MATRIXSYNTH: Thursday, July 2, 2015


Thursday, July 02, 2015

Roland - Dr. Richard Boulanger Introduction to the SYSTEM-1m


Published on Jul 2, 2015 Roland U.S.

"Dr. Richard Boulanger of Berklee College of Music hands-on with the SYSTEM-1m by Roland.

http://www.roland.com/products/system..."

Playlist:
Dr. Richard Boulanger - Part 1: An Introduction to the SYSTEM-1m
Dr. Richard Boulanger - Part 2: SYSTEM-1m and PLUG-OUT
Dr. Richard Boulanger - Part 3: Utilizing SYSTEM-1m's CV/GATE connections
Dr. Richard Boulanger - Part 4: SYSTEM-1m integration with euroracks
Dr. Richard Boulanger - Part 5: Creating sounds with SYSTEM-1m and eurorack
Dr. Richard Boulanger - Part 6: Creating sounds with SYSTEM-1m and eurorack
Dr. Richard Boulanger - Part 7: Creating sounds with SYSTEM-1m and eurorack
Dr. Richard Boulanger - Part 8: Conclusion

Doepfer A163 VC Frequency Divider-Frequency Multiplication


Published on Jul 2, 2015 Raul's World of Synths

"Continuing the A163 series, this time we look at the A163 used with the A196 PLL-Phase Locked Loop module to create Frequency Multiplication..Sound and Video by Raul Pena."

FYRD INSTRUMENTS SQR MIDI DEMO


Published on Jul 2, 2015 Fyrd Instruments

"This is a first look at the new sequencer from Fyrd Instruments. It is plugged via MIDI to a computer. The video quality, the sound and the sync (audio/video) are not perfect but it gives you an idea of what the SQR is capable of. All the sounds (except the drum kick) are sequenced live using the SQR.

www.fyrd-instruments.com"

Oberheim OB-8 C50508

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"This has recently serviced, the contacts were resurfaced and are warrantied for three months out should any issues arise.

Page 2, MIDI, etc.

One voice is faulty, though, so technically an OB7."

DSI Prophet 08 Analog Synthesizer


via this auction

Apple Watch: First ever generative music piece made on Apple Watch?


Published on Jul 1, 2015 Intermorphic

"This generative music piece/composition was made with the Wotja Watch App (WWA) on Apple Watch paired with an iPhone running Wotja 2.

Wotja: http://intermorphic.com/wotja

Pete and I obviously made quite a few pieces whilst building/testing the first Wotja Watch App (it comes with Wotja 2.0), but this is somehow the first one I thought to create and then record to video. It's not an example of excellence per se, but more just a bit of fun to mark the start of the next chapter in what we hope is a long and exciting journey for Wotja.

How it was done:
On the Apple Watch I used Siri to enter the text into the WWA and I then changed some of the melodic composition settings, volumes and the tempo. I also tried different included players/backing to find what I felt worked well for this piece. I turned off all the Shuffle toggles and then pressed randomise to get a colour theme.

Once I was happy with my wotja, I hooked up my iPhone 5 and recorded it to video on my Mac. I even started/stopped the wotja and and tweaked the volumes in it with the WWA :).

Finally, using Wotja on my iPhone I emailed myself the file I made (just for posterity), and then emailed myself the Wotja Music URL. If you have Wotja or Wotja FREE you can visit it to play it.

Play it now: http://goo.gl/VQiyHE.

Note: The Wotja Music URL contain the melody that the text created, but not the text itself (had I used any emojis, though, they would have been included); to share something that included the text as well, you would need to share the file.

Our thanks
We thank our wives and families for their forbearance and support in allowing us to keep going on our generative journey that we first set out on in 1990 with SSEYO Koan. A lot of ground has been covered in those intervening 25 years, but it often feels like we have barely reached the foothills of those mountains in the distance we can see. We give special thanks to our good friends and fellow journeymen Timothy Didymus and Mark Harrop without whose help we would have given up long ago and also to our other collaborators, customers and friends throughout the years.

And, of course, we also thank you for listening... We hope that maybe you, too, will want to try creating your own, personal relaxing wotjas. They are fun and easy to make and easy to share!

Tim & Pete

Tim Cole: http://colartz.com"

via Palm Sounds

SEQUENTIAL PROPHET 5 3.2 + KENTON MIDI RETROFIT SN 1841

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via this auction

Includes custom Sequential Circuits branded dust cover.

STUDIO ELECTRONICS SE-1 SN 1334

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Live Set.20_CriMpOsO_ - Ant GM - Elektron Octatrack + Machinedrum


Published on Jul 2, 2015 Ant GM

"New"

Todd Barton to Perform on Buchla Music Easel with Bruce Bayard at Britt Festival, Jacksonville OR


Update: corrected the date from Friday, July 18 to Friday, July 17. Also this is in Jacksonville, not Medford.

MATRIXSYNTH Member, Todd Barton will be performing on the Buchla Music Easel with Bruce Bayard Friday, July 17, at the Britt Festival in Jacksonville Oregon.

"I'm really, really looking forward to performing with Bruce Bayard at the Britt Festival's
Performance Garden on Friday, July 17 at 8 pm.

Bruce and I have been exploring Buchla analog Music Easelss and quadraphonic surround sound now for over a year and this proves to be an exciting culmination of quadraphonic performances in this wonderful outdoor venue.

Hope you can make it!! Tickets (only $10) available here: http://www.brittfest.org/performances/quadraphonic

Come on down and enjoy new electronic music with Bruce and I along with some amazing video collages by Bruce.

all best wishes,
Todd"

Novation Supernova II 2 Pro-x 48 Voice Analog Modeling Synthesizer

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Novation // Launchkey feat. Gentry


Published on Jul 2, 2015 NovationTV
Re-Published on Aug 4, 2015 NovationTV

"We put our new Launchkey RGB in front of Gentry. Here's what he came up with.
We also interviewed him. Check it out: http://www.novationmusic.com/communit...

--
For more information on the Launchkey, please visit: http://www.novationmusic.com/keys/lau...
To catch up with Gentry, go to: http://www.soundcloud.com/thisisgentry"

Previous Jul 2 video description:
"We gave Gentry a new RGB Launchkey. Then he gave us this.

For more information on the Launchkey, please visit: http://www.novationmusic.com/

To catch up with Gentry, go to: http://www.soundcloud.com/thisisgentry"

Inside Novation: Launchpad Pro Interview with Olly Burke


Published on Jul 2, 2015 AskAudio Mag

"Novation Launchpad is one of the most iconic music controllers for Ableton Live and other hardware and software. We talked to the product manager of Novation, Olly Burke about how the Launchpad Pro was created, designed and the ideas behind it."

http://www.novationmusic.com/

LoopTree - A vocal and instrumental looper for iOS


Published on Jun 13, 2015 Coding Cod

"LoopTree is an exciting new breed of looper that brings more fun than ever to creating live music! Record and group practically unlimited vocal and instrumental loops using a powerful, layered interface that gives you unrivalled control over the music you create."

LoopTree Tutorial: Recording

Published on Jul 2, 2015

"In this video I go over normal, chained and layered recording and how to use them. I also look at the following settings:

• Enable overdub
• Perform action on touch up"



iTunes:LoopTree - Coding Cod Ltd

"INTRODUCTORY SALE PRICE UNTIL 20 July 2015

LoopTree is an exciting new breed of looper that brings more fun than ever to creating live music! Record and group practically unlimited vocal and instrumental loops using a powerful, layered interface that gives you unrivalled control over the music you create.

Get your creative juices flowing and evolve your loops using the built-in filter and multi-touch beat repeat.

http://www.looptreeapp.com/

LoopTree solves the problem of destructive merging by instead combining your loops into layers. You retain individual control over your original loops and you can also control them as one using the new layer.

Note: of course nothing’s truly unlimited, but we haven’t programmed any specific limit to the number of loops or layers you can have. If you keep adding loops, eventually you will start to hear audio glitches.

FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS

• Unlimited number of loops (practically!)
• Non-destructive layering
• Beat repeat - sample, repeat and reverse loops
• Filter - add variety with an LPF, BPF and HPF

RECORDING

• Normal recording - fixed or multiple length loops
• Chained recording - select multiple tracks to record loops back-to-back
• Layered recording - equivalent of non-destructive overdubbing

LOOP LENGTH

Within a session, all loops are a 2^n multiple of the shortest loop (2x, 4x, 8x, etc). This makes it really easy to set the loop length whilst recording.

EASY TO USE

• One-finger volume/pan control on individual or simultaneous loops
• Group control - group tracks into layers; parent tracks control all layers of child tracks.
• MIDI Control
• Quantize options
• Metronome - create custom accented rhythms

SHARING AND IMPORT

• Support for IAA, AudioBus and AudioCopy/Paste
• Share sessions and recordings via email, iTunes and SoundCloud

AUDIO INTERFACES

LoopTree works well with headphones, but for truly outstanding quality, we recommend using a USB audio interface. We have tested the following interfaces:

• Behringer UCA222 and 202
• Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 (includes MIDI)"

New FYRD Instruments SQR Analog & MIDI Sequencer


via FYRD Instruments:

"The SQR sequencer is our entry in the modular world. This 4-channels desktop sequencer is very adaptable: you can use it with MIDI gears or modular rigs, you can play it like a classical 16-steps sequencer or go crazy and use the probabilistic approach on top of an innovative stage behavior sequencer, you can sequence on 4 monophonic channels or easily compose a 4 voices polyphonic exotic chord, you can sync it with MIDI or an external clock signal from your modular rig or use its internal clock, to name a few.

Apart from its powerful features, the greatest strength of the SQR is its ability to help you visualize what you are doing. Its big and easy-to-read led display can show you every variations in your sequence, from individual gate lengths to pitches and octaves, from individual slide lengths to chord names or step probabilities. Everything is clear and hands-on: you have direct access to all the essentials parameters and you can visualize everything instantly.

Very similar to the MTRX in design, the SQR is made from top quality components at each stage. From the beautiful enclosure to the Digital-To-Analog converter, each component has been choosen carefully to offer the best possible experience to the user. And we are very proud of the result!


First 50 units will be available by the end of August. The firsts 50 units will be selled at 499€ (incl. VAT), the next will be selled at 599€.

Shipping is 10€ for France, 30€ for Europe, 40€ for USA/Canada and 50€ for others countries.

Specifications

16-steps with individual control of pitch, octave, gate length, gate probability, slide length and stage behavior

4x CV/Gate channels with mono- or polyphonic control (chords)

16-stages behavior sequencer: for each stage you can either play it normally or skip it, stay blocked on it for up to 16 steps, create a tril (up to 8 notes per step) or jump to any other step of your choosing

selectable shapes for the slide between two notes (exponential, linear, ...)

selectable scale for pitches and chords

selectable CV offset per channel

for each channel: loop-in/loop-out, warp mode (forward, backward, ping-pong), step duration (1/32th to 2 bars)

3x sync modes: internal (with or without MIDI clocks out), external clock (for modular rigs) and MIDI

selectable clock divider for all sync modes, both for input and output clocks

Tony Rolando's Make Noise Presentation at Spiegelsalon Berlin Schneidersbuero, Spring 2015

make noise from Andreas Schneider on Vimeo.

Restored Moog Minimoog Analog Synth with African Makore Hardwood

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"You are bidding on a 1974 Moog Minimoog that has been extensively restored. This has been a long term project for me, and while it now works perfectly and looks beautiful, it really should be in a hands of a musician playing it every day, rather than a tinkerer like me. The work that has been done to this synth includes:

A brand new wooden cabinet made from African Makore hardood (this alone was worth 450 dollars).
All electrolytic capacitors have been replaced with high quality modern ones (with higher temperature ratings in many cases).
The 5 open type potentiometers have been replaced with closed higher quality clarostat pots. (this includes both volume pots).
The keyboard has brand new plastic caps (that's right, identical modern reproductions, so no cracked or scratched keys). The keyboard has also been leveled, all bushings replaced, and every key lubed with the same stuff they used in the 70s (what can I say, I'm a stickler for detail).
The Vinyl cover and the stickers have been replaced with modern precision replicas. • All the knobs have been replaced with identical brand new reproductions. (I'm told they were made by the same factory). These are shiny and new.
The tuning trimmers on the oscillator board have been changed from wirewound, to modern multi turn high precision trimmers. The downside is that you can no longer tune the oscillators with a screwdriver through the back. You have to take the cover off. The upside is that you probably won't have to, they keep in tune quite well.
The pitch bend pot has been replaced, the center notch adjusted to feel more obvious. The modulation wheel has been tuned to be dead zero when it's down. Previously it wasn't.
Brand new overload lamp, so you can overload to your heart's content.
Brand new hardware such as screws, washers, nuts etc.
Tuned and calibrated, as you would expect."

Roland MKS-80 Super Jupiter SN 552909

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"Classic analog Roland technology in its filters, modulation capabilities and a thick cluster of 16 analog oscillators at 2 per voice. Includes an M64-C memory cartridge. It's got all the classic sounds of the Jupiter synths and so much more. An excellent choice for ambient drones, pads, blips, buzzes and leads."

1978 ARP Avatar Harvey Mandel Guitar Synthesizer Print Ad

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OBERHEIM OB-8 T-Shirt by CustomSynth.co.uk


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Demo - Ladik D-333 ROM Player - Roland CR78 Drum Samples


Published on Jul 2, 2015 isvisible / isinvisible

"Here's a demo of the Ladik D-333 ROM Player.
The one on the left is loaded with the 020-Roland1 (CR78) Soundbank IC, and the other with the 009-Percussion1 Soundbank IC.

Modulation for both units provided by a Livewire 'Chaos Computer', but also sounds great being modulated by LFO's.

Other sound sources later in the video are from:
Ladik - D010 Twin-T Drums
Neutron Sound - Orgone Accumulator
Mutable Instrument - Elements

Triggers are provided by:
ALM - Pamela's Workout
Delptronics - Triggerman
TipTop - Trigger Riot

Filtering and other things provided by Sir Dieter Doepfer.

For more info on the Ladik D-333 and lots more, visit www.ladik.eu

www.isvisible.co.uk - melodic
www.isinvisible.co.uk - less melodic"

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Published on Jul 2, 2015 Chris Montanaro

"Having some fun with the help of Doepfer sequencers." & KORG Mono/Poly

1986 CASIO News Ad


via synthmuseum.de

04-Korg ARP Odyssey: Sample & Hold Mixer


Published on Jul 2, 2015 AutomaticGainsay

"Here is a demonstration of the sound and functionality of the versatile Sample and Hold Mixer on the Korg ARP Odyssey.

There will be pizza waiting for you in heaven if you contribute to Automatic Gainsay.
http://www.patreon.com/automaticgainsay"

All parts here.

Moog MG-1 Demo w/ Pulse Width and Feedback Modifications


Published on Jul 2, 2015 fishjaco
Update: Re-Published on Jul 3, 2015

"WATCH YOUR VOLUME!! There are some major volume fluctuations as a consequence of the feedback mod. Don't blow up you ears or speakers.

Here's a demo of my latest modified MG-1. I'm happy with the mods but not so happy with the video. Premiere is just too complicated for me. However I did record and export the synth track in 24 bit 94k. Not sure what Youtube will do to it.

My most obvious goof is when I asserted that tuning a self oscillating filter to a low d sharp would "sound good playing in the key of d sharp". Then I play a note and FAAAARRRTTT. Oh well.

Anyway, you'll get the picture from this 20 min jam.

No fx. Synth audio straight into my Emu 1616m at 24/96. Video is 720p through a canon g12. Not sure what the ambient audio is; probably 16/48. Who cares.

I know, I'm no Vangelis, but at least you get an idea of what this synth is like with pulse width and feedback mods.

Hope this is of some use to you.

Thanks for watching."

POLYGAMIST LOVE 12


Published on Jul 2, 2015 Smokey Quartz

"In this video, the Ekdahl Polygamist gets some more love while being sat on by Oaxacan carvings. We also take a stroll through the Self Realization Meditation Gardens in Encinitas. Self-realization through synthesis? Maybe.

This deviates from the other Polygamist Love videos in that it has beats, provided by the Metasonix D-1000 and a Noise Engineering Basimilus Iteritas module."
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