Sonofcastille has published a set of videos demonstrating beautiful steampunk-style synths and noise generators.
Here are a few of the coolest:
WSG
This is Ray Wilson’s Weird Sound Generator circuit off of musicfromouterspace.com, plus audio amp scavenged out of a Radio Shack amp. The case was an old telephone from the 70s.
Captain Nemo’s Beat Box
This is a circuit bent Realistic/Radio Shack drum machine from the 80s.
Radio Free Mars
Simple gorgeous. I wish more synths would come out with these designs instead of mimicking the look from the 70s and 80s (not that those are bad, either
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Claudio – good point!
Wouldn’t it be fantastic to work from the helm of a steampunk console, instead of another boring interface like Yamaha’s MM8?
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Heck yes! It would definitely make for some stage presence, just as the modular synths did back in the day (and even today). I would definitely pay for something with a nice steampunk look and feel.
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These are gorgeous, but I’d like to see this with instruments that are more musical.
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