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Holotropik - Live Techno artist

Primarily a Live artist with a unique improvised style playing directly from Drum-machines, Samplers and Synthesisers. His sets are "never the same colour twice" with a personally delivered dance-floor sound that dares to take Techno into uncharted territory. Styles ranging from minimal morning sets through to raging peak-hour madness always with a definite "samplified" techno edge and psychadelic tease.

Keith McMillen Instruments

Keith McMillen Instruments is a private company based in Berkeley, CA that develops innovative software and hardware technology that connects and controls applications in the music, computer, video, gaming, ergonomic and assistive technology industries.

Our product line lets musicians familiar with traditional string instruments (violin, viola, cello, bass, or guitar) use the computer as an extension of their playing ability and allows electronic musicians and DJ's add expressive control to their DJ applications, hardware and keyboards.

In addition, our technology allows complete foot control for efficient and improved workflow in any HCI environment.

New technology inspires new art, and we hope that our products will enable performers to take their music in directions never before possible.

Manuals

loads of download manuals for various gear from akai & neve to jupiter, juno106, tb303, lots of other brands. JUNO 106 MPC 60 MPC 60 SOFT 3.1 MPC 2000 OBERHEIM OB8 PROPHET 6 SP 1200 TB 303 JUPITER 6 S 612 AKAI ALESIS APOGEE ARBORETUM ART APB TOOLS AVALON BBE BEHRINGER BIAS CLAVIA (Nord Lead) D&R DBX DIGIDESIGN DIGITECH DOD DRAWMER EMAGIC FOCUSRITE GENELEC KORG LEXICON MACKIE METRICHALO NOVATION OPCODE etc.

MFB

Home of MFB synths and other products.

A short history of MFB

MFB was founded in 1976 by engineer Manfred Fricke. So far there were more than some hundred products constructed and distributed. The first developments and products were primarly video games for industrial playmachines.

Audio products

A lowcost drummachine was introduced in 1979. (98 DM for the self construction kit). In 1980 the legendary drumcomputer MFB-501 was finished and sold. Although it was not the most prominent drumcomputer of that time it surely was one of the best selling drum units in Germany. Some shops sold ten times more MFB-501s than Roland TR-808s. More products for the musician followed, such as the Digital-Sequencer MFB-601 and the digital drum machine MFB-512. All of these featured rich products were offered at exceptional low prices. In 1984 the E-Drum module series 1000 and 2000 followed with corresponding pads. A new construction period started in 1986 with product launches of the MIDI-CV converter MFB-201 and the MIDI drummer MFB-712. Especially the MFB-712 was ahead of its time offering 40 sounds that could be played by keyboard or sequencer. The MFB-SYNTH was finished in 1997, although its development dates back to the eighties. The machine never went into production since 2001, the year of the company´s 25th anniversary because of decreased interest in analogue synthesizer technology especially in the sales channels. In the same year Manfred Fricke also developed another new MIDI drum-module. MFB-KULT, includes most of the famous sounds of the older machines. Both MFB-SYNTH and MFB-KULT are availabale since December 2001. Because of constant requests for the digital sequencer MFB-601 a successor MFB-602. was introduced in May 2002. And since August 2002 there´s also a little brother of the MFB-SYNTH, the MFB-SYNTH LITE

PC and video technology

From 1986 Manfred Fricke specialized in products for video applications. Alone 20 different framegrabbers for the Apple II, C-64 und IBM compatible PCs were constructed. A very high percentage of these framegrabbers were and are still in use for special industrial purposes. Custom development is still done here, so these specialized tools are not available for other customers.

In 1994 MFB introduced the world´s first videomixer below 1.000 DM, the MFB-901. Its successor MFB-902 was available in 1995. Another important development in the video section was the model MFB-912, a digital video memory. This 1998 product was highly acclaimed by the press Press and reviews. The successor MFB-915 added sound and higher picture resolution. It´s available since October 1999. Another successor is the model MFB-920 with an integrated harddrive offering better options for nonlinear cutting and post processing of the recorded material.

Neve & API projects

Here you'll find an API mic pre-amp project and some vintage Neve flavour pre-amp project.

SOUNDWAVE

lots and lots and lots of samples. i'm never going to buy a synth again :)