New Macbooks and Macbooks Pro – all with Firewire again!

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Macbooks got Firewire back, they are now all called Macbook Pro and they can be expanded up to 8GB RAM, also there’s a complete new line of MB and MBPs .. or better – a new Macbook Pro Line and no more Macbook. Also the Air is cheaper now. Snow Leopard and Quicktime 10 look nice.. all info from WWDC today. MacTechNews.de Live-Ticker. one more thing: 19:35 Snow Leopard erscheint im September für 29 Dollar – OS X 10.6 will cost only $29 – MS, you’ll get fried, I assume.…

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AMAZONA.de – Modular Synthesizer Meeting, Happy Knobbing, Fischbach 2009 – (Report by Moogulator)

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Mein kleiner Bericht zum Modularmeeting bei Amazona. (my little report on the meeting in german) AMAZONA.de – Vintage Synths > Modular Synthesizer Meeting, Happy Knobbing, Fischbach 2009.   mehr zum Treffen: http://happyknobbing.synthesizers.de mit Videos vom jeden Treffen seit 2006.

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Snyderphonics Manta Touch Sensor Controller w. LED

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Manta is a controller with 48 touch sensors (buchla like) and also sensor sliders . all with LEDs – so it might be a nice monome „killer“ or something different. not really cheap$675, but looks like a cool Controller.. List of some more Controllers:  Alternative_Controller * 48 touch sensors in a 6 X 8 hexagonal array – each sensor can independently send both continuous control data and note-on/off events with velocity sensitivity simultaneously Snyderphonics Instruments – products. inspired by matrixsynth post.6/03/2009 09:00:00 AM btw: Like these noise sources as well:…

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Oberheim makes SEMs with MIDI again?

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Tom Oberheim and the new SEM from stretta on Vimeo. referring to New SEM from Tom Oberheim (from Matrixsynth) there’s a nice pic of a new MIDIfied SEM by the real Tom Oberheim – and this empty page http://tomoberheim.com/ here’s the image from matrix, who got it from http://www.alt-mode.com (did not find it there so far). anyway – what is a SEM, Synthesizer Expander Module Analog Synthesizer?) this is one of the best and sweetest sounding synths ever, can’t do much, but has filter „morph“ – they say, it’s below…

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Roland 100m – DIY m185 Sequencer from Ryk almost ready..

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The modules are nearly finished, and I have managed to get the panels made up in Roland grey. Although I have decided on a non boxed style. Have a look at the pictures on the Flickr set http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryktnk/sets/72157618924758742/ Let me know if you are still interested in one. There is also a new video with three of the modules http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swi2fNeNCuE Remember those:

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