MATRIXSYNTH: Thursday, November 27, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Happy Turkey Day everyone. I hope it is a good one. I now present you with...

The one and only Turkey Synth.

Pictured here is the Harmonic Generator.
"Created by Isac Zal, the Harmonic Generator is a new experimental electronic instrument. It consists of five main components:
* 64 piano strings on the outside of the device are chromatically tuned to 32 notes.
* 32 corresponding motors with bristle paint brushes beating the strings at controlled speeds
* a homemade keyboard, played like a piano, controls motors.
* 12 pick-ups that focus on one octave of strings
* a transducer at the end of the instrument that feeds back the sound of the pick-ups into the large resonance hull"
via Oddmusic.com. this one was sent to the Wiard list via the man himself, Grant Richter.

Paper Sculpture: In a Quiet Corner of Sussex

KORG MS20 Paper Sculpture

You can find the full flickr set by gardenque here.

You might remember this one in the making here.

via gardenque:
"Korg MS20
When I used one of these synths back in 1983, we had to make sure that if we ever got a good sound, we had to record it there and then because we would never be able to reproduce it at a later time. Many years later, after it had been “resting” in a loft for a while, it was professionally refurbished. The guy that repaired it said that he didn’t know how we’d managed to use it at all because the two VCOs were so completely out of tune/out of synch. Mystery solved!

I decided to do a paper sculpture of the synth at 75% of the actual size. The second part of the paper sculpture will involve a vacuum cleaner! Anybody curious enough to
see the final piece should check back on Flickr over the next month or so.

Many thanks to Matrixsynth for putting up so many photographs of the MS20: they proved to be an invaluable source of reference material."

Dave Smith Instruments presents: Linn Drum 2 and Prophet 08 Module

YouTube via ElectronicMusicGear
"Linn Drum 2 analog version by Dave Smith, and digital version by Roger Linn.
Prophet 08 synthesizer without keyboard - only synthesizer module.
Overview of this two excellent instruments."

Vermona Perfourmer & DRM1 - acidic

YouTube via coldhandmurr
"This was going good earlier in the week, but I think I tired of it or something cause when I finally got around to filming it, I'd lost the spark. The recording sounds like crud, too, on account of the camera's mic. Anyhow, I'm posting it because I like the Perfourmer patches, and I think they show off the tasty filters. Also was trying a nice trick on the 01v where you can gang a bunch of sliders together to another.. Since I don't use 13/14 and 15/16 when recording, I used them to gang some channels together. It's pretty neat -- if you set the ganging when the 15/16 slider is at 6db (full on) for instance, the other (motorized) faders in the gang will fade from their current location to -INFdb and back to their max when you fade any of the gang up and down. That little experiment cost me some flexibility though since any member controls the others, so I'll probably have to work on that. Excuses, excuses.... Onward to the video... "

KORG nanoKEYを初代EeePCで使用する

YouTube via jetdaisuke

Micron LIVE: Unnamed 1

YouTube via mikamulperi. "Original setup. Just Micron live, nothing else."

Omnisphere browsing 1

YouTube via mikamulperi. via fischek
"Just browsing thru presets and showing the interface a bit.
Ask any questions and tell me if you want to see something specific."

betatest Green Machine (Stupid Design)

via L'antre du PILAMI ! via the forum

Buchla is Love

flickr by guiltysin

full size

"Quick sketch as this image was in my head for WEEKS and I needed to put this down.

Comic rendition of Alessandro Cortini and his Buchla.

Better one is in the works, as this was first drawn without a clear idea what the hell a Buchla looked like exactly ;)

Also pretty sure hugging a Buchla is not as cuddly as this :P ow."

Train of thought

Train of thought from Hans-Jörg Scheffler on Vimeo.
"Footage was taken looking outside the window from the Shinkanze on the way from Hamamatsu to Tokyo by my good friend Tommy Snyder.
I manipulated the raw footage in V-Track and composed the soundtrack with the new Omnisphere Softsynth from Spectrasonics for all instruments including the drums and vocals.
The vocals are a sample of a british boys choir singing the words Agnus Dei.
I totally deconstructed the syllables in Omnisphere to create a new texture."

KORG PSS-50

YouTube via 13837
"１９８３年製
自動演奏装置"

Make Noise Quad Multi-Mode Gates

http://makenoisemusic.com/
see this post for a video
"A huge riff on the original Buchla 292 Quad Lo Pass Gate, including a Mix Out and containing no fewer than 8 vactrols! The QMMG offers the additional features of High Pass Gate mode, Voltage Controlled Feedback, Direct Coupling (for processing of Control Voltages) and Normalizations so that multiple channels may easily be used together to create Bandpass Gates, steeper HP or LP Gates or even something like a traditional Synthesizer Voice Architecture.

The voltage controlled feedback is routed differently in each mode.
In VCA mode it is routed to provide slightly non-linear GAIN. Daisy chain multiple channels for voltage controlled clipping. In BOTH Mode the feedback is routed to provide DAMPING of the ringing vactrols. The effect of adding feedback in BOTH mode is not unlike placing your hand upon the head of a drum, while striking, thus allowing the user to control how much the Vactrols ring. In the LP and HP modes, the feedback is routed to provide a highly unstable, non-linear resonance, which at higher settings, will clip asymmetrically. The filter is slippery and smooth at low resonance settings, but it cuts like a choir of daggers at high resonance settings.

The benefit of Direct Coupling is that a channel of the QMMG could be used to attenuate or amplify an incoming CV before applying to another channel. The mixing section is set-up so that inserting a plug at the output socket of any given channel removes that channel from the mix, therefore you could use one half of the QMMG for voltage controlled mixing of CVs to apply to the other half being utilized for signal processing.

This module is 24HP and consumes 60mA worth of current. The price is TBD.

Available soon from Analogue Haven."

ANALOG SYNTH MIDI CONVERTER

via this auction via the forum.
"Here is a cheap solution if you want to add midi to your Analog Synth. It is in 1volt/octave format which makes this compatible with alot of stuff out there. By default it is set on Midi Channel 1, but there is a dip switch to activate a different midi channel if you wanted to. The actual PCB was CNC professionally manufactured, so it is highly reliable. The panel is Lexan and the box is wood. A 12v AC wallwart adapter is included with this auction.
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THE UNIT IS SIMPLE IT ONLY UNDERSTANDS: NOTE OFF/ON, and VELOCITY.

THESE ARE THE OUTPUTS
(1) PITCH 1v/oct OUT
(1) GATE rated at 5v OUTPUT
(1) VELOCITY ACCENT rated at 5v OUTPUT (HINT**) you can run this to a filter CV pot and dial in the amount of "bright" you want when you slam those Keys!

This is the way I calibrated the unit: Note -C3 puts out 0v, -C2=1v,-C1=2v,C0=3v,etc
THERE IS A VERY BIG RANGE, SO YOU CAN PLAY OFF AN 88-key controller.

There is a RED Led that lights up when ever you play a midi note.
There is a Yellow Led to let you know the power is on.
It runs off 12v AC, the wall adapter is included."

Z3000 / Z5000 Split signal patch

Z3000 / Z5000 Split signal patch from GM on Vimeo.
"Nothing fancy, just a voice made of three Z3000 is spilt into 2 and sent into 2 VCAs controlled by 2 EG's. From there the signals goes for processing by two Z5000 and into the computer.

Drums and the midi sequence are coming from Live. The analog Hi-Hats are made with filtered white noise."