http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E80ABC1F07E41B07 The MPC500 is Akai’s first portable MPC. It features a 48-track sequencer with a 32-voice stereo sampler. It has 12 velocity and pressure-sensitive rubber MPC pads. 16MB of memory comes standard and can be expanded up to 128MB. When connected to a Mac or PC via USB, you can drag and drop data between the… Read More The Akai MPC 500 Portable Production Workstation
In this demo video, from KeyfaxNewMedia‘s Drum Programming Secrets DVD, Dave Polich shows you how to play drum beats on your keyboard in the style of Keith Moon. As far as I know, Keith Moon never did any drum programming – but, Polich’s take on it is still pretty impressive to see.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_tjcshEurc Synth pioneer Suzanne Ciani on 3-2-1 Contact demonstrating synthesizers and sound synthesis. Synths spotted: Oberheim OBX Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 Buchla 200 system Anyone know what year this is from?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1o2Td0mtOA The Oberheim Matrix-12 is a vintage synth from 1985 that represents the “the culmination of Oberheim’s search for the ‘perfect analog synthesizer’.” The Matrix 12 was a hybrid analogue/digital modular synth with a massive complement of audio generators, audio processors, controllers and control processors with extensive patching options. Each voice had two analog oscillators,… Read More The Oberheim Matrix-12
This video is an amazing historical demo, from 1939, of the VODER – considered by some to be the first attempt to synthesise human speech by breaking it down into its component sounds and then reproducing the sound patterns electronically. Per Wendy Carlos: Homer Dudley….invented the VODER (Voice Operating DEmonstratoR), an electronic speaking instrument, which… Read More The Voder, A Speech Synthesizer From 1939
This is an audio demo (no video) of creating Battlestar Galactica Cylon voices with an EMS Vocoder-System 2000B MkII and Roland SVC-350 Vocoder. Cheesy, but fun!
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Martin Kaltenbrunner has published a very nice overview of tangible musical interfaces, focusing on table-top controllers, such as music tables and audio building blocks. Projects featured include: Audiopad – a composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion into music. Audio d-touch… Read More A Guide To Tangible Music Interfaces
The Electronic Music Studios EMS Synthi VCS3, aka The Putney, is a portable synthesizer introduced in 1969. It was designed by David Cockerell. Wendy Carlos had this to say about the Synthi VCS3: The PUTNEY is a real toy. Its components are highly unstable/unpredictable and the selection made is highly gimmick orientated and does not… Read More The EMS Synthi VCS3 Synthesizer
This is a demonstration of the clavioline, a rare old analog synthesizer, featuring some old recordings where the clavioline was been utilized: Frank Chacksfield’s Tunesmiths – Little Red Monkey Del Shannon – Runaway Demonstration of sirredfox00‘s clavioline. It’s the pure sound of the clavioline, its own Leslie-Sound and effects and its tube amp. Tornados –… Read More The Clavioline
