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New Sponsor Shout Out! - THONK & Announcing The New 258J Analog Oscillator

I just wanted to give a shout out to a relatively new sponsor of the site, THONK! You might have noticed their banner on the right in the Manufactuers section. They offer DIY panels, PCBs, kits, knobs and lots more. Be sure to check out their website to see what they have to offer. They just announced the 258J Analog Oscillator as the first part of this year's limited edition 'J3RK PROJ3KT 2013' series. THONK is also a sponsor of the Tokyo Festival of Modular posted earlier.

DIY

"A test of a few devices I have that are all DIY

Main sequence is an Anushri By Mutable instruments , the drums are also the Anushri, but I configured them to run on a different MIDI channel to take advantage of the X0X style sequencing

The filter sweeps and echo are by Little dieter by d-machinery, its a control unit for a Doepfer A100 diy analogue synth, its my noob eurorack module. The LD output is running through a Mutable instruments Shruthi1 which has a Yellow magic filter board ( clone of the korg MS20 ) with a pt2399 delay chip, so I was using t mostly as a delay/echo

It was a lot of fun goofing around, using my big toe to move the arpeggio up and down octaves and running out of hands to twiddle the settings, but it was still fun like I said!"

Update via dude163 in the comments: "D-Machinery now have a website with the Little Dieter available as a kit

http://dmachinery.wordpress.com/"

Edgar Winter - Frankenstein (1973) The Midnight Special

Uploaded on Jan 12, 2009 Shane Combs·30 videos

"Edgar winter group frankenstein at the midnight special in 1973. Amazing performance. (i did not do the color changing effects). thats how it was on the show. i also have many other midnight special videos"

ARP 2600 keytar. Via Waveformanalogueresearch Elektro on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Tokyo Festival of Modular 2013

Tumblr in Japanese here. Googlish here.

Meet The Knobbers 2012

Published on May 7, 2013 Lo Yeye·1 video

http://meettheknobbers.com/?p=147

Remember Knobbers 2013 is coming up. Details posted here.

emSynth News - 200 Boards on Order

You might remember the new mini format modular come from emSynth in this post. 200 boards are on order.

via emSynth: "5-12-2013 I have agreed to have 200 emsynth boards made. when they arrive we (Carlos and I) will begin building boards and shipping them at a rapid pace. early adopter boards include Arduino 8-pin processor, daughtercard adapter, and supply decoupling cap. Expect to have eary adopters with boards in a few weeks (4-6)."

You'll find emSynth's email address at the top right of http://electro-music.com/emsynth/

Akai AX60 Waveforms and Pulse Width Modulation

Published on May 12, 2013 zibbybone·116 videos

"In addition to basic waveforms: saw, triangle and square, there is a saw/square combination wave. Pulse width modulation is also available on all of these waveforms for an interesting effect. I'm pretty sure the AX60 is the only synth with this feature. Feel free to comment if you know of other synths with this capability."

J. Mattheson Air for Theremincello and Piano

Published on May 12, 2013 Thierry Frenkel·5 videos

"First public appearance for many years of the Theremincello!
It was an invention of the Russian physicist Leon Theremin around 1930. Then it was forgotten for a very long time and now revived by "Theremingenieur" Thierry Frenkel who completely reinvented the electronic circuitry with modern components and Augusto Triani who handcrafted the housing and the mechanics."

ALESIS HR-16 DRUM MACHINE WITH LINN, OBERHEIM, SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS SAMPLE EPROMS

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via this auction

"This auction is for a absolutely mint Alesis HR-16 in perfect working order, this comes with all original packaging, midi cable, power supply, instructions and two sets of EPROM sound chips. The pictured set are the original ones which are in perfect order, but in the Alesis I have installed a new operating system chip and two EPROM’s filled with high quality classic drum samples.

On the installed EPROM’s all 49 original sounds have been replaced with a selection of Linn LM-1, LinnDrum, Linn 9000, Oberheim DMX, Oberheim DX, Sequential Circuits Drumtraks, Emu Drumulator, Emu SP12 and Emu S1200 samples (see the full list of samples below).

This item can be collected from East London and please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions.

The installed full list of samples are as follows:

— DMX Clap
— DMX Kick
— DMX Shaker
— DMX Snare
— Drumtraks Closed HiHat
— Drumtraks Crash Cymbal
— Drumtraks Kick
— Drumtraks Open HiHat
— Drumulator Clap
— Drumulator Clave
— Drumulator Closed HiHat
— Drumulator Cowbell
— Drumulator Kick
— Drumulator Open HiHat
— Drumulator Ride Cymbal
— Drumulator Rim
— Drumulator Snare
— Drumulator Tom
— DX Tom
— Linn 9000 Conga
— Linn 9000 Cowbell
— Linn 9000 Electronic Tom
— Linn 9000 Kick
— Linn 9000 Ride Cymbal
— Linn 9000 Snare
— Linn 9000 Tambourine
— Linn 9000 Tom
— LinnDrum Clap
— LinnDrum Closed HiHat
— LinnDrum Conga
— LinnDrum Kick
— LinnDrum Open HiHat
— LinnDrum Snare
— LinnDrum Snare23
— LM-1 Choke HiHat
— LM-1 Clap
— LM-1 Clave
— LM-1 Conga
— LM-1 Kick
— LM-1 Medium HiHat
— LM-1 Rim
— LM-1 Snare
— LM-1 Tambourine
— LM-1 Tight HiHat
— LM-1 Tom
— SP12 Kick 1
— SP12 Kick 2
— SP1200 Kick 1
— SP1200 Kick 2"

MTI AUTO ORCHESTRA AO-1

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via this auction

"First and foremost, the drum machine section of the unit DOES FUNCTION along with the tempo and volume knobs, every rhythm button, the variation switch and all 'break' buttons, allowing you to cancel different drum hits while the rhythm is playing. HOWEVER, there is a hum that drones, whether or not the rhythm is playing, when the 'drum' on/off button is pressed. I am not sure what is causing this hum. It does come from all three outputs (MAIN, BASS and STRINGS). This hum does NOT sound when the BASS, CHORDS or STRINGS on/off buttons are pressed. However, to my knowledge, you need the MTI footboard accessory to use the BASS, CHORDS or STRINGS function. As a sidenote and a warning, the MTI Auto Orchestra 16R accessories (footboard and volume pedal) are NOT compatible with the AO-1. Although, a youtube search will lead to certain homemade electronics guys that can build MTI keyboard accessories..." via the Strangler in the comments of this post.