MATRIXSYNTH: Wednesday, April 19, 2006

CME UF8 Mini Review on Analog Industries

Just looking for an excuse to post this shot. : ) It's a good mini review. Check it out. Title link takes you there.

Another MIDI Gadget from Thomas Dolby

This one sent my way via Dave of UMOP. Title link takes you to more shots of Thomas Dolby's gear.

Oberheim OB-Mx Sample

Title link takes you to an amazing sample of the Oberheim OB-Mx sent my way via Brian Kehew of The Moog Cookbook. I've heard some samples of the OB-Mx in the past that were good, but nothing like this. There is a bit of controversy over the OB-Mx. Don Buchla helped design the synth. There was an early prototype version said to sound much better than the final release. It's rumored that the final release was rushed to market by Gibson (owner of Oberheim at the time). The synth was buggy, voice boards were prone to failure and tuning problems, it was very expensive, and it was said that it was lackluster in the sound department. After listening to these samples, I'm not so sure. It sounds amazing to me - very unique, heavy and full. This thing has balls. Big stinky, rubber, balls (something rubbery about the sound). Put a plug in it Butt Probe, this is refined nastiness.

OB-Mx Prototype (shot via teknobo)

OB-Mx Final (shot via VSE)

Thanks for the sample Brian. Here are a few older posts on the OB-Mx: 1, 2, 3 (samples), 4 (pics and samples), 5 (samples).

Teknobo

Title link takes you to Teknobo, a Japanese synth site. Make sure to check out the gallery.

Digisound 80 Modular Synthesizer Website

Title link takes you to the Digisound 80 Modular Synthesizer website. Make sure to check out all of the links for tons of information, documents, images, full module lists and more. There is a lot of information there including this excellent pdf tutorial on synthesis.

Russian VSTs

Title link takes you to host of a number of classic russian synths in VST format. You can download all four here. Via deb7680 in the comments of this post.

Chroniques de la Mao

Title link takes you to a French blog by deb7680 with quite a bit of synth coverage including an interview with a Pierre Henry (I beleive that is his gear in this shot). Time to break out the translation tool again. I also see Matrixsynth on the blog roll. : )