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Control Voltage Fair 2013: July 3, 6, 7, 8

July 6: Fair day + Richard Devine, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Antenes at the Seaport
July 3 and 7: Workshops at Silent Barn
July 8: Gavin Russom at Le Baron

"Control Voltage Fair is New York City’s annual fair dedicated to celebrating the modular synthesizer. Spanning multiple days, we invite synth makers and distributors to share their creations, inviting audiences to see, hear, touch, and talk about the modular synth. This fair is complemented by concerts and three synth-making workshops.

Introduced in the 1960s, the modular synth has recently experienced a rebirth due to its affordability and sonic flexibility, which makes it a revolutionary tool for creativity. Control Voltage is an open forum inviting person-to-person interaction between maker, musician, and attendee – novices and enthusiasts. Interact with artists and tinkerers, share ideas, and explore the ins and outs of this limitless instrument!

The fair will take place on July 6th, 2013 at South Street Seaport, and will feature the interactive fair followed by a concert with Richard Devine, Keith Fullerton Whitman, and Antenes. Workshops involving building voltage-controlled instruments will take place throughout the month at Silent Barn. We're wrapping up the series with a party at Le Baron Chinatown with Gavin Russom.

Saturday's participating exhibitors include (tbc): 4ms, Casper Electronics, Control, Knas, Main Drag, Make Noise, Malekko, Meme Antenna, Pittsburgh Modular, ProModular, Skychord, Snazzy FX, Steady State Fate, Tip Top Audio

Ed Bear, Pete Edwards, Daniel Fishkin, and G. Lucas Crane will conduct the workshops at Silent Barn on July 3 and 7. Full Descriptions can be found at http://controlvoltagefair.com/sunday/.

Control Voltage Fair is presented by Abby Echiverri, with special thanks to Control and Danny Taylor.
Control Voltage Fair: Saturday is presented in partnership with Harvestworks and River To River Festival.

visit www.controlvoltagefair.com

https://www.facebook.com/events/171559096347060/"

NMC / Cantos Museum was Flooded

via the National Music Center

It sounds like the synths are safe. Pictured above is The Flaming Lips with a vintage Buchla 100 at Cantos via their collection homepage. Cantos of course has been featured here on MATRIXSYNTH a number of times. The museum is home to some of the rarest pieces of synthesizer history.

PPG Waveterm for PC

Published on Jun 28, 2013 Piet Wagner·3 videos

"A short video about the PPG Wave 2.2 & Waveterm system for PC."

via Piet Wagner on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

You can find details on the software here: http://www.hermannseib.com/english/synths/ppg/wavesim.htm

Keytek CTS-2000 (Jeremy Soule - Menu [Secret of Evermore])

Published on Apr 29, 2013 acreil·67 videos

"Multitracked and heavily processed Keytek CTS-2000 arrangement of the menu screen music from Secret of Evermore. The idea was to do an elaborate "dub mix" on each track individually. Recorded 2009?

All synths: Keytek CTS-2000
Drums: Yamaha RX5, Yamaha RY30
Processing: Tapco 4400, Digitech RDS 3.6, Ibanez SDR-1000, Roland VP-70, Alesis Quadraverb, Boss PH-1, Peavey T-Max, Dave Smith Instruments Evolver, Alesis 1622

https://www.dropbox.com/s/f8fmyerfqmw..."

Keytek CTS-2000 Cross Wave examples

Published on Apr 29, 2013

"Here are several examples of single oscillator waveform crossfades. The Keytek CTS-2000 can crossfade between 3 waveforms per oscillator, with a 2 stage envelope (two times and an intermediate breakpoint) for each crossfade. The IC responsible for this is the SGS M114S, which was also used in the Cheetah MS800, Amstrad CKX100 and Solton K160, as well as the other Keytek models (CTS-1000G, CTS-400, CTS-5000) and some obscure pinball machines.

Download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/y3d30laczon..."

Update via acreil in the comments: "I have a writeup on the CTS-2000 that I can publish soon, once I do some editing. Until then I'd like to suggest this as a more appropriate demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiwrJzeDGYg"

Keytek CTS-2000 (Inoyama Land - Shuffer)

Uploaded on Nov 5, 2011

"Arrangement of Shuffer by Inoyama Land, using multitracked Keytek CTS-2000 (rare wavetable synth, now sold). I had modified it some to make the sound brighter. Reverb added in Pure Data (my own algorithm). I just played along to the original rather than use a click track or sequencer. It came out a little messy, but I think it suits the composition. Recorded 2011.

Download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hb1fv0012aeljxe/Keytek%20CTS-2000%20Shuffer%20(Inoyama%20Land).mp3"

Wersi EX20R Rare Additive Rack Synth

Note: Auction links are affiliate links for which the site may be compensated. Wersi EX20 demo (avant garde elektronische musik)

Uploaded on Nov 6, 2011 acreil·67 videos

Video spotted in this auction

- pics and details for that one captured below.

"Download here: http://acreil.bandcamp.com/album/misc...

I don't know what's wrong with the likes/dislikes on this video. Analytics shows 24 likes and 0 dislikes, while the video currently shows 3 likes and 29 dislikes. There seems to have been a glitch at some point.

Multitracked Wersi EX20 with Ibanez SDR-1000 reverb. This synth is capable of some highly unusual sounds when (in)correctly programmed, so I thought I'd showcase that side of it. It's sort of a half tribute and half parody of 70s computer music (i.e. Jean-Claude Risset, John Chowning, etc.). I find that sort of music tends to be sometimes brilliant and sometimes ponderously arbitrary (at least from the listener's perspective), so I tried to get a little of each in there.

Due to the bizarre user interface and poor/unavailable documentation, I think very few people have programmed these synths to this extent. At the time I think I only had the German user manual. I have the English manual now, but it omits much of the sound programming stuff.

Most of the interesting territory comes from doing strange things with the pitch and amplitude envelopes. Each stage of the envelope can be assigned a "module" that takes two parameters and does some function like noise modulation, increment, delay, linear or exponential rise or fall, loop, etc. It's even possible to make nested loops. These things don't necessarily behave the way you'd expect (are these undocumented features or bugs?), so it's basically a trial and error process, but the results can be very surprising. Recorded 2010?

Check the (NiCd) memory backup battery if you own one of these. They can leak and cause damage."

via this auction

"The Wersi is a very deep synth, even today, has an analog filter and uses beautiful additive synthesis, with lots of envelope modulations possible..."

Curious how deep these are. Wersi's are known for more preset auto-accompaniment type machines. You can find some details in this previous post.

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