MATRIXSYNTH: Tuesday, December 26, 2006


Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Dotcom ZOs

No title link. Just two shots of the Cyndustries ZO in Dotcom format, sent my way via Josh. Yowsa! Impressive.

Update: This is Josh's of Malekko - Josh's and Paul Barker's [Ministry] upcoming venture, mentioned in this Novamod SH-101 with Maestro Brassmaster post.

Upate: You can find an MP3 in this post.

Stephen St. Croix

Tim sent me a link to this Bode Vocoder up for auction along with a link to Stephen St. Croix's website. I didn't realize who he was and that he had passed until I got to the bottom of the gear page.

"Stephen St. Croix – aka Steven Marshall – professional rock-and-roll producer and guitarist, and inventor of equipment for the pro audio industry, died earlier this year of melanoma. Almost everyone has been exposed to his work through music or movie soundtracks in the course of his influential career in professional audio.
In the early 1970s, Stephen founded Marshall Electronic, under whose auspices he designed the Marshall Time Modulator, a cutting-edge audio effects device, which became a bestseller in the recording industry and was also used to create Darth Vader’s voice and many other movie special effects. He worked on numerous landmark recordings, including Stevie Wonder’s “Songs in the Key of Life” and “The Secret Life of Plants,” having invented the device used to record the sounds of plants. Stephen also invented the ‘Revectorization’ process that he used to restore the soundtracks for motion pictures including “Gone with The Wind,” “Wizard of Oz,” “Easter Parade,” and “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” Furthermore, he re-mastered recordings of a number of the masters, including Bob Marley, Patsy Cline, and Jerry Lee Lewis, to name a few."

You can find more about his contributions at the bottom of his gear page. It appears they are auctioning off a number of items, and will be selling more.

Bode Vocoder.

Update: Note the huge black synth over his left shoulder is a Black Oberheim Eight Voice.

Akai ME35T Audio MIDI Trigger


Haven't seen one of these before. Click here for shots pulled via this auction. Note the auction says it's a MIDI to CV converter but the 8 1/4" jacks are labeled "Audio Trigger Input" not output. According to Synthony, the ME35T actually converts audio signals to MIDI.

via Loscha.

Simmons SDSV and SDS 8

Simmons SDSV

Link to shots pulled via this auction.

Simmons SDS 8

Link to shots pulled via this auction.

Sent my way via Loscha.

TAMA Techstar TS305

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction.

Sent my way via Loscha.

Parallax - Deuterium

via Dave of umop:
"A little something special for PARALLAX fans today... an exclusive MP3 I very recently made called Deuterium. It uses five synths: A Korg 01/W for all the background sequences and drums (programmed back around 2001 or so!), and ALL LIVE performances on a Nord Lead 2X, Access Virus kb, Roland JD-800, and my new little Korg Microkorg!"

Title link takes you there.
Update: I just got done listening to the track. This some really good stuff.

Moog and Buddha Machines

flickr by Maggie Osterberg.

Title link takes you to more.

KORG Kaoss Pad KP3 Review on Analog Industries


Click here. Good, and more importantly, bad points expressed.

"The I/O on this machine is a joke. Just stereo RCA on the back, and a quarter-inch jack on the front that is ostensibly a "mic" input with a trim knob. This may be fine for a weekend warrior/DJ/whatever, but for a professional user, it's annoying in the extreme."

Yep... I was hoping they would include 1/4" jacks this time. The audience still appears to be DJs.

MOOG Rogue

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction.

Maplin ETI 4600 and Custom Controller

flickr by jelliffe_rick.
Title link takes you to more.

Notes on the (modular) controller:
* a nice wooden box, covered in leatherette
* four removeable panels on top, each for separate controls
* three jacks on each side (right for CV in, left for switches in)
* a USB kit from Velleman to connect to a computer (I am writing a driver which will route control signals to MIDI)

Becoming of SID sinth - TB303 patch

flickr by fibra.

Title link takes you to more.

New Nord Coming

Looks like a dual keyboard Electro? We'll find out at winter NAMM on January 18.

Metasonix S-1000 Wretch Machine Demos by ReWire


Two tracks featuring the Metasonix S-1000 by ReWire:

REwire_-_Step_Into_The_Wretch_Machine.mp3
REwire_-_Wretch_Demo_2.mp3

Last Minute Xmas Tunes

Christmas is over for most, however if you just need a little more synthi xmas music here are a couple of links sent my way:

Table's Xmas on MySpace (warning: this site is flashy, as in epileptic seizure flashy). This is a cool track featuring various xmas samples you should recognize. Via Carl.

Sounds of Christmas 1986 by a German group, Apolleon. This is the full album, and is really good stuff. Via Andre.

Enjoy!

BTW, I hope everyone had a good Holiday this year. I got me a Yamaha DD55 to bang on. Every now and then I just feel the need to take a stick to something...

Yamaha DD55 on Amazon
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