MATRIXSYNTH

Abnormal songery (Behringer BSY600 + 2 Doepfer Dark Energy + Audacity)

YouTube via GruithuisenCityMan — May 01, 2010 —

"Hello ! My name is Frederic Gerchambeau. I have made this movie and this music. The music has been made with Plogue Bidule sequencing a Doepfer Dark Energy and Behringer Bass Synthesizer BSY600. Another Doepfer Dark Energy is played by hand. The sounds of these 2 Doepfer Dark Energy and Behringer Bass Synthesizer BSY600 has been reintroducted into Plogue Bidule in order to permit to a long delay to be added. The all thing has been made in one take and has been a bit edited with Audacity and a Behringer Multi-FX FX600 effect pedal (compression, short stereo delay and pitch downshifting added). Enjoy !"

ELEKTRON TM-1 TURBOMIDI USB

via this auction

"The TM-1 is the first MIDI interface making use of the new Elektron Turbocharged standard. Use it with compatible gear to make slow MIDI transfers a thing of the past.

The TM-1 is the first MIDI interface making use of the new Elektron Turbocharged standard. It is a 1 in/1 out USB MIDI interface capable of increasing the MIDI bandwidth up to 10 times. It is designed with the Machinedrum and the Monomachine in mind, but it will work perfectly with any MIDI equipped gear.

Operation is driverless. Just plug the TM-1 into any USB port of your Mac or PC computer and you're ready to go."

New version of EMXP with RS422 support

via Brandt:

"this is a pretty big deal for Emulator II/Emax/Emax II owners and might be of interest to your other readers. In short, you can now transfer samples to and from these old samplers using a modern PC, as opposed to a vintage Mac. The software, drivers, schematics, etc. are all free."

"From: "esynthesist"
Date: May 1, 2010 12:47:54 PM EDT
To: emulatorII-list yahoogroups.com
Subject: [emulatorII-list] New version of EMXP with RS422 support
Reply-To: emulatorII-list yahoogroups.com

The RS422 support has been released in the newest version of EMXP today.
You can download this version (for free of course) on http://www.emxp.net

As announced a while ago, this version allows serial communication between EMXP on Windows XP (or higher) and the Emax-I or Emulator II.
Sound banks can now be uploaded and downloaded without having to use a vintage Mac computer anymore...

...you will need a custom built USB-RS422 adapter though :)
Details how to build this adapter yourself can be found on http://www.emxp.net also. The thing is called EMUCOMBOX - OK, I admit this name is the result of a weak moment of low creativity.

Anyway, I'd like to give credits to and thank MrJulian (fellow member on the Yahoo Emax Group) a lot for making this possible by sending me a jumpstart prototype last year. A new world went open for Emu Emax/EII fans.

Note: in the future a smaller and easier-to-build version of the adapter may be released, based on another microprocessor board.
The current one is working fine, but be aware that some of the soldering will be quite tricky !

Have fun

///E-Synthesist"

Buchla in the Window

flickr set by cnbirk
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Keith Richards - Umano non Umano - 1969

YouTube via Jeep1313 — June 11, 2008 — From the rare movie Umano non Umano (Mario Schifano)
Kieth Richards on Moog modular. via SYNTHORAMA

Roland Synthesizer SH3A

via this auction

ROLAND JUPITER-8 Vintage Analog Synthesizer

via this auction

"The Jupiter 8 is an incredibly powerful professional analog synthesizer packaged in a small box (although not that small as it weighs nearly 70 lbs)."

VINTAGE CASIO CZ-5000 61 KEY ELECTRONIC SYNTHESIZER

via this auction

Flame MIDI Talking Synth

via this auction

"The flame midi talking synth is a small-sized midi-controlled sound module based on the analogue speakjet chip, produced by the U.S. company Magnevation originally designed for basic artificially generated speech output in american english it was then refined and further developed as an 8-bit sound module with speech-like sounds and synthetic robot voices as well as beeps, alarms, noise and retro-style sci-fi sounds. Due to the structure of the speakjet(with its complex sound synthesizer, preset sounds and serial interface) it offers an impressive range of possibilities. It contains 72 speech elements (allophones), 43 sound effects, and 12 dtm touch tones. the idea was to create sounds, patterns and sequences in the 8-bit style of the 80s or other retro sounds for making music instead of just simulating speech. most allophones can be tuned and used tonally. the flame midi talking synth contains two speakjet ? chips to produce a richer and more complex tonal variety as well as generating a pseudo stereo effect.

Since the speakjet has not originally been laid out for the purpose of making music it is actually not fully controllable via midi input, i.e.: once sounds are triggered they cannot be directly stopped by note off messages from a midi keyboard or a sequencer. Thus a midi-controlled audio tremolo has been implemented in the flame midi talking synth virtually allowing midi control and enabling an easier integration into a midi setup. the flame midi talking synth lets you play back preset words in its expander mode via an external midi keyboard or a sequencer. in addition you can use the flame midi talking synth as a stand-alone midi controller since all controls and joysticks send midi control/change data to the midi-out connector."