MATRIXSYNTH

The bitbuf

YouTube Uploaded by lftkryo on Dec 22, 2011

"I made a new toy!
The bitbuf is a portable 8-bit minimalistic live looping machine, designed for chipmusic improvisation and live performances.
http://www.linusakesson.net/bitbuf/"

A Christmas Letter from Befaco

Hopefully the following will come out. If not, let me know either via the comments or email. I'm doing a direct copy and paste from the Befaco newsletter in Bloggers new editor. Apologies for all the blinding white. :) If you are getting to this post off of the main page feed, click the more link below for the post.

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Electro-Music.com Test Streaming from DotCom Synth+Yamaha CS5

YouTube Uploaded by j3ffw0j0 on Dec 22, 2011

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YouTube Uploaded by iammodman on Dec 22, 2011

KORG Electribe ER-1 MKII with Original Box

via this auction
conwayair (RSS)

What's off about this one?

USB MIDI Controlled AY-3-8912

YouTube Uploaded by littlescale on Dec 22, 2011

"USB MIDI Controlled AY-3-8912

Early prototype.

http://little-scale.blogspot.com/"

General Instruments AY-3-8912 via wikipedia: "The AY-3-8910 is a 3-voice Programmable Sound Generator (PSG) designed by General Instrument, initially for use with their 16-bit CP1610 or one of the PIC1650 series of 8-bit microcomputers. The AY-3-8910 and its variants became popular chips in many arcade games, and was used on, among others, the Intellivision and Vectrex video game consoles and the MSX, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, Oric 1, Colour Genie, Elektor TV Games Computer and Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128/+2/+3 home computers as well as the Mockingboard sound card for the Apple II family. It was also produced under license by Yamaha (with minor modifications, i.e. a selectable clock divider pin, and a double-resolution but double-rate volume envelope table) as the YM2149F."

It's also used in the The MIDIbox AY V1: "The MIDIbox AY V1 is stuffed with a General Instruments AY-3-8912 sound chip..."

Critter and Guitari Pocket Piano GR demo at AC Gears

YouTube Uploaded by acgears on Dec 20, 2011

"Pocket Piano demonstration at NYCs gadget store AC Gears"

Uploaded by acgears on Oct 10, 2011

Teenage Engineering OP-1 demo at AC Gears

YouTube Uploaded by acgears on Dec 20, 2011

"Received our first batch of OP-1 here in New York City, and here's the first hand demonstration of the OP-1 at AC Gears in NYC."

Teenage Engineering OP-1 demo 2

the harvestman polivoks VCG R-1983 in the flesh

polivoks VCG R-1983

"Sawtooth-core VCO with 1V/octave tracking, manual octave switch, voltage-controllable pulse width modulation, and both linear and exponential frequency modulation. This is a Eurorack packaging of the Polivoks Generator circuit, authorized by the instrument inventor Vladimir Kuzmin. The exponential converter and temperature compensation circuits use original NOS Soviet integrated circuits. The hard sync is very sharp and the distortion on the triangle output is nice."

Pics via Facebook

http://theharvestman.org/

Animoog for iPhone and iPod Touch On Sale

YouTube Uploaded by MoogMusicInc on Dec 22, 2011

"Moog Music has announced the release of Animoog for the Apple iPhone 4 and 4s. Previously only available for the iPad 1 and 2, Animoog for iPhone is now available in the iTunes App Store at an introductory price of only $.99. After Animoog for iPhone's promotional pricing period ends, the price will rise to $9.99.

Animoog was the first professional synthesizer designed for Apple's iPad, and was the first music app in history to reach the number one spot of paid apps on the iTunes App Store on its first day of release. Additionally, Apple named Animoog one of the best iPad music apps of the year in it's 2011 App Store Rewind (http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewFeature?id=480278091), and Macworld named Animoog one of its three top iOS music apps http://www.macworld.com/article/164295/2011/12/app_gems_top_music_apps.html"