MATRIXSYNTH: Saturday, May 10, 2008

Drum Patch pt. 1

YouTube via muffwiggler
"Made a little 'automatic' drum patch - no sequencers or clock dividers used. It's not very good but I was *really* bored so I pulled out my camera and talked about it for a little while.

My digital still camera SUCKS and the sound is even worse, so you don't really get the greatest audio experience but anyway...

Also when I was running down the convoluted clock signal path in the video, I forgot two things.... the main clock from the BZ is *also* multi'd into a 3-stage Blacet Seq Switch, which is being clocked by the Noise Ring's clock out. There's nothing else inputted into the SeqSwitch - the other two stages are empty. The output is going to the cynare's trigger in.
Finally one clock signal from somewhere (sorry, I forget where...BZ? NR? Seq Switch?) is going to a Bananalogue VCS which is acting as a trigger delay... I believe this delayed trigger ends up firing the Dual Chime sound, but I don't quite remember.

Anyway I hope you enjoy this if that's possible. Cheers & thanks for watching.

ps. I wanted to call this video "A rusty coin driven through Chris Randall's Eye" but I doubt anyone would get the reference, and I honestly quite like Mr. Randall so instead I will cheekily dedicate this video to him ;)"

Drum Patch pt. 2

Synthesizers.com self generating patch

YouTube via angelometz
"Self generating patch. Negative output feeds the sample and hold. The output of S/H goes to 2 oscilators and controls de filter. 3rd oscilator controls PWM of osc 1."

I nearly married a human

YouTube via AntonyBarton. via Califaudio.
"Just a cover of I nearly married a human made (almost) entirely with the Virus. Theres a little bit of microKORG and piano sample in there..."

Buchla 200e

via modwheelmood

JoMoX

via modwheelmood

BUBBLES IN THE WINE - Lawrence Welk - Hammond A100

YouTube via steverabb
"Mr. Welk's theme song. Thanks to all the Champagne Music Makers including the Hammond A100 Organ and Yamaha DX7II."

Nanoloop Synced to Ableton Live via MIDI Clock 2

YouTube via littlescale. follow-up to this synth
"An demo of an interface I made for a user on 8BitCollective."

Oberheim Matrix-6R

images via this auction

"these take the "wider" CEM voice chips that are less common than the narrower chips used in the Matrix 1000."

Analogue Solutions Red Square

images via this auction

"Analogue Solutions Red Square semi modular synthesizer."

Oberheim SEM analog synth matrixsynth

images via this auction

"Oberheim SEM (synthesizer expander module)"

Inside an SEM

Kawai K5m

two images via Matìas

happiness

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follow-up to this post

howto: MIDI control with iPhone / i3L_v0.2 / Ableton

YouTube via heywhatnooo
"how to set up an iphone as a MIDI controller over Wifi. threw it up quickly so sorry its pretty long"

JH String Filter

via JH:

"I've just recorded two short demos with the String Filter prototype.

First one is a fast Arpeggio from the OB-8, first dry, and then with String Filter switched on and off, and Resonance altered: link

Second one is a String-like OB-8 sound, made more string-like with the String Filter :) Switched on and off between phrases, to display the difference: link

Note: Unlike the older sample, the above has *no* Cello pre-equalization (yet)!

String Filter web page is also updated (with the two new samples and pictures of the prototype)

JH."

KORG Sigma

images via this auction

"lots of fat sounds and unique after touch keyboard that can trigger 1/4 tones. the 2 Cool joysticks add multi-dimensional control. one to control pitch, noise and vibrato. the second joystick to edit the low-pass and hi-pass VCF filters! There is also an "Effect" section which is for Vibrato, Portamento, Sample and Hold, Noise, Key Hold, Multiple Trigger and Ring Modulator (each with it's own rotary control to vary it's sound). Even though it has a switch labelled "Ring Mod," it's actually a cross-mod. It lets you cross modulate between the instrument and Synth sections."

Yamaha CS80

images via this auction
click the images for the full effect.

"Vintage late 70's Yamaha CS-80 Polyphonic Synth serial number 1096"

The image below is the patch memory for the CS80. It literally is four mini versions of the panel controls. You can select them via the patch buttons on the synth. The CS60 has one.

Doris Norton - Doris Norton Lab

YouTube via toyzonzo. via z.

LEIPZIG Keyboard

Remember the Leipzig? It looks like a keyboard version is coming. Note the rack version is currently in stock. via Analog Solutions.

"LEIPZIG-k ... coming soon
keyboard Leipzig with extra functions, like 2nd LFO, LCD editing (of MIDI setup), CV/Gate/CV2 inputs & outputs on rear panel, and more!
Below is first prototype metalwork, the wooden side panels are missing!
Production model will be BLACK, but if you prepay you I might give you a choice of limited edition coloured editions! Contact me if you are interested. Expect the price to be around £799 exc. VAT and delivery"

Somatic Circuits !Malfuntionator Kit Synth

"The !Malfunctionator was designed to be a handy UFO dector dubbling up as a Electro Music Device to assist in the making of creative electro music. It consists of 3 oscillators each modulated by 3 low frequency oscillators see the signal path. The oscillators are based around the hex invertor IC known as CD40106 aka 7HC04 , the wave froms produced from this logic device are trapazoid . This modulator to oscillator combination allows the user to create a wide range of sounds. Play it alongside with your synthesizers, isolate the sounds in your wave mapper and create a new 'synth' in your sampler, incorperate into your modular system or tweek it out and box it up as the ultimate noize unit, whatever you do , with the clear high ends and dirty fat low ends the !Malfunctionator is the perfect electro tool at the same time keeping a close ear on UFO activity."

"Constructing the !Malfunctionator is easy, fun and quick. Solder the listed components into their correct place shown on the board. Align the diodes, capacitors, ICs and LEDs. For ease of construction solder by height, start from the smaller components (the resistors, ICs, diodes etc) then the larger components (capacitors transistors etc).Trim the ends after you solder.Solder wires to the pots and LED indcators. Refer to the schematic for troubleshooting and modifications. When complete pop it a box and power it up either with a 9v battery cell or connect it to a power supply of some sort that delivers a DC voltage of 5VDC - 15VDC , 9VDC recomended. Then connect it to your Starship control console and start tracking aliens with your new Electro Music Device -The !Malfunctionator."

You can find the kit here.

mb808 closeup

flickr by SineSurfer

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"Testing the mb808, to learn more about this and other projects, visit:
www.eight-oh-eight.org/
www.ucapps.de/"

You might remember the MB808 from this post. The MB808 is a Roland TR-808 clone with MidiBox sequencer.

nordllead 2x + sequenceur korg triton le

YouTube via ladorade84860. via synthzoom
"utilisation de 4 piste du triton avec les sons du clavia nordlead 2x + boite d'effet alesis nanoverb"

Korg DW-8000 doing Yamaha CS-80- like sound

YouTube via BromusTbg. via synthzoom.
"I tried to do very famous Yamaha CS-80 sound on my DW-8000. I used aftertouch to LFO and filter modulation ;) Enjoy ;D"

Vinyl scratch simulation with Nord Modular g2 synth

YouTube via leoleox. via synthzoom
"A patch that simulate turntablism performance. All sounds are generated by g2
You can download patch at www.leoleox.com/g2scratch.zip
There are both hardware and demo patches. In demo patch the drums are missing and it sounds different from original on my mac.
Play with variations!"