Month: April 2012

Synthesizer day now

This Wednesday in London we will celebrate our first synthesizer day at Rough Trade East.
Starting at 2pm there will be workshops on modular systems with Andreas Schneider, Holger Zapf will be introducing the Folkstrautonium by Trautoniks over a Vermona ReTubeverb,  Steve Jones will be playing beats on a brandnew VXXY by cronic, Adam Lacey will perform the Alphasphere, Martin Klang brings his blipbox 4CV and Franz from Berlin will be playing the Testsalon.

wolfgang_seidelLater on there will be Wolfgang Seidel – founding member of Ton Steine Scherben – playing a Kassetten Konzert to finish the day with a good performance for all of us.  I am looking forward meeting you there hoping for a good athmosphere and a nice ambient, with warm regards from somewhere on the Autobahn (!).

If you dont know about our London showroom yet, look this little film to understand – wednesday will be different again.

Vintage MICs leihen ..

Neuer Verleih für Audio Recording Equipment
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Vintage Mics leihen ist jetzt möglich… check this out Folks!!!  In Berlin hat der Echoschall Verleih eröffnet, der sich insbesondere auf exklusive Vintage Recording Technik spezialisiert hat. Die Mikrofonauswahl reicht von legendären Röhrenmikrofonen wie Neumann U47, M49 oder U67 über seltene Bändchen von Beyerdynamic, Melodium und Siemens bis hin zu bewährten dynamischen Klassikern von Electro-Voice, Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic und Shure. Zu den Mikros gibt es umfangreiches Zubehör (Stative, Pop-Filter, Spinnen etc.), das zumeist kostenlos dazu geliehen werden kann.
Die MicPreamps sind Vintage-Modelle von Siemens, Telefunken und Neumann in professionell konfigurierten 19“-Racks. Das Equipment kann am Verleihstandort in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg abgeholt werden. Weitere Informationen unter

http://www.echoschall.de/

Eagan Matrix on Haken

continuumsideangThe Haken Continuum Fingerboard has a new firmware now as version 5.1. It includes the  programmable synthesizer in the Continuum Fingerboard, the EaganMatrix.
Edmund Eagan is a good friend of Dr. Lippold Haken and they both was our guests on the last Superbooth during Musikmesse 2011 introducing europe to the possibilities of the Haken continuum in general. Probably they was inspired by all those modular geeks running around there.  Have a look yourselves now, on their site you can find this PDF explaining more.

Synthesizer Day:

martin_komaLondon is in a little change towards that synthesizer day next week inside Rough Trade East on May 2nd. These to stompboxes (see pic) by Koma electronics from Holland are available from stock inside the recordshop. Connect your own sound from an iphone or whatever you want to play on them and have a good time.  On Wednesday next week we will be there helping you to understand all the other knobs and buttons too, you will be welcome to our testsalon and much more.

Top secret..

And again we have brand new Pre serial modules to be tested now in some of our creative demo systems in the berlin showroom only. Or can’t be shown cause its really secret . So please feel free to step in once you are around and have a good time. It seems the summer starts to be nice now.

Scottish Repairs

Our dear friend Ken Macbeth did let us know today that remaining repair issues could have been cleared and returned to us now.

Rock n Rolli Party

Hallo Freunde,

rockin-rolli1im Kater Holzig findet diese Woche Samstag den 21.04.2012 eine Party fuer Leute mit und ohne Handicap statt – Die Rockin Rolli Party fuer Leute mit und ohne Handicap.
Wie wir finden eine unterstützungswürdige Sache – welche umso mehr Sinn macht wenn sich das Publikum wild durcheinandermischt – und es wurscht ist wer mit wem – handicap oder keins – hauptsache ein bisschen gemeinsames Glück
Schon um 18 Uhr gehts  los,  bis offiziell um 23 Uhr, danach kann und soll im Kater natürlich weitergefeiert werden, die die da sind, sind dann umsonst drin.

Der Eintritt ist nur von 18 bis 23 Uhr frei – Bands und Dj s und Drinks gibts natürlich auch – es kann eine spannende Sache für alle werden – … also mal was frueher vor die Tür gehn. Siehe auch www.katerholzig.de oder  www.grosserwagen.com.

Trouby modular..

trouby_modular.. is a one man show brand from somewhere around berlin making 5rackspace modulars. Now he brought in one of his prototype cabinets including funny sequencer modules and a vermona/formant filter module that he would like to get rid of. The whole cabinet as you can see by clicking the pic will be selling for lower 900 EUR if you come in to pick it up. The deal will be made with mister trouby himself then. Ask me if you were interested or just step in to schneidersladen.

a smaller better mac!

micromac_prototypeNow Ken macbeth starts to built up his desktopsynth micromac as show on Namm. It will be available as micromac desktop synth including a Kenton Midiinterface and as a micromac eurorack module. After the quite small unit will be a real analogue soundburner comparable with a (real) minimoog probably, I would like to recommend the desktop version even if its again some money more.
Shipping dates are still unclear – even if people on the web could have let you know something else. As usual we collect your preorders and get back to you for payments not before we are sure to get the units in soon.

Moonwind, Magma?

There is a new range of names for new products of well known manufacturers as it seems:  Moonwind by JoMoXjmxmw_full seems to be a very smart sound performer and the Magma by Eowave is a complex synth/sequencer tool to have good melody fun with an analogue synth. Both are available from stock now!

and finally the Boomstar by Studio electronics could become a smart desktop synth, too.

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