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The 2016 Northern California / Bay Area Synth Meet is on! Please join us on Saturday October 22nd from 2 till 6pm, when we open the shop up again and give you an opportunity to talk with the reps and check out some incredible gear. Like last year, there will be live Synth music next door at Vinyl Dreams. This is a free synthesizer event that you will not want to miss.  2 till 6PM Saturday October 22nd 2016 Where: ROBOTSPEAk 589 & 1/2 Haight St (@ Steiner in the lower Haight section of San Francisco) San Francisco CA 94117 Phone: 415-554-1977 Email: Info@robotspeak.com...

Please join us for this Remote Modular synthesizer event that is sponsored by Audio Damage. We will be closing the shop on Saturday March 5th for an afternoon of community, conversation, and cables with Eurorack and synth manufacturers. Live performances from James Cigler, Rodent, Bana Haffar, and Tyler Thompson. Free to attend this all-ages event in San Francisco! >> Manufacturers Audio Damage WMD Makenoise Rossum Electro-Music Toppobrillo Mordax Dave Smith Instruments  ROGER LINNIndustrial Music Electronics (formerly The Harvestman) Blue Lantern Noise Engineering >> Retailers ROBOTSPEAkI/O Music Technology >> Performers Rodent Bana Haffar James Cigler Tyler Thompson When: Saturday, March 5 at 4 PM - 8 PM Where: Codeword 917 Folsom St, San Francisco, California 94107...

In conjunction with the September Lower Haight Art Walk Please join us for this free electronic music event when Jonah Sharp (AKA Spacetime Continuum) and Carson Day have an all out synched to clock fight for supremacy that just may push us to the verge of extinction. They will be armed with two Synth monsters from different ERA's: -Jonah Sharp with his Analog Beast the olde school Sequential Circuit's PRO One -Carson Day with its distant hybrid relative and latest from Dave Smith, the PRO 2--abusing it like no one on this planet can ! This will be a bloodbath minus the blood and dismemberment... so, what does...

 Back in late 2012 we started the Church of the Super Serge at ROBOTSPEAk. The Church was at first a workshop in which people could attend and build their very own Serge Modulars --right in ROBOTSPEAk! Each month students could come in and complete another part of their panel. This workshop was wrangled into existence by Dimitri Ponce who has since gone on to build Serge Modulars for a living (www.COA-MODULAR.com). The Church was and is a homage to Serge Tcherepnin who back in the day, built his amazing Modular synthesizers about 100 feet from ROBOTSPEAk!!  Over time the Church...

We love to take gear with us to the woods, cabin or wherever our occasional moment of relaxation takes us. An acoustic guitar has traditionally been the staple of this type of jammin' but as technology gets more sophisticated and portable, we are seeing more and more unique devices that make music making possible anytime and anywhere you choose. This page offers up some cool battery operated gadgets that will keep you entertained and calm that thing that has been staring at you from behind the trees. Critter and Guitari (everything but the Eurorack Melody Mill) Korg Volca Beats, Keys & Bass