MATRIXSYNTH: Friday, April 2, 2010

Yamaha CS60 Chips

via these auctions

YAMAHA CS-60 key decoder and key assigner chip YM266

YAMAHA CS-60 digital to analog converter chip YM267

"keyboard circuit[s] in the CS-50/60/80 synthesizers."

YouTube via hyperdust7 — April 02, 2010 — "Bach 2 part invention No. 15, played on Minimoog Old School and Little Phatty. Very excited about my new Minimoog - it is much more beautiful than the proper voyager."

Bach 2 Part Invention No. 13

"hyperdust7 — April 02, 2010 — Bach 2 Part Invention No. 13 played on my new Minimoog Old School. It is the most beautiful synth I have ever had. I have it going through an Electroharmonic echo pedal - Memory Boy."

On/Off/In/Out (Clavia Nord Modular G1)

YouTube via GruithuisenCityMan — April 02, 2010 — "Hello ! My name is Frederic Gerchambeau. I have made this movie and this music. The music has been made entirely with a Clavia Nord Modular G1 in one take (all sounds, sequences and rythms programmed by myself) and has been a little bit edited with Audacity (very short stereo delay added) . The virtual images have been created with Gephex. Enjoy !"

1Song1Week1Year - Week14 - 2nd Q

YouTube via DJDJSMusic — April 02, 2010 — "Starting the second quarter of 2010 with a dance track!
For all my talk of samples and drum loops last week I have used only the Tenori-On's pre-set sounds for this week's song. But I still think this is one of my better songs - Say I modestly :)

Let me know what you think.

Downlow "Hi-Quality" Sound from: http://djdjs.bandcamp.com/track/2nd-q"

Arduino Bass synth with additional controls.

YouTube via neutron7 — April 02, 2010 — "New controls and modulators have been added.
Now there are 2 envelopes, LFO, random, and velocity modulators for the filter and the wavetable position and sync pitch.
This only has 32K of wavetables, instead of 256.
MIDI controls are temporary, it will have pots for everything."

John Steed plays the Stylophone

YouTube via cosmocorps2000 — April 02, 2010 — "John Steed (Patrick Macnee) plays the toy instrument Stylophone from Dübreq.

Episode THE LAST OF THE CYBERNAUTS...? from The New Avengers (1976)."

Circuit Bent Music

YouTube via ultimatenerd22 — March 26, 2010 — circuit bent alarm clock improvisation

before the wall of sleep part 1.mpg

YouTube via vonhaulshoven — April 02, 2010 — "guaranteed no overdubs or playback !!!!
improvising with my "before the wall of sleep" sequence"
synth spotting via the forum

Oberheim Polyphonic Programmer

flickr von Switched On Austin
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inside an Oberheim Polyphonic Programmer

LES ROCKETS-SOME OTHER SPACE SOME OTHER TIME

YouTube via MassimoM23 — March 13, 2008 — "LES ROCKETS-SOME OTHER SPACE SOME OTHER TIME"

ROCKETS: RADIO STATION

YouTube via MassimoM23 — March 12, 2008 — ROCKETS: RADIO STATION 1982

KISS meets Blue Man Group with synths.

Smule Magic Piano for the iPad

"Inspired by the world-renowned pianist Lang Lang, Magic Piano was conceived and designed exclusively for the iPad by Smule, creators of Ocarina, Leaf Trombone, and I Am T-Pain.

Play timeless pieces on spiral and circular keyboards, or follow beams of light – mastery requires only imagination.

Play alone, or travel through a warp hole and duet with other Magic Pianists across the world.

Available exclusively on the iPad. Limited sale of $2.99 (expires on Mozart's birthday).

Smule’s newest app is a playful whimsical musical experience designed to delight iPad users. Impress your friends with how quickly you’ve mastered “Flight of the Bumblebee” and “Fur Elise”, or just amuse yourself playing “Heart and Soul”. You get to determine what your keyboard looks like – if a standard piano has too many keys, you can reduce the number to what works for you. And why does the keyboard have to be a straight line, when a circle is much more fun?

You can play preloaded songs by following beams of light – and set the difficulty level depending on your Magic Piano expertise or your mood. Want to just practice timing without working about key position? Go for it. If you want a slightly more traditional experience, you can set the Piano to respond to your hand placement. And if you’re tired of playing alone, you can venture into the world.

Travel around the Smule Globe to find other Piano users. Simply select “duet mode” and Magic Piano will create warp holes, and connect you with Pianists. You can play back and forth for a bit, and then the roulette wheel will spin again and you’ll meet another new person. If you want to stay connected to a single individual, just say so, and you can play back and forth to your heart’s content. And if you’d rather just listen into other player’s duets, you can do that too."

It looks like the third app in the video in this post was the Magic Piano after all.

Magic Piano on iTunes

EML Electrocomp 100 and 200

See this post for the latest on the debate as to which came first. If you have any more info please chime in that post or shoot me an email.

Waldorf Midi-Bay MB15 - 15INS 15OUTS Programmable

via this auction
"VERY RARE WALDORF MIDI PATCHBAY, in mint condition, fully working. MANUAL AVAILABLE HERE FOR DOWNLOAD: http://faq.waldorfian.info/ files/ Midibay_Manual.pdf"

Roland Juno-60 Pics and Samples

You'll find them on The Mesmers

Also see and compare to the MKS-50 previously posted here.

Peavey Spectrum Analog Filter

via this auction

"this unit features a 24db. 4 pole analog voltage controlled filter, amplifier each with envelope generator for processing any input, such as synths, guitar, bass, and anything else you can think off. it can be triggered from MIDI, or audio trigged. it has 3 inputs, a voltage controlled filter, voltage controlled amp, and velocity sensitivity. there are jacks for inputs, CV pedal input, MIDI in/out/thru, and power. envelope generator can be set to single trigger, or multi trigger(retriggers every time you strike another key even if you're already holding one down.) all of this comes in a one rack space unit."

close up der Woche #14/10 -Club of the Knobs

via Aliens Project

GUS GUS - Believe ( Best Version Ever, Great Performance, Unforgettable)

YouTube via Dexbam — January 20, 2008 —
"A Great Live-Performance from GUS GUS. This is Cult! .... i write not more....Listen and you understand... These are the real one's, the electro-gods from iceland :p"
Some synth spotting. I think that's a Yamaha CS in the background.

Roland Mailbox spotted in SoCal

flickr by Aud1073cH

Sent in via Aud1073cH:
"I spotted this while driving to my friend's house in SoCal. I was relieved to see that it was a Roland MIDI controller, not a synth, that was gutted to become a mailbox post."

OSC Oscar Synthesizer

via this auction

Korg MS20 MS-20 Analog Synthesizer

via this auction

Oberheim SEM Analog Synthesizer

via this auction

"Cosmetics aside this is one of the best analog synths ever made, it DOES sound better than the new SEM. I've owned the new SEM and greatly prefer the old one over the new (the new is still really good though) but nothing quite the original. The original sounds more liquidy and warm, it has a buzzier bubblier sounding filter and the oscillators drift more."

JUNOST-21 - soviet guitar-like poly synth

via this auction

samples at the auciton and http://ruskeys.net/

"Here description from the "A-Z of Analogue Synthesizers" book by Peter Forrest:
JUNOST'21: Polyphonic 48-note (F-E) strap-on velocity-sensitive synth with mod grip.
- Fairly unique, since most synths of this type are mainly monophonic.
- The mod grip has volume and pitch-bend wheels, and unison/chorus switch.

- Sliders on the main synth body for LFO depth, speed, delay, routing to filter or VCO. VCF and VCA each with AD envelope.
- Presets: three banks of four. Two-digit LED. Din connectors for mains and audio out. External PSU; very long lead. The keyboard itself weighs 6.5 kg."

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Oberheim OB-1

via this auction

"The OB-1 is a simple and great monophonic synth from Oberheim based on the same synth architecture as the SEM. Released in 1978, it was the first truly programmable analog synth of it's time with 8 program memories. Classic and fat sounding bass & lead synth sounds. It has two analog oscillators and a very capable 2 or 4 pole switchable VCF filter that sounds great, and a good LFO that can control the VCA or VCF."