MATRIXSYNTH: Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Stacked Synth Shots

Some killer shots from this thread. Sent my way via Dennis Verschoor.

Prophet 5 Armada

Yamaha CS80-Go-Round

OSCar Ladder

Jupiter-8s - Just Lounging Around

The Boys Club - Anyone gotta light?

Title link takes you to more shots on Synthforum.nl.

Bob Moog Tribute Concert - UK March 25

Title link takes you there.

New Moog Will be a Keyboard?

On Sound and Sound: "Turnkey and Moog were remaining tight-lipped on this, but they were heard to say ‘Brian will have the keyboard with him, yes’."

Moog Clue #2

Also check out this new shot on the Moog website. Looks like wood end cheeks to me. I ran into this on Music Thing catching up this morning.

Update: Grabbing the text from Moog for the clue #2 shot above before it is gone.

"Could it be Wood? It must be a Boomerang...

Clue # 2

Two weeks until the Musik Messe and Moog’s new product unveiling - but why wait. Take a look at your next clue now.

Feel like discussing the hints with a community of creative and intelligent folks?

If so, Join our Moog Forum!"

Twiddle - New Flickr Shot

Yamaha CS1x. Shot by hazabaza.

I remember picking up this synth when it came out because it was so cheap. Surprisingly it's a great little synth. I'm not the biggest PCM fan, so it actually stood out with my non-PCM gear. Very crisp and squelchy sounding synth. Icy strings as well. Cool to see it being used like this. Jazz is cool.

Adventures in Analog Synthesis

Video tutorials on modular synthesis. It's $25 for the full tutorial but there is a pretty leanghty sample clip worth checking out. Title link takes you there. Via Synthtopia.

Roland Synthesizer Clan

Title link takes you to the synthesizer page on the Roland Synthesizer Clan website. Make sure to check out the right nav for what else the sight offers. For some reason the gear links are puking in Firefox on my end, but IE works fine. Via Moogulator.

Roland SH-7

The Novachord Restoration Project Updates

New audio sample up. Title link takes you there.

Arkanoid Re-Created

Lawrence Eldrige posted a track centered aroudn the C64 and SID sound. He is working on building a uCApps C64 MIDIBox. For this track he had MIDI working and that's about it. Knobs will be coming next. I thought the track was pretty well done and as he listed the synths used, I asked him if I could put it up. He gave me the go ahead, so here it is. Title link takes you to a 6.94M mp3 (right click and save). Note's below from Lawrence. It's a really cool track. Enjoy.

"So, I've been re-living my past love for the SID sound, and decided to
re-create the C64 theme tune to Arkanoid... using analogue synths. :)

http://www.obscuresounds.com/obscure_track2_f.mp3

Roland SVC-350 (main melody, verby sound @ 0:51)
Octave CAT (bassline @ 0:10)
C64 (beats, computer blip @ well, err, all over.)
ESQ1 (beats, main melody, pads @ 0:10 & 2:13)
ARP 2600 (guitar accompaniment, bass @ 2:13)
Mellotron Choir @ fading in & out throughout.
Rhodes Chroma (loading noise at start @ 0:04)
Solina String Ensemble @ various points.
MS-20 (white noise) @ 0:03

Hopefully I have the mixture just right!

...sadly the SID sound is either love or hate :)

Modular Planet

Title link takes you to the Modular Planet website. The sites hosts a bunch of mp3s and patch mappings to make these sounds on a Doepfer modular. Pretty cool. Click on the Patches link when you get there for the full list. Gotta love the retro site desing. : )