Memorial Day Weekend Sales

Just a reminder: be sure to check out the shops on the right of the site for Memorial Day sales if you are in the US.

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Perfect Circuit

Noisebug

Kraft Music

CONTROL - use code MAYTRIX10 (note the Y) for 10% off

5 Sketches on a 1981 Sequential Circuits Prophet-5

video upload by Polydata

"5 short sketches played by hand - no MIDI, no overdubs. Enjoy!

Get Polydata sound banks for your hardware or plug-in synth here:
polydata.bigcartel.com

Polydata Music:
polydata.bandcamp.com"

Sequential Prophet REV2 - Ambient Sounds [Sample Pack] (FREE)

video upload by Mr. Card Synths

"Sequential Prophet REV2 - Ambient Sounds [Sample Pack] (FREE) – download my free sample pack with ambient sounds created using the Sequential Prophet REV2. Inside you’ll find lush analog pads, evolving textures, deep drones, and spacious tones, perfect for ambient, cinematic, and electronic music production. Recorded directly from the hardware Prophet REV2 with high-quality processing.

👉 Download the free sample pack: https://mrcardsynths.com/product/sequ..."

Kawai K5000 — The Legendary Additive Synthesizer From The 90s

video upload by RetroSound

"Welcome to this demo of the legendary Kawai K5000 — one of the most advanced and unique digital synthesizers of the 1990s.

Released by Kawai Musical Instruments in 1996, the K5000 series became famous for bringing true additive synthesis into a hardware synthesizer with an incredibly deep sound engine and expressive realtime control.

Unlike traditional subtractive synths, the K5000 builds sounds from up to 128 individual harmonics, allowing for evolving textures, shimmering pads, vocal-like formants, metallic atmospheres, and complex cinematic soundscapes that still sound futuristic today.

One of its most iconic features is the powerful formant filter, capable of creating animated spectral movement and organic vocal-style timbres rarely heard in hardware synthesizers.

The K5000 was available in several versions including the K5000S, K5000R, and K5000W workstation, and over the years it has gained cult status among ambient artists, soundtrack composers, experimental musicians, and lovers of deep digital synthesis.

In this video you’ll hear original patches, evolving additive textures, classic 90s digital atmospheres and some factory demo and promotion tracks made the K5000 one of the most underrated synthesizers ever created.
I used the K5000 in the years 1998 - 2010."

Oberheim OB-12 Community Archive

The OBERHEIM OB-12 Community Archive is a new site dedicated the to Viscount Oberheim OB-12. It's an extremely well done site. Be sure to take a look.

It includes:

"Everything known to exist online for the Viscount-made virtual analog (2000), gathered here in one place, free."

via the creator of the site:

"I thought it might be of interest to MatrixSynth readers because it includes something the OB-12 community had wanted for two decades: the official Viscount Service Manual with full schematics (49 pages, 2001), recovered and now freely available, along with the CPU datasheet, every firmware version, the OB12Editor for Win98/ME, manuals, sound banks, the Jexus patches and the press reviews mirrored offline."

A Potted History of Drum Synthesizers

video upload by Alex Ball and Nathan Curran Tugg the Drummer (Tugg)

"A look at a niche within a niche, the drum synthesizer; a story that begins in the late 60s and continues to this very day."

0:00 Intro
0:25 Definition of a "Drum Synthesizer"
2:24 Precursors, DIY and Impakt
4:03 Star Instruments Synare
5:09 How these Instruments Worked
6:13 Syndrum: The First Famous Drum Synth
8:45 Ult-Sound: Japan's First Drum Synth
10:10 Pearl & Tama: Here Come The Drum Companies
13:20 Simmons: The Zeitgeist
19:21 The Flood Gates & Mega-Montage
24:48 Soviet Offerings
25:17 Decline and the Splitting Point
27:05 Vermona: A New Era
29:28 Elektron: Blurred Lines
30:58 A Plethora of Machines
32:24 Clavia/Nord: Simply Red
33:39 Modern Day: The Culmination
34:44 Summary & Thanks
35:23 Patron Outro Jam

Update:

1/14/26 Simmons SDS6 + TAMA DS200 + Alesis MIDIVERB II + CXM 1978

video upload by Cfpp0

"This is one of two videos I recorded for the great Alex Ball (‪@AlexBallMusic‬) to use in his video about the history of drum synthesizers. I’m using the Simmons SDS7 to trigger the two halves of the TAMA DS200, with reverbs from the Alesis MIDIVERB II and the CXM 1978. The DS200 is running hot through the MIDIVERB II, overloading the preamp. The CXM 1978 has a long predelay in lo-fi mode to create a grainy pitchy echo."

Swells Explorations | X-1: Fog (No Talking Demo)

video upload by Intellijel

"This is an exploration of Swells model X-1: Fog - An expansion of the 'one-knob' reverb effect found on our Sealegs module. Swells adds a full set of controls to this lush reverb, plus the LO-FI modifier which adds saturation and tape wow & flutter."

Sections:
00:00 - Titles
00:10 - Modulating Fog
02:09 - Beat Space
03:26 - Guitar Grain Flow
05:38 - Full Exploration

Featured Intellijel Hardware:
7U x 104HP Performance Gen 2
Multigrain
Atlantix
Metropolix
| Flurry
Quad VCA
Quadratt 1U
Aux Mix 1U

Herbs and Stones Acid Jam - Liquid Foam + Gentle Wham

video upload by Pork Chop Synthesizers

Introducing Wavetable Designer by Lambda Synthetics

video upload by Lambda Synthetics

Lamda Synthetics also makes the PolyPulse Algorithmic Performance Workstation.

"A short introduction and demo of the new Lambda Synthetics Wavetable Designer! Try it out yourself at https://wavetabl.es/"

CHAIR Analog Waveguide | #Superbooth

video upload by CatSynth TV

"Max from CHAIR (Center for Haptic Audio Interface Research) joins us to talk about their new Analog Waveguide module. This module, which is based on a design by Michael Gerzon (inventor of Ambisonics) from the 1970s, combines BBD delay lines to create a two-dimensional resonator bank that can model a variety of percussion, string, and other sounds."

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