MATRIXSYNTH: Thursday, March 5, 2009

Monome Step : Generative Drawing

Monome Step : Generative Drawing from formalplay on Vimeo.
"This is my first test of having the Monome control some generative drawing along with the audio through this step sequencer I made in Flash similar to the original 64Steps.

I especially like where the step sequencing begins to break down because of how deep the drawing gets.

Its the same drawing engine I used to generate this seasons Thank You cards (although for the Monome version I removed the Type Flakes)

This season's cards in collab with [M]:
ilikegravity.com/real/archives/2007/01/generative_gratitude_collaboration.php"

Monome_RandGridRunner_01.swf

Monome_RandGridRunner_01.swf from formalplay on Vimeo.

Gravity Snd Toy Prototype 01.01

Gravity Snd Toy Prototype 01.01 from formalplay on Vimeo.
"As an exploration of physical interface, this standalone reactive object is the beginning of a series that investigates ways in which objects can play and manipulate sound using external input and data. Sound playback is controlled within this object by moving it through space and changing its orientation.

This prototype is battery operated and the sound is played from an SD card attached to an Arduino board. In its current state, the prototype contains an 1/8" audio line out so that the sound can run directly to amplification and recording devices."

Gravity Snd Toy Prototype 01.02

Gravity Snd Toy Prototype 01.02 from formalplay on Vimeo.

Gravity Sound Toy Prototype - Impromptu Interview

Gravity Sound Toy Prototype - Impromptu Interview from formalplay on Vimeo.
"Saturday night @ 9pm. Hanging out with my 10 year old nephew. I ask him what he wants to do and list off about 1/2 a dozen things including video games and watching one of the movies he brought over. Out of everything I listed, he picked going to the studio to make stuff. I had been working on this earlier in the day. He was playing with the video camera and decided to ask me about it."

via evan
"The work is done by Formalplay."

Synthi: khaki + ivory microfiber

flickr by toybreaker

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Synth Ties

Future Retro 777 for sale on eBay

YouTube via arivas3. via this auction

ARP 2600 SINGS

YouTube via angelometz
"Here's the ARP 2600 after restoration! It sounds great!!!!!"

keybdwizrd - Fantom XR Demo #4

YouTube via keybdwizrd
"Some favorite patches from the Roland Fantom XR synthesizer module."

keybdwizrd - Fantom XR Demo #3

keybdwizrd - Fantom XR Demo #2

keybdwizrd - Fantom XR Demo #1

MOTM - 830 Dual Mode Mixer

via this auction

"You can read more about this unit here"

Simmons SDS 1 drum synth and 9 EPROMS

via this auction
"The EPROMS are: wood snare, tight snare, rock snare, gun shot snare, hand clap 2, breaking glass, bright tom, timbale 2, and bass riff. The bass riff EPROM is pretty interesting, it plays different bass guitar riffs depending where and how hard you hit the pad... Here is a link to the user guide for the SDS-1 i would suggest you check it out to see what this unit is capable of: [link to pdf]"

ARP Explorer 1 Synthesizer

via this auction
"Oscillators - 1 VCO (w/ sawtooth, square, narrow pulse and modulated-width pulse waveforms and Pink Noise generator)
LFO - 1 LFO with adjustable speed, depth and delay controls Filter - 4-pole (24dB/oct) low pass filter with cutoff and resonance controls

VCA - 1 ADSR envelope
Effects - repeat, delayed vibrato, bender, portamento, and pitchbend"

vocable rhythms

YouTube via yaxu
"More info: http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma50..."
More videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/yaxu

Haskell music 2

"Another experiment which might fall within some broad definition of music. This time using Haskell98's Parsec library to parse a simple grammar based on Bernard Bel's BP2.

More info at http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~ma503am/"
via sequencer.de

Line Up

flickr by mushroomk☢

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"Lightwriting One more from 1st Experience"

Korg Kontrol49

blindoldfreak show LA - live - buchla

via n3:

Negativespace presents:
Blindoldfreak (Alessandro Cortini - modwheelmood)
Cyrusrex
DJ Anon

The event will also feature a live collaboration set with blindoldfreak + cyrusrex + anon using modular synths live (Buchla, Macbeth m5, tr808, FX pedals and much more) to close the evening.

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Korg Trident Mark l

via this auction

auction description via Robert Ls Analog Synths

Ronald Moogin'

flickr by garrett_himself

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with the hamburglar...

"T design for the band TERA MELOS"

Zinc 80 Meter CW Transmitter, Actual Sound Heard From Various Distances.

YouTube via nylesteiner. yes that Nyle Steiner. follow-up to these posts.
"More info is available at http://www.sparkbangbuzz.com

This is an update to the previous video "Zinc Negative Resistance 80 Meter CW Transmitter". In the previous video, the sound of the transmitter at 5 miles was simulated. This update plays the actual sound of the transmitter as recorded on video from various distances up to 5 miles.

K7NS builds a very simple 80 meter cw qrp transmitter made out of a homemade zinc negative resistance diode. This simple radio transmitter is made without using any vacuum tubes or transistors, and it's ultra low power of 100 microwatts can be easily heard 5 miles away.

Thanks to W9RAN for his contribution of using a quarts crystal in place of an LC circuit."

circuit bent casio VL 5 SYNTH

YouTube via djwidow420
"CIRCUIT BENT CASIO VL-5 BY RESONANCE CIRCUITS WITH 6 EXTREME MODIFICATIONS"

Prophet-5 Spec Sheet

flickr by Acusonic24
(click for more)

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"This came with the prophet back in the days when I bought it at Wine Country Sequintial Circuts in 1999. In 2002 I sold The Prophet to get the never been use ,spankin new Memorymoog That never was opened. Didn't regret it but Will get another Prophet 5 along with the Prophet 08 Cause there both plentiful more so than the memory. Prophets sold more than the memorymoog Cause the Prophets was the first Poly Programmable synth. Memorymoogs Was and is a monsterous synth but very very very unreliable, always a voice detune, etc. Later on in the late 80 to the early 90s on up to today, lintronics Made a super reliable Kit for the memory and added dual out plus a super midi kit, new display,gold pots,jacks and etc. Never had any serious problems with my memory yet, every now and then a voice acts up but not often that happends, But anyways, Always gotta have a Prophet in the arsenal."