MATRIXSYNTH: Sunday, August 24, 2008

Moog Multiple Touch Keyboard

flickr by Loscha
(click for the set)

Be sure to check these out full size by clicking on the 'All Sizes' link at the top of each individual shot.

"Article from America Keyboard Magazine 1992"

John Eaton and Robert Moog

You can find some prior posts mentioning John Eaton and the Multiple Touch Keyboard here.

Another Crappy Modular Video

YouTube via dkimcg
"This was from a patch yesterday. Using the Harvestman VCF to generate a tone, which is then F'ed up in the Tyme Sefari, which adds a really nice fatness to the original tone. So, all audio by the Harvestman, All control by PlanB M28, M17, M10,M24, etc. Not a musical thing, just figuring out the Tyme Sefari for shaping tone."

Roland Jupiter 6 Europa Demo

YouTube via b3nsf
"This Roland Jupiter 6 was bought by my dad in NYC, years later the battery died making it a horrendous chore to use.. I bought the Europa mod and my buddy Judah did the soldering... it turned out great! Then I added Synth Wood side panels...Love them! Here is me (filming) and my buddy Aaron (playing) testing out the restored "factory presets" ... I know presets are usually terrible, I enjoy these because when the battery died, the synth was very hard to work with... I still have a dead battery in my jupiter, but the Europa mod stores its patches in flash.. later, ben"

Sequential Circuits Six-Trak

images via this auction
"The Six-Trak is a 6-voice, Polyphonic, Multi-timbral, programmable Analog Synthesizer with a very powerful MIDI implementation, a sequencer, an arpeggiator, and a 4-octave, 49-note (C-C) keyboard.

Its built-in 800 note 6-track sequencer is very easy to use and allows one the record 2 multi-timbral sequences with individual volume controls on each track.

Its arpeggiator is really very cool – it can be switched to up, down, or assignable, which arpeggiates notes in the order they were played!

The Six-Trak can be operated in polyphonic, unison mode, and "stack" mode. In Unison mode, all six oscillators play at once, giving it a very fat and rich sound. In Stack mode, each voice can be set to a different sound patch and played as one complex monophonic sound.

It also features a pitch wheel, a modulation wheel that controls the LFO amount, MIDI IN, MIDI OUT, a stereo audio out jack which doubles as a headphone jack, and a footswitch jack."

simulacreant

via cebec's live modular improvs

"6 x STS Serge panels in shallow chassis"

Paia 4700 and Doepfer MAQ 16/3

YouTube via lesingemonotone
"Testing out the Doepfer MAQ 16/3 with the Paia 4700-system. Not very musical, but quite interesting. The best thing about the 4700-system is the springreverb...:)"

Dubbio Nil at Apartment Music show #2 improv

YouTube via halmcgeevideo. Drones on the MicroKorg. See the thumbnails for more at the end of this video.
"The first performance at Apartment Music show #2. Solo minimalist free improvisational performance by Dubbio Nil (Loren Knack). Recorded 2:05 PM, Saturday, August 23, 2008, Gainesville, Florida"

Dj Skyline br - Accident Electro

YouTube via kamitnick. A little Brazil love...

vostokkitty

via robert

tranformer_substation

via cebec

Voltage Controlled Electro-Optical Mixer

"A simple and inexpensive device is described which allows selecting and mixing audio channels by control voltage. The circuit takes advantage of the low self-noise of analog photocouplers. The slow response time of the phosphour is used to integrate the pulse width modulated LED drive. Channel crossfading is accomplished by adding a "dither" signal to the comparator string, producing apparent linear crossfades between audio channels."

via Music Synthesizer where you will find more Synth DIY. VCEOM page.

Night Tiger Attack

YouTube via zotan. Roland SH-101, Moog Liberation. via zonkout.
"Words and music by Renee Robin Riddle. From the album "My Modern Life". Directed by Renee Riddle, Stephen Floyd, and Christopher Petkus."

x0xb0x for sale

YouTube via accenter. Not sure where it's for sale... x0xb0x on Ebay

Bette Davis Eyes

YouTube via anacolangelo. Synare at 2:16. SCI Prophet-5 at 2:27. Via AH.
Never realized they had the New Romantic thing going.
"Bette Davis Eyes Video Kim Carnes"

Electrocomp-101

flickr by thingstocomerecords

full size

"My father works at a Professor (and now President) at Fairleigh Dickinson University and in the 80s they closed their music department so he took some stuff home including this synth. Neither of us really knew how cool it was at the time. It goes without saying it's sentimental worth is more than it's great sound."