Stardust Synth Covers in All Black

via Stardust Synth Covers:

"We are pleased to announce that our covers are now available with no graphics, at an introductory price! The materials and the manufacturing process are exactly the same, maintaining the high quality product."

You can check out their prices for the blank covers by visiting their site here. Click on "Synth Covers Store", then scroll down to the synth of your choice and click on Click on it. In the resulting page click the Design Option drop down on the right and select "No Graphics". You can then select different design options to compare prices.

2016 Torino Synth Meet 6th Edition Previews

"This year the Torino Synth Meeting confirms its international character with a number of foreign exhibitors. NON LINEAR LABS, JOMOX, MODAL ELECTRONICS, BIRD KIDS, ELEKTRONMUSIK STUDIO and YAMAHA are new to TSM2016; ARTURIA, ROLAND, YAMAHA, DSI, GRP SYNTHESIZER, FRAP TOOLS, SOUND MACHINES, ELEKTRON, MOOG, NOVATION, EUTERPE SYNTHESIZER LABORATORIES, PATCHBLOCKS, TEENAGE ENGINEERING, RADIKAL TECHNOLOGIES, WALDORF have confirmed attendance for this year.

In particular, we will be hosting some great previews: ARTURIA with the MATRIXBRUTE and KEYSTEP, YAMAHA with the MONTAGE, NON LINEAR LABS with the C15 synthesizer, SOUND MACHINES with their MODULOR114, FRAP TOOLS with the CGM modular mixer, JOMOX with their new creations and some other surprises (keep your eyes on GRP Synthesizers :-) )

For this year the meeting is open to new sectors of the music industry including DJ tools, Recording labels, Studio furniture, and schools and academics.  The first record label at the event will be ANALOGIC DENSITY from Italy.  MUSICLAB and IN.SINTESI (recording studio and academy) will be present.

TSM has earned the patronage of the CITTÀ DI TORINO for the artistic relevance of the event, and from the DAMS of UNIVERSITA' DI TORINO. The course in DAMS (Disciplines of Performing Arts, Music and Entertainment) is the reference training program of the University of Turin for film, music, television, new media, performing arts, and contemporary arts. It actively collaborates with the most important cultural institutions of Torino and Piedmont (National Cinema Museum, Conservatory “Giuseppe Verdi”, Film Commission, Teatro Piemonte Europa, Piemonte dal Vivo (Theatrical Circuit of Piedmont), Teatro Stabile di Torino, Regional Division of Cultural Heritage and Landscape, Fondazione per Scuola della Compagnia di San Paolo, Turin Film Festival, and Fondazione CRT).

TSM has the honor of hosting an Italian reality, the ADO Arduino Disability Orchestra, a project aimed at people with disabilities made by students of the Politecnico di Torino, and based on the famous ARDUINO board, a platform made of specific tools and controllers that have enabled these people to be able to play, effectively creating a full orchestra.

But that's not all! More surprises are coming in the next few weeks!

On request, the period for registration at TSM has been further extended.  Those who want to participate with their company can contact us at info@synthmeeting.com

As usual, for the visitors, the entrance is FREE"

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?

CLICK FOR MORE »

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."