quarter tone sequence

YouTube via angelometz
"quarter tone sequence with the moon quad quantizer and moogerfooger cp 251's attenuator."

Computone Wind Driver Lyricon-type controller

via this VEMIA auction

"Rare and special wind controller, owned from new by Bruno Spoerri, one of the pioneers of wind-controlled synthesis. Here's Bruno's comments from today:- 'I tried the Wind driver and it worked perfectly, as far as I can analyze it. It's 220 Volt (if I remember well, it can easily be converted to 110), and it comes with the original handbook and the original service handbook.' Cosmetically it looks nice. Even if you aren't a wind player, it's a great way to get wind-instrument-like expression into analogue synths. There's a manual online for more info during the auction at:" [link - mirrored here]

Glamour Box w/ Tenori-On & Bass Murf (by Franck Smith)

YouTube via znshn
"Testing the dual analog oscillator Glamour Box w/ Tenori-On & Bass Murf . Contents: signal trajectory, glitch, clicks, noise manufacturing, phonocrafting... (N.B.- Tenori-On into Bass Murf into external input of the Glamour Box).

IF POSSIBLE USE HEADPHONES OR CONNECT YOUR COMPUTER TO A QUITE DECENT SOUND-SYSTEM.

Material in this video:
- Glamour Box
- Tenori-On
- Moog Bass Murf (MF-105b)

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

Complete video selection on http://www.youtube.com/znshn
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Franck Smith alternative digital techniques Live Electronics Odiolorgnette Glamour Box Moog Bass Murf MF-105b Moogerfooger Analog Filters dual oscillatorphonocrafting noise manufacturing"

White Phlips PMC 100

via Andreas in the comments of this post. Image via this link.

Bleep Labs Thingamagoop 2 Page is Live

You can find it here.

"All the info about Arduino integration is now up, including the schematic and code!"

Moog - MP-201 Multi-Pedal Quick Start Guide

YouTube via MoogMusicInc
"A quick tutorial on how to set up some basic Multi-Pedal applications. Covers use as an expression Pedal, analog LFO controller, MIDI CC expression pedal, multiple Moogerfooger expression controller and MIDI-to-CV converter. Visit www.moogmusic.com/controllers for more information."

Moog - Multi-Pedal Power

"This video shows some of the may ways that musicians use the Moog MP-201 Multi-Pedal to connect, control and create with an astonishing variety of electronic music equipment... from the oldest analog and MIDI gear to the newest hardware and software. Visit www.moogmusic.com/controllers for more information."

Homemade synthesizers 6

YouTube via organfairy. see all six vids here.
"In this - the 6th and final - video featuring my homemade instruments I make excessive use of a wah-pedal I made out of the volume pedal from a scrapped Elgam organ. With this, an LFO, and a VCA I can make an allmost rhytm-guitar-like sound."

A blunt and totally biased viewpoint on electronic synthesizers from Bob Moog

1977 ad via Retro Synth Ads where you'll find the write-up.

Update via Michelle Moog-Koussa of The Bob Moog Foundation in the comments: "This is indeed a very cool ad on the face of it, but I can tell you for sure that this was not written by Bob Moog. To those of us who knew him well, this is evident in so many ways.

The first glaring example is......did they say Walter Carlos?? In 1977?? Bob was highly sensitive to Wendy's personal life, and to address the issue, he always called her Wendy (and sometimes just "Carlos") especially in 1977 when her transformation was nearly complete. The use of Walter here is grossly insensitive and an obvious pandering to the public who knew the artist as such from the initial release of "Switched-On Bach" nearly nine years prior.

Second, Bob was a stickler for grammar and an excellent writer. This ad is riddled with enough grammatical errors to make Bob's fingers itch for the red pen he always kept in his breast pocket.

Lastly, (and I'm being charitable by just stopping here) Bob did not think the Polymoog was "musical engineering at its finest". While Bob understood the desirability of polyphonic analog instrument, he always knew there was a high cost: the integrity of the sound and the reliability of the instrument would be compromised. The Polymoog, which was not designed by Bob, proved the later with its 200% repair rate. No instrument Bob ever worked on himself had a 200% repair rate or even one close.

By 1977 when this ad was published, Bob had been pushed to the periphery of synth design at Moog Music and was in a tiny office designing amps and effect pedals for Norlin and acting as the face of the company. He agreed to be the spokesman for the company only to keep his "whisky drinking, golf playing S-OB bosses" (his words) happy, not because he agreed with what he deemed to be a compromise to his commitment to the highest level of quality and a general downturn of "musical engineering" as he knew it. Bob left the company a year later, disgusted with the direction it was taking.

This ad has a slick marketing department's fingerprints all over it, not Bob's.

I usually keep pretty quiet about this stuff, but sometimes a realminimoog has to speak up."

808bd+707

YouTube via lesingemonotone
"DIY 808-alike bassdrum (module in the back) trigged from the TR-707."

Triadex Trio: Muse, Amplifier and Lightshow

via this VEMIA auction

"Extremly rare Triadex Muse, Triadex Amplifier and Triadex Light show. A complete collection of a trio set from '72 still with two original boxes (Muse and Amplifier), manuals, cards and...the old warranty papers ;-) ALL is perfect working and lighting... visual condition as new! The Triadex Muse is the first digital musical instrument and was produced in 1972. It was designed by Edward Fredkin and Marvin Minsky, the creator of the alien 'MONOLITH' in 2001 SPACE ODYSSEY, friend & collaborator of Stanley Kubrick. Marvin Minsky has made many contributions to AI, cognitive psychology, mathematics, computational linguistics, robotics, and optics. In recent years he has worked chiefly on imparting to machines the human capacity for commonsense reasoning. His conception of human intellectual structure and function is presented in The Society of Mind (1987), which is also the title of the course he teaches at MIT. The Triadex Muse it's an algorithmic music generator: it uses digital logic circuits to produce a sequence of notes based on the settings of various parameters. It has four small sliders that control Volume, Tempo, Pitch, and Fine Pitch. It is not known how many were made, but they are considered extremely rare. For years, the Muse was a featured exhibit at the Museum of Science, Boston. The signage explained the device's algorithmic (and deterministic) approach to the creation of its seemingly-random music. Far from being random, its preset 'song' played continuously -- and was even given a name, 'Museum Musings,' by the staff. USA standard voltage of 110 volts Here is a youtube demo about the current Triadex trio lot" below

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