MATRIXSYNTH: Thursday, January 31, 2008


Thursday, January 31, 2008

Circuit Bending on OBP TV

"Circuit bending is the creative short-circuiting of devices such as low voltage, battery-powered guitar effects, children's toys and small synthesizers to create new musical instruments and sound generators. Emphasizing spontaneity and randomness, the techniques of circuit bending have been commonly associated with noise music, though many more conventional contemporary musicians and musical groups have been known to experiment with "bent" instruments."

You can watch the episode here.
Via Jesse who is featured in the video.

A Noisy Afternoon

Click here for the full flickr set by sentencesintensenses. There are some great shots in this set so be sure to check them out. As always click on the image in the set followed by the All Sizes link on top for the full sized shots.

via David

Frostwave Sonic Alienator w/ Machinedrum 1


YouTube via bigcitymusic
"This is just one pattern from an Elektron Machinedrum into the Sonic Alienator. This incredible little box offers bit crushing "sonic decimation", distortion, analog filtering with resonance and variable routing/orientation of the filter, decimator, and distortion. Available exclusively at www.bigcitymusic.com"

New Percussa Forum

"I am Bert Schiettecatte, the founder of PERCUSSA, and the inventor of the AudioCubes, beautiful and intelligent cubes which work with your computer and music software to stimulate your creativity.

Several of AudioCube owners have sent me emails with feedback over the past few months. I am grateful for your input and try to feed as much as possible into software updates.

Some have asked about the existence of a forum, so they could exchange ideas about applications of AudioCubes with other people and ask questions.

I've now put a forum online and I'd like to invite you all to register and participate. Together we can explore the potential of this promising tool for sound and music exploration and live performance!

================================================================
You can find the forum here: http://forum.percussa.com/
More info about AudioCubes: http://www.percussa.com/
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Warm regards from Belgium,

Bert Schiettecatte
PERCUSSA"

Allen Strange will not be Performing

More info here.

NUSofting Broken Drum Machine - BDM

"To the fact that the broken sound is desirable. Yes! Knobs turn for satisfaction defective!

Inspired by a combination of several old school beat boxes and the circuit-bending culture that revolves around cheap, and old, hardware musical instruments (such as the “toy” Casio and Yamaha keyboards of the 80s), Broken Drum Machine brings the lively, "ever changing", circuit-bent drum machine sounds to your DAW.

BDM is a plugin instrument designed for the musicians who love chaos and usually find the unpredictable behaviour of an uncontrollable sound machine stimulating and inspiring.

BDM offers four drum pads in the style of an old beat box- one each for Bass Drum, Snare, Hi-Hat and Stick. Each pad features the usual suspects for shaping the synthesized sound, including tone, decay, pitch, pan and gain. On top of the standard controls comes the broken factor - each pad features its own sliders for chaos and chance. Chaos sets the amount of variations to the original sound, and chance is the probability algorithm for the chaos to occur. By varying and automating the chaos and chance sliders, you can achieve a range of wild and unpredictable sounds, similar to creating glitches and bleeps by manipulating an analog circuit."

more info including audio.

PS3100 KORG in colors (NightBirds Studio - 2008)

flickr by NightBirds (Electronic Music - France) (click for more including the Oberheim Xpander)

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Ken MacBeth's Studio

via Ken MacBeth:

"Hi Matrix- just thought I'd drop you a line! I think that the matrixsynth blog is great and keeps people well in touch with everything synth- I visit everyday to see what's going on! Anyway for your interest or others- here are some pics of what I use and record with mostly. As you can see, it's pretty minimal- but none the less fun! When I get the time, after building, this is not only where I test what things sound like, but it's an opertunity to record too. Hopefully people will recognise some of the stuff I use. There are also, in the pics, other interesting devices- notably Function Generators which are serious fun to use with modular gear- or infact, any gear with CV inputs- I see them as way complex modulators- ebay is perfect for getting this stuff cheap! Look under Test and Measurement in the electronic parts dept! On my next run of M5N, I hope to have one myself! Kind Regards to All, Ken"

Thanks Ken! Click here for more shots of Ken's studio and of course check out MacBeth Studio Systems.

The Con Brio Rises! - Update

I just updated this post with some interesting info from Brian in the comments. Be sure to check it out. Scroll down to the red Update at the bottom.

EMS Synthi E and Synthi 100

image via mono-poly

EMS Logik

image via mono-poly

AHMW Year 10

"Analogue Heaven Midwest Get-together

April 12th, 2008

The TENTH annual Get-Together will be Saturday, April 10th at the PHHS Media Center. I'll have the doors open at 9:00am. All synthgeekgearheads are encouraged to join us and spend some time with awesome gear and great people.

Past gear includes:
All sorts of Modulars (MOTM, DotCom, Blacet, Metalbox, Wiard,Doepfer, Cynthia, Modcan, etc), Voyagers, PPG, SunSyn, Evolvers, Prophet T-8, ARP, XOX & DIY gear, and much more!"

WNAMM08:Novation's Nifty Nocturn Controller


Be sure to see the write-up on Sonic State.

Modsynth1/31/2008

flickr by sduck409 (click for more)

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Roland SH-101 Brochure.

flickr by Neil Vance


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Where are they now? IRCAM’s Buchla

Barry Threw dropped by this prior post on the IRCAM Buchla. He actually found it.

"Last week I was down in San Deigo working on some ongoing projects with Keith McMillen (of the BEAM Foundation) and Miller Puckette (of Max and pd fame), and ran into this gem, the Buchla 100 from Ircam, in a spare bedroom."

You can see and read more about it on his blog.

Udpate: see the comments of this post for more info as well. I removed the references to 100 from this post so there is no confusion.

Recording a song with only Mellotron sounds


YouTube via RothHandle. Parts 1 - 7
"A short series of films from my sessions recording music for a documentary on probably my favorite instrument, The Mellotron. The idea I had was to record music solely using the Mellotrons at the studio and the Rhythmate (more on that later). So far I have recorded two pieces and this is the third one.

My name is Mattias Olsson and I am a Swedish musician and producer. My studio is located in Stockholm, Sweden. I have collected weird and odd instruments for almost ten years now and the Mellotrons, Optigans and Pipeorgans have a tendency to show up on almost all of the albums I work with. It isn't a museum but an alive and creative workplace for bands and artists who want to record "real" sounds away from computers and digital synths.

I filmed it holding the camera with my left hand with my old sony digital camera and playing with me right hand. So if you find the camera technique annoying...blame me.

For more info on the studio and the music recorded there please visit...
www.roth-handle.nu
http://www.myspace.com/57224022"

Rearranging the Studio

via AlexP

Korg Kaossilator Right Out of the Box!


YouTube via bigcitymusic
"Here's a quick demo. I didn't read the instructions. Its a lot of fun. Even our snooty engineer friend likes it. bigcitymusic.com" BTW, these are currently available via Big City Music here on the bay along with other items.

Cwejman S1 MK2: DJ Puzzle Examines A Semi-Modular Monophonic


YouTube via DjPuzzle73
"DJ Puzzle, known to his parents as Jason Donnelly, starts this video off by pronouncing one of the most awkward looking brand names in synthesis before showing us how to make a sine wave bassline with the Cwejman S1 MK2.

I made a sine wave bassline in second grade art class out of glue, macaroni, and glitter, but if you prefer to make them with semi-modular, monophonic, analog synths, you should probably stop reading this and watch the video.

Seriously, you have no choice because this is the last sentence."

"I wish" Sp404 - MC09 - PodX3 - Xbase09 - Midi Beats (Old vs


YouTube via massivebeatzz
"'I Wish' (Beat Builders Unite Mix 2008) - grooving around a bit with some old and nu skool hardware. Could be applied to a combination of other machines such as AKAI MPC 2000, 3000, 2500 better. Workflow: If u really wanna know: Midi Axiom TO MIDI record Logic 8 EXS Bass + Synth lines TO MTC out port: Presonus Firebox Midi: sync out TO MC09 TO XBase09 . And: Sp404 Sampler, Fender Stratocaster, PodX3 Wah + Delay, Sure SM58 Mic Behringer Delay to SUM into VMX 200 Behringer DJ Mixer. To out rECord with Imovie08 - Mac/analog Audio Line In (gee i could have used the Presonus audio instead...but preferred a wire running across)."

ASMO : Improvisation pt.2 [ circuit bent ]


YouTube via eddie23a
"Improvisation for Chaos Sequencer, Pulse Machine and Echo Destruktor pt.2 http://www.myspace.com/asmomusik"

Play Seconds by The Human League


YouTube via totaltwit

"More on how to enjoy your synth. Once again The Human League provide more synth playing fodder. Have a go at this one."

A Brief Conversation Resulting in One Less Child


YouTube via stretta
"This is an early prototype of Josh Boughey's stribe project. I'm attempting to write some software to turn the hardware into a musical instrument.

After a few nights of communicating with the firmware to light up LEDs in a meaningful manner, I switched gears and created a quick application that would hopefully result in a musical statement, albeit without the LED feedback I'm looking for. I'm still working on this.

If you're interested in what the stribe is, more information can be found here:
http://www.soundwidgets.com/stribe/

The software I'm using was created in Max, you can download the software at:
http://www.stretta.com"

ARP Odyssey Analog Synthesizer - Sequenced by RetroSound


YouTube via retrosound72

"The ARP is triggered by the SCI Pro-One internal sequencer, sync with the TR-606 drum machine. The drums come from the Roland TR-606"

enapa RAMjam machinedrum uw


YouTube via enapa1apa
"manging RAMmachines, 1b2+piSD and all ram... the camera falls down in the end: haha!!"

Ludwig Phase II Analog Synthesizer

images via this auction

"HERE IS THE GRAIL OF GUITAR EFFECTS. (OK... IT'S NUMBER 2 -- EMS SYNTHI FLI IS NUMERO UNO !!) BUT THIS IS CLOSE. ONLY A FEW IN EXISTANCE."

They actually come up surprisingly often on Ebay considering - click on the Ludwig label before to see how often.

Crumar Steiner Masters Touch CV Breath Controller SN 00179



images via this auction

"Steiner Masters Touch CV breath controller for analog synthersizers.Made by Crumar in Italy. Get some new surgical tubing and your soldering iron and have some fun. Bite and chew your way into sonic madness."

Roland JP-8000

images via this auction

Roland Jupiter-6

images via this auction

Chris Carter's DSI Evolver For Sale

flickr by Chris_Carter_ (click for more)

full size

"These are the last shots of my DS Evolver as I'm selling it. More details at: www.chriscarter.co.uk"

Great Hits Of The 70s Moog Style


flickr by cadd (click for more)

full size

"Taking photos of my vinyl to catalogue it on here seems to have ground to a halt two years ago so restarting it to try to finish it off"
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