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Undead Instruments - timeFrog II - Inertial Sensor Gestures

Undead Instruments - timeFrog II - Inertial Sensor Gestures from Richard Devine on Vimeo.

"The timeFrog II is a powerful and flexible MIDI device dedicated to music computer and MIDI applications.

The spin/inertial sensor provides a totally new kind of control surface, which opens new way for playing with parameters.

The 8 endless encoders, 4 potentiometers and 6 buttons form a functional and compact.

There is also a embedded 4 steps sequencer: 4x4 steps x 6 voices

This patch was setup in Ableton Max For Live using only two instances of SonicCharge's Synplant software synthesizer. These two patches where customized and
designed to work with the timeFrogII. Creating for some very unique musical gestures. All sequencing and note generation is from the timeFrog controller.

undeadinst.com/products/timefrog"

Early Moog Modular

via Marc Doty's Photos.

If you remember from this post and this earlier post, Marc is spending the Summer with The Bog Moog Foundation.

If you look at the large panel towards the left you'll see what looks like a filter bank. I was curious if this was one of the five only in existence, mentioned at 6:47 in the video below, by the late David Hillel Wilson, former curator of The New England Synthesizer Museum. If you look at the video you will see that it is not the same. It is also not the same as the 914 Filter Bank pictured here, or the 907A here. It looks closest to the 914. [Update 1/6/12 via Brian Kehew: "The old filter module is an original 907 Fixed Filter bank (the 907a is the same thing, but turned vertically; I assume to save panel space. The 914 is 'Extended' meaning more bands and options"]

Update: some additional info from Michelle Moog-Koussa: "Hi All, this modular was the demo unit at R.A. Moog, Co. I believe the modules are dated 1967, but I'll have to double check. In 1970, when Bill Weytana took over the company, Bob sold this synth to David Borden, a good friend and a founding member of Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece. David used the synth for years until sometime about 10 or 15 years ago, Bob called him and asked if he could have it back, at which point David sent it without hesitation. It's the only modular we have in the archives and we're very grateful to have it. The synth still bears the Mother Mallard plaque on the left side. Here's a photo of it, taken at our Pushing the Envelope Exhibit: http://www.facebook.com/l/EAQCbjJb1/on.fb.me/o17LeM. @Matrix, I don't think this is a special filter bank like David was talking about, although it would be amazing to have one of those in the archives. It looks like this system most closely resembles a "Synthesizer Ic' from the 1967 catalog. @Custom synth, it's not used.......yet. When we have the resources to restore it and share it, we will certainly use it!"

YouTube Uploaded by turbid on Oct 28, 2007

You can find all three parts in this post commemorating David Hillel Wilson, as well as this earlier post.

Couple of screen grabs (I'm pretty sure I have some better pics from my visit back in 2006):

Inside the First ARP 2500

Just added some pics to this post.

What i do when i'm alone in the office (iPad and PureData miniJam)

YouTube Uploaded by josuepalma on Jul 26, 2011

"i didn't know Garage Band for ipad receives Midi over Wi-fi, so i made this little experiment.."

GarageBand - Apple®
iPads on eBay

TouchOSC FS1R Editor - First Screenshot

Something I'm working on for the Yamaha FS1R and TouchOSC with The Missing Link. This is the Operator parameters page. There are 8 Voiced and 8 Unvoiced operators in the FS1R. Multiply that by four parts and you are looking at 64 pages. Unfortunately TouchOSC does not appear to support a method I can use to select Operator and Part, so I'm looking at manually mapping every single control you see here times 64. It's probably going to take a while, but it is coming. I might make the editor available once Part 1 is complete. If anyone is interested, let me know. The one plus with TouchOSC is I can edit this on my Mac vs. directly on the iPad, which for a template this size makes the difference between being committed and simply giving up. I should say these pages are the last ones I need to complete before the editor will be complete. I have finally cracked the FS1R open. BTW, this editor will require The Missing Link as TouchOSC does not currently support sysex directly and the FS1R requires sysex for advanced editing. BTW, if your wondering what's up with the color scheme of my editor, it matches the FS1R.

WALDORF MICROWAVE XT

via this auction

Click on these for the large pics.

"This Waldorf microwave XT is in mint condition and has been kept in a smoke free studio. All knobs and Functions work perfectly 100%. It has never been racked so it has no rack rash. This is the 10 Voice XT and I am also including the Sound libraries that were available for sale when the XT was originally released.

Industrial soundset
Analog soundset
Techno soundset
Studio Production soundset"

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Yamaha SK30 organ sound

YouTube Uploaded by acidblue0 on Jul 26, 2011
via this auction
"This is a short demo of the organ sound coming from this old school synth. Not bad for its age"

circuit bent casio sk1 demo of the sampling

YouTube Uploaded by drmoonstien on Jul 26, 2011
drmoonstien on eBay (RSS)
"New Project"

85 Modcan Quad LFO 61B Polyphony

YouTube Uploaded by 7thDanSound on Jul 26, 2011

"I use 1 channel of the Quad LFO in audio range as an oscillator to and sync it to another oscillator to make it track a reasonable scale. Then I use a second channel to modulate the rate of the first which in this case makes it divide the incoming tempo. Then I add another channel in audio mode to make chords."