Something New From Clavia / Nord Keyboards Coming to Musikmesse

via Nord Keyboards: "Wednesday March 21th at 10.00am the 2012 Musikmesse opens in Frankfurt! The Nord Crew will be there and as always there will be something new to try out..."

Click the pic and look at the red box he's resting his hand on. My first thought was the new nord drum presented at NAMM 2012, but if you look at the back of it in this post, you'll see it's fully black. This one is red. Along with the new nord drum at NAMM, Clavia showed the new Nord Piano 2, and C2D Combo Organ, none of which this appears to be. So, a small red box. My dream? A new affordable fully polyphonic micro-modular with iPad editor for performance editing and software editor for PC/Mac/Linux. They could repackage the DSP in the G2 rack with the existing engine and put resources into the editor. I can always dream...

Update: Consensus in the comments is that it's actually the wood side panel of a keyboard standing on it's side. It's painted red like other Clavia keyboards. Note none of the Lead and Wave line of synths from Clavia have had wood end caps, so if this is a new synth, it would be a departure from that.

Update: Looks like it will be the Electro 4D. You can find the announcement here.

Soviet Tom-1501 Analog Strings, Brass & Piano

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via this auction

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"Tom-1501- 61-note (F-F) string / brass / piano multi-keyboard. This one reminds Crumar multi-keyboards. Nearly all controls on sliders on sloping back panel. Splittable. Vibrato depth, speed. Brass filter AR, resonance and cutoff. Preset sounds, mixable, include piano, clavinet, orchestra (violin, alto, contrabass), brass. Chorus. Piano has separate out. Made at the Tula factory. Size: 920 x 360 x 195 mm. Weight without case: 13 kg

PANEL PARAMETERS:
- VOLUME: phones level, 5-din out
- VIBRATO (LFO): depth, rate, tuning
- VOLUME GLOBAL: strings, bass (+on/off), piano
- BRASS-FILTER: attack, decay, resonance, cutoff
- LEFT MANUAL: piano, clavichord, alto, viola, brass (+on/off)
- STRING ENSEMBLE: timbre level, orchestra (chorus) on/off
- RIGHT MANUAL: piano, clavichord, alto, viola, brass (+on/off)
- SUSTAIN: level ; POWER on/off
- CONNECTIONS (5-din): pedal in, mono out, stereo out (brass left, pno-strings right), piano out; 220V power socket, fuse, ground.

Tom-1501 provides very impressive analog sound, it is convenient for modeling of really fat strings and warm pads, classic brasses and horns, old space leads, vintage piano sounds, layered combinations etc."

MOM 1501

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Grendel Drone Commander Listening Test.mov

YouTube Uploaded by AudioCentralMagazine on Mar 14, 2012

"A listening test - more or less, function per function - on the mighty Grendel Drone Commander. Hats off to Eric Archer. There's no excuse for this listening test: there are no excuses for this video: I need a audio feedback on the Grendel to start modeling the circuit by software on my web magazine ;-) www.audiocentralmagazine.com"

[Experimental Music] Buffer Troll II

YouTube Uploaded by metabog on Mar 14, 2012

"Made with my Max/MSP patch, Buffer Troll. Might not be everyone's cup of tea."

TheDaydreamSound's Review of the Ensoniq ESQ-1 Synthesizer

YouTube Uploaded by TheDaydreamSound on Mar 14, 2012
No synth demo in this one. Just TheDaydreamSound's reflection on the ESQ-1. I do enjoy these.

Also see TheDaydreamSound's Ensoniq Mirage 8bit Sampler - The Great Grand Daddy of the ASR-10

"My thoughs on the Ensoniq ESQ-1 Digital Wave Synthesizer

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Ensoniq ESQ-1 is a hybrid digital-analog synthesizer released by Ensoniq in 1986. The ESQ-1 featured 8 voices with 3 digital oscillators per voice. Each oscillator could be set to one of 32 different waveforms. Some of these were standard simple waveforms such as sawtooth and pulse, while others were samples such as piano and voice. Each oscillator also had an associated DCA (not VCA) to control its volume in 256 steps. In addition to that, an ESQ1's voice featured 3 LFOs, 4 envelope generators, a 4-pole resonant analog lowpass filter (VCF), and a final VCA with left/right panning. It also sported a 61-key velocity-sensitive keyboard, full MIDI implementation, memory for 40 patches, a memory cartridge slot, and an 8-track sequencer. A rackmount version called the ESQ-M was also released circa 1987, with exactly the same specification minus the sequencer. The ESQ-1 was produced until 1988."

JP-80 iPad Control Surface (using MIDI Touch for iPad)

YouTube Uploaded by DanKrisher on Mar 14, 2012
Re-Uploaded by DanKrisher on Mar 15, 2012

"This is a project I've been working on. If you'd like to get a the file (program) go to www.jupiter80.music-technology-online.com for info."


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New EMW-200 Videos Alongside EML-200

EMW-200 DELAY TEST

YouTube Uploaded by psprojectbrazil on Mar 14, 2012

http://www.electronicmusicworks.com/

EMW-200 VCO1 TEST


Videos also added to the main post here where you'll find audio demos and pics.
Comments disabled here to keep them there.

VERMONA DRM1 MKIII ANALOG DRUM SYNTHESIZER SN D 07063

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"The DRM1 MKIII is an eight-channel, completely analog drum synthesizer. It gives you total control over every parameter through its 72 controls.

The new version has following changes:
- KICK channel instead of the DRUM1 channel. The Kick channel has some different parameters and can create fatter and deeper kick sounds.
- The DRUM channels have a WAVE parameter which transforms the oscillator's waveform from sine to square
- The oscillators of the DRUM channels will be started with each trig signal.

The DRM1 Mk III is a flexible 8-channel drum synthesizer, which gives you the ability to create your own sounds, as well as many other classic analog drum sounds. Every sound parameter of the DRM1 Mk III has its own controller, so its easy to use and you'll always have a clear picture of the settings.

Features
Control Features and Connections:

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Le clip des membres Audiokeys "PopCorn"

YouTube Uploaded by audiokeys on Mar 13, 2012

"PopCorn, ou le talent des membres d'AudioKeys.net
Analog80 (Paul) - Bassrÿche (Franck Bassette) - Captain Cookie (Frédéric Ardoüin) - Cartman49 (Cyril) - Chris (Christian) - Coyote14 (Laurent) - Neok (Miguel) - Obby (Mickael) - Papy (Christian Bonnemaison) - Phil326 (Phil) - Pplemoko (Arnaud) - ADN (Fabien Labonde) - BlueDid29 (Didier Merlateau)"

timeFrogII-fw1.3 drumKit session

YouTube Uploaded by UNDEADINSTRUMENTS on Mar 14, 2012

"I did a very small config in ableton live using a drum kit and some drum samples, dispatched on 4 midi channels.
This video demonstrates some interesting features of the 1.3 timeFrog firmware, in particular:
- cross configuration of midi notes/channels using slots
- semi automated sequencer filling
- beat frequency juggling, with frequency changes from inside the seq
- sequencer scrubbing
More infos on undeadinst.com"

Update:

timeFrogII-fw1.3 drumKit session2

timeFrogII-fw1.3 drumKit session2 from Undead Instruments on Vimeo.

"I did a very small config in Ableton live using a drum kit some drum samples and a bass synth, dispatched on 4 midi channels.
This video demonstrates some interesting features of the 1.3 timeFrog firmware, in particular:
- cross configuration of midi notes/channels using slots
- semi automated sequencer filling, dynamic pattern changes
- octave transpose on bass line

Direct audio recording (again), it's why it reminds some ghost drones because of an hardware synth I did not unplug: I planned to edit the video with a clean audio recording, but got crazy in nuendo...

More infos on undeadinst.com"