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The Machine Zeta spinoff - some old style coldwave industrial: Gilgulim by soulofthemachine

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Many, many "music apps" seem to be coming out by the minute. Some that have stood out to me, in addition to the aforementioned Moog app - REACTABLE Hex OSC GRIID These things make me want to be a developer.

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MOOG MUSIC To every synthophile, the name Moog strikes equal parts reverence and lust. The last 3 new products have left me in no less ecstatic state. The Voyager XL is everything that no other manufacturer would have the audacity to create. The Filtatron is that piece's polar opposite, putting the concepts of analog in your hands for just a few dollars. I've been toying with it on my

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Soul of the Android, originally uploaded by soulofthemachine.Customized Soul of the Machine website inspired Android skin - using LauncherPro, tajm and BattStatt.

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PG200 edit map (single preset), originally uploaded by soulofthemachine.Since the Roland GR-700 and MKS-30 don't have the ability to sysex out your presets and back them up, I am doing it the old fashioned way with this. Thought others might enjoy having the option as well. Just print them off and copy to your heart's content. I think having something like this also makes it easier to translate

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LET THERE BE DIGITAL, originally uploaded by soulofthemachine.And it was good

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So here's how it needs to go down: This is the "Lost Horizon Night Market." Awesome idea. Just make it this but in shipping containers instead of trucks, and make it a huge LAN party with an open wifi network for gaming/sharing/being awesome, and have bands play. ALL THE BANDS SHARE THEIR MUSIC, SELL THEIR MERCH. MUSIC SAVED. END OF STORY. Via Wired

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So here is an excerpt from a private correspondence I had reconnecting with someone from years ago. It got me talking about vintage gear, and my appreciation for it and I think I came kinda sorta into maybe the vicinity of articulating whatever "it" is about this stuff that gets to me: "...Through it all I got really MIDI and rack gear obsessed, and have been working on getting some vintage

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machinegamma - Movement 3 by soulofthemachine

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Some really nice ideas going on here. Touch interface is certainly exploding as an expressive way to get involved with tech. I would love to see things like this but essentially merged with the iphone/android app concept, so that the screen could take on all sorts of aesthetics and tasks. I can't believe that for so long, coming from a guitar player background I just had no concept of MIDI at

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The SynthAxe via Engadget circa 2005 All things guitar synth are at the forefront of my mind these days, but this one assisted me in seeing that there comes a point where you either need to play a guitar or play a synth. I think I can say that the SynthAxe was just too much, too ridiculous and too unnecessary. I came across this old article that pretty much said it all. My favorite line, if I

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machineomega - destination:source  by  soulofthemachine

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Upon tracking down this piece of legend, proceeding to turn down the lights toward a cosmic universal consciousness, relic of aging cyberpunk defiance, recycling obsolescence, resurrecting the Lazarus corpse of past consumerism's fickle attention to vision, invocation of Rickenharp defying the Jaegernaut's primal grinding ignorance like a silver bullet, retro-future-fitted.

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Came across this via Synthtopia - I love the design decision to put the buttons where you could get to them with a thumb or spare finger. As awesome as the vintage stuff is, everything is out of reach. Check out the product page if you are nostalgic for keytars like me - ROLAND AX-09 One other note, I think they are underestimating this with the ridiculous emphasis on the "kids" market.

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We have this running joke about Dave's Roland Juno and the near-uselessness of the manual. When we first were trying to put a live show together, it was amazing how difficult so many things were to try and create the performances and maps, etc. Having (finally) tracked down a G-707 and GR-700, I now see that this is a corporate heritage, passed down from generations of inexplicable english. In a

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Posted video on our youtube page with several old video clips from this New Year's show we did.

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Machinegamma - movement 2 by soulofthemachine

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This is a link to YVTV, some friends of ours in the Columbus area who have supported us even through our long hiatus and in spite of us being almost impossible to work with/get ahold of/be in the same place at once. Big ups to Aaron and Ian. Check them out. They have a really interesting blend of electronics into a very organic style of writing and performing. A lot of diverse elements

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There's nothing I don't absolutely love about this video -

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Machineomega - zero zero zero by soulofthemachine

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dave studio 021110 Originally uploaded by soulofthemachineCarving out time thanks to bad weather to further the album.

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the gamma experiment begins, with electronic and acoustic instruments exploring ambient soundscapes both tonal and atmospheric noise

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For reasons obtuse, I am on the lookout for the following: 1 - Yamaha SHS-200 2 - Roland G-707 and GR-700 floor unit *EDIT - FOUND - * 3 - A reel to reel tape player/recorder 4 - Laserdisc player

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Juggernaut (preview)  by  soulofthemachine

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machineomega - packet loss  by  soulofthemachine

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machinealpha - Frozen  by  soulofthemachine

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Teenage Engineering - OP-1 @ NAMM 2010 from Neil Bufkin on Vimeo. The video basically speaks for itself here. Very small, very portable and very interesting. I've been contemplating putting together a live show of small portable electronics. As much as I adore my hulking masses of gear (and the bigger it gets the more I love it), I also realized that the portability has decreased exponentially

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Machineomega 003  by  soulofthemachine

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Recording session Originally uploaded by soulofthemachineWe had a marathon session this past weekend attempting to make as much progress as possible on the new album. Having completely changed the way we work has stretched what we can accomplish a lot further. As mentioned on many occasions, SOTM started off very casually and was the rise fall repeat material was recorded haphazardly. The new

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maxforlive: monome integration from stretta on Vimeo. Genius stuff here. Very powerful and easy to use grid design. I'd love to see this guy integrate a monome and Lemur together. On the other side of his studio is a pretty excellent modular as well.

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Dronestation Originally uploaded by soulofthemachineThe dev got it up and running for the 1st gen ipod. I'm really impressed by the simple interface and the sound quality this thing can generate. Excellent app, going to be integrated immediately.

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I wish, wish, wish, upon an Apple, that this could somehow, someway, someday work on the 1st gen ipod touch.

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Looks awesome - cheap subtractive synthesis. Too bad for those of us with a 1st gen ipod touch though - itunes will not allow it to install (not sure what it will do if you have jailbroken yours though). The dev said he didn't specify this, so thanks to Apple for more of their infamous, inscrutable app store tomfoolery.

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2009-11-24 15.50.28_edit0.jpg Originally uploaded by soulofthemachineHere's a very promising little interface in the form of the TouchOSC app on iphone/ipod touch. It's not exactly plug and play for pc anyway and took a bit of downloading and tinkering, but in the end assigning midi cc with Live was easy and very, very cool. With the Emagic AMT8 I recently got I can also patch messages out to

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The first of what may become several spin off projects, exploring other outlets for our sprawling sci-fi mythology - This is "Machine Omega" - the track is based loosely on the song "X Dream" from "Rise. Fall. Repeat" and is titled "When I Sleep." **edit - going to do this type of material under a different name, "machine omega" is going to be more industrial/noise/power electronics

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Here is a chip remix of Voice of God.

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Here is the first of what I hope to be many various recording to post. Due to Soul of the Machine's sporadic nature, I think it's time I dedicate this space to posting up things that range from directly related to loosely, tangentially or completely unrelated. First up, in the completely unrelated category, an ambient drone noise piece.

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We're working at a snail's pace due to conflicting schedules right now, but the stuff we have brewing will be worth the wait. Pretty far removed from depending just on Project 5 for all the audio.

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We'll be with YVTV and others at Victorians Midnight Cafe on Monday night. 215 W 5th AveColumbus OHDoors at 7, show starts at 8. Probably a good chance we'll go first.

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We are busy recording our follow-up to the rise.fall.repeat. album currently, and we took a moment to gawk at the ridiculous amounts of gear we have amassed since that first album (which consisted of only Project 5 pre-packaged sounds and some jury-rigged vocal arrangements). more to come, -Nick

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