MATRIXSYNTH: Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Yamaha TX-802 Rackmount FM Synthesizer

via this auction

Buchla Beat II

YouTube via boobtube356 — April 06, 2010 — "More fun this time with (a rather abrupt) preset change."

YouTube via ugufru — April 06, 2010 — "Recorded on April 7th, 2010 using a Flip Video camcorder for the video (sorry it's so fuzzy). Mastered in iMovie. Demonstrates the Miduino as a MIDI Clock Master, generating it's own MIDI Clock messages that are send to the Alesis SR-16 and Waldorf XT synthesizer (arpeggiators in multimode). The Waldorf adds a nice evolving electronic hi-hat and bass sounds. The LED on the Miduino flashes every 1/4 note, and this pin can be used as an external trigger for analog modular synthesizers."

MIDI Clock Synchronization Arduino

"Recorded on April 6th, 2010 using a Flip Video camcorder for the video. Mastered in iMovie. Demonstrates using MIDI clock messages from an Alesis SR-16 to synchronize the pulse trigger to an LED on a Miduino. If you turn up the audio, you can hear the drum machine in the background. Sorry it's not louder!"

Goodbye Euro, hello Buchla 200e

flickr von Richard M
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Update on Which Came First - the EML 100 or 200

Sasha wrote in and let me know he heard from Jeff Bachiochi, EML's first employee. See Update5 in this post for what he had to say on which came first.

infinite melody demo

YouTube via cirtcele — April 06, 2010 — "This was originally recorded as a demo of the CGS Infinite Melody, but I quite like it so made a vid to go with it.
Original description: CGS 1/f melody, clocks and CV from CGS dual LFO, output to CGS VCO, VCO tri out to CGS Wave Multiplier, then thru spring reverb purloined from a dead organ (well, it was dead once I had finished with it)."

chipPad for iPad (Live)

New video added to this post.

SH-SYNNER - All SH-101 Track

SH-SYNNER by DyLABs
Details at Acid Box Blues

Biscuiting w/ a pinky drum synth (by Franck Smith)

YouTube via odiolorgnette — April 06, 2010 — "Biscuiting w/ a pinky drum synth (by Franck Smith) © 2010 — Biscuit by Oto Machines is a 8-bit effects/processor allowing precise Lo-Fi treatments and rate frequency downgrading. Used here with drum synth mixing adapted turntable drumming and scratching technics w/ video-game esthetic and real-time electronic beat-making (No loops and no sequencer used here).

Material in this video:
- Handsonic HPD-15 (by Roland)
- Biscuit (by Oto Machines) *FX section not used here

http://twitter.com/franck_smith
http://francksmith.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/odiolorgnette

N.B. Some of the routines obtained here were partly inspired -- in their content and esthetic -- by turntablists Qbert and D-styles . Although nothing can rival real vinyl manipulation by experts, a personal adaptation of these techniques on Handsonic makes imagine new ways in real time electronics.

IF POSSIBLE USE HEADPHONES WHEN VIEWING VIDEO MATERIAL OR CONNECT YOUR COMPUTER TO A QUITE DECENT SOUND SYSTEM.

"Franck Smith" Handsonic turntable adapted techniques Roland HPD-15 drums electronics percussion Biscuit Oto Machines scratching Lo-Fi 8-bit processing Odiolorgnette"

How to Wreck a Nice Beach - Book on the Vocoder

via Melville House Publishing and available on Amazon here.

"How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks

The history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weapon

This is the story of how a military device became the robot voice of hip-hop and pop music. Though the vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, was designed to guard phones from eavesdroppers, it expanded beyond its original purpose and has since become widely used as a voice-altering tool for musicians. It has served both the Pentagon and the roller rink, a double agent of pop and espionage.

In How to Wreck a Nice Beach—from a mis-hearing of the vocoder-rendered phrase "how to recognize speech"—music journalist Dave Tompkins traces the history of electronic voices from Nazi research labs to Stalin's gulags, from the 1939 World's Fair to Hiroshima, from Manhattan nightclubs to the Muppets.

The result is an amazing chronicle of postwar music and culture, filled with unexpected and surprising encounters. We see the vocoder brush up against FDR, Solzhenitsyn, Stanley Kubrick, Stevie Wonder, JFK, Eisenhower, Neil Young, Kanye West, the Cylons, Walt Disney, Henry Kissinger, and Winston Churchill, who boomed, when vocoderized on V-E Day, "We must go off!" And now the device is a cell phone standard, allowing your voice to sound human.

From T-Mobile to T-Pain, How to Wreck a Nice Beach is a riveting saga of technology and culture, illuminating the work of some of music's most provocative innovators."

Update: You can find an NPR segment on the vocoder and book here.

Nord Micro Modular Editor on the iPad

Just set this up. Using Desktop Connect for the iPad to connect to my Macbook Pro running Parallels and Windows Vista Ultimate with the Micro Modular Editor.

It works ok, but not great. Still feel like I'm working through a keyhole. There's a refresh delay so the knob turns and patching have poor visual feedback. Button clicks are better. Using your finger for the tiny controls isn't the greatest. I heard there will be a stylus for the iPad so that may help. I installed the Mac editor for the Micro Moduler after this and it was only slightly better.

Ipad Touch OSC Videos

Using iPad as Midi Controller

YouTube via noeecken — April 05, 2010 — "Sneak peak of my upcoming tutorial, how to use your iPad as midi controllers with Logic Studio"

iPad Logic Studio Midi Controller

"Another test using OSCulator to map midi CCs to Logic Studio using Touch OSC on my iPad. Tutorial is definitely coming!"

Also see How to use IPAD as a midi Controller for Ableton Live

via Luis Duran

Update:

iPad Midi Keyboard Synth

"Using Touch OSC + OSCulator. Logic Studio's Sculture synth demonstration."

Omnipresence 2.wmv

YouTube via Biodiode — April 06, 2010 — "This my first attempt at putting music to video. It was created in Sonar 8.5.3 with Spectrasonics Omnisphere and Trilian, the drums came from Spectrasonics RMX.

To hear more of my compositions please visit www.biodiode.com"

ARP 2600 SYNTHESIZER

via this auction

"If you're viewing this with interest you probably know something of the 2600, technically a semi-modular synth because it operates with or without patching - famous for providing the sound effects in countless 70's sci-fi classics and characters, Doctor Who and R2D2 among them."

Casiotone 403

via this auction

Siel DK 600

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via this auction

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iELECTRIBE iPAD - GLITCH EXTREME! Lap Jam 2 - Motion Sequences Freak Out!

iElectribe on iTunes. For fun I checked Ebay to see if and iPads were listed and sure enough they are.
YouTube via VJFranzK — April 06, 2010 — "Another example of live beat making! This software version is so similar to the Electribe hardware, I already know how to use it on the first day!

This was literally the second jam I ever did holding it in my lap. (The "Review" footage was done first.)"

Machinedrum Modular live acid jam

YouTube via darenager — April 06, 2010 — "Having fun with the modular and machinedrum, making it up as I go along ;)

All drums from the MD, which is clocking the Flame clockwork that is sequencing the modular."

oberheim matrix1000 trance

YouTube via squeakyfromme69 — April 06, 2010 — "skip to 1:26 for the best part. I was thinking about getting a virus or blofeld or something with the tax return this year and made this"

Korg SV-1 Stage Vintage Piano

YouTube via Novamusik — April 06, 2010 — "A demo video of the Korg SV-1 Stage Vintage Piano!"
http://www.novamusik.com/default.aspx

Depeche Mode Wrong - Monomachine

YouTube via schokokontrol — April 06, 2010 — "Another live cover with the mighty Monomachine. The holder of the copyright for both composition and lyrics is of course Martin L. Gore."
Also see Owl City Fireflies on the Monomachine

le synthé V5 - Virtual EMS SYNTHI

via pierre couprie logiciels

Googlish:
"he V5 is a synth modeling mythical Synthi AKS EMS built in 1972.

As a model, you will find in the original synth V5 interface on Synthi AKS (modules and matrix) and the original sounds (waveforms were recorded on a VCS3). As a software synthesizer The V5 contains new features (better control modules, delay effect, with oscillators ambitus more important to use MIDI to control the settings, presets, etc..).
Specifications

- 1 oscillator waveforms: sine / sawtooth (can be changed into a square and triangle), 0-20 kHz, fine tuning of the agreement (MIDI), frequency modulation with 3 oscillators
- 2 oscillators, waveforms: square / triangle (can be modified sine and sawtooth), 0-20 kHz, fine tuning of the agreement (MIDI), frequency modulation with 3 oscillators
- White noise generator (white noise or pink noise), low-pass filter or high pass
- Filter / oscillator, 0-20 kHz, tuning of the agreement (MIDI), low-pass filter or high pass
- A ring modulator
- An envelope generator, attack-decay-it-off, 2 outputs: signal and trapezoid, triggering with the space bar, joystick, or MIDI metronome
- A dynamic effect: reverb or delay, parameters: Mix, time (time), feedback (delay)
- Input module with gate
- 2 output modules with low-pass filter or high pass and panoramic
- A control module with 2 possibilities: reading a table of values or random generation of values
- A joystick to control 2 parameters with the mouse
- A 17x16 matrix for connecting the outputs of each module to inputs of other modules (audio or control)
- All parameters can be controlled by MIDI
- Possibility to change the vocal range of control parameters"

YouTube via pierrecouprie — October 31, 2009 — "French language and English subtitles. Le Synthé V5 is an emulation of the mythic Synthi AKS constructed by EMS in 1972. Website: http://synthe.pierrecouprie.fr."
Only 8 videos currently.

chipPad for iPad

chipPad for iPad from earsmack on Vimeo.

"More information at earsmack.com/

This is a preliminary simulator-based demo of chipPad for iPad. In reality it does not do the app justice since it's all multi-touchy and whatnot and is a complete joy to jam on. More videos of it in action forthcoming. It was submitted to the app store on April 5th, 2010 and will be available soon for an introductory price of $3.99.

Please excuse my mouse-based screw up - that doesn't happen when you're jamming with your fingers ;-)

From the app store description: chipPad is a multi-track sample and loop playback and performance application. It is made for the musician who creates loop-based music and is looking to experiment with on-the-fly arrangements or to glitch it up a notch. By adding your own pre-cut loops on up to 8 tracks you can perform using various "grid-based" controller techniques and develop new ones that are only capable on a multi-touch device. Sliding one or multiple fingers back and forth on various tracks or tapping rhythms like on a drum machine can yield some amazing results you can't hear elsewhere. chipPad comes with a few sample sessions to get you started. Simply select Help from the Gear menu to get started or load your own AIF or WAV audio files into the app using File Sharing via iTunes.

Enjoy!"

Update:

chipPad for iPad (Live) from earsmack on Vimeo.

"Here is a video of me playing each of the sample sessions that come with chipPad. Hopefully this will show a bit of how the application can work in a live situation. Green tracks are playing forwards, blue tracks are playing in reverse and red tracks are queued to begin playing at the next quantization point (based on the master track - the one with the white metronome glider.)

Enjoy!

More information at earsmack.com/"

Vedic Space Program

via Vedic Space Program
(click for MySpace site with pics)

"I wanted to send you the HTML for a Souncloud MP3 of a track called Come to the Center. It features samples from the Jim Bakker album How to Accomplish the Impossible. The song was made using an MPC 2500 and assorted modular gear."

Somehow the Metasonix pedals go with this track.

06-Come to the Center by vedicspaceprogram

PROJECT PRESET - Alicia's Keys piano from Native Instruments

YouTube via Torley — April 06, 2010 — GET MY MUSIC @ http://torley.com

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smule magic piano 1

YouTube via raulsworldofsynths — April 06, 2010 — "trying out new application smule magic piano"
Magic Piano on iTunes

Trying out Novation Nocturn

YouTube via VIPSTARHinaichigo — April 06, 2010 — "Toying around with this lovely control surface and Reason. The setup is as follows:

Knob 5: Subtractor Filter 1 Frequency
Knob 6: Subtractor Filter 1 Resonance
Knob 7: Subtractor LFO 1 Rate
Knob 8: Subtractor LFO 1 Amount
Button 5: Redrum channel 1 solo (bass drum)
Button 6: Redrum channel 2 solo (snare)
Button 7: Redrum channel 3 solo (hi-hat 1)
Button 8: Redrum channel 4 solo (hi-hat 2)

Filter 1 in Subtractor is set to low pass (12 or 24 dB, I forget) and LFO 1 is set to modulate Filter 1's frequency."

Squidfanny - Circuit Bent 'Omnchord OM-27' Demo

Omnichords on Ebay - not sure if this one is listed yet...
YouTube via squidfanny — April 06, 2010 — "Circuit Bent / Modified OMNICHORD OM-27.....

Demo for Ebay auction.

I have another Omnichord which is patiently awaiting my tender touch, so this one's getting passed along to one lucky person.

Mods are -
6 Switches to Hold and Combine the Rhythm Patterns.
15 Digital mods for Sci-Fi Echo, FM Bass and De-tuned Dischord.
Bass volume knob.
4 Knobs for altering the Analog drums.
37 metal Touch Points which generate various tuned tones. Top row are static and always generate same tones, bottom row has 5 pitched bass tones and middle rows change tone with the chords.
Also pitch modulation from touch points and nasty distortion, which has volume set by hi-hats volume knob...."

Update:

Squidfanny - Circuit Bent 'Omnichord OM-27' Demo 2

Update2:

Squidfanny - Circuit Bent OMNICHORD OM-27 Demo 3 (Just the touch points)

Gannon - The Positive Rail

YouTube via mimsey — April 06, 2010 — "The first video from the Toy Volcano album. I owe great thanks to the man behind the video magic, Mr. Chris Messina. He used a combination of Canon 5D (pre firmware update) and the new Varicam to create the stunning light show.

All Gannon info can be found here http://www.mygannon.com

All Chris Messina info can be found here http://workingforblueribbons.com/

Also... You can see me play all these contraptions LIVE at Bent Festival 2010!!! In Dumbo (Brooklyn) NY. April 22-24

All Bent Festival info can be found here http://www.bentfestival.org/"

KVINTET Soviet Analog Synth

via this auction
"KVINTET is a transistor portable polyphonic instrument produced by Katchkanar radio equipment factory "Formanta", which is the manufacturer of such well-known makes of synthesizers as Polivoks, Formanta, Manual, Maestro etc. It bears the same logo on the package and retains some of its most impressive capabilities.

• This auction synth was made in June 1990 in USSR. Serial Number: 0690223.

• KVINTET has a great, fat and warm analogue sound like Juno type sounds.

• Basically it is a string, brass and electric piano keyboard, good for the pad textures and poly sounds.

• It has an awesome analog chorus, vibrato function. Filter for brass section.

• It is fully polyphonic with the same keyboard and accessories as on Polivoks !

Specifications:
— 5 Octave Keyboard
— Controls on the front panel:
Volume control, Sustain, Brass filter, Vibrato frequency, Vibrato depth, Detune

— Section of effects (ON): brass, organ, piano, clavesin, chorus, vibrato delay
— Voltage 220/240 V, 50 Hz

• Connection on the rear panel : on/off switch, OUTPUT and Phones on standard 1/4''jack, Pedal input with 5-Din connectors, power wire connection (220/240V), fuse (0,5A) ."