MATRIXSYNTH: Friday, August 29, 2008

Korg Wavestation Vector Synthesizer "Endless Waves"

YouTube via retrosound72

"vintage synth demo track by RetroSound
'Endless Waves'
...includes wave-sequencing and vector synthese.
no overdubbing, no sequencer software used
For much better sound quality (stereo) add "&fmt=18" without quotes to the end of the URL

I use a pic from the free Ocean 3D Screensaver."

behringer semi-modular synthesizer

YouTube via BernadetteBruch
"i used a little behringer mixer (mx602a) to make some weird noises like you hear it from circuit bended toys or even modular synthesizers ;). just patch the aux send of your mixer to some inputs and patch some other outs to in as well and you will get some strange noises. there may be better ways to patch it... if you want to try to make some noise too: be careful... use a limiter and a hp-filter, because it will produce some really mean low frequencies... have fun watching an try it out with your own mixers :)"

PLL Detuned Unison

YouTube via boobtube356
"Two Doepfer A-111's one Cwejman VCO-6 and A-196 PLL in unison. The PLL is hitting the lower octaves and missing on occasion creating an unpredictable detuning."

SX-150簡易コントローラー

YouTube via yokoja
Googlish: "Chinese ink on paper impregnated with carbon panel paintings used to cut and paste. Bagworm to use the pitch to clip only be fetched. Subtle. LFO is a rather want to filter."

Roland TB-303

TB-303 on Ebay. RoLand

YouTube via lucio788

images via this auction

"I'm Not Your Doormat" Psychodrama

YouTube via JBastio. "Electronic 80s Dance Music Video" Spot the synths.
via Mark: "apparently the lead singer is now the director of product marketing at M-Audio."

Serge Synth

Serge Synth from jon johnstone on Vimeo.
"Jeff Foster brought his very cool late 80's Serge panel synth in to work today! Oh... the cube mates are loving it!"

Doepfer Noodling (new age style)

Doepfer Noodling (new age style) from Isotope Of Me on Vimeo.
"I felt like making some noise tonight, but didn't feel like getting into writing anything too structured, so I set the DSI Evolver's sequencer to modulating the filter, patched up the modular and fired up the camera (because nothing happens if the internet doesn't see it). Here's the result.

The Modular patch is the A-111 and A-110 cross modulating each other, while simultaneously outputting Sine, Square and Saw. The Sine is routed to the A-125 VC phase shifter, the Saw is routed to the A-121 multimode filter (output as bandpass), and the Square is re-triggering the A-147 LFO at audio rate. The LFO is then sent to the A-122 24db LPF. Both filters and the phase shifter are summed at the VC mixer, where their levels are modulated by ramp waves 45 degrees out of phase with each other via the A-191 Shepard Generator. The Shepard Generator is also providing triangle LFOs to modulate the cutoff frequency of the filters and phase shifter.

This patch evolves nicely on it's own, but I tweaked it a bit to try to keep it interesting.

When I was done, I felt like it needed a little something, so dumped it into Cubase, where I overdubbed a nice thin digital pad."

CGS Analog Computer

"Available first week of Sept.
Pre-order now!

CGS Pulse Divider with Dual Inverter and Logic OR and AND, Gate Converter (dual Comparator), NOR/XNOR Logic, and Analog Shift Register, all in a 2U module!
Everyone should have two!

$250 Assembled Module
$140 Full Kit
$30 Panel"

Korg M1 Card by Morpheus2027

flickr by morpheus2027
(click for more)

full size

solurghhomestudio

stg/soundlabs the Sea Devils Filter

"A three pole diode ladder lowpass filter with voltage controlled resonance and a PCB licenced from Yves Usson.

There are two famous 3 pole diode ladder lowpass filters, one of them was in a little silver box of a synthesiser with integrated sequencer that was used to make "Acid Tracks" and the other one was was in a big suitcase of a synthesiser with a silver faceplate and semi- integrated sequencer that was used to make tracks on acid often. this is the latter. I'm not going to name any names here, but I'm hoping I don't have to mention any voltage controlled studios or electronic music studios to establish the lineage of this filter topology.

I can't promise this thing will make Sea Devils appear on your lawn or models of airplanes fly from one side of the stage to the other, crashing into a papier mache sun at the end of your song, so please don't be offended if these things fail to happen while using the filter, presuming you'd want to own one.

Price: $250" You can find it here.

Livewire & PlanB (and a dash of Doepfer)

YouTube via dkimcg
"Making more fertilizer from some very nice modules two brainiac of sound designers made, but I'm just trying out two more new modules, the Livewire Dual Cyclotron and Dalek Modulator. The Dalek FMs the M15, the M28 is the master trigger device, which is reading the phase of the Doepfer LFO. The Cyclotron modulates a bunch of crap, and the M10 gates and also modulates and triggers other crap. And the M24 generates the freq CVs. I like the Livewire modules I got a lot. I have much more to explore with them. This patch almost sounds good, not quite a turd of a patch this time. Or am I wrong?

This one's in stereo, can you figure out how to watch it in stereo?"

Gregorio Tedde - Improvvising on ARP Synthesizer

YouTube via GreggTedde
"Having fun with a 2600 Emulator.
GEAR: Voltkitchen Arppe 2600 VA played with M-Audio Keystation Pro-88."

REALISTIC REVERB by S-CAT (WITH MC-202 AND TR-909)

YouTube via PHONICPOTION. "CIRCUIT BENT WITH FOUR MODIFICATIONS"

Pad like Simmons for SYNDRUM CLONE

YouTube via denha. follow-up to this post.
"A pad like hexagon-shaped wooden SIMMONS."

606 Boogie

via kwote on the Wiard group:

606_Boogie_produced_by_Plord_and_Kwote.mp3

"Hello all you wiardos! wanted to post a fun track to the list Plord and I recently did. featuring his Wiard 300 system, his patching expertise and a few of my suggestions and manual modulations."