MATRIXSYNTH: Thursday, March 16, 2006

The Samchillian Tip Tip Tip Cheeepeee

There's been some buzz on The Samchillian midi controller. I just took a look at these two videos (one, two) and it does look interesting. The first video is the current design floating around while the second video is the original design using what looks like a custom ergonomic qwerty keyboard; just like the one you use with a PC. The Samchillian website (title link) actually has a sofware version of The Samchillian so you can try it out yourself. You will also find instructions on how it works. The second video does a good job of showing you it's flexibility - you can chose various scales including some in depth microtonal scales that allow you to have 40 notes to the octave instead of the standard 12. Pretty interesting stuff.

New Samchillian Design

Original Samchillian

zebranologic 5osc Synth Soundsamples

Sound samples are up on SubtleNoiseMaker. Title link takes you there.

Short Vangelis Vid

Title link takes you to a short snip from a Vangelis interview. Nice Yamaha CS80 in the background. Via Simon Gouldstone. Thanks Simon!

OCP

Joao Ricardo sent me a link to his site where I pulled the nice shot below. Title link takes you there, make sure to check out the links on the right nav. BTW, I didn't see Matrixsynth on his links page, but I did see Moogulator! What's up with that! ; ) Update: Turns out Matrixsynth is linked under blogs. Thanks Joao! : )

Red Square and MX3

Fred's Mini Sound Lab

Title link takes you to a post on Fred's Blog on his Mini Sound Lab. He took an old videopac and used it to house the Mini Sound Lab. I love the color on this design, especially the red knobs. More shots on the project after the hop. Thanks Fred!

Sidcontrol and Pong VSTs

SidControl is a VST controller for the MIDIBox SID.

Pong is... well a pong VST you control with your mod wheel.

Title link takes you there. Via C64Music!.

New Moog?

Another tease? : )

Image cutesy of sizzlemeister on this HC thread.

Korg K-Series & PadKontrol on One Blue Monkey

Title link takes you there. Video link under date under title.

Analog-Lab

XPass Filter by Analog-Lab

They make an XPass Filter, Fluid Preamp and Vocoder X-32.

Update: Here's a link to some info on the X-32 in English.

Here Again - Stefan Trippler

New track by Stefan Trippler. Sick, sick, sick! Features the Mono Evolver Keyboard and Stylus RMX. Title link takes you there - 2.64M mp3.

Make sure to check out Trippler.net for more samples and shots including a much bigger shot of the above. Man, I love that shot.

SubtleNoiseMaker and the Zebranologic

Remember the Peruvian Zebranalogic? Well it looks like Sascha Renner picked one up. Title link takes you to a post on his brand new blog SubtleNoiseMaker. The Zebranologic isn't as shiny/polished as I was expecting, but that clear case is cool. Samples will be coming. I'll be subbing to his blog so hopefully I'll see the samples when they come in. I added SubleNoiseMaker to my blogroll on the right as well. Thanks Sascha!

Update: samples are in.