MATRIXSYNTH: Thursday, May 12, 2011

Psychology Meets Synths - Rozzbox Creator Needs Your Help

Kilian Leonhardt, creator of the Rozzbox and Oddulator, wrote in asking if I could put a non related synth post up for him. He needs help for his thesis paper. I of course agreed as I'd like to help him out, and it actually is synth related from a historical perspective as it shares some of the interests behind one the makers of our synths.

"Currently, i'm writing my diploma thesis (after a whopping 10 years of not-so-hard studying psychology). For this, I need more than 200 participants from the United States aged between 18 und 40 years, that fill out my 15 minutes online-survey that is about mate-selection.

I'm searching for participants everywhere, but the response is incredibly small, and if I don't get my participants, my diploma is in danger - and my parents, having paid my studies, will probably kill me... ;)"

You can take the survey here: https://www.soscisurvey.de/ibswe/

Rare Omnichord OM-300 with MIDI

via this auction

SN 09418

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Korg Z1 Multi Oscillator Synthesizer

via this auction

"Included in the sale is a very hard to find sound expansion card that is fully loaded with new sounds/patches and Arp patches, it slots into the back of the board."

SN: 005461

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C.P.E. Bach: Solfeggietto (synthesized)

YouTube Uploaded by ScrollingMusic on May 12, 2011

"From WP:

Solfeggietto (H 220, Wq. 117: 2) is a short solo keyboard piece in C minor composed by C. P. E. Bach. Played at a tempo of Allegretto (Or Presto to Pretissimo, by some), it requires well-trained, dexterous fingers and much practice to be played well and at a consistent pace. The piece is not meant to be played at a fast, rushed pace, but more an even, quick pace. It contains changing C minor arpeggios and fast 16th notes. Some pianists use Solfeggietto to warm up their fingers for a performance.

This synthesized rendition was generated from a MIDI file by our Matlab synthesizer. For this piece, we used our "amvoice" instrument. Instead of generating a unique timbre through additive synthesis, like most of our instruments do, it generates sound through amplitude-modulation (AM) synthesis, multiplying fundamental sine waves instead of adding them. This allows a harmonic-rich tone to be created in a very efficient manner, with a run-time much faster than additive synthesis instruments of a comparable tone quality."

First glance of the Befaco mini-synth

via BEFACO

"Here's a picture any paparazzi would be proud to show ;-)

We won't be revealing more for the moment; but yes, that's right, it has 11 pots and 8 IC's! (BTW, if we made some adjustments to the picture's colour, it was only to make Jano's hand look a bit human.)"

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Roland TR808 [ drum loops ]

YouTube Uploaded by allanyamaha on May 12, 2011

"May 12th 2011"

Update:

Roland TR-808 [ drum loops ] 2

cosmic electric sector - Semimodular analog synth jam... mfos ultimate - doepfer dark time

YouTube Uploaded by tominioe on May 10, 2011

"A synth jam i did in april:
doepfer dark time is driving sequences to mfos ultimate + expander,
mfb 522 for the drums and arp axxe with a bit of delay dd7 for the synth lead....

I hope you enjoy it!!!!!!"

Phonogene 2

YouTube Uploaded by deengineered on May 11, 2011

F-Major explains slicing with Maschine

YouTube Uploaded by NativeInstruments on May 12, 2011

"Producer and artist Justin Myracks, aka F-Major, demonstrates the slicing capabilities of Maschine with some additional tips for former MPC users."

actOnePartThreeCroppedCompressed.avi

YouTube Uploaded by RothMobot on May 12, 2011

"Roth Mobot was asked to perform a few of their strategically improvised recursive jazz pieces at TRANSISTOR in Chicago as the opening act for Tim Kaiser's "Numbers Station Test Pressing Tour." A huge "thank you" to audience member, Bob, for recording the performance with his iPhone. The piece is broken up into three main sections."

Native Instruments - Absynth SoundScape ( VS)

YouTube Uploaded by ANTsynth on May 11, 2011

"Sound Design using Native Instruments Absynth."

Native Instruments - Absynth Sound Design (The Ditch)

Uploaded by ANTsynth on May 11, 2011

"Sound Design I did using Absynth's granular functions."