MATRIXSYNTH: Saturday, September 2, 2006


Saturday, September 02, 2006

Note on Ebay Auction Links

All Ebay auctions on this site are affiliate links. What are affiliate links? In short paid links. The way it works is Ebay charges you to put an item up for auction. That's how they make money. They keep 100% of that charge if the buyer comes to the auction directly. If a buyer comes to an auction through an affiliate link like the ones on this site, then they give a percentage of that 100% to the owner of the affiliate link. That would be me. I figure if I'm going to put a link up to an auction, why let Ebay keep 100%. They are a big company and they can afford to help support this site. I do all of this on my own free time and I believe sites like this should be free and supported by ads that are useful and relevant. Never buy anything you do not want to. Also, note that the affiliate fee comes out of that 100%, it is not an additional charge, so it does not cost the buyer or seller of the auction more. Why is Ebay willing to do this? Because they figure it will drive more traffic to them. In my case it would probably be the same as I do not put up posts for the sake of the affiliate links. If I did you would see a whole lot more going up. I was actually a bit uncomfortable with the amount I put up so I created MATRIXSYNTH-B to cut the noise down. I only put the most interesting items up here - either the best shots, the rarest and most unique items, or interesting bits of synth history found in the details of auctions - I only put up posts if they merit a post regardless of the source, whether that be Ebay, Flickr, or other. Why am I putting up this note here? Because I do not want to put it up with every single auction post that goes up. I don't think most would appreciate having to read this in every single post. Why not just say it's an affiliate link in the post and be done with it? Because affiliate links mean different things to different people and I want to explain exactly what it is on this site. Note that there is still a bar for MATRIXSYNTH-B. I frequently post auctions people send me on both MATRIXSYNTH and MATRIXSYNTH-B, and I respect anonymity, although on MATRIXSYNTH I will only put auction posts that meet the bar above. If I posted everything on Ebay, you would see everything here go up. Note saving and posting all of this stuff does take a lot of my time, and it doesn't cost you (buyer or seller) anything. I spend 3-6 hours every single day, Monday through Sunday, on the blog. What I do get from Ebay helps with the sanity.

Kraftwerk 6th july 1981 in Paris at the Studio Gabriel (a.k.a Captain Video)

More exclusive shots of Kraftwerk sent in via Frederic.

Note these have never been seen before. In case you missed the last set, here they are.

Little Phatty Samples

Title link takes you to a thread on the Moog Forums with some samples of the Little Phatty. They are also on the Little Phatty user's group, Phatsound, where you'll find more samples.

via the comments of this post.

The German Machine - New Flickr Shot

flickr by Zebra Pares.

my toy - New Flickr Shot

flickr by Picinìn.

Ultravox Synths Take 2

Title link takes you to a previous post I put up on Ultravox Synths. Micke just posted the following on this VSE thread.

Did you know:

1) that the fat bass line on Ultravox' song "Slow Motion" (off of Systems of romance, 1978) was actually played by Chris Cross on his EMS-Synthi?

2) that the EMS synthi, Arp Odyssey (and Elka Rhapsody) were the only synths used for U-Vox' 2nd album "Ha, Ha, Ha" (1977)?

3) that the Elka Rhapsody 610 was used for the string sounds on U-vox' first three albums?

4) that Brian Eno programmed the Minimoog (his own synth) on the early U-vox songs "My way" and "Slip Away"?

5) that the kick drum, snare and hi-hat on U'vox' cues "Dislocation" were done on Billy Currie's Arp Odyssey with lots of fx added?

6) that the Minimoog is responsible for the bassline on "Quite Man"

7) that the Oberheim OB-X was used mainly for solos on U-vox album "Rage in Eden"?

8) that Billy Currie bought a Yamaha CS-80 in late 1979 and used it on songs like "Mr.X" (Vienna), "Western promise" (Vienna") "I Remember" (Rage In Eden), "Hymn" (Quartet)?

9) that U-vox' main string-machine between 1980-1984 was the Yamaha SS-30?

10) that the Yamaha GS-1 FM synthesizer was used for the solo in "Mine for life"?

11) that the EMS-Synthi was U-vox's very first synth back in early '77 or thereabouts?
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Also see Midge Ure on the Minimoog used for the bassline in Viena.

joerg-erren.de

Title link takes you to joerg-erren.de. Jorg posted a link to his site in this Curetronic post. I of course checked it out. He's got quite a bit of info up there including specific pages on Anywaree Instruments, Alesis, Diverse, Korg, MFB, Oberheim, Roland and Yamaha. You'll find some really nice gear shots and samples for each piece of gear. Very nice.

Lampe Valve Force #2 (KORG Triton Extreme) - New Flickr Shot

flickr by mcdux.

Acid är bästa sömnhjälpen? - New Flickr Shot

flickr by maskinbatterist.

badl0ader



Remember the chameleon? Turns out it's badl0ader's. He sent me a link to his MySpace site where I found this video. It takes a lot of balls to fill up a cup like that. This one dedicated to Chris Randall of Analog Industries. Something tells me he will appreciate this one. ; )

BTW, do check out badl0ader's MySpace page. Cup aside, it's good synth pop.

Emperor Penguin @ Empty Bottle - New Flickr Shot

flick by spablab.

Yep. So, what is that?

Update via the comments: "I am in that band... I'm the guy in the blue shirt in the background. our albums were done by me and the guitarist, Lazlo. When we played live we got extra help from some friends. Lots of synths on our records and onstage - Korg Polysix, Korg DW8000, Univox MiniKorg, Yahama SK20, Korg Delta, Moog Prodigy, etc. No samples used in the live show -- everything was played. The guy in the diaper was known as The ManBaby. He was an amazing beatboxer who for some reason liked to perform in a diaper. He was always a big hit with the audience. Wow, that was a fun band to play in.
- Mel Stanke, Emperor Penguin"

AX60 & S612 Sample

Title link takes you there. Track title is the one with via nematode. via Jon:

"i just got an s612 in the mail yesterday (bought it off kevin, you posted one of his gear sales, so thanks) the 13 pin connectors came in at the same time. so i painstakingly soldered 26 tiny little leads, then i looked in the s612 manual and realized i only had to solder 14 tiny little leads. plugged my new cable in, ran a midi cable from the ax to the s612. messed around with midi channels and worked the static out of the ax's a/b mix slider, knocked over a full stack of 100 blank dvdrs in the process and within about an hour or so was up and running. there's an 8 minute (in two parts) 3 track overdub of just the ax-60 and the s612 arpegiating while i twist and tweak (the sample start/end time faders are awesome) up on my myspace page it's called nematode something-or-other. i was up 'till about 4.30 last night getting that posted, so now i'm going to get some donuts and, if the neighbor kids quiet down, take a nice long nap."

Update via a follow up email from Jon: "this too, i don't know if it's been pointed out yet, but as only audio is being sent to the ax60, there are no control signals envolved, the ax should be able to run -any- audio input through it's filter. all it should take is wiring the leads from an audio connector (your choice) to the ground and signal pin (again, your choice) of the input on the synth."
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