MATRIXSYNTH: Wednesday, November 14, 2007


Wednesday, November 14, 2007

KP3 Kaoss Pad Updated


Korg announce version 2.0 software for free download. via Sonic State.

Yamaha DX-7 II + Sequential Circuits Pro-One + Roland TR-707


YouTube via retrosound72.
"short test with the Roland TR-707 and the SCI Pro-One built-in sequencer. The Pro-One sequencer was triggered by the TR-707 and the DX-7 II was played the melody. recorded only with a small pocket cam more info: www.retrosound.de"

Kaoss Pad 3 KP3 Operating System Version 2.0


YouTube via pepemogt.
"Here is with the new Operating System Version 2.0 , The four samples can now be played simultaneously, and this allows for volume mixing of all samples in the Sample Edit mode. Additionally, triggering and muting of samples can be controlled in real-time while in this mode.

in this video 4 Sound Samples coming from analogue machines were uploaded into Kaoss the rest are internal KP3 effects, no other gear were used, master out straight to the computer audio card. KP3 it seems to be targeted for Djs but in the studio gives you a ot of ideas for production and sound creation.

SAMPLE BANK (samples used here)
A= Cwejman + Sherman filter bank + Drumulator
B= Cwejman + Sherman Filter bank
C= Modified Tr-606
D=Roland TR-909


this is only a test, not intented to be a KP3 demo.
enjoy ;)"

PPG Wave 2.2, Wave 2.3 and EVU: System V8.3

"This new and progressive operating system improves your PPG!

V8.3 is our consistent development of our successful V8.0. Like V8.0 the new V8.3 system offers comprehensive SysEx support which allows saving your own sounds via MIDI to an external computer device. Formerly this was only possible with an expensive Waveterm computer device. Via MIDI SysEx datagrams the PPG synthesizer will communicate with an external MIDI library, like the Emagic SoundDiver.

Additionally our current V8.3 system convinces with many new and helpful functions, removes annoying problems of the old PPG system V6.0 and offers an improved MIDI timing.

Performance features of V8.3 - the evolution from V6.0 / V8.0
V8.3 offers following new features which are a clear improvement in comparison to previous old systems:

*Comfortable handling of the extensive V8.0 SysEx functions directly accessable form the PPG panel
*Accelerated MIDI timing due of improved MIDI code
*ANALOG-panel shows the value of the modulation wheel; essential for sound programming experts
*Extended V8.0 SysEx implementation for storing sounds on an external computer device
*PPG bus emulation over the MIDI interface; for PPG extremists and future applications
*During the boot process the display shows the version and serial number
*Extended user´s manual with new "quick start guide"

Additionally in V8.3 we improved the program code of the old official PPG release V6.0 and removed engraving software bugs:

*Arpeggiator bug of Wave 2.3 solved
*Initialisation problem of the Upper Wavetable solved
*Correction of the defective waveforms in Wavetable 13
*Several minor bug fixes (Sequencer quantization, arpeggiator mode, etc.)

Scope of supply
This kit consists of an easy understandable user-manual (english or german version) and 4 new chips. The original EPROMs in your Wave or EVU will be replaced by the new ones."

Click here for more info on the Virtual Music - PPG Zone, including more resources for the PPG line of synths.

Akai AX60 Owners Manual Added to fdiskc

click here to get to the manual.

Burble

click here for a new Buchla 200e track from Chris Muir. Scroll when you get there; it's the first track on the list. You will find more under it as well.

"Burble is the combination of two little improvs that were done a few days apart. After I had recorded the less rhythmic, droney, layer I wondered if that rhythmic thing I had recorded a couple days earlier was in the same key and tempo enough to fit on top.

It wasn't, but I glued them together anyway. I go back and forth on whether to add a lead sound to this one. What do you think?

For this one, my system was augmented with a borrowed 259e waveform generator, which I used heavily. There's probably a lot less reverb & delay on this track than you think."

Blancmange and the Roland Jupiter-8

Blancmange 'Blind Vision' 1982


Blancmange 'God's Kitchen' 1982


Blancmange 'Living On The Ceiling' 1982

YouTube via AGESOFTHEROD. Sent my way via Synthhead.
"performing on The Tube UK TV pop show ... 31 December 1982"

Off-the-record: Sonic Charge [ENG]

"This time our special guest is Magnus Lidström, the mind behind Propellerhead Reason 2's Malström synth and our beloved µTonic (or MicroTonic), released under its own Sonic Charge brand. Magnus is taking a little vacation in the deep forests of Småland (Sweden, of course!), where he's meditating on his next software...

hardware device? And what do you think of new interfaces/technologies like multi-touch screen, etc.?

I'd love to go hardware some day. There is just something magic about turning a real knob as opposed to using a mouse. One thing that bothers me about software is the way it quickly decomposes if it isn’t kept up-to-date by the manufacturer. Give it a few years without updates and you risk not being able to load it up anymore on your latest computer with the latest OS. Software loses value quickly this way, as opposed to hardware, which if kept in good condition can hold for decades, and actually increase in value. About future interface technologies I am really intrigued by the multi-touch interfaces you mention. The physical qwerty keyboard is for keeps (and physical MIDI-keys and knobs for that matter), but I’ll happily throw out the mouse any day."

click here
for the full interview on AudioNewsRoom. via brian c.

AnalogLive! Day 1 Rehearsals


Some images of the gear sets and people of Analog Live!, day 1 of rehearsals. You can find more info on the upcoming event this Friday on the Redcat website.

Images of sets in order:
-The rehearsal room
-Alessandro
-Richard Devine/Alessandro
-Grenader
-Chas Smith (guitarzilla)
-Thighpaulsandra

prophet64


YouTube via 7jen.

P64 sync'd to mc909 via MIDI

"FirestARTer's DIY midi interface v1, synced via midi clock to mc909. MC909 set as Master."

PAiA 9710K VCA/LFO/Envelope Walkthrough - Part 1

"To the uninitiated PAiA is a US based Electronics kit manufacturer that specializes in audio kits including synths, theremins, a vocoder, various guitar effects, and Preamps. The 9700s is a powerful modular synthesizer that they carry that has 4 sections or modules. I’ve already built the 9700K MIDI2CV8 Midi to control voltage converter (Converts regular midi data into control voltages suitable for manipulating analog synthesizers) and found it really fun and much easier to build than I had initially thought. I learned a lot about electronics and I think I picked up a new hobby!

The 9710 is the VCA (voltage controlled amplifier) module. This module shapes the sound of the synth with an envelope. The PAiA VCA module comes with a noise source and can be used as an LFO (low frequency oscillator) to modulate other aspects of the audio that you are processing with it."

click here for the walkthrough on Electricity & Adrenaline. via Mike.

Flaming Lips - W.A.N.D.


From "At War with the Mystics" Spot the synth. posted here

Modern Android Cybernaut


YouTube via robotmakers. See the first video here.
"2nd in a series of films created in the mysterious superterranean lair of the Robotmakers. Original music and film. Questions left unanswered."

Update:
"it features:
- Zeroscillators in a Moogerfooger Freqbox mode modifying guitar (during initial laser sequence)
- Zeroscillators in an FM brass patch, heavily EQ'ed in an attempt at imitative synthesis (at the end of the tune)
- closeup of Gerd Schulte Audio Electronik Compact Phasing A, with its "Feedback" and "Osc.-Period" knobs going to 11
- interesting visual effect with laser projected through steam to form a "tunnel" through which the protagonist walks (ala "Won't Get
Fooled Again" from "The Kids are Alright")
- rhyming of the words "karate" and "tall soy latte"
- dancing Moog / dotcom / Cyndustries / MOTM / Blacet / homebrew CEM modular synth racks (stop motion animation and casters)
- Citizen Kane allusions
- robot
- shot on location in the mysterious superterranean lair of the Robotmakers and the Hamptons"

Seiko DS 310 Synthesizer Programmer's Guide

via this auction

"This Original vintage 1970`s Seiko Programmers Guide is just what you are looking for! For the DS-310 Synthesizer. 21 pages that tell you how to get the sound you want. Was part of the inventory of Des Moines Music House and has been carefully stored for 30 years."

Again this seller has a ton of vintage documentation up for auction. Too much for me to grab all the shots from, so I will only be putting up the stuff that I find, really, really interesating. A synth by Seiko, the watch company, for example.

Update via Till "Qwave" Kopper in the comments:
"The Seiko DS310 additive synthesis add-on module (son on the pic as the left unitbehind the main keyboard) for the DS202 was the most affordable way to use additive synthesis in the mid eighties (released 1983?).
It had only 4 memory slots for sounds. You had 16 harmonic and three specrums per sound. A kind of preselection envelope with only 2 or three parameters was used as volume envelope. And at the same time it cross fades the three spectrums at staic point in the envelope. A typical ADSR envelope shpae would use one spectrum for the attack, would cross fade in the decay time to the sustain specrum and would crossfade to the third spectrum in the release section. At least, this is my memory.

I sold it to gain money for my first PPG wave 2.2 in 1987.

The other unit shown here is the sequencer add-on module on the right. Not seen to often."

1983 Korg Catalog

via this auction

"Vol. 10. 31 pages of all your favorite models. Keyboards, Effect Pedals, Mixers, Tuners and much more"

Circuit Bent Electronic Drums by 3Xfx

images via this auction

"It is fully loaded with 4 drum pads, 2 cymbal pads, and a foot pedal. Each pad, with the exception of one of the cymbals and the foot pedal, is assignable to quite a few different sounds (i.e. 4 different snare sounds, 6 different tom sounds, handclaps, etc.). The bass and cymbal sounds that are not changeable are able to be affected by the various bends.

There are 8 different styles of preprogrammed beats each with 2 different main beats. You can also play only the beat, only the backing music, or both together.

The other functions of this instrument are the keyboard scratchpad and headset mic. These features are affected by the distortion bends, including the mic input! There are several different selectable scratchpad sounds, and 4 different keyboard sounds.

The bends include 4 distortion switches, which can be used individually or in various combinations for nice distortion sounds. In combinations they also affect the tone of the sounds. There is also a knob for pitch adjustment, with on/off switch, which affects most of the units sounds, from demonic lows to chipmunk highs. One thing to note is that the pitch control does only affects the bass drum and crash cymbal of the electronic drumset sounds. Luckily there are enough sounds to assign to the other drum pads that actually sound pretty good, plus the distortion switches affect all the units sounds. There is also a 1/4 inch output that switches the speaker off.

The sound clips below were recorded from the ouyput directly into the mixer without any additional effects. The first track is me playing the electronic drums and the next 2 are having fun with the preprogrammed beats. Enjoy!

Bent drums
Beats 1
Beats 2"

KAWAI K3M with Dolittle B25 Turbo


via this auction

"Here is a Kawai K3M sound module that uses digital recreated analog waveforms as well as additive synth architecture,but the real deal is the SSM analog filter chips that were the original chips in the glorious rev 1 and 2 prophet 5 and also in the voyetra 8... This auction also includes the Dolittle B25 Turbo ram cart which adds another 2 banks and levels"


Update via Chuck in the comments: "lame/deceptive ad. The K3 uses SSM2044 chips the Prophet and Voyetra use the SSM2040--a very different design, doesn't even sound similar"

It does sound good though.

MAM WARP 9 Analog Multi-Mode Filter

images via this auction

OBERHEIM MATRIX 6R

via this auction

KORG DVP-1



via this auction

Specs:
"1. Modes Vocoder, Internal wave, Harmonize, Pitch shift
2. Range Vocoder and internal wave modes: 5 octaves
Harmonize: 1 octave above and below key note
Pitch shift: - 1200 cents to + 1299 cents (1-cent steps)
3. Audio processing method Digital processing by DSP (x 2)
4. A/D, D/A quantization bits A/D 12-bit: D/A 16-bit (linear)
5. Polyphonic voices 5 (4 when chorus is ON)
6. Program capacity 64
7. Inputs 3P cannon (impedance: l0kohms), Standard phone jack (impedance 100kohms),
(Input level: -5OdB/-lOdB/+4dB)
8. Outputs Direct out (impedance 1kohm), Mix out (impedance: H:L 1kohm, L=10kohm;
output level H:L= 10:1), Phones out.
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