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Showing posts with label Acxel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Acxel. Show all posts

Saturday, December 05, 2020

Technos Axcel - vidéo de démonstration


MuStudio

Super rare resynthesis synthesizer. See this post for demos from the creator and this post for demos from Perfect Circuit. See the Acxel label for additional posts.

Description for the video above (Googlish below): "Cette vidéo a été retrouvée dans les archives de Michel Geiss, j'estime qu'elle a été enregistrée vers 1988-89.

La qualité n'est pas extraordinaire car la vidéo était enregistrée sur une cassette VHS au format NTSC et elle commençait à présenter de signes de fatigue, je l'ai numérisée moi-même.

Mais le plus important, c'est la rareté d'un tel document. En plus, c'est suffisamment rare et exceptionnel qu'il soit en langue française - québecoise."

Googlish:

"This video was found in the archives of Michel Geiss, I believe it was recorded around 1988-89.

The quality is not extraordinary as the video was recorded on a VHS tape in NTSC format and it was starting to show signs of fatigue, I digitized it myself.

But the most important is the rarity of such a document. In addition, it is sufficiently rare and exceptional that it is in French - Quebecois language. "

Friday, February 02, 2018

$30,000 Technos Acxel For Sale

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via this auction

"The Technos Acxel Resynthesizer is an additive synth developed in Quebec, Canada during the late 1980s. Its architecture is based on sine-wave oscillators that are each assigned amplitude and pitch envelopes to form the component harmonics of a sound.
The major innovation of the Acxel was, according to Technos, resynthesis. The idea is to sample a sound and extract its harmonic content using the Acxelizer. This information is then used to assign parameters, including envelopes, to the oscillators.

The Acxel comes in two pieces: the Solitary and the Grapher. The Solitary contains the main guts of the machine, including the main CPU board, the oscillator boards, the sampling board, the Acxelizer board, the floppy drive, and the I/O.

The Grapher is the machine’s user interface and is what Technos highlighted in its advertising. It’s a vacuum-fluorescent display for status information and menus and a surface of touch-sensitive nodules, 2114 of which contain LEDs.

Comes with printed manual, sound disks and latest OS. The Solitary sits in a transportable rack case. Serious buyers only. This is the holy grail and strictly for synthesizer collectors."


See the Technos or Acxel label below for more posts including videos.

Someone needs to make a watch version! ;) Sorry, when I first saw the image in this post it was a bit smaller and reminded me of a Casio watch.

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

New Technos Acxel Preset Demos


New demos of the Technos Acxel Resynthesizer have been added to this post. A working Acxel Resynthesizer is about as rare as it gets, so do not miss these.

Monday, November 28, 2016

Rare Technos Acxel Resynthesizer Demo/Jam


Demo video added to this post. Do not miss it. A working Technos Acxel Resynthesizer is about as rare as it gets. This is a special treat for us in the synth community.

The image to the left here is just a screenshot to make sure you don't accidentally scroll by this post w/o seeing it. You can click the image or the link above to get to the post with the video.

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Technos Acxel Resynthesizer Demo Videos

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Published on Nov 28, 2016 Perfect Circuit Audio

Playlist:
Technos Acxel Resynthesizer Demo/Jam
Technos Acxel Disk 1 Presets
Technos Acxel Disk 2 Presets Part 1
Technos Acxel Disk 2 Presets Part 2
Technos Acxel Disk 3 Presets


via this auction

And that is about as rare as it gets. Between the last three posts, I can't believe the CS80 is on the bottom. The prices reflect the rarity and the market. Essentially, these are for the 1% only, whether you belong to the 1% financially or not... These are the 1% of the synth world.

If you are not familiar with the Technos Acxel Resynthesizer, see the Technos label at the bottom of this post. A working version is extremely rare.

Note: MATRIXSYNTH members get a %10 discount at Perfect Circuit Audio (other discounts excluded). See the membership page on how to sign up!

Wednesday, March 05, 2014

The Technos Acxel Resynthesizer Overview Videos


Published on Mar 5, 2014 Kevin Kelley·2 videos

"This is the full length video demonstration for the Technos Acxel re-synthesizer from around 1988. There are two parts to this video"

Technos Acxel part 2


This one is in via Kevin Kelley who let me know he will be uploading some user demos in the future as well. Can't wait! The Acxell Resynthesizer has only been featured on the site a handful of times. It is a rare synthesizer sold between 1987 and 1990 according to Wikipedia. Their is a new Axcel2. You can find information on the main Axcel2 website here.

On the original Axcel via Wikipedia:
"The word Acxel is short for 'acoustical element' (as pixel is short for "picture element".)
The Acxel consists on 2 components: The "Grapher" (graphic console) and the "Solitary" (Rackmount containing the Synthesis and Analysis hardware). Standard - 256 Oscillators (8 voices), up to 1024 Oscillators (32 voices).
Instead of having an LCD or CRT screen, the Axcel has a bank of 2114 LEDs mounted behind finger-sized conductive sensors (a smaller number were also used on the Technos 16\pi synthesizer main panel). All data readouts, and a lot of data input, are processed using this innovative method.
The 16\pi is the Acxel ancestor (1984 - never in production, 4 unit delivered at that time), introducing the concept but limited to 64 Oscillators, including a keyboard.

The Acxel never found mainstream favour and was never a commercial success, due to its high cost, and relative difficulty of use. As a result of this, Acxels today are very rare (about 35 were sold from 1987 to 1990), obscure and expensive, and they never did replace traditional sampler as was their intention. Their legacy, however, lives on in modern-day resynthesizers such as VirSyn's Cube, Camel Audio's Cameleon 5000, and Image-Line's Harmor."

Be sure to see the Technos channel link below for previous posts.

Saturday, July 09, 2011

Octatrack meets Acxel


YouTube Uploaded by erasemusic on Jul 9, 2011

"Technos Acxel gets sequenced by the Elektron Octatrack, lfos controls different arpeggiator settings. the sound from the Acxel gets routed back into the Octatrack for some effects mangling.

www.danieltroberg.com"

Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Technos Acxel Track - FRACTASTIC VOYAGE (To Infinity and Beyond) Part 1


YouTube via DonGarbutt | October 06, 2010

See the Acxel label at the bottom of this post for all posts on this unique synthesizer.
"Stunning fractal images have been added to a piece that was made back in 1988, using the Technos Acxel. Dense, random clouds of evolving sound emanate from the Canadian-made Acxel-1 (Acxel-2 is in development and is coming soon). Make sure that you watch part 2 as well."

FRACTASTIC VOYAGE (To Infinity and Beyond) Part 2

DonGarbutt | October 06, 2010

"Explore the wonderful world of fractal art. A fractal is "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole,"[1] a property called self-similarity. Roots of mathematically rigorous treatment of fractals can be traced back to functions studied by Karl Weierstrass, Georg Cantor and Felix Hausdorff in studying functions that were continuous but not differentiable; however, the term fractal was coined by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975 and was derived from the Latin fractus meaning "broken" or "fractured." A mathematical fractal is based on an equation that undergoes iteration, a form of feedback based on recursion."

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Synth Cat and an Acxel Resynthesizer and Rhodes Chroma


via Kevin Kelly of The Audio Playground Synthesizer Museum

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Acxel 2 Resynthesizer Demo Sounds

New sounds of the Acxel 2 Resynthesizer have been posted on the Acxel website here.

"These demo sounds are good exemples of Real Time process, Re-Synthesis, and Synthesis from Acxel2. We also present more «Standard» sounds as exemple of what can be done also to emulate more conventionnal instruments."

Click on the Acxel labe below for prior posts including the original Acxel Resynthesizer.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Podcast: Sonic TALK134 - Largo Love, Acxel Antipathy

"We start with talk of the recent LIMS show, where shot plenty of new videos, then we're on to the Acxel2 synth - a powerful, realtime resynthesizer which needs some good demos. By contrast, the arrival of Waldorf Largo seems to impress everyone to a man, then we check out AudioBoo.fm - a new audio blogging site." Podcast on Sonic State here

Monday, June 08, 2009

Acxel2 Website

Update: Unfortunately, the Acxel2 project was cancelled in January of 2011 due to lack of funding:

"Formally Idarca-Audio is bankrupted, not for technical reasons but for critical investment that never happened.

We have working unit. We currently work to revive the project, in short to get an investment in a new corporation, complete the certifications and build new units,

Thank you for your interest."

The new Acxel2 website is up.
"Acxel2 is a new upgradeable multi-synthesis and multi-timbral modular synthesizer offering: Additive synthesis, Re-synthesis, Expanded synthesis and Analog synthesis. Acxel2 introduces its native analysis synthesis mode: the Acxelink®.

All Acxel2 musical instruments can be used with any DAW (Pro Tools, Cakewalk, Cubase, Steinberg, Logic, etc.), can operate under Apple or Windows platform and can be used as "slave" or "master" with any MIDI or audio analog entry (keyboard, guitar, microphone, etc ...).

All our products incorporate the Acxel2 re-programmable microprocessor RPP renowned for its extreme reliability and execution speed, dramatically superior to any DSP chips currently available on the market.

Through synthesis and processing of native Acxel2, processing options and sound changes are virtually unlimited. The Acxel2 can emulate any synthesis known modes or original combinations of synthesis modes, effects and signal processing, modification in sounds envelope or articulation ... all in real time!" Be sure to see the official Acxel2 website for more.

If you are unfamiliar with the history of the original Acxel Resynthesizer see these posts. Be sure to scroll when you get there for video and more. This is big news in the synth community.

Update via iDARCA Audio on the new Axcel2. The following actually came in with the image fo the Axcel2 rack above. I wanted to clear it with iDARCA before posting. Note the red below: "Here is a preview of the STUDIO Model that we are working on, 2U, the RACK front panel will also be very close to it (Back panel has different version RACK depending on options – Analog, Digital). The Grapher (2 versions) is under design, we expect the LCD version available soon in fall and LED Matrix (inspired from the Acxel1 with 24 bits colors, multitouch and better resolution than the original Acxel grapher) to be availble in the End of the year.

The CARD version (Home Studios) is actually under tests, the control software too. In fact all system share same base software that runs into MAC and PC."

Sunday, March 15, 2009

acxel resynthesizer acxelisation


YouTube via erasemusic. follow-up to this post.

"analysing the vocal intro of the track "bootsequence" by erase, the track plays along whilst acxelisation process takes place and the video ends with the acxelized sound."

Saturday, March 14, 2009

acxel resynthesizer


YouTube via erasemusic

"you can define the total time for the envelopes in seconds thus making the volume, filters and fm "sequenced" by a noteon at the beginning of every beat. the grapher becomes a sequencerin..."

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Acxel Resynthesizer Samples


You'll find some samples of the original Acxel Resynthesizer and the Axcel 2 at the bottom of this electro-music.com thread.

For more info on the Axcel Resynthsizer, see iDarca Audio. Also see the labels below for previous posts featured here.

Monday, November 10, 2008

Technos Acxel Resynthesizer



Three images via Kevin of Synthmuseum.com

Update: note a new Acxel is coming from iDarca Audio

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Jacques Chabot and the Acxel Resynthesizer

http://www.myspace.com/jacqueschabot

"In the course of the second phase, I acquired an Acxel resynthesizer, which at last enabled me to make the most of the composition and interpretation method I had designed with less performing equipment. In some ways, my new album “Des musiques de fous” is both continuity and a culmination as regards this method. It also marks the starting point of a third phase, “Les installations instantanées” that should result in at least a new album in 2009.

COMPOSITION AND INTERPRETATION: TECHNICAL NOTES

I have been using an extraordinary device for several years: an Acxel resynthesizer. This musical instrument serves as a synthesizer with subtractive synthesis and additive synthesis as well as a resynthesizer, and has an unparalleled capacity (256 independent oscillators that are programmable in real time). Québec engineer Pierre Guilmette created it. About ten or so working Acxels can still be found worldwide.

Thanks to this device, I developed an interpretation technique that enables me, each time I play a piece, to add improvisations to it while keeping its “essence” intact. The Acxel is so powerful that I no longer need sequencers and I merely use the keyboard as an “On-Off” trigger. After I play some notes, I activate the sustain mode and interpret the music by “sculpting” the sounds on the Acxel’s touch screen. Each sound therefore becomes a complete music that can hold several melodic or noise-like themes. In addition, in order to increase tenfold the power of the device, I sample the sounds that do not need to be modified in real time.

I developed this composition and interpretation method some 13 years ago. However, putting it into practice before owning the Acxel was far more limited."

More info on the Acxel at: Technos axcel

Thursday, June 26, 2008

iDARCA Audio Updates


iDARCA Audio

updates include a forum, rare pics, and history of the original acxel 1

You might remember from this post that a new Acxel resynthesizer, the Acxel II, is coming.

You can find more info on the history of this rare and unique synthesizer as well as the new Axcel II on the iDARCA Audio website.

Saturday, April 05, 2008

Technos Acxel Resynthesizer For Sale


Go here and scroll down. The only other one I knew that went up for sale was this one. Click on the Acxel label below for more.

via electro-music.com where you will find some discussion on this.

Update via an anonymous reader:
"I wrote to the guy last year,and u can buy the unit for between 3500-4000e.
Its one of the ex Boman M. Acxel systems.

Comes with only 1 card,no multi-out support,way to expensive and certainly now with the new Acxel II comming.

here one more Acxel for sale:
http://synthsfl.tripod.com/keys.html

i searched to death last year in my Acxel-trip on the web,and if u search very well there are another 2 units for sale.

then more info on various stuff can be find here,Ircam,4X,Synclav etc..:
http://jbemond.free.fr/?cat=4"

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Nearest launching of the Synthesizer - Acxel II

Press Release
Quebec, Canada - on March 26, 2008: Idarca-audio division of Idarca Inc. is proud to announce the nearest launching of the synthesizer Acxel II - which makes profitable the original Acxel legacy (early 90's) and of a revolutionary dynamic architecture parallel processor - patented by Idarca - the RPP. With its unique characteristics, Acxel II will set new standard of real time synthesis and audio processing.

Acxel II proposes 3 synthesis modes (with integrated sound processing):
Acxelink made up of cells (256 to 1280) independently parametrical: Amplitude, Frequency, Phase, Filter, Waveform. Cells-cells links, signal Inputs integration and processing and many other characteristics including macros.
Additive synthesis
Analog synthesis

Acxel II integrates unique functions on sound resynthesis and processing with full scalability:
Real TIme Resynthesis:
The Acxelink and Additive modes allocate without compromise a complete access in real time to all elements (Envelope, Midi, Modulation) of a timbre, created from scratch or configured with Analysis (integrated into the system).

Open architecture: Acxel II allows, in real time, to introduce external sounds (for example a guitar) into the synthesis elements, for simple effects or extended processes or sound fusions.

Scalable: The Acxelink mode integrates all of the elements to emulate and combine existing or original synthesis modes: Physical modeling, Wave Tables, FM, Wavelets, Vocoder, etc.

Acxel II will be available in 2 versions:
Acxel II - PCI: Sound Card (PCI) with software PC/MAC
- Deliverable in 4 to 6 months.

Acxel II - SAS: Stand Alone System with “preset” use for scenic performances or in Workstation (with PC or MAC)
- Deliverable in 8 to 12 months.

Touch Sensitive Graphic console available in option
- Deliverable in less than 12 months.

For more information on Acxel II: www.idarca-audio.com
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