Happy Knobbing 2012 – Modular Synthesizer Meeting Germany

1st Impression Modukar Synthesizer Meeting – Happy Knobbing 2012 2 Loads of Images from the Meeting – and one by myself – next meeting whitsun 2013! find Curetronic, Rob Hordijk Modular at the home of the Tinysizer (strange, I did not put up pics of it, but find those on earlier posts), DIY stuff and classic and very new modular synthesizers. and – find out, that they must be sacred, since Jesus speaks through Curetronic – I want to believe! ;) Synthology Church 2012, germany. Happy Knobbing Modular Meeting – Synthesizer Wiki…

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Google little playable moogish synth up (today) – Bob’s Birthday 23.April

Google.has a nice cute little moogy synth up today instead of the google logo. play and save it! it’s Bobs Birthday – or it will be – because its the 23rd and the Japanese are already one day ahead. (as always). voll niedlich – und spielbar.- vermutlich bekommen wir den auch in ein paar Stunden, wenn der 23. anbricht, sein Geburtstag: Bob Moog! Und hier sogar mit 4 Track Recorder! Klingt gar nicht übel für bisschen Websoftware. THX to Google for reminding Bob!! MiniGoog is a trademark of Moogli update:…

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Korg Monotribe MIDIfy without soldering just plug in

Amazing Machines (Brasil) has a special MIDI to CV Interface out which is very easy to handle, just plug it in, thats all. of course it works with all „mono…“ Korgs http://youtu.be/IqDm53gscRU 05/12/2012 – Amazing Machines Releases NastyMono – Amazing Machines Releases NastyMono – Feedback Controller and I/O Adapter for the KORG Mono Series – Features: – – Stereo 3.5mm I/O cables – Mono 1/4″ Auxiliary Input – Mono 1/4″ Audio Output – Feedback Attenuator for Optimal Control over the Feedback Path – Fixed Passive Low Pass Filter to clean up the…

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Octatack OS 1.2 adds looper

new and free in os 1.2 for Octatrack is the new looper, quote from their newsletter: Elektron has released OS 1.2 for the Octatrack. This major OS update adds, among other things, the Pickup machines. Pickup machines make the Octatrack function as a looper. Record, overdub, loop, reverse, time stretch and pitch shift loops on the fly. Automatic sequencer to loop sync makes it easy to blend pre-programmed Octatrack patterns with recorded takes. Pickup machines are great tools for guitarists, beat boxers, DJs and in general anyone wanting to experiment…

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Introducing the Leap – point your finger, forget da mouse

Introducing the Leap – oh, how I’d like one of these mouse multitouch replacement devices.. here you go, $70 only! (!) – thats 67€ over here but don’t forget the tax in germany & europe when you order one, but very very tempting to me. UPDATE: now supports MIDI unterdessen: NI bringt noch ein Klavier raus mit noch mehr und noch weiter und so… Nennt sich The Giant.

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Sequera – Software Sequencer – a touch of hardware feel?

Sequera is a dynamic Sequencer that is basically based on the piano roll concept or more like a drum editor which can be scaled/set in pitch. the patterns can be set below, tracks can be muted live – you can help by crowdfunding to make this one a real product.  the aim is like working more with the feel of hardware quote what you can see here: 1. freshly launched Sequera, default statement 2. enter notes by using Mac keyboard (so the screen pointer is not moving at all while entering…

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Roland Kuit SoundLab II book of patching: Nord Modular / G2

Roland Kuit SoundLab II Mr Kuit is one of three very very talented modular gurus (the other 2 being Rob Hordijk and Tim Kleinert) – they all do very deep work and really go beyond the limits of the synth, in this case of course the Clavia Modular series which is unfortunately no longer available atm, but we all hope for a G3 sample-able synth since they got a sample engine and the cool G2 which must not be changed that much to still be cool – of course it’s nerdy…

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