An Interview with Andrew Rudin on Astronauta Pinguim

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"In 1967 Nonesuch Records, a record company specialized in releasing inexpensive classical music records, became interested in having electronic music in their catalogue. First, they released Morton Subotnick's 'Silver Apples of the Moon,' Kenneth Gaburo's 'Music For Voices, Instruments & Electronic Sounds,' and Beaver & Krause's 'The Nonesuch Guide to Electronic Music,' and then, via a recommendation from Robert Moog, Nonesuch became aware of Andrew Rudin's electronic works and commissioned a full-LP composition. In 1968 'Tragoedia - A Composition in Four Movements for Electronic Music Synthesizer,' a piece composed between October 1967 and April 1968 was released, using instruments designed by Robert Moog. Some excerpts from 'Tragoedia' were used by Italian director Frederico Fellini in his 1969 film 'Satyricon.' Andrew Rudin realized a second work for film and synthesized sounds, 'Paideia,' and continued to compose for ensembles and dance companies."

Doepfer A116 VC Waveform Processor Basic Features

Published on Nov 20, 2014 Raul's World of Synths

"A short introduction to the features of the Doepfer A116 Voltage Controlled Waveform Processor. A short demonstration with audio is included. Video one of three.Sound and Video by Raul Pena."

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Moog Modular System 55

Published on Nov 20, 2014 AudioCentralMagazine

"The mighty Moog Modular System 55 at Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia in Rome was purchased under request of Maestro Franco Evangelisti (from "Gruppo d'Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza"); it was seldom used by Riccardo Bianchini in the Eighties and Giorgio Nottoli in the Nineties. Now, is it used for teaching the basic concepts of modular synthesis in the analog realm and for quick comparison with several virtual synthesizer, topics of study in my class of "Virtual Synthesis" at Biennio/Triennio of Composizione Applicata. This mighty machine, today (November, 20th, 2014) was moved in a new room, turned on again after the Summer, amplified with a vintage Pioneer Amp and a couple of big Tannoy Arden 15". This machine roars; this machine has a soul; this machine is probably one of the best synths in the word. Audio, sadly, straight from the small camera (with a lot of clacking from keyboard bushing and a lot of musical noise from the Conservatorio's classrooms; camera is shaking and rattling when the floor is shaking and rattling under the power of the dual Tannoy system. :-)"

Chase Bit 99

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Crumar Bit 99 rebadged as a Chase 99.  I don't believe I've ever seen or featured one of these on MATRIXSYNTH before. There's one reference in this synth interview with 808 state's Graham Massey, and another post featuring vintage Chase catalogs here, and that's it.  Interesting bit of synth history you do not see often.

Blue Lantern Dwarf Star

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"The Dwarf Star is a Semi-Modular Synthesizer with fully analog signal path.

The system features two triangle core VCOs, a 12dB analog filter, two linear-based envelope generators, twin VCAs (stereo output), 2 LFOs (1 VCLFO & 1 Skew LFO), Sample and Hold, a VC Noise Generator, a Mixer and a stereo "vintage sounding" delay!

The triangle core VCOs use a discrete transistor array for triangle generation. The Bergfotron Advanced VCO was the initial influence in the making of these VCOs.

You get a superior quad VCA based analog filter. This particular filter is mixable, meaning there are outputs for lowpass, band pass, high pass, notch, and all pass. You are able to select which capacitors (470pf and 120pf) are used.

The filter also features a diode limiter for controlling extreme settings. This is a unique feature you will not see on any other desktop synth., The mixer section and filter go hand in hand. The mixer section will saturate the filter if the level knobs are close to fully clockwise. So, you get an extreme and soft sound palette.

The mixer section does not require any patching. All basic waves are available. VCO 1 generates two sub-harmonic pulse frequencies. This is a unique feature and provides a very fat sound!

The PPL VC Noise Generator's large metal knob allows you to sweep from asteroids (like the Defender arcade game blast FX) to white noise. This is another unique feature.

The two linear-based Envelope generators are analog and have individual loop LFOs. There is a timing capacitor switch to allow for short or long envelopes. One envelope is hard-wired to the filter and the other to the twin VCAs.

The twin VCAs give you a stereo output. Each CVA gate knob is individually controllable. There is a 3.5mm jack to patch up a rotor stereo effect. The output on the VCA section also contains a synth level to line level converter.

The VCLFO has a triangle core. The CV section has exponential CV and a special linear CV section. The linear CV section allows for arpeggio like crescendos when patches with another LFO.

The Skew LFO does not voltage control and is basic. It is similar to the MS-20 LFO in design. It has a triangle shaper with output, and pulse width output.

The Sample and Hold uses the Skew LFO for the clock. You need to patch something to the input jack and patch the output jack to a destination. This is a "free floating" section.

The Stereo 'Vintage Sounding' Delay uses twin PT2399 chips to simulate BBD chips. It makes cool delay trails and each control features CV Inputs.

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Sequential Circuits Split-8 Analog Synthesizer

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Moog Source Synthesiser Synthesizer with Arpeggiator & Sequencer

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"Over 1 million sounds are theoretically available. The synth is monophonic and comes with cassette interface (showing its age), sequencer and arpeggiator all built in, unlike most other Moogs or other synths of the time."

Xils-lab PolyKB II Analog Morphing Synthesizer Plugin Review - SoundsAndGear.com

Published on Nov 20, 2014 SoundsAndGear.com

"http://SoundsAndGear.com: Checking out PolyKB II from Xils-lab, it's a plugin based on the vintage olyKobol analog synth from RSF syntheszers. It has a classic interface with morphable oscillators and a bunch of other modulation options. Most importantly, it has a very warm and vintage tone to it, I was definitely sleeping on this one. Excuse the extra blank space at the end of the video, forgot to remove it lol."

QU BIT NEBULAE // VOWELS plug in // FURTHRRRR GENERATOR // NAGRA III

Published on Nov 20, 2014 LESINDES

"QU BIT NEBULAE features a couple of software plug ins that may be loaded into the machine. such as analog synth voice and also an FM module which was the 1st one I tried to load in my nebulae but I failed -- the code seems to be buggy and the machine crashed. 2nd try was successful: Vowels which is a nice vowel generator with a lot of tweaking possibilities!!"

Tripping through space on a comet's back (an hymn to Philae) - Analog modular synthesizer

Published on Nov 20, 2014 GruithuisenCityMan

"Tripping through space on a comet's back (an hymn to Philae) - Analog modular synthesizer

Hello ! My name is Frederic Gerchambeau. I have made this movie and this music. The music has been made using an analog modular synthesizer including an A-115, A-160, a Maths, two A-106-6, two Bubblesound VCOb and an Audio Damage Dub jr.
Enjoy !"

Copy of Alesis Andromeda / Weather

Published on Nov 20, 2014 GCOM

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Weather composed by gcom.
Alesis Andromeda analog synth + Roland sp808ex sampler for voice (weather report) Drums and percussion.
Hope you enjoy it!"

000

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BugBrand Modular - Patch 03

Published on Nov 20, 2014 batchas

"Playing with BugBrand Modular and bananafied Eurorack."

ROLAND JP-8080 VIRTUAL ANALOG SYNTHESIZER

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Intellijel Planar Vector Mixer

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Tiptop Audio Trigger Riot

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SYSTEM 100M VINTAGE ANALOG SYNTHESIZER

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Model 181 870319
Model 140 800891
Model 130 830768
Model 121 890842
Model 112 213020

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Oberheim OB-XA VINTAGE ANALOG SYNTHESIZER W MIDI

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Oberheim Matrix 6R

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Novation Bass Station

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Moog Opus 3 Vintage Analog Synth

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Moog Minimoog Model D Vintage Analog Synthesizer

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Korg Polysix (Kiwi Upgraded w MIDI) SN 382967 & 002477

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JL Cooper Electronics Soundchest II Vintage Drum Machine SN A1002544

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Elektron Machinedrum SPS-1 MKII

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Elektron Analog Four

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Access VIRUS A VIRTUAL ANALOG SYNTHESIZER

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Madrona Labs Soundplanes Available with Educational Software Pricing

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"Soundplanes are available!

I always try to refine the Soundplane design and production process, and I can say that the third run of Soundplanes has turned out to be the best one yet. I allowed for a 10% failure rate of finished main circuit boards, building 30 complete boards and only selling 27. Happily, we had a 0% failure rate and every board has tested OK. So, I have an extra instrument to offer right now and a couple more special builds waiting in the wings.

If you visit the web site, you can see Soundplane #0073, which is one of the darker-colored cherry instruments from the third run. It's for sale at $1,895, for immediate shipping. If you would like to order it, please reply with your intent to this email, and I'll send a money request to you via PayPal. And do please take note of the ordering info at http://madronalabs.com/soundplane about shipping and taxes, especially if you are outside the USA.

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Ondes MIDI controlling duophonic modular synth

Published on Nov 20, 2014

iTunes: Ondes : Expressive Electronic Instrument - Olympia Noise Co.

"Read more about Ondes and MIDI here:
http://www.olympianoiseco.com/blog/wh..."

ANimALOGICA Bologna Synth Meeting CLINIC | Sound Machines Coming December 14

ANimALOGICA Bologna Synth Meeting CLINIC | Sound Machines
Brain machines, sounds heart

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MC-202 On Steroids by TEANEGRO PATCHES

"Introducing slightly modified Roland MC-202. This one is armed with MIDI, Novamod Turbo LFO, Noise Generator, Triangle wave from OSC and filter modulation by sequencer track two. No holes drilled, it looks almost like stock."

Din Sync Limited Edition T-Shirts in Black, Red & Blue

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Micheal Jackson-They don't care about us-Luke Neptune remix(performed live)

Published on Nov 19, 2014 Luke Neptune

"Luke Neptune remix(performed live). Watch in 720pHD.
They Don't Care About Us-written by Michael Jackson-Epic records 1996.
Gear used: Roland TR8, Moog Little Phatty, Akai MPC1000, Oberheim Matrix 1000, Boss Chorus Pedal."

New Doepfer A-147-2 Voltage Controlled Delayed LFO

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"Module A-147-2 is the successor of the VCLFO A-147 but offers much more features than the predecessor. The module is made of these sub-units:

VCLFO: voltage controlled low frequency oscillator

VCA: voltage controlled amplifier, switchable to voltage controlled polarizer

VC delay unit: voltage controlled linear attack envelope (only one parameter: attack) for delayed LFO operation in combination with the VCA (e.g. delayed vibrato/tremolo)

LFO: The voltage controlled LFO has the waveforms Triangle, Sine, Sawtooth and Rectangle available and features a Reset/Sync input. Triangle/Sine and Rectangle are displayed by means of dual-color LEDs (probably red/green), Sawtooth has a unicolor LED available (probably blue). The output levels are about -4V...+4V for Triangle, Sine and Rectangle. The Sawtooth level is about 0...+8V.
The CV control can be switched to attenuator or polarizer ("CV Mode" switch). In polarizer mode the CV inputs affects the frequency in the reverse manner when the CV control is left from the center position. In the center position CV has no effect and right from the center the control works like a normal attenuator. The frequency range (without external CV) is from about 0,005 Hz (i.e. about 3 minutes per periode) to 200 Hz. In addition a ultra-low mode can be activated by means of an internal jumper. When the ultra-low jumper is set a fixed voltage is connected to the switching contact of the "LFO CV" socket. In polarizer mode of the CV control that way extremely low frequencies (up to one hour period and more) are possible.

VCA: This is a linear VCA that can be switched to "normal" VCA (i.e. kind of a voltage controlled attenuator) or voltage controlled polarizer ("VCA Mode" switch). In the "normal" VCA mode amplification +1 is achieved with about +5V control voltage. In polarizer mode the amplification ranges from about -0.5 (i.e. inverted signal with about 50% level) with 0V CV to +0.5 (i.e. non-inverted signal with about 50% level) with +5V CV. With about +2.5V CV the signal is suppressed. Details about the functioning of a voltage controlled polarizer can be found in the description of the module A-133. In this mode the VCA can be treated also a DC coupled ring modulator (similar to A-114).

The VCA of the A-147-2 has three sockets available: "In" (signal input), "Out" (signal output) and "CV" (control voltage input).

The Triangle Output of the LFO is normalled to the VCA signal input by means of the switching contact of the "VCA In" socket. If another LFO waveform (or any other signal) should be processed by the VCA the corresponding signal has to be patched to the "VCA In" socket. The VCA can be used also independently from the LFO and the Delay CV. In this case the VCA sockets In, Out and CV have to be patched accordingly. The VCA can be used also as waveshaper for the LFO signals (e.g. by patching VCA In and VCA CV to different LFO signals, if necessary via attenuator A-183-1 or offset generator/attenuator A-183-2).

Attack/Delay: The third sub-unit of the module is a simple, voltage controlled envelope generator that has only the parameter "Delay" (or Attack) available. This unit generates a linear increasing voltage that starts from 0V after each Delay Reset until it reaches about +5V. Then the voltage remains at +5V until the next Delay Reset occurs. The inclination or gradient is controlled by the manual Delay control and the Delay control voltage ("Delay CV" input). The waveform is linear, the control scale is exponential. The output voltage is displayed by a unicolor LED (probably orange) and available at the "Delay Out" socket.

The manual Delay control ranges - without external "Delay CV" - from about 5ms (fully CW) up to 2 minutes (fully CCW). By means of an external voltage applied to the "Delay CV" socket this range can be extended. A rising CV shortens the delay time (behaviour like a VCO) !

The Delay output voltage ranges from about 0V to +5V. The rising edge of the gate, clock or trigger signal applied to the "Delay Reset" sockets resets the Delay output voltage to 0 V.

"Delay Out" is normalled to the VCA CV input by means of the switching contact of the "VCA CV" socket and consequently controls the Triangle level provided that no other patch is made. A typical example is the usage of a Gate signal (e.g. from a USB/Midi-to-CV/Gate interface) as Delay Reset. That way a delayed vibrato or tremolo can be realized if the VCA output is patched to the frequency CV input of a VCO (or VCF), or the CV input of a VCA.

But the Delay sub-unit can be used also independently from the LFO and VCA, e.g. as a voltage controlled waveshaper or for other applications where a linear increasing signal with voltage controlled steepness is required."

Roland TB-303 Bassline Synthesizer

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ROLAND RS-09 Organ/Strings Vintage Analog Synthesizer w/ Orig Bag

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"This is the early version of RS-09 with rocker switches, which is said to be more reliable than the touch switches of the latter version."

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Steely Dan ROLAND JUPITER 8 with Kenton Midi Kit SN 161556?

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No mention of Steely Dan in the listing, but a search on the serial number brings up this post.

From the current listing: "This is a rare opportunity. Im a selling a Jupiter 8 that is in great condition.

1982 12bit 120v model with no issues with tuning. Serial 161556. I recently had this one refurbished to original mint condition in Manhatten. All pots and connections were checked. They also installed a brand new Kenton midi kit. Its basically in perfect working order. Comes with new custom heavy duty flight case from Roadcases USA."

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Quasimidi Polymorph

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9thLayer-At 1 PM (Quasimidi Polymorph demo)

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We were asked several times to do this and here you are :).
Watching in HD is strongly recommended :)."

Analogue Solutions TBX-303 Trans Bass Xpress

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"key features of the tbx-303:
pure analogue voice circuitry.
accurate tb303 circuitry clone.
physically the same size and layout.
extra tone controls and circuits for more sound variety e.g. lfo, crossmod.
rugged steel construction.
midi in for software sequencer control.

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New Pittsburgh Modular MIDI 3 Eurorack Module

"EXTREMELY FULL FEATURED MIDI TO CV CONVERTER

The Midi 3 is our third generation Midi to CV converter. We have stuffed this one with with a robust list of features. It includes a complete set of mono and duophonic midi response modes, assignable CC and dedicated velocity outputs, a feature rich clock source with tap tempo, midi and external gate clock dividers, and multiple arpeggiator responses. This module is deep.

The suggested retail price for the Midi 3 module is $229 and it begins shipping to our dealers today. More information is available at pittsburghmodular.com/midi3."

Major Update for SunVox Released

iTunes: SunVox - Alexander Zolotov

"What's New in Version 1.8
* audio engine has been switched to 32bit (Floating Point) mode;
* other than 44100 sampling rate support;
* Audiobus 2 and IAA (partially) support;
* new Module View (Routing) functions: Zoom (with multitouch support), Snap to Grid;
* MetaModule: EDIT button has been added; now you can edit MetaModules without annoying Loading/Saving;
* MetaModule: additional options: Arpeggiator (change the pitch of internal MetaModule patterns), Apply velocity to song;
* Sampler: the following options have been added: Record on play (use it if you want to record in sync with the PLAY button), Record in mono, Record with reduced sample rate, Record in 16bit;
* SpectraVoice improvements: auto render, additional sample size, new band types (random, triangle1, triangle2, overtones1, overtones2, overtones3, overtones4);
* Sound2Ctl: "Record Values" option has been added; now all values from this module can be recorded alongside with the other SunVox events (notes, Theremin, etc.);
* offset commands (effect codes 09 and 07) support has been added to the following modules: Generator, Analog Generator;
* MultiSynth: new controller "Random phase" has been added; for example, with this option you can play the Sampler's notes from the random position;
* MultiSynth: new controller "Random velocity" has been added;
* Analog Generator: new option "Filter freq. scaling per key (reverse)";
* Analog Generator: new controller "Noise" - amount of the white noise;
* new pattern command: Previous Track; use it to apply effects to previous track; but the following secondary effects are not allowed: 2x, 40..5F, 1D;
* new button in the Pattern Editor: Spec.Cmd - press it to insert a special command (Set Pitch or Previous Track);
* press SHIFT and change the value of some controller - the new value will be written to the pattern;
* press SHIFT and play some note on Touch Theremin - the new microtone (Set Pitch XXYY command) will be written to the pattern;
* new module - GPIO (only for Raspberry Pi); with this module you can send or receive the signals to/from GPIO pins;
* additional MIDI slot has been added to the Preferences; now you can use two MIDI keyboards simultaneously;
* Timeline section has been added to the Preferences;
* new option: Preferences -> Timeline -> Show timeline (always show Timeline on the screen);
* new keyboard shortcut: SHIFT + F9 - record start/stop;
* new keyboard shortcut (pattern editor): SHIFT + [ - transpose octave down;
* new keyboard shortcut (pattern editor): SHIFT + ] - transpose octave up;
* new keyboard shortcut (pattern editor): CTRL + m - paste and mix;
* new keyboard shortcut (pattern editor): SHIFT + k - insert the "Previous Track" special command;
* new simple song examples: spectravoice2, metamodule_arpeggiator, metamodule_arpeggiator2, std_effect_multitrack, std_effect_multitrack2, std_effect_multitrack3, raspberry_pi_gpio;
* new song examples: alchemy_masters, full_moon_night, Twistboy - Translucent, Spline - Endless August, Knyazivan - Left Double Quotation Mark;
* bugs fixed."