Dana Countryman at the PNW Synth Gathering 2010 Pt1

YouTube via matrixsynth | July 28, 2010

http://danacountryman.com/

"Dana goes over the Ondioline and his DIY controller based on the Ondes Martenot."

Dana Countryman at the PNW Synth Gathering 2010 Pt2


Note this is the last video in the PNW Synth Gathering 2010 series. Click here for all posts.

More Info on the OLPC and synthLab

Follow-up to this previous post via Jeff Sandys:
"Sugar on a Stick is the bootable USB version for 'regular' computers: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick

tamtam SynthLab was the application I was showing:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/TamTam

You can see an older demo of SynthLab on YouTube: [below]

I plan to make a better video after I get a minor bug fix into the program. My plan is to create a training guide or lesson plan that uses SynthLab and the built in oscilloscope program to learn about wave forms and sounds.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Measure"


YouTube via natcl | January 15, 2007

"This is a video demonstration of TamTam Synthlab on the OLPC XO computer"

Pacific Northwest Synth 2009 - Red Martian

YouTube via matrixsynth.

This is my video of Red Martian's performance. More details here.
http://redmartian.com
http://mattsonminimodular.com - MMM and Syntar
http://www.division-6.com - Midified Skulls
http://acidlab.de - Miami

Note this is the last of my videos from the PNW Synth Gathering this year.
click here to see all posts in the series.

Cowboy and the Vocoder and the MMM

A tribute to the dog Cowboy who passed away.

YouTube via redmartian. Note this is via redmartian and not AnalogVocoder1 (click for the reference).

"A song written for a dog who likes to listen to the sound the Roland SVC-350 vocoder. This song features the MMM as well as a Sequential Circuits Drum Traks and a Roland Jupiter-6.

Here are the lyrics:

Do you know Cowboy
and the SVC-350?
Do you know Cowboy
and the Roland Vocoder?

Hey there Cowboy
I see you there
Lazy gazing
Gazing lazy
Whos my sweet boy?
You know its you.
I like to vocode and you do too.

No Poly-800 to drive the SVC
So I use an MMM as my carrier wave
No Poly-800 but Cowboy doesn't mind.
We all know its the Roland SVC-350 vocoder time.

Audio version can be found here:
http://redmartian.com/napster/Red_Mar..."

And the first track from this post:


FIRST PRODUCTION MATTSON MINI MODULAR DEMO NUMBER FOUR from RED MARTIAN on Vimeo.

"Here is a fourth demo which features a LP and HP triangle wave arpeggiation nearly through out and a quick EG three oscillator bass. The drum kit is the same as in the other demos with no pitch changes or other processing, just dry sounds out of the VCA. There are two leads one is just two oscillators (saw) and the second has a square and a saw with the saw slight modulated by an LFO with high resonance on the filter.

The bass and arpeggiation were played and quantized in logic. The leads were recorded as played."

SYNTHWERKS

You might recall mention of Synthwerks in the following two posts from the recent PNW Synth Gathering: one, two. They are working on getting their website up and running with more detail. Until then the following along with the image on the left will give you an idea on some of what they will be working on.

"Synthwerks will be focusing initially on making alternate controllers and modules for processing/modifying CVs. We will make some other modules that will be aimed at filling the gaps we find in the available offerings by other companies or to compliment modules they make. Some will just be for fun. In other words you probably won't see a standard VCO or LPF with a Synthwerks logo on it. Those who are on FaceBook, you will find a Synthwerks page there, and you are encouraged to comment on the modules and make suggestions for ones you may want. If interest is high enough, our modules may be offered in kit form. Stay tuned...

Synthwerks
thesynthwerks *at* gmail.com"

Update: modules posted here
via fluxmonk in the comments "some concept pictures available on their facebook page"

Pacific Northwest Synth 2009 - Jeff Sandys aka a1g0rhythm

YouTube via matrixsynth.

I missed the speakers name on this one. If anyone knows, please let me know and I will update the post and video.

http://laptop.org/en/ - One Laptop Per Child project - OLPC http://www.solid-state-logic.com/Spec... X-ORCISM exorcism synth VST
JPL audio

BTW, this marks the last video I have of the event aside from my recording of the Red Martian performance which I will put up later. Apologies to those I missed, but both my video camera and regular camera ran out of space. click here for all PNW 2009 coverage.

Update via Jeff in the comments: "More info about the OLPC TamTam sound activities: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/TamTam"

Pacific Northwest Synth 2009 - Carbon111

YouTube via matrixsynth

http://carbon111.com/
http://mattsonminimodular.com/

Carbon 111 goes over the rare Sequential Circuits Pro-8 which later became the Split-Eight with a new color scheme similar to the Multi-Track.

Part 2

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Pacific Northwest Synth 2009 - John L Rice

YouTube via matrixsynth

http://www.youtube.com/johnlrice
http://moonmodular.com/
http://synthesizers.com/
http://www.cluboftheknobs.com/
Don Martin Moog
http://www.musicfromouterspace.com/
http://synthtech.com/ - MOTM
http://flightofharmony.com - plague bearer
Walking Stick DIY Ribbon Controller
http://www.oakleysound.co.uk - Oakley Phaser
http://tellun.com Neural Agonizer
Thomas White Buchla LPG Low Pass Gate gets a mention

Part 2


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Pacific Northwest Synth 2009 - George Mattson

YouTube via matrixsynth.

http://mattsonminimodular.com

George discusses the Syntar (the first keytar ever), Division-6's Midify, Synthwood Cable Racks, Ad Infinitum colored cables and of course the Mattson Mini Modular and some of his new projects including the Handicon. The Handicon will be a CV hand controller that you can interface with your modular. It is based on the neck controller of the Syntar mentioned in Stephen's post below. Image of the MMM handicon prototype below.

Part 2


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Pacific Northwest Synth 2009 - Computer Controlled Gear Test

YouTube via matrixsynth

http://www.elektron.se machinedrum with custom skin
http://rolandus.com TR-707, TB-303, Alpha Juno, SH-101 Some eurorack modular towards the end. See this post for more on that.

click here for all PNW 2009 coverage.

Pacific Northwest Synth 2009 - Stephen aka Red Martian

YouTube via matrixsynth.

see this performance for reference.

http://redmartian.com
http://mattsonminimodular.com - MMM and PMS Syntar
http://synthwood.com
http://acidlab.de

Don't miss the Syntar neck controller.
Some more info on a modern update will be coming up in George Mattson's talk.
Note, during the reference to the track Cowboy, I mistakenly stated the original cowboy videos were from Vocoderman, it's actually VoiceEncoder. You can see more of his videos previously posted here. Apologies to VoiceEncoder.

click here for all PNW 2009 coverage.

Pacific Northwest Synth 2009 - Red Martian Performance

SYNTAR MMM and MIAMI LIVE SYNTHESIZER PERFORMANCE PNW SYNTH DIY 2009

YouTube via redmartian http://redmartian.com/.

Watch the skulls in the background.
"Here is a live performance of the MMM demo number four featuring the stack of MMMs behind, the Syntar (the father of the MMM) and the new AcidLab MIAMI in MIDI mode. The bass line, arpeggio and drums were sequenced in Logic. The Skulls were triggered via Logic (the percussion tracks) using Division-6's MIDIFY."

COWBOY (RIP) AND THE ROLAND VOCODER LIVE AT PNW SYNTH DIY 2009 FEATURING THE SYNTAR, MIAMI AND MMM

"This is dedicated to that old dog COWBOY who used to listen to his master's vocoder. The bass and some melody are handled by the MMMs behind. The Syntar is the carrier wave for the Roland SVC-350 vocoder. The Syntar also plays a sort of melody. The MIAMI is sequenced in MIDI mode from Logic. At the Pacific Northwest Synth DIY 2009"

Be sure to see this prior post for reference and lyrics. The third video is the studio recording of this track.
See demo number four in this post for the first track.

click here for all PNW 2009 coverage.

Pacific Northwest Synth 2009 - Russ aka Idiotboy

YouTube via matrixsynth

http://www.studioelectronic... - ATC-X http://www.ibanez.com - 8202 click here for all PNW 2009 coverage.

Pacific Northwest Synth 2009 - David Skinner

YouTube via matrixsynth

http://www.moogmusic.com/ - MurF
http://alesis.com - Micron

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Pacific Northwest Synth 2009 - Computer Controlled

YouTube via matrixsynth

http://www.theharvestman.org - polivoks vcf
http://tiptopaudio.com - Z3000
http://www.livewire-synthesizers.com - Dual Bissel Generator
click here for all PNW 2009 coverage.

Pacific Northwest Synth 2009 - Madrona Labs

YouTube via matrixsynth.

http://madronalabs.com/
click here for all PNW 2009 coverage.

Pacific Northwest Synth 2009 - The Harvestman

YouTube via matrixsynth.

http://www.theharvestman.org
click here for all PNW 2009 coverage.

Update: transcription via redmartian on muff's:

"Hi I'm Scott from the harvestman I've got a few new modules to show this year.

The first is the Hertz Donut digital oscillator, its a dual digital oscillator with an internal modulation buss, which is sort of inspired by the Buchla 259e in arrangement and interface .. it does its own thing .. take a listen to it.

You know you can do a nice clean sine wave .. there is also a waveform discontinuity parameter which is kind of a simple wave shaper .. here is what it sounds on sine. But its a bit more interesting on a triangle wave. Its pretty simple on the sawtooth. You know you can .. there is also a completely separate modulation oscillator both halves of the module track 1 volt per octave but you can assign the modulator to frequency modulate the primary which is through zero or you can also modulate the waveform discontinuity and there is also a simple amplitude modulation and combinations of the three. There is also a pitch tracking mode where you can have frequency and modulator track the primary there are different settings and lagging in different .. and going on all .. that accurate which gets interesting when you start frequency modulating it will jump all over the place.

There is also .. There is also a clean tracking mode with no lag which is useful for having a set interval for the frequency modulation and double start loops or whatever. So yeah, just last night I complete the 2.0 firmware with an algorithm which adds a few new features first of all the maximum sampling rate is doubled. The maximum bit depth is now up to 10 bits from 8. The bit depth is also disabled when the internal wave shaper is on because some of the feedback modes it can cause it to walk up without producing audio so instead of having the bit depth control in that mode do other interesting modifications .. here is the sweep of the bit depth .. and the sampling rate. lets run through the wave shape .. this is just a sine wave. So yeah thats how the module sounds now.

I also added a feedback input jack on the Time Safari delay which makes the expansion a lot more interesting. can now be feedback into the module without having to use an external mixer. Also my feedback console is now complete adding to the quad pedal preamp is a 4x4 matrix mixer which allows you to make a feedback network out of four guitar peddle chains. So this this pedal board over here just has delays, pitch shifters and ... no input signal at all its just feedback. "

Pacific Northwest Synth 2009 - flight of harmony

YouTube via matrixsynth.

Gas mask steels the show. http://flightofharmony.com
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Pacific Northwest Synth 2009 - SYNTHWERKS

YouTube via matrixsynth

James Husted of SYNTHWERKS

Note this was the first talk of the meeting. Unfortunately, I got off to a slow start and missed capturing the beginning and end of this talk. To those that attended, you will notice bits missing here and there. Unfortunately I did run out of memory on both my digital and video camera, so I missed the last few talks.
click here for all PNW 2009 coverage.

Pacific Northwest Synth 2009 - photos via MATRIXSYNTH

flickr set by MATRIXSYNTH
Pictured here: MMM Cable Case with Ad Infinitum color cables. Ad Infinitum was kind enough to provide free cable handouts for the event. Division 6 skull (video here).

The Performance Music Systems (PMS :) Syntar - the first keytar ever. The Syntar predated the Moog Liberation. The Syntar was made by George Mattson of Mattson Mini Modular.

Syntar T-Shirt scanned from original Syntar promotional material. Scott from Division 6 scanned the artwork and made the T.

Flight of flight of harmony and Scott of The Harvestman.

Euro rack modular, acidlab miami, OLPC running Tam Tam. It was need to see and hear this in person. OLPC stands for one laptop per child. It is a program in which you buy one of these laptops and one goes to a third world country for a child to use. It comes with an actual synth engine including a software modular. Think about that. One of the few programs children get exposed to with their first computer experience is a software modular synthesizer. event comments

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Pacific Northwest Synth 2009 - photos via Computer Controlled

PNW Synth Meeting 2009 flickr set here or on Facebook here.

Pictured: Stephen of Synthwood and red martian on Syntar and MMM, and Scott of Division 6 maker of Midify. Bottom: Midified skull and MMM.

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