Custom Wood Case for the Hyve Touch Synthesizer

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Hyve Touch Synthesizer Workshop Pics

A photo montage from the recent Hyve Touch Synthesizer Workshop with Skot Wiedmann last Saturday in Urbana, IL. Click on the pic for the full size shot.

According to Skot: "The workshop was a huge success! Everyone had a wonderful time and got their synthesizer working to take home. Thanks so much for getting the word out! I know of a couple people who came after seeing it on Matrixsynth."

Very cool!

Hyve Touch Synthesizer Workshop with Skot Wiedmann this Saturday

Just a reminder, the Hyve Touch Synthesizer Workshop with Skot Wiedmann (announced here, video here) is this Thursday. Full details here.

The Hyve is Scot Wiedmann's latest creation. He was the man behind the amazing star shaped modular featured at the 2009 NAMM show and Motus Mavis.

The workshop is this coming Saturday April 4 at 2pm, at the Independent Media Center (where the Makerspace and other cool community organizations are). The address is 202 S Broadway Ave, Urbana, IL 61801.

Hyve Touch Synthesizer Demo

IEEE-UIUC Hyve Synthesizer Demonstration Published on Mar 15, 2015

There's a workshop coming up on April 2 at the University of Illinois where you can build your own Hyve. Details here (previously posted here). The Hyve is Scok Wiedmann's latest creation. He was the man behind the amazing star shaped modular featured at the 2009 NAMM show and Motus Mavis.

"This video is a demo of the Hyve Synthesizer, a really cool audio electronic project developed (and explained) by Skot Wiedmann."

Hyve Touch Synthesizer Workshop with Skot Wiedmann

"April 4, 2015 - Urbana, IL

Build your own polyphonic analog synthesizer with a multi touch interface. No experience necessary, open to everyone. At 2pm makers, musicians, artists, and students will be guided through an introduction into circuitry and will be making music on their very own touch synthesizer a couple hours later. The instrument is a 60 note polyphonic analog synthesizer. The multi touch interface senses your fingers position on each key and how hard you are pressing for fun finger wiggling playing. Cost: $40. Sign up at tiny.cc/HYVE"

The Hyve is Scot Wiedmann's latest creation. He was the man behind the amazing star shaped modular featured at the 2009 NAMM show and Motus Mavis.

Improvisation on the Motus Mavis Star Shaped Modular from 2009

Vimeo by Skot Wiedmann


Via New Musical Instruments Battle for $10K in Prizes on Wired
Note this is from 2009. See the Motus Mavis label below for more.

"Finalist Skot Wiedmann's untitled instrument houses discrete modular synthesizer circuit boards connected by a neural network of wires in a star-shaped interface. It has oodles of knobs for sound-tweaking.

The instrument's somewhat unpredictable nature is mitigated somewhat by performance controls: Rotating dials and blue touchpads shape and add elements to the sound, from theremin-like whines to shuffling beats. Imagine this magnificent contraption providing live accompaniment to a silent science-fi film screening."

Skot Wiedmann of Motus Mavis Featured in Yahoo Design Expo

Innovative Tech Design at Yahoo Design Expo


Skot Wiedman comes in at 2:33 with his gestural touch controller. If you are familiar with his work, see the Motus Mavis label below and of course his website MotusMavis.com. He brought us the Star Shaped Modular featured in NAMM 2009 and one of my favorite knob styles that resembles a buzz saw imo. See the label below for more including video of the star shaped modular. Yahoo Design Expo video description: "A handheld cube that lets you browse your Flickr photos. A headset that uses brainwaves to control how fast a bicyclist pedals. And Megaphone, a game that lets users play against each in public spaces with their mobile phones. Those were some of the concepts on display at the recent Yahoo Design Expo. Originally conceived by Joy Mountford when she was at Apple, the event brings together out-of-the-box design ideas by students from around the world. In this video, the Mercury News speaks with Mountford, now vice president of User Experience Design at Yahoo, and demos some of the projects."

NAMM 09 - Continuum Fingerboard [and Motus Mavis "Star" Modular]

YouTube via RetroElectroville.

via nonymous in the comments of this post.
Notice the Motus Mavis star shaped modular in the background. You can find a video of it here. Also see the Motus Mavis label for more. Note this is from last year's NAMM, not 2010.

"The unique Continuum Fingerboard synth controller at the Haken Audio booth at NAMM 09

More info found here:
http://www.cerlsoundgroup.o..."

Improvisation

Improvisation from Skot Wiedmann on Vimeo. The Motus Mavis Star Synth.
"Sorry for the poor quality of the camera audio, this was put together quickly."
sent my way via rustyanalog. You might remember this from NAMM here and here.
http://motusmavis.com/

NAMM: NAMM Oddities 2009

The NAMM Oddities page is up. You can find the "Techno" section here. You should recognize quite a bit. Oddly the John Bowen Solaris made the cut. The Assblaster I can understand as well as the Motus Mavis star synth. MOTU's Volta made the list as well.

Thanks to nonymous in the comments of this post for pointing the site out. I completely forgot about it this year.

Motus Mavis Star Shaped Synth

Another shot of the Star Shaped Synth by Motus Mavis. This one via Daily DIY, via Califaudio.

BTW, you might remember the name Motus Mavis from way back in 2005 in this post for the buzz saw style knobs of their prior synth. Be sure to check these shots out full size. I'd link to the Motus Mavis website, but they are currently exceeding their bandwidth, so I'll hold off on this post.

via nonymous in the comments of this post.

NAMM: 2009 NAMM Show

flickr by Mark Dalzell

The red controller on the bottom is the Haken Continuum. Anyone know what the star shaped device is?

Update: I found more info on patcharena.com (check it out for a better image): "Mysterious unnamed super synth at the Hakken Audio Booth! I'll try and find out more about this unique synthesizer today. The inventor mentioned that he was inspired by neural networks. Note that those blue pads above the rotary knobs are touch sensitive as well. Every section is unique and will exhibit different behavior based on what it's connected to. You can find the creator's website with more photos here"

Update via adam s in the comments: "It's a custom instrument by Skot Wiedmann.
http://motusmavis.com"

Motus Mavis

Shots of the Motus Mavis keep popping up on my randomn photo player, so I guess it means I should put up a post. : ) Title link takes you to the Motus Mavis Site including more pics and samples. Amazing site design btw.

I always thought the contols on this looked like mini saw blades. Wicked.


From the site:
I am constantly developing new techniques of creating and modyfying sound with electronics, and various ideas can be incorporated into a comissioned work. Below are some descriptions of my original designs.

Granular Delay Oscillators Filters Modulators Sequencers LFO Construction

All the Synthesizers I create are one-of-a-kind, custom built, and totally original. I use only the highest quality parts and materials, and design the circuitry from scratch. Clearly this method prevents me from competing with mass produced synthesizers, however, the new possibilities and inspiring designs are meant for those who desire something personal and unique, not available as a preset. Please email me at: computer_jones @yahoo.com