MATRIXSYNTH: 4/1/10

Hello, Drone Commander

YouTube via tablaninja — April 30, 2010 — "The hypnotic sounds of the Grendel Drone Commander accompanied by a dancing broach from Spain as seen through the eyes of a kaleidoscope."

it's raining outside, and i'm bored

flickr by the lowest fidelity!

"Canon g10 / green gel flash / 5 second exposure"

KORG Prophecy

flickr by Analogue Haven

"Beautiful photo of a nearly full Monorocket Lexington by Monsturo. Nice selection of modules from a variety of manufacturers. Lots of oscillators, multiple filters and several sequencers for control. The Harvestman Stilton Adaptor is used for integrating external effects. LINK: www.myspace.com/monsturo."

Make Noise: René

flickr by Analogue Haven

"Nice photo of the Make Noise René. Photo taken by Kent at our NAMM 2010 booth. Make Noise is finishing up the René and we're hoping for a summer release. We'll update our website when we have further info. LINK."

Yamaha MCD64 memory card

via this auction

"MCD64 memory card for the Yamaha SY series, it comes with a box."

SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS PROPHET-5 SYNTH VER 3.2

via this auction

FutureRetro Revolution mk2 Demo (Pattern Mode)

YouTube via stealthgear — April 30, 2010 — "Here I show you the features and sounds in pattern mode, first playing the intro to After Forever's "Follow in the Cry". All sound is coming from this machine, including FX (center) and distortion (switch on the back). The future retro lets you chain & loop up to 16 patterns while still playing in pattern mode! (hold down first pattern then push the ending pattern) It also has song sequencing mode, which I didn't go into.

Overall I really like this machine and I think its cooler than the x0xb0x."

Kyle Evans - Synchronization/Pixilation - Electronically Modified Didgeridoo + Realtime Video

YouTube via yakthekyle — April 30, 2010 — "Kyle Evans - Synchronization/Pixilation
Electronic Didgeridoo and Realtime Video Processing
Documentation of a new system I am perusing which utilizes my Electronically Modified Didgeridoo with realtime video manipulation by means of audio reactivity and custom interfacing.
More info on the system + stills: http://yaktronix.blogspot.com/2010/04...

http://yaktronix.com/"

APC20 Quicklook Video Part One

YouTube via AkaiProVideo — April 30, 2010 — "This first of four videos for APC20 covers the Grid, Navigation, Pan/Shift and Stop Clip. The remaining videos will be made available one per week between May 5 and May 28, 2010."

Drum N' Bass Jungle MuffWiggler April 2010

YouTube via MrRitchieDrums — April 30, 2010 — "Song created for the April Challenge on the MuffWiggler Website. Drumbeat was played with Native Instruments BATTERY 3. All other sounds produced by the Modular Synthesizer"

"Tags: MuffWiggler bass drum dance acid moog Drumbeat Synthesizer.com MOTM doepfer audio filter drums kat Trapkat drumkat MIDI Bass and Drum Native Instruments BATTERY Modular Synthesizer synth analogue analog digital percussion fast groove house remix"

RIP Walter Sear

photo by adriana trujillo via ZU33

We lost another synth pioneer. Walter Sear passed away yesterday. He was currently running Sear Sound NYC. Some synth related snips via Wikipedia:

"Walter E. Sear (1930-2010) was an American recording engineer, instrument importer, instrument designer, inventor, composer, tuba player, movie producer, synthesizer pioneer, and vintage recording equipment guru. Since 1970 he ran the legendary Sear Sound recording studio in New York City, which is known for its vast collection of vintage analog recording gear and is patronized by bands such as Sonic Youth, Steely Dan, Wynton Marsalis, and Paul McCartney...

Sear started out his long and varied career as a classical tuba player. After 4 years at the Curtis Institute of Music, he landed a job as principal tuba of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He later was a freelancer in New York City, playing for 6 years with the Radio City Music Hall pit orchestra as well as The Symphony of the Air, The Goldman Band, Sound of Music and numerous commercial studio dates...

In the late 50's he became friendly with Robert Moog after buying parts from him for a homemade Theremin. In the early 60's, Sear used his music industry connections to become Moog's sales agent and business partner. He encouraged Moog to make his synths more practical, eventually leading, in the late 60's, to the development of portable synthesizers which could be used in live performance. Sear also became known as a performer and composer on the Moog synthesizer for various movie soundtracks including Midnight Cowboy...

He built his first recording studio in 1964 as one of the first commercial electronic music studios. Sear Sound is the oldest recording studio in New York City, and boasts over 285 vintage and contemporary microphones, four rebuilt Studer recorders used by the Beatles at Abbey Road, and one of the earliest Moog synthesizers, built by Sear with Moog[2][3]."

Yellow Magic Orchestra

flickr by Neil Vance

Moog and Emu modulars.

Аэлита (AELITA) & ЭЛЕКТРОНИКА ЭМ-25 (ELEKTRONIKA EM25) JAMMIN

YouTube via Funkonami1 — April 30, 2010 — "A Lil Jammin with Aelita and elektronika em 25
Phaser Effect : Alesis Multimix x6 Console
Song : Afrika Bambaataa - Bambaataa's Theme

Check the dope bass"

Dr. Dre with his MPC

YouTube via AkaiProVideo — April 30, 2010 — "This Coors Light TV commercial shows one of the biggest names in music using the MPC. http://www.akaipro.com/mpc"

Omnimatrix

YouTube via FSK1138 — February 16, 2010 — "omnimatrix

Korg legacy ms20 mapped to
Native Instruments Reaktor 5 running Newscool.ens

novation remote 37 sl auto-mapped to
Flstudio9 with Atomic vst synth
Audio Damage Automaton FX

and of course the omnimatrix :)"

Korg Monotron PRO?

YouTube via FSK1138 — March 26, 2010 — "want to see the Monotron PRO
FF to 01:53 :)

coming soon....
advanced info
step seq and cv
sound import via usb 16GIG MICRO SD

good shot of the monotron here

Casio pt10 modded with audio out
sonouus G2m universial guitar to midi converter

audio out tirggers midi !!

playing around with korg ms20(lc) and monopoly(lc)

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index..."

Korg Wavestation + Roland JD-800 "Nebula"

YouTube via retrosound72 — April 29, 2010 —

"vintage synth demo track by RetroSound

'Nebula theme'
Inspired by the cosmos tv series by C.Sagan

voices , vector sounds and wave sequence pads: Korg Wavestation
bells, pads and other digital sounds: Roland JD-800
(no overdubbing, no sequencer used)"