as of  March 05, 2010
NEWS
New products, coming soon ...

A-187-1
Voltage Controlled DSP Effects
Release date:
now available

A-132-4
Quad VCA
Release date:
~ May 2010
DIY Synthesizer
self construction
analog synthesizer
Release date:
~ May 2010
A-142-4
Quad Envelope
Generator (Decay)
Release date:
~ May 2010

A-143-4
Quad VCLFO/VCO
Release date:
~ summer 2010

Dark Time
Analog Sequencer
Release date:
~ summer 2010
A-100TKB
New version of the
Touch Sensor Keyboard
Release date:
~ summer/fall 2010
The NAMM news overview is available as pdf file: NAMM_news_2010.pdf.
DARK ENERGY
NEW: Dark Energy Patch Creator dap.askdesign.org
Thank's a lot to Alexander & Sascha Knorr from askdesign to make available this application
Review from
Sound On Sound Magazine
January 2010
   

If you want to order from outside Germany please contact the representative in your country for the actual delivery situation. It depens if and how many units were pre-ordered by the representative in your country.

 

A modular version of the  Dark Energy A-111-5 is also available.

Online Review musicradar.com
Interconnected - “Current Flow”.(VU-US018)
Vu-us is very proud to present their newest release: Interconnected - “Current Flow”.(VU-US018)
Interconnected is a collaborative electronica/ idm/ experimental project between Bakis Sirros (of Parallel Worlds, Memory Geist) and Ingo Zobel (of DRON, Signalform, Self Oscillate, Datasette). Both guys are heavy into analogue modular systems which makes their sound very unique and organic compared to other artists in the electronica scene who hardly use any hardware anymore. Their debut album “Current Flow” is a sonic trip where frequencies take on real life form. Each song takes you on an aural voyage to explore new worlds beyond your imagination. The opening track “Greenerblue” brings you smoothly into this new world while other tracks like “Deepestsespeed” give you the impression that you are wandering around that cold surface for ages.
The design of this release might seem a bit dark rst, compared to the music itself, but it represents a so familiar ally and yet so mysterious during the night, the unknown.

order@vu-us.com
www.vu-us.com

clips from the album here: www.myspace.com/interconnectedmusic

of course the album is full of analogue modulars like the Doepfer A100, Serge modular, AS Integrator, Technosaurus Selector, Metalbox / CGS, Blacet research, (with additional Livewire, Cyndustries, Plan B modules) and Oberheim SEM, Jupiter 6, Mono/poly, MS20, SQ10, TR606, Roland System-100m, various string machines and Tape Echoes, Nord modular, Waldorf Microwave, etc, etc.

electric possible
announcement :

feb. 15, 2010 - doepfer modular user`s logan mitchell and david vosh will be performing along with jeff bagato as the trio "for official use only" at washington, d.c.`s monthly series "electric possible". details and directions at www.electricpossible.org

feb. 27, 2010 - doepfer modular users logan and david re-appear, this time in 2 different electronic duo`s - logan mitchell and hal schmulowitz as "duophony" and david vosh and frank vanaman as "square v equation". this event will be held at baltimore`s "hexagon" and is sponsored by the baltimore / sdiy group. details and directions at www.hexagonspace.com and http://sites.google.com/site/baltimoresdiygroup

A-100 Youtube Video by Daren Ager
Daren Ager: "Using the small Doepfer system as a kind of 606+303 combo, not a musical statement, just me having some fun. All the sounds and sequencing done entirely on the system shown."
Dark Energy and A-100 Miniature Case in Concert

Two Dark Energy, one A-100 Minicase, a lot of fun:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fabioperletta/sets/72157622953022656/

DVD Totally Wired
The film Totally Wired by Niamh Guckian Ahern about Schneiders Buero in Berlin is now available.

Preview of the film at Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4pMpTZgM5s

The DVD can be ordered at Schneidersladen or Amazon.

Now available: New A-100 Modules and Cases
A-111-5
modular version of Dark Energy
A-138m
4x4 Matrix Mixer
A-183-1
Dual Attenuator
A-183-2
Offset Generator / Polarizer
A-183-3
Amplifier
A-100P9
9U version of the A-100 suitcase
A-100LC9
9U version of the low cost case
A-190-2
Low Cost Midi-to-CV/Gate interface
(modular version of MCV4)
A-137-2
Wave Multiplier II
Midi-to-Voltage Interface
MTV16
A-189-1
Voltage Controlled Bit Modifier
A-138e
Quad Three-Way Crossfader / Mixer /Polarizer
A-106-6
XP VCF with 15 different filter types
A-132-3
Dual linear/ exponential VCA
A-134-2
Dual Voltage Controlled Crossfader
The organ master keyboard d3m is now available even with inverted keys upon request as a custom made product. It can be manufactured with black or silvergrey case. The additional charges are Euro 100.00. Please ask for delivery time at sales@doepfer.de. Even MKE or the OEM version of the CV/Gate keyboard A-100CGK are available with this special keybed.
A-100 Monster Base Frame A-100 CV/Gate-Keyboard
Amazona A-100 Report Series
Oscillators I Oscillators II Oscillators III Filters I Filters II Filters III Time 1 Time 2
SOUND ON SOUND Modular Synths Report
Overview of Modular Synths as of spring 2009 in the April 2009 issue of Sound on Sound

Editor's choice: A-100

New videos with A-100
Gusgus with A-100 suitcase live on stage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP182QHN2sM&feature=related
The Redundant Rocker at studio Helio.Gen: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=60354719
vailable at http://www.iapetus-store.com
info@redundantrocker.com
Revised A-100 Planner

Stefan Breitenfeld has revised his excellent A-100 planner. Pay attention that the planner uses JavaScript and the width of your monitor should be at least 1280 pixels to have access to the module selection box:

  • totally new design
  • forum for members
  • Google Maps with manufacturers and dealers addresses
  • exchange rates are updated directly from the EZB
  • compatible to Internet Explorer
  • patch drawing engine (beta)

Please report possible faults or suggestions for improvement directly to the author: info@stefanbreitenfeld.com.

Musikmesse Frankfurt 

Dark Energy

Monophonic Analog Synthesizer with USB, Midi and CV/Gate Interface
Musotalk Dark Energy video from the Musikmesse 2009 (German):
http://www.musotalk.de/event-reports/video/article/musikmesse-09-doepfer-dark-energy/
SonicState Dark Energy video from the Musikmesse (English):
http://www.sonicstate.com/news/2009/04/02/messe09-doepfer-dark-energy/
Sonic-State A-100 video  from the Musikmesse (English):
http://www.sonicstate.com/news/2009/04/06/messe09-doepfer-modular-synth-video-action/
Audiofanzine video from the Musikmesse (English):
http://analog-synth-rack-sound-module.doepfer.en.audiofanzine.com/videos/index,id_video,320,idproduit,143645.html
Apart from the Dark Energy we showed in Frankfurt these news:
new A-100
monster case with 2 x 9U

(angled version)
A-138m
4x4 Matrix Mixer
A-183-1
Dual Attenuator
A-183-2
Offset Generator/ Polarizer
A-183-3
Amplfier
A-111-5
complete miniature synthesizer voice with VCO, VCF, VCA, 2xLFO and ADSR
A-187-1
Voltage Controlled
DSP Effects Module
A-190-3
Polyphonic
Midi CV/Gate Interface
A-174-2
Pitch Bend/ Modulation Wheel module
A-177-2
Connection module for foot controller and foot switch
News Musikmesse April 2009 as pdf file: Messe_News_2009_english.pdf

New CD and Interview Parallel Worlds

Even in the latest Parallel Worlds album the A-100 has been used extensively:

Shade is the studio album follow-up to Obsessive Surrealism (DiN26 - 2007) and is the fifth CD release by Parallel Worlds (the main musical project of Greek electronic musician Bakis Sirros).Parallel Worlds employ a vast arsenal of both vintage and modern analogue modular synthesisers with extensive use of classic sequencing techniques to produce a sonic world that combines modern electronica and ambient music styles with the feel of retro electronic music. His attention to detail is astonishing and his careful sculpting of sounds and textures produce an organic, ever evolving atmosphere full of half glimpsed meanings and subdued emotions. The purely electronic rhythms and beats seem to have a life of their own and showcase a musician who is a virtuoso with these types of instruments that are the antithesis of the quick fix pick-a-preset mind set of much of todays society. Musically he likes to explore various states of mind, no doubt influenced by his medical background and this adds a tension and darkness to his compositions that are punctuated by disarmingly simple and wistful melodies.With Shade Parallel Worlds show a musical maturity and command of sonic atmospherics that takes the music on a journey, moving through dreams and shades, aiming for the light.
More info here: www.din.org.uk/news.html

There is a new Parallel Worlds extensive interview on the Analogue Haven website including many studio and analogue modular synth photos: www.analoghaven.com/bakis

New CD 24/7 from Gusgus

Even Gusgus were not lazy. A new album is comin soon "featuring lots of doepfer bass adventures recorded straight from the live set" (cit. Gusgus).

More info here: http://www.icelandmusic.is/news/797/Gusgus---New-Album-Gigs/default.aspx

Pictures from the live session: http://gusti.is/ljosmyndir/syrpur/136/6474/

New CD from Robert Piotrowicz

Robert Piotrowicz considers his synthesizer a most noxious device, fit only for immolation. He isn't a just a wayward noisemonger by definition, nor does he conform to the extreme avant-garde dogmas emblazoned from well-on high (Subotnick, Babbitt, Buchla, Carlos) to those little-known (PBK, Six Or More, etc.). Apparently Piotrowicz's mandate on Lasting Clinamen is to test the very limits of his chosen weapon (in this case, a single Doepfer A100 analog modular), ignoring wholecloth factory presets, passé "space" eruptions, nomadic blipperies, or anything approaching an emergent style-hook less-forgiving shoppers might cling to in desperation. Like Thomas Lehn, Piotrowicz autopsies his instrument to see what he can screw with inside, reorienting your middle ear while he's at it.
The CD is available from: www.musicagenera.net

More links: http://www.squidsear.com/cgi-bin/news/newsView.cgi?newsID=713  
http://www.gaz-eta.vivo.pl/gaz-eta/recenzje/gazeta.php?nr=65&id=s_1
  
http://emd.pl/wiki/Robert_Piotrowicz_%22Lasting_Clinamen%22
  
http://www.gaz-eta.vivo.pl/gaz-eta/recenzje/gazeta.php?nr=43&id=s_29
  http://outerspacegamelan.blogspot.com/2006/11/robert-piotrowicz-rurokura-and-final.html

Only while stocks last: order an A-100 system and get one book free
You can choose from one of the books below if you order an A-100 system
(only while stocks last, minimum order Euro 500)
Florian Anwander:
Synthesizer
(deutsch)
Uwe G. Hoenig
Workshop Synthesizer
(deutsch)
sold out
Reinhard Schmitz
Analoge Klangsynthese
(deutsch)
sold out
Reinhard Schmitz
Analog Synthesis
(englisch)
sold out
Enrico Cosimi
Analog & Virtual Analog
(italienisch)
Video: A-178 Theremin videos by our customer Jamie O'Callaghan:

http://uk.youtube.com/neonwind 
www.youtube.com/v/jsqNvR3jLdY&hl=en&fs=1
 
www.youtube.com/v/A1BsIGzkzzs&hl=en&fs=1
 
www.youtube.com/v/czFto0B8ARs&hl=en&fs=1

Music: Asteroid Killer on myspace with A-100
Asteroid Killer has some pieces of music available on myspace.

http://www.myspace.com/asteroidkiller

 

Video: A-100 in Simian Mobile Disco Goes Gear (on Matrixsynth)

Matrixsynth / A-100 Modular System suitcase used in Simian Mobile Disco Goes Gear: http://matrixsynth. blogspot. com/2007/ 10/simian- mobile-disco- goes-gear.html

Video: A-100 Modular Patchbay System Used By Surachai At Ramp Chicago

Gearwire / Doepfer A-100 Modular Patchbay System Used By Surachai At Ramp Chicago: http://www.gearwire.com/ramp1-surach1.html

Tutorial: MAQ16/3 and Ableton Live

A template by Dimitri Pike for Ableton Live that let users takes control of the MAQ 16/3 via Ableton Live interface. It's free under a commons copyrights license (peoples can share it, use it but are not allowed making money profit out of it and needs to mention who is the creator when using it). It helps a lot to program the MAQ 16/3 from the notebook without having to search in the menu. It is not something intented to replace the fun when using a MAQ 16/3, it is to multiplicate it.

Interview: Online interview with Parallel Worlds in Electronic Musician Magazine
The full interview with Parallel Words on the US Electronic Musician magazine is now online:

http://emusician.com/tutorials/modular_odyssey

 

Video: Improvisation with A-100 suitcase

Random improvisations with an A-100 suitcase by James Bragg: www.myspace. com/vjjamesbragg

Video: A-100 Theremin

A nice video that shows the Japanese singer and thereminist Eri playing the A-100 with the Theremin modules A-178.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=18825798

Tutorial video: A-100 Mini-System Patch/Sound examples
A-100 Minisystem

This video made by Luca Capozzi shows some patches and sound examples of the A-100 Mini System:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViLFGBH7TTk

Tutorial video: Controlling the A-100 with a Wiimote Gamepad

An excellent video by our A-100 user Max that shows how to use a wiimote gamepad to control the A-100:

http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=LHOS2zg- 0nI

J.S. Bach with A-100

Patate le mage plays four pieces extract from 24 preludes and fugues of J.S.Bach. The only sound source is an A-100 system:

http://profile. myspace.com/ index.cfm? fuseaction= user.viewprofile &friendid= 230878540

Video: Midi accordion with built-in Pocket Electronic

This cool video shows the usage of the Pocket Electronic in a midi accordion to control a joystick/wheel, a ribbon controller and additional buttons:

http://www.uwe-steger.de/temporaer/rolandmod/roland_extensions.htm
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8xZ4tmUkDY

Audio: Extrakt by Monoman made with A-100
Question: monoman: 
What's the idea behind "Extrakt"? I just wanted to use a few instruments. Each with it's unique sound.
What sort of instruments did you use then? Well you can hear an Access Virus Classic, an Elektron Monomachine, a Dave Smith Evolver, a Jomox Mbase01 and a Doepfer A-100 system.
That's an interesting mixture of digital and analogue devices! I think it's all about using the right balance of digital and analogue sound sources. For example the bassline of Extrakt is a Doepfer A-100. I used the Quad AD-Generator to modulate different sources. That's the trick behind that groovy bassline.
What are your further plans? I'm just producing a new release in the style of "Extrakt".
For more information: www.myspace.com/monotorium / http://www.tunenami.com/stream/asong/2125.html / http://www.monoman.biz/2007/stats/271007.png
New album by David Westling
David Westling has released a new CD, "Bum Crab Hatband", through the website electro-music.com. "Bum Crab Hatband" mines the territory out near the far end of socially acceptable behavior. Atonal, virtually non-melodic, rhythmically warped, and highly dynamic, it really defies categorization. Realized with a small Doepfer outfit (less than 6U) plus some smatterings of other instrumentation, this music invites the listener to reassess his or her expectations of what constitutes the beautiful via rather surrealistic juxtapositions of sonic strangeness. Through a confrontation with the unfamiliar conjoined with inklings of echoes of the past, delicious dislocations become possible.

http://electro-music.com/catalog/index.php/cPath/6_52 
http://davidwestling.typepad.com/redlegs_masticate

New album by Gusgus 
The Iceland band Gusgus have announced their new album FOREVER for February 23, 2007. We are very proud that they use a lot of their new A-100 system in this album. A lot of the percussion (e.g. bass drum, snare drum) was made with the A-100 and the sampler A-112 is used very often (as sampler or as effect unit with voltage controlled tuning). Gusgus also produced two demos especially for the A-100 system:
http://www.gusgus.com/Doepfer/Gusgus-Forever.mp3

http://www.gusgus.com/Doepfer/Gusgus-HeIsSoHot.mp3
New album by Parallel Worlds (DiN26)
Parallel Worlds is the main project for the Greek musician Bakis Sirros. “Obsessive Surrealism” is his fourth album (release date March 05, 2007) having previously released “Existence” in 2003 on Greek label Rubber Recordings and “Insight” in 2004 and “Far Away Light” in 2005 both on the UK label Shima Records. He has also had tracks included on several compilation releases. Bakis is a great advocate of modular analogue instruments and indeed is the moderator for the Doepfer A100 modular users group. The music of Parallel Worlds is a combination of dreamy, atmospheric textures and pure analogue electronic rhythms and sequences, combining the feel of 70’s electronic music with modern electronica and ambient music. Sirros uses huge analogue modular instruments and analogue step sequencers of the past and present combined with digital FM, virtual analogue synths and sampling. However he manages to elude the fate of many of his contemporaries in not falling into the trap of simply recycling the past. He creates a music that lives and breathes, imbued with his own personality and mannerisms. At one and the same time familiar and fresh. Steady, organic rhythmic structures are overlaid with deceptively simple melodies that remind one of some lost John Carpenter soundtrack.
For Audio Clips and more Info go to the DiN news page: http://www.din.org.uk/news.html
Reports and Videos

NAMM 2008:

Sonic State: http://www.sonicsta te.com/news/ shownews. cfm?newsid= 6048

AnalogSuicide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRE6tNho_ZQ

Trash_Audio: http://trashaudio.blogspot.com

Test Doepfer-System A-100 in Amazona.de
Gearwire / Doepfer A-100 Modular Patchbay: The Land Of Analog Make-Believe http://www.gearwire.com/doepfera100.html
Musikmesse 2007:

Gearwire: http://www.gearwire.com/modular-synths-twiddling-musikmesse.html

NAMM 2006:

Sonic State NAMM video (demonstration of the A-100 BBD module and the touch sensor keyboard): http://www.sonicstate.com/news/shownews.cfm?newsid=2650

Onebluemonkey NAMM video (demonstration of the A-112 in wavetable mode, A-100 BBD module and the touch sensor keyboard): http://www.onebluemonkey.com/WinterNAMM20061.asp?id=472

A-100 Online reviews:
A-100 report in French magazine: Keyboards Recording / KR (France), issue February 2006 (février 2006, #205), pages 40-44
Sound example by Robert Sigmuntowski for the usage of the sequencer A-155 in combination with the sequential switch A-151 to switch the CV rows of the A-155 on-the-fly: A155_A151_demo.mp3

The following modules are running out. Sale while stocks last !


Independent A-100 user's group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/doepfer_a100


Doepfer recommends MIDI-OX  (www.midiox.com)

MIDI-OX is a multi-purpose tool: it is both a diagnostic tool and a System Exclusive librarian. It can perform filtering and mapping of MIDI data streams. It displays incoming MIDI streams, and passes the data to a MIDI output driver or the MIDI Mapper. You can generate MIDI data using the computer keyboard or the built-in control panel. You can even record and log MIDI data and then convert it to a Standard MIDI File for playback by a sequencer. 
MIDI-OX 6.0 now has a COM interface that can be accessed from any language that supports COM, including Visual Basic, C++ and Windows Script Host (WSH).
MIDI-OX is copyrighted freeware.
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