MATRIXSYNTH: Thursday, March 12, 2009


Thursday, March 12, 2009

New Pics of the "Most modified SK-1 ever!"

follow-up to this post

one more pic here

comment at the prior post

hypercyclic

"hypercyclic is an LFO-driven MIDI arpeggiator, gate effect and step sequencer for mangling MIDI input chords. It won 2nd place in the KVRAudio.com Developer Challenge '07.

Two tempo-synced LFOs can be used to modulate various parameters to create interesting rhythmic effects and chord variations. A unique feature is the possiblity to modulate the sequencer step size itself, which is useful for creating glitchy stuttering effects.

The sweetspot for hypercyclic is the narrow border between chaos and regularity. Or, in other words, how to induce a certain pleasant randomness, yet forcing everything to align again on the bar or beat boundaries.

The product is further complemented by a groove function for playing slightly off the beat. The groove parameters can also be modulated over time by the LFOs, adding to the rhythmic variation."

more info including download on mucoder hypercyclic - currently freeware

Cobra Starship

flickr by fourkicks

"Cobra Starship, supporting Panic at the Disco, at Acer Arena, Sydney, 22 August 2008.

Shot for Sidestage Zine, Issue 002.

This is definitely my favourite of all the shots I took of Cobra Starship. The way the light just lined up surprises me each time I look at this.

It helps that Vicky-T is also very easy on the eyes!"

keytar

Access Virus Indigo 1


YouTube via alex540live
"Improvisation made with only the sounds of the access virus indigo 1. Recorded 2 tracks. This machine is brutal"

KORG MS20 I FEEL LOVE!!!! (ESP VERSION)


YouTube via mopipi2. cool seeing the red and blue SH-101s together.
"ROLAND SH101 SEQUENCER TRIGGERING KORG MS20 ESP"

Flame Clockwork module - Prototype


YouTube via flameampere
"The Flame Clockwork module for Euro Rack - Test of a simple configuration with Doepfers A-118 NOISE and A-103 VCF6 FILTER.
Clockwork generate a 16th pulse line and CV from Track 1-3 CV sum output - beat variations play with GATE- and CV-pots of the Tracks and the Pots of the VCF6.
Track 1: 8th pulse, Track 2: 4th pulse, Track 3: 8th triplet pulse, all Tracks with a little bit Random."

www.thebetatesters.org Optical Theremin Plus LFO Light


YouTube via IINewIIVirusII.
"This video demonstrates how the LFO light works with the optical theremin."

www.thebetatesters.org Weird Sound Generator with LFO Light

"New version of the Weird "Sound Generator" that includes optical control of the filter."

The Bin Part 3


YouTube via davidryle
"A version of the 3rd part of the Phosphene tune from 1981 called "The Bin". This is a live track recorded in Cubase4 with thte Arrick modular, Nord Lead2X, Dave Smith Prophet 08, Yamaha DX7IID, Oberheim Matrix6R, and Korg R3. Video editing done in Cubase. This is part of a three segment piece by the electronic music band called Phosphene which wrote original rock and EM in the 1980's-1990's. They were located in North Texas."

Possible Repair Technique for the 80017a, the Juno-106 Voice Chip


YouTube via rolandsh1000

"Upfront, I'd like to say that I take no credit for inventing this technique, only for demonstrating it. I was inspired to try it by two compelling images that a person named Ramcur had posted on Flickr. I emailed him and he told me what he had done. So very special thanks to Ramcur for the method, and thanks to Chris Strellis (http://www.strellis.com) and K/Modeless Factory (http://modelessfactory.com) on the Analog Heaven mailing list for sending me sample failed chips to test this method out. Please visit their sites and patronize their services!

Some background: my HS-60 had 4 bad voices so I removed those 80017a's with plans to buy clones sometime in the future. But after I stumbled across Ramcur's photos, I tried to see if these chips could be repaired. I first used a professional heat gun, and I was able to salvage 2 of the 4 chips satisfactorially by simply removing the resin coating of the chips (the right heat allowed me to peel the coating off). But that was still only 50% yield and about 30minutes messing around with the heat gun - not easy.

After Ramcur emailed me back about using acetone, I tried it on a bad 80017 that Chris Strellis had sent me and it worked great. So I decided to create a video to show how this might be done. In the video, my HS-60 has been fitted with SIP socket to allow for quick swap out of the chips for testing. These sockets are in voice slots 2 and 3. Slot 1 has a 'known good' chip for comparison. In the final part of the video, I installed the chip that I was able to get "cleaned" in slot 2 for comparison to the good chip in slot 1 (slots 3, 4, 5, and 6 have no chips/are empty). I apologize for the bad lighting in that last part.

Does this really fix the chips? What about longer-term performance? The chips I've "rescued" so far I have put in my constantly-powered-on HS-60 for over a week and checked them twice a day and all of them no longer had any popping or cracking or cut-outs or runaway resonance or any of the classic failure modes of the 80017a. They did sound slightly different chip-to-chip, but I think that was due to me not recalibrating the trimmers for each voice.

Should you try this? I'd say you have nothing to lose and, as I show, it's pretty easy to do. If you already have a bad voice chip in your 106 or HS-60, you already would have to desolder it to install the reportedly-excellent clones from D'Naab (http://www.analoguerenaissance.com). So you could try this method first and, if it doesn't work or it's not to your liking, or you just want the comfort of something pretty much guaranteed, then you can always get the clone.

As the weeks go forward and I get time, I'll be subjecting this method to a lot of known-dead chips. I'll try to report back how that goes.

Good luck!"
Roland Juno-106 chip fix - IC repair

Muzix81 Computer Music System

via Retro Thing where you'll find the full post. It's a good one so do check it out. You'll find a free mp3 of an album created with this system.

The following is a small excerpt:
"In 1981, Hungarian musician and physicist Andras Szalay visited Sinclair in Cambridge where he bought a Sinclair ZX81 kit and built a computer at home. He designed an interface called the Composer, the first part of the powerful Muzix81 system, in 1982.

The Composer was a pre-MIDI sequencer software with a dedicated hardware interface for synthesizers and drum-machines. It used control-voltage."

mini3

flickr by parasitk
(click for more)

"A MiniMoog borrowed from Scooter McCrae (of the Mondo Modular series) and used on Devour, Rise, and Take Flight by Android Lust, and The Sick Are Not Healing by I, Parasite."

Moog IIIp

flickr by E_sus

full size

"Moog modular synthesizer. It was the second or third IIIp to leave the Moog factory (3/15/68). Paul Beaver was the first owner. It's in incredible shape for being over 40 years old."

Moog Synthesizer flickr set

Fatty Acid in the studio


YouTube via fattyacidmusic
"Fatty Acid in the studio, laying down some sounds for the song 'Sunday Morning'."

via Jon of Fatty Acid:

Stream the whole album for free on last.fm:
http://www.last.fm/music/Fatty+Acid/Fatty+Acid

a great recipe for bacon lovers:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/dining/28bacon.html"

Simmons SDSV Vintage Analog Synth Drum Modular

via these auctions

snare
bass
tom





circuit bent analog synth, joystick


via this auction

"this joystick-synth utilizes a square wave and produces a tonal range from deep lows to earsplitting highs…….it basically boils down to four independent, selectable notes (up, down, left, right), and the diagonal positions are the sum note of their adjacent selections……overall this will produce up to eight notes, for all eight directions (up, down, left, right, right/down, left/down, up/left, right/up)…….awesome functions, which allow for professional compositions……
Here is the hardware…..four alpha potentiometers (slow turn for precise tuning), four unique vintage styled knobs with aluminum inserts, one alps chrome toggle switch, one GREEN LED, one rugged joystick with a beautiful feel and response….the joystick has an ABS plastic shaft cap and a solid chrome shaft (quality!)…..all solid steel control plates, which have been hand painted ORANGE, a solid, select pine chassis which has been brad nailed/glued/puttied on all joints and a dark walnut, hand rubbed finish….smoooooth!...... super sturdy construction/design and when you feel the weight you’ll understand….tough as nails!

So whether you plan on adding some backing notes to your latest work or decide to go nuts and run the joystick 360 degrees for that CPU melt down sound…..this synth has you covered….."

Ian Fritz 5Pulser Waveshaper


YouTube via attorks. via the Bridechamber Fritz 5Pulser page.
"A short demonstration of the Ian Fritz 5Pulser Waveshaper. Bought it as a full kit from the Bride Chamber (www.bridechamber.com). Building it was fairly simple and took about 4 hours."

Cwejman Scope Analyze at Electrypnose labs


YouTube via lebarde1
"Pretty waveform show with the Cwejman S1 analog synth, playing in a track building process."

CME u-key mobiltone USB keyboard & MIDI controller

via this auction
Be sure to see the comments of this post for some notes on quality.
I don't think I ever realized/ registered that these had an internal speakers and joystick. It was announced at Winter NAMM back in 2006.

Details from the auction (note the two speakers were removed on this one):
"CMU u-key midi keyboard and controller. It comes with a MIDI cable. It's been slightly modified, and there's a couple of things I want to point out about it before selling it:

1. The internal speakers have been removed. The sound output still works fine.
2. The keyboard has been updated to the latest firmware.
3. The "CME" and "u-key" logos that were on the top left and right side of the keyboard have been removed. Not abrasively, they actually rubbed off when I was cleaning it.
4. Three black keys make a little more noise than the others when you play them. There is nothing wrong with them - they transmit velocity just as evenly as the other keys. There's a rubber strip that runs underneath the keybed to stop the keys in the event that they "travel" further down for some reason, thus, the noise.

All that aside, everything else is like new and functions as such. Full information can be found here"

From CME:
U-Key uses ultra-thin full-action semi-weighted keys to give a total thickness of only 3.7cm. Yet the key touch of U-Key is the same as keyboards of standard thickness. U-Key has a built-in 64-polyphony high quality mobile phone sound module, and internal high fidelity speaker driven by a digital amplifier. U-Key also has many MIDI songs built in with accompaniment in different styles, including loop variation and chord change. These have been carefully made by professional musicians and can be sprung by U-Key's unique 'PadStyle'. All MIDI songs and styles can be downloaded from Internet and transferred into U-Key via USB. U-Key contains a brand new Game mode, users can use this function and music books with U-Key to test their skill of performance, and students can learn many tips from using this mode. U-Key is the first mobiltone keyboard that has build in muiti ethical scales from around the world, and you may be surprised to learn that you can even play Arabian music or Asian music. U-CTRL is a brand new concept by CME, it provides the easiest way to communicate between controller and music software. You do not need to load template or presets, just press U-CTRL button and all the controllers you use for software control will be ready.

U-Key offers more than 20 user-defined controllers in different styles, including joystick, trigger pads, encoder for data entry, pedals. All controllers are programmable and all functions of U-Key can be quickly and easily set up by pressing certain keys. User can save their controller settings into U-Key and load them any time they want. U-Key has plug and play USB MIDI drivers for Windows XP / MAC OSX, and it can be USB powered.
With U-Key's line out, phone out and compact size U-Keys is ideal for composers who are ‘on the move’."

Akai's MPK49 Nominated for International Dance Music Award

"AKAI PROFESSIONAL MPK49 PERFORMANCE CONTROLLER NOMINATED FOR 2009 INTERNATIONAL DANCE MUSIC AWARD

Winners Selected by DJs and Producers
to be Announced at Winter Music Conference

Cumberland, R.I. (March 12, 2009) – Akai Professional, the name synonymous with music production, announces that the MPK49 performance controller has been nominated for an International Dance Music Award.

The MPK49, nominated as the Best Keyboard or Sampler, is a category defining musical instrument for DJs, keyboard players, producers and other music creators. It marries Akai Professional’s exclusive MPC pads and assignable Q-Link controllers with a 49-key keybed and some key MPC technologies. The MIDI-over-USB controller contains an arpeggiator, MPC Note Repeat and MPC Swing for the creative sequencing feel that has made Akai Professional’s MPC series so important to music production.

The 24th Annual International Dance Music Awards (IDMA) will be presented on March 26, 2009, at the Winter Music Conference in Miami Beach, Fla. The IDMA is the premier awards show for the dance and electronic music industry worldwide. DJs and producers cast their ballots for the most pioneering and elite artists, technology and professionals in the dance-music business.

“The MPK49 has been tremendously successful,” said Adam Cohen, Director of Business Development, Akai Professional. “We are proud to be nominated for this award.”"

Lostbahnhof Presents E-MU Pipeline in conjunction with Shook Mag

via Benjamin:
"Saturday March 14th, LIFE, 2-4 Old St, EC1V 9AA, 9pm-2am, £4

This Saturday we are hosting a number of concerts which will be powered entirely by prototype models of the new E-MU PIPEline wireless system. The prototypes have been sent directly from the factory in Japan, where they were constructed a few days ago. Musicians will transmit to each other via wireless, and a mix will then be broadcast live to the audience, equipped with wireless packs and headphones. The venue is LIFE Bar on Old St (Nearest Tube Barbican!), which resides in the basement of an excellent Japanese Sushi restaurant.

Unboxing pictures of the PIPEline units, just taken, can be found here

Silent Concerts
In the second room of LIFE bar, which doubles up as a shop selling all manner of Japanese goodies and gizmos during the day, we are teaming up with Shook magazine to host some very special Silent Concerts. Between 9pm and 12am a number of very special guests, including experimental touch electronics specialists Oscillatorial Binnage, will be performing to audiences of 20 at a time, streaming audio direct to headphones via wireless. Formed in 2005, Oscillatorial Binnage is a London-based electroacoustic improvisation trio with a neo-primitivistic approach, composed of Fari Bradley, Toby Clarkson, Chris Weaver and Dan Wilson. They work with homemade instruments, video projection, biofeedback, just intonation, gestural interfaces and destabilized equipment responsive to touch.

Some pictures of the instruments they use can be found here

If you drop in, come and say hello, I am Benjamin and I edit the music tech section for Shook Mag, amongst other things.

Facebook event listing is here.

Cheers,
Benjamin

--
http://soundcloud.com/semtek"


Roland SH-101 + TR-808 + Juno-60


YouTube via retrosound72

"vintage synth demo by RetroSound

Roland SH-101 Analog Synthesizer;
internal sequencer is triggered by the Roland TR-808:
sweep-sound @ 4.00: Roland Juno-60
drums: Roland TR-808"

Future Retro ORB + Leipzig Keyboard


YouTube via modularsquare
"Quick demo of the ORB from Future retro sequencing a Leipzig from Analogue solutions - In stock Now..."

experimental pattern generator


YouTube via EA78751
"sneak preview of something I'm prototyping. the patterns react to motion in the space over the lights. too bad the camera's shutter makes it look choppy. thanks to matt thies for shootin' this vid."

Percussion samples filtering w/ Sherman Filterbank & TENORI-ON [Quick test] (by Smith)


YouTube via znshn
"(very) Quick test with traditional percussion samples on TENORI-ON filtered w/ Sherman Filterbank 2 + digital manipulations via Korg Kaoss Pad KP3. Contents : micro-pulses and timbric percussion patterns. See also continuation video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYua0i... (...) titled "Tuning percussion samples pulses" IF POSSIBLE USE HEADPHONES OR CONNECT YOUR COMPUTER TO A QUITE DECENT SOUND-SYSTEM.

Material in this video:
- TENORI-ON
- Sherman Filterbank 2
- Korg Kaoss Pad KP3

http://www.odiolorgnette.com
http://www.myspace.com/sthintosmither...
http://www.myspace.com/znshn

See also http://www.youtube.com/odiolorgnette"

Cinematic session 4 recording the Yamaha GS 2 with Murf Noise rhythm


YouTube via RothHandle

"Hey hey,

These are some short films recorded during the sessions for a soundtrack that me and
Matti Bye are working on. The score is for a Norwegian film called Vegas. It is about three young kids in Bergen, Norway and it really is a moving thoughtful and sometimes feverish film. Its a great film to work with and we are turning the Studio inside out trying to find motifs, moods and atmospheres. So far we have recorded 17 pieces and we feel very confident and pleased with how it is turning out.

This film shows Matti recording the studios Yamaha GS-2. A very odd and interesting FM synth.

This film was shot at my studio, Roth Händle studios. The studio is located in Sundbyberg, Sweden 10 min from the center of Stockholm. The studio is based around the collection of odd instruments, effects and sonics. If you are curious to find out more about the studio please visit www.roth-handle.nu If you are curious about the music that is made there search for Molesome on Myspace.

Thank you for watching."

Cinematic session 4 recording the Casio SK 1 flute

Nord organs comparison (1st / 2nd gen)


YouTube via Nillerbabsen
"A little comparison for nitpickers - Nord Stage / Electro 2 organ engine vs. C1 / Electro 3 organ engine.
An 88888888 setting is used all the way through except during Drawbars and Percussion. The leslie is set to stop mode except during the Leslie comparison.

Recorded to a Zoom H2 through a Tapco Mix60 mixer.
I am confident that I forgot altering the Leslie speeds, so any difference in speed is due to different programming. The Electro 3 was set to "Clean" in the vintage settings mode.

I just got the beast (Electro 3) yesterday. It blows me away, - the organ is, by all means, far better than the previous one. I will, however, just have to adapt to the new keyboard... which you can probably tell :)"

FM8 Power Review Part 2/2 HQ


YouTube via thepluginguru. Part 1 here
"http://www.PlugInGuru.com

HIGH Quality image/sound (4,000kbits/s video and 256 kbits/s AAC audio) version of Part 2 of PlugInGuru's Power Review for Native Instruments FM8. This review is called "Programming Fun with Native Instruments FM8". I hope you enjoy ! There is also a medium quality image/audio version available for those with slower computers to still see/hear this in High Quality mode.

Skippy has created 12 FREE patches for FM8 that YOU can download right now at PlugInGuru.com plus there are 60 more inspiring patches you can purchase for $30 USD.

FEED YOUR PLUG-INS !"

Scanning Barcode Tattoos with Voice Synthesizer


YouTube via scottblake. via synthtopia
"Some believe barcode tattoos to be a sign of the apocalypse speculated about in the Christian Bible which states people will "receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark of the beast". I personally do not agree with the mythological connection, but imagined what the sinister mark might look like. I use Code 128 style encryption to make temporary bar codes tattoos that can be scanned.

See more art on website: http://www.barcodeart.com/barcode_tat..."

Drumcomputersystem Dynacord ADD-one/ADD-drive/BigBrain


via this auction via the forum

the description is in German, here is the Googlish translation:

"In this auction to offer you a complete Dynacord Sampling drumcomputer System consisting of one ADD-ADD-drive (including the sampling option), and the Big Brain Sequencer. Who wants to know how the system sounds, should the first edition of the Synthesizer-Magazin care.

Dynacord ADD-one
The Dynacord ADD-one has a hammer in terms of sound, handling and editing. The Samplingdrumcomputer ADD-one was from June 1985 to February 1986 from a Dynacord cooperation with the American team of designers Froward Fast Design (former Oberheim). For example, the spring comes the legendary Oberheim Marix-12 and Xpander.

In 1987, the ADD-drive, a RAM with the motherboard has been extradited. This is one of the ADD-an external analog to digital input jack or XLR and a 3.5 "floppy drive to the external sample storage. Without this board RAM is the ADD-one with up to three sample-ROM Paltinen upgradeable.

KORG DS10 Announced One Year Ago

via the DS-10 blog

"On this day last year,at the same time,we have annouced “KORG DS-10″.

We’d like to say kind words to everyone who loves DS-10!!!!

A thousand thanks!!!!

And enjoy DS-10 more!!!"

Happy Anniversary to the KORG DS10 team! It is a great synth and I am enjoying mine. :)

Blindoldfreak at the Knitting Factory

Califaudio has pics up of the Blindoldfreak show at the Knitting Factory in LA.

both Buchlas (the original 200 and the new 200e), the MacBeth M5N, Roland TR-808, TB-303, Frostwave Resonater, a Moogerfooger and some other pedals.

The most modified SK-1 ever!

via GoodVillian on the forum.
More details on his MySpace page.

excerpt for the archives
(jump to the MySpace page for more):
"Here is a sneak peak at something I have been up to. Unfortunately all I have is this camera phone picture until tomorrow. This is a prototype of my sample smasher synth. I haven't came up with a formal name but sample smasher sums it all up.

The user can record or overlap samples and then change and glitch out the sound using the patch bay below the joysticks. You can also turn those samples into synth sounding basses, pads, leads, and effects as well with the proper tweaking. More importantly you can create sounds no commercial synth can produce.

Additionally you can run your cable connections through pots (the knobs) and fine tune your sound.

The 4 joysticks on the right allow you to play up to 32 notes. And trust me, playing with joysticks instead of keys is not only fun but it is just as easy if not easier to play the synth. The patch bay you see below the wires already jacked in allow you to program which note range the joysticks play so you can set them up to your liking."

Update: clearer pics

moog rotary pot

flickr by transanalog

full size

Get out and rooooock

flickr by brentus, usa

Gakken SX-150 synth dude

Untitled

flickr by grodrick

full size

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