MATRIXSYNTH: Tuesday, March 25, 2008


Tuesday, March 25, 2008

RA Moog 351 Theremin

via this auction

BIN of $18,500.00

"Here is an extremely rare vacuum tube theremin made by a young Bob Moog and his father in Flushing, New York back in 1954. Everything is original and nothing has been modified or altered in any way. It works great! You can check out a little more information at this link-- http://moogarchives.com."

via cynep on the forum.

Future Retro XS filters the TR-909


YouTube via FutureRetroSynths. "The XS mangles beats from the tr-909"

OXYGENE 2 Jean Michel Jarre Cover (New Version)


YouTube via gattobus
"My first video [posted here] was removed from Youtube, but now that Mr. Jarre has given his permission [see this post] I hope this video will remain up...
In this new version I used Nord G2 for all the sequenced stuff (drums, bass, arpeggio) and the lead sounds, Access Virus Ti for pads and Moog LP for filter FX.
For all JMJ fans out there,
Enjoy!"

HDD drummer


YouTube via fibranijevidra. Follow-up to the yellow drum machine robot.
"Hard drives voice coil driven by Ableton Live trough MIDIbox SEQ."

Sherman QMF and Tenori-on / Nortec


YouTube via bostich1
"Ramon Bostich working with Sherman QMF Quad Modular Filter, Tenori-on and Banda & Nortena sounds.
www.myspace.com/tijuanasoundmachine www.myspace.com/bostichpointloma"

Yamaha CS80 Manuals

The full CS80 Service Manual in color has been added to the Yamaha CS-80 Manuals site.

Paia oddity (the 3790 EEG)



You can find an mp3 demo here.

Remember the 3790 from this post?

Here's some more info via Lee:

"Attached is a photo of the device with its new case, scan of the ad in the 1978 Paia catalogue and a mp3 (2 mins.)of its sound.

I bought it in 1978 from the Paia catalogue and have had enjoyed its soothing tones ever since.

The Stereo Chord EGG (Encephalo-Gratification Generator) is really cool. It generates a swirling, relaxing pattern of C chords, F chords, and G chords. The individual notes drift in and out, and the chords change very smoothly.

It's supposed to create low frequency beat frequencies around three or four hertz that will subconsciously entrain your brain waves to a delta state.

It only has one control pot, all the way to the left is more panning less filter, all the way to the right is more filter less panning. The MP3 is at the mid setting.

I sometimes have it on very low playing through my stereo. Once somebody asked me "Is there something wrong with your refrigerator?"

Back in 1999 I called PAIA to get the value of a resistor that I thought was burned out and John Simonton answered the phone. He said " You actually still have one of these!" When I said yes he laughed out loud for several seconds. Link to the manual

Cheers,
Lee"

the squarewave parade DOWNGRADE videos


http://thesquarewaveparade.com/DOWNGRADEv2.html
videos include:
the DOWNGRADE - saw source
the DOWNGRADE - percussion source
the DOWNGRADE - expression pedal sweeps
the DOWNGRADE - percussion source two
the DOWNGRADE - stand alone
If the videos don't appear for you check them out here.

Ookpik Ebbe+Flut patching demos

via Ookpik:
"I don't know if you're interested, but I've got a couple of short/sweet audio clips of Airbase clean and through the Ebbe and Flut. The wet version is a pretty good example of what you can do with the EuF's patches, at the core of it the patch involves both filters FMing each other, with filter 1 at a very low frequency and high resonance. Env1 controls the LFO rate, and is itself triggered by the output of the distortion circuit. The LFO is set to modulate the envelope times in Env2. It's up at my myspace: www.myspace.com/ookpikk Or direct at
http://ookpikk.googlepages.com/NeonDrumsClean.mp3
http://ookpikk.googlepages.com/NeonDrumsDirty.mp3"

OLPC Sound Sample Archive

This one sent my way via Jacob. You can find more info on OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) here.

"Dear Colleagues, Students and Friends,

THANKS SO MUCH TO ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR WONDERFUL SOUNDS!!!!! (a few more things are still coming online

- but the OLPC Release is official....

Please share this news, press release and links with your students, your friends, your colleagues, your mailing lists and your newsgroups....

================

The Berklee College of Music, Berklee Music Synthesis Alumni, The International Csound Community, Open Path Music and Avid Technology have opened up their sound libraries to the children of the world - and YOU!!!

This 8.5 GB collection is donated under the Creative Commons Attribution License which means you can freely create, compose, mix, remix, share, distribute and redistribute these samples and use them for any purpose as long as you clearly attribute the source.

At last... free - thanks to all those who contributed.

Spread the word. Share the sounds.....

-doctorB

Here are the links:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sound_samples

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Sound_samples

Here's the *Official* OLPC Press Release:

http://csounds.com/OLPC_SoundSampleArchive.doc.zip

While you are checking out the links and downloading the samples, you might want to check out all the cool CsoundXO stuff that has been happening on the OLPC XO laptop:

Over these past two months the CsoundXO Developers - especially John ffitch, Victor Lazzarini, Andres Cabrera, Jacob Joaquin, Cesare Marilungo, and Greg Thompson have really pushed out some new and important tools and activities for the XO. Links to some of these are below.

A most important result of this development initiative is the fact that John and Victor got the CsoundXO subset of Csound5 to be FULLY SYNCHRONIZED and TOTALLY COMPATIBLE with the current release of Public Csound (and automated the process so that they will ALWAYS be in sync!) and Andres has a CsoundXO manual that is fully synchronized as well!!!!!

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Csound

+ Links to the Csound Activities, the new RPM!, the developer tools

(by Victor), and the toots.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Csndsugui

+ Victor Lazzarini's AMAZING new GUI TOOLKIT for Csound Activity

Development on the XO

+ Victor has developed a wonderful small collection of tutorial

activities with sliders and buttons controlling CsoundXO

- waves - a simple additive synth

- synth - a subtractive synth with USB keyboard control

- playfiles - an 8 track remixer with record capability

- GMplayer - an iterface and instrument for loading and playing any GM file with Csound - using the Avid/M-Audio donated Sample Set

http://www.thumbuki.com/20080317/step-and-funny-talk-for-the-olpc.html

+ Jacob Joaquin's new Activities developed with Victor's Toolkit and

his blog and tutorials about the process.

* coming soon (within the next two weeks) by Greg Thompson

- CsoundEditor/Launcher - with virtual MIDI piano keyboard and CsoundXO manual integrations

+ including ALL the Boulanger Tutorials - TOOTS, Csound Book Chapter

1, Mastering Csound, Scanned Synthesis

+ including thousands of instruments and models from The Csound

Catalog plus dozens of compositions and MIDI instruments,

- CsoundRemixer - for jamming with the OLPCsound Sample Archive (and adding Csound FX instruments)

- GMPlayAlong - for playing general MIDI files with Csound and visualizing the tracks on the ascii keyboard, virtual piano keyboard and pianoroll

- PlayAlong Keyboard - for playing Csound Instruments from a USB and/or Virtual Keyboard: GMplayer, Sampler, SynthExplorer (all sorts of synths)

* coming soon (within the next two weeks) by Cesare Marilungo

- Image2Sound - for the sonification of pictures and drawings from the Journal and other OLPC Activities using his new image opcode collection.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:CSound - some thoughts on Csound for press and others

Here are the links to the XO Bundled Sound Activities (including especially the Csound Masterpiece by Jean Piché and Company

- TamTam Mini, TamTam Jam, TamTam Edit, and the SynthLab)

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tamtam - all Csound - AMAZING - INTUITIVE - POWERFUL - and for Children!

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pippy (Some Csound)

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Memorize (Some Csound)

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Measure (Making the Csound connection now)

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Record (capturing audio for Csound and Photos for Image2Csound conversion - thanks to Cesare Marilungo's new Opcodes!)

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Draw (paint program which with Image2Csound and Cesare's opcodes - can now be transformed to audio.)"

Alesis A6 Andromeda


click here for the flickr set by Jyoti Mishra.

Pink Floyd - On The Run attempt on Alesis Ion synthesizer


video upload by adzy31

"Me playing a version of Pink Floyd's "On The Run". This one I did without the original track playing in the background. it's just one take, i didn't have time to add all the random talking and footstep noises and panning bass sounds and backwards guitar played with a mic stand etc etc... but maybe that'll happen at some point.

it could do with a bit more variation in the sequenced sound but i'll just have to keep experimenting with all the magical features of this synth.

btw for anyone who is interested it is fairly possible to use this synth's tracking generator as a crude step sequencer, hence this video - instructions can be found in the alesis ion/micron Yahoo group, message number 15215. I used a patch from 'uralmoto2001' (to whom i'm very grateful :)) which I found in the files section of the group, with a few edits, as the basis for this video.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/al..."

Screaming into Moogerfoogers


YouTube via RothHandle
"Title more or less says it all.
This film was shot at Roth Händle studios in Stockholm, Sweden. The studio is owned and run by swedish musician and producer Mattias Olsson. The studio houses a remarkable collection of odd instruments, both new and old. For booking and more info on the studio please visit www.roth-händle.nu"

Treating the Korg KR-55 through Moogerfoogers

"Today I started working on anew track for the Mellotron Documentary soundtrack I am working on and decided to use a rhythm from the Korg KR-55."

The ARP 2600: 2012 Filter Part 2


YouTube via AutomaticGainsay. See part 1 and more here.
"Here is the second part of a two part series outlining and demonstrating the sound and functionality of the ARP 2012 filter on the ARP 2600.
Thank you for watching!"

My Roland Tb 303´s in action - Citric Acid


YouTube via acidjack303. "I play some of my Tb 303´s :)"

Metasonix TM-7, Fulltone TTE & A.Solutions SEMblance


YouTube via bigcitymusic
"In this video the Metasonix Scrotum Smasher is annihilating the Analogue Solutions SEMblance. The LFO of the Moog CP-251 is modulating the Scrotum amount. All of it is running into a Fulltone Tape Echo that's pretty cranked. The first little clip is the SEMblance dry."

My modular synth (25/3/2008)


YouTube via futureimage

"Equipment used:
Future Sound Systems "Digital" Oscillator
CGS52 Simple Lockhart Wave Folder
Alesis Ion + microKorg provide a little modulation for the oscillator

First time I've really used these few modules together. I'll have to fix the Synthacon cos it's a really nice filter when it works"

KORG MS10

images via this auction

Roland JD-800

images via this auction

Erasure - In Studio 1991


YouTube via flatulentphil. via sequencer.de.
"Andy and Vince performing basic versions of 'Perfect Stranger' & 'Chorus'.
This footage was filmed in 1991 before the release of the album Chorus and was broadcast on the Channel 4 UK music show 'Friday night at the dome'"
Synth audio comes in at 2:07 with the Roland MC4 sequencing.

Vince chats about synths

YouTube via erasureLP2006. You can find a few more on sequencer.de.

Veqtor - Definite in Audio-Surf


YouTube via Veqtor. via OXO Unlimited.
"Started playing Audio-Surf, a wipeout-puzzle-hybrid game where the levels are created by analyzing audio-tracks on your computer.
Threw in my latest track, Definite (name is subject to change), a old-school antigrav-racer-acid-track and the level turned out awesome so I had to frap it for your viewing pleasure! Enjoy

My new track, definite, being played in the game audio-surf. This track is unreleased so far, might put it up for mp3-sale as a single with some other track or remix, for just a couple of dollars or three. Depends on if you like it."

Ableton Live Controller - Arcade Style

"The Prevolt has put up some photos of his Ableton Live controller, dubbed Ambassador. I love that it shares a moniker with the AMC Rambler automobile, though I suspect that wasn’t intentional (pictured at right, photo: Ty Sonneil).

Prevolt describes the gear, which features analog-y, arcade-style hardware controls and a custom case:

'This is what I’m using to control Ableton now. All arcade hardware, aluminum top panel by FPE, and a nice wood case courtesy of my man Michael Yates. It uses all key commands through a custom driver to handle playback, effects, editing, warping, UI, mouse clicks, scroll messages, and more, with a lot of tweaks (some strobe, some send double messages, etc)'"

See the full post on CDM.

Audio Damage Update : Kombinat...

It looks like Audio Damage's latest will be a distortion plug-in. Via Analog Industries.

Electric Six - Synthesizer - Bringing Back the Synth Babes


YouTube via atreat4eye.

You can decide who it applies to in this video.
There's some juicy male babe for the ladies and the men that swing that way.
Interesting trivia on this video: the background synths were shot at Analogue Haven.

video description:
"Guy Perry stars in Electric Six "Synthesizer," directed by Chris Chambless. Electric Six previously brought you the hot and sexy, xxx song 'Gay Bar.' Bikini girls, Muscle Beach, the Moog, and a Naked Guy are featured prominently in this synth-beat, electro piece. 'You can't ignore my Techno.'"

Spot the synths.

Far away cafe (live improvisation)


YouTube via mik300z. via fischek.
"original composition (needs practice)! thanks to youtuber fischek who helped me with the stereo uploads. Im using the Korg X5's choir , Microkorg some sweeping and beeping using its arpeggiator at the slowest speed. The Ensoniq Esq1 is making that lovely old piano sound, synthesized as it is, it has a lovely warm tone.ESQ is also making the "vangelis" type leads . The Junos are doing the rest"

Last day for Limited Edition AFG pre-orders

"Just a quick note to let everyone here know that Tuesday, March 25 will be the last day to pre-order the Limited Edition version of the Livewire Audio Frequency Generator.

We have definitely exceeded our expectations for pre-orders, but we've decided to leave it open for two additional days, due to overwhelming demand and some paypal cart problems (too many orders!).

Again, you can pre-order your AFG by going to www.livewire-synthesizers.com or simply emailing Shawn Cleary at shawn at analoguehaven.com. Existing customers of Schneiders Buero, MESI or Moog Audio can reserve their Ltd. Ed. AFG directly with these dealers. Also, customers in Japan can contact Fukusan Kigyo Co. (www.fukusan.com) to inquire about pre-ordering an AFG.

Thanks to everyone for the great response and support of Livewire products... it has been extremely encouraging.

Mike Brown
Livewire Electronics"

Shine on you crazy diamond on Kurzweil K2600X


YouTube via jabel77. via fischek.
"It's me again, performing the initial synth lead and guitar of the famous song by Pink Floyd on my Kurzweil K2600X....GOOD EMULATION!"

Roland JD-800 + D-550 (D-50 Rack) + TR-707 by RetroSound


YouTube via retrosound72

"bassline: Roland D-550 triggered by the MFB Step64 step sequencer and sync with the TR-707
pads and digital sounds: Roland JD-800
drums: Roland TR-707"

Oberheim Mini Sequencer - Orgon ENIGISER - Aries AR-328


YouTube via bostich1

follow-up to this post.

"Ramon Bostich working with Oberheim Mini Sequencer modular upgrade, ORGON SYSTEMS ENIGISER, Aries AR-328 Spring Reverb.
www.myspace.com/tijuanasoundmachine
www.myspace.com/bostichpointloma"

Roland SH-101 and Yamaha CS01


YouTube via williamc99
"This is just me playing around with some of the settings with the Roland SH-101 and the Yamaha CS01 synthesizers. I hope that you enjoy this video =)"

Random modulations

flickr by corkyburger

full size

"Using two oscillators as LFO's and mixing their output. Added modulation comes from a third LFO (Moog Voyager out of picture). I'm sending the mixed modulation signal to the pitch and waveform inputs on the Voyager and getting some really wild sounds. Its fun!"

Ohm Force Frohmage - Free Low Pass Filter

"Sorry, did someone say FREE! Yes indeed. Ohmforce's most affordable plugin offers, as you would a expect, a unique palette of sounds, combining lowpass filtering and analogue crunch with a bundle of special features.

You can easily tune the filter to resonate with specific notes in your music, and the built in harmonic multiband feature adds tons of warmth to your sound. For extreme fun, delay effects can be applied across the filters at the turn of a single knob, creating swish phasing or weird gliding echoes.

Finally, why not dial in some distortion. Whether you like your music to scream in pain, or simply crave that phat, analog tone, Frohmage's final overdrive stage is waiting to be abused. Oh, and did we mention that it's free?

Core features
Highly resonant low-pass filter
Cutoff frequency unit selection : Hz or musical note
Up to 15 additional bands, harmonically distributed
Delay on each band for unique phaser effects
Distortion stage, with two routing schemes
Very fine MIDI control (PRN and NPRN sent or recorded by Frohmage are 14-bit accurate)
Low CPU load
And as usual on Ohm Force products
Useful presets instant variable transitions where all the parameters switch from the old value to the new one in a ballet you won't forget!
MIDI automation: It allows control of all parameters from *any* MIDI source and records its movements. With the MIDI feature, it's also possible to adjust the LFO phase to get accurate tempo synchronization and to obtain totally musical and rhythmic effects. All RPN and NRPN data sent or recorded are 14-bit accurate. This feature is not available on demo versions but is featured on the Frohmage free version, instruments demos or every standalone versions for you to try.
Easy MIDI configuration with Auto-Bind feature. Select a knob on the screen, activate the Auto-Bind and move a controller knob on your MIDI device: the parameter will be automatically bound to the chosen knob.
Fast configuration: Save MIDI configurations into files and reload them to avoid repeating the same operations each time you load the plug-in. Advanced MIDI support with autobind feature and fast configuration
Tempo synchronization: Instantly matches the exact beat of your track
High quality DSP algorithm: The greatest sound quality. See for yourself with any demo version or check out the samples.
Sampling rate up to 384 kHz.
Revolutionary graphic user interface! Big handy buttons which are more precise and smoother than you could imagine... With our SubPixel technology there is more definition.
Move several buttons at once, with group selection and side-click. Advanced GUI full of live-performance features, such as flying knobs, preset morphing, and grouped parameters..."

click here for the download and a sample. Ohm Force are the people behind GMedia's Minimonsta and Oddity. via the music of sound.

RAM4

flickr by -thefutureistheresultof ourlasthopes-
(click for more)

Jugg Box DPM 48
Electronic Drum Sets

full size

the komegatone


YouTube via k0m3g4. Follow-up to this post.
"this is a PAiA fatman synth kit built into an old suitcase that my grandmother used to store her oil paints. The face panel is laser etched/cut from transparent red acrylic."
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