images via this auction"This is an amazing drum machine. The programing unit was sold as a separate item and is difficult to come by but you can learn to program it with other gear. One example is here"
Friday, May 30, 2008
Roland CR-78 CompuRythm
images via this auction"This is an amazing drum machine. The programing unit was sold as a separate item and is difficult to come by but you can learn to program it with other gear. One example is here"
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Happy Knobbing 2008 Teil 5
Sonicstate TV via electrosurfer.
"Happy Knobbing 2008 Teil 5 ACA Doepfer Modular"
You can find the prior vids here. Teil 5 was the one video missing from YouTube when these originally went up, and here it is on Sonic State TV.
Elka X25
images via this auction"ELKA X25 Keyboard / Organ / Synthesizer, in VGC.
Serial Number 4058.
This is a vintage, circa 1980 to 1984? proffessional instrument, from Italian manufacturer ELKA."
Anyone know more about these?
Update via organfairy:
"The ELKA X-25 was produced from 1984 to 1988 or 89 when it was replaced with the X-45. It is the portable version of the EP-8 and a little brother to the X-30. It is an analog/digital hybrid design - as far as I remember based on the 80C51 microprocessor. There were also a version with accordeon buttons available. "
Jomox T-Resonator + Moog Bass MuRF
YouTube via bigcitymusic
"Yes, we made a another T-Resonator Video. There is a specific point to this one though! You can actually add your own extra loop to the feedback matrix. The right output goes to a limiter then to an amp. The left output is fed into the Bass MuRF, the out of the MuRF is fed back into the Jomox right in. In this video we are not feeding anything into the T-Resonator's mono input, we're just using it's own sound, generating feedback. You could use just about anything in the loop. Another fun combination was the guitar into the Jomox input and a phaser in the loop."
Divine Project - Solie (Live)
YouTube via DivineProject
"This is the newly created track by DivineProject. This track has not yet been recorded as mp3 but will be soon hopefully. Visit our MySpace: www.myspace.com/divineprojectuk
Cheers,
Enjoy!"
Acid tones Morpheus
YouTube via kenspocket
"EMU Morpheus "ACIDTONES" System exclusive or CARD
Synth sounds programed by Kens pocket...
For more info on these sounds and how to obtain them please email us or check out the websites below or see our Youtube channel and click buy !-)
www.soundwavechildren.netfirms.com
www.cdbaby.com/Kenspocket"
chaos module
YouTube via cirtcele
"sounds and oscilloscope view of experimental chaotic circuit based on designs by Sprott."
BeatMachine Fun!
YouTube via siedgey
"Hi guys,
There was a feature on the Youtube front page today of a video of a guy using "BeatMachine". It's a smart piece of software that uses your webcam to make a virtual drum machine on pretty much anything!
I set it up in about 15 mins for a laugh, it's pretty good fun! With a bit of fiddling you could import your own samples into it too.
This is a video of the first thing I did with it, sorry it's pretty dull but it shows what you can do with a large amount of geekiness and a small amount of time. :)
Simon
Original Site: http://mw.boo.pl/beatmachine/
Google Translated Site: http://translate.google.com/translate..."
Jen SX1000 Black and White
Black via this auctionWith white overlays via this auction
"The Jen SX1000 was released in 1977 for £210 and was described as "A fine box for mucking around with, or for learning about Synthesis. A first class first time buy"
It was eventually discontinued in 1982.
It has a short 37 note C to C keyboard and 24 pragramming controls with which you can make your own crazy sounds, or program in some of the suggested sounds on the 7 printed sheets that sit over the controlls. The settings you can make from these sheets are as follows.
Brass 1 and 2, Hammond Organ 1 and 2, Human Voice 1 and 2, Violin, Cello, Synthesizer, Electric Drum, Piano and Flute. There is also a blank sheet which you can record your own settings."
"The SX-1000, also called the "Synthetone", is a monophonic synthesizer with a 3-octave, 37-note keyboard and a black front panel. It makes huge / fat, analogue lead and bass sounds."
Update via Till "Qwave" Kopper in the comments:"There are no white ones. The white thing you see is a paper wit punched-out knobs to mark your own setting or the preprinted factory ones. The factories had two sounds on one card: one marked red, the other blue. You can see the red and blue names on the picture of the white one just above the keys in the middle of the keyboard range.
Just have a look at the white ones auction's rear: you can see the paper not lying perfectly flat on the front panel.
So there are no white Jen Synthetone SX 1000 known to exist, although so many claim to see one. But all pictures of white ones show these papers.
I got a Jen SX 1000 with these paper cards. A real nice beginners synth. And the filter of it is a 24 dB filter. Some people always tell it is 12 dB. Just listen to it or have a look at the schematics here.
keep on turning these knobs
Till "Qwave" Kopper"
Ensoniq Mirage DSK
images via this auction
"Ensoniq Mirage DSK Vintage 8-bit Sampler Keyboard in excellent condition. Comes with startup manual, MAS-OS 3.2 disk, couple sound disks, and power cord."
KETRON XD3
via this auction"The XD3 is a Synth Sound Module, Drum Machine & Arranger Workstation.
Live Performer with a lot of flexibility for Midi. Perfect for the Midi Accordionist, Midi Guitarist or those wishing to expand their current line-up.
The XD3 offers all you'll need in a mid-range keyboard module with exciting features like Drum Remix, Live Drums, Midifile player and the capability to create your own styles (or load in new ones). Add on the optional Pattern expansion memory card (for even more style space), vocalizer (to add human back-ground voices to what you sing), video card (to display lyrics or screen information onto an external computer monitor) and you're 'loaded' XD3 is now able to challenge some of the higher-end module of today's market. Made in Italy with pride!"
Visit www.KetronUSA.com for Ketron info.
AD Kombinat Now Available...
"rom mild tone-shaping or adding a bit of grit to full-on total waveform destruction, Kombinat is a complete toolbox of sonic warfare. This plugin is, in our opinion, the single most annihilating effect available today.With seven different options in each of the three distortion engines (plus pass-through), Kombinat is capable of sophisticated and unique sounds. Want to add a ring mod to the low end, a mild saturation to the mids, and a bit-reduction algorithm to the high end? No problem. Want to run your signal through three sine-warps in series? This is your box.
Kombinat's signal structure allows for a fairly broad palette of sounds, as each segment of the overall effect is a versatile tool in its own right. The Isolator is a full "DJ-style" band-killer EQ; this leads to the three distortion engines, which may be used in multi-band mode for subtle surgery, or in series mode for complete signal destruction. The engines go in to a four-pole lowpass filter of our own design, and then in to a compressor which we have configured for one-knob operation.
Taken as a whole, Kombinat is a tweaker's paradise, yet designed so that it is easy to just grab one of the 64 presets and touch it up a bit to suit the source material."
More info including samples on the Audio Damage website.
The exponential converter (also known as antilog amplifier)
MusicMiK who has brought us these excellent videos on his synthesizer DIY projects wrote in to let us know that he has created a page on the exponential converter. You can find that page and more here."The nature often has a logarithmic or exponential behaviour, this also applies to the human reception of volume levels and frequencies. So for the human ear, musical intervals like octaves feel like linear, but in fact are exponential. One octave is the double frequency, two octaves are four times the frequency and so on. As it is easier to handle the control of pitch in a linear way (for example using a resistor divider chain in the keyboard to convert a constant current flowing through the resistors to a linear voltage depending on the key pressed), there must be something to convert the linear control to the exponential output, like the frequency of a VCO.
This is the job of the exponential converter, which is a term commonly used in electronic music instruments, whereas the term used in other technical areas usually is antilog amplifier, as it does the opposite of a logarithmic amplifier."
Prophet '08 non-SE with backlit wheels
"Here is a non-SE with backlit pitch/mod wheels, a Sequential Circuits nameplate andspecial purple heart wood sides."
via synthwood
Maid in Mexico - Yosoyerica
YouTube via warlip. Maid playing her Weevil. :) via BugBrandBlog where you can find a little more info and more BugBrand posts.
"Hi i am erica and want to be a real sounding artist sonidera) plaese right to me any advice"
x0xb0x #13 Analog Synthesizer / TB-303 Clone
images via this auction"It was purchased during the very first run of kits and is serial #13.
It has the lexan "c0nsumer" face plate overlay which is extremely durable and will not wear.
Wood paneling was done by a friend of mine who specializes in exotic hardwoods and they are beautifully finished with black wood inlays.
Mods
All the audio are switched so they can be turned off returning to the original setting:
* Power Switch
* Envelope
* Cutoff Range
* Resonance Range
* Overdrive"
Dual Hot Hand Synth Demo
YouTube via rsmith601
"Bob Chidlaw from Source Audio demonstrates what can be done with 2 rings controlling synth parameters"
Electro Harmonix Memory Man Deluxe Analog Delay + Minimoog
YouTube via retrosound72
"vintage gear demo by RetroSound
short demo with different settings of the original 80`s EHX Memory Man Deluxe analog delay/chorus/vibrato effect pedal and the Moog Minimoog
For me the best analog delay ever!"
The Tape808 and More Vintage Drum Machine Samples
This one appears to be making the rounds, so here you go. Be sure to click on products when you get there to see the other vintage synth drums listed. Samples on site."The Tape808
Not another 808 sample! Well actually it isn't... this is 407 samples taken from two 808's recorded into an Ampex 351 1/2" valve 2 track tape machine! That's not all... We also put the 808's through other vintage gear. Plus we recorded the 808's naked into a Metric Halo ULN-2 firewire audio card. Then we chose the best samples.
All 24 bit, and all phat analog goodness!
If you can't get a hold of a real 808 then this is as close as you can get in samples... Maybe even better than the having the real thing!"
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Tenori-on Meets Kyma
Tenori-on Meets Kyma from Nomad Cinema on Vimeo.
"In order to tap the real power of Yamaha's new Tenori-on, it helps to pair it with external equipment capable of producing more satisfying sounds than the somewhat lackluster soundset included with the Tenori-on itself. In this video, no internal Tenori-on sounds were used whatsoever. Tenori-on is functioning purely as a sequencer with external equipment, including advanced sound-shaping from Kyma and analog synthesis from Alesis Andromeda and Dave Smith's Prophet '08. Sequencer data coming from Tenori-on is processed in Ableton Live (utilizing midi scale and chord filters, as well as injecting some generative randomness) before reaching Kyma, Andromeda, and Prophet '08."
Acidlab Bassline 2 First Contact test
YouTube via F3D375, via nusonica
"Just arrived in my studio! This is a short demo of this acid machine. More video of complete songs will come..."
Resonant Improv - Modular Synth
YouTube via mooguphonic
"Drum machine patched thru a Synthesisers.com modular filter (Q107 State Variable filter) and swept by the keyboard envelope. The resonance is tuned so that it settles down to the same pitch as the keyboard patch, after being swept. The keyboard is patched thru 3 oscillators and the Q150 Ladder Filter. The tuned resonant drums make an interesting effect..."
To All The Nations II
YouTube via sosean. Oberheim TVS
"In The Studio with Nate Price, just messin' around."
Sequential Circuits Pro-One via Synthwood
Custom Prophet-5 knobs and backlit wheels. Click here for more images.http://synthwood.com/
details on this particular mod
Acid tones Virus part2
YouTube via kenspocket. follow-up to this post.
"Korg Prophecy "ACIDTONES" System exclusive or SRC-512 Synth sounds programed by Kens pocket... For more info on these sounds and how to obtain them please email us or check out the websites below or see our Youtube channel and click buy !-) www.soundwavechildren.netfirms.com"
Roland MV8000 loves Korg R3
YouTube via Spokes013
"This track was build partially with the R3 as sound module, samples and again the MV for engineering the beat. It's not finished yet because it still needs some vocals. More soon :)"
glitchDS
YouTube via clone45a6
"Cellular automaton sequencer for the Nintendo DS and R4. Sorry for the quiet video. Download this at www.glitchDS.com."
glitchDS demo 2
Analog vs. Digital
Two flickr shots that came up, one right after the other. Funny how that happens. I thought this was an interesting contrast.live modular 2008 via parasitk
(full size)
Yamaha TX016 via Neil Vance
(full size)
Which would you rather have? This is a bit of a trick question. :)
Cloned Again - Analogue Solutions SY02 (Korg MS-20 filter remake)
via Navs"This one's been around for ages and I don't know why it's taken me so long to try it out, but I'm glad I now have.
Apparently a 1:1 clone of the original and much-loved Korg MS-20 High Pass/ Low Pass filter combo, it's a cracker! Have a quick listen here and here. And if that piques your interest you can download the zipped test here. The test unit was part of SchneidersBuero's JimiBox. More info here.
Cheers,
Navs"
VST TAL-U-No-62
"U-No-62 is an improved and completely refactored version of U-No-60. Improvements:* More accurate filter sound.
* More overtones in the oscillators.
* Faster LFO rate (0.1-30HZ).
* A lot faster envelopes.
* Audio Unit available.
* Presets are not compatible with U-No-60 Presets."
[link]
kopykat
YouTube via ripe909
"Another acid twister, using the monomachine for a small vocal sample "acid". Drums are all machinedrum, bass is virus TI, V-Synth pads, revolution playing the part of 303!"
LZX Monolith Synthesizer Demo
YouTube via creatorlars.
via Nusonica.
"The LZX Industries Monolith is a performance monosynth based on the MFOS (Music From Outer Space) Soundlab Plus, featuring a 37 key 1V/Oct keyboard, as well as extensive modulation controls.
This video demonstrates control via an external sequencer. Our Midibox SEQ3 controls both oscillators and gates the envelope generator.
More information will be available soon. For now, find out more about the Soundlab at www.musicfromouterspace.com."
Roland Jupiter-4 + Juno-106 + TR-606 by RetroSound
YouTube via retrosound72
"vintage synth demo by RetroSound
bassline: Roland Jupiter-4, arpeggiator triggered by the TR-606
pads and fx sounds: Roland Juno-106
drums: Roland TR-606"
AtomoSynth Abyssal Demo (raw sound)
YouTube via atomolab
"Abyssal photo-noise-machine & oscillating-filter Demo, (raw sound)
www.atomolabs.blogspot.com"
Abyssal demo + delay effect
"AtomoSynth Abyssal noise machine + delay effect pedal.
www.atomolabs.blogspot.com"
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Inside the V-Synth, part 1
You can find the full post on Sequence 15."Roots of the V-Synth
Considering that the V is a bit out in left field compared to most of Roland's other offerings over the last decade, the question can fairly be asked: where did this idea come from? The roots of it can be seen in the JD-800/990 offering from the early '90s. That was Roland's first serious attempt to design a digital synth that would be attractive to synth programmers and sound designers. However, at the time it was introduced, it did not sell well. Part of this was the timeframe in which it was introduced (the synth market had turned heavily to romplers at the time). However, the attempt at building a knob-per-parameter digital synth turned out to be intimidating to some customers, as well as making the unit physically large. And, in the end they still had to put the effects, MIDI, and system parameters in menus. It helped that the 800 had two displays which were fairly generous for their time, and the 990 had an even better multi-line text and graphics display (derived somewhat from the S-series of samplers). Despite the flaws, it was state-of-the-art for a digital synth user interface at the time."
MFOS Sound Lab Mini-Synth
flickr by glacial23(click for more)
"MFOS Sound Lab Mini-Synth in progress... Detail of one of the easier kludges on the PLUS."
First Mochika Jam
YouTube via shadowfac
"Electronic music jam with synthesizers.com modular, Atomo Mochika sequencer synth, and Ensoniq ESQ-1."
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