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Bahai Hanging Gardens of Haifa - Israel
These are Terraces of the Bahá'í Faith, also known as the Hanging Gardens of Haifa.You can see the garden terraces around the Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel. The gardens rest in...
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LED Wiring
Some very basic info re LEDsLight Emitting Diode orientation.The earliest LEDs seem to have appeared around 1962Before this there were incandescent lamps (you will see these used on early Buchla 100...
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1/n - NLC Build pics
Some build pics as I put together this module.The 1/n by NonlinearCircuits is a eurorack format module.Andrew says this circuit is straight out of the Lunetta...
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Modular Jamming 070919 - buchla 100
My friend Mitch (Vitals) visited the other day.Had some fun jamming with the old gear.Nothing polished ... working with ideas... hopefully one day something from here will find its way onto an album...
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ARP 2500 - modular jamming 070919
Some more jamming on the old arp.Vitals on the keysJust playing around with ideas for a future track.Video is just from a mobile phone
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Noise, LC Filters, Inductors, etc
noise, Noise, and MORE NOISE.Filtering noise is really important when building your synth.Lots of ways to do this and the method may vary depending on the scale ... does the noise effect the whole...
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211 power supply
Some pics of the Buchla Format 211 PSUPerfect for a small system.These are personal pics to help trouble shooting the build.They are not official build notes.The build however looks pretty straight...
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Synth Surfers - Bega Valley Synth Festival
Looking forward to the Bega Valley Synth Festival.Just 1 month to go.Workshops, demonstrations and displays in the day and OSCILLATIONS with live performances from local and interstate synth artists at...
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Tilba Tilba, NSW, Australia
I stopped off at Tilba Tilba while travelling back from Bega . We were at the synth festival 2019.tHE old hotel. Lovely historic town. Great cheese and icecream. aLMOST forgotten what these are called:
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Yamaha DX7 - Algorithms
Some notes on using the DX 7.I only just bought a Mark 1 about a week ago so there is a steep learning curve ahead.These will be added to over time and hopefully help me to master FM synthesis.View...
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Bodalla - Old Cheese Factory
This was part of our Road trip to the Bega Synth festival of 2019.Sadly the old cheese factory was closed when we arrived.God's country. Such a beautiful afternoon
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Yamaha DX 7 - envelopes
The envelope generator will determine how the volume (amplitude) or timbre (tone) of a note will vary over time.What is impt to know is whether the envelope is being applied to a carrier or a modulator...
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This is a brief list of FM synthesizers.1973+Yamaha first licensed John Chowning’s FM synthesis technology from Stanford University"It should be remembered that Don Buchla implemented FM on his...
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Synthesizer Event - Wollongong - ProSound & Lighting
Prosound & Lighting are organising a synthesizer event in Wollongong on Sat the 7th December.There will be live performances on all types of synthesizers (modular, non-modular, keyboards, drum...
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+ FM synthesis Timeline+ Yamaha DX 7 - Envelopes + Yamaha DX7 - Algorithms+ DX7 Breakpoints & Keyboard Level Scaling
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Tathra
This was part of out road trip to the Bega Synth Festival.Tathra is a very beautiful seaside village ON THE Sapphire Coast.This is the old warf.Tathra is about 18Km from Bega
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DX 7 - Keyboard Level Scaling
Keyboard Scaling is a parameter found in many keyboards. It's a way manufacturers allow sounds to be altered smoothly across a keyboard (in an attempt to make acoustic type sounds more realistic across...
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