Month: July 2009

Quantizer ..

.. modules and 12tone scales seems to be en vogue again: There is one manufacturer thinking about his release of a better quantizer/arpeggiator that will probably happen within this year. If you are interested to start with existing possibilities, please check Doepfers A-156, reviewed now by our friend Nav on his forum clic here!

lost and found

A couple of days ago , i found some older Freaks@home articles in the “Sound & Recording” Magazine, & yes i think they are worth reading First was about Arthur Schneller (S&R 11/07) an old friend of the Schneider familiy & owner of an exclusive restaurant in berlin (Ottenthal) and an even more exclusiv Doepfer Modular system with more than 20 VCO’S and and and ,furthermore he is interested in barok music & musicians (arthur called them punks for that time of history) and how to get that on a musically way played & transfered on his modular system – well great idea.

The second article is about Sunny Vollherbst (S&R 01/09 ,so not that old) or may better known under his Project Names “Q”,”Q2″,”Q3″ & the 6 manband  “Glacier”. He works mainly as FOH technican for Serveral Indie Clubs in Hamburg and bands like Tocotronic etc. His Studio called “The SYNTHESIZER STUDIO HAMBURG” is an analogue Snthesizer recording studio with 38 analog Synthesizers and 18 vintage DRUM MACHINES. It blows the mind of every analogue freak and the best thing is, it can be booked for other productions as well, .. for further news about him and his projects look on myspace.com for qelectro, synthesizerpark, glaciermusic.

One of the biggest Articels about Modular Systems , history , brands and manufactures and their most famous products which includes very nice module pics has been released in the “Sound on Sound” Magazine from April 2009 – – this is really fantastic & definitly worth to have a look for to read.

There is another none unspectacular german article called “kabelsalat” written februar 2008 in the german magazine “Keys” introducing doepfer ,mfb ,synthetic Music Systems, Livewire & Cwejman modules – really good especially for newcomer who wants to get a bit deeper information of the Patchworld.

FILM ZUM KRAFTWERK

A british documentary about the german band Kraftwerk has been recommended to me. It is not just about the music and the band, but its telling more about the situation where such music has been coming from. In the teaser to see by clic here I met several good clients and interesting people talking serious about the music we all still work on.

Shipping to the USA

From now on we ship to Canada and USA for much better conditions with FedEx.  So you can have DHL- comparable prices for a much better service now and it could make sense to order this and that also directly from us. We will update our online shop with these pricings very soon, until then please ask per mail for updates. Thank you.

ANALOGUE SOLUTIONS ..

..modules of any kind are on their way to us right now.  Semblance Synthesizers as weil as the new Telemark re taking another two weeks to be made so shippings from us to you or your reseller will be made immediately after getting them in first week august latest.

Tomorrow Luxembourg

During the festival 24heures electronique I (HerrSchneider) will be explaining the ideas of modular synthesis to who it may concern. Looking forward meeting interesting people I strongly recommend you to get there if you are around.

Later this year we will go ahead with such events in Berlin and elsewhere, please stay tuned on Stromkult for further infos, thank you.

NO MORE ROZZBOXN

The Rozzbox ZWO -a real Version2- will not be realized after so many interest for the little ODDULATOR.  The Manufacturer Kilian Leonhard is totally busy with another redesign of the monophonic little beast, that he finally quit from going ahead with its bigger brother. So probably the prices for the famous – and now limited – Rozzbox ONE V2 will increase?

WAVESHAPING:

After first Doepfer units such as the A-137-1 and A-137-2 several american manufacturers released their own ideas of that theme: Still we have one very last unit of the prominent bananalogue WVX waiting for a client and then we will be waiting: The very next step will be a triple Wavefolder by Toppobrillo, if you want to know it first, please follow this link!

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STROMKULT is our platform for updates and news on SCHNEIDERSLADEN and SUPERBOOTH, selected electronic musical instruments and events related to modular synthesizers, sequencers, competent drum machines, analog modular systems, midi tools, controllers, converters and related products of all kinds. You can find all kinds of events related to these topic in our EVENT CALENDAR. Also on this site you will find lots of videos from SUPERBOOTH – the world’s largest trade fair for electronic musical instruments, news about events and workshops at SCHNEIDERSLADEN.

Herr Schneider started in 1999 with SCHNEIDERSBUERO as a sales and marketing platform for the smallest manufacturers and inventors of electronic musical instruments. Products were shown online, in our showrooms and at the original SUPERBOOTH – workshops and countless reviews have been featured in magazines all over Europe.

These very special instruments and tools are now often available from specialist dealers all over Europe and can be purchased directly from our webshop SCHNEIDERSLADEN worldwide.