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Hands On Yamaha's Tenori-On Synthesizer: We Love It
Tenori-On, the crazy light-up handheld synthesizer from Yamaha we've been geeked about for months, officially launched in the US tonight. It won't be on sale until May 1, but we got our hands on one and simply put, we were amazed. Resident Giz musician Jonny Lam (Brian's little brother) hit the event with us, and was playing music in minutes. What's interesting is how you can play this thing according to sound, but also, visual cues: More »
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Home-Made Synths from Tupperware Trip the Light Fan-Plastic
This is what you do if you think that your Tupperware boxes are too good for food, turn them into home-made synthesizers. Adachi Tomomi has made a bunch of them, including a video synthesizer and a couple of Theremins. Consisting of a simple battery-powered electronic circuit, the synths don't have perfect pitch. The Tomomin (bottom left in the gallery) even has a four-note keyboard, and was made from a bunch of Texas Instrument integrated circuits. [Adachi Tomomi via Make ]
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Future Retro's Revolution Synthesizer R2 looks amazing; we completely have no use for a synthesizer, but we totally want one. With a complete aluminum construction, perfectly contrasting gun gray and white colors, as well as a smattering of blue LEDs all over, this synthesizer makes us moist in the most clichéd way possible. If that was not enough to get you interested, perhaps the circular sequencer interface, which allows single handed control; the ability to play patterns forwards, backwards, upside down and sideways, as well as remote pattern selection using MIDI program change messages will have you reaching for your anorexic wallet?
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Revolution Synthesizer R2 Looks Like Death Star Control Panel, Not R2
Future Retro's Revolution Synthesizer R2 looks amazing; we completely have no use for a synthesizer, but we totally want one. With a complete aluminum construction, perfectly contrasting gun gray and white colors, as well as a smattering of blue LEDs all over, this synthesizer makes us moist in the most clichéd way possible. If that was not enough to get you interested, perhaps the circular sequencer interface, which allows single handed control; the ability to play patterns forwards, backwards, upside down and sideways, as well as remote pattern selection using MIDI program change messages will have you reaching for your anorexic wallet?
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train wreck
And now for a Friday musical interlude, we bring you Van Halen caught on its comeback tour, except there was one big problem and it involved gadgets. What happens when you play back a prerecorded synthesizer track at 48K instead of the intended 44.1K? The whole track plays back a little bit faster and at a slightly higher pitch, that's what. A dissonant musical mess ensues, trapping the guitarist and bassist in an on-stage musical hell with nowhere to go. More »
Synth Glitch Creates On-Stage Disaster for Van Halen
And now for a Friday musical interlude, we bring you Van Halen caught on its comeback tour, except there was one big problem and it involved gadgets. What happens when you play back a prerecorded synthesizer track at 48K instead of the intended 44.1K? The whole track plays back a little bit faster and at a slightly higher pitch, that's what. A dissonant musical mess ensues, trapping the guitarist and bassist in an on-stage musical hell with nowhere to go. More »
2:46 PM on Fri Oct 19 2007
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Now you can bang the drum all day to your heart's content without waking up the neighbors with this Ion Digital Drum Station. There's a grid of eight springy drum pads on this drum machine, and you can program a realistic-sounding drum noise into each one, choosing among 233 sounds. There are also 50 presets into which you can load your favorite combination of drums. For even more realism, there are inputs for external kick drum and high-hat pedals. Sounds like $109.90 worth of fun, and it even includes headphones and a pair of drumsticks. [Think Geek, via Crave]
Ion Digital Drum Station Keeps All That Banging to Yourself
Now you can bang the drum all day to your heart's content without waking up the neighbors with this Ion Digital Drum Station. There's a grid of eight springy drum pads on this drum machine, and you can program a realistic-sounding drum noise into each one, choosing among 233 sounds. There are also 50 presets into which you can load your favorite combination of drums. For even more realism, there are inputs for external kick drum and high-hat pedals. Sounds like $109.90 worth of fun, and it even includes headphones and a pair of drumsticks. [Think Geek, via Crave]
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Brian Eno Selling Gear, Going Digital
Brian Eno is selling the DX-7 he used to create the Microsoft startup sound and other, more amazing, compositions. He's also auctioning a Prophet VS, Jellinghaus DX-7 Programmer and two Mackie Mixers. The auctions are taking place at Vemia, a terribly designed site that is an eBay alternative for musicians. Why is Eno selling his gear? A Sound on Sound article last month had this:
"Despite his reservations about computer recording, Eno has now decided to go further into the computer only world and sell his studio... "
That's right, from electronic to digital — Ambient 5: Music for Computers anyone? More »
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Groovy Babes - Vintage Music Fetish Porn At Its Finest
You crazy synthesizer-loving musicians would get enjoyment out of something like this. Actually this isn t so much porn as it is just weird. Groovy Babes is a flash slideshow put together displaying numerous of pictures of scantily clad (or not clad at all) women posing with various types of synthesizers. Vintage women, nonetheless. Warning cubicle commandos, this flash movie does contain pictures of boobies and Gizmodo is not responsible for you having to explain to your boss why you were looking at vintage synthesizer porn. More »
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Synth Pr0n From Annie and Dave
The new Eurythmics song I've Got A Life isn't getting high marks as a pop tune, but the video is covered in retro synthesizers. Music Thing notes the "Akai S612 with the 'toast rack' disc drive." There's got to be a Roland in there someplace. Let's play name that synthesizer... More »
