100h Monome Coming

"The prototype is moving along. we’re still finalizing each part of the design and trying to figure out how in the world we’re going to manufacture these. some details:

* black walnut base enclosure, measuring about 10.8 inches on each side, about 1.4 inches tall
* anodized aluminum top plate, once again
* new keypad design engineered from the ground up, with several improvements and different feel than the 40h
* the grid pcb prototype was so expensive i think it made me ill, ha

we don’t have enough keypads to fill the entire plate, hence the above photo. we’ll be showing the prototype at the makerfaire in may.

we don’t expect to be shipping until early august. we may consider taking preorders on the first 100 units. we’re uncertain on the price because we haven’t secured all part sources and contracts, but we’re expecting to run between $1200 and $1500. (we’re of course hoping it will be cheaper.)

35 units left as of this posting. wait time of about a week before shipping."

Title link takes you there.

DaevlMakr Daevl.Plugs

"The Daevl.Plugs were built to bring organic qualities to electronic music and digital audio. Many employ random or chaotic processes triggered by peaks in the source material. Standardized controls, one-touch randomization, title links to help docs in each of 9 major and 9 CPU light plug-ins make it easy to put the Daevl into your own productions, up front in a mix or layered beneath for change and interest.

Each has its own strengths depending on source material, but every Daevl.Plug will transmogrify anything: voice, bass, guitar, synthesizers, drums, choirs of heavenly angels... you name it."

daevl.sixcylinder pictured
"Three dual-mono amplitude oscillators in a cat's cradle delay network, daevl.sixcylinder creates shifting, pulsating terrains, from ultra slow oscillation rhythms to synthetic audio rate tones. Source audio is amplitude modulated by three pairs of independent oscillators, each available as sine, triangle or sample and hold. A single value controls crosstalk among all oscillators in the network simultaneously."

Title link takes you to the full line up including samples. Also check out CDM for more including some thoughts from Liz Knight.

simulacreant - Evenfall Mini Modular Tracks

Click here for tracks of the Evenfall Mini Modular by cebec. Via the Matrixsynth forum where you will find more info.

Update: you can now find the track on this post.

Latinsizer Synth Cover Art

Remember these videos by pepemogt of latinsizer? He wrote in with the following: "when i released my first latinsizer album, for the art cover i was try to do something diferent with the art, so i found a guy that his way of living is painting signs for mexican wrestling, and puting them on streets, in your trips to tijuana maybe you have seen this, anyway, i took some synths and drum machines and went to his workshop and ask him to paint them, and also the credits of the record and basically all the art"

Pretty cool...
http://www.myspace.com/latinsizer
http://www.latinsizer.com

Roger O'Donnell Interview on Amateur Chemist

Andrew of Amateur Chemist wrote in letting me know he has an ichat session coming up with Roger O'Donnell. He thought it might be interesting to see if any readers of Matrixsynth had any questions for him as well. If you do feel free to comment. Do check out Amateur Chemist, it's a great blog on bands with tons of pics and reviews of various shows.

EMS Synthi A

Title link takes you to more shots of this Synthi A up for auction, including shots of the inside. These are hi-res shots sent directly my way via Johan.

Sequential Circuits Prophet VS with Flourescent Display

Remember the Sequential Circuits Studio 440 with Vacuum Florescent Display? Here's another by Mark. Title link takes you to more shots.

"Here's my Prophet VS keyboard, which I have just retrofitted with a
vacuum fluorescent display by Noritake. Because the VFD is thicker
than the stock LCD by almost 3/8", the lengths of all the standoffs
between the front panel, the front panel PCB, and the switch PCBs
have to be increased. The pots and LED display have to be stood off
as well. Other important details: a blue filter for the VFD, a
neutral density filter for the alpha numeric LED display, double
stick tape to secure the filters, extra long pins to connect the
switch PCBs at their new mounting height. The most time consuming
part was selecting and ordering all these parts, installation was
done in a couple of evenings.

I'm not generally a fan of putting blue LEDs in old synths, but the
Prophet VS did come from the factory with a blue backlit LCD, and has
blue front panel graphics, so what the heck. The trick to installing
blue LEDs is choosing the right resistor value. If you just do the
math and install the recommended value, they can be almost blindingly
bright. Right now they are at a very comfortable brightness, though
I may change the resistors one more time to match the LED brightness
a little more closely to the VFD.

I hope you like it!"

Indeed. Wow!

Electro Harmonix Vocoder

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

via Johan

KORG Mono/Poly

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

via Johan

Yamaha SHS-10

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

via Simon

How To Install New Bushings on the Pro One

Title link takes you there.

Stomu Yamashta's KORG VC10

Click here for shots via this auction.

Details:
"We have just acquired several original electronic instruments used by the International famous musician and composer Stomu Yamashta this instrument has been used on several records and concert tours . The VC -10 is in used but perfectly working condition. It will come with the original signature and the latest CD which was also signed by the artist. This is a chance to get a very rare vintage Korg musical instrument by one of the greatest living Japanese musicians. Stomu Yamashta is still touring and recording worldwide.

Also available from this rare collection are
KORG MS-10
KORG SQ-10
KORG DW-8000
KORG 800DV
Yamaha DX-7
and much more"

via Johan

Stomu Yamashta's KORG SQ-10

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

Details:
"We have just acquired several original electronic instruments used by the International famous musician and composer Stomu Yamashta this instrument has been used on several records and concert tours . The SQ-10 is in used but perfectly working condition. It will come with the original signature and the latest CD which was also signed by the artist. This is a chance to get a very rare vintage Korg musical instrument by one of the greatest living Japanese musicians. Stomu Yamashta is still touring and recording worldwide."

via Johan

Stomu Yamashta's KORG MS-10

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

Details:
"We have just acquired several original electronic instruments used by the International famous musician and composer Stomu Yamashta this instrument has been used on several records and concert tours . The VC -10 is in used but perfectly working condition. It will come with the original signature and the latest CD which was also signed by the artist. This is a chance to get a very rare vintage Korg musical instrument by one of the greatest living Japanese musicians. Stomu Yamashta is still touring and recording worldwide."

via Johan

Chromanoff

MIDI interface for the Rhodes Chroma. Title link takes you to more info.

via Martin on the Rhodes Chroma list:
"I keep working on it. The only trouble is that I have not enough time to do it faster. You can find a very short story about it at: link

I have a big deal of software written and tested. Hardware part was tested on pcb-test-boards. I am building the prototype unit these days.

As I worked on the project I eventually decided to build sort-of controller computer that can be extended with modules. The info on the website is a bit outdated. The major change is that it will not use XML for configuration files, as it generates too much overhead. And instead my own scripting language, I am considering using forth interpreter - ie. a very cool programming language from beginning of computer era. By doing this the unit can be programmed to do anything, depending on what program you load from a mmc card. Also, the prototype unit has built-in a USB port.

The cost of components (for core system with chromanoff module, excluding analog CV) and the pcb is below 100EUR. The big LCD plays a big role in it."

Devowski Painting (reflection)

flickr by zonkout.

Previous Devowski Posts

Moog Keyboard Mixer

Title link takes you to more info on Old Socks and New Toys.

Roland SH-2000 demo

YouTube via hamsterdunce, aka Dave of umop.com. Don't miss the banjo.

"Exploration of the archaic Roland SH-2000 at the Coffeehouse in Middletown, CT. Great studio for anyone in the area looking for a good place to lay down some quality tracks. Will upload a couple more vids I made there soon. Ciao."

Comment Moderation

Update:And comment moderation if off. New rule. If you find a comment offensive you can request it to be removed. How do you do this? You post anonymously requesting the specific comment be removed and I will remove it. If you don't want your comment removed, figure out how to communicate more effectively.

I just enabled comment moderation. You can still post anonymously and I will be pretty liberal. Anyone with an account should not notice much of a change aside from a slight delay between when you comment and I click the publish button to make your comment live. If you can stand behind your opinion, you have a right to share it in my book, however if you become a consistent nuisance to others, including me, I will moderate your comments. So far NO ONE with an account has crossed that line. Anonymous comments that are constructive, humorous, or other will continue to come through. I don't want to deny any of the entertainment, however anything I identify as trolling or overly offensive will not go through. Again, I plan to be pretty liberal and a troll to you may not be a troll to me, so I'm going to enforce a simple rule. If you want what you perceive to be an anonymous troll comment removed, you can post your own anonymous comment to request that comment be removed and I will consider removing it. If I don't I will comment why. For example not everyone has the same taste or expectations and/or if removal of that comment will cause further comments to lose context they will most likely not be removed. However further trolling will not make it through.

Sherman Filter Bank played as MONO analog Synth

YouTube via pepemogt.

"An exercise with a modular synth Oscillator from Cwejman and then feed the audio out in to the sherman filterbank, you can have a great mono synth there..

http://www.myspace.com/latinsizer
http://www.latinsizer.com"

Little Catty and Little Phatty.

flickr by Maggie Osterberg.

seen on CatSynth.com. BTW, CatSynth.com is up for a Blogger's Choice Award. Vote if you have the time. More info on CatSynth.com.