Synthosaur

this is a 2 minute preview of my release on FIR Records! rrooaarr...

available on all major download stores on Oct.24th! woohoo

another vintage ad roared straight to you...

it's all super with the Korg Super Section.... you can practice, you can record, you can add realism... all that way back in 1984...

wEiRd WeDnEsDaY....

Gotye... I know... like a million times, but a scanner singing... rrooarr....

"HP Scanjet 3C as the vocals. It lags a bit due to the fast paced vocals. In order for the stepper motor to play a note it has to be moving and with that large carriage it takes a few milli seconds before it can play a note. It doesn't sound like a lot of time but stretch that over a 4 minute song and voila...out of sync. Programming does help to compensate but it is not perfect.

Amiga 600 Bass on left audio output and Guitar on right audio output Each audio channel was feed into an oscilloscope 2 Harddrives as the drums and cymbal Xylophone as the Xylophone (duh) my apologies glockenspiel Both the Harddrive and Xylophone are controlled by one PIC16F84A mircocontroller thanks to A1- Electronics Parts (Toronto) for the great deals on all those old parts that are getting harder to find"

wow...

As usual I am posting vintage ads for studio gear… this week I give you…

Headroom to burn! rrooarr!!

Tascam 300 series mixer from 1988! I had to plug in all my roars somewhere !

yours truly, the synthosaur…

How could I have missed that? rrooarr....

Here are are some impressions of KnobCon 2012, aka ‘the greatest synth meet in the galaxy’, held September 14-15, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency in Schaumburg, IL.

yours truly, the synthosaur... rrooarr...

Check out the vintage ad for Yamaha SY85, a very nice "vector synthesis" synth of the nineties.

The ad is from Keyboard magazine February 1993... 

Yours truly, the synthosaur.... rrooarr...

Source visited Portishead’s Adrian Utley in his home studio to get his reactions to theArturia MiniBrute analog synth. While there, they also captured this tour of Utley’s studio and demos of his enviable collection of vintage synthesizers.

Check out the video... 

yours truly, the synthosaur... rrrooarr...

drum machines are essential... here's a classic by Sequential Circuits from 1984, the Drumtraks...

yours truly, the synthosaur... rrooarr

rrooarr, check it out! it's mobile, it's useful, it'cool !

IK Multimedia has introduced iRig KEYS, a portable universal MIDI controller keyboard for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Mac/PC.

iRig KEYS connects directly to the iOS device 30 pin dock connector or the USB port on Mac/PC. It features 37 velocity-sensitive mini-keys — 3 full octave range plus one note, that takes up minimal space when used on a desktop, and can easily fit in a backpack or a carry-on bag.

iRig KEYS is Core MIDI and USB class compliant for a plug-and-play experience both with iOS devices or Mac/PC, with no additional app, software or drivers to be installed to have it go and running.

Price and availability

Rig Keys will be shipping in Fall 2012 for $99.99/€74.99 (ex. taxes).

yours truly, the synthosaur! rrooarr....

SYNTH SUNDAY

sit back and relax.... enjoy Vangelis - Pulstar.... remake by the italian disco master Koto

italo disco meets synthesizer classics... rrooarr

let's rock this place!! rrooarr... this is the way a SH-101 should be played!

TRADE THURSDAY time again.... Roland SH-101 synth, a true "guitarists" dream :)

enjoy this vintage ad and think about how did the perception of a synthesizer change during the last 30 years or so... or don't and just enjoy the ad...

haha... COVER MONDAY time!...

get your disco outfit out of the closet! enjoy a true ABBA medley.... feel free to karaoke!

Florian Hutter on the Wersi organ! rrooarr!