Author: Herr Schneider

Cwejman workshop!

On May 13th we will have Wowa Cwejman in the house giving an overview on his latest module releases. Still and again one of the most prominent modular manufacturers in the popular eurorack system will explain his ideas of BLD, MMF-6, random and transients. Admission in time is strongly recommended. Follow the link from EVENTs, please.

Competent Resellers..

.. such as  good shops for musical instruments and/or creative electronic tools from all over Europe can now ask for our latest pricelist to become a partner of the family. If you think it would make sense to see our products in certain places, you can also give us a hint per email.

Neue Zwerge by MFB

mfb_urzwergThe Urzwerg by MFB is his latest release and a four track cv/gate sequencer following midi clock, transpose commands and more in another of his handy desktop casings. The very first demo unit can now be tested in schneidersladen, serial models to be shipped will be ready very soon.

modular sensorics..

Modules to touch, press or push are en vogue now:  The Synthwerks modul to push the button called MG-1 as well as the Quad Force Sensing Resistor Module FSR-4 has been recalculated now. The FSR-4 is selling for 249 retail only – we made a limited introduction price of 229 only for direct sales nowsynthwerks. It is simple and fun.

303 clones ..

.. has been seen a lot in between. Compared to the original those XOX ones from different manufacturers are a good compensation if you could not get your hands on an original. In Frankfurt we met again Alex from XOXsource who is the american manufacturer of such, he gave an interview with our friends at sonic state that you can see here. Apart from them there are also comparable european comanies making some for direct sales only – sorry.

Sevenwoods audio

The modular reverberation by sevenwoods audio – already shown in frankfurt 2009 as a prototype – is still on its way to get completed. Now the inventor gave us a status in between saying that the follow up model of the popular Ursa Major SST-206 not soo easy to get it in the right form. There is hope for a final version in the second half of 2010, we will keep you posted here.

HAKEN Continuum ..

The awaited Version 4 firmware for the Haken continuum controller is now available from the manufacuturers site as a download. It includes expanded internal sounds, many improvements to the Continuum Editor Mac/PC application, and a new capability to define formulas for each of the Continuum Voltage Converter’s outputs.

Macbeth again!

After a few months of more important private issues Ken Macbeth now sent again some dual oscillators and the first bunch of the brilliant backendfilters that has been announced in his workshop november 2009 to come next week. So if you ordered already, thank you for your patience, if you did not you better do it now.

Metasonix coming!

Metasonix has now sent a first bunch of the R54 supermodulemt_r54, what is in fact  a modular tube oscillator making his little series of modular components for the eurorack nearly complete (for now!). The oscillator is not yet uploaded to our webshop but you can send formless mail-orders if you want one.

The Tame Machine..

The Tame Machine by Flame has been brought in and mounted up to one of our demoracks yesterday by the inventor himself. While explaining it to us he let us know, that in earliest one week – meaning towards the end of the month – we will have first serial models that can be used to fulfil your orders. It has been much fun playing around on harmonies with this compact unit .. please see the first few pictures on Navs modular lab here and .. read more about the product very soon here .. and order your one right now here, please!

SYNTHWERKS

synthwerks

From another american manufacturer called Synthwerks now the first two modules arrived our stock. Their FSR-4 is a four way touch controller giving out a gate and a scalable CV from each pad. The MG-1 is a big pushbutton for multilple use combinded with a multiple.

HerrSchneider im Chaosradio

Dem Chaosradio alle Ehre gemacht habe ich mit einem Podcast über Synthesizer, der da für Einsteiger sein sollte. Ich musste heute selber staunen wie lange ich da erzählt habe und gebe hiermit gerne zu, daß es etwas bündiger hätte sein können, Manchmal habe ich doch etas viel im die Ohren. Es war ein netter Plausch und wie ich Kommentaren entnehmen konnte, erhellt es doch auch des ein oder anderen Gemüt. Hier der LINK !

DIY a DINGDONG

Dingdong DIY Workshop MY very first selfmade video is showing some impressions now from our very last workshop: roundabout 20 friends at once have been soldering themselves a DINGDONG do it yourself synthesizer initiated by LEAF Audio and Curetronic in our office at Berlins Kottbusser Tor. It was a nice evening.

In February 2010 there was a workshop with around 20 participators that soldered themselves a kit called DINGDONG initiated by LEAF AUDIO. This video is a short documentary about the athmosphere this evening and their results in SchneidersBuero above Berlins Kottbusser Tor.

the Doepfer-Workshop..

.. this Thursday is now fully booked. If you send a mail to participate, you will get a confirmation today. And if you did not book it already, you can still send a mail for the waiting list that will be cleared on Wednesday then .. or so (?!). It will be funny.

UK yes..

Yesterday In London, UK I met a musician called Martin Richardson who is on the step opening up a real store for modular gear and analogue stuff within this year. We had a nice conversation and agreed to cooperate further.  We will need another few months to get it done having it easy for the clients and assorted with all the manufacturers but we will let you know about it. Until then Martin planned to give you updates on what will come on his webpage called Vortalsystems.co.uk soon.

Leploop available

beta1For one or two weeks already we have two out of those nice little Leploops by their italian inventor Antonio in stock. These units are not to be sold for 375 EUR only as it was posted on matrixsynth once, we paid more per unit ourselves – no shipment to germany nor VAT included (!). They are made even better now than ten pre serial models as reviewed in germanys magazine de_bug >(#138) but the new ones will sell for 599 EUR now, whats still calculated very friendly. If youre interested, please check out one of them in our showroom yourselves or just send us a formless mail, the item is not online yet, we work on it, thank you for some patience.

More Cwejman modules..

Cwejman will be sending backorders this week, so we will at least fulfil your existing orders of ADSR-VC2, D-LFOs, RES4 and MX4S. In addition there will be some VCO6 available again soon, too. After having done this Cwejman will make more of the new ones again – BLD, MMF6, RG6 and CTG-VC – hopefully coming in a few weeks or a month. Thank you for your patience if you had to wait.

SEM with Midi ..

The SEM by Tom Oberheim could be realized with the Midi connection soon. The hardware is in production already, some software issues could make us wait another two months or so, but looking forward to a brilliant and nice little tool to come we ARE happy!

Oberheim SEM..

Some more of the SEM units originally built by Tom Oberheim will be coming in this week. We can fulfil most of the reservations, but were sorry that its not enough already to have some available from stock. If you want one, please make a preorder and we will get back to you as soon as they will be coming in again, thank you.

MOTM shipping ..

.. on monday finally! Were looking forward to get those good new modules in!

Manufacturers pos(T)ing!

After uncounted inquiries for ‘available’ products we would like to let you know, that mostly units are not in our stock nor available before WE know of it. Usually we recognize incoming goods quite well and inform our clients as soon as we can, sometimes you are indeed faster than we are, sorry, but .. :  (Sometimes..) ..nervous manufacturers and busy collueges from all over the world like to state an item as available in that Moment where there is the plan to send it now. So please – dear Manufacturer – feel free to let us know about it in time, that we can update our files to just have some clicks left when the package arrives. And please – dear customer – trust in us as we trust in the manufacturers telling us that e.g. none of the sequencer EUROPA has been shipped nowhere so far, that there has been NO MOTM modules shipped to us already and that the Updates of TheHarvestman are not always possible nor easy nor fixing all kind of problems – sorry.
b.t.w… Hunde die gerade bellen, beissen ja nicht und ich glaube, auch Hersteller die gerade zwitschern, verpacken nicht (?).

NO, MOTM..

.. did not ship already! Synthesis Technologies a.k.a. MOTM will send the first batch of their modules Cloudgenerator and Morphing Terrarium not before this monday.  This is totally fine and makes us happy after at least one whole month with uncounted mails to clear up that we really do not have them already..

SnazzyFX

.. A new line of stompboxes for desktop use called SnazzyFX will be in our program as soon as they will be available. This could last til april 2010 as the inventor just let us know. We will keep you posted.

TiptopZ ModuleZ

The Z8000 matrix sequencer and the Z-DSP signal processor by Tiptopaudio became very prominent since their presentation on NAMM.  Finally now they ship the first batch of these, both models are nearly sold out already so please hurry up if you did not make your reservation already. More of these and also their well known Z3000 Oscillator will probably come later on this month, we hope.

EUROPA..

dsc_01411.. there will be a new 808style stepsequencer called EUROPA by Analogue Solutions. He introduced the prototype to  us with hand written descriptions on the front panel, what we liked a lot on NAMM, now there is a first impression on his homepage, looks good too! We will go for it, you can preorder formless only – so far.

Bananalogue ..

.. was offering their eurorack version of aSerge VCS as quite a prominent module once. Now the Bananalogue VCS was topped in sales by a ‘dual version and more‘ called MATHS by makenoise . Also the VCS was unfortunately just never available. Anyway – now we heard that the inventor called seth nemec is planning to go further very soon working on new comparable products that we would like to offer, so stay tuned!

About Totally Wired..

A new media distribution/film-marketing site on the web called realeyz.tv now released their interviews about the documentary ‘totally wired’ with the filmmaker Niamh Guckian and me (Andreas Schneider). You can select and see all parts here.

NIIO Analog..

.. has been introducing his Iotine Core on NAMM.  The inventor Don Humedsc_0097 was a kind guy joining all parties together with most of the modular guys, we had a nice time.

JoMoX M_brane..

dsc_0100As an addition to their MBase11 and the prominent T-Resonator JoMoX now released  a new percussion module inthe same size called M_brane 1_1.  We ordered already looking forward to a soon first shipment.

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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.

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