Author: Andre Theelen
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Replacing the display of a Yamaha TX7
This is the Yamaha TX7. It’s the module version of the DX7. It was the first synthesizer I ever bought, 28 years ago. It still works perfectly. But I wanted to replace the display as it is hard to read because it is not backlit. So I bought a display replacement from eBay. I opened…
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New music video for Pega Loca
Last april I shot a music video with Dutch acoustic band Pega Loca. Today they launched their website. Check them out at www.pegaloca.nl! This is the video I shot for their song “Welcome Home”. The video was edited and colour graded in Davinci Resolve. I also used Resolve for some blurring of visible art in…
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Welcome Home – music video for Pega Loca
Last Wednesday I shot a music video with the Dutch band Pega Loca. This is the second music video I shot with Eric van de Kerkhof, who started Pega Loca. Two years ago, I made a video for promoting the debut album “Welcome Home” of his previous band, Grain of Wood, with the track “Just…
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New cabinets for 5U modular synth
Inevitability I have been building a lot of Buchla stuff last couple of years but I also built a few 5U modules. As my 5U modular cabinet was pretty much filled up I finally reached that inevitable point in time: the cabinets were completely full and I still had a couples of modules which had…
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Music Thing Modular custom 5U panels
After watching a few demos of Music Thing Modular modules I decided to build them myself. However, these modules are in Eurorack format and I don’t have any Eurorack. So I designed 5U panels for them and ordered those via Schaeffer AG in Germany. Not the cheapest solution but the quality is great and the…
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Buchla 296e tutorials
Some time ago I did build this Buchla 296 clone. It is a rather complex module. I played around with the vocoder function (which is great fun) but I didn’t really know how to use this module to it’s full extent. Until now… Buchla advocate Todd Barton made a series of tutorial videos on the…
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Film concert video project
So, what have you been doing last year? Now 2015 has ended, I want to write a bit about a project that has kept me busy for the most part of last year. This project began sometime in August 2014 when a couple of friends asked me if I would like to participate. They are…
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Reviving a silent Korg DW8000 synthesizer
A lucky find Some time ago I bought a Yamaha EX-5 on eBay. As it was located close by I drove there to pick it up myself. While talking to the seller she mentioned she had more stuff for sale. The Korg DW8000 was the only thing I was interested in. I tested it and…
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Last shoot for a concert short film project
The project Last weekend I shot the last short film for a project that started in November of last year. A brass band will be performing brass arrangements of famous film soundtracks in a theatre. While the music is performed a short film of that film will be projected. Every short film is based on…