Roland Jupiter-50

Source: Music Radar

"Film composers should love the JP-80 for its breathtakingly realistic expressive acoustic sounds, while electronic producers will adore its extremely powerful synth section." The Roland JP-50's twin real-time dials can be assigned to vario ...
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Korg Giving Away A Free Kronos Workstation

Source: Synthtopia

Korg has announced a new context, X Marks The Spot, a sort of scavenger hunt with a Kronos Music Workstation as the prize: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. The Kronos “X Marks The Spot” contest (“Promotion”) begins at 9:00 AM EST May 24th, 20 ...
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The modded musical Game Boys of Blip Festival

Source: Boing Boing

Pictured above is Andrew Gould's (AKA andaruGO) GBM1 Game Boy Classic. It's a great example of the two most popular mods: He's got a custom backlit screen that helps him see the music in the dark, and a wiring modification ...
Full article at: Boing Boing  More like this  1 day ago, 11:27am CDT

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Friday Freebies – Free Music Software

Source: Synthtopia

It’s Friday, so we thought you might want to start of the weekend right with some more music-making freebies: PhybAce Pilot is a physically modelled bass guitar for Windows. It’s free. OhDrat has a free Ableton Live Rack - F ...
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Rube Goldberg Style Monotron Mod Gets Even More Goldbergian

Source: Synthtopia

Keith Handy wrote in us know that he’s made some more mods to his awesomely odd device that is designed to make the Korg Monotron easier to play. The device features a ‘Giant Pitch Bar’ that allows for more much more accurate control of the ...
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Motion Sickness Of Time Travel - Motion Sickness Of Time Travel

Source: The Quietus

Rachel Evans' previous release, the hugely well-received Seeping Through the Veil of Unconscious tape and LP, can in retrospect be seen as the culmination - and possible high water-mark - of a strain of hypnagogic pop involving ghostly (us ...
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The birth of a new blog!

Source: SynthGear

I realize that posts have been very slow to say the least lately, but things will be picking up, I promise! In the meantime, I’ve decided to separate non-synth posts onto a new, sister blog: Noise made me do it. This will allow me to publish a w ...
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How the Moog Synth Changed Music

Source: Ecoustics

While the synthesizer is a simple but beautiful concept itself, electronic instruments existed for several decades before it. The theremin was an early example: First patented in 1928, it graced countless 1950s sci-fi movie soundtracks, ...
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Jordan celebrate's Bob Moog with Google!

Source: JordanRudess.com

05/23/2012 Check out Jordan's quick Google Doodle jam on the Moog doodle they had today to celebrate Bob Moog's 78th birthday! 04/24/2012 Dream Theater show in Beijing reluctantly canceled Due to circumstances beyond the control of Dream Th ...
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