17.-19.5.2013 Happy Knobbing Modular Meeting – Germany Fischbach – the documentation

Update: this is what happened – so sah die Gearschlacht aus, dazu gab es Jams, die extra Videos sind / einige sind schon hochgeladen. Here’s all the images, videos etc. made – all of them listed in the forum, incl some images. Links is in there: –> Happy Knobbing Modular Meeting – Synthesizer Wiki<– Photos, Videos Happy Knobbing Modular Meeting – info & links (forum, facebook event .. etc) Happy Knobbing 2013 FischbachDieses Video auf YouTube ansehen Nur noch 3x schlafenDieses Video auf YouTube ansehen   – NEXT MEETING 2014: 

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MusikMesse 2013 Impression + SynMag Walkthrough

Musikmesse Impressions (iPhone -lo quality) – it’s all quite like announced. But there have been 2-3 things that are nice, small things.. Nord Lead 4 (digital, successor of the NL3), Korg Volca Beat series (all analog / MS filters), Novation Bass Station II Analog Synth, Jomox Drum Modules, EOWave – complete new modular system (!), MFB Dominion 1 & MFB Tanzbär (Tr808 style) Drummachine with Roll-Function and 16 Patterns in Chain (!), Buchla Distribution (Vertrieb in EU): Schneidersbüro / – heißt ja jetzt Alex4 inkl Reparatur und Music Easel im Programm. …take some time to load all images ;) _…

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NAMM 2013 IV – still some things to know – clever MIDI, Audio and ..

there have been quite a lot of interesting things at NAMM, see all the 2-3 pages of news – here’s a new Apple-Keyboard-kind of MINI USB Keyboard from CME with polyphonic Aftertouch and Dynamics for $99 .. also Behringer got a range of Mixers that also work as an audio interface in 4 sizes – as a small 19″ rack, a bigger one like the Yamaha 01V96 and the 2 X32 mixers with OLED displays for track names and full knob control – they are all iPad controllable as well…

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Namm 2013 III – Modules and Synths – Buchla Electric Music Box

NAMM also brought a lot of new modules by WMD, Makenoise and EOwave (see the image above) others.. and – Buchla showed off their Music Easel under the Electronic Music Box name. As you know nothing is for free at Buchla, it comes at $4k – but I always loved it. this images is from Synthtopia src: Forum • Namm 2013. all in all this NAMM brought a lot of really cool stuff .. even analog synths and the big surprise, the re-release of the analog MS20, that Prophet 12…

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NAMM 2013 II – Kurzweil & stuff

NAMM 2013 Post 2 – just another special – there will be another Kurzweil PC3 called the PC3K8 (not new except the case) and as you’ve seen the Korg Synths King Korg and MS20 Mini will be real and coming.. –> King Korg Digital Synthesizer in the Database –> MS20Mini Analog Synthesizer in the Synth Database more see other NAMM News.. find here some printed something about the new korgs ;) no real further details. NAMM news posts: 4 just check them all and everything from the last couple of days, worth a lot – especially…

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NAMM 2013

Namm 2013 @ Forum the Subphatty: Forum • Namm 2013. new things – Moog Sub Phatty, Rolands seems to be the first (!!) to bring an audio interface with more than 8 audio inputs built in, no $&§’ing ADAT only ins, no – it’s real 16 inputs.. called the studio capture. A Doepfer DIY Kit (called Karl Marx Stadt) – Module looks quite nice, in’nt?   The Casio one should have these features “Maximum Polyphony 128 voices Parts Organ (3 parts) Piano (2 parts) Synthesizer (2 parts) Drum (1 part) GM2 (16 parts)…

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Was ist eigentlich ein Modularmeeting Happy Knobbing 2009 – und es geht weiter in 2013…

Happy Knobbing 2009 Teil 1 Der rasende Repochhter erklärt was ein Modularmeeting ist und was man damit anstellt. Und es geht dabei um dies hier Es ist Zeit darüber nachzudenken, ob du stark genug bist, diesem Volk beizutreten oder ob du lieber vorm Fernseher abhängen musst oder diesen neuartigen Rundfunkgeräten. weitere Teile folgen bald..   Forum: Happy Knobbing 2009 Teil 1-2 und 17-19.5.2013 Fischbach, Modular Synth Meeting Happy Knobbing  

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Dinosaurier Treffen, Synthesizer @ Kulturort Alte Molkerei, Bocholt

Some Impressions from Bocholt, Germany, the dinosaur synthesizer meeting.. thanks a lot to citric acid and Mickey for simply doing it and the nice people at the Molkerei! sehr liebevoll ausgerichtetes kleines Festivälchen für Nerds und Nerdgebliebene, also wer irgendwie Synthesizer mag, war hier! Mehr dazu im Forum -> 17.11.2012 Dinotreffen 2 incl. DIY Lötworkshop etc  

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