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Curtis Chips are back? CEM 3340 re-issue

Curtis sind offenbar zurück – zunächst mit einem VCO (Oszillator), dem CEM 3340 – hier eine Liste, was wo drin ist: Chips in Synthesizers – Das Foto zeigt den neuen Chip (Danke Florian!) Curtis Chips sind die Basis für polyphone Synthesizer, es kann also sein, dass wir da bald mehr sehen – auch von Firmen die nicht so etabliert sind. Mehr dazu habe ich bei GN ausgeführt. –> Forum: CEM-3340 wieder aufgelegt Da werden die, die mit „horten und teuer verkaufen“ ihr Geld verdienen sich wohl andere Geschäftsmodelle überlegen müssen, denn 80-100€ wird man bei…

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Synth-Telegram mixed Synth & Audio news – processing (in a way) + gear-stuffs!

1) first – here’s a nice video of Devo – the Synth Lab 2) Soundcraft has just released a new analog mixer that is able to import 22 input channels to a computer AND does analog processing and has built in Lexicon and dbx FX to be connected via USB. The Signature MTK (for multitrack rec.) as Milla would say: mul-ti-pass! Soundcraft Signature 22 Mtk   3) there is a new Raspberry Pi „mini computer“ that is about 4 times faster than the one before – that makes it more interesting for…

Roland Aira – Post NAMM 2.nd-4th Teaser for new SH101/TR808/TB303 -> TB3, System 1, TR8

UPDATE – it will be presented on Musikmesse but also in Feb. – and they put out some more till then – they seem to be more into the promotion of stuff – they did not show the AIRA series at NAMM but have another teaser for the world and I also just post it and send you to the longish forum posts (page 35) .. 4th Update: it’s called ACB – Analog Circuit Bahavior – Korg’s buzz word is quite similar (component modeling…) it means – they analyzed it…

Elektron: 45 Tribute – For Daniel Hansson

Title: 45 Tribute – For Daniel Hansson Label: N/A (In cooperation with Red Handed Records) Release Date: 4.10.08 The 45 Tribute is a compilation to pay homage to the late Daniel Hansson, co-founder of Elektron Music Machines. There are 30 tracks from many well-known artists including Autechre, Dntel, Venetian Snares, Daedelus, Kim Hiorthoy, John Tejada and many more. The release also contains exclusive contributions from: The Sea and Cake, Boom Bip, Tiga, Proxy, John Starlight and others. The album will be distributed digitally and has a $5.00 cost attached to…

Waldorf Info – Things to remember Part 1 Basics

WALDORF… Ideas & things to remember Basics… how many DSPs are in the XT? One!!!!! IIRC they are the same type used in Kyma, correct? Nearly, the Kyma uses Motorola DSP56309 and we use DSP56303, the only difference is that the 56309 has more on-chip RAM than the 56303.Waldorf V2.0 Beta team in 1994 and coding was done by Andreas Busse and Stefan Stenzel. Stefan focussed much on the Wavetable loader then. The machine use to code V2.0 was named RESI ;-) it was done on a SAM68K system, and…

SynthDB again: more synths and synth manufacturers.. mehr Hersteller und Synths in der SynthDB.

Hi, just another note about some synths added and menu got more manufacturers to watch.. the full list of manufacturers is now: – 3Lab – ABLETON – ACCESS – AIRBOURNE – AKAI – ALESIS – ANALOGUE SOLUTIONS – ANALOGUE SYSTEMS – ANYWARE (Semtex) – ARP – ARTURIA – BITSHIFT – BME – BOEHM (Dr.Böhm) – BUCHLA – CACTUS – CASIO – CELEMONY – CHEETAH – CLAVIA – CORON – CREAMWARE – CRUMAR – CURETRONIC – CWEJMAN – DAVE SMITH – DISCODSP – DOEPFER – DYNACORD – EDP – EKO –…