MATRIXSYNTH: Thursday, October 18, 2007

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Oberheim OB-X Voice Expansion Board

images via this auction. via Matt.
"This is the board needed to expand an OB-X with four voice capability to eight voices.No voice cards are included, this is just the board to house four extra voice cards. Included is the metal tray which it sits on, all the relevant cables/plugs, and the hinges for lifting the board up for servicing the lower voice cards."

LINN 9000

images via this auction. via Operator X.
"The Linn 9000 has
-Built-in 32-track MIDI sequencer with sampling capability
-18 sounds with velocity sensitive drum pads
-Programmable hi-hat decay, panning, and a nice big LCD screen.
-Floppy disk drive.

ONLY 1,100 EVER MADE

This specific LINN has the most up to date software upgrades done by
BRUCE FORAT. ALSO comes with extremely hard to find MANUAL which I bought from Bruce about a month ago. (www.forat.com)"

Project 9090

Remember the 9090 posted earlier? It's actually a DIY drum machine. You can find more info, including samples and instructions, on the official 9090 site.

via amos_joseph in the comments of the previous post.

Flame Midi Talking Synth Demo

Previous post updated with the demo via JSRocket. Don't miss this, pretty amazing demo. I'm curious if the Yamaha FS1R could do the same with it's formant synthesis. Comments disabled here to keep them all in the previous post.

Roland System 100m Basic Modules

click here for another Roland scan via synth ollie.

click here for all scans via synth ollie including:
Roland System 100m 190-191J Manual
Roland System 100m Patch Book

SUB-COMMANDER Guitar Synthesizer

DIY Guitar Synth from Music From Outer Space (MFOS)

Features
* Generates sub-octave and pulse waveforms
* Generates gate and trigger signals
* VCF controlled by dedicated AD generator and LFO
* VCA controlled by dedicated AD generator and LFO
* Mix clean sound with filtered/modulated sound.
* Auto-Wah, Warbling Wah, Tremolo, Pseudo-Ring Mod
* Gives your guitar a bag of new tricks
* Advanced project for advanced electronics hobbyists

Yamaha TG33 Review on Celiar Structures

click here for the full review including links to the manual, a software editor, samples and more.

"TG-33 emerged as a rack version of the SY-22 and as a cheap vector synth option in front of the pro Wavestation. With a 32 voices polyphony (double as SY-22) and 8 parts, TG-33 weak point was their 12 bits AWM samples and the leak of filters, making it pretty noisy and lo-fi sounding that limits it for electronic or industrial oriented artists. It does not have even arpegiator o r sequencer but it can record vector movements in real time as phrases (some like OB-12 and JP 8000/8080 does). Edition is also pretty limited while you can access to hidden parameters from software editors."

Prophet VS Samples via Jason Proctor

MOTM/Oakley/Blacet/CGS/etc modular Samples via Jason Proctor

Parallel Worlds

via Bakis on the Cyndustries list:
"There is a Parallel Worlds Interview in the November Issue (out now) of the US Electronic Musician Magazine.

The interview is in the Pro/file section of the mag on page 154. the article is entitled “Modular Odyssey”, (talking about music technology and the latest Parallel Worlds cd album “Obsessive Surrealism”).

There are extra photos from the interview session in the Bonus Material page of the EM website (in the November issue EM web clips)

Here it is.

You can see lots of analogue modulars of course… (and more synths are out of the photos…)"

Also check out the Parallel Worlds website. You might remember it from this post.

KORG Wavedrum

images via rosynth.

Will Calhoun (Living Colour) drum solo 2
YouTube via Geitebok.

Jam Sessions with AMP~!

YouTube via KristyLynn. Not sure if this one counts, but... oh well.
"lol, as you see, i am in my bro's room and hooked up to his amp. ;)"
Kinda looks like he's wearing a Matrixsynth T.

Taiko Drum Master (Nintendo Ds) Pub Jap

YouTube via GioHazard.

Protein DScratch - 2 - by Gorgull

YouTube via yarglaaaafr.
"DScratch module - Protein Project - Gorgull

This is the second shot of [DScratch] module - project codename Protein -

Since first video, I added some new features:
# more visual feedback
# a little sampler effect
# a resampling effect
# mute mode
# pitch control
# record the mic as base sample
# visual feedback on both screens
# midi out: control midi software wireless (VJ software for example) using DSMidiWifi
# a few bugs corrections

The base sample is a 5 seconds wav file running in loop.

demo available @ http://gorgull.googlepages.com/protein"

Yamaha FS1R Editors

Two Editors:

FS1R Editor Ver1.30 (top)
FS1R Editor 1.1 (bottom)

Update: Free editor here

RSF Kobol For Sale

click here for more shots and details.

Weevil Update

Via Tom of Bugbrand. Sent my way via TSP.

"Hiya Bug-list. I'm happy to get some announcements out!

**1
There's a new batch of 8 Weevil07s just released in the BugShop - Priced at £130 plus shipping and all ready to fly around the world. The batch is all in brown as pictured here. There are 6 of these ones, plus two in a darker brown with different knobs like this. If you'd like one of the ones with different (?special!) knobs then send me an email while placing your order - this is first come first served!

**2
There are new AudioWeevils brewing... Details will go online soon, but here's a quick pic of the proto. The proper versions will be a bunch more snazzy than this proto... Note the slope fronted case and the plentiful knobs..!.. This version adds a mixer so you can blend dry and squared audio with the Weevil heart (twin osc ringmod - one of the oscs can be replaced by the squared audio input) and powerful resonant lowpass filter. Oh, and a modulation LFO for warbling one of the oscillators and the filter. There will be a small batch right at the end of this month. No reservations, but do keep it in mind...

**3
And onwards -- unfortunately I'm not going to be able to work all through November due to an operation & this will obviously limit the output of any Bug batches... I'm not yet sure, therefore, whether there can be anymore BabyBugCrushers this year, but I'll do my best.. PostcardWeevils have also been popular but are currently out-of-stock while I await more parts..

**4
That's it for now.
Cheers & best to all,
Tom"

Moog Little Phatty and Jordan Rudess

"Jordan Rudess gives a quick overview of the sonic magic possible with a Moog Little Phatty, FreqBox and CP-251"

Moog Little Phatty and Jordan Rudess Filter Techniques

"Jordan Rudess shows off the incredible functionality of the classic Moog filter in the Little Phatty"
YouTube via MoogMusicInc.

Waldorf XTk

images via this auction.

9090 Analog Drum Synthesizer

Update via joseph_amos in the comments: "This is actually a DIY project. [link] It looks like whoever is selling just copied and pasted the text from the first page. "

images via this auction
"serial No. 001 t page 2002
The 9090 is an analogue drum machine based upon the legendary Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer. Many people consider this machine to be the life and soul of house music and it's modern derivatives. Trance, techno, whatever. In some moment of insanity back in '99 I decided it would be a fun challenge to build an entire clone of this classic analogue drum box (having no appreciation of how such a project can take over your life) and, bored with using sampled beats, I wanted a real, tweakable analogue box. Just like the 909.

I chose to make my 9090 just a MIDI controlled unit without an integral sequencer. All original drums are in there, together with power supply and a new PIC-based MIDI interface. The complete project is built across two separate printed circuit boards, designed to fit within a 2U height 19" rack enclosure. I didn't develop a sequencer to go with this, but I'll do it if I get the time.

The voice circuits used within the clone remain faithful to those of the original machine. In other words they remain mostly unchanged, except where I've added controls for extra tweakage. Most semiconductors have been substituted for modern equivalents that are more easily available. Most of the TR-909 sounds are completely analogue and hence some pretty intricate discrete circuitry is involved. Only the hi-hat and cymbal are 'digital' since the TR-909 used samples contained within three 32K ROMs for these.

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Octave Voyetra Eight

images via this auction

Roland Vocoder Plus VP-330

images via this auction
"Oscillators - 3 VCO's
Effects - Ensemble (chorus)
LFO - Vibrato w/ depth, delay and rate
VCA - separate Mix Levels for Vocoder, String and Voice sections; 20 envelope followers
Filter - 18 VCFs: 54db/oct bandpass; 1 VCF: 54db/oct lowpass and highpass filters; 20 VCFs: 18db/oct lowpass filters w/ dynamic range of 60db
Memory - None
Keyboard - 49 Keys
Control - CV/Gate
Date Produced - 1979"

EML 200

images via this auction
"The EML consists of the following components:
-Master Oscillator (LFO that goes well into the audio range). 6 outputs, 2 for each waveform.
-Noise (2 outputs)
-2 VCO’s. (2 outputs each)
-Spring reverb. (2 outputs)
-Electronic switch (2 outputs)
-Low Pass Filter (2 outputs)
-High Pass Filter (2 outputs)
-Waveshaper (2 outputs)
-envelope (2 outputs)
-2 ring modulators (2 outputs each)
-Preamp (3 inputs and 2 outputs)
- 6 channel mixer (with 6 outputs)
Here is a sound clip of the 200 in action. It's sorta long and noisy:
EML 200
I also have a copy of the user manual and schematics. If you have an EML 101 this makes an excellent compliment and is useful even on its own."