MATRIXSYNTH: Sunday, May 17, 2009

Serge TKB demo

Serge TKB demo from bartlebooth on Vimeo.

"quick demo of Serge TKB touch keyboard/sequencer. In this demo I tried to show the following:
- using a row to control VCA to turn off individual notes
- using reset input to create multiple sequences
- using clock divider to change direction of sequence every couple of steps

sorry for the crappy camera work, this is my first video :("

Roland Jupiter 4 SN 750183

YouTube via abertronic. "Demo of JP4 . function demo"

via this auction.

"A great synth with lovely warmth and capable of creating some very sweet sounds. Unison mode layers all 4 voices together tuning it into one of the fattest monophonic synths. Add to the mix the capability of
-saving your settings to one of 8 user memory slots
-an interesting and very playable though limited appegiator
-a great sounding chorus ensemble effect
-2 poly assign modes and 2 unison modes.
-stereo output
-overdrive the VCA for warm distortion"
See these auctions for more.

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Cebec and Mono-Poly - Robobar

Cebec: Serge

Mono-Poly: Verbos 258, Wiard Wogglebugs, Wiard Borg, Wiard Noisering, Gated Comparator, Clock Divider, 2 VCA's and some cables to connect the modules.

mp3 on mono-poly's modular blog. Be sure to see the rest of the site for more.

SYNTHESIZER MAPLIN International eti4600 c1975

via this auction
"Designed in Australia by Barry Wilkinson & Trevor Marshall Aug.1975/6

Barry Wilkinson of ETI was responsible for the packaging and kitting coordination. It was adapted for Europe by Maplin Electronic Supplies of Rayleigh, Essex who produced full construction details, and were able to supply all the components for the project including PCBs, printed panels and case."

ARP SOLUS vintage analog mono synth

via this auction
"The Solus is one of the few mid-sized monosynths built into its own case! Feature-wise the Solus is like an Odyssey with fewer modulation capabilities. It still has two sync-able oscillators with cross-fading waveshapes, a ring modulator with an external input, and the characteristic Arp filter. This is the perfect synth for those who don't want to take their Odyssey on the road."

EDP Gnat vintage British mini analog synth half-Wasp

via this auction
"The smallest, full-featured analog synth ever? Most likely. The Gnat runs on six C batteries, has a two-octave membrane keyboard, a built-in speaker, and is made out of lightweight plastic. And yet, it has an oscillator with a wide range and three waveforms (plus white noise), a resonant low pass filter, an LFO with five waveforms and a rate which reaches into the audio range, and two simple envelope generators. It sounds cool through its little speaker, but plug it into an amp, and you have a synthesizer that sounds richer and more

interesting than others three times its size!"

Yamaha CS-15D Dual channel Synthesizer

via this auction

"A great 2 voice monophonic synth"

Manual

Multivox tape delay & Roland Jupiter4

YouTube via mopipi2. "The most underrated tape delay."

TOM WHITSHIRE VCLFO PCB

via haxster on this electro-music.com thread.

"I was recently granted permission to do a run of this wonderful Digital LFO. Here are the details about it.

The pcb has been designed and I am asking who would be interested in getting a PCB?

I am expecting about $25-30.00 US dollars in cost per PCB. If alot of people get in the cost will go down.

Be aware that you need a Pic Burner for this project. The pic is 16F684. The hex file and asm can be obtained at the website above.

The pcb contains this:
(1) DIGITAL PIC BASED LFO, with glide and 4 LFO outputs. It has CV input also.
(2) analog simple LFO's.
(1) internal powersupply (option, if you wanted to make an external unit)

It has MOTM power jack holes.
It can be self powered if you wanted to make an external box or simply were pushing your current powersupply too hard already. The amount of capacitors is exaggerated for the circuit alone. You add the pairs you need. You can add them all and you will just have a really clean line. I added all the capacitors to be able to power other circuit boards also.

So far I playing with panel layouts everything seems to be fitting a MOTM panel space.

A few built items will be sold over ebay also for people who can't build.

Check out the pictures. The panel layout is not to scale. Most pots should have 1" spacing from each other.

THE POTS USED ON THE ACTUAL PCB CAN BE OBTAINED AT FUTURELUC ELECTRONICS. THE HOLES CAN FIT A "DUAL" POT, BUT THE ACTUAL CIRCUIT IS ONLY USING A SINGLE POT.

NO SPECIAL IC'S HERE, TYPICAL TL07X IS FINE.
THE TRIMMERS ARE TO EXACTLY ADJUST HOW MUCH VOLTAGE YOU WANT OUT (I.E. 5-0-5), AND TO DETERMINE THE SPEED RANGE OF THE DIGITAL LFO FREQ.

The digital lfo freq range does not go sonic. The other Analog LFO's are audible and can go sonic.

Why do i have so many LFO's on one PCB?
One Analog LFO is to CV input the Digital VCLFO. IN S&H mode you can make crazy arcade 70's sounds. The other ANALOF LFO was just to take up space. I like to have a shit load of LFO's.

I will post audio demo's later." see the thread for more.

CIRCUIT BENT LO-FI WORKSTATION

YouTube via noystoise. via Palm Sounds

Buchla 281 v3 PCBs

flickr by parasitk
(click for more)

full size

"The God Emperor of Buchla"

Dune

SFC Moog

flickr by Unisono Design

full size

t-shirt for:
www.myspace.com/searchingforcalm

distro / models:
www.ninetyeightclothing.com

syntho

flickr by robot.overlord
(click for more)

full size

ARP 2500

The Swarm

YouTube via littlescale
"An array of 40 linear feedback shift registers that are producing noise are being controlled by the swarm behaviour of 40 flies. Visual code by Topher Lafata Flies, visual algorithm by Jeff Cragg and Alex Vulliamy. Linear feedback shift register and mapping from visuals by Seb Tomczak.
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http://little-scale.blogspot.com"

métamorphizzzzzme

KORG MS20 through Plogue Bidule

via ploguebiduleexperiments.blogspot.com

Flotechnic Design Kicktronic

"Kicktronic is a high quality electronic bass drum that not only sounds like a killer kick, it has the characteristics of a natural instrument as well. Since the Kicktronic sound is generated with a slight amount of random tone differences in each strike, and the resonance envelope varies across the dynamic range, Kicktronic has as much character as a natural acoustic drum, and a uniqueness that puts it in a class of it's own."

via brian c