MATRIXSYNTH: Friday, August 3, 2007


Friday, August 03, 2007

Moogfest 2007

"To honor Bob Moog and commemorate his groundbreaking achievements, hordes of renowned musicians and longstanding Moog users will gather in New York City on Saturday, September 22 at B.B. King's Bar & Grill in Times Square (237 w. 42nd Street between 7th & 8th Avenues) to celebrate Moogfest 2007.

This Year's Extravaganza Features...

Thomas Dolby
Jordan Rudess
Adam Holzman
Spiraling
Don Preston
Gershon Kingsley
Herb Deutsch
Erik Norlander


Showtime is 7:30 p.m. Tickets for this special event are $45 and are available at the box office (212-997-4144) or at all Ticketmaster outlets.

For more inforation visit www.moogfest.com

Check out the 2006 DVD for a look at last year's action!"

New Modcan Modules

Via Bruce Duncan of Modcan on AH:

"Hi All,
I am finally ready to release two new modules for the B series. The Digital Delay 59B and the Quad Envelope 60B. A series versions in the fall.

Please check them out at your leisure on their respective web pages at www.modcan.com Prices are on the price list.

The new Quad Envelope is perhaps the best EG available for both features and speed. It has an additional hold or punch stage that is unique to this design. Also functions as a Quad LFO with 4 stage wave shape parameters.

The Digital delay is also a terrific module and has many features you won't find on your old stomp box version including Delay duration clock Sync and CV control of Regeneration and Delay time.

Both modules are in full production and available to order now."



machinedrum jam


YouTube via daswesen. Sent my way via manuel.
"I show the instrument machines, M2 and M3 are prerecorded tweaks into CTRL-AL machines. At one time I switch into classic mode, that wasn't quite intentional at that point but that's a sweet trick as well. Else the standard muting/unmuting of tracks, as well as some FUNCTION+Param tweaking on filter and SRR. I often switch back to stored kit with FUNCTION+CLASSIC, especially after mashing up the sound with CTRL-AL."

machinedrum sequencing


YouTube via daswesen. Sent my way via manuel.
"making a new pattern from scratch, takes abit of time hehe. I had the instruments done though."

Miscellaneous Audio Experiments - Using the Effector 13 as an Oscillator

via zerosum:

"Ive been using the Effector 13 Truly Beautiful Disaster as an oscillator Smile Yeah its really really cool. Sequencing with the Binary Zone into the TBD in, then fed into the Miniwave,TM-1,TM-7. It does really cool kicks and can do 3 note basslines too."

Title link takes you to the samples and more info on Muff Wiggler's Mindless Chat Space.

Yamaha CX5M Music Computer


Click here for shots via this auction.

Note the connection of this piece and Microsoft? If anyone knows more about the relationship feel free to comment.

"You are looking at a Yamaha CX5M Music Computer. This unit came out in the very early 1980's and was an attempt by Yamaha to marry what was emerging as a very successful exploration of FM Synthesis and a computing platform, in this case the Microsoft MSX. At the time these units were unbelievably expensive and while I am not sure exactly what their true value is today (who is frankly) one thing I do know (and you too if you have read this far) is that they are becoming increasingly rare particularly those still bundled with the all important cartridges as this unit does, more on that later... the unit you are looking at here is in fact the later of the two models that Yamaha came out with. The first shipped with the SFG-01 FM unit which had very limited MIDI support, in fact it was only able to communicate with a DX-7 (again more on that later). For that reason you needed a dedicated keyboard supplied by Yamaha to play it. The unit you are looking at here however is the later version that came with the 4 Operator SFG-05 FM unit. It has much better MIDI support and DOES NOT REQUIRE the additional Yamaha keyboard in case you were wondering. It can be played with any MIDI controller keyboard, I used a JV-30 and it played very well.
Ok so what is on offer, well quite a bit really:

1) The CX5M Unit, apart from one or two very minor scratches it is in excellent condition, no broken keys or anything like that. The unit consists of the MSX computer fitted with the Yamaha 4 Operator SFG-05 FM module;
2) The power supply, as above in excellent condition and works just fine;
3) The manuals, yes I still have them. They include:
a) The Yamaha SFG-05 FM Unit Owners Manual;
b) The original CX5M Owners Manual; and
c) The original CX5M / MSX Service Manual including ALL the schematics (these are like GOLD).
4) The cartridges. These are VERY VERY RARE, they include:
a) YRM-104 - FM Music Macro, provides a basic software language to allow the MSX and the SFG-05 in particular to be programmed, oh what fun!!
b) YRM-101 - FM Music Composer, as the name suggests it provides basic sequencing and composition. You also get the original manual with this;
c) YRM-102 - FM Voicing Program, this allows you to edit the 4 Operator SFG-05 unit sounds just like any other FM style patch editor; and
d) I left this until last simply because you would be hard pressed to get one of these anywhere right now. The YRM-103 - DX-7 Voicing Program, This cartridge will allow a DX-7 to be edited from the CX5M just as Yamaha had originally intended so if you own a DX-7 this may be of particular interest to you. It comes complete with its original packaging (a little worn but intact) and the original manual.
5) The cartridge adapter, The CX5M also comes with a slot at the rear of the unit. I believe it was used for connecting to external floppy drives and the like. Using the cartridge adapter you can also plug a standard MSX cartridge into this slot. Useful I guess if you can get a memory / storage cartridge which you can store your programs and sounds on.

The unit DOES NOT come with a monitor of any kind, it has a composite video output (the yellow kind) which I connected to my PC's capture card in preview mode so that I could switch screens between it and other windows, quite useful when editing actually."

via Loscha.

Update: Two screen shots of the OS via Zam in the comments. Also, more info on the OS and the relation with Microsoft in the comments added below.

Roland System 100m 181 Keyboard Controller


Click here for shots via this auction.

"49-Key Keyboard Controller for System 100M cabinets. This is quite a rare offering.. its a 49-Key Controller for the Roland System 100M modular systems. Very rare to find for sale individually. There are many System 100M cabinets out there with no matching keyboard, here is your chance to complete your system. There are obviously 49 Keys, a bender, controls for tuning and portamento, three position transpose switch, portamento on/off switch, mini-jack and standard phono jacks for control voltage, gate, trigger and bender, and the 6 PIN DIN plug."

via Loscha.

Oberheim Xpander

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.
"Vintage 6 Voice Analogue Polysynth (1984) The Xpander is an amazing synth.. few question its reputation as the most versatile and powerful analogue synth from the 80s. Programming possibilites are endless, the internal modulation matrix allows for sound design simply not possible in any other analogue synth of its time. It has a very unique sound, somewhat more mature and refined than the older Oberheim synths, but still having the signature Oberheim tone, in a somewhat more subdued way. In some ways it can also be more aggressive than the older oberheims, the 1pole filter is a killer.. have a listen to Sasha's "Xpander" track and you will hear immediately the character of the 1pole filter in this machine..

So many more features, 6 individual outs for each voice, individual cv/gate inputs to each voice, excellent midi specs, 5 LFOs, 5 envelopes, 3 tracking generators, 4 ramp generators, lag processors, 15 filter types.. too much stuff to mention, there is nothing else like it.
I suggest reading this soundonsound article for a thorough breakdown of this synth.

via Loscha.

Roland Jupiter-8

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

"Vintage 8 Voice Polyphonic Analogue Synthesizer. The Jupiter 8.. Roland's flagship professional polysynth from the early 80s.. yet to be surpassed. This is a beautiful and magical synthesizer like no other. Play a just a few notes and nostalgia from countless recordings of the past comes flooding to mind. Such joyous and amazing sounds emit from this machine..."

via Loscha.

Roland MC-4

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

"Roland MC-4
Vintage 4 Channel CV/Gate Sequencer MC-4A

This is a quite rare and hard to find CV/Gate sequencer from the late 70s early 80s..
If you are sequencing with vintage analog gear this is the cream of sequencers, ask anyone who has one and they will tell you it has the tightest timing and most flexible advanced programming features.
This is the A version, MC-4A. Internal Memory is 16Kbytes. It has not been upgraded.
Please note this is a 100V unit, in Australia and Europe you will require a stepdown transformer. It draws 25W so a relatively cheap transformer will be fine.
US may also require a small stepdown transformer to go down to 100V.."

via Loscha.

Nobukazu Takemura Interview (from Salon Magazine)


YouTube via likeafatrat. Sent my way via Loscha.
"play at his studio place: kyoto/Japan"
Spot the synths. Be sure to watch the gear pan towards the end.

Polyvox (Polivoks) CV/Gate Mod

Title link takes you to more info and shots of the mod.

Plan B Model 25 Now Available

"A quick note to announce that the Model 25 Multi-tasking Audio Processors will be at Analogue Haven tomorrow - Friday, August 3.

The M25 is the second swiss-army knife module in our range, the basic idea behind it to provide a series of useful synthesis functions without a hefty investment of real estate. Consisting of a Manual Attenuator (this was Tim Johnston's idea, and a great one), a dynamic VC Waveshaper, White/Pink analog Noise Generator, a Linear VCA with a separate velocity input, and a high-quality Ring Modulator which boasts over 65 dB of carrier suppression and a unique x-feedback function - all comfortably crammed into only 10HP of panel space.

More information can be found at the link below, replete with sound samples which I think are worth checking out."

Kokoro Scan



Cool video for an upcoming SEGA game for the Nintendo DS, featuring a Minimoog lead and some vocoder.
Sent my way via Kitsunexus. MP3 here.

明和電機 「一番素敵な体で行こう!」


YouTube via musica95. Sent my way via Chris Muir.

"The robotic vocalist, dubbed “Seamoons,” is a combination of mechanical bellows and a computer controlled rubber vocal chord that’s monitored and modified in real time, sounding something like a tiny electric Yma Sumac."

Note the robot with a mic. The above quote is a snip from here, where you will find more info on the artist, Maywa Denki, and the tools they use. BTW, if anyone knows/finds more info on the "guitar" like devices feel free to comment.

Waldorf Pulse Demo



via zerosum of zerosuminertia via the comments of this post.
You can download the mp3 here.

Jerry Lewis y el theremin


YouTube via pertinazmente. Sent my way via Vectorsynth.

ASM2-Wizard Etched


via Mark Pulver on AH.

"I got the etched panel for the ASM2-Wizard last night (thank you Laurie!) and I thought I'd share how it looks in the custom cabinet. This is a BIG box. I dunno that's its final location. Time to get the soldering iron out and get to this thing!

ref:
asm2.htm
asm2-wizard-about
nice-racks"

Hammond Novachords #117, #132, and #1431

via jonesalley:

"Here's an unusual grouping for you. From left to right, Hammond Novachords #117, #132, and #1431. They have recently been joined by their older brother, #61, but I don't have a current photograph. All four are complete and intact, except for a few missing or broken tubes, and all four will be undergoing a slow restoration process. Don't hold your breath..."

Tenori-On Ships Sep 4

Remember the Tenori-On? Looks like it will actually ship on September 4th. Title link takes you to more info on pixelsumo.

MOOG Model 15

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

(1)907a fixed filter bank,
(1) 995 group of 3 attenuators
(1) 904=A Voltage control low pass filter,
(2) 902 VCAs,
(2) 911 envelope generators,
(1) 921 VCO,
(1) 923 Hi pass & low pass filter bank with pink and white noise source.
(2) 921B slave oscilators,
(1) 921A oscillator driver,
(1) bottom section includes mixer, mults, reversable attenuators, trigger outputs, control outs.

As always be careful. This one's from a (0) seller. Might be new to Ebay, might not...

MOOG Prodigy 336A

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

Sequential Circuits Fugue

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.
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