via seen-da-sizer on Gearslutz. Sent my way via Magnus."I am so jealous of everyone’s space. My room is way too small. What's next for me? Guess I have to nail my synths to the ceiling…"
Hmm... A modular ceiling...
Have fun spotting the synths.
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Running out of Space
via seen-da-sizer on Gearslutz. Sent my way via Magnus."I am so jealous of everyone’s space. My room is way too small. What's next for me? Guess I have to nail my synths to the ceiling…"
Hmm... A modular ceiling...
Have fun spotting the synths.
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I spot a WAVE below serial number 120.
ReplyDeletekeep on turning these knobs
Till "Qwave" Kopper
I see 2 Waldorf Pulse synths. What do people think of that synth. I've been watching them on ebay for a bit and it seems like its a great deal. If you get the Plus version its an analog monosynth with CV i/o for like $400. Thoughts?
ReplyDeleteThe best of em all: PS3300 !!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beast!
Three oscillators per KEY !!!! :)
Peter Gabriel used a Pulse on his last album, even for bass. Where's the 3300 keyboard?
ReplyDeleteI spot an Amazon box
ReplyDeleteAnyone who owns a Waldorf Wave has little to be jealous about. Besides, I like intimate spaces where all the gear is right up in my face so it doesn't get neglected.
ReplyDeleteDo I spy a PAIA Fatman in the desk case?
ReplyDeleteWaldorf Pulses are great, but the knobs can get loose and flaky.
ReplyDeleteThe MIDI/CV on the Plus works well, you may need to tweak a parameter (MIDI chan I think) on powerup to make it work right...
Can we hear some tunes? Let me guess......you have none to show. This is the case with everyone who has this much gear. I'm betting this guy has no music to share with us. Please prove me wrong.
ReplyDeleteWhat's the module with the big display above the Microwave ?
ReplyDeleteFirst i thought it was a Kurzweil K2x00 but the display is too big.Is it a Casio FZ/VZ ?
And is that a Jomox Sunsyn below the Akai MPC ?
There is a good chance that when he does share the tunes, you will say "thats not music! Thats a bunch of noise! play some music instead of twiddling knobs and showing what the synth can do"
ReplyDeleteas for what the pulse sounds like, here ya go:
http://www.zerosuminertia.com/audio/MP3.pulsate.mp3
But thats not music thats just twisting knobs and showing what it can do....heheheh lol
anyway I had a pulse and traded it for a Pro One with the keyboard sawed off....Best trade I ever did.
The thing that I miss was hooking the pulse up to the soft editor bypassing the interface, really cool with an editor.
http://www.zerosuminertia.com/audio/MP3.pulsate.mp3
ReplyDeleteI'll try it again, everytime I post a link as a comment the end gets cut off.
I love people who bitch about others not posting their tunes.Why should they, so some whiny wanna be can opine about how it sucks and couldn't you do better w/ all that gear? This blog and other forums like it are about people sharing their love of the gear.If someone shares a picture of their setup thats fine. They don't need to justify anything to anyone, especially some anonymous poser poster.
ReplyDeleteThe big display module is probably the Technics WSA1r...a physical modeling synth in the vein of Yamaha's VL1. A couple of optional rom boards ala the JV series were available but rare.
ReplyDeleteI spot 4 waldorf pulses in his setup there.
ReplyDeleteThe main question is...
ReplyDeletewhere are the speakers?
Does he mix all this power machines over this two computer speakers?!?
I'll say again what I always say when I see all this kind of stuff, and that's WHERE'S ALL THE WEIRD MUSIC?
ReplyDeleteI see all sorts of synthesizers, all sorts of cool effects, but does anyone actually play them? Or is it just some sort of a fetish thing? I wonder...
Finally, does one REALLY need all this shit to do the job? I mean really!
there appears to be flux capacitor right there in the middle...
ReplyDeleteI'd be interested in seeing who could produce the best music with the LEAST amt of gear
ReplyDeleteI'd be interested in seeing who would produce the best music with the LEAST amount of gear
ReplyDeleteyou mean with just a laptop?
ReplyDeletei hate to admit it, but the first thing i thought when i saw this was, yep.. i wonder when he has the time to actually make music..
ReplyDeletebetween working 3 jobs to pay for it and the rest sleeping, eating or actually getting it working.. i cant imagine there is much time..
i hope they have good locks on the door.. thats all i can say.
Maybe this guy collects synths because he likes to turn the knobs every now and again. Maybe this dude makes a living using his synths. Are you better then him because you only use your laptop and 1 synth? Who cares? Its a cool pic. Leave it at that.
ReplyDeleteThis is where you come in, Matrix...with milk and cookies--- right before putting the kids to bed.
ReplyDeleteUsed to play on a WAVE back in 93/ 94 at the R&S Studio with Robert Leiner. You can hear it allover his Source Experience Stuff. Used to crash all the time. But you forgave it because it's such a super synth when it behaves. I've owned a pulse + since 96. I've caned it and still use it live all the time via cv/gate. Id never sell it. Fat, dirty, raspy, ringy you just have to get into it. It's pretty rad as it has 1 cv & gate IN, 2 CV outs and 1 Gate Out. Yo can adjust cv/gate channel, CV in Value, CV in Transpose (Handy), Gate In Polarity, CV Out Curve, CV Out value and CV Out Offset. Not bad. Oh yeah it has the audio Input as well. benjamin... go get one mate & make sure it's the + (plus).
ReplyDeleteI see a Creamware Mini max atop the desk next to the mouse but......what is next to the minimax on the right??
ReplyDeleteThis fellow has an awesome set up and he can surely do as he pleases with it, whatever he does, it sure as hell looks like fun!!
middle top he's got a voyager
ReplyDeleteGUARANTEED THIS GUY WILL NOT COME BACK WITH ANY TUNES FOR US TO HEAR. TALK ABOUT A POSER!
ReplyDeleteThe anonynous poster has not yet posted any clips of his music. What an anonymous poser.
ReplyDeletei love how violent people get..
ReplyDeleteits a synth site, not a music site
those poly korgs are neat-o
ReplyDeleteI mean not only this guy, but the thousands of synth collections posted on here- WHERE'S ALL THE MUSIC? The whole 'banks of keyboards' fetish thing is just a hold over from the 70's- from back in the day when you needed stacks like this just to play your overdubed parts live. The whole Emerson, Schulze thing is as stale today as Emerson's leather pants were then (and now). What a waste of time and money. Any one of these synths you could spend a lifetime on and yet still find something new on it everyday. IF, you could be bothered...for the love of god, let's hear something new.
ReplyDeleteMatrix, didn't you decide to delete the needlessly negative, hate-filled comments?
ReplyDelete:-/
I spy a dx-200 sitting quietly on the desk there.
ReplyDeleteYamaha had a few home studio "groove" products the an-200,dx-200,su-200 and RM1X. An-200 was the PLG150-AN expansion board for the CS6x, and the DX-200 was the PLG150-DX expansion card, with a 4 channel PCM drum machine , most of the sound were pulled from their XG line. The su-200 was the sampling box, slightly slimmer in size, with under a 1meg(!) of sampling memory.
The RM1x was a hardware sequencer, was an interesting product, (I picked one of these up on ebay for £150) has similar midi sequencing features of ableton live, with the XG sound set. I recently saw the band Maps who had one.
To the Anonymous douchebag who feels he has the right to dictate what other people do: Go back to your room. Let's repeat it for the slow learner: THIS IS A SYNTH SITE, NOT A MUSIC DOWNLOAD SITE,BAND WEBPAGE OR MUSIC STORE. What you think about people you don't know is irrelevant.
ReplyDeleteYou make a generalization: All people who have lots of synths don't use them to make music. Prove to me you make music.WTF ! Who are you that someine else needs to justify or prove anything to you? If you're looking for tunes you're in the wrong place.
Yeah, but where's the 3010 keyboard that goes with the 3300?
ReplyDeleteRon,again, learn to spell please. I know this is not a site for downloading, however, what I really want to know is,and this has really bugged me since I first discovered Matrixsynth, SO MUCH HARDWARE, SO LITTLE MUSIC (in the market place). Maybe this guy scored Batman Returns, who knows or cares?! Is this what electronic music has come to in the 21st century? Just buying EXPENSIVE equipment and then not using it? Has looking become the new listening? I'm not tying to be an ass, but I think I have a valid point.
ReplyDeleteah..jealousy rears it's ugly head once again at Matrix Synth. And yes I must admidt to feeling a bit jealous myself, staring at the Korg PS-3300. What a great bunch of synths this guy has! Why the drama?
ReplyDelete"Where's the 3300 keyboard" please post another picture showing the keyboard so the guy who's obviously obsessed about it, can stop asking and get some rest. nice set up mate!
ReplyDeletecheers
The proof that mister anonymous is just a jealous whiny little poser is the fact that he keeps screaming at everyone else to post their music yet he refuses to post his! Haha, what a poser!
ReplyDeleteSaw the typo (just as I noticed yours) after I posted but wasn't overly concerned about it either way (tying to be an ass etc.).My spelling is fine
ReplyDeleteYou're missing the point. You don't walk into home depo and bemoan the lack of houses.All this expensive gear and nothing to show for it.This isn't the place to see/hear people's work.If they want to share it w/ you they will either send you a link or not.
" Once again an ignorant assumption. Just buying EXPENSIVE equipment and then not using it?"Did the poster say they didn't use the gear? You reek of derision and jealousy Anonymous.Your comment that it wouldn't matter if the poster scored Batman returns just reinforces the fact that it's about people not doing things the way you'd like them too. not about whether they use their gear.
Same lame sort of post happened at VSE a while back in their studio pics thread.
Make some money,buy some gear, and then....when you have personal experience rather than teen angst and envy...get back to us.
I bet mister anonymous is just some whiny kid living in mommys house anyways so I wouldn't put too much stock in his meaningless comments unless he steps forward, reveals who he is, and posts his music. If not it only proves that he is a talentless loser who can do nothing but make negative comments anonymously. So what is it anon? Step forward reveal your music or shut up and admit that you are a jealous loser.
ReplyDeleteIt gracious enough for people to share pictures of their gear. Some pople don't even do that. Then when others do, they get slammed for not "justifying their purchases" by posting an exmple of what you consider to be "music." You're just a hate monger. Your type pops up on every list or blog. All you have to add is hot air. Where's your music? BTW, how's my spelling?
ReplyDeleteI find it funny that when these internet trolls get confronted and called out on their BS, they always resort to saying shit like "learn how to spell, stupid" or making other pointless remarks about grammer. Hey anon, where's your music at?
ReplyDeleteShow some music and shut all of them up. You do have some....right?
ReplyDeletewhy would anyone want to post music here for these ungrateful b@st@rds
ReplyDeleteMan, is this what passes for intelligent conversation on this site? Jealous troll? What does jealously have to do with anything? I don't give a rat's ass what equipment this guy has, or what sort of music he makes- all my original post said was "ALL THIS COOL EQUIPMENT, WHERE'S ALL THE WEIRD MUSIC?" I see way more equipment on this site than I hear interesting music out in the marketplace. That's all. I was never asking for sound clips from this guy or from any of you, I'm speaking in general about the current state of electronic music. And don't tell me to go listen to so n' so's latest pop culture dance hit. If that's where we are now, just kill me and get it over with. Oh, one last thing, before I say goodbye, when it comes right down to it, it's not how much you have in the studio, it's what you have in your head that makes or breaks your music. Equipment comes and goes, inspiration can't be purchased at any price. I've heard the Residents get more out of a Realistic Moog knock off than anything in the last 25 Tangerine Dream albums. Think about it.
ReplyDeleteto alienation, who asked about the thing next to the minimax, that's one of those oberheim matrix programmer boxes from access. it has a neat form factor, imo.
ReplyDeleteAnsering some of your questions:
ReplyDeleteTill, Du hast recht gehabt. Die Seriennumer ist einstellig.
No PAIA anywhere.
Yes it is a Technics WSA1r.
The unit next to the MiniMax is a Access MicroWave Programmer followed by a DX-200.
Don't need a keyboard for the PS-3300: It has MIDI.
Love the Residents...
esteemed dipshit anonymous,
ReplyDeleteif you'd spent a half a damn second cruising boomkat, juno, itunes, myspace or amazon you'd see that there's a tremendous amount of new music being released all the time. the ratio of albums vs matrixsynth gear porn put out there daily is beyond comparison. you'd weigh the matrixsynth posts on a postal meter and the albums would be carried to their scale on a palette.
- everyone who tricks out their car better be doing nascar or they're a total fucking idiot, right?
- everyone with a nice bicycle who isn't rolling the parisian race is an idiot, right?
- everyone with a decent computer and a compiler and a net connection who isn't inventing operating systems is a useless sack of shit, right?
if the cat with this kit happens to make music with their kit, it isn't necessarily for others. it's certainly not being made to prove anything to anyone on some little english only blog full of ebay posts, flickr harvests and copious batshit (banjoshit?) commentary.
socially desperate, caustic net trolls are obviously incapable of conceiving of making themselves happy through their own efforts and rewards so they spend their time taking the piss out of others to constantly degrade the universe to their morbidly low bar of measure instead of working on shit themselves. their favorite target: anything which challenges their petty, simplistic capitalism-based forms of self-actualization.
unless you start doing something constructive with your time, natural selection will weed you out. anything which does nothing useful eventually falls through the cracks.
reed, the 3300 keyboard has a romulan cloak built in, doncha know?
I've reread my posts more than a few times and I have no idea of why any of you think anything I said smacks of being "socially desperate" or "caustic"- and I don't see how I've taken the piss out of anyone by expressing a point of view. I been called a douchbag, a troll and several other choice names, all because I want to hear more synthesizer music and dared to ask for it. And this one kills me... "and natural selection will weed me out"?? Man, I gotta tell ya, that is SO deep. You are such a smart guy, if fact, several of you that responded to me sound like REAL smart guys. So I'll sign off in a way I'm sure you'll understand, in the immortal words of Eric Cartman "screw you guys, I'm going home".
ReplyDeleteOf course, the Kenton midi... I totally forgot about that. The 1991 in me wants to know if you can use a different channel for each section, but the 2007 in me doesn't care, because one typically thinks of each sound on that thing as being made of 3 components, like a Wavestation with actual fidelity. I wonder if guys who took that thing on the road in the 1970's used it as a 3-preset machine.
ReplyDeleteHave you needed to do much maintenance on yours?
"the ratio of albums vs matrixsynth gear porn put out there daily is beyond comparison. you'd weigh the matrixsynth posts on a postal meter and the albums would be carried to their scale on a palette"
ReplyDelete100% True. That's why I only post synth content and not electronic music in general. There is no way I'd want to keep up with that. Although the way around this of course is to put up studio shots and tracks that feature a specific synth or two.
"if the cat with this kit happens to make music with their kit, it isn't necessarily for others. it's certainly not being made to prove anything to anyone on some little english only blog full of ebay posts, flickr harvests and copious batshit (banjoshit?) commentary."
Don't confuse the blog with the anonymous trolling. You wouldn't be here if you didn't like what you see.
BTW, in case anyone missed the comments of this post, I have a new policy on trolling. I'm going to let this thread slide, but moving forward ZERO tolerance, so if you are tired of the anonymous trolling don't worry, it's about to end. Currently all other posts are clean. Here is the notice I left in that thread:
ReplyDelete"Just an FYI, but I cleaned up a bunch of comments in this post. Moving forward all comments I perceive as trolling will be removed immediately. If you want to take time out of your day to compose comments that will only be deleted, go for it. It's a single click for me and I'm on this site every day if you haven't noticed. Zero tolerance moving forward. You have been warned. All comments must be on topic with the post. If anyone even questions this the comment will be removed. I have no time or tolerance to even think about it anymore. And for the record, all the trolling on this site started with this post. Pretty cool coincidence, no? There have only been two people with problems on this site, Cary Roberts of retrosynth.net and Kevin Lightner of Synthfool. Before them, nada. If the trolling continues I will put up a post on this."
And by the way, there are two things the trolls are after, one pissing people off in order to ilicit a reaction from them and two getting people to leave this site.
ReplyDeleteThe following is a good example of this:
"if the cat with this kit happens to make music with their kit, it isn't necessarily for others. it's certainly not being made to prove anything to anyone on some little english only blog full of ebay posts, flickr harvests and copious batshit (banjoshit?) commentary."
They got you.
Again, a trolls goal is to illicit a response from you. They aren't arguing a point with you. They are sitting there laughing at your reaction. Their sole goal is to piss people off and get you to react for their entertainment. That said, when you respond to a troll comment you are feeding the troll.
Moving forward I will be removing both troll comments and replies to troll comments as the replies will obviously no longer make sense.
And... If you are not trolling but your comment gets deleted, realize there is a long history of trolling that has lead to it, step up for the cause and try not to take offense. There is NO WAY to know that you are not trolling. If you want to reduce the risk, comment with a registered account.
"what is next to the minimax on the right??"
ReplyDeleteIt looks like an Access MicroWave programmer to me. They seems to be pretty rare, but do come up every 3 months or so on eBay.
Which reminds me, I see a Waldorf MicroWave and a MicroQ in there.
More answers:
ReplyDeleteWhat looks like a Micro Q is actually a Waldorf Rack Attack.
Below the MPC is a Quasimidi 309
Yes, there are four Pulses. You can link them to get polyphony.
The computer speakers are Audix monitors from an older setup. But they sound good. I don't do any multitracking on the computer. The iMac is used for MIDI sequencing and mastering. Mixdown is done "old school" with a hardware mixer.
Reed: Not a Kenton: It is a DIY that is wired to the keyboard input of the PS. Your suggestion of separating the voices onto three midi channels is very cool. It would require some massive changes to the synth. I don' think that anyone has done that before.
My PS must have been used heavy on the road. The wood is not as nice as it should be.
Last year I replaced all of the PCB connectors. Now 2 voices stopped working and I need to repair it again.
Sounds familiar. I had all the tantalum caps replaced 2 years ago, but one of the voices is out again. I think it's just an output thing. It's been a 2-timbre synth for the past year or so, which is ok. It's probably something simple on the output stage of the broken voice, but the only place in the studio the synth really fits is in a pull-out rack with no access to the back. The thing really needs to be somewhere that facilitates pulling the cards out on a regular basis, just like any other big mixing board or modular synth. Ah hindsight.
ReplyDeleteUm... Why are you asking here? Go PM the guy.
ReplyDeleteAnd BTW, who are you to say what anyone does with their gear? What if he doesn't make music with it? Who cares? Some people hate making music with their synths if you can actually believe it. It can be a distraction and pain in the ass when synthesizing and exploring sound. Some people simply don't enjoy cracking out the multi-track and composing. And, not everyone wants to be a rock star or produce finished tracks for others to hear. I'll go out on a limb and say I don't for one. There are times I'd rather sit in front of a synth and just go deep sea diving in sound. Is it music? Sometimes, but the goal sure as hell isn't to produce or compose a finished track. Some of us actually love synths for what they sound like in and of themselves, not just to produce a finished track. If you don't agree with that, then I have one question for you. Why do you feel the need for others to be like you and share your opinions? What's missing mate?
ReplyDelete"Hopefully this isn't deemed trolling as I am trying to argue a point:
ReplyDeleteIn response to esteemed dipshit anonymous' post below:
"- everyone who tricks out their car better be doing nascar or they're a total fucking idiot, right?"
NO, but hopefully they have driven it!
"- everyone with a nice bicycle who isn't rolling the parisian race is an idiot, right?"
NO, but hopefully they have ridden it!
"- everyone with a decent computer and a compiler and a net connection who isn't inventing operating systems is a useless sack of shit, right?"
NO, but hopefully they have used it!
Get my point? Nobody is saying this guy should be the the new Beethoven, simply because he has lots of gear. But just posting a single finished song to show he uses the gear is all he has to do."
Your point makes no sense really. If you looka at your above comments you say "no, but hopefully they have ridden it" which is the same as someone playing their synth for fun. Now if you had said "no, but hopefully they have completed an entire major race" you point would seem more valid. You see? Riding a bike for fun is like playing a synth for fun. Where as completing a track is like completing a major race. This goes with every other "at least they have used it" comments. I am sure this guy does use his gear, even if he does not have an entire collection of completed tracks. Hopefully I am explaining this correctly.