Comments for Deviant Synth

Comment on a few assorted obscurities by Cosmo

Cosmo — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:49:57 +0000

Hello, thanks for this great site !

You may be interested by the work of Peter Keen :

http://www.peter-keene.fr/Synthesizers.html

Comment on The “Synthelog” and Godfried-Willem Raes by BirdFLU

BirdFLU — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:06:36 +0000

So, potentially, the knobs and switches on this box could be covered in evaporated ball sweat? I wonder if that effects the sound.

Comment on cheap metasonix knock offs on black market by Atomic Shadow

Atomic Shadow — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:25:05 +0000

It looks perverted. I want it…

Comment on JAZARI…..a little something Matrix didn’t catch by matrix

matrix — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:36:58 +0000

Here you go: http://twitter.com/matrixsynth/status/9439237276

Comment on JAZARI…..a little something Matrix didn’t catch by matrix

matrix — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:35:26 +0000

I skipped it actually. No synth in it.

Comment on The Electronic Peasant strikes again…..with a banjo synthesizer by CBR

CBR — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:14:28 +0000

Yes post a video. I would like to see it in action.

Comment on At last! A really small MIDI-CV interface! by Roman

Roman — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:30:05 +0000

There is newer version for some time now, a bit smaller. And it’s not 80EUR at all.

Comment on Someone made a documentary about Schneiders Buero. by Tobias

Tobias — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:32:15 +0000

Wow… That’s an old entry.

Anyway – since I don’t see any other way of contacting you guys:

The film “TOTALLY WIRED” has just been released as Video-on-Demand on http://www.realeyz.tv

For the release we also had the chance to do some exclusive interviews with the director, Niamh Guckian Ahern, and also with Andreas Schneider, the founder of SchneidersBuero himself.

Here’s the link to the complete interviews on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/realeyztv#p/c/BDF8E888A53585DC

And here’s the film itself on http://www.realeyz.tv

http://www.realeyz.tv/en/niamh-guckian-ahern-totally-wired_cont1319.html

Have fun!

Tobias

Comment on Some of the crazy at gieskes.nl: by Matt

Matt — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 03:17:09 +0000

dude, gieskes is hardcore into chiptune, its all over his page, wtf. Whats with the chiptune hate anyway? Its far from mainstream I would say. Otherwise this is a pretty cool synth blog thing.

Comment on A cornucopia of crazy for the holidays by Lorin Edwin Parker

Lorin Edwin Parker — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:30:16 +0000

Regarding the 5734 — the tangential history is pretty interesting, and leads all the way back to the Deforest Audion.

DeForest realized that his gaslights flickered to the tap of his telegraph. He later realized, that this was not the result of radio wave energies, but acoustical energy… These experiments led to him encapsulating a flame (later a burning cathode) in a bulb and manipulating it with a vibrating Grid.

Then there was the Kathodophone, a microphone of sorts that was essentially a triode — opened up to the air on one side. Vibrations hitting the grid, coupled to the device by a small horn would change the flow of electrons and ions in gas (air).

And yes, the REVERSE is doable too. The plate structure of a triode can be coupled to a horn and make a speaker. Electrical energy into vibration = speaker.

I’ve been meaning to use the 5734 for a while. However, it’s of note that it was most used for seismic instruments and other scientific uses. It is rather easy to damage the diaphragm that seals the probe from the plate by rotating it more than 0.5 degrees! Careful there…

Lorin