MATRIXSYNTH

at 12/13/2006 03:21:00 PM

flickr by sushiluv.

I'm beginning to want one of these. I wonder how playable the hardware is and if it's the sort of thing that's fun the first ten times and then you put it away for your main controller. Would have been cool if it were a self contained unit like the Creamware ASB boxes.

at 12/13/2006 03:16:00 PM

"VL1 is a freeware emulator of the world famous classic calculator annex mini-synthesizer from the eigthies made by Casio.

VL1 is not just a sample player, it is a real emulator that emulates the original hardware. All sounds are generated by software equivalents of the original circuits and the calculator actually works. This also means that ADSR sound programming is fully functional!" manual

Via CDM.

at 12/13/2006 03:03:00 PM

Tom of Music Thing put up this post speculating a new Moogerfooger might be coming. The one Moogefooger missing from a basic MOOG modular set up would be... an Oscillator. Well, ADSR envelopes as well, but maybe they can find a way to squeeze that in.

On AH, Andrew said it perfectly: "With all of this talk of what Moog should or shouldn't do, here's my guess of what their next release will probably be: a moogerfooger oscillator with built-in pitch-to-cv converter, done Electro-Harmonix Microsynth-style but with a more fully-featured oscillator (different waveforms, adjustable pulse width and a CV in for PWM). It's basically the one current gap in their lineup, and it could be easily pitched to all current product owners - 'add another oscillator to your LP or Voyager,' 'turn your existing moogerfoogers into a full-fledged mini-modular synth,' add a 'synthesizer' sound to your guitar lineup'' - even 'add a real MOOG oscillator to your modular synth' for modern modular owners."

Sounds mighty nice to me. My dream? Little MOOG SEMs! You could use them stand alone like a Moogerfooger or add them for polyphony to your Voyager or Little Phatty.

at 12/13/2006 02:49:00 PM

"FlexiMusic Wave Editor is an easy-to-use audio editor for professionals and home users (for Windows). It provides a powerful and user-friendly editing environment for novice users. You can edit and record music, apply effects and filters, adjust stereo channels, save audio to all of the popular formats and burn songs to CD. It includes many features for audio editing and converting"

Features:
-Interface for working with multiple files in one session.
-Huge file editing. Audio files upto 2GB (2048mb) size (for a 16 bit file).
-Open, create, and save audio files in many audio formats.
-Play audio files or any portion of the files (Play, Pause, Stop, Play Reverse and more...)
-Fast editing: Cut, Copy, Delete, Delete Silence, Paste, Paste Mix and Undo take only a fraction of a second, regardless of file size.
-Display audio data waveform (Zoom Mouse Select, Zoom In, Zoom Out, Zoom In/Out).
-Multiple undo levels.
-Record audio data from a microphone or any other available input device.
-Use Bookmarks to locate the selected part or special part of the audio files.
-Many effects: Equalizer, Band Pass/Stop Filter, Noise Reduction, Echo, Reverb, Modulate, Stretch/Shrink, Change Speed...
-Supported file formats WAV, MP3, WMA, AU, RAW, SND and more.
-Convert audio files from one format to another.
-Insert noise or silence into an audio file, and generate a simple Sine Wave.
-Direct waveform editing with the mouse.
-Convert the sampling rate of audio files.
-Batch Processing.
-Customizable waveform colors.
-Clean and easy-to-use interface.
-Several built-in features and keyboard shortcuts.

Title link takes you there. Be sure to check out their other products as well.

at 12/13/2006 02:45:00 PM

"FlexiMusic Generator is a unique tool to generate musical and non-musical sounds. If you want to create unique pieces of music and exciting new sounds never before heard on this planet, then you'll love our FlexiMusic Generator. You can use it to produce robotic/synthetic voice from your own voice."

Features:
-If you are looking for a very special piece of software to create musical and non-musical sounds, use FlexiMusic Generator.
-Sounds: FlexiMusic Generator has three steps of generating sounds: Instruments, Sound Source and Sound Modifiers/Effects.
-Instrument: Merging / Mixing a few sound sources to create a rich musical instrument.
-Sound source: Defining / Creating / Choosing your own single piece of sound.
-Sound Modifiers (Effects): An effect is the modulation or modification of an audio signal to make it sound more interesting.
-Unlimited number of Instruments can be made in one generator file.
-Sound Source has Generator and Frequency / Volume Graph.
-Generator: Sound Source has six types of generators: Sine Sound Source, Graph Sound Source, Wave Sound Source, String Sound Source, Mouth Sound Source and Noise Sound Source.
-In Frequency / Volume graphs create random shapes to get different sounds.
-Unlimited Sound Sources: There is no limit to the number of sound sources you can have in an Instrument. Add as many as you think your sound requires.
-Multiple "Sound sources" are merged together to create a combined, rich musical Instrument.
-Changing the Frequency / Volume Graph for sound source type is available.
-Many effects: Volume and Pan, Equalizer, Echo, Wave on Wave, Reverse etc...
-Voices: Add special effects to a voice, producing special voices like robotic, synthetic, and more...
-Keys/Pitch Changing: Using one Instrument, multiple compensated sounds can be produced by giving different compensation factors. You can vary the frequency/pitch and duration.
-The sound generating source file can be encrypted with password and saved with another extension name (*.FmIns)
-Encrypted Instrument file (that you can distribute to others); one can play with various compensations (like playing various keys) and save different sounds as needed for their music samples.
-Small File Size, The FlexiMusic Generator file format (*.FmGen).
-The output sounds can be saved as WAV files (*.WAV).
-Clean and easy-to-use interface.
-Several built-in features.

Title link takes you there. Be sure to check out their other products as well.

at 12/13/2006 02:28:00 PM

I totally missed the MOOG Drum Synthesizer on Olivier Grall's site when I put up this previous post. Title link takes you to more info. The link was on the left hand side of links on the home page.

at 12/13/2006 02:03:00 PM

Title link takes you to Critter and Guitari, home to a number of electronic music and video instruments and supplies including a number of "Critter boards" and the "4 voice FM cigar box synthesizer." Check out a video of it here. It sounds surprisingly good.

This one sent my way via Jason via this post on MAKE.