Monday, November 21, 2011
Voyager Old School + Pocket Piano = Pocket School
YouTube Uploaded by n3bsvid on Nov 21, 2011
"A little improv featuring the minimoog voyager old school and critter and guitar pocket piano GR.
Hardware:
Minimoog Voyager Old School
Critter and Guitari Pocket Piano GR"
CatSynth at Zuccotti Park
via CatSynth"This is of course coming a little less than a week after the major raid on Zuccotti Park, so things were a bit sparse, indeed less active than some of the events I have attended in San Francisco. The ban on tents was in full force, with not a single tent in sight. I had also heard about a ban on musical instruments. So here I am playing the Smule Magic Piano on the iPhone in defiance."
Side note: this is post #16918 on MATRIXSYNTH for the year and breaks the record number of posts in a given year. I made a point not to save any particular post for the record. I wanted to see what came in by chance. I couldn't have thought of a more fitting and interesting post. I wondered what the first OWS post might be. This is it. Two firsts in one post. Go CatSynth! :) (see CatSynth for the full post)
Feel free to send any synth related OWS content in for a post to matrixsynth@gmail.com
Elektron Octatrack Dubstep & IDM Remix (Neonim - "Iklamin")
YouTube Uploaded by paulshemyakin on Aug 28, 2011
"In this video I tried to make the live remix for the great song "Iklamin" of my friend Michael Emelyanov and his band Neonim. The device used in the video is my Elektron Octatrack DPS-1, 8 tracks performance sampler - very cool thing to make the remix with!"
Side note: this is post 16917 for the year and ties the record for last year. Next post breaks it.
Portland Synth Gathering Pics via Mackenzie England
You can find some pics of the event on Facebook here.
via Mackenzie of Voice to Spirit on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge
Pictured below: Malekko Wiard Modular & Folktek Luminist Garden
See the PDX label below for more posts on the event.
JUPITER T 3.0 + KIMBALL PT2
YouTube Uploaded by chamberofsounds on Nov 21, 2011
"In this video i'm running the Kimball Challenger drums into the Jupiter T from one output and into another amp from the second output. This way you can hear both the dry & effected sounds. Go freakin' space crazy with your own Jupiter, only from chamberofsounds.com"
Chamber of Sounds on eBay
KURZWEIL K2500R with RM2-P2 & More
via this auction"When used with a sequencer, this unit and it's siblings (K2600, K2661, K2000, etc,) cannot be beat. On top of that they have the V.A.S.T. engine which means the voice engine is like a modular synthesizer and the voice path can have extremely sophisticated and complex routings unlike everything else out there which still tend to have very simple synth engines. In other words, you can get very complex sounds out these units..."
"The RM2-P2 ROM block adds an additional 8 meg of Kurzweil quality samples along with 100 additional new preset programs and 50 new additional preset setups.The Contemporary Expansion Board is a collection of Kurzweil's hottest sounds, designed for use in a full range of contemporary music styles. Sounds include a variety of Electric Guitars, Ethnic Percussion, New Drum Sounds, a large collection of Classic Synth Sounds, Hammond Organ, Muted Trumpet, Alto Sax and much more!"
Autumn by OPERATOR-music
Autumn by OPERATOR-music
"An electronic tone poem about Autumn."
Gear List:
Doepfer modular
Vermona DRM1 mk III
DX7
Apogee Ensemble
Electro-Harmonix Stereo Memory Man with Hazarai
TC Electronics M350
MAM SQ16
Macbook Pro
Logic Studio
Studio tour of the Experimental Televsion Center in Owego, NY
"A short piece of video shot at Owego during a residency. We documented our set-up in the studio. 1992.
The Luminists
Charles Cohen - audio
Eric Schefter - video"
12-10-92 by The Luminists
"The Luminists
Charles Cohen - audio
Eric Schefter - video
(1992)
In this piece Charle's Buchla synthesizers were directly controlling various video devices, shaping and patterning video feedback images and fading visual elements in and out of the scene. 12-10-92 was created in real time on at the Experimental Television Center during a residency in 1992."
Dancing Calligraphy by The Luminists
"The Luminists
Charles Cohen - audio
Eric Schefter - video
(1992)
Dancing Calligraphy was created at ETC in Jan. 1992, and edited later that year. In this piece we slowly strip away the layers of processing to reveal the source feedback that forms the basic ground from which the imagery arises.
In Dancing Calligraphy, the imagery was created utilizing control voltages from Charles' analog Buchla Synth controlling the Paik Raster Control Unit, the Jones Colorizer, and Jones Sequencer. We also used MidiMice and Buchla's Thunder midi controller to trigger DPaint4. The DPaint4 image cut a key in the video, revealing the many layers of processing that make up the final image."
FLASHER 003 by The Luminists
"The Luminists
Charles Cohen - audio
Eric Schefter - video
(1994)
FLASHER 003 is an ETC studio version of one of our live pieces. The piece offers impressions of a relationship in the process of disintegration. In it Charles triggers still frames of two bodies which are then weaved together (but not quite) through rapid fire live switching and ”editing”. The rhythm is determined through midi coming from Charles’ controller."
Satan's Web - Gabriele's Lace by The Luminists
"The Luminists
Charles Cohen - audio
Eric Schefter - video
Satan's Web was created at the Experimental Television Center during a residency in 1994(?)."
via TRASH_AUDIO
MEMORYMOOG SYNTHESIZER
via this auction
SN 2679
"Essentialy SIX Minimoogs inside one keyboard, this thing absolutely SCREAMS. Quite possibly the boldest and funkiest sound ever put into a synthesizer.
It has resided in my smoke-free studio since 2004, and has recently been returned to 100% working order by the famous Larry Church here in the great Northwest. Larry has calibrated all 18 oscillators (the sound of this thing in Unison-Mono mode will set your hair on fire), improved the pitch wheel response, and verified that all buttons and dials work properly. Most importantly, the keyboard itself (which is historically the MemoryMoog's biggest flaw) has been COMPLETELY REBUILT. Instead of the occasional missing note, this keyboard always fires the note...and the FEEL of the keyboard is far superior to any other MemoryMoog you are likely to find. Instead of that 'springy' feel, it's quick and responsive. This work alone makes this unit incredibly valuable."
Raglani. Evolution Of A Patch. My new MX6 configuration.
"Major downsizing. From three cases, a boat and two beauty cases to one case and one boat. My first patch on my new Monorocket MX6. Started out with an EMS Synthi type patch, utilizing only the Analogue Systems Modules. Then added some panning, then some simple Makenoise Rene sequencing. And finally another Sequencer clocked at a different rate hitting the same Oscillator as the Rene. Lots of quantized filters and low pass gates. 4MS RCD mixing up events and gates."
SCMRCD light test
YouTube Uploaded by sduck409 on Nov 21, 2011
"Finally got a decent set of LEDs in this module, the 4ms Shuffling Clock Multiplier/Rotating Clock Divider- this is just a quickie iPhone video to show them off - full video later."
Always love a blinky light show.
Update:
SCMRCD demo
YouTube Uploaded by sduck409 on Nov 21, 2011
"A brief demo of some of the capabilities of my SCMRCD module - a combination of the Shuffling Clock Multiplier, the Rotating Clock Divider and their associated breakout boards from 4ms Pedals. I don't really scratch the surface of what this thing can do, just using the built in clock generator and the knobs and switches - no outboard cv's or anything. Still you can get an idea of the potential, and enjoy a light show at the same time."
98 Serge TriTones
YouTube Uploaded by 7thDanSound on Nov 21, 2011
Update: YouTube description added: "Using the sequencer of the Serge and three oscillators to create some chords and a nice little progression. There is some random triggering of the oscillators so it shouldn't sound so boring all the time. At the end is a little tweaking by me which shows a little more of how the patch works.
www.niklaswinde.com"
BEHIND THE MASK YMOコピー
Uploaded on Sep 11, 2009 YMO**
YMO - Behind The Mask (Live 1979)
"以前UPしましたが、再UPしました！"
TB MIDI Stuff for iPad
"***** LAUNCH PRICE (70% offers for limited time) *****TB MIDI Stuff is a generic modular MIDI control surface for iPad.
You can create your own pages, or use the built-in MIDI keyboard (with Arpeggiator, modulation wheel, pitch wheel and accelerometer velocity), the built-in Pads controller (with customizable pads banks, accelerometer velocity, transposition, full velocity mode and repeat mode) or the 16 channels MIDI mixer (pan, volume and mute).
The built-in page editor lets you create your own pages. It contains some useful stuffs like pasteboard, undo manager, multi selection or z-order managment.The built-in keyboard, the pads controller and all drum pads in your custom pages can use Accelerometer Velocity for notes On messages.
All pads (including drum pads) can fire multiple notes to create "one hit" configurations (each note can use or not the accelerometer velocity). You also can create any pads banks you need for the pads controller.
All pages and pads banks can be shared via iTunes with a desktop computer.TB MIDI Stuff use CoreMidi : you can use any supported device, like the native WiFi driver or the camera connection kit with an external sound card. Each page can use a different CoreMidi driver.
Controls can use the iPad accelerometer as input (even faders and knobs), in each dimension (X, Y, Z or, for XY Pads, a mix of them).
The application library contains :- Rotary sliders
- Horizontal sliders
- Vertical sliders
- Horizontal faders (with different colors)
- Vertical faders (with different colors)
- Mixer knobs (with different colors and flavors)
- Drum Pads
- XY Pads
- Value displayers
- Rounded rects
- Labels
Each control can drive simultaneously multiple MIDI messages like Control Change messages (single 7bits and coarse/fine 14bits), RNP/NRPN messages (7 and 14bits), Pitch Bend messages, Program Changes messages, Note On/Off messages.You can open up to 32 pages simultaneously. You can change pages with three fingers swipe gesture, manage the pages order, open multiple instances of the same page and change the MIDI Out driver or the MIDI Out channel (or both) without entering the editor for each instance.
Swipe shortcuts (1, 2 and 3 fingers) let you access quickly to the MIDI keyboard, the pads controller or the 16 channels mixer.
TB MIDI Stuff contains some demo pages and 7 pads banks. For the pads banks :
- Default Bank
- Drum Kit (GM)
- Fifth
- Major Chords
- Minor Chords
- Simple Chord Generator
- Velocity"
TB MIDI Stuff - TBStuff
iPads on eBay
The Tetrafol
via monome, via Wired
"Los Angeles musical group Fol Chen has created a strange new instrument that lets listeners re-create the band’s unique sound.
The device, called a Tetrafol, is a wooden tetrahedron that can manipulate sound. Its guts sense orientation and motion and use those movements to modify the playback of sounds. Each device comes loaded with mini-compositions created by Fol Chen, but users of the Tetrafol can also upload their own sounds to manipulate..."
Fol Chen - So Good by WeGetPress
Polytonal Piece [SIMMONS Silicon Mallet Piece]
YouTube Uploaded by garyfieldman on Nov 21, 2011
"Interesting green sparkles of light projected onto the side walk from the store "Faces", in Northampton Ma. The music is "Polytonal Piece", an assignment for a New England Conservatory class taught by Hankus Netsky, around 1995. The influence is definitely in part from Miles Davis, from "In A Silent Way", and that electric modal period.
Synesthesia: Not the colors, but the texture of the bouncing balls of light go together with the music relative to my synesthetic sense.
Performed on the Simons Silicon Mallet."
via glassbeadgame in the comments of this post.
Twisted Tools Releases JEDSOUNDS's TRANSFORM
YouTube ploaded by twistedtools on Nov 20, 2011
"Twisted Tools is excited to announce the release our latest sample pack, TRANSFORM.
TRANSFORM is an extensive collection of field recordings, sound effects and designed sounds developed by sound designer Jean-Edouard Miclot (a.k.a. JEDSOUND). Bundled with sample mappings for many popular formats, TRANSFORM's painstakingly recorded and processed sounds will find their home in the arsenals of sound designers, editors and music producers alike.
AVAILABLE NOW @ http://twistedtools.com/
Audio Demo made by Richard Devine using sounds from the sample pack.
Motiongraphics and Editing by axiom-crux.net
FEATURES:
Over 1.64 gigabytes of field recordings, sound effects and designed sounds
24bit/96khz WAV audio embedded with Soundminer enriched metadata
46 sampler instruments for a variety of popular *formats
*Ableton Simpler/Sampler, Battery 3, EXS24 MKII, Kontakt 3, Maschine and Reaktor 5
A brand new version of Twisted Tools' MP16, called MP16c
Kore and Maschine templates for MP16c
TouchOSC MIDI and OSC template for MP16c
Kyma Instrument
Bonus kit by Richard Devine
Additional content by Twisted Tools and Jedsound"
OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE:"Twisted Tools Releases TRANSFORM
by Jedsound
New sample collection provides a variety of sound effects for both sound design and music production
San Francisco, November 15th, 2011 - TRANSFORM is an extensive collection of field recordings, sound effects and designed sounds developed by sound designer Jean-Edouard Miclot (a.k.a. JEDSOUND). Bundled with sample mappings for many popular formats, TRANSFORM’s painstakingly recorded and processed sounds will find their home in the sonic arsenals of sound designers, editors and music producers alike.
TRANSFORM features over 1.6 Gigabytes of 24-bit/96khz audio, all meticulously embedded with Soundminer enriched metadata and processed using a plethora of sound design tools, such as Symbolic Sound’s Kyma.
Whether you’re a sound designer needing a massive Hollywood impact, an editor looking for a radio stinger or a musician wanting to add some ice crunch to a snare...or bass wobbles made from a processed moose, TRANSFORM has something for you.
TRANSFORM comes with sampler presets for the EXS24MKII, Kontakt, Battery, Maschine and Reaktor, as well as the all new MP16c sampler for *Reaktor. To top it off, we’ve included MP16c templates for Maschine, Kore and TouchOSC for the iPad, as well as bonus material by Richard Devine.
*Reaktor Player format not supported
Pricing
$69
About Twisted Tools
TWISTED TOOLS specializes in creating innovative and user friendly instruments, effects and sample libraries.
About JEDSOUND
Jean-Edouard Miclot is a French sound designer living and working in Vancouver, Canada. He has worked with Stuart Wilson, Steve Bigras, Zak Belica, Brad Hillman and Samuel Lehmer. Jean-Edouard is currently a sound designer at Ubisoft."
KORG MS-2000BR w/keys
via Mackenzie on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge where you'll find more pics.
"Converted my rack mounted synth into one with a keyboard. Achieved by combining an Alesis 25 key controller with my Korg MS-2000BR. There is only one power supply(the korgs) and the Korg still has the external midi input available."
Mackenzie plays in Voice to Spirit.
Moog Music Launches Season Two Of Moog Sound Lab And A Partnership With SPIN.com
"November 21, 2011: Moog Music launches Season Two of Moog Sound Lab, a unique performance series giving artists the opportunity to experiment with various forms of synthesis and soundscaping. Season Two marks a partnership with music tastemaker, SPIN.com. SPIN will exclusively present one performance from each session.
Moog Sound Lab Season Two’s debut episode features a distinctive performance by Twin Shadow, who applies synthesis to organically re-invent his breakthrough songs “Castles In The Snow” and “Slow”. The on-line series is creatively engineered and filmed at Moog Music's factory in Asheville, North Carolina by Moog’s in-house multi-media production team.
Little Dragon, The Antlers, Ra Ra Riot, and Megafaun join Twin Shadow for the second season of Moog Sound Lab. Each band re-imagined two of their songs while experimenting in Moog's gear rich, black box studio space within its working factory. Combining artists' untethered creativity with access to the full catalog of Moog's handcrafted electronic musical instruments, Moog Sound Lab offers viewers a rare view of performances usually reserved for private rehearsals and experimentation that take place regularly at the Moog factory.
Viewers may watch one performance exclusively on SPIN.com and the other at moogsoundlab.com. The episodes will debut on the first and third Mondays of each month. Little Dragon's session will premier December 5th.
Season One of Moog Sound Lab featured Tegan and Sara, Phantogram, OK GO, Junip, Dorit Chrysler, and The Dandy Warhols, which can be viewed at moogsoundlab.com.
Links: www.moogsoundlab.com/twin-shadow ::: www.spin.com"
Update:
Twin Shadow (Season 2)
"Twin Shadow kicks off the second season of Moog Sound Lab with a Mooged out version of "Slow" from their album Forget."
Moog Sound Lab Season Two’s debut episode features a distinctive performance by Twin Shadow, who applies synthesis to organically re-invent his breakthrough songs “Castles In The Snow” and “Slow”. The on-line series is creatively engineered and filmed at Moog Music's factory in Asheville, North Carolina by Moog’s in-house multi-media production team.
Little Dragon, The Antlers, Ra Ra Riot, and Megafaun join Twin Shadow for the second season of Moog Sound Lab. Each band re-imagined two of their songs while experimenting in Moog's gear rich, black box studio space within its working factory. Combining artists' untethered creativity with access to the full catalog of Moog's handcrafted electronic musical instruments, Moog Sound Lab offers viewers a rare view of performances usually reserved for private rehearsals and experimentation that take place regularly at the Moog factory.
Viewers may watch one performance exclusively on SPIN.com and the other at moogsoundlab.com. The episodes will debut on the first and third Mondays of each month. Little Dragon's session will premier December 5th.
Season One of Moog Sound Lab featured Tegan and Sara, Phantogram, OK GO, Junip, Dorit Chrysler, and The Dandy Warhols, which can be viewed at moogsoundlab.com.
Links: www.moogsoundlab.com/twin-shadow ::: www.spin.com"
Update:
Twin Shadow (Season 2)
"Twin Shadow kicks off the second season of Moog Sound Lab with a Mooged out version of "Slow" from their album Forget."
Moogerfooger Fest Live!!!
YouTube Uploaded by unamacarana on Nov 21, 2011
"One Lo-Fi Electronic improvisation Using One Moog Collection Of Electronic Toys."
Buchla Fooger Jungle
YouTube Uploaded by Ebotronix on Nov 21, 2011
"Buchla System # 1 & Mooger Fooger's
FreqBox ,Ringmodulator, Bass Murf, Phaser, CP 251, VX 251
Maestro Ringmodulator
Make Noise Format Jumper
Logic master clock"
RC-1324-VR Roland GR-300 Vintage Guitar Synth 13-pin Adapter Cable
YouTube Uploaded by WayneJoness on Nov 21, 2011
"The RC-1324-VR has a d-sub 25 pin output, with a special 25 pin to 24 pin Roland proprietary connector.a"
Triadex Muse Vintage Synthesizer / Sequencer
via this auction via analogsd
"This very unique machine is regarded by some as the first digital musical instrument. Designed by Edward Fredkin and Marvin Minsky at MIT, the Muse is an algorithmic music generator: it uses digital logic circuits to produce a sequence of notes based on the settings of various parameters.
Since the Muse was designed as a composition tool, not a synthesizer, there is no control over the timbre of the sound; rather, the front panel controls affect the melodies that are generated.
The four small sliders in the lower-left control Volume, Tempo, Pitch, and Fine Pitch. The switches to either side are used to start and stop the sequence, or to step through it note-by-note.
Of the eight larger sliders on the right, four control the musical intervals used (labeled A, B, C, and D), and four control the theme (labeled W, X, Y, and Z). A rest can be substituted for the lowest note by flipping a toggle switch. The exact logic behind the composition engine is rather technical, and not exactly intuitive.
The tempo clock can be slaved to that of another Muse, allowing for multi-part compositions.
It is not known exactly how many Muses were made, but they are very rare, and were not available in stores."
Roland SH2 Analogue Synthesizer with Brown Gig Bag
via this auction
SN 931970
"The SH-2 is a compact, dual-oscillator synthesizer - with fantastic build quality and with features that in its day (1978) allowed it to surpass the capabilities of many larger, more expensive synthesizers..."
Yamaha CS30 Analogue Synthesizer
via this auction
SN 2331
"The CS-30 is a large, knob infested, analog synthesizer with masses of features. It is a monophonic synth with two oscillators with separate outputs, two multimode resonant filters, two VCA amplifiers and three envelopes. It also features a ring modulator, external audio triggering and an excellent 8-step sequencer.
Great sounding with a vast range of possibilities for sound shaping and modulation based experimentation. It can be punchy and fast, richly textured or funky as hell. The closest you get to a semi-modular without patch cords. This machine is a sound designers dream."
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