MATRIXSYNTH: Thursday, April 28, 2011

Thursday, April 28, 2011

First Box Shot of the Roland Jupiter-80

1974 EMS Synthi 100

via Rick

"it's availabe for use .. rates are good. www.oticsound.com"

Roland D-50 Linear Synthesizer

via this auction

"Comes with Manual, Memory Card and Sustain Pedal.
Has 16 Polyphonic voices.
Can store 64 patches.
MIDI compatible."

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Metasonix R51 Distortion

via this auction

"Metasonix tube vca/distortion"

YouTube Uploaded by 7thDanSound on Apr 28, 2011

"I wanted to see if I could make a decent brass imitation with the 258v but had no luck. So I tried the 259e instead and had a lot of fun! The melody is borrowed from Kraftwerk and I had help from RZ-1 with it, so thanks goes to him. I use two channels of the 292e to be able to control the filtering a bit better."

KORG WAVEDRUM Mini [Sensor Clip]

YouTube Uploaded by KORGINC on Apr 28, 2011

"あのWAVEDRUMがコンパクトになった！電池駆動、スピーカー内蔵、新発想のセンサー内蔵クリップにより、さらに躍動するWAVEDRUM Mini新登場。"

Googlish:
"That was a compact WAVEDRUM! Battery-powered, built-in speaker, built-in clip allows sensor new concept, the more vibrant Introducing WAVEDRUM Mini."

circuit bent synth optical theremin by dr moonstien fingerbeat ultra

YouTube Uploaded by drmoonstien on Apr 28, 2011

drmoonstein on eBay

The Algorütmid Hardware AH-1

via algorütmid

"This was an usual cheap piano for kids but it had 4 drum pads and oppurtunity to record your play for few seconds. So i bent it, to make it sound juicier I added zoom r16 effects. Sad thing is that when my band mate started to connect it with Machinedrum it sliped from fingers and cracked... Samples are arranged in Renoise 2.7beta, but nothing more than arranged."

"PS. AH stands for Algorütmid Hardware"

::vtol:: Decimal DIY drum machine

::vtol:: Decimal DIY drum machine (DEMO 1) from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

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the Organ Dronor

YouTube Uploaded by JvGrieken on Apr 28, 2011

"This project has been a long time coming, but the first prototype is finally done. Still some minor changes to be made, mainly around the filter and a CV input for the filter. Im currently developing a kit, contact me if you're interested.
-2 triangle oscillators with fine tune knob for those tearing slow drones.
-2 triangle LFO's with interchangable capacitors to set the range.
-LFO amount for both sides
-LED reflector rate indicators
-custom filter with resonance control
-on/off and volume

sorry for the bad video quality, my camera is old and doesn't like low lighting conditions. The audio was recorded raw into ableton live directly from the output without any filtering or effects."

Playing with it self

YouTube Uploaded by jenamu6 on Apr 28, 2011

"Self playing patch, driven by KLEE and Wogglebug.
FX Deluxe memory boy and memoryman hazarai.
Macbeth M5 and eurorack playing nice."

Susan Rom - Little Intermezzo (Demo)

YouTube Uploaded by susarom on Apr 28, 2011

"Music: Susan Rom (Short Demo)

Instruments:
Roland JV-1080
Marvin VST - TromineGT
Tube Ohm - Anti Tanspirant
Reaktor 5 - Carbon
Elektrostudio - Micromoon
inclusive Skype Blop by Marko Ettlich - RetroSound ( sec. 0:09 ) ;D"

O-Generator - Clocks - Coldplay

YouTube Uploaded by ogenerator on Apr 28, 2011

"O-Generator Music Maker is an App that can be used as a musical sketchpad to compose, learn, create and develop ideas in different styles whatever your musical level.

O-Generator's simple interface achieves sophisticated results. You can create and combine chords, choose individual notes and develop unique rhythmic patterns for your music compositions using an array of real instruments from drumkits to guitars. The beauty about O-Generator is that YOU compose the music.

http://www.o-generator.com"

O-Generator Acoustic Music Maker - O-Music Ltd
iPads on eBay

Circuit Bent Speak & Math With MIDI + Korg Electribe AE1

YouTube Uploaded by JorgeCortez01 on Nov 24, 2008

"A MIDIspeak Speak & Math being used as an electronic percussion module being triggered by the Korg Electribe AE1"

via this auction
"MIDISpeak version 2 from highlyliquid (check their site for sound samples!)
Use MIDI notes to trigger words, word fragments, garbled speech, percussion and bizarre sound effects
Trigger sounds in a controlled, repeatable manner
Select several "banks" of sounds by moving the MOD wheel on your controller, also responds to othercontrollers
can be used as a regular toy when not plug it to MIDI

comes with battery compartment lid
some scratches on the surface as expected from a kid's toy
works with 4 C batteries (not included)"

Korg M3 88 Synthesizer / Workstation ~XPanded~

via this auction

Click on these for the larger shots.

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Akai S612 Sampler MD280 QD Drive, w/ Disks!!!

via this auction
"Akai S612 rack mount sampler, with MD280 QD disk drive, 11 Roland "Quick Disks" and printed manual... Interesting features of these units are the manual start/splice sliders for some interesting triggered effects, on-board LFO, a light filter, and looping effect. These 12-bit samplers were among the first digital samplers on the scene in the early 80's, and while don't have a large capacity or complicated sound reproduction, lo-fi or general phrase sampling is extremely easy to record and play back. Roland Quick Disks I have provided have Roland sound samples which are not readable by the unit, however, a small piece of tape over the square holes in the corners will allow you to record your own samples to disk with no problems. Quick disks are HARD to find, these were all that were available for a while."

Double Andore

YouTube Uploaded by henrikbjorkk on Apr 28, 2011

"Just plugged it in... Shit. This is deep."

Update:

Double Andore 2

Uploaded by henrikbjorkk on Apr 28, 2011

"More random wierdness and fun"

Double Andore 3

Uploaded by henrikbjorkk on Apr 28, 2011

SLABS: Arrays of Pressure Sensitive Touch Pads

This is a follow-up to the previous post. See that post for some events where you can check out SLABs in person.

Some info via UC Berkeley's Center for New Music & Audio Technologies:

"Goal
Arrays of pressure sensitive touch pads provide musicians with an expressive interface that can be mapped by software to behave in a variety of ways. The SLAB was designed to engage the body, to be both musically expressive and inspiring, to be easy to play at the entry level, and to be accepting of a lifelong development of virtuosity. Instead of discrete triggering mechanisms to start and stop musical events we chose continuous signal representations as the basis for the instrument. We chose Ethernet for I/O and wrote specialized Core Audio compatible drivers for OSX allowing us to send gesture data as audio data. As a consequence, gestures are tightly coupled to the sound.

One SLAB contains 24 touch pads and another has 32. We chose Interlinks’s VersaPad because of its pressure output. The x, y, and pressure of each pad is sent at 44.1 kHertz. On the SLABS32 there are 96 channels. Core Audio and Max/MSP handle this number of channels with ease using only a small percentage of the CPU. The data from the pad sensors is assembled in a Xilinx FPGA which also provides for an audio return path and connections to MIDI (Input Only) and Light Pipe. The SLABS use the Open Sound Control (OSC) protocol for programming a small display and two LED’s associated with each pad. OSC is sent to the host computer from the selector switches at the top of each column of pads."

Be sure to see UC Berkeley's Center for New Music & Audio Technologies for additional details and video.

Roger Linn Events Featuring Eigenharp, Haken & SLABS

This in via Eigenharp:

"I'm writing to let you know about four events We will be attending in the San Francisco area from May 5th through 9th, Hosted by Roger Linn of Linn drum fame. We will be presenting the Eigenharps along with other revolutionary electronic instruments:

1) The Eigenharp, demonstrated by Geert Bevin, Senior Software Developer from UK-based Eigenlabs.

2) The Continuum from Haken Audio, demonstrated by bay area pianist Ed Goldfarb.

3) SLABS, a new instrument designed by David Wessel, director of Cal Berkeley's CNMAT computer music department.

4) The LinnStrument prototype by Roger Linn [see this video presentation of Roger Linn and this post announcing the Linnstrument back on May 15 of 2010.]

One thing that makes these instruments so uniquely expressive is their ability to sense the precise movements of each finger in 3-dimensional space (for example, pressure for note expression, left/right for pitch, and forward/backward for timbre), and to do that for all fingers simultaneously. But each instrument also presents many other innovative ideas and improvements over the limitations of traditional mechanical-age instruments.

Here are the events:
Thursday, May 5 from 7 to 9 p.m.
Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Audio (CCRMA)
660 Lomita Dr. Stanford, CA 94305
Directions: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/about/directions
At this event, the Eigenharp, Continuum and LinnStrument will be demonstrated and discussed.

Friday, May 6 from 7 to 9 p.m.
University of California Berkeley's Center For New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT)
1750 Arch Street, Berkeley, CA 94709
http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/
At this event, the Eigenharp. SLABS and LinnStrument will be demonstrated and discussed.

Saturday, May 7 from 2 to 4 p.m.
Guitar Center San Francisco, Pro Audio Department
1645 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94109
At this event, the Eigenharp and LinnStrument will be demonstrated and discussed.

Monday, May 9 from 4:45 to 5:45 p.m.
SF Music Tech Conference
Hotel Kabuki, 1625 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94115
At this event, the Eigenharp, Continuum and LinnStrument will be demonstrated and discussed.
Note: Conference entry fee is required--see www.sfmusictech.com

Please join us to see, learn about--and even try out for yourself--these radical new instruments that are changing the way music is made. Please note that these instruments are not otherwise available in the bay area to see or try out."

Haken Continuum Industrial Stand

"The Continuum Stand holds the Continuum Fingerboard in an completely stable fashion, allowing for the user's playing techniques to transfer directly to the playing surface without a traditional stand's unwanted lateral and vertical movements."

via Haken

1983 Emu Emulator Ad

via Retro Synth Ads where you'll find the write-up.

Five G Moog TAURUS RACK

via Five G

via pokmijn

"It is the one that MOOG TAURUS was rackmounted with FiveG.JAPAN ON/OFF of the note and the pipe bend and ON/OFF of the MOD wheel and GLIDE can be controlled with MIDI."