OrchestraHit - Truth on iPhone

YouTube via bismarcoo. Move over Fairlight.

OrchestraHit - Mission Impossible on iPhone

A Disco Ate My Baby's Roland TR-77

Don't miss the full post including videos on A Disco Ate My Baby. I almost posted the videos here as they were going up, but I contacted Adam Inglis and asked him about them. We opted to hold off for his page to go up. Go check it out to see why.

Excerpt:
"The "Roland Rhythm" TR-77 was Roland's very first product, from 1972. It makes its distinctive drum voices from what are called "tuned resonant" circuits, which consist of a capacitor, an inductor and a resistor - very basic!. The patterns are preset rock, jazz and latin styles of 1 or 2 bars. There are no user-programmable patterns, because there is no "memory" - the patterns are hard-wired. That is, they are literally made from a matrix of wires between the transistor flip-flop counters, connected by diodes, to the inputs of the voice circuits, depending on which buttons on the front panel are pushed in (Pushing one in causes the others to disengage, but if you're careful you can manage to get more than one to stay in, giving you a mix of patterns.)

My main motivation for investigating the gubbins of this old beast was to see if there was a way to synchronize it to a source of external clock. I also wanted to know if there were any good voice mods possible. But another reason was that I wanted to understand how this basic type of pattern sequencing worked, because my amateur electronic explorations hadn't really covered this so far." You can find the videos and full details on A Disco Ate My Baby.

The following is the TR-77 after being modded:

77demo.m4v

YouTube via TheRealADAMBABY

A.S.M.O. live at Stench VI pt.1

YouTube via eddie23
"A.S.M.O. live at Stench VI. Be sure see part 3.
The Independent Arts Centre, Leicester
11 March 2010

http://pineapster.com/event..."

A.S.M.O. live at Stench VI pt.2


A.S.M.O. live at Stench VI pt.3


excerpt via pineapster:
"ASMO (Anti Social Musik Order) is the ‘circuit bending’ project of artist and musician Stu Smith. He works with self made instruments custom built from the modified circuits of electronic toys, keyboards and other discarded gadgets. His work explores the sonic landscape of ‘circuit bent’ instruments and their integration into existing modular synthesizer systems. He writes and performs with the groups Threep and The Buoys and has performed at concerts and festivals across the UK, Europe and New York."

Sequential Circuits Model 1005 - Poly Sequencer

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Akai MPC 60 loves Cheetah MS6 synthesizer

YouTube via michal23pl
"here we go again. drums, bassline and main saxophone samples comes from akai mpc 60 and were sampled from various vinyl records. lead synth track is obviously cheetah ms6. fx sounds were synthesized and modulated in a real time in korg esx. all track sequenced by MPC60. recorded on 7inch TDK Audua tape. thanks for listening! :)"

arp 2500 sequence1.m4v

YouTube via zackdagoba
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Original Moog Taurus Bass Synthesizer Pedal

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As always, read the description.

ARP Soloist

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inside an ARP Soloist

OBERHEIM OB-8 MIDI ANALOG SYNTHESIZER

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Oberheim Matrix 6R Vintage Analog Synthesizer Rack

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