Keyboard Synthesizers

Analogue Solutions has announced a new keyboard synthesizer, prototype photo above, the Leipzig-K:
LEIPZIG-k … coming soon. Keyboard Leipzig with extra functions, like 2nd LFO, LCD editing (of MIDI setup), CV/Gate/CV2 inputs & outputs on rear panel, and more! (Above) is first prototype metalwork, the wooden side panels are missing!
Production model will be BLACK, but if […]

Image: datamath
This is the teacher’s version of the classic Korg MS20. If you’ve got any additional info on this, let me know!

Playing the Building, a 9,000-square-foot, interactive, site-specific installation by David Byrne, will transform the interior of the Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan into a massive sound sculpture that all visitors are invited to sit and “play.”
Byrne’s project will consist of a retrofitted antique organ placed in the center of the building’s cavernous second-floor gallery […]

Yamaha has introduced a collection of Yamaha Key designs for Milano Salone 2008, an international furniture design trade show and competition, based on the theme “key for you”.
According to the company, the designs use a Minimal Element/Maximum Effect concept.

Let me know what you think of these design concepts in the comments.

Totally Wired is a documentary film about Andreas Schneider’s infamous Schneider’s Buero, the boutique electronic musical instrument Mecca in Berlin.
The firm explores one man’s electric evangelism, and the interface he has built to connect analogue instrument inventors with their end-users.

The film features a selection of inventors and artists, including:

Dieter Doepfer
Junior Boys
Ken MacBeth
Anthony Rother
Jessica Rylan
Daniel Miller
Wowa […]

Not sure what to make of this - pask present has created a sort of steampunk electrochemical synthesizer:
Pressing a key causes salt solution to flow over a copper and aluminium connection, generating a low signal which is filtered by a capacitor and then amplified, creating a complex white noise, with amazing fluctuating oscillations.
The device demonstrates […]

Jean Michel Jarre, who’s on tour with truckloads of rare vintage keyboards performing his classic Oxygène, says that the old gear posed some unique challenges at his most recent concert:
The MemoryMoog went out of tune, the same for the ARP; we had very little time to set up everything. I tried quickly the Moog Liberation […]

Dr. Joseph A. Paradiso’s modular synthesizer is considered by many to be one of the largest and most complex in the world.
This modular system, which Paradiso started building over 20 years ago, includes two hand-built modular systems, three Moog keyboard synths, and 3 Casio synths, all integrated and patchable together to make one big modular […]

This demo, by retrosound, of the Roland VP330 Vocoder Plus, highlights the sound that Vangelis popularized in his soundtrack to Blade Runner and other works.
Richard Clews of SOS said this about the VP330:
If you ignore the hype and look at this instrument dispassionately, you’ll see it for what it really is — a 1970’s string […]

H-Pi Instruments is now shippping the TBX1 - a MIDI box designed to make custom keyboard tunings as easy as pushing a button.
Attach this little box to a compatible synth and you can make every key play any pitch you want. It comes preloaded with 128 tunings for you to try out, and it stores […]

Peter Grenader has announced 15 new modules for the Plan B modular synth line.  Details at the site.

Synthwood specializes in custom woodworking for synths.
Their creations include:

Custom Sequential Circuits Prophet T8
Custom Sequential Circuits Pro One Conversion Kit
Custom Sequential Circuits Multi-Trak
Replacement Nameplates
New Mini Moog wood cases
Korg MonoPoly and Polysix cases
Wall mountable cable holder

via Matrix

Remember the Beast in the Basement?
It looks like scootermccrae has his own Beast in the Basement:

The money quote:
Sounds like screaming, barking dogs.
I’m very, very pleased with that. It’s the kind of thing that makes me happy.
Here’s episode 2:

Great gear and interesting, quirky commentary!

Sinevibes has announced that the Planet F and Planet X sound libraries are now available for Roland SonicCell synthesizer module.
Description:
The Planet F and Planet X libraries have been designed to take all the great features of the Roland synthesizers to the extreme. From vintage analog and digital classics to new and never-heard-before instruments, phrases and […]

Korg has created 512 additional Programs for the M3, which are available as a free download from Korg’s website. The new Programs cover a number of essential sounds, such as classic keyboards, guitars, basses, brass, woodwinds and more.
These new Programs double the internal EDS Programs available on the M3, from the current 512 Programs to […]