MATRIXSYNTH: Thursday, November 2, 2006


Thursday, November 02, 2006

Steiner Parker Synthacon (with RC-20 Loop Station) live 2


YouTube via matrixsynth

sent my way via vgermuse. Be sure to check out this post for the previous video.

marjorie fair recording session

Title link takes you to the set. via sameli.


Electrocomp 200 and dual Paia sequencers


Rack mounted circuit bent speak and spell, Roland SH-101 and more


bit strangler

Steiner Parker Synthacon


Image sent my way via vgermuse. I'm uploading another video and will post it shortly. Be sure to check out this post for the previous video.

Roland System 100

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction. For some reason I love seeing the old packaging almost more than the synths. Shots are harder to find and it gives you a sense of what it might have been like receiving the synth new.

Sent my way via alex.

Pearl

"The Pearl SC-40 is a hybrid drumsynthesizer from 1985 with digital oscillators and analogue filters. It can be controlled by 8 drumpadinputs or Midi.

Instead holding whole drumsamples the oscillators got their sound almost from 1-cycle waveforms, 32 different waveforms are available.

Each voice is made of a strange combination between an oscillator, a noise generator, 3 egs and 2 bandpassfilters, creating a unique sound between early digital synths and analogue Simmons Drums.

SC-40 got a 4 voices at a time, the SC-20 2. The soundstorage is in the drumkits, in which you copy first one of the 128 preset sounds and then you can make your own settings. A drumkit includes 8 pads which means 8 different sounds are available at a time"

Title link takes you to the source with pdf manual on http://block4.com/research/

Casio VL-1 Tone

flickr via farnea.

So Duran Duran

Domino's Fun Room

No title link. Just a shot sent my way via Domino.

Dialin' up some 'vintage' sounds on the SQ1

flickr by aaronazz.

Title link takes you to a couple more shots.

Synth Sniglets

The following was sent in via Jon. I've personally experienced Lostore and Loostore and a couple of very difficult yet amazing patches. Just love the feeling.
Two of which are pretty much lost forever. One day I will make them again, well, one of them I'm not so sure due to Fucknob. The Matrix-6 definitely suffers from Fucknob, yet... it has no knobs. Go figure.

Via Jon:
"during the mid-eighties there was a line of humor books called "sniglets". A sniglet being any word that doesn't appear in the dictionary, but should. the books had words, and pronunciation guides and some of them had cute little illustrations. lately i've been thinking about snigletizing our world of synth. i don't have anywhere good to actually post this stuff, but i figured you'd get a kick out of it.
Danqueue: The mysterious 3 second difference between the german and english versions of a kraftwerk song.
Lostore: any act during the process of saving a patch (fumbling with buttons, forgetting to hit "store" a second time, ect.) which causes the edits you just spend 2 hours working on to be lost.
Loostore: one's feeling of self worth immediately following a lostore.
Duplisynthous: any synth you own whose functions are completely subsumed by a more powerful synth you also own.
Fucknob: a parameter that, when altered, causes your patch to change in a way so that it never sounds quite like it did, even though the parameters value has been reverted. also any global parameter change which can neither be remapped nor turned off.
Knihl: an alteration to a parameter that causes the patch to become inaudible.
DODaist: a person who uses his synths internal effects on every patch.
Bypastist: a person who never uses internal effects.
Burchlay: the alternate universe where buchla designs became the dominant synth paradigm.
presetlude: the ditty played while demoing patches
fourier-1-k: planning your retirement on the assumption that by the time you hit 65 softsynths will be good enough that you can sell your hardware."

Feel free to add or modify the list in the comments.

Rock on

flickr by cmak.
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