Mr.Braska visited Jean-Bernard Emond who has a VERY unique collection of vintage digital synths
Here, Mr.Braska climbs the IRCAM 4x
Climbing on some Fairlight CMI cards
Again, on a CMI card
Here, Mr.Braska helps JB make his interface to ExtOdy
Entangled in the CMI outputs
How to make a chair for a frog, or how to connect a Synclavier to firewire
On the synclavier envelope generator buttons (LOTS of buttons)
A prophet and a CMI keyboard.
A little reading after all the excitement
Surpriiiiise!
Mr. Braska just found the monolith!
Jogging on the Foundation 2000!
“Got-to-pull-this-pen-out”
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Mr. Braska had some pleasant nights at MIDIbox HQ. He doesn’t know why he dreamed about a lot of blinking lights so often.
Morning gymnastics: TK created a special fitness program for the frog, the motorfaders are moved with the beat (Mr. Braska prefered 0.5 BPM)
Most of the time he played with the hardware, such as MIDIbox SEQ V4:
MIDIbox SEQ V3, BLM4×16, MIDIbox FM:
MIDIbox SEQ V1, 4 CEM3378 filters + MBHP_AOUT module built into a Behringer Mixer, the MIDI router, and a Waldorf MicroQ (the only non-MIDIbox synth in TKs studio)
He also got the opportunity to beta-test some new stuff, such as a graphical touchpanel display for the SID synth:
He saw the very first MBHP_CORE_STM32 prototype:
And a lot of ready made MBHP_CORE_STM32 boards which will be the brain of future MIDIboxes:
A last view into TK’s studio before Mr. Braska continues his travel.
From the happy guys at the midibox.org forum !
Mr. Braska reached MIDIbox HQ in Munich and was welcomed by Thorsten aka. TK with a traditional wheat beer and a nice midibox.org sticker as a present.
The little frog was very excited to sit on the famous original MIDIbox SID prototype that he only knew from pictures before:
He quickly jumped to one of his most favorite knobs and started to tweak on a lovely bassline. He was completely stunned from the unique SID sounds:
And he couldn’t resist to program a suitable drum sequence:
Of course, he also wanted to get his hands on the brilliant MB-6582 design which TK got as a present from Wilba:
And the MB-808 that evolved from a joint work with Moogah:
It was late in the evening, and Mr. Braska swinged into a sweet slumber, curious about the other projects that he will explore in the next days.
The last few days, I’m in the process of the development of a blog tool.
InLinkz is a linky tool that supports thumbnails. You add your blog to a form, pick a picture from your blog’s pics and voila! you have some lure for people to visit your site!
It is mainly used for challenges (e.g. make a card and link it here, read a book and link it here) but we can use it to link us up with each other’s blogs.
So, please insert your blog here! After all this is what Mr.Braska wants us to do! Meet each other!!!
To see how to enter a link, press the question mark icon beside the “Add your link” button
PS. if you are reading the rss, you will have to come to the main post to see the linky tool!
Mr. Braska continues his tour at synth-nl’s studio! Me and Mr. Braska have the same colour! I am green with envy!
Feast your eyes upon the following photo stream!
Mr Braska, worked, supervising the module assembly
Then for a test he sat on it!
Small, in comparison!
Entangled, the sleeping beauty awaited for a beautiful princess to kiss him!! YEAH RIGHT!
So he woke alone!
And sat in the shadow of the Elektor Formant!
He cycled through the MFOS sequencer!
And looked upon the Paia.
He became a little Moogerfoolish!
But then…..
he found his place!!!!
And still, Michel from synthnl has MORE GEAR!!!
and appart from his blog he has a main site too
Here is part two of the studio tour Michel is giving for Mr. Braska. Here you can see him studying the Bridechamber multiple panel Michel built last week.
And here is mr. Braska presenting the Yusynth Steiner VCF module Michel build. He seemed to like especially this one a lot.
In fact he liked it so much that he wanted to sit on top of it 
“Ah well who am I to say no to that.” was Michel’s reaction. Yet another host of Mr. Braska, lucky enough to have frog’s butt hair on his modules!!
And here is mr. Braska in front of the four Yusynth filter modules. Michel will let Mr. Braska unveil a little bit more of his modular setup next time.
Here is mr. Braska approving the drum module Michel built from the Thomas Henry Electronics Drums Cookbook on Breadboard.
Then he was shown the insides of the AVRSynth 32 from Elby Designs that Michel built together with his daughter. Mr. Braska was holding some wires for Michele here while Michel run some more tests on it.
Then they played some music on the AVRSynth 32. As you can see mr. Braska was clearly enjoying it and relaxing by it.
After that they played around with the Velleman PC oscilloscope and Function Generator that Michel recently built. Mr. Braska liked this very much.
After this first little tour Michel resumed work on his project while Mr. Braska watched him and did some little naps when it was becoming boring. !
Mr. Braska arrived safely to Michel’s Apollo Studio. I am sure he will have a lot of stuff to see there as Michel is very active at synth building!!!
Check out his blog http://synthnl.blogspot.com. There is photographic evidence that frogs were on the moon before “mankind”. (But probably at the same time with Muppet show’s “Pigs in space” (and Mrs Piggy going after Kermit!))
Edit: Photographic evidence is here too courtesy of Michel!
Wishes for a frrrrrogy 2010 and lots of peeking to other people’s gear!
“Peace and happiness all over the world!”
(this was taken from the pageant years of Mr. Braska)
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