MATRIXSYNTH: Friday, February 10, 2006

AK-Momo - Boys and Girls Optigan, Mellotron and Orchestron

Nice track featuring an Optigan, Mellotron, and Orchestron. Via Mattias of Roth Handle Studios.

www.roth-handle.nu/material/Music/akmomo_boysandgirls.MP3

Update: More on AK-Momo
info: http://www.roth-handle.nu/bands_akmomo.htm
Another track: akmomo_returntony.MP3

New Graintable Synth on CDM

Title link takes you to the post with more info. Will need to check that out.

Radium - Synthi AKS Track by David Brans

Title link takes you there. Play link is right under Radium and Artist:Symbiot after the space. Make sure to check out the other tracks below. There's a Tiesco sx400 track as well.

Via Blacet.

"We have an extreme excess of Multi panels (do to a series of unfortunate events!).

Rather than toss them, perhaps someone out there can figure out a module that would use *only* the existing holes (we can strip and rescreen the printing).

There are 5 jack holes and one pot hole. You can look at the panel here:
http://www.blacet.com/multi.html

You don't have to draw up any schematics; just figure out the general purpose and label the panel.

I don't know what the prize will be yet but it will be something good, depending on the "brilliance" of the concept.

I reserve the right to forget the whole thing if no one comes forth with anything useable!

Send entries to blacet@blacet.com with "Blacet Contest" in the subject line. You can send a .jpg and/or a written description.

Contest ends upon my whim."

My Synth is Bigger Than Your Synth

Monster Truck Korg MS20 up for auction. These giant sized Korg MS20s were used for eductional purposes, and they are fully functional. Never saw one this clean before. Title link takes you to more shots.

Update: Note the Roland Logo. Thanks polardark!

Two Arp 2500 on Larking's List

Not sure how Larking's List works, but it looks like these were for sale rather than auction for a mere $9000 US. Note that the listing is reserved. Title link takes you to the shots. Details below. Via Music Thing.

"2x ARP series 2500 Analogue music synthesizers Model 2515 Two of the very earliest and very few surviving working 60’s synths. These musical instruments are in upright ‘welsh dresser’ cabinets, fully loaded with a range of sound generating, filtering, gating, envelope generating modules, cross-patching signals between which will produce almost any sound imaginable – not by instant recall of factory pre-set or pre-sampled voices but by hours of fun manually cross-patching control voltages and tweaking every nuance of sound until you find your own perfect hand-made sound. This instrument’s contemporary the Moog (remember the front of the “Switched on Bach” album?), when patched up resembled an old fashioned telephone switchboard of tangled jack leads. Not so the ARP, which has a clever array of sliding switches top and bottom of the Welsh Dresser enabling tidy selection of the majority of sane patches at a glance. Patch sockets are still provided, however for way-out patches even ARP might never have thought of – but your creativity should remain unlimited by the spaghetti! The base of the instrument contains the 5 octave keyboard, split with lower register featuring black and white keys reversed – distinctive ARP feature. Working machines like these are very rare indeed – we’re talking rocking horses dropping foals, here. Complete with original ARP Manuals."

ARP Modules Machine 1

Dual Oscillator 1023 x 2
Ocillator 1004-T
Dual noise/random voltage generator 1016
Quod Envelope generator 1046
Filtamp 1006
Module 1045
Multimode filter/resonator 1047
Sample and hold/random voltage 1036
Clocked sequential control 1027
Mix-sequencer 1050
Power control 1002/230

APR Modules Machine 2

Dual noise/random voltage generator 1016
Dual oscillator 1023
Ocillator 1004-T
Multimode Filter/resonator 1047
Quad envelope generator 1046
Module 1045
Modamp module 1005
Filtamp 1006
Sample and hold/random voltage 1036
Mix-sequencer 1050
Clocked sequential control 1027
Power control 1002/230