MATRIXSYNTH: Saturday, March 14, 2009

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Xbox 360 Controller - Reaktor - GlovePie - Breaks

YouTube via myredhotcar
http://whatwouldthecaptaindo.blogspot.com/
"We used glovepie to build an xbox controller script before building some machines in reaktor tocreate dum and bass (ish ) beats. The analogue sticks control bass pitch and filter whichs the buttons fire different one shot and looped samples"

Blackbird Pi for Pi Day

BTW, Happy Pi Day!!! It's 3.14 today.

via Richard Lainhart via the forum:

"Friends: here's the link to my contribution to Microsound's annual Pi Day audio celebration:

http://projects.interdisciplina.org/microsound/project.php?name=pi_day_2009

The rules were to use the values of Pi, in any way, to create a piece of music exactly 3 minutes 14 seconds long. My piece, "Blackbird Pi" (the first one up), is the sound of 1000 migrating blackbirds recorded on the morning of March 6, 2009, timestretched to 3.14 seconds and spectrally transformed with 3.14159 entered into the plugin value fields wherever possible. I hope you enjoy it.

For more about Pi Day: http://www.piday.org"

Ethnic digital drum machine w/ Sherman Filterbank & TENORI-ON (by Smith)

YouTube via znshn
"Using traditional percussion samples on TENORI-ON w/ Sherman Filterbank 2, Moog Analog Delay + digital manipulations via Korg Kaoss Pad KP3. Contents : filtering, micro-pulses, timbric percussion patterns, ethnic digital drum machine. IF POSSIBLE USE HEADPHONES OR CONNECT YOUR COMPUTER TO A QUITE DECENT SOUND-SYSTEM.

Material in this video:
- TENORI-ON
- Sherman Filterbank 2
- Korg Kaoss Pad KP3
- Moog Analog Delay (MF-104SD)

http://www.odiolorgnette.com
http://www.myspace.com/sthintosmithereens
http://www.myspace.com/znshn

See also http://www.youtube.com/odiolorgnette"

Korg EX800 - Finished Project

flickr by Breakfast for Dinner

full size

"Korg EX800 - Finished Project by Breakfast for Dinner. This is my Korg EX-800 (a Poly-800 in a rackmount unit). I finished the Moog Slayer and FM-800 Mods (from synthmod.net). I also added a noise control. Additionally I downloaded a new set of user patches to replace the factory ones."

Update via Mason in the comments: "top left is FM-800 knob, bottom left is noise control, top right is cutoff, bottom right is resonance."
FM800 filter mod

A theme for my Muse

YouTube via attorks

"I dedicate this theme to my Muse. I tried to keep the theme modest and subtle like my Muse. At first you hear a sequence from the Synthesizers.com Modular driven by row 1 of the Doepfer MAQ16/3. After that the VCF frequence is raised to hear the sequence from the self built Modular driven by MAQ's row 2. The 3rd sequence comes from the Creamware MiniMax ASB which is driven by MAQ's row 3. The strings are performed by the AKAI AX80 and the solo's are played on the Clavia Nord Lead 1 and the Korg 900PS (Accordion preset with Traveler on 3.5).

I had to shorten the video almost 3 minutes because of the YouTube limit of 10 minutes. The original video is 12:42 long and you can see or download it from my website."

SoundLab Overview

YouTube via YpsiSynth

"A few things and some with the SoundLab.

I am building 5 like this one, a black faced, 3 white faced, and a black yellow (EDP WASP look)
faced.

This is built into a Polycase ABS case. Runs off an AC adapter (included).
Im very impressed with the tracking of these Synths when Tuned correctly.
Mostly all 1% resistors used throughout. Nice smooth 24mm Alpha pots
Give a great feel to the knob action.

http://www.myspace.com/ypsisynth

http://s572.photobucket.com/albums/ss161/ypsisynth/"

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Elka Twin 61

via this auction

not the best shots but you can read the controls.

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MIDI to CV converter for analog synth

via this auction
" - Note on/off plus velocity
- Scale starts at -C3 = 0 volt
- HAS ADDITIONAL 5v OUTPUT FOR VELOCITY FILTER

THE UNIT COMES WITH a 12v AC wallwart POWER ADAPTER.

INPUTS:
(1) MIDI
(1) power

OUTPUTS:
(1) Pitch 1volt per octave
(1) Gate 5 volts
(1) Velocity 5 volts"

7 John Bowen Solaris Videos

These were pulled from Vimeo. You can now find them in this post.

Casio Electricity

YouTube via mysteritmo
"This video was an experiment to see how OMD's Electricity would sound using only two small Casio keyboards and a drum machine. All keyboard parts are played live - no sequencing - since neither one of them have any type of sync. The video is very basic as it is my very first try at making one. Hope you enjoy!

Music & Lyrics: Paul Humphreys/Andy McCluskey (OMD)
Category: Music"

acxel resynthesizer

YouTube via erasemusic

"you can define the total time for the envelopes in seconds thus making the volume, filters and fm "sequenced" by a noteon at the beginning of every beat. the grapher becomes a sequencerin..."

erwik filter

YouTube via erasemusic
"a rundown of the 15 filtertypes without and with resonance of the rare erwik filter. input from an analogue systems oscillator through a sawtooth animator."

Building a phaser part 4 - 6

Note if you want to see these in order starting with Part 1, click hear and scroll.

YouTube via MusicMiK
"This is a simple project - i will build a clone of the Small Stone phaser as a floor effects unit with some modifications to add some more control over the sound.

Dur to the simplicity of this project, i decided to document all steps, starting with making the PCB for it, ending with the tests. So not all videos appear at once, but i think this should happen within 3 weeks or so. Make sure to come back and see if new parts appeared with the time.

This is part 4 showing mechanical work on the enclosure."

Building a phaser part 5

Building a phaser part 6

keybdwizrd - Fantom XR Demo 5 - 8

YouTube via keybdwizrd

You can find demos 1-4 here.

Korg KR-55 Demonstrated By Anjelicas Baby

YouTube via AnjelicasBaby
"Paul Leishman from British Electronic pop outfit Anjelicas Baby www.myspace.com/anjelicasbaby demonstrates the (1979) vintage Korg KR-55 analogue Rhythm Machine recorded at In4rm Records studio www.myspace.com/in4rmrecords

Also, hubpages article reviewing the Korg KR-55 and KR-55b now up at:
http://hubpages.com/hub/anjelicas-baby"

Analog Synthesizer Factory Patches

This post updated. Looks like the old link is gone. Another resource bites the dust. Luckily it looks like it was backed up on the web archive.

BUMMER DUDE! - HR16B Memory Full Message

via Nath:
"I was messing around with my circuit bent Alesis HR16B drum machine when this message popped up... Pretty funny when you consider there wouldn't have been a lot of people who have filled their memory up before.

A little bit of American humor from the 90's."

KORG MS20 with Original Box

via this auction
"The Korg MS-20 is a patchable semi-modular monophonic Synthesizer which Korg released in 1978 and was in production until 1983. In addition to two analog oscillators, the MS-20 features two resonant VCF filters, two VCAs, sample and hold, a noise generator, an assignable mod-wheel and lots of knobs!

The VCF filter section is capable of high-pass, low-pass, notch and band-reject which is unique and different than your basic lowpass style filter. External sound sources can be routed through the filter section as well." via richard

BroadWAVE Synthesizers / DIY Modular

Pictured on top is the BroadWAVE "Big Burtha." I actually put a couple of posts on it back in 2007. I just spotted this new image on sequencer.de and thought I'd put a new post for anyone that might have missed it. You can find more info at the BroadWAVE Synthesizers site.

Below is the Modyssey "Blaze" and the Prodyssey ASB Controller. See the site for more.

Roland SYSTEM-100M

flickr by Nam2@7676

full size

Another circuit bent TR-505

YouTube via thenervoussquirrel
"This was made for Jay Merrifield of Glasstone Records. It's the same as the first one (see other video), but has a multicoloured LED!
www.nervoussquirrel.com"

Circuit bent Roland TR-505 drum machine

"This was a commission for Chris Wing (www.winganimation.com) who lives in San Francisco and writes cool dub tracks.

I have only used six patch combinations in the video, but there are literally thousands to explore.

The box has MIDI in and out, and a switch to route the drum machine's audio signal through a 'voice modulator' section, which has pitch and LFO controls.

Apologies for the inferior drum programming - I'm looking forward to hearing Chris do it justice!"