My Dinner With Spandre

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100% Modular Synth

Farfest 2012 - October 4 - 7 Deleware, USA

A chance to see some vintage gear playing 70's prog rock!

This one in via decaying.sine, also posted on Muff's:

"Hey Everyone,
I wanted to put out a message for a friend who has worked really hard with his colleagues to put a really wonderful event together. It's called FarFest 2012. The website is here: http://www.farfest.com/

Tickets are now on sale.

My friend Gerry has helped organize this event. It is unique because they are having bands coming to play, and his group has offered to locate hard to find instruments for the bands so that when they play at the event they can reproduce the amazing progressive rock sound of the 70's. Gerry and his group went out and FOUND these instruments so that the bands could play them at this event. Basically, the goal of FarFest is to bring these lovely instruments and bands together to produce the sounds that we love, and some bands are reforming just for the performance!

On opening night, the keyboards will be on display in the Ninth Muse - an ample space on the second floor of the Grand Opera House. The exhibit will definitely be interactive, and it's expected that there will be a large variety of instruments on display.

Here is a list of the instruments the bands requested:
Elka Rhapsody 610
Farfisa Syntorchestra
Fender Rhodes Electric Piano
Hammond B3 Organ
Mellotron 400
Mini Moog
Moog Taurus Bass Pedals
Steinway 9' Concert Grand Piano
Yamaha 6' Baby Grand Piano

The last I talked to Gerry they had lined up most of the keyboards they were looking for and were trying to track down an Elka and Farfisa. He offered a free ticket for all 4 days to anyone who provides a needed synth for use by the Farfest performers."

Giant Piñata Midi Controller

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"A completely unique midi-controller!

This was made completely by hand as an art installation for a gallery in Maine, and later, The Portland Children's Museum. It has a semi-removeable midi brain built into it's stomach from highlyliquid.com, and 24 piezo microphones embedded in its skin, that when hit/punched/kicked, send a midi signal to any compatible device to trigger a sound. You can think of them like hidden keyboard keys, that play a noise from your computer, synth etc. when you hit them. I want to make it very clear that this is ONLY A CONTROLLER. It doesn't make sound itself. It was built with being beat in mind and is very robust.

Fun possibilities abound with this thing!

ROUGH DIMENSIONS: 8 feet tall, 3 feet wide, and about 5 feet from nose to butt. Weighs about 70 lbs"

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Make Noise DPO Dual Prismatic Oscillator Video

Make Noise DPO Dual Prismatic Oscillator. Wave forms and simple sequence. from joseph raglani on Vimeo.

Here's a demo for the Wigglers out there who demand it. The new Make Noise Dual Prismatic Oscillator.
Disclaimer: I'm functioning on about three hours restless sleep. UPS man knocked on my door surprisingly early and well... I couldn't bring myself to go back to bed.
What we have here is a quick demo showing the raw wave forms from both sections of the DPO. Then some tweaking of the knobs and the modes. Then I use the Make Noise Pressure Points/Brains combo to construct a very simple sequence. Only other modules in use are the Make Noise Optomix (Low Pass Gate) and a mixer. There is some wave folding and FM modulation going on during the sequence. I hope it's pretty self-explanatory. I will be doing a proper tutorial when I've had time to spend with the DPO and hopefully borrow a nice HD camera. Until then enjoy!

Make Noise DPO Dual Prismatic Oscillator. Slightly more involved sequence. from joseph raglani on Vimeo.

Another quick demo of the DPO densely patched this time. A lot of control coming from the Doepfer A-149 Source Of Uncertainty module. Sequence is being done by Make Noise Rene.

Make Noise DPO Dual Prismatic Oscillator. Slightly more involved sequence again. from joseph raglani on Vimeo.

Same patch as the last video but I think this one sounds better.

Handcrafted Moogerfooger Panel Art & Contest

via Moog Music Inc on Facebook

"Every month, Moog Music asks an artist to create an original piece of artwork on a handcrafted Moog instrument, then we choose one lucky Moog customer to win it.

This month we're giving away this amazing MF-101 Lowpass Filter. Tomorrow we're announcing this month's winner, but it's not too late to enter. Register your Moog instruments on our website today and you're still eligible to win this one of a kind Moogerfooger.

http://bit.ly/KfrX2v"

Update: "Congratulations to Michael DeHann!
Michael is the first winner in our monthly contest celebrating the greatest customers
(and Moog enthusiasts) on earth!

Every month, Moog Music asks an artist to create an original piece of artwork on a handcrafted Moog instrument, then we choose one lucky Moog customer to win it. This month we're giving away this amazing MF-101 Lowpass Filter with handpainted calligraphic sides. Register your Moog instrument at moogmusic.com today and you will be entered to win next month's giveaway for another one-of-a kind Moog instrument.

No Purchase Necessary to enter. See Contest Rules for alternative way to enter."

Mutronics Mutator

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"Mutronics Mutator - MIDI, CV-Controlled, Analog, Stereo Envelope Follower, Low Pass Filter, Amp.

The Mutator is a stereo analogue filter and envelope follower with full control facilities. It contains two independent voltage controlled filters similar to those found in analogue synthesizers, which can be used to treat any external sound source. Each filter can be controlled from its own associated low frequency oscillator (LFO) and/or its own envelope follower section, which extracts the envelope contour of an input signal and applies it to control the cut-off frequency of the filter.

Each envelope follower can be switched to track either the envelope of the sound that is being treated by the filter, or that of an independent external control signal. This external control signal can be any audio source , eg. a drum sound, a guitar, a synth, a sampler output, or even a microphone. Thus the envelope characteristics of one sound can be superimposed onto the filtering contour of another.

Another switch on the envelope follower selects envelope follow mode or gate mode - in which the circuit detects whether a signal is above a certain threshold level before switching on.

In gate mode, the device can operate much like a dedicated noise gate unit, with the added capabilities of the analogue filter

The LFO's have four different sweep waveforms each and may be switched via a stereo link to produce stereo panning effects."

Moog Micromoog SN 6420

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Analogue Solutions Oberkorn 3 Sequencer

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Prophet '08 Module PE Conversion installation instructions

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"Available in 1080p HD. This is a step by step video walk-through of the PE Conversion installation for the Prophet '08 Module. If the C7 capacitor is absent and there is a resistor marked "0" or "000" in the R3 location on your Prophet '08 Module main board, you do not need to perform the main board modification."

KORG how to kaossilator 2 : step.5 - Performance Combining All Techniques

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More Product Info :
- USA : http://korg.com/Kaossilator2
- Japan : http://www.korg.co.jp/Product/Dance/kaossilator2/
- UK : http://www.korg.co.uk/products/dance_dj/kaossilator2/dj_kaossilator2.php

Kaossilators on eBay

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