No NAMM without Moog :-)

January 22, 2008 · Posted in Electronic Music · Comments Off

Old School…, nothing I would choose at this point and definately not on my top 5 wish list, but of course if someone would offer it to me for a good discount, perhaps the cute girl in the picture…

…the new synth with the analog sound engine of the Voyager, but without the digital controls. The perfect solution for players looking for a road-worthy replacement for their venerable Minimoog Model D, a full-featured centerpiece for their modular synth rig or just craving direct, hands-on connection to their creativity!

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See more here >>

It also made me come to think of this old ad on eBay:

Aelita

“Synth was made in 80’s years in USSR. It is soviet version of the famous Minimoog synth. Synthesizer has very original ‘transformer’ design with removing main operation panel. Synth looks very industrial and military, like the soviet secret weapon. Aelita is fat sounding synth with quite unique sound due to original soviet analog circuitry and electronic components.”

Could not have writed better, new friend. The Aelita is a 3-oscillator monosynth with independently detunable oscillators, a 24 dB/Octave Moog ladder filter, dual ADS envelopes and an LFO with triangle, square, saw and ramp waveforms. There’s no weak westernized MIDI or decadent capitalist on-board microprocessor to store patches. You’ll have to do it the Soviet way: By hand.

C=iao

Tags: <Analog, Moog, Synthesizers>

A must see – Tony-b

January 14, 2008 · Posted in Electronic Music · Comments Off

A friend of mine on facebook sent me this link today and I thought I just had to share with all of you.

It is really funny

Here’s the link >>

C=iao

Tags: <Analog Synthesizer, Bass, Fun stuff, FX, lead, Moog, Prophet, Synthesizers, VST>

Manipulate sounds by moving glowing blocks

January 11, 2008 · Posted in Electronic Music · Comments Off

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The reacTable, a new instrument that lets musicians manipulate sounds by moving glowing blocks on a round, transparent table, is wowing festival audiences after it was hand-picked by Björk for use on the singer’s summer tour.

The modular synthesizer mashes up shades of Tron, laser hockey and classic Moogs using open-source reacTivision software and an under-the-hood camera to track blocks that, when added, rotated or moved, combine to produce beeps, whoops and soaring synth lines.

The reacTable‘s developers say it is the latest in an emerging wave of “tangible music interfaces,” but to the touring musicians who play the thing, it’s merely “cool.”

Each block has a different function — like changing a sound wave’s amplitude or acting as a metronome — that is denoted by a unique hieroglyph. Players move, rotate and flip the blocks, run their fingertips over the tabletop’s surface and alter the blocks’ proximity to each other to control the music produced by the machine. Pulsing visuals that light up the tabletop come courtesy of a projector beneath the reacTable’s translucent Perspex surface, making the instrument interesting to the eyes as well as the ears.

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Analogue Synthesizers

November 30, 2007 · Posted in Electronic Music · Comments Off

AudioWarrior has released Analogue Synthesizers For Kontakt, a collection of gurgling analog sounds from some of the of the most famous analog synthesizers of the 60’s & 70’s. This collection includes searing synth leads, deep shaking bass patches, FX, trippy pads based on classics like Juno, Oberheim, Moog, Prophet, Oscar, and more.

What the manufacturer says:

The Holy Grail of Analogue Sythesizer Leads, Bass’, FX, Pads.
The best sounds of 7 Famous Analogue and Digital Synthesizers from the 60’s & 70’s
that have shaped our civilization are now yours to do with what you will by land, by air, or sea.

Evolving Alien Environments and Soundscapes including Rain & Thunder, The Grays,
BladeRunner, RAIN, Deep Sea, Alien Locust, Ethereal Bog, Frogs of Plague
Every famous sound is included that put synths on the map. Digitized for maximum flexibility for use in Native-Instruments Kontakt.

Once you have them activated and on screen, further twist them into pulsating textures and pitch wheel them into pandemonium.

Download the whole retro-classic collection to your desktop in minutes.

If anyone has tried it already, feel free to leave a review

Tags: <Analog Synthesizer, Bass, FX, lead, Moog, Prophet, Synthesizers, VST>

Analog Synthesizer Tribute

November 12, 2007 · Posted in Electronic Music · Comments Off

Starting off the new week with a short tribute to analog synthesizers. Feel free to feast your eyes on this Moog close up or perhaps take an analog journey through this little link library of analog synth resources.

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But first a little analog poen I found while surfing the web

What shreds your cones, makes wonderful drones, leaves digitoids in a fog?
What weighs a ton and is oodles of fun? It’s A– na– LOG! It’s Ana-LOG,
it’s Ana-LOG, it squashes your neighbor’s cat; It’s Ana-LOG, It’s Ana-LOG,
it’s better than thin, it’s FAT!

Links:

· Analog Monster

· Analog Notes

· Analogue Systems

· Apache Synthesizer (Aaron Cram)

· Blacet Research

· Black Strobe Studio

· Buchla And Associates

· casperelectronics (Peter Edwards’s site)

· CMS / DiscreteSynthesizers.com

· Cynthia Webster CYNDUSTRIES

· Dave Magnuson’s Site