MATRIXSYNTH: Wednesday, July 8, 2009


Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Suzanne Ciani Synth Commercials

GE Dishwasher Production Session

YouTube via SuzanneCiani. NED Synclavier. Note the Buchla in the background.

You might remember this video from this prior post on Suzanne Ciani.
"This video was filmed by Julio Cintron as a documentary about the GE "2800 Dishwasher" at my small studio in 1984."


The following video, just posted by SuzanneCiani, is the finished commercial from 1984.


GE Beeping Dishwasher


"Here is the finished product after spending a lot of time in my production studio putting it together. All that beeping won me a Clio (Awards for Excellence in Advertising) in 1984."


And a few more just posted by SuzanneCiani on YouTube:

Black and Decker Cutter


"How many times have you seen this commercial when you were young?"

Columbia Pictures Introduction Logo


"Now you know where the music came from (me). :-)"

Bull in the China Shop


"This is my award-winning commerical. Amazingly, nothing fell (that's no bull)."

I remember all of these.

BTW, be sure to click here and scroll for some great posts on Suzanne Ciani including more video.

Moog Taurus Bass Pedal Synthesizer

via this auction






Vintage Moog Prodigy

via this auction

"Early version 336A Moog Prodigy dual oscillator monophonic analog synthesizer in great condition. Professionally modded in the 90s with CV & S-Trigger inputs to control the pitch."



WMD Geiger Counter Eurorack Prototype


YouTube via bigcitymusic http://bigcitymusic.com/
"This is one of the craziest Eurorack modules ever. With CV control over sample rate, bit rate and the super-cool wavetable function, this thing is a monster! We're using a Cwejman squarewave oscillator and a Plan B Elf LFO to modulate the sample rate and wavetable. There's a CV amount control for all three CV inputs as well as a knob for gain/distortion amount. These little tiny knobs are awesome too!"

Waveform Permutation Hardware


YouTube via littlescale
"I've made a simple circuit that will generate all possible waveforms that have four bits of amplitude and are four samples long. It's very simple, and follows the same concept as my previous forays into this concept (which were all software based).

Basically, there is a counter that is 16 bits long, and is pulsed by a continuous square wave. This controls the speed of waveform change of the output waveform. Every four bits of the counter are fed into a multiplexer. There is a multiplexer for each bit of the output waveform, and so every first bit out of four from the counter is fed into multiplexer 1, every second bit out of four from the counter is fed into multiplexer two and so on up to multiplexer 4.

The output of the four multiplexers is chosen by a separate binary counter, which is clocked by an independent square wave. This controls the frequency of the output waveform. Thus, the output of the combined four multiplexers essentially "steps through" the waveform, and is then converted into an analog voltage using an R2R DAC.

http://little-scale.blogspot.com"

MFOS Sound Lab with Midi to CV converter


YouTube via PlanetSynth
"www.planetsynth.com
Just a little description of how to use the Sound Lab Synth with a Midi controller.
Thank you all for looking!!"

Simple analog envelope modulation - How to - part 3


YouTube via analogueak. follow-up to this post.
"Describing how I use a Roland piezo trigger and the ribbon controller to produce a gate signal. The gate output is sent to the gate input of the envelope. The envelope output is sent to the input of the amplifier, filter, and oscillator. Not trying to get to in depth. pew pew pew."

Meeting of the Knobs 2009 Gallery

You can find the full set of images here at synthesizers.com.

Pictured here:
Roger Arrick of synthesizers.com taming the dotcom modular

Mark Glinsky's Aries Modular

Mark Glinsky's Memorabilia (click the image and read the notes from Keith Emerson)




Cantos

flickr set by jeff pineau
(click for more)

shots of the Cantos synth museum

prior posts here

Note the EMS Synthi 100

Update via pineau in the comments: "Pictures taken by Stephanie D'Entremont."


Birdland BoardWeevil

Birdland BoardWeevil from Umcorps on Vimeo.

"Short demo performance on the BoardWeevil from Bugbrand (bugbrand.co.uk). Live and unedited.
BoardWeevil is connected to a noise gate plus some slap-back echo but no other FX or processing is involved." "Think of it as a riff on the sound design for Hitchcock's 'The Birds'"

Folktek Arts Magnetic Sequencer

"This piece was a collaborative effort between Ben Houston and Arius Blaze. It has no sound generating capability whatsoever and was designed specifically to control external anything so long as it's patchable."

More info and images at the Folktek Arts blog.

Folktek on ebay (I also added a link under the More Stuff section on the right)

CrudBox by Steven Litt at ITP

CrudBox by Steven Litt at ITP from Core77 on Vimeo.


via this Create Digital Music post on the upcoming Handmade Music NYC 7/16.
"The CrudBox is an original hardware step sequencer in a briefcase, which plugs into and sequences everything from cassette decks to power tools and turns them into musical patterns."

Geiger Counter Euro Prototype

via the Big City Music blog

"The WMD Geiger Counter eurorack module is under construction! (or destruction!) Look at all the CV inputs. Whew! This is a working prototype. Video soon!"

bigcitymusic.com

Update: vid here

QUASIMIDI Polymorph virtual analog synthesizer

via this auction

"Polyphony: 8 voices to 16 voices
Oscillators: 3 per voice with 128 waves (sine, saw, square, pwm, tri), 30 sampled waves, noise, external
Filter: 2 resonant 12dB high pass and 12/24dB lowpass
Effects: 2 per part: 2-band EQ, delay, dist., chorus, flanger
Sequencer: 16 step, 8 variations, 4 parts or instruments
Memory: 128 patches, 64 performances
Control: MIDI"



Novation Nova 2X 49-Key Virtual Analog Synthesizer

via this auction
"49-Key Keyboard version, with Velocity and Aftertouch
24 Voices
3 Oscillators per voice
2 LFOs
3 Envelopes: 1 ADSR for the amp, 2 DADSRs
Filters: Resonant Low-pass, Hi-pass, band-pass; 12, 18 and 24 dB/Oct slopes and overdrive.
Also includes effects / outboard processing such as Distortion, comb filtering, EQ, reverb, chorus, flange, phaser, delay, panning, 40-band vocoder.
It features roughly 53 knobs, 8 sliders, 135 switches, so you'll most probably have fun with it if you're a knob-tweaker!"



KORG MP-4 Mono Poly Analog Synthesizer


via this auction
"It has 4 Voltage Controlled Oscillators (VCO's). The possibilities with this synth are endless. It runs in Monophonic and Polyphonic modes. In poly mode, you can play up to 4 note chords simultaneously. The way the VCO's are controlled is by using the function buttons just above the keyboard. You can even play a chord and press the Chord Memory Button to play the entire chord, simply by pressing one note at a time. You can also use the Chord Memory along with the astounding Arpeggiator Function. The Arpeggiator is extremely versitile and can be controlled externally. The external control options are very huge. Take a look at the rear panel and you can see just how much control you can have with this thing."

SN 373449

Emu Emulator II Demo - Part 2.


YouTube via JMPSynth. Part 1 here. Be sure to see all vids here.
"Part 2 demo of Emu Emulator II library sounds."

best service TITAN Sound-Show 11 Pads 1 "Analog Classics & Vintage Strings Synths"


YouTube via bestservicegmbh. I love the intro to these...
"This video shows 29 of the warmest analog pads & vintage strings synths available from the Best Service TITAN sound-library, the biggest and most extensive Synthesizer Sound Collection of all time! 200 different Synthesizers"

best service TITAN Sound-Show 18 "Basses 3 Dance"

"This video shows 38 Dance-Basses from the Best Service TITAN sound-library, the biggest and most extensive Synthesizer Sound Collection of all time! 200 different Synthesizers in one famous virtual plug-in."

New TouchOsc Layouts for Modul8 2.5

link and in Googlish

via twitter.com/chinowski

WalkSX


YouTube via ggijs

"The Walkman has a recording of a TR-808 with the drums on one track and the rim shot on the other.. The Rim Shot is used to trigger the sequencer, that sequences the Gakken SX-150.

http://gieskes.nl/instruments/?file=w..."

Any Yamaha Motif Experts out there?

If you know of any Motif experts shoot me an email. My contact info is on the bottom right of the site.

Zazen II


Zazen II from Retribution Body on Vimeo.


"Video of the recording session for the track Zazen II by Retribution Body.

Gear used in the recording: ARP 2600, BugBrand Board Weevil, Flame Clockwork, Alesis Wedge.

Download this track and the rest of the album at music.retributionbody.com.

Find more information about the project at retributionbody.com."

READYdot´s A-100 Experiments Vulcanian Dalek Freak Show


YouTube via READYdot

"So here is some really f***ed up patch, creepy as doom. Dalek and Vulcan Modulator play a part, as does the MFB OSC-2, a BBD and the RE-20. The thing was inspired by James Ciglers Dalek Demo."

:wrongbot: 4093 oscillator synth


YouTube via Wrongbot. via this auction
"For all you people who like compact boxes filled with hideous noise...
this is obviously for you!

Contained within the tiny 6ish by 7ish centimetre box is a 4093 oscillator circuit and it kicks out some great bleeps.
Not only that but with a few twists of the dials you will experience a wide array of tonal variations and modulations...
and maybe even a pair of perforated eardrums.
Yep, it's that good.
Here's a list of the controls- blam:

* 4x dials worth of inter-oscillationary* play!
* 1x dial to glitch and warp the oscillations.
* 1x on/off slider switch.
* 1x pure green LED behind yellow perspex... it looks almost sexual.
* 1x 6.35mm jack socket for hooking up to your amp/mixer and effect units.
* 1x 9volt battery holder (battery not included).

As always, We ship without batteries as it keeps the Postie from going insane."

Roland JP-8080 Polyphonic synth module

via this auction





Roland MC 202 Analog Synth Sequencer

via this auction




Roland SH-101 KEYTAR Synth


via this auction






METASONIX HELL TIME - Something New from Metasonix?

"This Saturday, July 11, 6pm at Robotspeak

FREE

Yes, the owner and founder of Metasonix, Eric Barbour, will give an in-person demonstration of the hot new Metasonix vacuum-tube effect, the KV100 "Assblaster"!!

Plus other all-tube Metasonix products!!

If you'd like to try it out, bring your favorite instrument! If you have a modular or other analog synthesizer, bring it and we'll have an Analog Party! With patch cords and control voltages and the whole shebang!!

BONUS! Eric has finished a top-secret prototype for a possible new product for next year! It hasn't even been on Matrixsynth or shown to Metasonix dealers yet, so show up if you wanna be the FIRST IN THE WORLD to see this unique and insane breadboarded mess of wires!!

This demo is for ONE NIGHT ONLY!!! Don't miss it!

YES, WE WANT YOU TO POST VIDEOS AND PICS ONLINE....SO....
!!!!!!!!BRING YOUR CAMERA!!!!!!!!!!"

Introducing: Riddle & Enigma

Remember Antarctic Origins: Riddle & Enigma? You can now find them at this EHX post.

Cary Grace

Cool image via
http://twitter.com/carygrace

bottom shot via
http://carygrace.com
where you will find more

EMS and ARP

Waldorf Largo update 1.1.0 available

"08/07/2009: Now this is what we call decent product maintenance! The Waldorf Largo synthesizer has been upated to version 1.1.0. This update is not only a "bug fix", it also carries a bunch of new features e.g. the Mod Delay, a completely revised Reverb and an extended multi-part function plus several additional enhancements. Largo version 1.1.0 is a free update for all Largo user and available for PC and Mac. Also available is the updated PDF manual."
via Waldorf

Rhapsody on GX 1


YouTube via cnxww893
"the beginning of yayoi Hirabe's "Rhapsody on the GX-1". I screamed "Machigaeta" at the end of file, which means"Oh my gad I failed!" So complicate to play pieace on an..."

fanfare for the common man 1 2

"I demonstrated Emerson's Fanfare for the common man"

fanfare for the common man 2 2


YAMAHA GX-1, Bobby Lyle "Dance of Love and Peace"

"What surprised me is that you can have 7/4 beat with preset rhyhym on GX-1! This instrument is really really interesting."

how to create sound on toneboard for GX 1

"trying to create sound on GX-1 using tone board."

Groove dismantling


YouTube via ShermanFilters
"Sherman Rodec Restyler
berahviour changes when detekt frequency changes
It's all very sensitive and very depending on the source"

Beep Street iSequence

"iSequence is a complete mobile music production environment designed to play and compose real music.

Thanks to intuitive, single screen sequencer and 55 instruments built in you can easily create, edit and mix your compositions just like in a "big" audio creation software.

FEATURES
55 professional instruments: drum kits, synths, leads, pads, basses, effects classical instruments (and more coming soon)

Sequencer: 4 tracks, 3 octaves, up to 99 patterns (similar to Mod Tracker)

Full featured mixer and effect bus

Easy pattern editing: select / copy / past / transpose / mixer - all can be changed in real time, so that you can jam live over your songs.

Low latency audio engine (44.1 kHx, bi-cubic sample interpolation)

Save and load your compositions

Singe screen based, optimized for usability, wonderful user interface"

available on iTunes here:
iSequence

http://beepstreet.com/
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