MATRIXSYNTH: Monday, March 14, 2011

Monday, March 14, 2011

paper kettle - 2 free, modular-heavy EPs

"The Moon and Fireworks EP is ambient / melodic texture. It combines acoustic instruments with walls of melodic synth distortion and location recordings.

Library Ash EP is of the genre "wtfpop." FM oscillator storms, a chiptune cover of Aphex Twin, and plenty of vocal pitchwarp.

Eurorack, Machinedrum, and Monomachine are at the heart of both. Both available for free in MP3 and FLAC under Creative Commons via the links provided."

Update: A nice note on MATRIXSYNTH from paper kettle. I wanted to clear this before posting: "RSSing your site was a massive part of me getting deep into synths, and they've changed my life entirely. not just music making or putting out EPs, but also in having the modular inform how I think about abstractions/ connections/ instruments/ systems/ expressivity. so, yeah, thanks for all your work!!"

Thank you! Hearing things like this is what makes it all worth it.

Korg Sigma

YouTube Uploaded by starrefision23 on Mar 14, 2011

"Korg Sigma
Random Sample And Hold
Test For Drone."

UCreate Music

YouTube Uploaded by starrefision23 on Mar 14, 2011

"Best $20 Item Ever."

UCreate Music on eBay

UCreate Music Effects Pad

Uploaded by starrefision23 on Mar 14, 2011

"UCreate Music
Kids Version Of The Kaoss Pad"

Northern labour Party - Less Than Three (Official Video)

YouTube Uploaded by northernlabourparty on Mar 11, 2011
"So Cal band, Northern Labour Party. Minimoog Voyager is used for leads and Alesis Andromeda for strings."

"Less than Three is the second Music video released by Northern Labour Party off the second ep "Ready to Burn"

Director Shea Formaneck
www.northernlabourparty.com
www.ohmslawrecords.com"

Optigan With Polynesian Village Monkeys

YouTube Uploaded by starrefision23 on Mar 14, 2011

"Inside The Optigan With Some Polynesian Village Monkeys
Old Cell Phone Videos........So Very Dark"

ARP Solina String Ensemble

via this auction

Shots of the inside below.

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Arp Avatar

via this auction

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DIY 10 Channel Analog Sequencer

via this auction
"Custom built 10 channel analog sequencer, CV output, Trigger output and Gated output. An External Clock Input will control the sequencer. 5 to 15Vdc Input . All channels have on/off with voltage controled output. 1 volt per octive. Speed control with pulse indicator LED. Fully socketed for any modification, plenty of room inside case for aditional componets. Operationial instructions will be sent when shipped. Has stop scan, on/off, pulse speed select, 10 on/off channel switches. It's pretty simple to opperate, works fantasic and tested it on my Synth here. All channels are Great!!!! Select from 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 channel scan with the Mode Selector Switch. Dash Marked on top right of controler.

X = External Clock Pulse input
CV = Control Voltage Output
G = Gate Output
T = Trigger Output
X & P on top of control pannel is for X Switch to control the Internal Clock or the External Clock input (LED will light when in the External Mode) P is On/Off of Sequencer"

SoftStep foot controller playing the Buchla 200e modular synthesizer

YouTube Uploaded by KeithMcMillen on Mar 14, 2011

"Keith McMillen Instrument's SoftStep controlling a Buchla 200e modular synthesizer.

The SoftStep is a great addition to a MIDI-capable modular synthesizer setup by allowing you to easily and accurately adjust parameters with your feet.

In this video, all SoftStep keys are set to Y-axis (up and down) tilt control. SoftStep's MIDI expander is sending CC data to the Buchla's MIDI-CV module."

Castenada - Zoology | Live Launchpad Rec.

Castenada - Zoology | Live Launchpad Rec. from Arno Dhooghe on Vimeo.

"Live Launchpad Jam using Rekkerd samples, my own samples and Jack Kerouac. Quantisation: 1/16. There are some mistakes in it unfortunatly, but what the heck..

Thanks for watching and listening!

soundcloud.com/arnodee"

Xplorer - the ultimate Oberheim Xpander programmer

flickr By greg_baumont

"The GUI is almost finished. Here’s a screen shot so you can get the main idea. The size is a bit bigger than the first prototype, to be easier to handle on touch screens. As knob colors are a matter of taste, the end user will be able to choose them in the settings. See xplorer.programmer.free.fr/ for details"

KNOBZ.NET

KNOBZ.NET from Adam Pietruszko on Vimeo.

"Sound Effects. Experimental Music for Picture and Multimedia. Synths and Sound Design.

KNOBZ.NET"

ARP 2500 (EFX PHOTO)

via Paulo

Gakken Sx-150 DIY Analog Synthesizer

via this auction
"The Gakken SX-150 is a little analog synthesizer kit that comes packaged in a Japanese DIY science magazine. Now, these funky mini synths have started to show up around the globe, leaving all sorts of interesting beeps, blips and squeals in their wake.

Originally included in an issue of Otonanokagaku (Science for Adults), the compact synth offers up a variety of basic sound adjustments including attack, LFO, pitch, attack, decay and cutoff. A metal stylus provides you with a decent range of expressive control over the sounds produced.

And since the synth lets you plug in an external analog audio source and then modify those waveforms, the sky is the limit for the sounds you can produce. A built-in speaker means the SX-150 can produce totally self-contained audio madness."

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Xenon- iPhone Groove Synthesizer. Видео обзор Андрея Гладкова.

YouTube Uploaded by AndreyGladkov on Mar 14, 2011

"Xenon состоит из полифонического гибридного синтезатора (FM V.Analog Formant PCM), двух монофонических виртуально-аналоговых синтезаторов, синтезатора PCM, ритммашины и 5-ти дорожечного секвенсера.
Сочиняйте музыку где угодно и любое время!"

"Xenon is a hybrid of the polyphonic synthesizer (FM V. Analog Formant PCM), monaural two virtual-analog synths, synth PCM, ritmmashiny and 5-TRACK sequencer.
Make music anywhere and anytime!"

iceGear
iPads on eBay
iPod Touch on eBay

Robert Edgar & Mark Mosher Live with Percussa Audio Cubes

via Facebook

"Robert Edgar & Mark Mosher Live @ The Art Institute of California/Sunnyvale

Thursday, March 17 · 5:00pm - 7:00pm

The Art Institute of California-Sunnyvale - ROOM 602
1120 Kifer Rd
Sunnyvale, CA

No Admission Fee

Mark Mosher is performing a set in his one-man-show format. Songs will include original instrumental electronic music from recent albums performed on keyboard, matrix controllers, Theremin, and visual instruments Tenori-on and Percussa AudioCubes. Robert Edgar is performing using his Simultaneous Opposites Engine for real-time video traversals using MIDI Guitar. It should be an interesting evening indeed!"

http://land.percussa.com/

New Goldbaby iAm_K3m Kawai K3m Sample Set

Samples on Goldbaby
"The K3m is a hybrid digital/analog synth produced in 1986. It uses an 8 bit wavetable for the oscillators and has analog filters and VCA. It also has a very lush stereo chorus!

This synth was recorded through various tasty bits of studio hardware... things like the UBK Fatso,Great River Harrison EQ32 , A-Design EM-PEQ.

What you get is a sample based instruments bursting with character, digital grit and analog warmth. You will find musical inspiration and sonic adventures waiting to be incorporated in to your next track...

Contains 116 patches for EXS24 and 122 patches for Kontakt. Including all the wave oscillators from the wavetable and a set of drums and FX synthesized on the K3m." Free drum set here.

Vacoloco Zira Demo - See You

via VacoLoco on Synth.net

"Well, I’ve got the LFO routing in now, just the LFO delay to sort and some debugging.

I’ve also managed to get the two missing tracks into the Zira Demo, so it’s now complete. The missing tracks were the “ppg vocal” and the “wobbly bell”, I hope you enjoy this as much as I did recording it."

Beat Twirl for iPad and iPhone

"Beat Twirl is a "beat slicer" app. The app lets you analyze existing sounds and detect their rhythm with its note onset algorithms. With Beat Twirl you can work with drum loops and rhythm patterns, easily enhancing them with additional percussion sound, or create new patterns.

With Beat Twirl you can:
• Change the tempo (time) of drum loops without changing the pitch.

• Analyze percussion patterns and find the underlying timing.
• Mix-in additional percussion sounds, or replace the original sounds
• Export single beats from a sound file.

How to use Beat Twirl?
• You can record yourself singing or clapping a rhythm, than add percussion instruments to the rhythm you created.
• You can extract a rhythmic/percussive section from a song and convert it to a loop you can play along with at different tempos.
• Mix-in percussion instruments to a song to enhance its' rhythm.
• Extract beat samples from a song for use with a beat sequencer.

Features:
• Import audio from your ipod library, using iTunes file sharing or using audio copy/paste from supporting applications.
• Record using an external mic or the built in mic.
• Universal app. UI designed iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Supports retina displays.
• Two spectrum based note onset detection algorithms.
• Manual slicing capabilities on top of the automated algorithm.
• Mix in percussion beats from a library of 300 samples.
• Export audio as wav, caf or aac. Export using audio copy, iTunes files sharing or email."

Tiv Studio
iPads on eBay
iPod Touch on eBay

MIDI Touch for iPhone Now Available

MIDI Touch for iPhone - Domestic Cat
"★ Midi Touch for iPhone - finally, the iPhone version of the hugely popular iPad app Midi Touch! ★
Midi Touch for iPhone brings all the great major features from it's bigger brother, and turns your iPhone or iPod Touch into a powerful wireless MIDI controller!

It's is the ultimate MIDI controller - it allows you to create your own custom controllers by placing knobs, sliders and other controls onto the screen wherever you want.

Send MIDI over Wi-Fi with latency as low as 2-5ms using either a MIDI Network Session or DSMIDIWiFi!

Features:
★ Design & save your own MIDI controllers by dragging and dropping sliders, buttons and more where you want them to create personalised control surfaces
★ Excellent responsiveness & performance - measured latency over WiFi: 2-5ms.
★ Support for CC, Note, Program Change, SYSEX, NRPN & RPN messages (SYSEX not supported by DSMIDIWiFi)
★ Support for multiple messages per control
★ Midi Feedback - keeps the controls synced to your incoming messages (SYSEX, NRPN messages not supported for feedback yet)
★ Many different control types - Vertical sliders, horizontal sliders, knobs, buttons (momentary or latched), drum-pads, X-Y-Z controllers, transport controls and preset-jump buttons
★ Easily change the settings of each control - CC number, note number, minimum & maximum range, channel, invert, size, label & more
★ All new tab control - easily organise your controls
★ Choose from 14 different theme colors
★ Import/export & share controller setups via Email, Safari, Dropbox etc
★ Multi touch - control multiple knobs/sliders etc at once
★ Full screen mode to reduce distractions and maximize usable space
★ Controls snap to each other to help create aligned layouts
★ Invert values mode - perfect for drawbar organs
★ Editor controls - copy, cut, paste, duplicate (between presets also)
★ Multiple control selection - select multiple controls to move/cut/duplicate/edit
★ Nudge controls to make pixel perfect controllers
★ Intuitive gestures - great for fine tuning controls
★ New SYSEX message editor allows entering custom SYSEX strings with the value of the control embedded into the message
★ Robust RPN/NRPN support - simply select the MSB & LSB and the app does the rest
★ Turn inputs/outputs on or off selectively
★ Advanced control options to change how controls respond to incoming messages
★ More to come!

We work hard to have first class direct support - email the developers directly from the app for a quick response. This app is under active development - if you want a feature not list please email us your ideas.

Check out http://iOSMidi.com for more info.

Please note - the iPhone does NOT support connecting hardware via the Camera Connection Kit.

★ Midi Touch for iPad has been used onstage & demonstrated at CES, NAMM, MacWorld & several Apple Stores, and been used in live performance in countless clubs and bars worldwide! ★"

iPads on eBay
iPod Touch on eBay

Twinthesis

YouTube Uploaded by sammio2 on Mar 13, 2011

"For more information: http://tinyurl.com/twinthesis

The idea behind twinthesis was to explore the 'sound' of twitter, to harness the potential of the human randomness being generated on the service. Twitter has over hundreds of millions of users world wide, a figure which is expanding at a rate of about 300,000 users a day. These users are submitting on average around 90 Million tweets per day. There is a huge amount of data there, ready to be sonified, and turned into audio.

Twinthesis is a MaxMSP based patch, that extracts the most recent public tweet, and deconstructs that information in order to generate sound. Several pieces of data can be taken directly from the tweet, including the length of the tweet, and the actual letters within the tweet itself."

DX5 messing with a Commodore C64

YouTube Uploaded by DX5 on Mar 14, 2011

"This is what happens when Jose plugs the C64 into the socket and starts to make sounds with MSSIAH midi cartridge.
This is a Commodore 64 ALDI limited version. Sold for german market with internal 8580 SID chip.

If anyone's wondering where I am from (due to my accent) I am Spanish.

Mono synthesizer demonstration. Playing DM "Shake the Disease" excerpt (hard to do with a monophonic synth if you want to play with two hands). Also "Popcorn".

Greetings to Vince Clarke at the video's end. :-)"

53 Modular Synthesizer Polyphony Experiment

YouTube Uploaded by 7thDanSound on Mar 14, 2011

"Modular synths are usually not used for polyphony since making true polyphonic voices would take a lot of cash, space and time. But if you can settle for some limitations you can get some nice results. If you go for separate sounding notes and skip individual articulation (filters and envelopes) all you need is enough oscillators. And a decent MIDI to CV converter."

Modular Percussion on the Moog Voyager XL

YouTube Uploaded by MoogMusicInc on Mar 14, 2011

"Analog noise + Snappy analog envelopes = Tight percussive synthesis

To achieve this sound:
-Noise as sound source
-Filter resonance high
-Filter cut off low
-Modulate filter cut off with ribbon controller
-Volume envelope: -Attack short -Decay medium to short -Sustain = 0
-Filter envelope: -Attack short -Decay short -Sustain = 0
-Amt = ~2.5
-Trigger mode = multitrigger"

More Details on Why Apple Rejected SoundPrism with CoreMIDI Support

See the update in this post.

The Roland Rap from 1984

"With no mention of the performer the single only has the track’s title “The Roland Rap” with writer credits on it’s label and the texts “All instruments by Roland & Musiikki Fazer 1984'"

Be sure to listen through to the lyrics.

via Turku Synth Club (Finland) where you'll find additional details.

Roland Rap 256Kbps by Wolf-Rami

Marsynth e-newsletter 2011-03-13

"Greetings all, and welcome to another installment of the Marsynth e-newsletter. I have been keeping busy the past few weeks with several things, so I thought it was about time to provide a little update.

A majority of the things I will present here have already been posted on the website: www.marsynth.com so I will keep things short here, and leave you to check out the site for more info.

First and foremost, I've announced the newest Marsynth device, the Nomad (note there is a demo video on the site now for one of the beta units). This was designed with the guitarist in mind, and it can really take the guitar to new, unexplored territories. Lots of distortion, lots of self-oscillation, and lots of fun! As I mention on the site, beta units are testing now, and I plan on having production units ready in a few months. I will be providing updates on availability once I start getting close to having the first production batch done.

In other product development news, I updated the Candela design to accept external inputs (thanks to the suggestions from the local shop here!). I plan on having a demo video up soon so everyone can finally hear what the Candela is like; its quite a ride!

I've updated the format of the info sheets that I include with all units to a nicer looking and more descriptive layout. They are now available as downloadable pdf's on the individual product pages on the site.

Finally, I've created a Marsynth soundcloud page to start putting up audio demos of all current products: www.soundcloud.com/marsynth So far there are three tracks for the Heart Breaker, and one track I did with two Nomad prototypes chained together (really fun!).

Again, thanks for all the support, and stay tuned as there will be more updates to come soon!

Thanks,

Damon Mar
www.marsynth.com"

Vox Jennings Univox

via hispasonic, via elgauchoandres
Googlish description:
"Probably one of the first monophonic synth history.
Built by Jennings, who founded the company after Vox in England.
It's 1956!
As you can see is a box lined with leather Crocodile Tolex.
The keyboard is the preamp tubes and the box is the stage and an 8-inch speaker. Has an output of 6 watts.
Is connected to the amplifier box.
With the lever control the volume.
It works great unless the vibrato effect.

It has several switches for varied sounds super interesting.
Three octaves of Fa Fa, with small wooden keys.
The Univox became very popular in 1962 when Joe Meek used it for his hit Telstar Tornados.
A museum piece and playing in the p. mother!
Change it for some interesting instrument, or study material.
It also offers reasonable economic accepted."

Another recently came up for auction here.

DinSync.info OSC303 thru Q107 (w/ Acidlab Miami)

YouTube Uploaded by scienceclubmusic on Mar 14, 2011

"HYPER INTERLACED for her pleasure
Testing out the OSC303 from dinsync.info with the TipTop Audio Happy Ending kit. CV and Gate are coming from MC-202. Oscillator is going through the synthesizers.com Q107 filter, which is pretty good IMO. Using dotcom envelope and amp modules, and Ibanez TS-808 as well.
Miami is clean."

Synthesis Technology MOTM E340 Cloudgenerator

via this auction

"The Synthesis Technology E340 contains 8 oscillators with both Sine and Saw waveforms. A front panel switch selects 2, 4 or 8 oscillators active at once. There are 3 unique modulation controls/control voltage inputs:
SPREAD - the active VCOs move apart in frequency, some go lower and others go higher. One VCO stays 'on pitch'.
CHAOS - as this is increased, the individual VCOs receive band-pass filtered white noise components. This will cause each VCO to "wobble" in frequency. There are 8 independent filters, so each VCO will not match the others. When Chaos is at maximum, the VCO's output is nearly white noise.
CHAOS BW (Bandwidth) - this adjusts the 'Q' of the bandpass filters from narrow (minimum) to very wide (maximum). The wider the Chaos BW, the faster the individual frequency modulations of each VCO occur.

Technical details
The E340 also has traditional VCO controls:
COARSE/FINE: initial VCO pitch FM: exponential frequency modulation SYNC: hard synch for all 8 VCOs.
The tonal output of the E340 can vary over a wide range: from massive 8-oscillator bass lines to a "swarm of bees" effect.

Measures and weight
3U Eurorack module
module width 14HP
module depth ca. 4,5cm"

Sadness - Buchla Tribute to Japan

YouTube Uploaded by dkimcg on Mar 14, 2011

"The news from Japan is so sad these days. I wish everyone there the best."

SAM Synthesizer introduction to world.

YouTube Uploaded by neilatribe1 on Mar 13, 2011
via these auctions
"here is the launch of my new invention. I have made now a few of the synths and have been testing them out. so far so good. will be selling them from my site http://samsynth.tripod.com and will sell some via Ebay. hope you enjoy it and may the synth be with you.
joseph"

SAM Synthesizer demo

Uploaded by neilatribe1 on Dec 22, 2010

"New synthesizer that plays using your bodies reactance to create a pitched tune. and with a contact strip that depending on where you touch it it plays a note. adding vibrato is as easy as just wiggling your finger. A cross of a theremin and a pitch ribbon the SAM (Synthsised Analog Magnetictape) can be used to play any song with a little practice. I am making only a few and will be putting up a site to be able to order one. http://samsynth.tripod.com"

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