MATRIXSYNTH: Friday, July 24, 2009


Friday, July 24, 2009

Kurzweil 250

via Analog Industries where you'll find the perfect description for the K250.

moog voyager assembly

flickr by Ume Music
(click for more)

Update via Aaron in the comments: "The title's incorrect. It's a photo of the LP assembly line.
Cheers,
theglyph"

Note: Title of the post = title in flickr.

Qusimidi Yahoo Group Update

via UniQue Werkx

"For years the Quasimidi @yahoo groups was over run with spam. Last month it got so bad there were over 500 posts of spam. So a few of us, Bob (from El Segundo, CA) , Andreas & I, got together and contacted Yahoo. The result was that we've gotten control of the group and eliminated the spammers.

The list owner, Scott S., said that when Yahoo took egroups over he lost moderating control.... but now it's back to Quasimidi gear. So those who left for that reason can rejoin if you like."

iDrum Video Game Edition


YouTube via izotopeinc
"ALL YOUR BASS ARE BELONG TO US

Classic arcade game music for you to remix. Relive the glory days with retro 8-bit samples and thumb-numbing, heart-pounding, blow-on-the-cartridge musical sequences.

Just tap squares, make a visual pattern, and youre making music.

Comes with 20 original songs including:
A Heros Path ▪ Alpha Commander ▪ An Epic Quest ▪ Boss Fight ▪ Chase ▪ Chipmunk Sidescroller ▪ Circuit Racer ▪ Dragon Battle ▪ Future Zone ▪ Home Town ▪ Hydro Battle ▪ Island Fun ▪ Jungle Run ▪ Rad Fighter ▪ Space ▪ Speed Demon ▪ Star Zone ▪ The Dungeon ▪ Vampire Lair ▪ You Will Never Escape ▪ Or make your own

Pop in a quarter. Bust out a beat.

iDrum is the addictive app that lets you create your own music, even if you have no musical experience! The Video Game Edition includes a huge selection of drum, percussion, melody, voice, and effects samples made to sound like classic video game arcades and consoles. Start with a selection of amazing kits and patterns, then customize them to make them your own.

Whether you're new to making music or a beatmaking expert, iDrum is for you. Build beats layer by layer by tapping the touch screen, or create music with simple shapes and color combinations that help you visualize the rhythm.

Features:
▪ The fun and simple way to make music on your iPhone or iPod touch!
▪ Includes hundreds of retro sounds and 20 pre-made kits
▪ Tap the touch screen to play and record your own musical patterns
▪ Bring sounds in and out of the mix to make songs on the fly and perform live
▪ Customize patterns to create your own unique beats
▪ Take control of the rhythm of every drum sound and sample
▪ Transfer custom kits and samples to and from your computer (requires iDrum for Mac/PC available from www.izotope.com or an Apple Retail Store)"
iDrum Video Game Edition

Korg M-500SP

via this auction

unintentional steampunk





Brain Synth


"A new computer program lets your brain turn fMRI machines into musical instruments by assigning notes to active regions of your cortex. The results may cause people to drive themselves crazy just to stay on the cutting edge of electronica."
full writ-up on io9. sent my way via brian.

Circuit Bent PHOTO THEREMIN

via this auction

"- 1 on/off switch with green "on" led.
- 1 waveform select switch....sine wave or square wave.
- 1 Blue LED LIGHT PEN with 3 foot cable, use to play the photosensor in the dark.
- 1 pitch range pot with ball knob sets the range of the sound from low to high pitch.
- 1 1/4" audio output jack.
- Cool white/purple case."

via Jimmersound

Eli CompuRhythm CR-7030 Beat Box

flickr by Mark Dalzell
(click for more)

"The first time beat box was used to refer directly to a rhythm machine was in the 1970s with the ELI CompuRhythm CR-7030 Beat Box."



Fun with DopplerPad: William Tell Overture "remix"


YouTube via retronyms
"Now that DopplerPad is released, Retronyms gets to have a little fun with it! I play with a few things here, including the mixer, loops, soloing, and a lot of gate/arp action!

More at http://www.dopplerpad.com"
Available on iTunes here:
DopplerPad

New Oberheim Sequencer in the Works

And first SEMs in September as well as possible distribution in Europe.
See the second update in this post. Comment there.

Little Boots Remedy


She definitely likes her synths. See if you can spot them all. Click here for more.

via this BBC article, via twitter.com/bitoddscarr
"New Little Boots video with ARP and Moog goodness"

How to use iSample - iPhone Sampler / Recorder - Now in the App store -


YouTube via wayoutware
"http://www.budurl.com/isample Purchase iSample HERE!

iSample is a new iPhone Music App for the iPhone. With iSample you can sample or record any audible sound, and play it back musically. iSample is an excellent live performance insturment that is very easy, and very fun to use. iSample is only available on the iPhone. Check out our other products on the Way Out Ware website: http://www.wayoutware.com

Be sure to follow us on twitter! http://www.twitter.com/isampleapp"

You can find iSample on iTunes here:
iSample - Sampler / Recorder / Looper

SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS MULTITRAK ANALOG SYNTHESIZER

via this auction

MULTI-TRAK








RARE Vintage PAIA Synth Spin MkII Analog Leslie Phase


via this auction

"From the Synthspin manual:
'Other than the rotating speaker sound, the Synthspin can produce numerous effects ranging from very slow phasing sounds to a bubbling pseudo-reverb. Electrical inputs provide for foot-pedal control of both speed and range of the rotating effect and allow instantaneous foot-switch cancellation and bypass functions.'"


Arp Quartet

via this auction

Brass, Strings, Organ and Piano

Two can be layered

I thought this looked different. In the comments Qwave called out how his looks different.




Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Co. 40th Anniversary Concert

Sunday afternoon 2 PM July 26, 2009
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY [details]

"Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company, makers of fine electronic music since 1969.

One of the first live synthesizer ensembles wasn't Tangerine Dream, but Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company, led by composer David Borden. Mounting the stage with three massive Moog Modular synthesizers, they spun out their intricate cyclical melodies. We listen back to their now classic albums for this Ancient Echo."

On David Borden and Bog Moog
"I didn’t realize Bob was using me as a test person until several months later when it was clear that I finally knew what I was doing. He explained that I helped in the research to idiot-proof the soon-to-be famous Moog Synthesizer. I had been chief idiot, which upon reflection, I enjoyed immensely."

Update via Inverse Room:
"A flickr set
They were playing David Borden's piece 'Viola Farber in Seven Movements,' which they also played at the Anniversary show a few months ago, among other things. Farber was a choreographer and dancer David knew and worked with; she was a founding member of the Merce Cunningham dance company and died in 1998. The show was accompanied by digitally altered video of her dances. The band is all playing Reason patches, running on Macbooks and an iMac and triggered by M-Audio controller keyboards; the patches are custom-made by David Borden, using various samples of other keyboards. At the last show they had a couple of analog synths in the mix as well, but this was a more stripped-down set, with the software only. They're not sequencing, it's all played live!"

Modded CR-8000

flickr set by ringstone

"A series of photos documenting my CR-8000 mods"

inside a Roland CR-8000

Update via Blair in the comments: "Hi all, some more photos of the completed unit are up now :)"


Chris Tanfield and the Theremin at Mooged-Out

via The Boog Moog Foundation blog where you'll find the full details.

"Mooged-Out at MoDaddy’s:Bele Chere After Party takes place Saturday, July 25, 2009 from 10-2pm. MoDaddy’s is located two doors down from the Orange Peel at 77 Biltmore Avenue, Asheville, NC. Call (828) 258-1550 for tickets."

“My relationship with Dr. Moog and Moog Music goes back to the late 1990’s. I first saw a theremin at UNCA music department, thanks to Dr. Wayne Kirby, and was immediately fascinated with it. Soon after that, I began working part-time at Dr.Moog’s factory building theremins. In the year so follow, I must have built, tested and played a few thousand Etherwave Theremins for Moog Music, as well as demonstrating the instrument at NAMM shows and conventions. This is where I honed my technique on the instrument and became familiar with many of its possibilities and quirks.”

Analog bass drum module MBase 01 w/ Filterbank 2, M-Resonator + TENORI ON (by Smith)


YouTube via znshn
"Analog bass drum module Jomox MBase 01 w/ Sherman Filterbank 2, Jomox M-Resonator + manipulations via Korg Kaoss Pad KP3 and TENORI-ON. Contents : triggering, analog filtering, micro-pulses...

N.B. This video follows : • "MBase 01 (analog) triggering w/ Filterbank 2, M-Resonator + TENORI-ON" and • "Triggering w/ Filterbank, MBase 01, M-Resonator + TENORI-ON" previously uploaded on this channel.

IF POSSIBLE USE HEADPHONES OR CONNECT YOUR COMPUTER TO A QUITE DECENT SOUND-SYSTEM.

Material in this video:
- Jomox MBASE 01
- Sherman Filterbank 2
- Jomox M-Resonator
- TENORI-ON
- Korg Kaoss Pad KP3

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

See also http://www.youtube.com/odiolorgnette
........................................
Franck Smith alternative digital techniques Live Electronics Odiolorgnette TENORI-ON Yamaha Sherman Filterbank 2 Jomox M-Resonator MBase 01 Benfox KP3 Kaoss Pad Analog Filters triggering analog bass drum module phonocrafting noise manufacturing"

Oxygene Part 6 - J.M.Jarre - Vermona Piano Strings


YouTube via PaulMichaelJarre.


via this auction

"Vermona Piano Strings , Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene Part 6" via this auction "VINTAGE GDR ANALOG SYNTHESIZER VERMONA PIANO STRINGS 1978 built in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the former east German. And although all the lables are in english, it was sold to the USSR mainly. There was also a version in the same look, but without the string section. Named Vermona Piano. Official Vermona page: www.vermona.de/htm/strings.htm (you'll find samples there) Specifications: — Keyboard - 61 note — Mains voltage of alternating current, V 220 V110 V127, 50Hz — Power consumption, W max 15 — A range of operating temperature, C -10 / +35 — Weight, kg Update via Qwave in the comments: "Pictures of the inside and the western world chip inside here."


VOSIM


YouTube via cirtcele
"Testing a Vosim Processor with modded Thomas Henry VCO-1. Driven by CGS sequential switch, TH SN-voice & Ian Fritz's simple chaos cct.
usual crap quality sound & image, don't like it? go build your own Vosim and post the vid :-)
More info here - http://www.sdiy.org/pinky/vosim/vosim...
this vid is the 1st time i got this cct working, have discovered it is capable of a huge array of sounds but its probably not gonna sing Daisy Bell....damn!!!"

em1x dub techno


YouTube via 909techno

Stalker - Redlamp 10a [Unreleased Exclusive - See Info]


YouTube via silverdale247.

sent my way via Doktor Future "It's NL3, from this Gearslutz thread"

"| M O O D Y | S T A L K E R |

Darren Ziesing (Stalker)...
Darren Ziesing is currently based in Canberra performing as an experimental electronic musician,escaping to write the majority of his work up in the Snowy Mountains. He has worked on numerous collaborative albums and now releases under the project names stalker and liife (GEO records).

Darren is most popularly known as stalker which is his analogue dance music project. Stalker has played at The Big Day Out, Frigid at the Opera house, The National Portrait Gallery Opening, Satellite and many other such events. The style is of repetitive minimalism where the individual parts in the music subtly change but the overall sequence stays the same. Although primarily dance music, the stalker project also includes Darren's amazingly beautiful ambient work and open air sound sculptures. He says that with these, "I am trying to capture...mimmic the thick atmospheres and sounds of nature using the organic and changeable nature of analogue synthesisers."

Liife is his new side project soon for release which is influenced by Indian classical music, particularly the rhythmical construction, Involving constant change of pace and melody. This work is primarily digital computer music and is a lot more intensive and complex than stalker.
-Australia Adlib.


*After some exchanges of PM's on here through Darren Zeising's (Stalker and partner at Polybonk) friend's Channel, he sent me this exclusive and as yet unreleased track.

You can check out and purchase Polybonk's EP's and albums here: http://polybonk.com/
There are also some free tracks for you to download :-)"

loopqoob


YouTube via turunda. sent my way via muratkonarfan
"loopqoob is a physical performance system consisting of one or more sensor-equipped cubes connected to a computer based music generation/synthesis system. The orientation of the cubes determines an aspect of the music to be played.

In the implementation presented, there are three cubes. Each face of each cube is mapped to a musical motif or loop. The 'cubist' controls which motifs are played by orienting the cubes so that the face corresponding to the desired motif faces up.

http://www.muratnkonar.com/id/loopqoob/"
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