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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 |
Dark
Time Analog Sequencer Release date: ~ summer 2010 |
A-100TKB New version of the Touch Sensor Keyboard Release date: ~ summer/fall 2010 |
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Thank's a lot to Alexander & Sascha Knorr from askdesign to make available this application
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Review from Sound On Sound Magazine January 2010 
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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. |
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A modular version of the Dark Energy A-111-5 is also available. |
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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. clips from the album here: www.myspace.com/interconnectedmusicof 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. |
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announcement
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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 |
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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." |
Two Dark Energy, one A-100
Minicase, a lot of fun:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fabioperletta/sets/72157622953022656/
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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. |
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A-138m 4x4 Matrix Mixer |
A-183-1 Dual Attenuator |
A-183-2 Offset Generator / Polarizer |
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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
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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 |
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Overview of Modular
Synths as of spring 2009 in the April 2009 issue of Sound
on Sound
Editor's choice: A-100 |
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Gusgus with A-100
suitcase live on stage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP182QHN2sM&feature=related |
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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 |
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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:
Please report possible faults or suggestions for improvement directly to the author: info@stefanbreitenfeld.com. |
| Monophonic Analog Synthesizer with USB, Midi and CV/Gate Interface | |
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Musotalk
Dark Energy video from the Musikmesse 2009 (German): http://www.musotalk.de/event-reports/video/article/musikmesse-09-doepfer-dark-energy/ |
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Dark Energy video from the Musikmesse (English): http://www.sonicstate.com/news/2009/04/02/messe09-doepfer-dark-energy/ |
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A-100 video from the Musikmesse (English): http://www.sonicstate.com/news/2009/04/06/messe09-doepfer-modular-synth-video-action/ |
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A-138m 4x4 Matrix Mixer |
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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 |
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New CD and Interview Parallel Worlds
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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. |
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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
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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
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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
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links: http://www.squidsear.com/cgi-bin/news/newsView.cgi?newsID=713 |
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Florian Anwander: Synthesizer (deutsch) |
Workshop Synthesizer (deutsch) |
Analoge Klangsynthese (deutsch) |
Analog Synthesis (englisch) |
Enrico
Cosimi Analog & Virtual Analog (italienisch) |
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
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Asteroid
Killer has some pieces of music available on myspace.
http://www.myspace.com/asteroidkiller
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Matrixsynth / A-100
Modular System suitcase used in Simian Mobile Disco Goes Gear: http://matrixsynth.
Gearwire / Doepfer A-100 Modular Patchbay System Used By Surachai At Ramp Chicago: http://www.gearwire.com/ramp1-surach1.html
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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. |
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The full interview
with Parallel Words on the US Electronic Musician magazine is
now online:
http://emusician.com/tutorials/modular_odyssey
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Random improvisations with an
A-100 suitcase by James Bragg: www.myspace. |
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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 |
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This video made by Luca Capozzi shows some patches and sound examples of the A-100 Mini System: |
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An excellent video by our A-100 user Max that shows how to use a wiimote gamepad to control the A-100: |
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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. |
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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 |
| 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 | |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
