MATRIXSYNTH

Yamaha TX-802 Rackmount FM Synthesizer

via this auction

Buchla Beat II

YouTube via boobtube356 — April 06, 2010 — "More fun this time with (a rather abrupt) preset change."

YouTube via ugufru — April 06, 2010 — "Recorded on April 7th, 2010 using a Flip Video camcorder for the video (sorry it's so fuzzy). Mastered in iMovie. Demonstrates the Miduino as a MIDI Clock Master, generating it's own MIDI Clock messages that are send to the Alesis SR-16 and Waldorf XT synthesizer (arpeggiators in multimode). The Waldorf adds a nice evolving electronic hi-hat and bass sounds. The LED on the Miduino flashes every 1/4 note, and this pin can be used as an external trigger for analog modular synthesizers."

MIDI Clock Synchronization Arduino

"Recorded on April 6th, 2010 using a Flip Video camcorder for the video. Mastered in iMovie. Demonstrates using MIDI clock messages from an Alesis SR-16 to synchronize the pulse trigger to an LED on a Miduino. If you turn up the audio, you can hear the drum machine in the background. Sorry it's not louder!"

Goodbye Euro, hello Buchla 200e

flickr von Richard M
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Update on Which Came First - the EML 100 or 200

Sasha wrote in and let me know he heard from Jeff Bachiochi, EML's first employee. See Update5 in this post for what he had to say on which came first.

infinite melody demo

YouTube via cirtcele — April 06, 2010 — "This was originally recorded as a demo of the CGS Infinite Melody, but I quite like it so made a vid to go with it.
Original description: CGS 1/f melody, clocks and CV from CGS dual LFO, output to CGS VCO, VCO tri out to CGS Wave Multiplier, then thru spring reverb purloined from a dead organ (well, it was dead once I had finished with it)."

chipPad for iPad (Live)

New video added to this post.

SH-SYNNER - All SH-101 Track

SH-SYNNER by DyLABs
Details at Acid Box Blues

Biscuiting w/ a pinky drum synth (by Franck Smith)

YouTube via odiolorgnette — April 06, 2010 — "Biscuiting w/ a pinky drum synth (by Franck Smith) © 2010 — Biscuit by Oto Machines is a 8-bit effects/processor allowing precise Lo-Fi treatments and rate frequency downgrading. Used here with drum synth mixing adapted turntable drumming and scratching technics w/ video-game esthetic and real-time electronic beat-making (No loops and no sequencer used here).

Material in this video:
- Handsonic HPD-15 (by Roland)
- Biscuit (by Oto Machines) *FX section not used here

http://twitter.com/franck_smith
http://francksmith.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/odiolorgnette

N.B. Some of the routines obtained here were partly inspired -- in their content and esthetic -- by turntablists Qbert and D-styles . Although nothing can rival real vinyl manipulation by experts, a personal adaptation of these techniques on Handsonic makes imagine new ways in real time electronics.

IF POSSIBLE USE HEADPHONES WHEN VIEWING VIDEO MATERIAL OR CONNECT YOUR COMPUTER TO A QUITE DECENT SOUND SYSTEM.

"Franck Smith" Handsonic turntable adapted techniques Roland HPD-15 drums electronics percussion Biscuit Oto Machines scratching Lo-Fi 8-bit processing Odiolorgnette"

How to Wreck a Nice Beach - Book on the Vocoder

via Melville House Publishing and available on Amazon here.

"How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks

The history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weapon

This is the story of how a military device became the robot voice of hip-hop and pop music. Though the vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, was designed to guard phones from eavesdroppers, it expanded beyond its original purpose and has since become widely used as a voice-altering tool for musicians. It has served both the Pentagon and the roller rink, a double agent of pop and espionage.

In How to Wreck a Nice Beach—from a mis-hearing of the vocoder-rendered phrase "how to recognize speech"—music journalist Dave Tompkins traces the history of electronic voices from Nazi research labs to Stalin's gulags, from the 1939 World's Fair to Hiroshima, from Manhattan nightclubs to the Muppets.

The result is an amazing chronicle of postwar music and culture, filled with unexpected and surprising encounters. We see the vocoder brush up against FDR, Solzhenitsyn, Stanley Kubrick, Stevie Wonder, JFK, Eisenhower, Neil Young, Kanye West, the Cylons, Walt Disney, Henry Kissinger, and Winston Churchill, who boomed, when vocoderized on V-E Day, "We must go off!" And now the device is a cell phone standard, allowing your voice to sound human.

From T-Mobile to T-Pain, How to Wreck a Nice Beach is a riveting saga of technology and culture, illuminating the work of some of music's most provocative innovators."

Update: You can find an NPR segment on the vocoder and book here.