MATRIXSYNTH: Saturday, June 16, 2007

Midibox Sid with Matrix Panel

Saw this one on sequencer.de. Notice the matrix panel with blue leds on the top left. There is a shot of the inside on the sequencer.de forum.

Tau/Aries/ARP-inspired 20-pole Phaser

via JH via AH:
"I've made some first tests with my version of the Tau/ Aries/ ARP-inspired 20-pole Phaser.

Sound demos (mp3 format) are available:

jh_tau_demo_1_115.mp3
(White noise, and single VCO saw wave gated by Trapezoid, from Synthi Clone.
Run thru the Tau, added a little bit of reverb, recorded with Tracktion.)

jh_tau_demo_2_korg_drums_181.mp3
(Two stupid drum patterns from my Korg Electribe.)

jh_tau_demo_3_lambda_clavi_161.mp3
(Me playing the Clav sound on the Korg Lambda and my 5-year-old son Tassilo
turning the knobs of the Phaser.)

jh_tau_demo_4_lambda_strings_604.mp3
(Lambda Strings, also with Tassilo on the Phaser knobs)

Picture of the finished module: link

(What I will make available is not finished modules; just the naked boards
as shown here: link)

If you want to follow this project further, I'm making updates and announce prices on the electro-music forum: link

I've chosen this way simply because I can put up pictures and audio files there, so I can document this project without making a web site of my own for it. (This will probably come later.)

JH."

Polls on Matrixsynth?

Must! sent me a link to some polling tools for Blogger. He thought it would be a good idea to have a poll now and then. I don't see why not. So... Let me know what you'd like to have a poll on if anything in the comments of this post. I'm thinking one poll every month to every week max would work. What do you all think?

Irukandji

"This is at the moment a page for my earliest work. I use in my studio: a Korg Mono/Poly, and a Powerbook G4. thats it. Pretty limited i know but youd be surprised what can be teased out of such equipment with a little ingenuity. I use Amadeus pro and Reason 2.0 to record, edit, and sequence samples from the mono/poly. I monitor everything through audio technica headphones. My strength is analog synthesis and although the mono/poly isnt modular, its pretty flexible. Trust me, if i could afford a synthi 100 or even an aks, id be in heaven. But given financial circumstances, I work with what i have. Any of you out there who are like minded, (analog synth focused and interested in experimenting) in western mass, and would like to collaborate, let me know. Im always looking for more people to program with. And everyone else just enjoy and leave lots of comments. Im always glad to hear feedback."

Note the tracks are low volume to start but the pick up. Really interesting soundscapes. Matthew wrote in after reading The ELF Generator post:

"I noticed the most recent post deals with the relation of sound and brainwaves. Ive been experimenting with this subject recently. I actually just got a myspace page up and running with some of my earlier work in this area. Check it out, and if you feel so inclined, feel free to post it. All sounds relating to brainwave entrainment are produced with the waveform generators in amadeus pro and everything else is done on a korg mono/poly. Its actually the only synth used in my music as my studio is pretty low budget at the moment."

hello my friend!

juno 60. pro one and sh1000

via ben
www.myspace.com/badl0ader
www.badloader.com

G33 and GR33B Analog Bass Sample

I thought I put this up on June 6, but I can't find it for the life of me. If you know I already posted this, feel free to comment. If not, enjoy. The sample is via ben who is or was selling this piece. More info and shots here. Sorry guys, I dropped the ball on this one and the last post as well actually. That should have gone up earlier as well.

Title link takes you to the sample. Notes via ben:
"Here is a little ditty I recorded with a pickup band in the studio. All the analog sweeps, notes, and buzzes are the G33/GR33b 100% live - not a keyboard or synthesizer. The pads and FX are a K2000 and I'm playing the Roland "808" EDrum kit :)"

Update: if you are interested in picking this up you can contact ben directly.

Ensoniq TS10 Guitar Samples

A couple of vids sent my way Kitsunexus.
Improvised Guitar Solo on Keyboard

YouTube via PrakaKhan.
"This is on a 1993 Ensoniq TS-10. Not a bad guitar tone for a dinosaur board."

Remembering the great Ensoniq keyboards...

YouTube via joendy.
"Excerpt of a video documentary about a conference for audio professionals:"X-Meeting" held in Milan (Italy) in 1994. Amongst some other manufacturers and brands of electronic instruments, the Ensoniq keyboards were demonstrated by this Italian guy (Giorgio Piovan) who delivered this amazing emulation of a distorted guitar with the very same model of Ensoniq TS-10 I used to play. I found a CD-Rom in a sidewalk in NYC containing this demo labeled:"Struimenti Musicali" (an Italian friend of mine, who helped me understand the whole thing, said that this is a music magazine in his country). If anyone knows how to reach this Italian keyboardist please let me know!!! I'd love to know what he's doing now..."

Free Samples via Soulmachine!

via Soulmachine!

"As a kind of a side-product when I'm making songs I always make alot of audiosamples. So I thought, why don't I share them, perhaps other people also could have use for them. :)

I have just made a site where I posted some of my samples. They are made in to exs-24 instruments and there are: pianos, drumkits, guitars, base sounds and pads.

I also have some standalone wav formats containing: drumloops and musicloops.

Here is my site: http://hem.passagen.se/piplayer/samples

Your thoughts and feelings about them are greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
///Soulmachine!"