Snazzy FX Tracer City

Snazzy FX makes some of the coolest stompboxes. The Tracer City is one of them. Here is a short demo: Snazzy FX homepage It will cost you about 500$ and can be bought from Analogue Haven in the US and Schneiders Buero in Berlin

Auduino DIY Synth

If you’re into DIY and got an Arduino board, why not try to make the FOF/granular based Auduino synth in this video? Instructions are here Here’s another example, using the stylus controller from the Gakken SX-150 synth kit:

Playmodes & OpenFrameworks

I want to show you some of the cool things that can be done with OpenFrameworks. I start by showing the projects of someone who calles themselves Playmodes. They have made an audiovisual sampler, using Native Instruments Reaktor for the sounds (controlling it via OSC) and OF for recording, manipulating and playback of video. It [...]

Resonator Neuronium

The Resonator Neuronium isn’t new, but I found an excellent demo on Youtube: Another one here: This synth is made by Jomox synthguru Jürgen Michaelis. It’s sound is generated from six analoge resonating neurons making some fascinating evolving sounds. This is a boutiqe synth released in 2005, but you can still buy it if the [...]

Cool organic synth thing

I stumbled across a brilliant post on Synthopia, a video showing a demo of the project the Sound of Touch. The instrument is made by David Merrill at MIT and is based on using a contact microphone and DSP to record and manipulate the sounds. I’m glad to see that there’s still some good ideas [...]

Buchla Music Easel

Her sees Charles Cohen som spiller på en Buchla Music Easel modulær synth som det visstnok ble produsert bare 14 stykker av. Som det står i teksten til filmen er det mye bedre lyd med hodetelefoner! For HD-kvalitet: http://www.vimeo.com/902069