MATRIXSYNTH: Friday, March 28, 2008


Friday, March 28, 2008

Metalbox rack complete!

flickr by zonkout

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MOOG Voyager Old School #1 Rolls of The Assembly Line

Yesterday marked a historical day at MOOG Music. Serial number 1 of the Voyager Old School rolled off the production line. You can find images of it along with serial numbers 1-3 here.

The images include:
- The front of Serial #1 Old School.
- Serial numbers 1 - 3 stacked up in burn in and awaiting shipping.
- The top of Serial #1 Old School. The careful observer will notice a few more CV outputs than the released prototype pictures.

- The guts of the Old School. Those that have seen the inside of a Voyager may be asking where did everything go? Note how clean this design is.

- A PCB easter egg! Look closely and you will see a BUG in the OS (pun intended). There apparently are more of these on the board.

Note that yesterday also marked the following:
1) The first OS went to shipping. It was actually built the day before but had to go though burn in and test, so it was not finished until yesterday.
2) The last little Phatty Stage Edition V1 was built - next build will all be SE 2.0 with a revised chassis.
3) The PCB for the, hopefully, production version of the multi pedal was laid out and sent to the fabricator to be made.

The new MPC50000000000000000000000!

Bigger is better.

Wigerdal's World Is Here


See the write-up on Sonic State.

Sound Lab Minisynth on MySpace


click here

via r in the comments of this post.

Click the horse label below for other horses and their synths. I should change the tagline of this site to "a fetish for everyone" Should this one get the Synth Babes label?

ROLAND VP330 Vocoder Plus by RetroSound


YouTube via retrosound72

"vintage synth demo by RetroSound

analog strings/ human voice choir: Roland VP-330 Vocoder Plus
bass drone: Roland Juno-60
space effect sound: SCI Pro-One

more info: http://www.myspace.com/retrosound72

The Vocoder Plus contains three tone-generating sections: Vocoder, Human Voice and Strings, which may be independently assigned to cover the whole keyboard, or either the upper or lower half.

The String section produces orchestral string sounds that are silky and warm feeling, and most importantly, consistent throughout the entire length of the keyboard. The Tone and Attack Time of the String section can be controlled inependently, and the Release Time is hared with the two other sections.

The Human Voice section literally defies description with its uncanny resemblance to a chorus of human voices. The upper half of the keyboard contains one female and one male chorus, while the lower half contains two male choruses. There is also an ensemble effect which increases the dimension of the vocal chorus.

The Vocoder section, like our rack-mounting Vocoder (SVC-350), processes the spoken or sung human voice (program), analyzing its character and using this information to modify another musical signal (carrier). The Vocoder section uses ten analysis filters for vowel sounds, and there is also an additional filter that is used for consonants. The Vocoder section uses as a carrier signal the combined components of the Human Voice and String section
(Roland Info Sheet 1979)."

Korg Trident Mk II - PART 1


YouTube via Mohnkuchen. "My Analogue Polyphonic Synthesizer from 1983"

Nordlead + Synthlite + TR505


YouTube via sync4000. "Nothing of importance."

MFOS Noise Cornucopia Chaos


YouTube via neandrewthal. via Nusonica.
"Who needs free jazz trios when you have synthesizers?"

bughug#1


YouTube via goto80. "defmon blushing" DefMON software for the SID. More info on GetLoFi.

Buchla 200e Demo

click here for the demo via Nicholas Kent. This one is pretty different from most you have probably heard.

Jarre breathes again with Oxygene

"Back in the Seventies, as punk was snarling its way across a world that had not yet gone green, a different sound was heard."

"Now Jarre has returned to his roots, dusted off his aged but robust tools and for the first time embarked on a tour of indoor venues across Europe.

These keyboards and synthesisers look antediluvian but emit warmth and emotion when in the right hands.

'It's not nostalgia, it's not a retro way of thinking. It's just the fact that these instruments - in the history of music - are absolutely unique, like the Stradivarius, or the Les Paul Gibson 58, or whatever," he says.

'Those instruments are very sensual and organic and you can have a very poetic approach to it.

'The difference between noise and music is the hand of the musician.

'It's the reason why I wanted to present Oxygene, which I've never played before in its entirety in a concert, to share this experience in a different venue, with proximity to the audience, to share the experience with the audience in a different context.'"

Click here for the full interview by the BBC.
You can find tour info at the official Oxygene JMJ website. Looks like European dates only. Anyone know if he will be coming to the US?

Mochika live, bjork cover


YouTube via atomolab
"Hi, this a live set during practices for the upcoming Atomo´s concert. 2 Mochika sequencers + Kaos Pad."
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