BLIPPOOOOOoooooo BOX

Published on Apr 18, 2016 Cray

"Rob Hordijk's Blippoo Box"

Rossum Electro-Music - Superbooth16

Published on Apr 20, 2016 DivKidVideo

"We spoke to the legendary Dave Rossum or Rossum Electro-Music about the current line of modules and the new concept for his eurorack sampler."

DSI / Sequential Prophet 6 Demo 1

Published on Apr 18, 2016 Jop de Klein

"A collection of custom made patches and factory presets for the DSI Prophet 6. All played without midi and no external effects were used.
The visuals come from the iTunes visualizer.

More synth sounds at my soundcloud page: https://soundcloud.com/greenborder/"

Pads and Encoders

Published on Mar 5, 2016 latigid on

"Quick demo of an illuminated encoder grid and 4*4 button pad. Several boards (at least four) can be chained together."

Imagine Waldorf/MidiBox semi-translucent knob caps over these. That would be pretty cool. They were suggested for the upcoming MidiBox MBProgramma just posted below.

Quick and dirty BLM demo

Published on Jun 21, 2015

"MIDIbox SEQ V4 with BLM extension. All sounds are produced by a sammichFM."

New Midibox MBProgramma Hardware Synth Patch Programmer in the Works

This one was shared on the excellent Rhodes Chroma list. It's a 64-encoder knob box with LED rings. Each encoder is dynamically labelled using a small but crisp 128*64 OLED display. It is currently in the development phase so no date on when it might be available and of course features & implementation are likely to change over time. MidiBox projects are also usually DIY, so not sure if this will be available as a finished product or only in kit form.

You'll find the project page here. The following is the first intro post via Hawekeye in the MidiBox forums:

"Jojjelito and myself are currently collaborating on a bigger MIDIboxNG project, that should help facilitate patch programming for all those synth users, that are unhappy with the bad/minimalistic user interfaces of their rack and keyboard synths, especially when programming new patches. This project was planned for years and never took shape...

But, thanks to TK., MIDIboxNG came to the rescue!

Its codebase has all of the needed functionality integrated in a very generic way, allowing to do so many things!

So... why this project, additionally?

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The Vintage Toy Synthesizer by Liam Lacey

Published on Apr 9, 2016 Liam Lacey

"A complete hands-on walkthrough/guide on how to use the Vintage Toy Synthesiser. This is one of four videos talking and and demoing the final state of the synth.

This synth has been developed for the Element14 Music Tech design challenge, in which I have converted a wooden vintage toy piano into a standalone digital synth. See more about my project at https://www.element14.com/community/c..."

Playlist:
Vintage Toy Synthesiser - Specification Overview
Vintage Toy Synthesiser - A Complete Hands-On Guide
Vintage Toy Synthesiser - Sound/Patch Demos
Vintage Toy Synthesiser - Using the Device as a MIDI Controller
Vintage toy piano keyboard MIDI controller
Vintage toy piano keyboard MIDI controller (velocity and poly-pressure sensitive)

Primary features of the synth:

2-voice digital synthesiser with true polyphony
5 oscillators with dedicated waveforms
State-Varible-Filter with independent LP, HP, BP and Notch mix controls
Amplitude and Filter ADSR envelopes
Two modulation sources (LFO and keyboard velocity) with three destinations, each with independent bipolar depth controls
Digital distortion FX
Changeable scales on the keyboard
‘Vintage’ parameter for replicating old/broken analogue synth voices
Full MIDI I/O integration
Polyphonic Aftertouch expression (MIDI-out only)
Charming miniature grand piano form
Development specs:

Brain of the synth is running on a BeagleBone Black board running Linux
Voice engine was developed using the C++ audio DSP library Maximilian
Keyboard mechanism uses homemade pressure sensors made out of Velostat
Completely open-source

via Ask.Audio

The Thingamagoop 3000 - CV i/o

Published on Apr 20, 2016 Bleep Labs

"The Thingamagoop 3000 has extensive CV i/o functionality. Here's a few examples.
The pre-order is ending soon. Get your noise friend at http://bleeplabs.com"

Andrew Hunter - Eurorack Modular Synthesizer Improvisation #7. Apr. 20/2016

Published on Apr 20, 2016 Andrew Hunter Music

"bass: metropolis + planar mixed oscillators + pitts filter. Lead: e340 cloud generator, wasp filter, pittsburgh delay. Drums: tiptop. Additional percussion: DNA, Boogie filter. everything through springray."

KORG PS3100 Semi-Modular Synth

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via this auction

"Fully serviced by Korgtech recently.
18 card connectors replaced. 2 x MM5824N replaced.
Very clean instrument but some of rosewood finish peeled off. See picture.
We can supply rosewood tape.

All new jack nuts
Key contact cleaned by synth tech
Calibrated by synth tech
Serial number: Upload later if needed
Original owners' manual and documents"

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Sequential Circuits Prelude SN 171/193

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via this auction

You can find a demo of one, linked in the auction, posted here.

"This thing sounds cool - the resonance, chorus, and flange let you get otherworldly sounds out of it.
I tried all the switches, faders, and buttons, and they all seem to work to my ear. When I encountered a scratchy sounding fader, contact cleaner was able to clean up the sound. I am not a tech, so it is sold "as is".

This synth is great! It's four voices: Brass, Piano, Organ, and Strings... Each section can be manipulated by the various sliders. Too many to name. It's got a Modulation section and an Equalizer section as well as a section of Effects like: Octave, Chorus, Etc... It's a simple machine, but it's very capable of producing FAT bass sounds. I mean really FAT.

'Sequential Circuits introduces the Prelude, a polyphonic keyboard instrument with string, brass, piano, and organ sounds, all of which can be mixed together if desired. Each instrument section also has three different tone colors that can be mixed. A modulation section allows for flanging, chorusing, vibrato, and delayed vibrato from an LFO. The brass section includes filter cutoff and resonance and attack time controls. the decay time can be controlled in the piano section, and attack and release times are controllable in the string section. the instrument also features a built-in five-band graphic equalizer. A rear panel input jack allows an external signal to be processed by the equalizer and the chorus effect.

The Prelude is a 4-section orchestral synthesizer consisting of Piano, Organ, Brass and String sections. Like many other similar 4-section synths of this type, all 49 keys will play simultaneously for 49-note polyphony. Two of the sections can be played at the same time. It has an on-board chorus/flanger effect as well as a 7-band equalizer. The string sounds are the best feature of the Prelude, and the on-board effects and EQ are great for thickening and modulating the string sound beyond the scope of traditional orchestral sounds. The Prelude has a very appealing and intuitive Sequential-esque layout and appearance and is definitely one of the finest orchestral-type multitimbral synths among others in its class.'"

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