MATRIXSYNTH: Sunday, April 12, 2009


Sunday, April 12, 2009

Eduard Artemyev, Coil, and the ANS Synthesizer - Udpate

You can find a translation of the bottom two videos via Mr. Array in this post.

Minimoog & S8-VG sequencer


YouTube via nathanielscott
"Andrew Cortens, of the Frim Fram 4 (look them up on youtube), asked me to repair some broken keys on his Yamaha S80. As a favor he let me borrow his Minimoog; What a treat!

This video shows the Minimoog being played with my home made 8-step voltage & gate control sequencer. The voltage out of the sequencer is controlling the filter-in on the Minimoog. The filter is set to self oscillate so oscillators 1 and 2 can be played tonally separately from the melody being played by the sequencer. The sequencer does not have its own clock. The small yellow box to the right and behind the sequencer is a simple clok that controls the sequencer's tempo.

The video was out of focus so I added the colorful effects, because I didn't thik it would look any worse."

Roland Juno-106

via this auction

Sequential Circuits Prophet-5

via this auction
# Polyphony - 5 Voices
# Oscillators - 2 OSC. per voice square / pulse / tri / saw
# LFO - modulates pulse width or pitch
# Filter - 24db Lowpass filter with resonance
# VCA - ADSR
# Keyboard - 61 keys
# Memory - 40 to 120 patches
# Control - CV / Gate

Roland TB-303

via this auction

Sequential Circuits Prophet-5

via this auction

"A Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 with the Wine Country Midi Mod. Serial # 1000-6356."

GenoQs Octopus

via this auction

Blacet Miniwave w/ Expander 5 ROMs

via this auction

"Description here
Expander & ROM Description here
Includes power cable and rack screws.
Included ROMS are: DH-PPG-1, GR-PPG/P-VS, Vector 1, Bosch Gardens, Scale Quantizer

Expander is a KIT and must be assembled. The kit contains a PCB and cable only- assembler must supply parts. Support for the Miniwave and expander is available on the website shown above- no support is offered by seller. Photo below shows Miniwave with one of the included ROMs in the 2nd ROM slot. Miniwave will ship with this ROM in anti-static packaging."

acidlab roland DSI


YouTube via pac209. acidlab bassline.
"music with machines. the pro08 is driven by the x0xb0x midi output notes"

Korg MS 20 + Korg SQ 10 + Korg KR 55 + Roland RE 201 + ...............


YouTube via djessay101. "Just for Fun:-)"

Tweet A Sound: getting started tutorial


YouTube via soundplusdesign. For Twitter users.
"Tweet A Sound is a desktop application that uses Twitter as a platform for sharing sonic tweets. Pushing the idea of "social sound design", Tweet A Sound allows you to design a sound and share it in a community of like-minded folks. It is an opportunity for fun interaction with sound.

Get involved! Download at www.soundplusdesign.com"

CIRCUIT BENT CASIO PT 1


YouTube via djwidow420. It has the classic "Da Da Da" tune on the Casio VL-1.

Happy Easter to You Tubers - M4M


YouTube via muzik4machines.
"MP3: http://muzik4machines.com/xf9x24
booking: http://muzik4machines.com/book.html
Twitter: http://twitter.com/muzik4machines
happy resurrected Jesus

gear used
Korg ESX1: All Sequences/Drums
Yamaha TX81z: Reverby/Pumpy Sawtooth Bass (chain:TX81z-Boss V-Wha-Akai MFC42-DBX266 ch2 (Compression/distortion)-Alesis Nanoverb-DBX266 ch1 (pump)--Mixer)
Roland MKS50: Hoover/Saw/Lead/Pumpy Synth (Chain MKS50-DBX266-Boss SL20-Zoom RFX2200-Mixer)
Redsound SoundBite Pro: Vocals/looping
Korg Kaoss pad 2: Tempo Delay
Korg Kaoss Pad 3: Loops, Looper(snare rolls), Grainshifter
Korg Kaossilator: Noise Sweeps (path: K01-Mini KP(Delay)-Mixer)
Korg ER1: Distorted Beatbox AND sidechain signal (Chain: left out-ProCo Turbo Rat-Boss V-Wha-Mixer)
DX200: Fm E-piano, pads, 303-esque sequences, etc (Chain: Left Out-Boss DD5 delay-Mixer)
Motu Midi Mixer 7s: My mixer, controlled by the BCF2000)
Kawai Midi Patchbay:Guess
DBX MC 6: Output Compressor
NOT used:
a computer, besides recording it; no edition"

MOOG MINIMOOG THAT I AM SELLING ON EBAY


YouTube via higleyvideos. Audio demo comes in at 2:28. On Ebay here.
Note, I'm not higleyvideos and I'm not selling it. That's just the title of the video.

yr3wk43 moog rogue, mopho, piano


yr3wk43 moog rogue, mopho, piano from longcat on Vimeo.


"recorded on the last day i had that moog rogue, popped over to soundspecies henry the next day to get my moog opus 3 back, the end of the 1st exchange of the "north london moog exchange programme"...

the mopho being the spring '09 must have item for the longcat weekly improvisation, played through my ROLAND KR33 keyboard, the piano being my beautiful GEM RP-X piano module running through my ROLAND A-30 gigging keyboard...

synths effected by the arcdev industries Dubb box, a mac version thereof would make me so so happy...

all that sound passing beneath the watchful eye of Blood Sunset Studio...

x"

via longcat on the forum.

Android Lust's DotCom modular

flickr by parasitk
(click for more)

"I helped Shikhee rehouse her modular synth into more compact rack frames. Photo by Shikhee."

Band image below via:
http://www.androidlust.com

Album IV recoding sessions

flickr set by androidlust_com
(click for more)

DotCom modular
STG Wave Folder

Golven


YouTube via se7ense7
"Juno 60 layered (sometimes with some bitreduction and delay) and a Fender Squier Bass."

Devolution is Real - Easter at Mutato Muzika


flickr set by josh™
(click for more)

"An insane amount of old DEVO gear, most, things you don't normally see in real life."

Pictured here:
The Electronium
The EMS Polysynthi
Modded Minimoog Voyager with an added knobabove oscillator #1 labeled 'smart LFO' and the Original Mini
http://www.mutato.com/

Be sure to see Josh's flickr set for a ton more.

Polymorph Sequence


YouTube via Korgator
"kurze Sequence mit dem Werksound U-076 Hoelzken,Steuerung erfolgt über EMU X Board 49,FilterModulation über Pitchrad gesteuert."

PARODIA - JEJ CZARNY WARKOCZ


YouTube via wendlinka

Moog Behind the Iron Curtain - Interview & performance with Thomas Kurzhals


YouTube via MoogMusicInc
"In a short interview, mixed with performance clips, Thomas Kurzhals, keyboardist for the East German rock band KARAT talks about his experiences playing Moog in the days before the Berlin Wall came down."

Shoe from OuterSpace


YouTube via CuriousInventor. Somehow a beer can Serge no longer seems so far fetched.
"more info: http://www.curiousinventor...."

Synth Dreams - Serge Beer Can Modules

Had an odd one last night. I was out on boat and grabbed a can of serge from the cooler. Literally. It was a can of beer that you split open in half. The can perfectly split in half and on the inside of each was a serge modular with banana jacks. It was similar to an m-odule, just in a beer can, one in each half. You got two mini m-odules per can. Not sure how you'd patch it but in dreams, it all just makes sense.

Happy Easter everyone. More Synth Dreams via the label below. If you have any, feel free to share.

Rare General Music Gem S3

via synthforum.nl, via Hilltree

"Totally refurbished and restored.
Wooden sidepanels and type plate.
This project is still in progress, now I'm trying to integrate a hard disk in the synthesizer for expanded internal memory."

JH Living VCOs - single VCO PWM sound

via JH.

"First of all, a big thank-you to all those who have pre-ordered PCBs for my "Living VCOs" project!

The huge request for this has taken me by surprise. I never had so many pre-orders coming within the first couple of days for *any* of my other PCBs, and if it goes on like this it may be the first project that could be sold out before I even get the boards from the factory. :) - Ok, but I don't really expect that. [see this post for ordering info]

Anyway: Even though the strength of these VCOs lies in the animated bass range of three of them playing together, there is another feature I've built into them, and that's the CS-80-style PWM. Like the Yamaha CS-80, the Living VCOs have a limited pulse width. Even with strong pulse width modulation, you never "lose" the VCO signal, because you never get down to 0% or up to 100% pulse width. What may sound like a limitation at first, actually opens the possiblitity of "overmodulation": You can modulate the pulse width with a triangle LFO of rather slow rate, and with a depth that would normally be bigger that 100% modulation index. As a result, the modulation is clipped, becomes trapezoid-shaped. Musically, this is like a periodic "push" of the modulated oscillator's pitch - something that sounds less detuned than
ordinary PWM and allows a sonically very rich modulation. I've made a short demo to demonstate this:
http://www.jhaible.de/living_vcos/living_vcos_single_vco_pwm.mp3
(One VCO thru wide open filter + VCA + reverb)

Project description and a 3-VCO-demo is here"

Klee Contra

"New BugModular Porta-Case controlled by electro-music.com Klee Sequencer"

via the BugBrandBlog where you'll find more info including samples.

Update via ~ in the comments: PAiA MIDI2CV

REON SYNTH with a way of playing the Theremin


YouTube via kaizokuhousou
"This is the new song "the voice of midnight woman spirits"
I play like Theremin with this BOX."

megaSynth, Being a Synthesizer for the iPhone


YouTube via YonacSoftware
"miniSynth's older brother arrives at last! Coming soon to an iTunes App Store near you (yeah, well...), megaSynth is one analog-modeling, user-friendly, respect-paying, feature-bloated, forever-grateful, tax-paying, wedding-anniversary-reminding, gum-flossing iPhone synth that's sure to not disappoint. Try our Crelm toothpaste next. Yum yum.

If interested, we're located at www.yonac.com"
megaSynth is not yet listed in iTunes at the time of this post however you can find miniSynth here: miniSynth

Etherwave Plus Theremin Controls Minimoog Voyager Part 1.


YouTube via Rhythmicons
"This is a demonstration of the Etherwave Plus controlling the MiniMoog Voyager Analog Synthesizer. In the second part I demonstrate a spur of the moment Theremin Excercise in which the Gate CV activates a Sample and Hold, sent to the Freqbox for random note matching/harmonization.
Just in case any of you out there were wondering what it would sound like for a Voyager to be a slave to the Theremin, here it is a new Etherwave Plus demonstration. Not very melodic, this demo is just to give you an idea of the way the Theremin and the Voyager respond and react to this new area of control.

I had a Standard Theremin upgraded at the factory.

Thanks for watching!

Rhythmicons"

Etherwave Plus Theremin Controls MiniMoog Voyager Part 2

picsynth attempts basshunter


YouTube via picsynth
"The homemade PICSynth attempts basshunter "Now you're gone". I used the PICSynth's arpeggiator."

Pehr, live on VombatRadio.com, Part 1 - 7


YouTube via Pehr81 MFOS DIY modular.
"live set on march 1st 2009
high quality podcast here: http://vombatradio.com/arti..."

electro-music.com Super Klee Sequencer - JAM


YouTube via Pehr81
"This is the Klee driving two VCO-VCF-VCA patches and one without the filter. All modules used are MFOS-DIY (www.musicfromouterspace.com).

Pardon the sound quality and the light, it is filmed with a small digital camera."

Eduard Artemyev, Coil, and the ANS Synthesizer

Mr. Array wrote in after coming across this gem. "I think the original score was written in the 70's, so the photos of the Emulator and such are a bit anachronistic. Cool track. This theme was later remixed in 2001 by the group PPK"

Eduard Artemyev - Siberiade theme

YouTube via gobodrodiont

"Эдуард Артемьев - музыка к фильму Сибириада"
"Eduard Artemiev - music for the film Sibiriada"

After a little digging Mr. Array found an interesting bit of history regarding Eduard Artemyev. He was one of the few composers that used the ANS Synthesizer.

Regarding the ANS via Wikipedia [per GNU Free Documentation License]: "The ANS synthesizer is a photoelectronic musical instrument created by Russian engineer Evgeny Murzin from 1937 to 1957. The technological basis of his invention was the method of photo-optic sound recording used in cinematography (developed in Russia concurrently with America), which made it possible to obtain a visible image of a sound wave, as well as to realize the opposite goal - synthesizing a sound from an artificially drawn sound wave.

In this case the sine waves generated by the ANS are printed onto five glass discs using a process which Murzin (an optical engineer) had to develop himself. Each disc has 144 individual tracks printed onto it, producing a total of 720 microtones (discrete pitches) available to the user. These are arranged vertically from low frequencies at the bottom to high frequencies at the top. The convolved light is then projected onto the back of the synthesizer's interface.

This consists of a glass plate covered in opaque black "mastic" which constitutes a drawing surface upon which the user makes marks by scratching through the mastic, and therefore allowing light to pass through at that point. In front of the glass plate sits a vertical bank of photocells which send signals to band-pass amplifiers, each with dB trim switches.

The glass plate can then be scanned left or right in front of the photocell bank in order to transcribe the drawing directly into pitches. In other words, it plays what you draw. This process can be aided with a step geared motor drive (strangely similar to an engineering lathe) or can be performed manually. The speed at which the score scans has no relation to pitch, but serves only as a means of controlling duration. The ANS is completely polyphonic and will generate up to all 720 of its pitches simultaneously if required.

Trent Reznor's Studio

flickr by maubrowncow

full size

via http://twitter.com/guilty_

Smoov-E's Synthwood Pro-One


more images on synthwood.com

# Pacific Northwest Walnut
# RGB LED backlit wheels (set to Aqua)
# Synhouse midijack
# Lighted power switch

smoovbasket




YouTube via smoovbasket. The Pro-One before synthwood. Also a VL-tone.

"Clips from Smoov-E's live album "Simply Suggestive". Go to www.longduck.com for more information."

Musikmesse: Moog - Frankfurt Musikmesse 2008 & 2009 - Adam Holzman


YouTube via MoogMusicInc
"Adam Holzman (Miles Davis, Mahavishnu Project) demonstrates the Minimoog Voyager - Select Series, Old School and Little Phatty in the Moog booth at the 2008 & 2009 Frankfurt Musikmesse"
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