MATRIXSYNTH: Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

The Mini Moog Synthesizer with Herb Deutsch - History of the Minimoog

YouTube Uploaded by Tifoso420 on Feb 12, 2012

"Herb Deutsch, the co-inventor of the first Moog synthesizer discusses the history and functions of the Mini Moog as well as its impact on the music of the time. Deutsch also plays one of his original jazz fusion pieces.

Directed by Michael Sterling"

This one in via Jorge Baez. You can read about the history of Moog including Herb Deutch and Buchla in Tristan Perich and Frank Trocco's book "Analog Days". You'll find it an other synth books in the Synth Books post here.

Today is the TEN YEAR Anniversary of Cyndustries!

via Cynthia on the Cyndustries list:

"Today is the TEN YEAR Anniversary of Cyndustries! Started: February 14th 2002

Our very first module shipped to Ricardo, and was a Modcan A-Series format Gated Comparator module which has since found a new owner...

It is a very special module, it may have a serial number stamped on the back of the panel, but what makes it unique is a sticker of a cupcake with a candle in it and the number #1 written on it.

That is a collector's item to whoever now owns it!

(After the first hundred modules we stopped stamping serial numbers on the back.)

Thank you to everyone who has any of our modules...
We couldn't have done it without you!

Cynthia

Cyndustries.com"

Congrats Cynthia!

~1973 ARP 2500 Modular Synthesizer for Sale

via this auction

"ARP 2500 Modular Synthesizer. Built in 1973. The unit contains the following modules: 1004P Oscillator Module, 1033 Dual Envelope Generator, Module 1006 Filtamp, Module 1027 Clocked Sequential Control, Module 1036 Sample and Hold Random Voltage, and Module 1002 Power Control. As well, it has the keyboard module SP2/SP4. Included also are 3 Model 1001 blank panels. The unit is in very good condition, however the two wooden end caps could use refinishing or even reveneering. These easily disassemble from the metal frame and will require only normal cabinet restoration skills. The unit only includes the modules pictured and mentioned. The electronic condition of the unit overall is untested, however all modules and main unit are all intact and in very good cosmetic condition. No modifications have been done to the main unit or modules ..." BIN of US $14,999.00

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Crimson by fedaden on Madrona Labs Aalto

Crimson by fedaden

"Here is song in 5/4 all melodic sounds made with aalto from madrona labs except the lofi chords which are heavily processed harp samples. drums are from the excellent free drumatic vsti." Update: "The pads at the end are from my ensoniq esq1"

http://madronalabs.com/

Moogfest - Mavericks of Sound Design Panel

YouTube Uploaded by SpectrasonicsVIDEO on Jan 31, 2012

"At the Moogfest in Asheville, North Carolina, four of the top Sound Designers in the world discuss their craft, philosophies, techniques and swap entertaining stories about their sound design experiences in a live panel discussion. Features Eric Persing, Diego Stocco, Richard Devine and Scott Gershin."

No Antidote-Behind the Scenes with OPERATOR (Remix Contest)

YouTube Uploaded by joel1088 on Feb 13, 2012

Studio synth spotting starts at :57

"Remix contest for upcoming OPERATOR single "No Antidote"
1st and probably 2nd place will win a release on my label TriSqrSaw Records (Beatport, iTunes, etc.) a vinyl of the latest OPERATOR EP, an OPERATOR T-Shirt, and a poster. All entries will get posts on Facebook, Twitter, my website, etc.
All genres welcomed.

Deadline is April 1 (no I'm not kidding)

Download the complete stems here: http://soundcloud.com/joel1088/sets/no-antidote-stems-remix

Submit finished remixes to my dropbox on Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/joel1088/dropbox/profile

http://OPERATOR-music.com"

THE 2ND ANNUAL SYNTHESIZER CHILI COOK-OFF

via Facebook

"Sunday, February 19, 2012

THE 2ND ANNUAL SYNTHESIZER CHILI COOK-OFF

"the sonic interpretation of an artist's chili...."

PERFORMERS:
Jeremiah Fisher (and returning champion)
Rolan Vega
Jeff Host
Anthony Janas

HOSTED BY:
Ms. Kelly Carr & Jon Ziemba

PLUS
PRIZES!!!!
CONTESTS!!!!
STEVE "PLASTIC-CRIMEWAVE" KRAKOW DOING CHILI-THEMED CARICATURES!!!!!!
SPICYY DRINK SPECIALS!!!

PLUS
ALL NIGHT DANCE PARTY AFTERWORDS
With Records Provided by

Brandon Walsh
Mike Broers
Beau Wanzer

7PM
@ THE EMPTY BOTTLE
$4 dolla

"DONT SPILL THE BEANS"
--------------------------------------------------------------------
for info on our 1st annual chili-synthesizer cook off, look here"

CUCKOO OP-1 "Good Bye" (for OP-1 compilation)

YouTube Uploaded by cuckoomusic on Feb 2, 2012

"I'm proud to be part of the soon to be released OP-1 compilation by www.noorden.org.
It's an OP-1 exclusive compilation featuring 14 artists/ 14 songs. And it'll also be released as a limited edition graphic fanzine. This song is my contribution, and this video is the actual recording of the live take that will end up on the album.

Cheers
CUCKOO"

UNIVOX E-100 TAPE DELAY

via this auction
via the listing: "Ecellent working UNIVOX E-100. This unit also has Sound On Sound. All jacks and knobs work noise free. Everything works. Cosmetically its in good shape, with only one noticeable flaw in the bottom right corner of the face tolex, you can see it in the photo. Definitely nothing that is to much of an eyesore. Really nice cheaper alternative to something like the Rolands or the Echoplex's. I've used it with Guitars, Synths (analog ms20, sh101, and modulars) to great effect, really works well with a microphone for weird vocals, the sound on sound with this works great for making loops with voice."

MODCAN Modular Syntheizer with 10 modules Power

via this auction

" Super Delay 30A, retail $693
E-Follower 45A, retail $388
MIDI CV 63A, retail $660
Oscillator 01A, retail $438
CEM Low pass filter 29A, $388
Envelope Generator 04A, $477
VC Reset LFO 26A, $388
Noise/S+H/Ringmod 07A, $444.68
Mix/Lag Processor 18A, $363
VCA Panner 21A, $477

modules: $4,716.68

Also included:
Rack chassis w/o power supply, $415
Rack chassis with power supply, $830
rack/power supplies: $1,245
Bonus: 10 pc Pomona banana cables of varying lengths

total current retail price: $5,961.68 not including shipping fees and associated brokerage fees, customs fees, taxes etc"

RSF Kobol Programmer

via this auction

"Use it to store and sequence programs on up to four RSF Kobol expander I's or Expander II's"

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Intellijel Corgasmatron Dual Filter Module Labeled Korgasmatron

via this auction

"Notice that it is spelled Korgasmatron on this unit."

Update: here it is with Corgasmatron.

ARP Odyssey RARE black and gold w/ PPC SN 282813

via this auction
via the listing:
"This is a rare black and gold late model mk 1. (1974-75)
4023 LP filter
Serial no 282813

I had it repaired by a master analog synth tech.
He replaced a few sliders and cleaned and went over the entire synth.
Re-calibrated and fixed power supply.
The hi-pass slider is the only one that is not fully functional.
It works at the very end of the slider but was left undone for future work.
You can find the parts online.

It also has PPC pitch option instead of the rotary! very rare for the mk I.
It doesn't have the extra cv inputs/out like the mk II but you could get them added on.
I had the external audio input added for filter use."

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MFB Kraftzwerg, MFB Megazwerg, Doepfer Dark Energy first Test

YouTube Uploaded by djjupp on Feb 14, 2012

"-kein musikalisches statement/ no musical statement - test only
-einfach mal paar klänge erzeugt
mp3: http://www.budbrain.de/sneakpreview/Kraftzwerg.mp3"

uSeq v1.0b - updates

YouTube Uploaded by gugabox on Feb 14, 2012

"another video update for the uSeq. please have a look at the first video here" [2nd preview video posted here]

Switched On 2-Year Anniversary/Analog Synth Party Explosion Phenomena!!

Full details on Switched On Facebook.

"Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 4:00pm until Monday, February 27, 2012 at 2:00am

An all day bring your own synth party and then later in the night...
Pat A. Physics
The Synth Freq
Pailo
God's Gun

Djs: Veronica Ortuno & Malcolm Elijah

FREE/ALL AGES
29th St. Ballroom

For 2 years Switched On has provided the Austin community and beyond with
rare and boutique electronic instruments, gear repair, electronic music events, and all the nuts and bolts in between. So naturally an all day party is in order!

Beginning at 4PM we will begin the 7th Annual Austin Analog Synth Party! (7AAASP)

7 years ago Chad Allen (Switched On owner) founded the tradition of once a year inviting synthesis practitioners and enthusiasts to bring their prized analog synthesizers and come play under one roof. We encourage you to show off what you have & get to know your neighbors!

IF YOU WISH TO PARTICIPATE:
Please bring a pair of headphones and a keyboard stand! Also any printed text/media is welcome to be displayed if you have a particularly rare or unique synthesizer. All forms of analog keyboards, modular equipment, drum machines, video synthesizers (must provide your own screen), noise machines, etc. are welcome!"

New Sponsor Shout Out - vxxy

Just wanted to give a big thanks to vxxy. You'll see their banner on in the Manufacturers section on the right over the next couple of months. Be sure to check out what they have to offer!

Moog Theremin refinished

via Doug Francis on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

YouTube Uploaded by ISOTROPOSPHERE on Jan 3, 2012

"I purchased my Theremin plus from a gentleman who built it from the factory kit.

I was never really satisfied with his finishing of the housing of the Theremin, so over the Holiday break I refinished it.

The grain of the wood on the cabinet really spoke to me and the eyeball was what it needed / wanted.

The eye area was sanded to raw wood, the lashes and the outline of the details were wood burned into the case using a hot tip pen / knife.

I then stained the case and around the eye. The eye was then treated to a coloration technique using pastels and markers. Sadly, it looked twice as good before I clearcoated the whole case as the clear paint soaked up much of the pastels.

The color of this thing really got washed out in the video conversion, it looks much better in person. Let me know what you think.

Audio is a little jam using the modular synth and the Korg ER-1 mkII."

The Harvestman Bionic Lester In the Flesh

via Scott Jaeger on Facebook

Cool knobs.

http://theharvestman.org/

Machinedrum UW + Sherman Filterbank Techno

YouTube Uploaded by TrondC on Feb 13, 2012

"Machinedrum UW through Filterbank 2 explorations. Not really a demo, not really a track, just video of a guy enjoying some techno"

Fonitronik mh 11 ADC Sequencer

flickr By fonitronik

"The 1st prototype front panel arrived. some minor issues, however, i will have to order a 2nd set..."

NoSound

flickr By xtalx

"First few modules and a panel sans electronics."

Zeroscillator Test

YouTube Uploaded by JohnLRice on Feb 14, 2012

"This video is definitely just for modular synth users, in particular for people who have or are interested in getting a Cyndustries Zeroscillator, meaning this is long and geeky with no entertainment value, folks! ;-)"

Tangential Triplet 200e Groove

YouTube Uploaded by dkimcg on Feb 14, 2012

"Started off simple enough as a triplets based patch I was working on before I got carried away with polyrhythms."

VALENTINE'S TEASER - THE SMASHERS

YouTube Uploaded by FloGanymedes on Feb 12, 2012

"MUSIC - THE SMASHERS"

Features the Percussa AudioCubes.

" The story behind this video started one year ago. We were looking for a way to thank all the girls who’ve been supporting us even when we were djing in the smallest bedroom you can imagine. As kind of a “thank you”, we came up with this idea to make the valentine’s mix 2011 for our biggest supporters :-)

The mix of last year was recorded very cheaply by just fading one youtube video in and the other one out ;) . The last couple of months we got to play in clubs and our djing skills evolved a lot. We came to the point where we decided we wanted to make our performance more unique than the one we had. That’s how we decided to use the Percussa AudioCubes for our gigs together with Deckadance, professional DJ software from Image-Line.

It is so much fun when one person is using the Percussa AudioCubes for looping and mixing effects while the other one is looking in the tracklist for the next song, or the other way around. When using the Percussa AudioCubes together with Deckadance we experienced an easyness in djing we never had before. Also, it also looks outstanding when two guys are waving in front of two light-emitting cubes on stage ;)

So, we were talking this years valentine’s mix, and we somehow ended up in my bathroom recording this video as teaser for this years mix. We made this video just for fun, but in the end we are overwhelmed by the positive response we got for this video ;) Anyway, the main thing why we did is to to thank all our friends for supporting us all the way so far…"

Jeff Beck vs Rachmaninoff on the Haken Continuum Fingerboard played by Rob Schwimmer

YouTube Uploaded by 5SunkenHeights5 on Nov 10, 2011

Rachmaninoff a la Jeff Beck---This is just one sort of thing that can be done on the incredible Haken Continuum! A tip of the iceberg! I'm a novice on it but it's amazing! So intuitive and organic! Anyway... I've always loved the great guitarists of the 60's--Hendrix, Beck, Clapton, Feiten, etc. As a keyboard player I envied their expressive options--vibrato, note bending, sustain, etc. That's one of the reasons I became a theremin player... (Fact check: I was an electric guitarist throughout junior high and high school doing my best to Hendrix, Clapton, Beck so I do understand playing in that style... Not good enough though: I decided I would give myself 2 weeks of intense practicing and if I wasn't as good as Hendrix or John McLaughlin after 2 weeks, I would quit. Two weeks came--I quit.) I had no real interest in doing this sort of thing on the Continuum but one day I plugged it into my Glenn Wyllie's Shin-Ei Superfuzz (http://www.mindspring.com/~wylo/)
and... ta dah! Big fun! I play this piece on piano (Rachmaninoff's Etude tableau in Ebm op39 #5) and thought I'd see how it went... As I said I'm definitely still a novice and it's far from perfect... but I like it!

(For Continuum players this was done without Rounding)

PS--For more hot Continuum action please be sure to check out their website at hakenaudio.com/ and also be sure to take a look at Edmund Eagan's Continuum work-- He works with Lippold Haken in developing and designing sounds for it and has an inside and out understanding of the instruments sounds and playing modes..."

SuONOIO + EVOL Fucifier Demo

YouTube Uploaded by thedevil4269 on Aug 27, 2011

"Just got a SuONOIO and created a short video to show y'all how cool it is. A few clips to give you an idea of the range of capabilities. Every time I turn this thing on it makes a new sound! It's amazing. Get one, you won't be disappointed.

Check out Sonoio at http://sonoio.org and get more info on the SuONOIO synth at http://sonoio.org/suonoio/"

via Musikgear

The ArcaMIDI

YouTube Uploaded by Hatchinatore on Apr 25, 2010

"My name is Alex . (Hatchinatore@gmail.com) and this is my award-winning instrument, ArcaMIDI. The ArcaMIDI itself is a computer controlled instrument. essentially it encases a laptop, and with help from an iphone, and a Wii remote's electronics, plus a bit of custom circuitry, it relays messages to the laptop, for the laptop to process with an end goal of producing music. On the protocol side, the laptop is relayed OSC routings and messages from both the Wii remote and the iphone. the iphone uses an application called Mrmr to relay these messages, and is able to have custom interfaces. combined with jailbreaking, i replaced images for the buttons in the application to make it look more of a part of my instrument. on my laptop, i am running mac OSX 10.6. my iphone connects to my laptop via wifi, and to minimize the interference, i host a network with its own password from my laptop to the phone, so only i can connect, and it will work anywhere I am. the Wii remote connects through bluetooth directly to the program osculator where both messages from the Wii remote and iphone are interpreted. the commands are then transferred into midi events, and they are sent to ableton live, where the magic takes place. with my iphone i am able to change to preset instruments on the fly, as well as control volume levels, wether or not it is the only instrument playing, muting and effects the Wii remote hardware is connected to buttons spread throughout. the note board plays notes and or chords on whatever the selected instrument is. those sounds can be modulated with the joystick. there are 13 buttons which includes a full octave of notes, plus an extra note. when a button is pressed, a backlight led lights up. on the right near the joystick, there are also two strumbar-like elements, the one closest to the noteboard controls the key. i it is pressed upward, the entire noteboard moves up a half step in key, and downward the same. on the far strumbar is octave control. as longs as the strumbar is held downward, the entire noteboard shifts exactly one octave downward, and up shifts higher. the remaining three buttons are for looping control. combine on the fly instrument changing with looping, and you get a one man, one instrument band. the user can start by playing a drum loop, presses the loop button to start the loop, and once again to end it. that loop plays continuously until it is stopped by the controls. the user can then switch to rhythm guitar, and if the want to loop that instrument on top of the previous track, they only have to press the recording button once. the code already recognizes how many bars the previous instrument recorded based on time and beat, and is able to make the next recording last exactly as long, double, half, or whatever the user decides the length to be. once multiple instruments are playing, they can be muted or soloed individually.

If anyone wishes to know more, or would like to contact me direct, I am always free to talk, and i am always in need and want to pursue new opportunities. please feel free to contact me at once again: Hatchinatore@gmail.com"

The ZVex InventoBox

invento 1

YouTube Uploaded by gear4music1 on Feb 14, 2012

Steve Lawler on Dark Pressure for Native Instruments Maschine

YouTube Uploaded by NativeInstruments on Feb 14, 2012

"DJ/Producer Steve Lawler (VIVa MUSiC, UK/Ibiza) puts several of his exclusive patterns from the Dark Pressure Maschine Expansion to use in the studio and the club. All of the grooves heard in this video are from Dark Pressure.

http://www.native-instruments.com/darkpressure"

Z.VEX Seek Trem Hand Painted Guitar Pedal

YouTube Uploaded by gear4music1 on Feb 14, 2012
Tremelo with sequencer.

"Available here: http://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/ZVEX-Seek-Trem-Hand-Painted-Guitar-Pedal/ISW, an introductory video to the Z.VEX Seek Trem Hand Painted Guitar Pedal now available at Gear4music"

Z.VEX Seek Wah Hand Painted Guitar Pedal

Wah with sequencer.

Z.VEX Ooh Wah 2 Hand Painted Guitar Pedal

Z.VEX Ringtonett Hand Painted Guitar Pedal

--Ratchet Cadence--

YouTube Uploaded by shaft9000 on Feb 14, 2012

"VCDO feeds the modcan 48dbLPF
DVDO feeds the megaOhm Synthacon filter"

NTH Synth Improvisation #2

YouTube Uploaded by nthsynth on Feb 14, 2012

"The NTH sequences the Moog Slim Phatty and Alesis Micron in an improvised jam while synced to the Korg EMX1's drum machine. NTH sequencer phrases, amplitude envelopes, and gliss patterns are sent to the Moog and Micron via MIDI.

The NTH is available now at Kickstarter:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/holland/nth-music-synthesizer

The NTH is a fun-to-use, sonically-rich, hackable music synthesizer. It features digital oscillators, an analog low-pass filter, an integrated step sequencer, MIDI I/O, and simple, intuitive controls.

The NTH is available for purchase from February 2, 2012 to March 1, 2012 via Kickstarter. Upon successful funding, production of the NTH will begin and the entire design will be open-sourced.

Audio examples, product photos, and additional documentation can be found at the NTH website:

http://nthsynth.com/

The NTH was designed by Kevin Holland and John Staskevich. Kevin's music and software can be found at http://www.sineqube.com. John's electronics designs can be found at http://www.highlyliquid.com.

Thanks for watching!"

slimme boekenkast

YouTube Uploaded by PongFuTube on Feb 14, 2012

"Monomachine VO with some microkorg XL bass

In a broke heart
only cold wind blow
little gods weep
to do voor elkaar"