I wish you a special Wire to the Ear Happy Birthday Bob where ever you are. I love my Slim Phatty!
“Robert Arthur “Bob” Moog (May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005), founder of Moog Music, was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer. Bob Moog’s innovative electronic design is employed in numerous synthesizers including the Minimoog Model D, Minimoog Voyager, Little Phatty, Moog Taurus Bass Pedals, Moog Minitaur, and the Moogerfooger line of effects pedals.” – Wikipedia
For more info: moogmusic.com
This entry was written by , posted on May 23, 2012 at 6:18 am, filed under synthesizer and tagged birthday, Bob Moog, Happy Birthday, moog, synthesizer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
So let’s say you modified your Korg Monotribe to use MIDI. You can see the post I did about the Amazing Machines Miditribe I/O: here. Unbelievably there is now a software editor that lets you control your MIDIed Monotribe called Mtribe. You can now save presets, record automation, etc… There’s even a random patch generator (yay). It’s stand alone or a Max4Live device. The software is $5. I love my Monotribe and think it has a great sound. Very much worth the price.
“MIDI IN/OUT for all MIDI supported features in a practical GUI. Presets (load/save for storing and recalling presets!). Key Tracking. In real time pitch modulates LFO intensity / VCF cutoff. LFO as second oscillator, auto tuned based on harmonics schemes. Glide emulation and finer pitch bending (more precisely than raw MIDI). XY Pad for two parameters at once (with reset and spring mode). (optional) note off removal (to remove gate clicks) and velocity off/on. preset randomizer for each section (VCA, LFO, modulation, glide). MIDI learn for the GUI through extra MIDI input.”
For more info: fabriziopoce.com/mtribe
This entry was written by , posted on May 22, 2012 at 6:42 am, filed under plug-ins, synthesizer and tagged Korg, Monotribe, MTribe, synthesizer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
A video demo of the wicked looking Pittsburgh Modular Foundation synthesizer I previously mentioned (link). There are great things happening in the Eurorack modular community. If your don’t already know and are interesting in these type of synths and modules be sure to spend time over at the Muffwiggler forums.
“The Foundation is a fully modular, eurorack, analog synthesizer. A patchable system styled after the great monosynths of the past with no hardwired signal path or fixed voice architecture to restrict creativity. Driven by two wide range analog oscillators the Foundation produces a huge, warm sound that can’t be matched by digital or VST synths. All of the elements of a classic voltage controlled synthesizer are available as an open, patchable, modern synth.” – pittsburghmodular
For more info: pittsburghmodular.com
This entry was written by , posted on May 17, 2012 at 6:08 am, filed under modular, synthesizer and tagged Foundation, modular, Pittsburgh Modular, synthesizer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Jono named after it’s creator Jonáš Gruska is a MaxMSP synthesizer inspired by the modulars. It has a sequencer and a random patch generator (nice). It’s 15 Euro and if you don’t like it they will return your money.
“JONO is a software musical instrument inspired by modular synthesizers. By providing a mixture of classical and experimental elements it can serve as an interesting addition to your setup or as a standalone tool.” – jono.zvukolom.org
For more info: jono.zvukolom.org
This entry was written by , posted on May 10, 2012 at 6:12 am, filed under modular, plug-ins, synthesizer and tagged Jono, Max/MSP, synthesizer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Acidlab who already make great Roland TR-808 (Miami) and TB-303 (Bassline) clones is recreating those products in beautiful Eurorack modular form. As far as pro-audio gearlust these things rate high on the wow I want to touch them scale. You can read an interview I did with Klaus Suessmuth here. Klaus posted these photos and information over at the Muffwiggler forum (link).
“The newest products are FRAME with 84TE space, a 5-ch Mixer and the POW-Modul. 3HE Case is at 75 Euro; the Powermodul with powersupply is at 65 Euro. POW-modules’ performance is +12V/700mA und -12V/700mA. Another new products will follow in the near future: 6HE Case, 303VCO & M303 (303-module); the 808-Drumodule will need more time. -a V/Octave to V/Hz Converter (for Korg-CV & Metasonix) will follow, too!” – Klaus Suessmuth
For more info: muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55660&highlight=acidlab
This entry was written by , posted on May 2, 2012 at 4:12 am, filed under drum machine, hardware, modular, synthesizer and tagged acidlab, Eurorack, Klaus Suessmuth, modular, roland, Roland TB-303, Roland TR-808, synthesizer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
In the late 1960s Mike Matthews worked as a salesmen for IBM. He then started Electro Harmonix in NYC. The legendary effects pedal company is still going strong. His most famous pedal is the Big Muff fuzzbox. I’m far more interested in his very early analog products. One of them is awesomely named the Sequencer Drum. It’s a simple analog synth with an 8 step sequencer. You can hook two together and they will be in sync. You don’t buy these for their features. You buy them for the sound. Like calves liver it’s something not everyone is after. After watching the video above some of you are already on eBay. You won’t find these often. If your looking to recreate an early 80s Soft Cell demo cassette this is a good starting point.
“The Sequencer Drum is one of the rarest Electro Harmonix pedals. Unlike some of the other EH obscurities, this one is actually useful and sounds amazing! Not only is it an 8-step CV/Gate sequencer, but it has a built in synthesizer and a mode that allows you trigger the sequence at a set decay! The leather pad on the front is meant to be tapped to activate the trigger (hence the “drum” in the title). This particular sequencer is the fully patched out version, with an input that allows you to clock the unit externally, and CV and internal Clock outputs for sequencing other synthesizers.” – Matrixsynth (captured eBay description)
For more info: ehx.com and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro-Harmonix
This entry was written by , posted on May 1, 2012 at 6:45 am, filed under hardware, synthesizer and tagged analog sequencer, Electro Harmonix Sequencer Drum, Electro-Harmonix, Soft Cell, synthesizer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
AfroDJMac has released his latest Ableton Live pack (link). This time it’s for the Roland Juno 106. An old friend of mine Jay Serken let me use his 106 in my studio for years. It was eventually stolen. I used save a row of patches each just slightly different than each other. Next I would have Cubase (then on an Atari ST) send patch changes every to the Juno every 16th note. This would emulate an analog sequencer changing CV filter. You can hear the 106 going though various guitar pedals and my Electrocomp-101 on most of my early records.
“Ableton Live Pack of 22 instruments created with the Roland Juno 106 Polyphonic Analog Synthesizer. Each instrument was sampled from a custom patch on the Juno 106 and contains 8 macro knobs with its own unique effects to further twist and manipulate this diverse collection of sounds.” – afrodjmac.spinshop.com
For more info: vintagesynth.com/roland/juno106
This entry was written by , posted on April 24, 2012 at 5:06 am, filed under Ableton Live, sounds, synthesizer and tagged AfroDJMac, Juno-106, Roland Juno-106, synthesizer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Here is a great custom synth now available on eBay called the DiVision-B. It was created in Greece and has a large built in oscilloscope. Right now the auction is at a little less than $400 USD.
“Arduino based Custom Made Analog Synthesizer compiled with 2C.V.s & C.V. Divider” – monopolis.gr
For more info: eBay and monopolis.gr
This entry was written by , posted on April 16, 2012 at 6:13 am, filed under hardware, synthesizer and tagged DiVision-B, Greece, monopolis, synthesizer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Novamusik has posted some very nice photos of the new Moog Minitaur.
“It’s hard to imagine what else Moog could bring to such a straightforward concept as Minitaur, but members of the company have assured us that they have a very detailed road map sketched out for the instrument over the coming years.” – musicradar.com
For more info: moogmusic.com/products/taurus/minitaur
via matrixsynth
This entry was written by , posted on March 8, 2012 at 5:55 am, filed under synthesizer and tagged Minitaur, moog, Moog Minitaur, synthesizer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
I really like Berlin’s Sugar Bytes. They make some very nice mangling plug-in effects such as Effectrix and Turnado. They have a new sample synth coming out in the Spring called Cyclop. While sure everyone is going to scream Dubstep these type of sounds can be used to great and wonderful effect in any genre. I’m looking forward to this one. The audio player above is Cylop in action.
“CYCLOP is the scratch-looping, sample-mashing, sub-generating, harmonic-splicing mothership of the twisted bass alliance and it’s landing on your desktop soon. With masses of new sounds for you audio-junkies, from screaming analog syncs through brutal FM sounds to scintillating spectral shimmers. The integrated sampler also works as wavetable synth and pitch transformer for creating unbelievable and disturbing monster voices. CYCLOP is more than massively loaded with features: 10 incredible filters, unique wobble generator, feedback processor, 3 overdrives and an effects sequencer. CYCLOP is expected to be released in spring 2012.” – sugar-bytes.de
For more info: sugar-bytes.de
This entry was written by , posted on February 17, 2012 at 11:28 am, filed under plug-ins, synthesizer and tagged Cyclop, Sugar Bytes, synthesizer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
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