Silver box acid jam with Inter Gritty

Published on Oct 18, 2014 Inter Gritty / Random Island

"Quick, raw single pattern acid jam straight from Random Island HQ aka my living room. The old silver boxes take the spotlight, backed up with some hats from the 909 and a bit of pedal action. Hope you like!"

And a little late but you can still appreciate the 909:

Happy 909 day!

Published on Sep 9, 2015

"It's 9/09 today. Here's how Inter Gritty celebrated."

Moog's MF-Chorus & MF-Flange Nominated For TEC Award

via Moog Music

"Moog Music is proud to announce that both the MF-Chorus and MF-Flange Minifooger Analog Effects have received TEC Award nominations in the category of 'Musical Instrument Amplification & Effects'.

Recognizing the technical innovations behind recordings, live performances, television, film and video games, the 31st annual TEC Awards will be held on January 23, 2016 during the NAMM Show in Anaheim, California. Moog Music is grateful for this year's nominations and for the efforts of the NAMM Foundation and TEC Awards in spotlighting the technical achievements of today that that will shape the sounds of tomorrow.

Enjoy these select demonstrations of the TEC Award nominated MF-Chorus and MF-Flange analog effects and visit the Moog Dealer Locator to find an Authorized Moog Dealer near you."

You'll find the demos on Moog's website here.

Upcoming Sound Labs at Amsterdam Dance Event Oct 14 - 18

Workshops at this years' Amsterdam Dance Event currently include Moog, STEIM, Ginko Synthese, and Falafular Synths. Details follow.

ADE Sound Lab: a modular synth heaven

"The modular synthesizer has always been an integral part of dance music, and ADE Sound Lab will shed a light on its heritage during a three day modular synth bonanza.
If you're planning on visiting ADE Sound Lab make sure to grab the annual ADE Card, which allows you to access MusicTalks and live performances.

Modular synths have been on the rise of late. Their new found popularity boosted the modular market in unforeseen ways. The market has spiked like never before, and there are ever more and more musicians, artists and producers making their own modular set up in search of unique sounds and machinery.

ADE Sound Lab focuses on the history and heritage of synths by inviting sound designers, inventors and even some legends of the modular world to inspire you with talks, workshops, performances and a Modular Market. By exhibiting the latest inventions in (modular) synthesis ADE explores the realm of the development of new electronic instruments, (modules for) modular synthesizer systems and audio installations, as well as innovations in the field of image and visualisations of sound. Amongst other work, ADE Sound Lab introduces the Modular Expo.

Do It Yourself Synth Building Workshops
You can not only play around with existing modules and modular systems, but you can also build your own synthesizer. ADE Sound Lab offers several Do It Yourself workshops, some free of charge, others for a fee. The latter will ensure you can take your brand new, playable synth back to your home studio.

Moog’s Chris Howe will head the workshops on Thursday and Friday. Friday will see a workshop that will be led by STEIM - Hypothetical Instruments, which will focus on the future of electronic music, what instruments will be needed and how we will correspond with those yet-to-be-invented modules. On Saturday, the DIY Workshop will be hosted by Ginko Synthese who will let you build your own synth with their very own DIY kits. They’ll even let you make a case to harness the instruments. Falafular will host on Saturday. If you like to learn more about prices and workshop registration, keep a close eye on our website and the respective event pages.

Workshops
Moog Werkstatt by Chris Howe (Moog Music Inc, US)
Werkstatt Workshop provides a way for synth experts and novices alike to explore subtractive synthesizers. Through hands-on instrument modifications, participants will learn the fundamentals of subtractive analog synthesis and the control voltage paradigm. Analog synthesizers have long had their own maker culture born of curious engineers, physicists and hobbyists who have created and crafted their sounds through electronic experimentation. It is our goal to share our love for learning, music, and electronics by encouraging everyone to create the world they want to hear, one mod at a time.

STEIM - Hypothetical Instruments
In this workshop you can design machines for creative expression. Working with low and no-tech, you’ll build non-functional instruments aimed at inventing the music machine of the future. By taking as a starting point how an individual imagines the experience of playing electronic music, we will spend the afternoon making the perfect machine or instrument for that person. This process is directly informed by the designers and researchers from Native Instruments, Johannes Kepler Universität and STEIM, with the goal of making instruments that are positioned on the bleeding edge of technology.

Ginko Synthese
Ginko Synthese, the braindchild of Jan Willem Hagenbeek, aims to close the gap between the stage and the studio. At ADE Sound Lab they will be presenting easy to build cheap DIY kits. The components are available at a reasonable price. The popularity of these kits is currently spreading across the world fast, meaning that a lot of new user codes are becoming available almost weekly. You can use these modules as granular oscillators, wavetable oscillators, drum synths and even as clock sources just by uploading a different code.

Falafular Synths
Falafular is the SDIY brand that enabled Falafelbiels (Niels Kloet) to build himself a fabulous modular synthesizer. The ’S’ in SDIY stands for soldering, and Niels Kloet will show you the nit and grit of Do It Yourself synth building.

ADE Sound Lab is organised by ADE, in cooperation with Creative Industries Fund NL, the Dutch fund that offers sound pioneers and innovators an opportunity to demonstrate what they are working on, as well as helping them to develop their talents further in a 'hot house' environment.

ADE Sound Lab
Dates: Thursday Oct. 15 - Saturday Oct. 17
Time: program starts at noon
Venue: Compagnietheater
ADE Sound Lab is a free program (except for the ADE MusicTalks series and live performances, free for ADE Card holders, also accessible for 1 & 5 Day conference ticket holders)."

Minimoog Voyager Session by Jeffrey Bousfield

Published on Sep 19, 2015 Jeffrey Bousfield

"Fooling around with my minimoog voyager and minifooger analog delay"

New Moog Mother32 Interpretation from Bryan Benting

via @Bryantist

"I got to see Moog's new product (Mother 32) at Knobcon 4 a few weeks ago and drew this from memory. #Moog #Mother32"

The SNES Swerve (DIY MIDI Controller) Unboxing

Published on Sep 25, 2015 KM Productions

"The official unboxing (and example) of Kyle's hand crafted DIY MIDI Controller "The SNES Swerve". It consists of 6 potentiometer knobs and 4 mini arcade buttons built inside an X-Men Super Nintendo video game cartridge. In this video it is controlling 8 FX knobs in Ableton Live."

Follow-up to The Mini Sega Twist (DIY MIDI Controller)

Roland TR-808 and Boss RDD-10 modulation bus effect

Published on Sep 18, 2015 dyLAB0303

"Roland TR-808 snare going into Boss RDD-10 delay effect - trigger out of TR-808 goes into modulation bus of RDD-10 to trigger the modulation in time with TR-808"

via Acidboxblues

"When is a delay effect not a delay ?
Well in the video I made I use the feedback and tone on my Boss RDD-10 to start it making lovely feedback noises and use the modulation to get the effects moving along. The Boss RDD-10 has a cv input for the modulation so you can send it all kinds of things. In this instance I’m using the trigger out of the Roland TR-808 to restart the modulation, this making a perfectly synced noisy synth effect.
Enjoy the noise."

Moog Prodigy SN 6481

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Buchla Music Easel Synthesizer

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"Selling a Buchla Music Easel in excellent condition, purchased this year, with everything that originally comes with it: Power adapter, Buchla bag containing cable, card in original sealed plastic container (never opened) & original bo. Note that the cool Buchla box will be packed itself so that you can enjoy it! This is what you get when you order new, no issue/repair, you get the Buchla/Cortini sound surprisingly easily!

Those units are very tough to come by and the waiting time to order from stores is weeks if not months."

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Moog Minimoog Model D w/ MIDIMini kit by Studio Electronics

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"Excellent condition, has MiniMIDI (MIDIMoog) kit installed by Studio Electronics.
Adds MIDI in/thru, Osc2 Sync, LFO, retrigger as well as other routing options. Much like the SE-1 feature set, but on an actual Minimoog. A really nice MiniMoog.

This unit has been meticulously cleaned inside and out, tuned, new key bushings installed, temp stability mods done and pots and switches cleaned and lubed.

This is an amazing machine capable of sounds you wouldn't expect from a Mini. Snoop around youtube and watch the videos of people creating amazing bass and Mini sounds all the way to drums and hats. Makes it much more versatile.

Original wood cabinet, no restaining or replacement wood. VERY Minor bumps and abrasions to wood but very few considering its age. Mostly a statement for full disclosure.

8XXX Serial Range with 3046 based Oscillators"

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