Natural Synthesizer (Paia)?

the „natural“ Synthesizer.. Kind of Art Show? here the original text: I based the birds on a circuit originally developed by John Simonton, Jr. He’s the driving force behind Paia, (ps: an died this year) who have been making synthesizer kits for 30 years now. I added a section to his original design so that the birds would be quiet more of the time, and also their songs would vary more. I did it by modulating the supply voltage, a popular circuit-bending trick. One bird chirps more frequently, sometimes sounding like…

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NAMM NAMM NAMM?

hmm, whats up about the Summer NAMM? according to sonicstates special, not sooo interesting to us synthesizer people so far.. ableton live 6 release might be the highlight of this summer, the real news should be with winter NAMM or Musikmesse Frankfurt (btw: not bad for us.. the us is very far from here.. and expensive also..) ;) im westen nichts neues.. mehr fällt mir „analog zur sommer NAMM“ nicht ein. weitermachen!..

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InSeqT Sequencer – codename Bumblebee by Anyware

the maker of Semtex has an update of the planned InSEQt Sequencer up, here it is.. it is a dual Sequencer with Quantizer which reminds a bit of the ARP Sequencer, PLUS another separate Section with 2×8 or 1×16 Line(s). This should be a killer for analog sequencing.. Der InSeqT steht kurz vor seiner Fertigstellung und optischem Printendergebnis. Er ist genau genommen 2 Sequencer: Einmal ein dem ARP Sequencer sehr ähnlichem Design incl Quantizer und 1×16 / 2×8 Reihen, die kompeltt unabhängig sind und den inSEQt sicher für Frickler sehr…

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