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Shiny Toys – Nerdic Audiovisual Walking – Festival

just like to share some images from a nerdy festival, SHINY TOYS –in Mülheim, Germany, Ringlokschuppen 1) those spinning wheels are part of a sound installation, sound generators were added that react on the pulsing light coming from or through the wheels and created a granular sound 2) that tv thing is 4 rows of LEDs that rotate fast enough to create a picture – some old western and Bud Spencer movies work well on it ;) 3) Cicuit Bent Image Processor 4) Concerts of Hidden Technology and Spherical Disrupted 5)…

Ambient Experimental / Neue Musik Glitch / Abstract / IDM Music 

Frank Bretschneider & Thomas Köner – Dortmund 2012

Just had the chance to see both live which is quite rare, .. both brought minimalistic setups, all took place in a (red coloured) cinema – Frank Bretschneider  very intresting to see Frank had the Octatrack and did almost all the music on it, the Mac Pro (yes, it had the older keyboard, so it must be an early intel one, thanks to the comment it is NOT a PowerPC Powerbook since it has a Magsafe Connector < – updated) – very much on the spot!! Interview in Deutsch mit…

Knifonium – Tube Synth / Röhrensynthesizer

this synth is the second one based on valves, (after the Metasonix S1000, Wretch Machine Analog Synthesizer). der jetzt zweite Synthesizer mit Röhren Technik. he says.. I’ve spent several months with this project, and now I’m beginning to believe, that I will actually finish it. Missing from the photos are of course front panels, keys, power supply, all semiconductor stuff etc. Photos and early CAD drawings here:https://picasaweb.google.com/jonte.knif … 7611939218https://picasaweb.google.com/jonte.knif … 3748053346Shortly: Oscillators, ring modulator, mixer, moog type filter, noise source, Vari Mu type VCA and output amp are tube units. Everything else…

iPhone 5 + iPad Mini / Lightning Anschluss und USB-MIDI für Keyboards/Klaviaturen am iPhone 5 – wieder möglich seit 7.02 – Apple Event am 23.Okt.2012

Dear musicians – be aware of Lightning connectors do NOT work with any USB Keyboard with CamConnection kit, if you like to let them know – just tell ‚em you won’t buy things that do not support USB Keyboards as before on any iOS device.. https://discussions.apple.com/message/20078680?ac_cid=op123456#20078680 UPDATES iOS 7.02 and higher (we are at 7.04 atm, 7.1 coming..) – FINALLY WORKS! it finally works on the iPhone 5 (5c/5s should work as well but I don’t own one to check it out) I reconnected a friends iPad 4 and my…

Avid Hd Native – Thunderbolt Audio Interface

Avid | Pro Tools|HD Native – is a digital audio interface with thunderbolt which is the second after apollo . I really wonder why no one dares to show up with a nice 24 or 32 audio in equipped analog interface which is the most wanted, instead we need to buy our converters separately which won’t be cheap, so this is clearly apple style price tag design. ok – I can understand, that some converters are better but NOT for their resolution, since most of them will provide 24bits at 96khz and…

Roland Kuit – Laboratory of Patching – electronic book (HTML+Patch Files) for Nord Modular G2 series

patching modular synths, in this case the Clavia G2 is quite easy, as long as you refer to the standard synths you know and possibly let yourself be influenced or inspired by the synths made to date and all those yesterday ones as well. but if you want more out from the machine, want to get inspired or just want to get an idea how an oscillator could be optimized to play with on your patches – this is for you. this is based on HTML so you can watch…

Ausgabe 34, Synthesizer-Magazin

Maschinen Elektron Octatrack – Bericht (kein „Test“) Akai Miniak Schippmann Filter VCFo2 Teenage Engineering OP1 – Workstation mit Radio und Boxhandschuhen Roland Jupiter 50 – Kleiner Jupiter 80 – Digital ist besser? Casio heute / gestern: XW-P1 vs. VZ10m – Casio macht Lauflicht! Eventide – Geräte für die Nutzung auf dem Fußboden Weichmaschinen Audulus Modular mit Apfelgeschmack Beepstreet (=>Sunrizer) – the making of: Impaktor App Sugar Bytes Cyclop – Synthesizer im Flugsimulator Look und WobbeLFOs Izotope Iris Ableton Libraries Check Arbeiter und ihre Maschinen FM Workshop mit dem Blofeld Menschen…

Korgs new something analog synth? Maxitribe or Hoax?

Ok, this looks like a real synth now and  at 04 September 2:30 PST (8:30 morgens bei uns in D): http://www.livestream.com/korgusa you won’t find this: but some of us might be happy about it..: this (from the panel) is a 2 OSC synth with Ringmod and FM, 2 ADSR Envelopes and Multimode Filter and one LFO and memory, so it seems a direct strike to and against the Minibrute, if that thing is true, and see the Reverb and Delay Knobs on top? Photoshop or real – well,.. well – lets see…