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Here’s a few clips from Meeting of the Knobs 2009, held June 27th in Bedford, Texas (Dallas/Fort Worth area.)

It looks like MOTK 2009 was a great chance to see incredible and rare synth gear and to meet some of the people responsible for the renaissance of analog synthesis.

If you made it to MOTK 2009, leave a comment with your thoughts! Read more…

Have you ever seen a synth as beautiful as this amazing steampunk modular synthesizer?

The level of detail and craftsmanship is just amazing! Read more…

Music by Sprutbass, Data moshing video by Nic Brown and David James.

Image: chrisglass

This is the awesomely creepy Barbinator 3000, a bent keyboard that promises to keep its eyes - all three of them - on you as you play. Read more…

This video gives an overview of the new Native Instruments website, which was due for an overhaul.

Image: Analogue Haven

Saturday Synth Porn: Here’s some more over-the-top analog action - the Macbeth: X-series “Backend” Filter:

The second Macbeth module is more than just a filter, it includes a three-input mixer and a dual envelope. Neat touches like the filter tracking amount knob, the individual filter response outputs, the final decay switch for it, the multiple envelope outputs and the momentary/hold pushbutton add a lot of functionality to this module.

Pricing hasn’t been announced, but expect it to be expensive and worth every penny.

The Reef, by Stefan Beckhusen:

Video filmed in Bali at different spots in 2008. The music is my own production.

Synth Porn Saturday: Here’s a sneak preview of some new modular synths from Malekko:

The next two Wiard modules being put out by Malekko are the Anti-Oscillator and the Noisering. These two should be available around the end of July.

The Noisering is the same as the Wiard 1200 series but with the addition of a toggle switch that will make the jack above it a clock input or clock output.

The Anti-Oscillator is a new analog oscillator from Grant Richter with some very interesting waveshaping capabilities.

The new Melekko versions of the Wiard modular synth line is available via Analogue Haven. The Anti-Oscillator & Noisering aren’t available yet, though, so all you can do is drool.

God of Small Things, a short film by Chris Abbas and Sumit Seru. Music by múm.

via musicofsound

Image: Analogue Haven

The next Eurorack module from Flame, the Tame Machine looks like a lot of fun:

In addition to being a tap tempo clock source and clock (”beat”) divider, the module will act as a “playable” quantizer via the colored pushbuttons at the top. When not in Quantizer mode, however, they can be used as a mini keyboard for sending note data.

The Tame Machine also has another fun feature- it is possible to record a melody from the mini keyboard and play this in a loop via the record function. So it will essentially record “sequences”, possibly quantized, like the Roland Sh-101.

Pricing and details to come.