MATRIXSYNTH: Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Thingamagoop trying to contact home

YouTube via cinnamonjuly. via AnalogSuicide
"I plugged up my Bleeplabs thingamagoop to my EMS Synthi and it immediately started using the synthi as some kind of weird transmitter to contact home."

Circuit Bent Kawai R-50 Drum Machine

YouTube via anode8
"Kawai R-50 drum machine with added patchbay, and switches, programmed and tweaked live."

Yamaha RX-15 Circuit Bent Drum Machine

"Another of my modified RX-15 drum machines with switches and a noise filter."

Pulse Monger demo

YouTube via synthmonger
"This is a quick demo of my Pulse Monger pedal. A limited run of the Pulse Mongers will include an internal LFO. Later versions won't but I plan on building a control processor (that's very different than Moog's) to make up for that. ;D

Here is a description of what's going on in the video

00:19 Fundamental pulse width knob is turned from fully CCW to fully CW and back again.
00:50 Mix knob goes from full Fundamental all the way to full sub-octave
00:59 Sub-octave pulse width is turned from fully CCW to CW and back again
01:15 Blend knob is set to noon (equal fundamental and sub-octave mix)
01:24 Fundamental and sub-octave pulse width knobs are adjusted from CCW to CW and back again.
02:54 Different settings are played with
03:38 The LFO is introduced at a standard triangle wave at a slow speed then high. LFO is then set to falling ramp wave from slow to fast speed, then the shape is set to rising ramp wave from slow to fast speed. Different settings are then played with.

Thanks to Leon Burnside for testing it out! ;D

**Extra notes**
This pedal has a high Overdrive type gain while it remains very quite. No background hiss or that mumbo jumbo.

The sub-octave tracks best with non-buzzy pickups. A perfectly clean line level signal sounds best.

The sub octave is great for solos and so-so for chords. Only strings parallel to one another come out clean. Otherwise it'll rattle and rumble like all non-digital octave pedals.

If you're after a truly unique fuzzy, synthy, squarey, polyphonicy and sub-octavey pedal then stay tuned as I'll have these in production soon!"

Simian Drum Scape #3=Drum, Drone, Noise Synth by Arius Blaze

YouTube via benpumpkin
"Created by Arius Blaze of folktek = folktek.com and ariusblaze.com...video one of three...This piece incorporates a wide range of textural sound scapes as well as straight analog drum synthesis...The synth is analog, the built in delay is digital."

Simian Drum Scape #1=Drum, Drone, Noise Synth by Arius Blaze

"Created by Arius Blaze of folktek = folktek.com and ariusblaze.com...video one of three...This piece incorporates a wide range of textural sound scapes as well as straight analog drum synthesis...The synth is analog, the built in delay is digital.

drum synth rare analog folktek arius blaze circuit bent sound art drone

Simian Drum Scape #1=Drum, Drone, Noise Synth by Arius Blaze"

Suzuki Qchord Keytar improv

YouTube via JorgeCortez01. "A little jam of using the Qchord as a keytar"

Oberheim DX

YouTube via spaceboyjosh
"Me playing around with my Oberheim drum machine, noodling with the pattern sequencer and then playing the drum pattern from New Order's 'Blue Monday.' Enjoy..."

Yamaha MO6, 'Devotion' by Dj Jaroon - NSFW

YouTube via mrjeroen21. "Relax and turn up your speakers! Enjoy :-)"
This one is probably Not Safe For Work, although I did work with a guy with tons of scantily clad images of Britney Spears on his wall for months and he got away with it.

PIF

via this auction

"This is very rare little soviet synth "PIF". It has built-in speaker and line out. Sounding very funny." Demos apparently coming in the auction soon.

Roland TR-909 with ver 4 EPROM

images via this auction

"Most 909s have v.1, I should know as I've owned 3 of these beasts.
The v.1 eprom causes sync IN issues with MIDI and DIN sync... in "slave" mode.
With the version 4 installed, ALL sync issues are fixed. Just search the web and read for yourself.
Again, this 909 has version 4... installed.
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM"

Inside a 909

Beamz Now Available

via TlaB in the comments of this post:

"I work with the manufacturer of the beamz, and they are now selling it direct on their website www.thebeamz.com for $499.95. You can download more genres/sounds to play from there as well."

The original video
The Spoof (the best free marketting ever)

HITACHI Lo-D HMS-30

via Yahoo! auctions Japan

"希少品の”HITACHI Lo-D HMS-30 メモリーシンセサイザー”　１９８０年頃のアナログシンセサイザーです。作曲したものをデータで記録したり、呼び出したりすることが出来ます。動作確認済の完動品の美品です。取扱説明書が付いてます。付属品として別売品のスタンド”ＬＡ－３０ＭＳ”と”ダストカバー”とデータレコーダー接続コードが付きます。
ノークレーム、ノーリターンでお願いします。発送は、クロネコヤマト宅急便着払いになります。"

Googlish:
"Scarcity of goods "HITACHI Lo-D HMS-30 synthesizer Memory" circa 1980 analog synthesizer. Composed and recorded the data, or you can call. End kind of dynamic behavior of beauty products product. With an instruction manual. Accessories sold separately as a stand-"LA-30MS" and "dust cover" data recorder and connect it to code."

via Chis

Isidore v1.4

YouTube via DamagedMeat
"Messing around with Isidore the robot.

This video is a demonstration of the latest version of Isidore with a screen in the head displaying waveforms and Lissajou shapes comin' out from the MFB Videoscope module.

All sounds by Doepfer A100 except micromoog bass in the 1st part and little melody in the 2nd one. The theme is played live by the A100, MIDI sequenced by a protools. The red and white lights are controlled by MIDI and CV.

Feel free to rate and comment.
Txs to my mate Louis for the shooting.

Next version of Isidore will feature vocoder and lighting mouth, weee !
Stay tuned !§"

The LinkSynth & Recipe For Destruction: Two Homemade Synths

YouTube via gearwire
"We're hanging out with Rob and Kate Houle of Austin's Before Dawn. Rob has quite a knack for making synths out of household objects. Using a LinkSys router as an enclosure, Rob created the LinkSynth before moving on to his Recipe For Destruction, which we assume will also be the name of a Megadeth song in the near future.See more on Gearwire.com."

Anything Can Happen EMX-1 Cover

YouTube via Danfriend01
"Electribe MX-1 cover of Enter Shikari's 'Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour'"

Effectrix - the effect sequencer

YouTube via SugarBytes
"Effectrix is the ultimate effect sequencer plugin for your host."

Effectrix plug-in from Sugar-Bytes.

YouTube via wiretotheear
"Here is a Wire to the Ear video of an absolutely must have plug-in that has just been released. Effectrix is a VST/Audio Unit which sequences effects such as XLoop, Scratch, Reverse, Stretch, Tonal Delay, Stutter, Vinyl, Crush, Filter, Phaser, Chorus, Delay and Reverb. A 30 day demo is available at: www.sugar-bytes.de For more videos, tutorials and pro-audio articles visit www.wiretotheear.com."

"Effectrix 1.0.1 Update released!

-Vowel Mode fixed in Filter Effect
-FL Studio problems fixed
-Rtas Wrapper problems fixed
-Tempo control recall fixed
-Decay mode fixed in Looper Effects
-Size display fixed in Looper Effects
-Dry/Wet leveling improved in Looper Effects
-Retrigger behavior improved (now retriggers on seq-wraparound)
-Bypass fixed in Audio Unit
-Monotrack compatibility for Audio Unit
-Sync behavior improved in Stutter Effect
-Stop Mode improved in Vinyl Effect
-Wavescope fixed
-Grafical improvements

Effectrix is the perfect tool for sequenced sound manipulations.

Tweak your beats, create new rhythms, turn your stuff into colorful grainclouds....reverse parts, stretch others, apply delaylines or even create melodies out of atonal material.

Features:
-32 step sequencer matrix for effect activation
-2 Modulation sequencers per Effect
-12 subsequences, triggered via Midi note and host automation
-14 innovative effects:
XLoop, Loop, Scratch Loop, Reverse, Stretch, Tonal Delay, Stutter, Vinyl, Crush, Filter, Phaser, Chorus, Delay, Reverb"

Syntho Saur

flickr by david™

full size

Godzilla and Formant modular

BTW, if you like Godzilla, check out Toho Monster

Update via david™:
"I took the shots of these vintage synth at the synthesizer park of the recent spring festival. Here is some more info:
link"

Minimoog Voyager

flickr by david™
(click for more)

full size

MOOG Voyager Jade

Update via david™:
"I took the shots of these vintage synth at the synthesizer park of the recent spring festival. Here is some more info:
link"

Filter doesn't work (part I)

YouTube via SMS303
"The patch i have used is: osc. cv input, gate input into the envelope generator (ADSR) and from the saw output to the VCA (this gives sound). When i put the saw input into the filter you only hear the envelope generator (the gate pulses) and no audio from the filter output section."

Filter doesn't work (partII)

"I patch from the filter (incoming saw, without sound from the filter, you hear only the envelope generator) into the VCA and there is the sound again."

korg 2069 vcf test

YouTube via k4e5n

"the black panel in the middle is a vcf with a korg 2069 chip from a dead poly800.
the cut off freqency and the resonance are controlled by separate LFOs.

drum groove: macbook-garageband
pad: roland jx3p"

sintetizzatore

YouTube via 14nairod92. via Nusonica.
"sint. yamaha cs-10 1981 che nonostante gli anni fa ancora il suo sporchissimo lavoro...ecco a voi il potere della sintesi!!"

Sequential Circuits Drumtraks

YouTube via jakeschrock. "sequential circuits drumtraks drum machine"

Yamaha YC-30 & Sequential Drumtraks

YouTube via jakeschrock. via synthzoom.
"for all you portamento strip fans"

DotCom, MFM, Doepfer MAQ16/3, RT-323 and Nord Lead 1

YouTube via attorks. via synthzoom.

"Row 1 of the MAQ16/3 drives the DotCom which sequence you hear prominently. Row 2 drives the MFM doing the bass. Rhythm by the Zoom RT-323 from which I also transpose the Modulars. Chords are done on the Nord Lead 1. The DotCom's output is going through a Behringer VP-1 vintage phaser and a Akai Head Rush E2 for the delay. The Lexicon MPX-100 is for the overall reverb."

DotCom, MFM, Doepfer MAQ16/3 and RT-323

"My first video. Sequences tempo is driven by the Zoom RT-323 from which I also transpose. The Doepfer MAQ16/3 drives the DotCom and MFM (My First Modular; self build)."