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Control Your Mac with a Korg Kaoss Pad 3

Okay this is way better than nintendo wii or ds.

It sounds like he is using a Korg Kaoss Pad along with Apple’s Quartz Composer!!

Just a sweet image of the Kaoss Pad 3 from Sequencer.de

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Guy shows you how to use an Electribe MX - 50 minute tutorial

via http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/
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Synthmaker

http://synthmaker.co.uk/index.html updated. Looks like a nice program! super nice interface compared to synthedit.

Yamaha Dx1

Description: The largest FM synthesizer on the entire planet at over 100 pounds. Only 140 of this model were made, making it quite rare. You might see one on ebay or in classifieds rarely. Unlike the Yamaha DX7, it has its own red light up LED displays which tells you which parameters are being modified. Inclusion into the chip collection out of pure silly-ness. The only improvement I could think of on this was if they made it out of gold…or if it talked to you in the voice of K.I.T.T. Yamaha must have gotten their engineers together and said “hey lets make the most extravagantly heavy digital synthesizer ever”. Its still really lovable though. If you want these types signature digital of sounds nowadays, your better off getting a DX200, Native Instruments FM8, or just your computer’s generic VSTs. Its almost exactly the same because FM synthesis uses mathematical calculations instead of analog circuitry or analog modeling.

Year: 1985

Why: To make a redicoulously more expensive version of the Dx7.

Photos:

Super nice wood finish, and really nice keys.

Estimated Price: $4000ish U.S.

Sound Demos: I can’t find any claiming to be directly out of a DX1.

Links:

DX1 Plugin Board! Accepts Dx1 and Dx7 sounds.

Very Nice Photos showing its wood frame and inner circuits. Awesome hatch opening action…

Free Malstrom Patches

I’m giving away some free malstrom patches.
Most are really weird. I just stopped developement on them for now…Test em’ out.

Chip Collection Exclusive. Reason Refill. 48 Malstrom Patches.
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Free Chip Collection Malstrom Patches

MC-505 Review

I just bought this beast from ebay. Yes I am a little late in the game…This machine is kind of old now, but its a good one. Roland outdid themselves way back in 1998. Its really nice to be able to afford it now because when it came out I was a kid with no money.

The MC505 very impressive when you first get your hands on it. It looks very good and intimidating, as well as fun. I was in heaven until I noticed something a little wrong…THE KNOBS WERE BROKEN. I had made the mistake of buying from a pawn shop ebay “powerseller”. More like power asshole. I was lied to.

Anyway, I promptly opened it up to see if I could super glue the busted Filter/Amplifier knobs back in place. After all the unscrewing I finally saw that the potentiometers were ripped right out of the circuit board. NICE. Well at least it only needed a resolder. I decided I would resell it on ebay to someone who wanted to fix it.

SOUNDS: Okay these are A+ sounds, I don’t care what anyone says. Awesome for making techno music. Just muddy enough to fit in any mix and with the right tweaking from the awesome envelope controls you can make some F-’edup sounds. It also has all the cheesy groovebox sounds you’d expect. Very silly voices and some analog style presets that are mind blowing. This thing is awesome for digital grimey sounding techno or dance. Just play with it for an hour and you’ll realize the sound shaping makes it not a toy. I am so into the envelopes that I wish that they had put this on the Yamaha series of grooveboxes.

Its been sitting in my room the past couple of days and whenever i get bored I just turn it on and start playing. Its waaaaaay more accessible than all the gear on my computer. Still its not in perfect condition, and compared to say a RS7000, its not good for sequencing. I have to give it up despite the awesome sounds. So its on ebay going to a new home. I’m glad I bought this thing its FUN.

Man creates entire album with a Moog Voyager on his Mac

Moog Voyager Guy from Create Digital Music

Moog Voyager Guy from Create Digital Music

SH-32 Amazing!

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