MATRIXSYNTH: Monday, December 28, 2020

Monday, December 28, 2020

KORG SQ-64 Video Manual - The Basics

Playlist:
SQ-64: The basics [Part 1] - (TURN on CC)
SQ-64: The basics [Part 2] - (TURN on CC)
SQ-64: The basics [Part 3] - (TURN on CC)

Phantom of the Paradise Model

via Space Leech

"I want this Phantom of the Paradise statue more than food.

SMH Magazine, Vol. 2, 1996."

And a clip from the film featuring Tonto:

phantom of the paradise - FAUST (robot) bloomis23

Roland MC-500 | The Magic of 80s MIDI Sequencing | Pt.1

Espen Kraft

"In 1986 Roland released the MC-500 Micro Composer. It soon ruled the world of MIDI sequencing. It was cheap, fast and rock solid.

Gear used in the video:
Roland CR-1000 drum machine, set to external sync, received from MIDI Out2 on the MC-500.
Crumar BIT01 for strings
Roland D-550 for the lead
Yamaha TX802 for synth bass
The Sequential Six-Trak is played live (over the top) in the demo track."

Novation Nova Desktop (Laptop) #3 Poly/Keys/Misc Demo #noTalking

Kosmokatze

"Last Video of my little Nova Desktop Demo series. Out of the Box, no EQ/FX!" Hope you enjoy and get a little inspired from this 90s machine."

Kosmokatze Novation Nova posts

Desert Rain

Baghead · Desert Rain

"All sounds from single tracked Easel sending two outs, one with 208 Toolbox switching between Easel MO and VCS3 card sounds at random all thru an H9 with Blackhole Centaurus preset, the other out went raw Easel to a Bastl Dark Matter Feedback that self oscillates at time.

Patch is in the image

Enjoy

Bastl Dark MAtterH9"

Love & Pride - Paul King (cover by Munatix), on Roland Jupiter 8 and Yamaha DX7

Munatix

Great cover (and some synth spotting) by supporting member, Munatix - https://munatix.com.

"Share with you our cover of Paul King's 'Love & Pride'.
It was a hit, back in 1985. We recorded a full cover version of it.
Ricky also pulled out again his guitar for this one.
For the synth enthusiasts among us;
In the video footage of Paul King's live performances we found on YouTube, it looks like a PPG wave synth was being used for the brass sound.
The PPG wave appears also in the video clip.
We would not immediately link a PPG Wave with that brass sound, so we are a little bit puzzled here.
Fill us in if you know more about it!
We did the brass sound on a Jupiter 8 here. To us, it is the signature sound of the Jupiter 8 we like the most; slow attack brass.
We did a 1 minute version for Instagram. Here on YouTube you can watch the full version. Enjoy!"

You can find additonal posts featuring Munatix here.

Roland Super Jupiter MKS-80 + Vocoded TR-808 (looped by Squarp Pyramid)

MR TUNA Music

"Using the MS2000 to vocode the drum sounds of the TR-808 over top of the beautiful vintage tones of the Roland MKS-80 Super Jupiter
Then maybe a cool Juno-106 lead. All sequenced by Squarp Pyramid"

ANTONUS ACTIVITY

JOSEF KLANG

"ANTONUS 2600 + STEP BROTHER SEQUENCER SONG DEMO , DAW CUBASE 10.5, EXTERNAL EFX: STRYMON BIG SKY -TIMELINE AND ZOOM MS 70 CDR."

Using X-RAYS to trig a modular synthesizer

Giorgio Sancristoforo

"In this video I demonstrate how to play a modular synth by generating X-Rays with a hand cranked Wimshurst machine."

International House of Baguettes - A Supercritical Neutron Flux Piece

Supercritical Synthesizers

"We’re working on the yellow and green bank of characters (which can be used for the user downloadable characters in the future) to be released as a firmware update. We’re creating characters that aren’t that classic/traditional or go really overboard. One of these ideas was this phaser-y character which can be used in stereo.

This character was inspired by Jean-Michel Jarre and his Eminent 310 sounds with the EHX Small Stone phaser. JMJ is one of our biggest heroes and a huge influence on the Supercritical sound.

The stereo control is heavily featured in this one. The zero point of the stereo control was moved in the middle in the later stages of development. Thankfully so! It can be used in many ways: tuning the oscillator cores, doing stereo tremolo stuff and here, doing this sweeping stereo phaser-like animation. In some characters we might make it do something very weird. Let’s see.

The pad is done with the DCO, the drums are 909 samples and the bass is from Logic Retro Synth. Of course we have to do some cheesy sidechaining because why not!

- Heikki | SC"

How many Synths to Crash an iPad? | haQ attaQ & Jakob Haq's Top 5 iOS Synthesizer Apps 2020

Jakob Haq

"There are so many different Synthesizer apps on the AppStore for us to choose from. However, some app synths are really heavy to run and require a lot of hardware resources like CPU and RAM in order to run properly. Newer iPads and iPhones can load a larger number of AUv3s while older iPads and iPhones can load less. So How many Synths does it take to Crash an iPad?"

My Top 5 iOS Synthesizer Apps 2020 | haQ attaQ

"Here are my Top 5 Synthesizer App picks from 2020. There have been a lot of good synth apps released for both iPhone and iPad this year, but these ones are most definitely my favourite ones. No doubts what so ever!"

ExperimentalSynth :: Ambient Live Stream Performance :: Christmas Eve 2020

experimentalsynth

"A late-night ambient set recorded after midnight on Xmas eve, so technically Xmas day. Instruments include (from right to left) Korg Minilogue XD, ASM Hydrasynth, Yamaha MO8 and Sequential Pro 3. Vocal sounds are recordings processed with the Borderlands app then run through the filter on a Moog Voyager. Learn more at experimentalsynth.com"

MB-6582 midibox sid - C64 - Shadowfire cover

X1L3

"Messing around with the MB6582 midibox sid (with a bit of help from a supersaw to fatten up the lead melody)...

Shadowfire. I LOVE this tune. It's got a kind of epic scifi story feel to it. True childhood escapism at the time when i was really into it. I found it quite hard to recreate, but keeping close to the 8bit version i think it ended up sounding pretty cool and quite faithful to the original.

Cheers to:
http://www.c64sets.com/index.html
For the great selection of box set art and inlays which i looked up to use in the video.

http://www.ucapps.de/midibox_sid.html
For making the fact that an MB-6582 exists a reality and something i was eventually able to build :)

Shout out to Fred Gray - the composer of the original C64 version."