Clavia Nord Wave [engl.]

YouTube via MusikSchmidt
http://www.musik-schmidt.de/gb-Clavia-Nord-Wave.html
"The Facts of the Clavia Nord Wave: * 4 octave (49-keys) velocity and aftertouch sensitive keyboard * 189Mb Flash Memory (180Mb for user samples) * 18 stereo voices * Wooden Pitch Stick * Modulation Wheel * LCD-window and Value Dial * Master Level Control * 3 Morph Sources (Modulation Wheel / Control Pedal, Note Number, Note Velocity) * 2 part multitimbral synth section * Filter: 6 types of single or multi mode filters with Frequency, Resonance, Keyboard Tracking and Envelope control * Amplifier Envelope: ADSR controls. * Modulation Envelope: selectable AD or AR controls * LFO 1 Waveforms: Square, inverted Saw, Triangle, Random and Soft Random * LFO 2 Waveforms: Square, Saw, Triangle, Random and Soft Random * Mono Mode: Mono or Legato with Glide-function * Chorus: 3 intensity settings * EQ: 2-band fixed * 1024 program locations * Slot A & B buttons * Octave Shift * Tube style Overdrive * Stereo Delay with tap-tempo function. * Reverb with 5 algorithms * Dimensions: 87 x 27,4 x 9,8 cm, 34.3 x 10.8 x 3.9 inches * Weight: 6 Kg, 13.3 lbs."

Alesis Micron - Blue

Some pics via this auction.

Note the print on the box is blue as well.

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Live Dubstep - Bromide Dub

YouTube via ProofNZ
"http://www.bromide-dub.com

After years of mucking around, figuring out the best way to produce 'electronica' live, I have come up with this setup. It is always changing, but this feels like it is getting closer.

Just a quick recording in the Proof Studios - bit of a mess around to see what would come out. Menacing Minimal Funk?

Ah dunno.. regardless - the louder you play it, the better it sounds.

Ableton acting simply as a mixing environment, Vestax VCM600 controlling it, sequences being feed to a Dave Smith Instruments Evolver, Nord Lead Rack 2X and Doepher Dark Energy, Elektron Machine Drum on the beats.

Bare Wobbles..."

Open Sound Control (OSC) for Kyma

"Bidirectional communication between Kyma, iPad, Lemur, and other OSC-enabled devices & software

CHAMPAIGN IL-March 2, 2010-Symbolic Sound Corporation has expanded the list of real-time controllers and software that can communicate with its Kyma sound design environment by adding support for Open Sound Control (OSC) to its Paca(rana) sound engine.

By connecting a Paca or Pacarana to the Ethernet, sound designers, musicians, and researchers using Kyma on Windows or Macintosh computers can establish bi-directional communication with OSC-enabled devices and software on the network to control parameters of Kyma sound synthesis and processing algorithms. Open Sound Control is an open communications protocol that delivers higher speeds, greater resolution, and more flexibility than is afforded by the standard MIDI protocol. (For a partial list of software and hardware currently supporting the OSC protocol, please see http://opensoundcontrol.org/implementations).

Doug Kraul, CEO of Harmony Systems, Inc. is enthusiastic about Kyma's new OSC technology. "OSC is a brilliant addition to the already stellar Kyma sound design workstation", said Kraul. "It immediately enables exciting new ways to use Kyma on stage or in the studio. But the true impact of this forward looking technology is the new, innovative controllers and applications that OSC makes possible for the Kyma platform".

Plus Bidirectional MIDI Streams Over OSC
Don't have any OSC-enabled devices or software yet? Not to worry! You, too, can benefit from the faster speeds, higher resolution, and reduced cable-count of OSC by using Symbolic Sound's protocol for sending bi-directional MIDI streams over OSC. Symbolic Sound is happy to announce that several third-party development partners are concurrently announcing new software that supports bi-directional communication with Kyma over OSC:

OSCulator: Known as the Rosetta Stone of music controllers, Camille Troillard's Mac OS X application OSCulator (http://osculator.net) is already familiar to Kyma users who utilize it for sending individual MIDI controls, OSC, and HID control data over FireWire to Kyma. Now, in OSCulator 2.9.2, you can also send OSC messages directly to the Paca(rana) over the network. OSCulator 2.9.2 also implements Symbolic Sound's Bi-Directional-MIDI-streams-over-OSC protocol, enabling you to send streams of MIDI events from your software directly to Kyma without need for a MIDI interface on your computer and without having to map each controller individually in OSCulator.

vM2 and PacaMidi: Harmony Systems, Inc. is offering two new Mac OS X applications in its Delora product line, vM2 and PacaMidi, that incorporate Kyma's new "MIDI-over-OSC" technology to further enhance and facilitate real-time interaction with Kyma. vM2, a "virtual MotorMix", enables JazzMutant Lemur owners to enjoy automatic, fully integrated tactile control over Kyma's Virtual Control Surface. Recently updated to include several exciting new features, vM2 2.0 employs "MIDI-over-OSC" to eliminate the complication of physical MIDI cables and interfaces. PacaMidi, Harmony's newest product, uses "MIDI-over-OSC" to create a "virtual MIDI interface and patchbay" that adds three merged MIDI inputs and one MIDI output to a Paca(rana). This expands Kyma's connectivity options, while saving you the expense and complexity of using physical MIDI interfaces, hardware mergers, and numerous cables. For more information see http://www.delora.com.

Max & M4L: If you are one of the many artists using Kyma in conjunction with Ableton's Live and/or Cycling74's Max, you'll be happy to hear that Andrew Capon has written a Max external for bidirectional MIDI communication over OSC that works with both Max and Max For Live. For more details, please see: http://www.symbolicsound.com/Learn/AndyCaponMaxExternalOSC

For software and hardware developers
Starting from the Open Sound Control definition of a MIDI data type, Symbolic Sound has published additional details that make it possible to define a bidirectional stream of MIDI events sent as OSC messages over a network. Software and hardware developers planning to add MIDI-over-OSC capabilities to their applications or devices are invited to utilize this protocol to ensure compatibility with Kyma and Symbolic Sound's development partners: http://www.symbolicsound.com/Learn/BidirectionalMIDIStreamsOverOSC.

For developers utilizing pure OSC who would like to ensure compatibility with Kyma, please see:
http://www.symbolicsound.com/Learn/OSCSoftwareDevelopers

Who can use OSC with Kyma?
Anyone using Kyma on a Windows or Macintosh computer with either the Paca or Pacarana sound engine can utilize the new OSC features.

Sound artists will find this new feature of interest primarily due to the new opportunities it affords for controlling Kyma using OSC-enabled software running on devices such as the newly announced Apple iPad (and compatible iPhone and iPod Touch), the award-winning JazzMutant Lemur multi-touch surface, and numerous other OSC controllers and software.

This new feature may also be of particular interest to research labs and researchers developing data-driven virtual environments. Using the Open Sound Control protocol, researchers can write their own software for updating sound parameters while running experiments or for streaming data from networked computers to the Paca(rana) to update sound synthesis parameters in real time in response to external controllers, experimentally generated data, streams of data from remote sensors, or synthetically generated data based on computer models.

Pricing & Availability
OSC-enabled Kyma X.74 is a free software update for registered Kyma X owners. OSC communication requires the Paca or Pacarana sound engine. Kyma X.74 also comes with additional features, including an 11-times speedup in the Virtual Control Surface, support for the MOTU UltraLite Hybrid mk3, TC Electronic Impact Twin, and Prism Audio Orpheus converters, track-pad compatible menus, refinements to the Tau resynthesis, and more.

Symbolic Sound's innovative Kyma X environment features a unique set of sound synthesis and processing algorithms and a powerful way to easily re-combine these algorithms to create sounds that have never been heard before."

The DIGITAR

via this craigslist post
"Digitar by Charlie Lab is a MIDI controller that transforms the chords played on a keyboard or by a sequencer/MIDI player into the corresponding guitar inversions that can be performed at the musician's rhythm of strums or arpeggios. With Digitar and any good MIDI-tone generator it is possible to obtain some exact and absolutely realistic guitar parts, though remaining in the MIDI environment. Digitar's compactness (10 x 15 cm) and versatility turns it into a perfect and crucial partner for both recording studio and live performances."
via huppo

Analog Essence - Juno 6, SH101, TR707

YouTube via Synthatikdotcom
"An all analog jam I put together tonight, probably could have used some more work and some better playing but it was still fun.
Pieces used in this were:
SH-101 - bassline
TR-707 - drums
JX-3P - modified planet patch at very beginning
Juno 60 - badly played lead line
Ibanez UE-405 - effects"

1976 Minitmoog Ad

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

VIRUS Ti2.mpg

YouTube via graphipub
"DEMO access virus Ti 2 keyboard + logic pro 9"

(HD video) Access Virus TI2 Polar Closeup / Demo

YouTube via johnsoncp13

"Some close up video of my new Access Virus TI2 Polar.

I also show you a few things I have discovered.

Video may be useful for people thinking of buying one.

Next video will show some 'knob tweaking'"

SOPHISTICATED LOWREY MX 1 CONSOLE SYNTHESIZER/ORGAN

via this auction
Anyone know more about these?
via wikizic: "This is a wonderful sounding organ with alot of features and tons of high quality sounds. it weighs 350 pounds has two fully polyphonic 49-note keyboards and 18 pedals, six amplifires driving two 6*9 chorus speakers, one main 8" speaker, two 8" flute speakers and one 10" bass speaker. It has several drum rhythms, automated accompaniment, classic pipe organ and contemporary sounds. It has a great arpegiator and even a synthesizer with filter and resonance and ADSR control. Its alot of fun to play and has tons of excellent sounds representing woodwinds, brass, bass, strings, synth, percussion, chimes, vibes, flute stops, vox humana.. etc."

Note the seller also has a full console Wurlitzer listed.