Carbon111 has a new album coming out. You can find more info including one of the tracks featuring a Nord Wave, Nord Stage, and Roland Juno-60 on SYNTHWIRE.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Carbon111 - Shadow Bridge
Carbon111 has a new album coming out. You can find more info including one of the tracks featuring a Nord Wave, Nord Stage, and Roland Juno-60 on SYNTHWIRE.
Black Friday Sale at Analogue Haven
"november 27th, 2008sale, sale, sale! please see the above banners for details. the sale will just last until the end of the weekend, and only for new gear ordered from our website that is currently in-stock, so get your orders in before something sells out. email us with any questions! thank you..."
http://www.analoguehaven.com/
X0XB0X + Internal Distortion & Mods
images and samples at this auction"Additionnal features:
- Great internal Distortion including:
- Distortion/Overdrive Switch
- Distortion Type Switch
- Flavour Type Switch
- Distortion volume
- Distortion amount
- On/Off Switch - When the distortion is turned off, the original sound is absolutely not affected.
I used a true bypass switch (3PDT)
- Exclusive Mod: Juicy accent
At low intensity you got a reverb-like effect with accent
At full intensity you got an amazing resonant accent effect
- VCA Envelope On Forever
On/Off press button
- Power On/Off Switch
- Clear Gloss Aluminum knobs
- Metallic silver paint
All mods have an On/Off switch, the original sound is NOT affected
16 Bonus Patterns!!! including Hardfloor, Josh Winks, Daft Punk, Pump Panel, Access and more
***Blacet Holiday Schedule***
via Blacet:
"Holiday Schedule
Last day to order for pre-Christmas delivery: Dec 10
Mark your order "For Xmas".
You can continue to order anytime but we will be closed from Dec 12 thru Jan 2.
Have a nice one!"
"Holiday Schedule
Last day to order for pre-Christmas delivery: Dec 10
Mark your order "For Xmas".
You can continue to order anytime but we will be closed from Dec 12 thru Jan 2.
Have a nice one!"
Dutch Instruments, Synton synthesizers
http://www.dutchsynth.nl/Model 3000 pictured
"Fenix 2, Fenix XL Rumours:
After we stopped with producing the Fenix we hear rumours about the successor of the Fenix. We want to try to give an answer at these rumours.
1- Will there a Fenix 2/3 and or Fenix XL. The answer is: We don't know. It is no problem to design these units, but producing these will cost a lot of time and storage space, and these we don't have. Actually we have already proto pcb's of new modules ready. So i think the change for a successor is 50%.
2- The successor will be an add-on for the fenix. Maybe but also maybe not.
3- The Fenix XL will be available only for Fenix owners. The answer is NO. If we came with new units, it will be available for everybody but in a very limited edition. We hope to make a decision before half 2009."
Roland V-Synth GT - Presets Presentation
YouTube via ElectronicMusicGear
"10 minutes of presets presentation of Roland V-Synth...
10 minutes of presets presentation of Roland V-Synth GT. Enjoy!"
Vangelis Conquest of paradise (cover)
YouTube via mik300z
"My version of Vangelis' majestic masterpiece. The arturia cs80V that pops up in the video wasn't actually used for this track. I used the ESQ1 to re-create the lead sounds. I am trying to get my head around software and soft synths at the moment so it's only for show....for now lol! Heres the list of what did what.
Microkorg and Juno 106 -bass
Korg x5 - choir and pizzicato
Juno 6 - arpeggiator
Juno G- piano percussion and strings
Ensoniq ESQ 1- CS80 lead and sequencer"
OBERHEIM OBXa Solo + JUNO 60 Part 8
YouTube via magevers
"Synth solo improvisation played with the fat "jump" Oberheim OBXa + the analog vintage Roland JUNO 60. The OBXa was played in split mode."
Oberheim OB-12
via this auction
"The OB12 designed to recreate and emulate the classic sounds and tone of the original Oberheim analog filters. The OB-12 is a 12 voice synth with 4-part modelling synthesis. Loads of real-time knobs (22), sliders (24), and buttons (33) with a traditional layout give you fast hands-on access and control of most parameters. Extras include a ribbon controller, pitch bend and modulation wheel.Aside from great analog sounds, the OB-12 has an amazing set of hi-tech features such as high quality LCD display that actually draws out all of the parameters you are changing. There are on board 5-band graphic & parametric EQ, ADSR's with delay time and double decay. An addictive Motion Recorder and manual or auto oscillator morphing for animated sounds or effects. Phrase Recorders and Arpeggiators with Independent tempo controls and 5 dedicated buttons are on-board with plenty of features and are MIDI syncable. There is also an extensive effects section that give you reverbs, delays, chorus and lots of overdrive algorithms. You'll also find digital SPDIF outputs, analog outputs, and MIDI in/out and thru.
Specifications
Keyboard: 49-key, w/velocity and aftertouch
Polyphony: 12 voices
Multitimbral parts: 4
Memory: 256 user programs
Oscillators: 2 per voice, 3 types: sawtooth, triangle, and square w/ WaveMix
Oscillator sync: Yes
Sequencer: No
External Sync: MIDI Clock
Filters: 2 resonant 24dB/octave filters; lowpass, bandpass, and highpass
Envelopes: 2 ADSR per voice
LFOs: 2 per voice: sawtooth, triangle,square, sample& hold
Ring mod: Yes
Arpeggiator: Yes
Effects: overdrive, chorus, delay, reverb, 5-band graphic/parametric EQ
MIDI: In, Out, Thru
Audio Outputs: 1/4" L/R main outs,1/4" aux 1&2 outs,1/4" headphones out,standard S-PDIF digitaloutput
Inputs: 2 expression pedal, 2 switch pedal
Accessories: standard ACpower cord
Dimensions: 36" (L) x 15" (W) x 3.5" (H)
Weight: 37 lbs."
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Happy Turkey Day everyone. I hope it is a good one. I now present you with... The one and only Turkey Synth.
Pictured here is the Harmonic Generator.
"Created by Isac Zal, the Harmonic Generator is a new experimental electronic instrument. It consists of five main components:
* 64 piano strings on the outside of the device are chromatically tuned to 32 notes.
* 32 corresponding motors with bristle paint brushes beating the strings at controlled speeds
* a homemade keyboard, played like a piano, controls motors.
* 12 pick-ups that focus on one octave of strings
* a transducer at the end of the instrument that feeds back the sound of the pick-ups into the large resonance hull"
via Oddmusic.com. this one was sent to the Wiard list via the man himself, Grant Richter.
Paper Sculpture: In a Quiet Corner of Sussex
KORG MS20 Paper SculptureYou can find the full flickr set by gardenque here.
You might remember this one in the making here.
via gardenque:
"Korg MS20
When I used one of these synths back in 1983, we had to make sure that if we ever got a good sound, we had to record it there and then because we would never be able to reproduce it at a later time. Many years later, after it had been “resting” in a loft for a while, it was professionally refurbished. The guy that repaired it said that he didn’t know how we’d managed to use it at all because the two VCOs were so completely out of tune/out of synch. Mystery solved!
I decided to do a paper sculpture of the synth at 75% of the actual size. The second part of the paper sculpture will involve a vacuum cleaner! Anybody curious enough tosee the final piece should check back on Flickr over the next month or so.
Many thanks to Matrixsynth for putting up so many photographs of the MS20: they proved to be an invaluable source of reference material."
Dave Smith Instruments presents: Linn Drum 2 and Prophet 08 Module
YouTube via ElectronicMusicGear
"Linn Drum 2 analog version by Dave Smith, and digital version by Roger Linn.
Prophet 08 synthesizer without keyboard - only synthesizer module.
Overview of this two excellent instruments."
Vermona Perfourmer & DRM1 - acidic
YouTube via coldhandmurr
"This was going good earlier in the week, but I think I tired of it or something cause when I finally got around to filming it, I'd lost the spark. The recording sounds like crud, too, on account of the camera's mic. Anyhow, I'm posting it because I like the Perfourmer patches, and I think they show off the tasty filters. Also was trying a nice trick on the 01v where you can gang a bunch of sliders together to another.. Since I don't use 13/14 and 15/16 when recording, I used them to gang some channels together. It's pretty neat -- if you set the ganging when the 15/16 slider is at 6db (full on) for instance, the other (motorized) faders in the gang will fade from their current location to -INFdb and back to their max when you fade any of the gang up and down. That little experiment cost me some flexibility though since any member controls the others, so I'll probably have to work on that. Excuses, excuses.... Onward to the video... "
Omnisphere browsing 1
YouTube via mikamulperi. via fischek
"Just browsing thru presets and showing the interface a bit.
Ask any questions and tell me if you want to see something specific."
Buchla is Love
flickr by guiltysin
full size
"Quick sketch as this image was in my head for WEEKS and I needed to put this down.
Comic rendition of Alessandro Cortini and his Buchla.
Better one is in the works, as this was first drawn without a clear idea what the hell a Buchla looked like exactly ;)
Also pretty sure hugging a Buchla is not as cuddly as this :P ow."
Train of thought
Train of thought from Hans-Jörg Scheffler on Vimeo.
"Footage was taken looking outside the window from the Shinkanze on the way from Hamamatsu to Tokyo by my good friend Tommy Snyder.
I manipulated the raw footage in V-Track and composed the soundtrack with the new Omnisphere Softsynth from Spectrasonics for all instruments including the drums and vocals.
The vocals are a sample of a british boys choir singing the words Agnus Dei.
I totally deconstructed the syllables in Omnisphere to create a new texture."
Make Noise Quad Multi-Mode Gates
http://makenoisemusic.com/see this post for a video
"A huge riff on the original Buchla 292 Quad Lo Pass Gate, including a Mix Out and containing no fewer than 8 vactrols! The QMMG offers the additional features of High Pass Gate mode, Voltage Controlled Feedback, Direct Coupling (for processing of Control Voltages) and Normalizations so that multiple channels may easily be used together to create Bandpass Gates, steeper HP or LP Gates or even something like a traditional Synthesizer Voice Architecture.
The voltage controlled feedback is routed differently in each mode.
In VCA mode it is routed to provide slightly non-linear GAIN. Daisy chain multiple channels for voltage controlled clipping. In BOTH Mode the feedback is routed to provide DAMPING of the ringing vactrols. The effect of adding feedback in BOTH mode is not unlike placing your hand upon the head of a drum, while striking, thus allowing the user to control how much the Vactrols ring. In the LP and HP modes, the feedback is routed to provide a highly unstable, non-linear resonance, which at higher settings, will clip asymmetrically. The filter is slippery and smooth at low resonance settings, but it cuts like a choir of daggers at high resonance settings.
The benefit of Direct Coupling is that a channel of the QMMG could be used to attenuate or amplify an incoming CV before applying to another channel. The mixing section is set-up so that inserting a plug at the output socket of any given channel removes that channel from the mix, therefore you could use one half of the QMMG for voltage controlled mixing of CVs to apply to the other half being utilized for signal processing.
This module is 24HP and consumes 60mA worth of current. The price is TBD.
Available soon from Analogue Haven."
ANALOG SYNTH MIDI CONVERTER
via this auction via the forum."Here is a cheap solution if you want to add midi to your Analog Synth. It is in 1volt/octave format which makes this compatible with alot of stuff out there. By default it is set on Midi Channel 1, but there is a dip switch to activate a different midi channel if you wanted to. The actual PCB was CNC professionally manufactured, so it is highly reliable. The panel is Lexan and the box is wood. A 12v AC wallwart adapter is included with this auction.
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THE UNIT IS SIMPLE IT ONLY UNDERSTANDS: NOTE OFF/ON, and VELOCITY.
THESE ARE THE OUTPUTS
(1) PITCH 1v/oct OUT
(1) GATE rated at 5v OUTPUT
(1) VELOCITY ACCENT rated at 5v OUTPUT (HINT**) you can run this to a filter CV pot and dial in the amount of "bright" you want when you slam those Keys!
This is the way I calibrated the unit: Note -C3 puts out 0v, -C2=1v,-C1=2v,C0=3v,etc
THERE IS A VERY BIG RANGE, SO YOU CAN PLAY OFF AN 88-key controller.
There is a RED Led that lights up when ever you play a midi note.
There is a Yellow Led to let you know the power is on.
It runs off 12v AC, the wall adapter is included."
Z3000 / Z5000 Split signal patch
Z3000 / Z5000 Split signal patch from GM on Vimeo.
"Nothing fancy, just a voice made of three Z3000 is spilt into 2 and sent into 2 VCAs controlled by 2 EG's. From there the signals goes for processing by two Z5000 and into the computer.
Drums and the midi sequence are coming from Live. The analog Hi-Hats are made with filtered white noise."
Appendage Touch Ribbon Ninth Video: Voltage Characteristics
YouTube via ScottStites
"Showing how the various voltages work when using the ribbon."
wsg delux triwave picogenerator
YouTube via horchacha. "sister units spit out some party jams"
arcade box
'sn76477 complex sound geneartor chip in a
crt tester box - mad hilarity plops out of a sealions ass wipin it up tight"
mankato vcf as lfo w/ low pass gates
YouTube via horchacha
"four sound sources go to four low pass gates
four different phase outputs of the mankato vcf/vco
sweep/crossfade through them w/ led indication"
deep in a brown bunker
YouTube via horchacha
"deep in the bunker yo
crabs and worms n crap
all over your face
using the modulars Laquarto, Nestor and Perky
dave wright / not breathing"
Self Programming Synthesizer
YouTube via isopod. Funny.
Studio Electronics ATC-1 and Roland Juno-106 as the MIDI controller.
"My synthesizer programs itself once in a while. Random sounds. Anyone know why?"
Mellotron Demo
YouTube via mrmt. An oldie, but a goody. I swore I put this up already but a search for the title and mrmt comes up dry. So... here it is. via andrew.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
The Bass Is Back!
"If you're serious about bass (and who isn't), you won't want to miss this unique opportunity to own New Moog Taurus Bass Pedals.These pedals will faithfully reproduce the original Taurus I bass sound. There will only be one run of 1000 of these pedals produced.
This offer ends February 15, 2009.
We are only producing 1000 of these pedals. And the first 250 customers will receive a discounted purchase price of $1695 with an initial deposit of $500.
Regardless of quantity ordered, this offer ends February 15, 2009. All Taurus pedals ordered after the first 250 will sell for $1995. "
You can find more info including audio on the Moog Music website.
Preliminary Specifications
The most important aspect of the design is to reproduce the original TAURUS I sound-engine as faithfully as possible.
• 100% Analog Sound Engine based entirely on original TAURUS I circuits
• "Taurus I" style (one and half octaves on the floor)
• 2 VCO Oscillators, ADS Contour Generator, 1 VCF Filter, Output VCA
• PRESETS: 16 Banks x 4 presets = 48 Total Programmable Bass Sounds
• BANK 0 will contains the Original Taurus I Presets: VAR, TAURUS, TUBA, BASS
• MIDI: DIN and USB, Merging and Routing
• ARPEGGIATOR: MIDI Sync, TAP TEMPO, Internal
• CV Inputs: VOLUME, FILTER, PITCH, GATE"
Sound on Sound Buchla 200e Review Online
you can find the review here."Despite the success of Hollywood, some icons never cross the Atlantic successfully from West to East. Say 'Babe Ruth' to the average Brit, and you'll conjure an image of a small girl too young to play ball games. Likewise, say 'Don Buchla' in the UK, and you'll probably be asked whether he was a character in The Godfather. Strangely, that description is not as far from the truth as you might imagine. In the USA, there are three 'godfathers' of synthesis: Alan Pearlman, Bob Moog, and — largely unknown in the Auld Country — Donald Buchla.
Buchla was a contemporary of Moog, and like Dr Robert, he produced his first synthesizers in the 1960s. He continued to do so throughout the '70s and '80s (see the box on the history of Buchla & Associates overleaf), but the commercial acclaim and recognition afforded to Moog eluded Buchla, and he concentrated on controllers in the '90s. By the early years of this century, he had slipped into the backwaters of the music industry, but in 2002, he decided to reinvent his most successful synthesizer, the Series 200 from the early '70s, bringing it up to date while retaining as much backwards compatibility as possible. Three years later, the result has arrived. It's a feature-packed synthesizer with a staggeringly huge price tag (see the final page of this article). It's the Buchla 200e." Note the printed review was from 2005.
Update via Wavedform in the comments: "The SOS review seems like Gordon Reid really wanted to review a different system, and not the system as it was.
The Keyboard review was a little more even-handed, I thought."
Appendage, Klee, GM Voice
YouTube via timsynth
"This is a feeble attempt to "Play" the Scott Stites Appendage Touch Ribbon Controller, along with the KLEE Sequencer(the bass pattern), and Thomas Henry GM Voice(the drums). It's my first attempt and marginally musical :-0 The circuit is DIY snd is built on perfboard inside the box. See electro-music.com for upcoming PCBs and technical details.
Regards,
Tim"
KKP SleepDrone 5 outputs
YouTube via bigcitymusic
"We're just having some fun using the King Capitol Punishment Sleepdrone 5's separate outputs for each oscillator. One's running to the WMD Geiger Counter, one to the Catalinbread Teaser Stallion, one to the Catalinbread Valcoder, and one to the Zvex Vexter Fuzz Factory."
Saxxy Voice-Controlled Synth
via this auction"Saxxy is a voice-controlled synthesizer shaped like a mini sax, I guess.
You sing/hum/scream into the mic at one end and Saxxy spits out tuba, clarinet, or sax sounds that track the pitch of your voice. You can also shift any of the sounds 2 octaves up or down.
This is a surprisingly fun little device that can actually sound quite cool, and it's great as a non-keyboard approach to sound generation. The tuba sound pitched down an octave does some cool bass too.
Takes 4 AA batteries and has a 1/8" headphone output."
Experimenting with Electronic Music
via this auction
"Within its pages is an overview of the history of electronic music, from RCA's tube-based Mark I to modern solid-state synthesizers, with photos of the Minimoog and the Moog Sonic Six, as well as the Tonus ARP 2500, 2600, and Soloist consoles. For you tinkerers out there, the book also contains numerous construction projects, including two (2) separate transistorized theremins complete with detailed alignment instructions. All projects come ready-to-build with full schematics and parts lists.
Contents include:
* Musical Electronics
History - Mechanical Tone Generation - Electronic Tone Generation - The Music Synthesizer
* Sound and the Electronic SignalSound - Harmonic Motion - The Sine Wave - Additive Synthesis - Square Wave - Sawtooth Wave - Beat Notes - The Envelope - White Sound - Using the Complex Wave
* The Instruments
Mechanical Tone Generators (string, wind, and percussive) - Experimenting
* Microphone and Pickup Applications
Principles - Ceramic and Crystal Applications - Homemade Ceramic - Homemade Percussion - Dynamic Microphones - Magnetic Pickups - Homemade Magnetic Pickup - Condenser - Impedance
* Building a Small Electric OrganTone Generation - General Construction - Tremolo Modulator - Mixer - Homemade Keyboards - Combining the Stages
* The Electronic Modifiers
Tremolo Circuit - Envelope Control Circuit - Trigger Circuit - Attack Envelope Generator Circuit - Photoelectric Modulator - Reverberation - Chime Device - "Fuzz" Circuit - Sustain Circuit
* Electronic Tone Generators
Multi-waveform Generator - Pink Noise Circuit - Two Theremin Projects - Automatic Percussion Circuit - The Almost Nightingale - Mini-Organ
* Odds and EndsTwo-Channel Mixer - Three-Channel Mixer - Voice Selector - Variable Bandpass Amplifier - Active High-Pass Filter - Resonant Filter - Tube Filter - Tape and Echo"
Harmonic table keyboard DIY
YouTube via akorbeti. follow-up to this post.
"This is the first step of making a DIY (obviously) harmonic table MIDI controller. It is based on the midibox.org core module. For more info and other similar projects, visit http://synth-diy.blogspot.com"
MOTM-820 Assembly
see the full post on Sequence 15snip:
"With all of the transistors in, this phase of assembly is complete and the board is ready to wash. In its kits, Synth Tech divides board stuffing and assembly into two phases: all of the parts that can tolerate water immersion are installed first, using an organic acid-based solder. This solder does a good job of removing oxidation from pins and board traces, but it must be washed after soldering to remove the acid flux. After the final wash, the remaining components are installed using a "no-clean" solder that doesn't have to be washed, but requires more care in soldering. The board, ready for wash"
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