MATRIXSYNTH: Friday, December 14, 2007


Friday, December 14, 2007

Breadboarding Filters - reloaded


YouTube via MusicMiK. Follow up to this post.
"The second part of the breadboarding series. This time, it's another SVF design, based on UAF42 and NE5517 (compatible with LM13700). Simple circuit, but not finished yet for musical use."

AX80 voice board

flickr by mabel.sound.

This is a follow-up to this post via Inverseroom on Inside electronic instruments. Shots of the Wurlitzer 206 and Akai AX80 have been added to the set.

Tenori-On Demo Fun


YouTube via twoco. via Music Thing. I liked the guy with the light.

SUZUKI WARAKU japanese exotic KOTO synthesizer


via this auction, via inverseroom.

"WARAKU is extremely rare and one of the most strange japanese electronic musical instruments it was originally made for playing japanese traditinal music and made by SUZUKI(home of omnichord,NOBARA,tronichord..) but this is one of most strange & bizzare instrument SUZUKI ever made...

WARNING! WARAKU is looks like classic japanese taisho koto(japanese peacock harp) but WARAKU IS COMPLETE ELECTRONIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENT NOT ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENTS

WARAKU was very expensive and made very limited quantities those days it was made for the very small circle of the people who seriously studying japanese traditional music and never sold at ordinary musical instruments market so i'ts very hard to find even in Japan these days this is your first and last chance to get this bizzare exotic gem!

first of all it's very beautifull! built in classy exotic wood case in classic taisho koto(japanese peacock harp)shape with strange shape 27 key keyboard(same key as classic japanese peacock harp) with 5 string bridge and 4 assignable drum pads it has 16 sounds(all exotic japanese traditional instruments like koto, shamisen, shakuhachi, weird voice etc) and in percussion mode you can play many exotic percussions by keyboard or assignable drum pad there are pitch bend lever and vibrate switch, OUTPUT JACK and HEADPHONE OUT and surprisingly it has MIDI OUT!, so you can play external MIDI module by WARAKU's unique 5 strings or keyboard size is approx W89cm D17cm H10cm

you can play WARAKU by keyboards(polyphonic) or 5 string bridge and 4 assignable drum pads( this unique 5 string brdge can play by usual guitar pick hold one key of the keyboards and play each 5 string bridge by pick like guitar 5 string brdge is sumilate japanese traditinal instruments like taisho koto(japanese peacock harp) etc.. japanese harp musician often uses fast trill play so it has above 3 strings with same sounds 4th string is -1 octave from first 3 strings(in the case you choose taisho koto,other case same as above 3 strings) 5th strings is bass string (you can set it favorite tone) string is touch sensible with verocity and totally electronic device, it's not just simply electrical amplified like usual electric guitar, complete electronic!

WARAKU has MIDI OUT so you can play another MIDI synth by this unique 5 string brdge this 5 strings are very effective for guitar,bass kind of string instruments it's feeling like guitar synthesizer

4 drum pad is also touch sensitive and can easily playing by your fingers assign drum sounds to pad is very easy,just hold one key and hit the one pad in percussion mode drum sounds consists of many exotic japanese traditional percussions of course in drum mode you can play all of them on keybord

WARAKU's sounds are very hi quality,exotic and strange!,very unique original sounds and playing by 5 string bridge wiyh pick is very funny experience"

click here for more images.

Miracle Piano Teach System

One last one via Andre.

Anyone remember these? I do. Never played one though. I wonder what the "Synthesizer" sounded like.

Roland EP-20

via Andre

Roland DDR-30 Digital Drums

via Andre

click the image for the full size shot.

WERSI Stage Performer MKI

via Andre.

Siel Orchestra

click here for more images via Andre.

Techni Musique Synthé Vocal (French vocal synth for C64)


"Built in 1984 by the french company Techni Musique based in Clermont-Ferrand. This unit has also been massively produced for the Amstrad 464/6128 and distributed in primary schools with the 'Plan informatique pour tous'. Unfortunately the Commodore 64 hadn’t a big success in France so this Commodore 64 version seems to be quite rare!"

You can find more info including images and a sample via stamba on the Matrixsynth Forum

Analogue Miniature 18


flickr by danmcp

Analogue Miniature 17


flickr by danmcp

Interview: Richard Barbieri, Porcupine Tree


Be sure to check out the write up on Sonic State.

Korg MS2000 a brief introduction with electric friends


YouTube via totaltwit.

"A quick look at the Korg MS2000 synth and a sound that got me playing Gary Numan's Our Friends Electric"

circuit bent hammer


YouTube via cretin4321. http://cliplead.blogspot.com

Prophet64 to be Replaced by MSSIAH

via C64Muisic!

December 5, 2007: MSSIAH
Prophet64 successor to be released Q1 2008!
This is an official announcement of the successor to the Prophet64 Cartridge: MSSIAH - Midi Sid Software Integrated Applications and Hardware.

The cartridge contains Prophet64 software upgrades as well as a new killer music application and an integrated midi interface.

Full scale production is expected to start in quarter 1, 2008.

More info will be posted on the Mssiah site later on.

"pulce"


YouTube via rtntsy6. I actually found this video linked in trash_audio's latest Workspace post on Retina.it (do check it out).

Paia vs Sherman in fuzzy view


YouTube via mtheadded. "A little wave filtering."

Filter Oscillation

"One makes a filter resonate by providing the right kind of feedback. Amplify the output of the VCF and feed it back to the input. If that doesn't work, do it again but invert the signal. Note that only filters with even numbers of poles oscillate [see the comments in this post]. The classic Moog filter is a 4 pole.

David Hillel Wilson
Curator,
New England Synthesizer Museum
www.synthmuseum.com/nesm"

Moogs of Christmas Future

flickr by _mpd_ (click for more)

full size

Russian Survivalism


YouTube via Xvostya. An anti-synth post.
"http://www.nuninekrasova.ru/
http://nin.su/
original song by Nine Inch Nails
genre: psychedelic chanson
back vocal: Trent Reznor
additional back vocal + guitar + misc shit: Anton LeNIN (aka dfiend)
No Synthesizers Used.
http://community.livejournal.com/ru_n..."
Accordian. via jared

korg padKONTROL


YouTube via mbvglider.
"i just received one today and i'm fucking around with it. i've got a lot to learn and i missed a few beats here and there."

More Vangelis Live

Vangelis - Pulstar [Live]

YouTube via mugensx. "Concert in Rotterdam. 18th June 1991."

Vangelis - Mask Đśovement 5 [Live]

Alesis Micron Complex FM Pad


YouTube via Gtechture. This one has a bit of a Radiohead vibe.
"This video is of a Patch I made. It Is a warm pad sound with one Oscillator thats frequency is being modulated. The FM amount is linked to an envelope. The FM gives the pad sound texture."

And one more...

Alesis Micron FM Patch

Roland Juno 60 Van Halen I'll Wait by JimmyPound


YouTube via synthartist69.

"Here is an excellent example of the Juno 60 Brass edited for "I'll Wait". I did add an external delay to spice it up a bit. I'll Wait is more difficult to play correctly on the Juno 60 due to only 6 note polyphony. I am new to video recording and hope to get past the learning curve in the coming months. I hope to learn how to perform successful audio editing in the future in order to make better quality videos! Feel free to ask any questions. Thanks for viewing!"

TL072 lodged in foot


YouTube via synthmonger. "FELT GREAT" TL072

Robot Song No. 1


YouTube via robcat2075.
"In 1984 I wrote a program for my Commodore 64 to algorithmically compose "gregorian chants". Every time I ran it it came up with something different. This is a recording of one of those times"

Yamaha SHS-200

images via this auction

"49 MINI-KEYS AND BODY BUILT IN STEREO-SPEAKER & 66 VOICE LIST, 66 STYLE LIST, 6 VOICE/STYLE LIST, 6 CHORD SEQUENCER, 3 EFFECTS, RHYTHM CONTROL, 5 PARAMETER CHANGERS, 6 MODES AND MIDI OUTPUT."

What is really odd is that it's the same keytar model featured in this video just posted yesterday. That was the first time the SHS-200 has every been posted on this site.

MOOG Sonic Six

via this auction

Sequential Circuits Six-Trak

images via this auction

"Multi-Tambral/Keybord modes/Sequencer/Apregiator

The unit may operate in onmi, poly, or mono mode The six trak has a midi in and out ports.

The Sequential Circuits Six-Trak was released in 1984 at a list price of $1295.

It features a 4 octave, non touch sensitive, keyboard with non spring loaded pitch and modulation wheels located on the left hand side above the keyboard. Editing is done by using a 10 digit (0-9) numeric key pad to dial up the applicable parameter you wish to adjust. Parameter values are adjusted by a single knob. "

Jupiter 6 detail

flickr by spacedust2019

full size


"6-voice polyphonic analog subtractive synthesizer from '83.

Almost everything on this unit is analog (oscillators, filters, envelopes, etc). The sound can be a bit thin but using the unison button will fatten the sound considerably!

This unit doesn't have any on-board effects."

Synthesizer Park

flickr by festival c/o pop (click for more)

full size

Create Digital Music Night at Etsy Labs!


YouTube via etsy. via Nusonica.
"Check out hacked synths, CD-Rs, a handmade keytar and more at Create Digital Music's party! Hosted by Esty Labs and Make: Magazine."
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