YouTube via blwvideo
"This is a quick video showing the condition of the Prophet VS I am offering for sale. I am demonstrating that the numeric keys work fine, since this is a common fault with the units, and giving a tour of the cosmetic wear. Thanks!"

64 (Video) Fingers

64 (Video) Fingers from Charlie Visnic on Vimeo.

"This is a demo video of my app 64 (Video) Fingers. Modded from Dovemouse's 64 Fingers you trigger video and audio clips from the monome. Enjoy!" inspired by http://thru-you.com/

Zn'shñ : Wave study w/ Sleepdrone 5, Dual Tone Generator & analog filters

YouTube via znshn
"Wave study w/ Sleepdrone 5, Sherman Filterbank 2, Jomox M-Resonator, Dual Tone Generator + Tenori-On. Contents : square wave, oscillators, analog filtering, micro-pulses, clicks, glitches...

Warning : This video contains very high frequencies.

N.B.- According to a fictitious etymology, the term Zn'shñ signifies: the gleam of dark colours. Deliberately antithetic and intentionally enigmatic, Zn'shñ is enthused by Butoh iconography, Japanese Gagaku aesthetic and Tibetan rituals codification. Operating as a dual electronic unit (mulit-instrumentalis/composer Franck Smith and artist/sound-activist Elvire Bastendorff), Zn'shñ deepens some very specific works around digital phonocrafting and noise manufacturing.
IF POSSIBLE USE HEADPHONES OR CONNECT YOUR COMPUTER TO A QUITE DECENT SOUND-SYSTEM.

Material in this video:
- Sleepdrone 5 (via main output)
- 2 Benfox Dual Tone Generator
- Sherman Filterbank 2
- Jomox M-Resonator
- Benfox Ben HF
- TENORI-ON
- Space Echo RE-20
- Electro Harmonix Pulsar

http://www.myspace.com/znshn
http://znshn.blogspot.com
http://www.odiolorgnette.com
http://www.myspace.com/sthintosmither...

http://francksmith.blogspot.com

See also http://www.youtube.com/odiolorgnette
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Zn'shñ Franck Smith Elvire Bastendorff alternative digital techniques Live Electronics Odiolorgnette TENORI-ON Yamaha Sherman Filterbank 2 Jomox M-Resonator Sleepdrone 5 Benfox Dual Tone Generator Space Echo RE-20 Analog Filters triggering analog bass drum module phonocrafting noise manufacturing"

Narrativas Sonoras

Narrativas Sonoras from Rui Penha on Vimeo.

"Narrativas Sonoras is a very simple audio sequencer that uses granular synthesis at it’s core engine.
Note: The interface appears slow due to the overload caused by the video capture software, the application actually runs smoothly, but only on a recent computer!

More info: www.ruipenha.pt"

modo [pre-release]

modo [pre-release] from occular on Vimeo.

"Hello. This is modo.

Modo stands for -modulating oscillators- and is basically a midi CC-sequencer. In detail, the sequencer try to mimic a LFO behaviour with ability to modulate each other. It let you create fancy animation curves, you wouldn't want to draw these by hand. More soon on monome forum."

electrotablajam 1

YouTube via behanger. via Ernst van der Loo.

electrotablajam 2

"My electronic tabla (it says "proffessional") controls my home built 32 step sequencer, of which 20 positions are used for this rhythm. The Sool rhythm has 10 beats per cycle.

The sequencer not only plays these voltages up or down, but it can also derive other patterns. I worked these out and implemented these in hardware. I would have to look up how I did this. I do not think of it anymore, as each of the patters is useful. So in a live situation, I just choose a different one at random.

The output of the sequencer is analog, and sends out 0-10 volt. This is then converted to midi by my new miduino, a circuit by Tom Scarff. The software was partley rewritten by me. to make it play in the key of my choice. Using a very secrative math trick called rounding, I made the sequencer play in a minor key, rather than in the 12 tone system. This allows for live tweaking of the knobs without ever being out of key. Freedom!

Then there's my Arcade joystick, which has an home baked circuit that converts the 4 switches and the fire button to 15 different notes, and connects right onto the keyboard matrix of an old casio childrens keyboard which cooks midi note messages. I would do this in the miduino too if I needed to do it again. A series of if/else statements is much easier and more flexible than soldering and debugging a circuit with 8 logic IC's and a over a meter of wire.

Then there's the large joystick. It has a doepfer midiconvertor on board. The miduino has enough pins to do it all together, but I like the fact that it is a funtional unit on it's own. It controls all the effects of the Arcade channel.

The pitch of the tabla can be controlled by the sequencer as well as by the Atari paddle. I made this input on the tabla when I replaced the tuning pot with a precise ten-turn pot. It works with two vactrols.

Sound sources are: cymbals, a Raagini shruti box, the tabla box, a Waldorf Blofeld running 2 patches amplified by a 40 year old Italian tube amp.

I recorded it with my photocamera, which has a rediculously low audio sampling rate. They all have. It's just not a number the camera's are sold by. I should have checked weather I was in the image myself. Now I am a pair of hands on youtube too, looking like the Lorax of Dr. Seuss. A well. It's just a test drive to check if my work is getting somewhere."

Sampling the Modular - Doepfer Track

via Isotope of Me

"I just got around to posting about a track that I made that focuses on multitracked modular lines and sampled modular sounds for percussion (along with a nearly irresistible modular pic and a description of how it was somewhat inspired by some of Stretta's newer modular work) over at http://www.isotopeofme.com/isotopics/?p=102.