MATRIXSYNTH: Monday, July 28, 2008

Shy Child & Stella McCartney @ Fashion Rocks 2007

YouTube via tumblefoot. via this auction for a red Roland AX-1.

images and details via the auction:

"These were made in small numbers early 90's. This is the Roland AX-1 keytar master midi controller made in Italy.
#Can send on simultaneous MIDI channels
#Responds to : velocity
#Sounds can be split by : keyboard

That means this master controller keyboard can send information to several different sound modules and be controlled from split ends of the keyboard. This straps right on like a guitar, and has functions for your left hand to do like the expression bar(really cool!!), or remote sequencer activator/octave/sound exchange. This runs off of a AA battery pack, and connects to your equipment with a single midi cable. Check out this rad synth rock band called Shy Child that uses a similar Roland keytar." video above

Messing with KORG DS-10 Synthesiser

YouTube via aMacTV. DS-10 on Ebay
"OK, nothing complex here at all because making music is not my thing. This is messing around with the Lionball theme music, which is a map from an old shareware game called Avara on the Mac."

Early Synthmonger VCO tests

YouTube via synthmonger
"I'm too tired to work on it right now but not tired enough to make a quick video demo of my vco.

Ideally, I am going for a vco with a huge range, temperature compensation, to work as a great audio and control source while maintaining a low cost.

Due to the amount of options the main portion will be on 42HP eurorack. Later I will add other panels that will act as adapters to get even more out of this -they can also be used by external sources so they won't be proprietary.

I'm coming close to finishing and hopefully it will be completed this week! ;D"

Yamaha CS1x Demo by Failed Muso - Pt.4

YouTube via FailedMuso.

All four parts here and of course check out Failed Muso.

"The final part of my run through of some of my favourite sounds from the Yamaha CS1x. Come back soon for more demos of my favourite instruments. "

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flickr by Waveterm
(click for the full set - there are some amazing shots in this one)

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You might recognize LJ LAB 2008 from this post back in 2006.

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flickr by Waveterm
(click for the full set - there are some amazing shots in this one)

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You might recognize LJ LAB 2008 from this post back in 2006.

Sherwood Two

Sherwood Two from Michael Walthius on Vimeo.
DSI Prophet '08 comes in at 2:08
"Original composition featuring piano, acoustic guitar, electric bass, and drums (Yamaha Motif), and synth leads (DSI Prophet '08 and Virus TI)."

Machinedrum Ghost Snare Hits

YouTube via vcovcfvca
"Using an LFO to make semi-random ghost snare hits adding life to an otherwise static pattern."

Kaossilator - Looping Tips - DnB

YouTube via 00gavin. Audio comes in around :20. See 00gavin's Videos for more.
"Programs S.71 & S.75 have their own looping built in. "dLY" mode is a lot of fun, too, with a 16-beat loop length and beat breaking."

RAC's Andre Allen Anjos

via Emery:

"This blog post about RAC's Andre Allen Anjos has some great Juno 60 images as well as an awesome mix. Check it out!"

This image kind of reminded me of the Devo synth band in "Heavy Metal"

Roland Juno-60

chirp

via Conor

"African love bird chilling on my Arp 2600..."

Intua BeatMaker: Bang Your Beats On Justin Long-Style

YouTube via gearwire
"In this video, Jason Donnelly takes a look at the functions on this app, which give you pads, a step sequencer and a ton of samples to play with.

Bono is contractually obligated to record the next U2 album entirely on an iPhone. I just thought I'd throw that out there."

Anyone confirm this last statement?

You can get BeatMaker here:

MOON Trigger Sequencer M563

YouTube via moonmodular
"Audio only. One 960 and one 563 is used for this track. (plus polyphonic chords)"

KORG DS-10 GATTOBUS DEMO

YouTube via gattobus
"Little demo of this truly incredible piece of software for Nintendo DS. It sounds amazing! So at last I can play a synth also when I go to the toilet..."

Yamaha MOTIF XS: General Features

YouTube via mikefox1974. Interesting view of the interface and graphics.

afro-kun-minimoog

flickr by stifles planet

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"afro-kun is tuning my minimoog tunes."

Livewire Meets The Matrix

No not MATRIXSYNTH, the movie. Click on the second shot below and read the message. There are a couple of other references as well. You can find them along with some notes and audio on the AFG on this noisesource post.

For those that don't know, matrix and MATRIXSYNTH come from Matrix-6, my first synth, not the movie. I launched the old MATRIXSYNTH.COM back in October of '97 before the movies. The original site was actually much the same in concept as this site - a place to gather links to everything synth.

Update: a few more AFG easter eggs are up on noisesource.