Pollard Daniel Booth - Rehearsal.

YouTube via filbyhyde22
"3 short clips featuring music from a rehearsal session where ideas and pieces were formulated for 3 forthcoming concerts in Sept and Oct in the UK and Netherlands.
Concert links..
http://www.awakenings-em.co.uk/
http://www.musiczeit.com/album.php?al...
http://e-live.groove.nl/"

More full-color LED Button matrix

YouTube via 4mspedals. color monome
"Now in 24-bit! Using an STP16 chip on the button board, this 4x4 pcb connects to a ATtiny2313 microcontroller (7 pins plus power and ground are used on the uc, so even a attiny24 could be used). Using PWM, 24-bit color is obtained in the first part of the video to demonstrate color fading. In the later half, the buttons are used to change the color of the LEDs (selecting one of 8 colors). More info at www.4ms.org/projects"

DAED Feedback Synthesizer Demo

YouTube via legionhwp
"This is a demonstration of some of the sounds and features of the DAED Feedback Synthesizer from HelpWantedProductions.com/daed.htm.

It is not a song but rather a walk through of this little simple noise box with a powerful array of sounds. Handheld buzzes, drones, chirps, rumbles galore.

These are now available for sale on a very limited basis. Please visit Helpwantedproducions.com/Salez/FS.htm for this and other synths and circuit bent electronic instruments and effects."

Gizmodo Gallery '09: The Most Annoying Sound a Laser Guitar Can Make

Gizmodo Gallery '09: The Most Annoying Sound a Laser Guitar Can Make from Gizmodo on Vimeo.

"We took the Prism Laser-Synth Guitar for a spin at Giz Gallery '09 and tried to find the most effective way to infuriate everyone in there."

Touch clock

Touch clock from Peter Speer on Vimeo.

"Following the Make Noise manual's suggestion for "stopping" the Wogglebug's clock by patching an otherwise unconnected cable into the Clock Input, I thought I'd try touching the end of the cable to advance the clock...

It worked!

Here's the patch:

The Wogglebug's Clock Out is sent to a mult, and from there to (a) the Gate In on an A-140 Envelope Generator and the Trigger In on an A-160 Clock Divider.

The Clock Divider's outputs are sent to an A-138c mixer's inputs, the output of which is controlling a Z3000 VCO (via an A-170 Slew Limiter, lightly-- basically a Binary Zone patch).

The Saw Out from the Z3000 is sent to the top half of the A-132-3 DVCA, and the Square Out is sent to the Signal In on an A-196 PLL. The Phase Comp Out from the PLL is sent to the bottom half of the 132-3 (and from there to the computer, right channel).

Both VCAs are being controlled by the A-140.

The top half of the 132-3 is sent out to a Frostwave Resonator and a Blue Ringer (and from there to the computer, left channel).

The Resonator's Low Pass Frequency is being controlled by the Wogglebug's Stepped Output.

Touching the tip and the sleeve of the Clock cable at the same time advances the clock by one step; touching the tip alone cycles it very quickly.

I'm sure with a bit of attenuation, this could be more precise!

theshamblers.blogspot.com"

Agape Interview

Some synth spotting

Bitnotic Octavian Keyboard Calculator

"With Octavian, you can:
* Quickly find scales and chords and transpose them to any root note
* View any mode of any scale
* View chords in root position and first, second, and third inversions
* Build chords on any scale degree
* Use Scale Explore to view all scales that contain the notes of the current chord
* Use Chord Explore to identify chords built on the degrees of a scale
* Traverse the Circle of Fifths by holding down the note selector for 1.5 seconds
* View scales/chords as notes (C E G), intervals from the root (0 4 7), or intervals from the previous note (0 4 3)."

Available on iTunes:


You can find a PDF and additional info at the Bitnotic Octavian website.

Octavian Walk Through

YouTube via Bitnotic. No audio.
"Shows off features of Bitnotic's Octavian Keyboard Calculator. Use Octavian to view different scales and chords instantly."

Lassence µVentury II

A couple of shots of the Lassence uVentury II via Kylee

"It's pretty cool..very SEM'y sound to its filter. I mostly use it for sound mangling. It's a perfect combo with an MS-10. The oscillators are amazing LFO's to patch to the MS-10. I think only 15 were made so there's not many photos or info online about it. Unlike a few posts I've seen the VU meter does indeed work... It's pretty cool. I've taken my unit out of the case a couple time. Mines unit #3."

You can see it in this video

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Me playing Depeche Mode "Stripped" (Updated)

YouTube via DX5
"New "Stripped" cover, based on the live version DM played back on the 80's. The engine sample is the original Emulator I library sound DM used for the song (altough they removed some noise between strokes which is present in my cover). I got it directly sampled from an Emulator.

Gear:
Emu Emax 1, EMAX II HD (sampled sounds from a Roland JP8000 and my libraries).
Kurzweil PC1x
Backtrack recorded and sequenced in Pro Tools with Reason Re Wired.

The sound is slighty compressed by the camera preamp, so some audio attenuation can be heard in some sections.

*There was a nice fly messing around, some wrong notes as results and even an attempt to catch it (Failed!)"

Mellotron M4000 Demo Hollywood

YouTube via Sutterjack.

follow-up to this post

"Martin Smith of Mellotronics demonstrates their latest model, the M4000. Hollywood, CA September 19, 2009--More information: www.mellotronics.com"