MATRIXSYNTH: Saturday, May 24, 2008

Saturday, May 24, 2008

oakley 3031

You can find another image and a sample (with JoMoX Xbase09) at The Voice of Saturn

Pro-modified expanded Oberheim SEM Demo

YouTube via tempustry. Up for auction here.
"demo of unique pro modified oberheim sem with sub-oscillators and double-sub-oscillators. :-) SEM is being driven externally via a separate (not pictured un-modified Roland TB-303, the one above is a devilfish. :-)

Each SEM VCO has an added mixer section with separate volume pots for simultaneously available sawtooth, square, sub-oscillator, and double sub-oscillator waveforms!

Each mixer section per VCO has an on/off switch with bright blue LED to signify the circuitry is on/active."

House Frickel

YouTube via sync4000

Microkorg

YouTube via sync4000

Synthesizerpark - FM4 @ springeight

YouTube via radioFM4
"http://fm4.orf.at/connected/222694/main
Die Knöpfe der Kultmaschinen drehen im analogen Synthesizerpark im Kunsthaus Graz."

sequential circuits six trak

YouTube via ajp127. "demo of a vintage analogue synth" via this auction

Custom Silver Nord Lead 1

images via this auction
"i'm selling my nord lead 1 synth and donating the proceeds to charity. my dad has cancer and my grandmother died of it so i'm donating the money from this auction to the american cancer society. i've had this synth now for 8 years and it's been through some amazing times with me. 1 of the photos above is from a splashdown performance at the lilith fair and another is from the last splashdown performance in rochester ny. i've used this synth on tons of recordings from splashdown to freezepop to symbion project. i'm leaving all my presets in it for you to use and you'll probably recognize many from splashdown recordings. it's not red like most nord synths since i covered most of it (top and sides) with silver sticker paper, and i spraypainted the knobs silver. you can see which knobs got the most wear from the silver wearing off. it has a memory expansion card in it as well so there's plenty of room for presets. the synth is pretty worn on the outside, but works just fine, all the knobs, keys, and leds work and it'll treat you nicely. as a bonus, i'm including an unopened copy of splashdown's 5 song ep "redshift" , an autographed copy of the most recent symbion project album, and a signed limited edition copy of the latest freezepop cd fx3p."

MOOG Polymoog Synthesizer

images via this auction

Polymoog on Dubsounds

Oberheim OB-Mx

images via this auction

Integrated Circuits for EDP Wasp Synth - Complete Set

via this auction
"You're looking at a complete, new set of integrated circuits which will enable the life of your EDP Wasp to be sustained well into the future. This comprises 47 parts in all, including all of the digital and analog devices, power regulator, and amp IC. Some of these ICs, in particular the CA3080's, 4006 and 40174 are now obsolete and becoming increasingly difficult to source within the UK. Alternatively you could just add a few resistors, capacitors, pots, and make your own Wasp from scratch. Simple!"

MOTM-101 Sample & Hold

via this auction

"Nice featred Sample and Hold with adjustable slew limiting on the output. Innternal or external clock. CV Hold or 'Track' feature. White, Pink, and Slow noise sources with individual outs. Plus a bonus interesting vibrato trigger."

Siel Orchestra

images via this auction

"Great old string machine with additional piano, brass & woodwind sounds. EXACTLY THE SAME MACHINE AS THE ARP QUARTET (which were made by Siel for Arp from memory?). The synth. dates back to the late seventies but is in great working order and very nice condition considering it’s age.

The strings and piano are the best sounds. Strings are reminiscent of the Solina with the divide down circuitry adding to it’s great character. The piano reminds me of the old Crumar Roadrunner."

Yamaha CS10

images via this auction

Ensoniq ESQ-1

images via this auction
"The Ensoniq ESQ-1 is an 8-voice polyphonic synthesiser with 3 digitally sampled oscillators per voice but couples them with a real analogue filter. It features 3 LFOs, which can be freely assigned to a variety of parameters and 4 digital envelope generators, which can also be assigned to many parameters. Although it isn't bristling with knobs, navigation of the ESQ-1 quickly becomes intuitive as each parameter is never more than two or three button presses away, thanks to the generous LED display and surrounding buttons.

It boasts a velocity-sensitive keyboard, to allow a modicum of expression to your sounds. It's great for analogue sounds, but is also capable of biting digital sounds - bells and DX7-type sounds are possible.

A handy built-in sequencer allows for patterns and songs to be recorded, making it an ideal tool for sketching out ideas."

Me playing Visage "Fade to Grey"

Uploaded on Mar 5, 2008 DX5

"# Some mistakes specially with the DX7. It was just a test.
Above: Roland JX8P
Mid: Roland D10
Below: Yamaha DX7 II FD
# Tags Visage Fade to Grey Roland D10 JX8P JX-8P Yamaha DX7"

Me playing Depeche Mode Black Celebratio...

via DX5 on Sonicstate TV
"Tags Black Celebration Emu Emax"

Me playing Depeche Mode Enjoy The Silenc...

This was on Sonicstate.TV which is no more. You can now find the video here.

"# Me playing Enjoy the Silence. The choir sound was directly sampled from an Emulator II. It sounds very similar to original (sorry, but I can't share the choir sample; the friend who sampled it, warned me for not sharing it. Sorry once again).

Played over a backtape running on Pro Tools.
Synths:
Above: Roland JX-8P
Mid: Roland D10 (triggering emulator sample)
Below: Roland JP8000
# Tags Depeche Mode Enjoy Silence Roland D10 JX8P JX-8P JP8000 "

Beatesthesia Custom Visulizer

Beatesthesia Custom Visulizer from olly gore on Vimeo.
"Beatesthesia is a highly customizable WYSIWYG music visualizer. Inspired in motive and design by synesthesia.

Synesthesia has inspired many works of art. Art that is meant to evoke synesthetic associations in a non-synesthetic audience has been dubbed synesthetic. Most artists synced sound and light in their performances to achieve this goal. Their efforts were deemed arbitrary because the all relied upon one set schema for an entire audience. If it is at all possible to evoke synesthetic reactions each experience should be fine tuned to a single person.

Beatesthesia allows the user to design their own music visualization. The WYSIWYG editor allows you to easily add audio reactive graphics to either Kick Snare or Hat beats. When a beat is detected the graphical event programmed is then fired.

The interface its self is audio reactive. This increases the speed of the feedback loop. You know exactly what beat you are adding to because you can see it flashing. Beatesthesia allows anyone to create their own music visualization. There is no prior knowledge of audio manipulation or video software needed. Beatesthesia is equally capable of competing with live visual software, the VJ version features a dual display set up for live performance. You can share you creations with others, using the copy paste code system.

DESIGN, EXPERIENCE, SHARE
Beatesthesia was built entirely using Processing.
Thanks to Minim and ControlP5.
yllo.net

Download full source code here:
thesoundportal.com/beat/download.htm"

First test Fairlight Series IIx + demo's

On dvdborn

Tom Coster - Ivory Expedition

flickr by pgregor

full size

MOOG Liberation

Rare synth books and manuals

via dlmorley on the forum:

Located in Belgium but I ship worldwide
List below
Thanks!
David

Allen Strange Electronic Music Systems Rare synth book
Devarahi - The Complete Guide to Synthesizers Buch RARE
Original Synton Fenix Modular Manuals
Original Roland MKS-7 analogue synth manual
Original Roland Juno 106 analog synth Manual
Roland TR-909 mode d'emploi version Francais original!
ARP Minus Noise Mixer original manual
Emu Systems Emulator II bedienungsanleitung Original
Music by Computers book 4xVinyl Heinz Van Foerster 1969
The Synthesizer and Electronic Keyboard Handbook
The Secrets of Analog & Digital Synthesis Book
Music and the Synthesizer - Bruce Graham Synth Buch
Formant Pro Modular Synth Buch
Formant Modular Synth Buch

You can find them here. images saved here.

Rick van der Linden - GX1

via swissdoc:

"today I found a very nice and rare synthesizer LP at a local flea market: Rick van der Linden - GX1. As the name suggest, the whole record is done with the Yamaha GX1 synthesizer.

It is dated 1977.

Here's the cover of the LP. (pictured)

Some information about Rick van der Linden: link

There seems to be a torrent available for downloading the music"

Mr Clacks Synthesizer extravaganza

via Mr Clack

"Baby baby ive been busy,

Here is 3 synthesizers I Finally got round to putting together in the last 3 months. I put them in my fine art degree show so I got to get some good snaps of them.

left to right [top to bottom here]

Dual MFOS Soundlab and Keyboard
with S+H and Drum trigger
the mixers can take all 4 of the available oscillators

ASM-2 semi-modular
without patching the left side is 2 saws to state variable then vca
right 2 squares to LP moog then VCA

CLONE MODULAR

Built to act like a traditional subtractive modular. stupidly dense ( it needs to be due to lack of bedroom space ) trying to fit a sort of bank of well know filters thats , polivoks, steiner, arp, moog, korg ms20, korg resonator, ems, wasp etc - 6 YU vco's and some unusual modules like fritz chaos , tube vca, S+H/T+H, attenuverter, Noise cornicopia . with a little vca bank, it should be possible to get about 5 voices going at once. the mixers are not yet on it ( they go in the 1 u strips ) . 2xfritz AR 2xMFOS AR 1xYUADSR 1xMFOS ADSR - the mfos AR has repeat so it should double up as a sort of trapezoid LFO. It should be possible when its complete to do some FM experiments too

at the moment they only just work, but in a few months they should be all operating and then eventually in years! I should have them finished!

I screen printed and designed the panels and cases " You can find them on this electro-music.com thread

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Jarre in Birmingham

# Concert footage from 2008 Oxygene tour.
JMJ talking to the audience about the synths and then tuning sequence
# Tags Jarre Live synths JMJ

Arturia Jupiter 8V

Sonicstate TV via TheCircuitSymphony
"# This is the official promo video used for the Jupiter 8v.

The Circuit Symphony were asked to produce the soundtrack for the video.

TCS have also programmed a bank of patches and two tracks all available from Arturias website.
# Link www.TheCircuitSymphony.com
# Tags Arturia Jupiter 8v Oliver Davis Roland The Circuit Symphony"

The Studio

Sonicstate TV by TheCircuitSymphony
"# A quickie around the studio of The Circuit Symphony
# Link www.TheCircuitSymphony.com
# Tags Alesis ION, Alesis Micron Roland Juno 6 Godwin String Concert Analog Synthesizer Moog Little Phatty "

Video killed by Krakli Plugins

Sonicstate TV via ianweb123
"A cheap and cheerful rendition of an old favourite, created using all Freeware plugins. Interestingly because I am so familiar with the original I can almost hear the vocals even though there is no phrasing in the vocal parts at all."

Jarre-S

Scarface Theme (Tony theme) - Juno 106

YouTube via icez1969. via synthzoom.
"Here is Tony's theme from Scarface , written by Giorgio Moroder. Im using a Roland Juno 106 which recreate quite well the warmness of the sound used on the original theme."

a reproduction of "Rock Your Body, Rock (by Ferry Corsten)"

YouTube via mryat
"a reproduction of "Rock Your Body, Rock (by Ferry Corsten)" on the EMX-1 KORG ELECTRIBE MX"

Sennheiser Vocoder Demo

via electro-music.com

Le Singe Monotone live rehearsal

YouTube via lesingemonotone
"rehearsing tonights liveshow with Le Singe Monotone at Klubb Rotor, Orange, Uppsala, Sweden. Kitlist: abelton, tr-606, moog prodigy, boss re-20."

Happy Knobbing 2008 in Fischbach

YouTube via pasgasman
"Cool people and nice Analog modular, Many Thank's Thomas from Anyware Instrument for good welcome"

Happy knobbing (2) 2008 in Fischbach

"électronique synthetiser sequencer analog modular matrixsynth"

Improved oscillator

flickr by rikusk
(click for more)

full size

"The Rougue is good for minor modifications. There is two VCOs, but the control is quite limited. The modification over here adds following features: Two dials at right side controls the PW of oscillator 1 and 2. Dial at left controls the PWM from the LFO. Switch at the middle selects the waveform for osc1 and the original switch at right is for osc 2."

Improved mod wheel

flickr by rikusk
(click for more)

full size

"The P6 was enhanced with the improved mod-section. Three switches at left selects the MOD target, VCO, VCF or VCA. Next three selects different waveforms (saw, sqr, s/h) and sources (LFO, PWM-LFO of arpeggio clock)."
Inside a KORG Polysix

Bananalogue VCS diy board set available

via Bananalogue on this electro-music.com thread:

"Hi folks! I've decided to offer a VERY limited number (15) of Bananalogue VCS PCB sets to the synth DIY community. The set is four boards, three for components and pcb mount hardware with a fourth optional bridge board (you could opt to use fly wires if you want to play with different panel designs). Please note the following caveats BEFORE ordering from me:

1. these are an early revision of the Bananalogue VCS and the PCBs don't have any spare room vertically to squeeze into a frac/euro rack. we redesigned after this revision to allow more room between the rack rails - so please consider that.

2. i will not be offering ANY support or documentation for these PCBs, we simply don't have the time, so not a good project for beginners!

3. the PCBs have all the component values and placement silkscreened on them. if you have successfully built one of Ken Stone's CGS boards you should be familiar with this system. if you have NOT built a CGS board i would STRONGLY discourage you from starting here.

so, if you are still bold enough - email me with your shipping address and i will send you my paypal account. sets are $40 each, and shipping should be about $3 USA, $6 overseas

and they are a very pretty red"

Yo! Gabba Gabba Party In My Tummy

YouTube via mnrthreat. Roland TR-808. You can thank the AH list for this one.

Joy Division - Love will tear us apart

YouTube via MrRotweiler. ARP OMNI 2?

9999

"From the guy that brought you the first music album on a NES cartridge, Alex Mauer's "9999" features 42 songs using 9 different game system's soundchips. The list includes: NES, Commodore 64, Gameboy, Atari XL computer, MSX computer, IBM PC/DOS, Commodore Amiga, Game Gear, and Sega Genesis. CD available for purchase starting June 1st 2008 at http://headlessbarbie.com ; Released on the II (pause) label. *: The first music album on NES cartridge is titled "Vegavox" and has been covered by many blogs and magazines."

I actually put up a couple of posts on Vegavox here.

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