It is almost that time again! We are officially inviting you and yours to join us for our 5th Northern California Synth Meet at ROBOTSPEAk! We will clear out the shop to make way for thee Synthesizer vendors at our 2017 Synth Meet. Wall-to-wall modular and analog synthesizers and the magical sound that goes along with them. Last year was the best gathering yet and we expect this year to be no different.
Please join us on Saturday October 28th from 2PM to 7PMish to check out the latest greatest from the attending Modular and Synthesizer experts. As always it’s free.
Here is a list of the many synth companies from around the world who will be in attendance:
Elektron (Sweden) - The much anticipated Octatrack MKII, Analog Heat, and Digitakt.
Moog Music (N. Carolina) - Mother 32 Rig, Model 15, Minimoog Model D
Dreadbox (Athens, Greece) - Abyss, NYX, and Erebus desktop synths and couple of White Line Eurorack Modules.
Dave Smith Instruments (SF)
SOMA (Russia) - Lyra-8 Analog Synthesizer
Expressivee - TOUCHÉ controller
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WMD - Chimera and Arpitecht as well as a prototype of the Trigger Sequencer.
Pittsburgh Modular
Make Noise Music (N. Carolina) - Check out their latest modules: the Morphagene, Contour, and DynaMix
Noise Engineering (LA) - on hand will be the soon-to-be-released Manis Iteritas and Integra Solum. Also the old favorites including Basimilus Iteritas Alter, the original Loquelic Iteritas and the recently released Loquelic Iteritas Percido and Cursus Iteritas. In addition to these, Noise Engineering will bring along the other modules that they released in August (Horologic Solum + Horologic Uter, Variatic Sequent + Variatic Multium, Extra Mullet, and Xerest Pola).
1010music (LA) - The new SynthBox will be on hand.
Zetaohm (SF) - FLXS1 Sequence
*LIVE SYNTH PERFORMANCES*
This year BINARY SOCIETY will be organizing the 100% live synth lineup as Mike B once again generously hosts the show next door at Vinyl Dreams. Performances will be from 2:30pm - 7:00pm with Binary Society-curated music original submissions playing between sets.
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Patrick O' Brien
Haptic Synapses
James Cigler & Tomio Ueda
Alex Anderson & Matt Tanner aka Nasty Nachos (WMD)
Normalien
Mark Camp
Live visual performances by Tim Thompson & Bill Wiatroski.
ROBOTSPEAk
Officially opened to the public in October 2002. If the math is correct that is 15 years entrenched in Synthesizers.
Stop in to celebrate our 15 year mark and the continuing resurgence of Modular and Analog synthesizers!
Cost: Free