Hollow Sun TriOSC

"Adding to the Music Laboratory Machines series, TriOsc is styled on equipment retrieved from an ancient, disused rocket launch control centre and features three oscillators with samples of valve sine and triangle waveforms taken from a rack of vintage test equipment to create dense clusters of retro sci-fi electronica.

Unique to TriOsc is the 'SERENDIPITY' button (labeled '?'). You see, TriOsc has a mind and being of its own. Clicking this button generates new patches and sounds randomly created by TriOsc that instantly evoke the spirit and electronic tonalities of the early Radiophonic Workshop, 'Forbidden Planet' and other classic sci-fi movies, Morton Subotnick, Tristram Cary and other early electronic music pioneers working with primitive equipment - an astonishing source of inspiration which can lead you down different roads of musical ideas and exploration. The randomly generated sounds can then be tweaked and shaped to your own particular needs using the comprehensive panel. They can even be saved as normal NKIs for future use.

ROUGH AND READY DEMO

The quick audio demo above is not from the Krell's music library archive but was recorded in one take, no overdubs or trickery, just clicking on the SERENDIPITY button.

Available at the end of this week.

Price - $TBA" via KVR http://hollowsun.com/

This one in via Atomic Shadow who had the following to say: "I just spent the evening with an advanced copy and it is brilliant. This one is called TriOsc. As you might expect it uses three oscillators (sampled from my vintage test equipment). It has a good effects section and the oscillators can be modulated in various ways.

Here is a link to the demo I recorded earlier. It's called Misson To Kolchab. 100% TriOsc"

And a little on Steve Hollow: "He was the main sound designer at Akai since the S950. If you do a bit of Googling you can find his name on the credits to The Last Temptation of Christ soundtrack. Oh yes, he did sound design for Peter Gabriel."

New Moog Moogerfooger MF-108M Cluster Flux Chorus / Flanger

"What is it?? It's an analog BBD based chorus flanger w/ Tap Tempo modulation for guitar players, and extensive MIDI control for keyboardists, recording, etc. This new Moogerfooger takes the Chorus/Flanger to a completely new level, significantly expands the musician's sonic palette; and is CV as well as MIDI controllable.

This will be a limited availability product. The MF-108M Cluster Flux uses BBD (Bucket Brigade Device) chips that were specifically designed for the short delay times associated with chorus / flanger type effects. But like all BBD devices (e.g. the MF-104 Analog Delay) the availability of this chip is very limited. We are constantly looking for more supply but as with the MF-104, the supply will be limited by chip availability.

Features:

The Cluster Flux provides warm, great sounding analog chorus / flanger / vibrato effects. In addition, it has a much wider (and wilder) range of modulated delay line effects than traditional chorus / flangers due to the extended range of front panel controls, the multi-waveform LFO, and the extensive CV and MIDI control.
The LFO has six waveforms. Use sine or triangle for classic chorus flanger effects. Check out the Sample and Hold, Square, Sawtooth, and Ramp for radical new sounds. There are no analog chorus / flangers that have a sample and hold capability
In Flange mode, you adjust the delay time from approx. .6 to 10 milliseconds. In Chorus mode, from approx. 5 to 50 milliseconds.
The Feedback control is continuously bi-polar for both non-inverted and inverted feedback for flanging with even or odd harmonics.
The MF-108M has both input drive and output level control so you can use it from instrument to line level.
Parameters are MIDI controllable and the MF-108M will ship with an application editor for managing the array of possibilities. Just one example of the many applications: Control the delay time with MIDI notes for "tuned" flanger comb-filter effects.
There's a Feedback Insert jack on the back for external processing of just the wet signal just after the BBD's.
The design includes high voltage MN3007 BBD's for their superior headroom and excellent signal to noise ratio.

Pricing and Availability:

Expected to begin shipping in late summer."
http://moogmusic.com/
Spotted on Sonic State

Update: Moog Music preview page is up.

Gary Chang's Custom Wiard Modular

via Gary Chang's Photos where you'll find some back and forth between Gary and George Mattson. Gary shared this pic after seeing George's monster EML. Don't miss the modular in FU Studio.

On the Wiard:
"the Wiard system is my own design of aluminum cabinetry, which is of a monocoque construction - the top, back and bottom of the cabinet is one piece of aluminum, bent to form to fit the module shape, but also the bends provide natural strength without interior supports. The end pieces are welded onto this, and, when the modules are mounted in the cabinet, they provide a very strong, yet ultra lightweight structure. The case is powder coated blue (of course) which gives it a durable finish that should last for years...!"

Also worth mentioning is the stand:
"It is a Freedom Breakdown Stand, which is, by far, the most stable stand on the market. Aside from the stability, the other key features include 1). foot pedal actuated motorized adjusted height, which is great when getting around a big system, and 2). for as hefty a load that this stand can support, it can be completely taken apart for moving." http://www.solidstand.com/

Jomox T-Resonator Analog Filter Delay Synth Effect with Original Box

via this auction
"Here is a fabulously powerful analog filter box/delay effect/synthesizer from Jomox...

Inside its heavy-duty metal casing, it's a pair of excellent sounding analog Moog filters, LFO, envelope follower, and delay lines. But it's a lot more than that.

I called this device a synthesizer because you can use the feedback routings to generate tones.

You can feed almost everything into everything else, and there is some frequency modulation going on too. There are probably more routings in this box than in any other analog device of the same side without menus. All the controls are completely 1-knob-per-function.

When you start using this machine, you stop thinking of it as a pair of filters. And it starts to become in your mind an organism of interwoven, feedback-based tone generators. You learn to subtly play the feedback. You can make some incredibly beautiful, ethereal sounds when you carefully tweak the knobs to make a delicate matrix of filtering, delays, and feedback.

The sounds of the the original input can become just one theme in a beautiful shifting landscape of sound.

And the various delay-based algorithms sound great. The delays are digital (all the other audio circuitry is analog) and they always pass through the analog filters before feeding back, so you never have harsh or thin delay sounds. . . though they can be shimmering and lovely.

I recommend this instrument to guitarists who are looking for something really, really different, for experimentalists, for digital musicians looking for something really warm and organic to process or create sound, and for anyone who loves sound design and tweaking.

Can take a line level or instrument level input.

S/N 20080218

-Stereo In
-Stereo Out
-Envelope follower with LFO
-2 analog filters
-2 delay lines /chorus /reverb
-8 Algorithms
-Positive feedback loops
-Cross feedback
-FM feedback
-Power 9V~ AC

The following description is written by the creator of the T-Resonator, J. Michaelis.

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ARP AXXE SYNTHESIZER MODEL 2323 SN 1824

via this auction

SN 23231824

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Solvent modular crunch MFB Seq-02 + WMD Geiger Counter

YouTube Uploaded by s0LVentCIty on Jun 14, 2011

"Hello my name is Solvent, and I just made this crunchy IDM Hip Hop beat on my Eurorack modular.

Everything is being sequenced by the MFB Seq-02, which is being clocked from a trigger coming out of Logic/Silent Way/ES-3. I locked it to Logic so that it'll be easier to chop up into loops later, if I decide to develop this track further.

Outside of the modular, I've got the kick from my Jomox MBase-01, and the snare is from my modified Boss DR-55. The occasional analog delay is from my Boss DM-100. The white noise in the HH sound is coming from my MS-20 since I don't have a noise source module yet.

More than half of the modules in my case are being used here, so I'll just point out the ones that are contributing most prominently to the sound:
- the glitchy Autechre-ish part in the HH comes from the Flight of Harmony Sound of Shadows digital delay module, with it's delay time being sequenced by the MFB
- VCO is Tip Top Audio Z3000
- VCO goes into the Bubblesound Sem20 VCF, before being destroyed by the WMD Geiger Counter Wave Table distortion / bit reduction module. The Sem20 actually plays a big part in the sound, as the WMD responds drastically to LP vs HP, and to Resonance amount.
- Geiger's wavetable is changing via a VC input, sequenced by the MFB.
- Post Geiger filter is an EMS Synthi VCF clone, DIY'd by a guy named Cameron from Chicago, which is similar to the STG's Sea Devil Filter module. Filter Cutoff is being modulated by the MFB.
- Synthwerks MG-1 module is being used to trigger the MFB's reset in, which I'm using to create manual fills, which remain perfectly in time on account of the MFB being clocked externally."

cebec - trunks

via cebec
trunks - "previously CD-only and available through Hidden, is now on bandcamp for preview or download. The distributor sold out so this is currently the only way to get it. It's 100% improvised with my Serge Modular."

Also see collection by cebec.

Strange Fender Rhodes

YouTube Uploaded by Ascent68 on Jun 12, 2011

"A demo of my Fender Rhodes with FX only.
No Synthesizer..."

Some additional info via Ascent68:
"Not jazz, soul or other standard Fender Rhodes music. I try to make sounds like a soundtrack of old Scifi movie (forbbiden planet for exemple) but without synthesizer. Only an Electric Piano, reverb, analog delay and equalizer."

Custom PAiA model 1550 Stringz'n'Thingz Expansion

via stefanv.com where you'll find the full details.

"Here's what I added:
44-key Yamaha keyboard (7 additional notes).
Octave-switchable crystal-controlled master oscillator.
Separate cello and violin level controls.
Switchable string chorus modes.
Split keyboard for the piano.
Proper circuitry for the high C note block.
Polyphonic flute voice (almost sine waves).
Effects section operating on the flute voice:
Wave folder to add harmonics (an "unfilter"), modulated by an LFO and/or envelope generator.
LFO modulated VCA to provide tremolo.
Envelope generator modulated VCA to provide attack-decay.
Overall volume control.
Fused AC voltage and a safer power switch (no AC on 1550C board)."

Buchla 200e

flickr By rick604

Black case.