BUCHLA CONCERTS + MODULAR SYNTH FAIRE // June 28th + July 7th

all quoted – but nevertheless it’s real via Abby from Source of Uncertainty (love that name): Announcing Source of Uncertainty: Music for the Buchla Synthesizer.  Two free concerts and modular synthesizer fair inspired by the Buchla 200e.  NYC 6/28/12 + 7/7/12.  Fundraising campaign at www.indiegogo.com/sourceofuncertainty Thurs June 28th // South Street Seaport // 210 Front Street NYC Control Voltage Faire 3-8pm Buchla Recital ft Alessandro Cortini, Carlos Giffoni, Mark Verbos 8-10 Late concert ft Xeno & Oaklander and Loud Objects  Sat July 7 // Schimmel Arts Center // 3 Spruce…

Analogue Solutions – Leipzig SK – with Sequencer

(1) Facebook. sent via Tom J Carpenter – the new Version of the almost underrated Leipzig as a keyboard version, so it includes the ADSR envelopes (compared to the minimised ones of the earlier model) and it also has the 8-Step Sequencer – that display does not mean you can save sounds to memory but look at it, it’s a real nice stage synth, in’nt? the s.version…

seqSQUARED: The Analogue Pattern Generator by HexInverter

seqSQUARED: The Analogue Pattern Generator – a DIY Sequencer (Step) simple but made for more complex patterns seqSQUARED is a programmable voltage controlled switch used to generate complex patterns with multiple analog step sequencers. It is designed to be used in a modular synthesizer and will be available in Eurorack kit and assembled form, as well as many other DIY formats. btw: I have started to set the tags as they are – not just the Synth-Category, so from now on you will be able to really find things, the first…

Google mainstreamised?

since some days I am getting resoluts from google that show a lot of commercial shops with the same info when I search for a certain synthesizer – this means – you get on one of those very mainstreamed sites like iTunes, Amazon, Thomann rather than freaky or nerdy sites about that synth, to me it looks like there’s a lot of reasons to no „google“ all the time and possibly change to something or maybe seach with multiple search engines,  – btw. bing tells, they also integrate social search…

Künstler? Selbständig? Nicht mehr lange!

Leider ist es wirklich notwendig, zu reagieren. Da Selbständige nicht all zu viele Freunde haben und die meisten Musiker und Künstler nunmal selbständig sind – dies ist leider wichtig. Deutscher Bundestag: Petitionen. Aus einem Rundbrief der frei kopiert werden darf: ___ im Januar 2013 soll im Deutschen Bundestag ein umfassendes Rentenreformpaket beschlossen werden, das eine  Rentenversicherungspflicht für Selbständige beinhaltet. Die daraus resultierenden Veränderungen hätten weitreichende  Auswirkungen für rund 3 Mio. Selbständige. Der einkommensunabhängige (!) monatliche Beitrag soll rund 400 EUR  betragen. Zudem soll die Wahlfreiheit, in welcher Form die Altersvorsorge erfolgt, stark eingeschränkt werden…

NI Maschine – Upcoming 1.8

The update will include the following improvements: – looks like the slicer will still be a bit dull, they should look at Geist from FXpansion how to use and process slices, anyway not bad to have time stretching My personal comment 2 refering to my own performances: The LFO is still 18 Hz, which is far below standard, should be 100Hz minimum, and please add multicore support, after that there’s a lot improved, aaand – say you have a slice programmed to play and remove it in the chase light…

Jupiter 6 – recucing thin out of the filter resonance – den Pegelabfall beim Filter minimieren, Widerstände tauschen!

Florian Anwander • Jupiter 6 – Ausgleich des Pegelabfall bei erhöhter Resonanz. how to get rid of low level filter sound, a little mod, listen to the audio file to hear the difference.  … me-Mod.mp3 in fact the resonance thin out will be reduced by this mod (adding one simple resistor between R62 where it is NOT connected to R67 – connect it to the point, where R81-84 meet). Mostly recognisable in low pass mode. the audio file is in english, so everyone can follow, the german one is the one…

first specs – MFB Dominion 5

Forum • MFB Dominion 5.the announced polyphonic analog synth form MFB is announced to have these specs. 5 voices each with 3 VCOs, SED multimodefilter, 2 LFOs, 3 Envelopes, VCA. One main LFO, Mod Delay, Voice Panning, Arpeggiator/Seq(poly), Joystick, Ribbon Mod, Split Mode, Patch Memory, 4 Octave Aftertouch Halfweighted Action Keyboard, Big knobs and quality pots/sliders/Switches, Midi In/out/Thru, Some CV/Gate Connections, Steel Chassis with Wooden Walnut Panels. ___________ release date: hoffe, bis zur namm oder messe frankfurt. Design folgt im Sommer! Preis: ca 1790 Euro Leser des Analog Synthesizer Sonderheftes…