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Showing posts with label synth comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label synth comics. Show all posts

Monday, June 17, 2019

The Very First Synth Cartoon?


This one is in via Brian Kehew who had the following to say:

"I believe this may be the very first 'synthesizer cartoon' from an in-house RCA publication in 1956 (The RCA MkI synthesizer was completed then.)"

If you know of anything earlier, let us know!

P.S. I first thought that was one messed up Santa going after the floating kid with a sword, but it appears he is holding, and offering, a bow and violin. :) Hence the caption of the kid yelling "I wanted a synthesizer!". He must be jumping in anger with his fists clenched. That or he managed to levitate by vibrating at some harmonic frequency only possible with a synthesizer? What's with the spikes in his shadow?

P.P.S. I'm guessing the "COOK" under the tree is the artist's name, that or they missed the IE. Santa wants his cookies.

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

1975 PAIA Catalog - "Gnome Micro-Synthesizer"

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via this auction

"Cool vintage catalog which was requested in 1975. Looks like it may have been stored untouched since from around that period. Very nice!"

Friday, April 07, 2017

The Packrat Gets a New Waldorf Quantum


via http://umop.com

Thursday, May 05, 2016

The Creator of The Packrat's Anything Comics #11 Featuring a Minimoog


This one in via Dave of umop.com, creator of the synth centric Packrat series.

"Got this new strip going where I chisel ideas from my faithful readers and incorporate them into comics within unexpected contexts. Someone wanted to see a Minimoog, so they got a Minimoog..."

Left: "All right, here's the eleventh ANYTHING COMICS! In honor of, uh, the last comic being the tenth one, this one's got a record-smashing TEN SUGGESTIONS hidden within! Here they all are:

Amy P. ("a dragon vying with a jellyfish for dominion"), Jay B. ("Prince vs. Jesus in a 1-on-1 basketball game"), Jayne P. ("a Herd of Umlauts"), Drew N. ("role-playing board games"), Xeth F. ("circles"), M.B. ("the creator of Anything Comics worshiping Puffed Rice cereal while watching Dexter in a Purple Rain shower"), Angelo S. ("I have an extensive project in mind, no budget but lots of exposure"), Scott Little ("wind"), Bill H. ("unemployment"), and Mike M. ("two white rats being caught by their owner in the act of paying his Minimoog").

Time to start thinking about what you want me to draw for #12!" You can chime in on the Anything Comics Facebook page here.

Love the Prince reference.

Monday, February 29, 2016

Regular Show "Gary's Synthesizer"



Playlist:
Fixing the Cables | Regular Show | Cartoon Network
Regular show: Gods among us - Gary's Synthesizer battle
Regular Show - Gary's Synthesizer - Mordecai, Rigby, Skips, Two Zymthos Guys Are Bringing Back Gary
Regular Show - Gary vs David Synthesizer Duel (HD)

Thursday, December 03, 2015

Schroeder and His Modular


via @backyardghost

Peanut's Schroeder goes modular.

Monday, November 02, 2015

bob's burgers gene gear heaven


Published on Mar 3, 2014 Trevor Day

Synth wings & buchla bongos.

This one in via Soviet Space Child.

Saturday, March 14, 2015

Introducing Keytar Kittens - New Web Comic From the Creator of The Packrat


Dave Lovelace, the creator of The Packrat has created a new webcomic, Keytar Kittens!

You'll find them online at:

keytarkittens.com
Facebook
Patreon

Enjoy!

Monday, February 02, 2015

The Final Episode of The Packrat

via Dave

"Hello there,
It is ridiculously weird timing ending the Packrat's run so soon after its transition from print to web-only. But after sketching out no fewer than two dozen ideas for an all-new daily webcomic idea (to be announced next month), it just feels like it's time to call it quits for this monthly comic strip about a synthesizer-collecting rat. This is his ten-year anniversary and it just doesn't feel like the Packrat owes you or me anything more.

I've also decided that ten years was long enough to see if the comic could ever be more than it was. Maybe if it was a daily offering, it would have gained more traction, but I had a hard enough time coming up with monthly keyboard-related comic ideas. So the concept of daily ones seems very unrealistic to me! It would just get stale for everyone on both sides of the screen.

Meanwhile, there's $14 worth of income (and as anyone on Patreon will tell you, this is no small feat) coming from six monthly subscribers on my Patreon page. For those early adopters I do promise that my new webcomic will be entertaining and even somewhat keyboard-related. I'll reveal everything else in March. Until then, anyone possessing great faith can be an early adopter while the page is transitioning from the Packrat to the Next Big Thing. You might want to get in early, because I have a feeling that for once I've actually bottled real lightning.

That's all for now. I wish I had the ability to dedicate to two comic art projects, but there just won't be room for both of them in my brain."

I'm sad to see The Packrat go, but I'm glad it's by Dave's choice. I'm looking forward to seeing what he comes up with next. The Packrat will always have a special place in the annals of MATRIXSYNTH. The first appearance to be featured here on MATRIXSYNTH was back on October 31 (Halloween) of 2005, only three months after the launch of MATRIXSYNTH in blog form. The Packrat brought us some great times. We are going to miss you little buddy.  Rocks instead of synths?!  I guess it would be more affordable.

Thursday, January 01, 2015

The Packrat - January 2015 & The MATRIXSYNTH Packrat T-Shirt!



And we start 2015 with an episode of The Packrat! :)

You'll find the awesome MATRIXSYNTH Packrat T pictured below and more Packrat schwag at http://umop.com/packrat.htm

You might recognize the image on the T from this post. Support The Packrat on Patreon here!

Monday, December 01, 2014

The Packrat Comes to MATRIXSYNTH!

I'm happy to announce that starting with the December issue, The Packrat has found a new home here on MATRIXSYNTH!

The Packrat has been featured on MATRIXSYNTH many times in the past (and of course the MATRIXSYNTH Packrat on the right has been a staple of the site since 2006), but now it will be a bit more official. You'll find some words from Dave, the creator of The Packrat, below.

But first, click the image for the full size comic. You can find previous issues on Dave's Packrat site here, and be sure to check out The Packrat Book! It's a great bit of synth history and it makes a great stocking stuffer. MATRIXSYNTH and a few other names in the synth community are featured in the book.

Regarding the future of The Packrat, Dave has the following to say:

"The Packrat is by all accounts among the smallest, most niche-y comic strips in the entire universe. Nevertheless, it has its fans, and just in case they have any curiosity, they are owed the backstory of the events of the past few months.

I came back from my August, 2014 camping trip through the Canadian back woods with a hot, steaming case of Lyme Disease (I'm fine now!). I was covered in a rash for several weeks and ended up submitting one comic strip too late for print. The following month, specifics too unexciting in which to delve (exclusively involving the publication's administration, going higher than Keyboard Magazine itself) created problematic logistics preventing the print of the next two installments.

I bear the magazine itself no ill will at all, and consider the matter unfortunate only for the fans who had perhaps thought that the Packrat had been retired (by me or the mag). Indeed, those of its followers who are wise enough to follow it on Facebook or my own personal art site umop.com have been able to see monthly synth-tastic adventures at the usual periodic times, so hopefully the notion that the Packrat went to Synth Heaven wasn't too widespread.

Comic strips are trifles in this world, and this one is damn near the, uh... trifliest? So the details about how this strip gets made surely must consist of the silliest orts of minutiae ever to cross anyone's plate. But here they are anyway, every last crumb of them.

Anyway, inasmuch as the break from the magazine was unintentional on the part of everyone directly involved with its creation, I'm using the resultant reality of things as an excuse to move onward with the Packrat. It will now be available online on all the aforementioned sites, and Matrixsynth has agreed to be the exclusive first link to it every month (and possibly, in installments of a more timely fashion!). Neither he nor I are currently making any money at all from any of this; we're both in it for synth-love alone right now (and for me, exceedingly rare book sales). While I was formerly earning enough for a couple of tanks of gas a pop from the magazine (and was lucky to get it in this economy), even that modest honorarium will be gone.

This comic strip has somehow survived ten years of life come February, and I have no plans of slowing down any time soon. In order to help keep it going, I plan on setting up a Patreon page this week. I would consider even $100 per month a major victory, since that would at least cover its own dodeca-annual creation. Details about the page will follow once it's all set up.

Thanks for reading the Packrat comic! Enjoy this first Matrixsynth-exclusive episode, featuring an appropriately green synth to start off the maiden voyage."

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

The Packrat's Halloween Costume


via The Packrat

"The Halloweeny October edition!"

Catch up on The Packrat at Dave's umop.com.

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

the Packrat Comic for July, 2014


via The Packrat on Facebook

You can find more episodes of the Packrat on http://umop.com.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Analogue Heaven North East 2014 in Lowell, MA Set for June 7


via Eric Crawley on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Event page here.

Love Dave's artwork for these!

Saturday, January 18, 2014

Critter & Guitari Go to Japan!


Published on Jan 17, 2014 CritterGuitari·9 videos

http://www.critterandguitari.com

"Critter & Guitari take a trip to Japan to learn new techniques for their instruments!

Animation by Devin Flynn
Yeah Buddy Yokai voices by Mika Yoneta-Flynn"

Thursday, November 14, 2013

December 2013 The Packrat Comic Strip


via The Packrat on Facebook

"Here's the December, 2013 comic! Another great year of Packratting comes to a close. I just drew an eye-popping January, 2014 comic today... 2014 doesn't even sound like a year to me... more like a model number or some kind of building address. In other news, according to this comic, I still think of Simmons drums as edgy and cool-looking. I'm old!"

Monday, October 14, 2013

Black Painted ACCESS VIRUS INDIGO SYNTH

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via this auction

Looks like someone took a Scripto Sharpie marker to it.  Horror at first sight, but then it kind of looks like a comic artist's rendition of it.

Thursday, October 10, 2013

November 2013 Episode of the Packrat Shout Out to Italian Fans


via The Packrat on Facebook

"Packrat and Buddy discuss the nature of synth nerdiness for the November edition of Keyboard Magazine! A shout out to all the Italian Packrat fans!"

http://umop.com

Monday, October 07, 2013

leploop v2 Now Available


via leploop

"We are happy to announce we are ready with the new leploop v2. Units are ready to ship.

http://www.nazzilla.com/lep-loop/

(comic strip on the left curtesy of Christer Nuutinen)

Here are the main differences between leploop v1 and v2:

LepLoop

-2 Voltage Controlled Oscillators (2 VCO's)
-Kick Drum Generator With Resonance, Distortion & Accent Controls
-White Noise Generator
-24 dB/Octave Low Pass Voltage Controlled Filter (VCF)
-2 Voltage Controlled Amlifiers (2 VCAs)
-2 Attack-Release Envelope Generators (2 A-R ENV's)
-Low Frequency OSC
-16 Step Analog Sequencer
-4 Track, 32 Step Digital Sequencer
-4 Channel Mixer

LepLoop V2

-1 oscillator (VCO1) triangular/square wave
-1 oscillator (VCO2) sawtooth wave with ring modulator and FM modulation
-White noise generator
-24 dB/OCT Low pass filter
-Kick drum with distorsion and trigger mixer
-2 VCA's
-2 AR Envelope generators
-1 LFO
-16 Capacitors analog sequencer PWM programmable
-4 Track digital rhythm sequencer 64 step each track
-4 Channel audio mixer
-Midi input(clock and notes)
-5 CV out: S\H, SEQ, LFO, ENV1, ENV2
-3 gate out: S\H, SEQ, CASSA
-3 CV in: VCO1, VCO2, VCF cutoff
-1 audio in (VCF)
-4 audio out: MIXER, CASSA, VCO2, VCO mix
-1 clock output: clock 24, MIDI start\stop
-EEPROM memory 16 banks 10 pattern each"

Thursday, September 12, 2013

October 2013 the Packrat


via The Packrat on Facebook

"The comic for Keyboard Mag's October edition digs deep into the Packrat's psyche. Maybe a little bit too deep."
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