Thursday, May 10, 2007
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YouTube via wwwEFFECTOR13com.
"A video of the Devi Ever USA PEEP (Photo Eye Expression Pedal) controlling various settings on a Moogerfooger Phaser. More pedals and goodness: link"
THANK YOU, BOB!
flickr by GeschnittenBrot.I didn't realize the Voyager's had this flash screen. Anyone know when it was introduced?
ça commence jeune
flickr by de'fchild."My 5 month old nephew jamming out with an analogue sequencer!"
Signal Arts MAPS
via moni. De'fchild is actually the label run by moni's brother. His artist name is "Ruoho Ruotsi." You can see his flickr set here and his MySpace page here.
Hiromi Live Report via Brian
In case you missed the update to this post. Via Brian in the comments:
"I missed the Tuesday night show, but I caught the Wednesday one...WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel it is my duty as a Matrixsynth frequenter to report on the keyboard aspect of Hiromi's performance.
Gear: Nord Electro 2, microKorg, and a Nord Lead 2. The Korg and the Lead 2 were sitting on top of this truly massive polyphonic analog monster made by...Steinway??? Maybe it was a spin off from Steinberg.... Anyways as far as synthesis is concerned, no envelopes were pushed...mostly square wave leads with LOTS of really good mod wheel and pitch bender action. The Nord Electro 2 electric piano was very expressive, going from soft and sweet sounding to harsh and overdriven like "that"!
Technique: This woman has AMAZING chops! I know in this blog most people are concerned with synthesis parameters, component specs, range of "that knob". But when you hear someone that can really play, it doesn't matter if it's a Casio POS or MIDI'ed CS-80 with the sampling option- they can make ANYTHING sound great!
The rest of the band: Hiromi is no show hog. The bass player and drummer have been with her for about four years and they are the definition of tight. The bass player plays a HUGE 6 string electric bass with about 10 pedals that have lots of blinking LEDs. His playing style reminds me of Les Claypool from Primus...very fast fingering and quirky progressions. The guitarist has only been with the band for TWO WEEKS, but shared the spotlight with Hiromi more than any of the other band members.
I did get her autograph but at the time I couldn't think of any keyboard related questions, so I just said "You were REALLY good!" Duhhhhhh...but at least I saw some kick ass jazz (are those terms ever used together?) by one awesome keyboard player!"
Well, you could have said, "Hey don't you just love Matrixsynth?!!!" Hah! Just kidding of course. ; )"
http://www.hiromimusic.com/. You can find the rest of Hiromi's tour dates here.
COMMONTONES
Thought I'd put up another plug for COMMONTONES, in case you missed it here, Sonicbrat and some friends are attempting to produce a track a day, and they are doing it. All tracks on the COMMONTONES site list the instruments used, so they are a good way to check out what a given synth sounds like. The latest entry, "Le Tour de Nuit" features solely the KORG Radias and KORG Kaoss Pad III. Check it out.
MASA's Lyricon Analysis - Electronic Analog Flute
Title link takes you to the original site in Japanese. Here's a link to the Google translated version."“performing in the orchestra, was the idea like the electric flute which is audible sufficiently in the hole”, so is. It has started from the place where it tries probably to reproduce the performance method of the wooden bobbin musical instrument and the constitution of the timbre electrically. Being afterwards, appeared, become constitution of the general analog synthesizer VCO, VCF and VCA…. whichWith there is no similar point yet, changes harmonic overtone constitution and on the other hand, it can call with the point which does the sound making that it has been similar to [dorouba] of the organ. At this point in time as for [ririkon] of the first generation [ririkon] II which it mentions later, formation differs from [doraivua] completely."
via Rick. "A great Japanese page on the Lyricon, including the maddest circuit
board in the world: check out the circular array of photocells!"
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR SPEAK & SPELL
via this auction
"ULTRA RARE - Texas Instruments Language Translator and Cartridge. Made in 1980 and famously used by Kraftwerk on the Computer World album. Follow this link for more info. This is an utterly cool piece of retro kit. Bright green fluorescent display, TI's famous robot voices, runs from 4 AA batteries or a standard ac adapter, has a built-in speaker, audio output and volume control. But, if you are looking at this then you probably know all about it anyway. This one works perfectly, is in great condition and complete (including battery cover). As well as the voice functions (spoken words, phrases and letters/numbers that you can type in) it also makes all the usual blips and beeps like the Speak & Spell and other similar TI units. The only minor cosmetic faults are a couple of small indentations on the metal grille covering the speaker. These could be easily removed with a bit of care. Originally designed for word and phrase translation, it can translate between French and English, Spanish or German in either direction, and is complete with the French voice cartridge (tres sexy!) and a printed copy of the manual. I will also include a set of new batteries."
Synth Lovers Attend AHNE2007
Title link takes you to Sonic State's coverage on AHNE which included a collage of vids, some you have seen here and some you haven't, so don't miss it. There are also notes from Dave (that's him playing the MOOG Model 12) of umop and of course, our synth favorite The Packrat. BTW, congrats to Dave for scoring the animation for Weird Al Yankovic's video Virus Alert! A GOOM synth makes an appearance. Not sure what the other one is though.Virus Alert - "Weird Al" Yankovic
How to play fast on a Microkorg synth
YouTube via hamsterdunce.
"Sure, the keys are smaller than salamander toes. That doesn't mean you can't try and play a squillion notes per second, now does it? Enjoy yet another blistering array of wankadoo note slurrying by Uncle Dave!"
Sonic Lab: Arturia JP8V Virtual Synthesizer
YouTube via sonicstate.
"Sonic Lab presents the Arturia JP8V, a virtual synthesizer based on the fabulous Roland Jupiter 8, as made famous by pretty much any 1980's keyboard based band who had the cash.
Shorn Rah puts on his 80's gear (he's lucky it still fits), hair gel and lipgloss and takes us into the world of the polysynth.
Visit http://www.sonicstate.com/articles/ar... to view the original article"
GARY NUMAN - BERSERKER
GARY NUMAN - BERSERKER ----TOTP's
video upload by industrial82
Two Oberheim OB-Xas. And two DX-7s in the next vid:
GARY NUMAN - BERSERKER ----Razzmatazz
video upload by industrial82
And and OSCar in the last vid:
gary numan berserker
video upload by dexbam
My favorite Numan track. So, anyone know what synth or synths were originally used? The Tops of the Pops version is obviously a lip sync to the original track which does sound like Oberheim to me.
video upload by industrial82
Two Oberheim OB-Xas. And two DX-7s in the next vid:
GARY NUMAN - BERSERKER ----Razzmatazz
video upload by industrial82
And and OSCar in the last vid:
gary numan berserker
video upload by dexbam
My favorite Numan track. So, anyone know what synth or synths were originally used? The Tops of the Pops version is obviously a lip sync to the original track which does sound like Oberheim to me.
Melissa Buys
Title link takes you to Melissa Buys website. You might remember her name from these previous posts. Be sure to check out her Blog and Studio links for more synth shots and synth talk.
Shuriken Plug-ins
Title link takes you to Shuriken, home to a number of VSTis including the following:
SqakAttack
"SqakAttack is a midicontrolled buffersynth with a duck for GUI."
Kerrstinn
"Kerrstinn changes your loops randomly with both moving slices of it around and or applying effects to the slices according to rules that we call generators. It is sort of an automatic controllable recallable loop slicer."
CopyShop
"This my friend is a what you would call a FSU VST, all it does is chopping up buffers and plays them back. of-course you can choose the length of the piece of audio played back and when to apply it.
Blargh its hard to explain what it does, throw it into your DAW feed it some audio and press the little button. Then tweak the big knob. then press the button again, that's how it works and what it does pretty simple."
Berrtill
"Berrtill is a distortion unit modelled from circuit bent hardware. Based on this setup:"
And more... I only put up the VSTis with a video for this post. via GetLoFi.
SqakAttack
"SqakAttack is a midicontrolled buffersynth with a duck for GUI."
Kerrstinn
"Kerrstinn changes your loops randomly with both moving slices of it around and or applying effects to the slices according to rules that we call generators. It is sort of an automatic controllable recallable loop slicer."
CopyShop
"This my friend is a what you would call a FSU VST, all it does is chopping up buffers and plays them back. of-course you can choose the length of the piece of audio played back and when to apply it.
Blargh its hard to explain what it does, throw it into your DAW feed it some audio and press the little button. Then tweak the big knob. then press the button again, that's how it works and what it does pretty simple."
Berrtill
"Berrtill is a distortion unit modelled from circuit bent hardware. Based on this setup:"
And more... I only put up the VSTis with a video for this post. via GetLoFi.
Conny Plank Studio Liquidation
via Robert:"German Producer Conrad (Conny) Plank's studio stuff is up for auction. Off the top of my head, I know Plank worked with Kraftwerk, Can, Cluster, and Ultravox. Check out wikipedia for more on Plank. Not bargain prices, but his gear does have historical value" Indeed. Title link takes you there.
Synth shots saved off here.
Update: check this out.
Update: Looks like this was up for auction a while back and I actually posted it. Doh! : ) link. I thought it was old news and searched for it but couldn't find the post, so I figured I probably just heard it was going up for auction but it actually didn't yet. So... I put this up. Oh well, it just goes to show you old news is new news especially in the synth world. What's interesting is the auction site hasn't been updated. Are these items actually still up for sale? The post I previously put up was dated 7/5/06.
Analog Metal Ballad - MOOG Little Phatty Track
Title link takes you to a MOOG forum thread where you will find a link to the track.
via Amos.
via Amos.
Signal Arts MIDI Analog Performance Sequencer (MAPS)
Click here for shots via this auction
Details:
" * A Full-Featured Three Channel Polyphonic MIDI to CV Converter (3 CV / 3 Gate Outs)
* 24 Banks
* of 8 Sequences
* of 8 Steps
* of 7 Parameters
* And Multiple Virtual Sequences
* Per-Step Note, Pitch, Velocity, Controller
* Per-Step Duration and Note Duration
* Per-Step Glide/Slew Rate
* DIN Sync
* Clock Input
- See Signal Arts details and demos: http://www.signalarts.ca"
dj vivi pedraglio from Argentina
MySpace page.
Guess the synths
via the Backlit Lounge comments. BTW, Brian Comnes just put up a post up on Synthwire. Check it out. BTW, please do use Synthwire to post your synth related content. The site is there for you to use. If you want to join and post something, shoot me an email. Promote whatever and share whatever you want as long as it is related to synths and the things people do with them.
The Mighty MB-6582!
"four channel stereo synth (8x 6582 SIDs) and the up-coming release of MB-SID V2 is going to blow away all other SID hardware."via C64Music! where you will find more images.
Reminder on all flickr shots: always click on the "All Sizes" link to see the full sized shot.
MIDIBox SID
Magnetron - Golgoth 13
YouTube via ps3udo. Commodore64. Via C64Music!
""Magnetron", funny Clay animation music video clip from french band "GOLGOTH 13" and their album called "Bruce Lee died in Galway". Official golgoth 13 website : http://www.golgoth13.net/ More of Seb's work here too : http://jackychong.free.fr/"
Star Synare 2
Title link takes you to shots via this auction. Details:
"This was the flagship synare model at the time of its release and retailed for $1,395. It features fully analog VCO (variable-width pulse and ramp waves + sub octave, pink and white noise) - VCF (24db, assignable to LFO and ENV) - VCA (two-stage envelope generator)- LFO (tri, pulse and ramp waves) - 125-step sequencer - 12 trigger pads (tuned chromatically in half-steps)"
There's a sample under the description in the auction, mirrored here.
BTW, there are a couple Synare 2's up on Matrixsynth-b as well for anyone interested.
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