Modular Synth - Patch in Progress 26

Published on Feb 17, 2016 isvisible / isinvisible

"Working on another new track featuring:

Neutron Sound - Orgone Accumulator
WMD - PDO, TBPVCA
LIvewire - AFG
Mutable Instruments - Braids
Modcan - Quad Envelope
Modcan - Dual Delay
ERD - Gamma
Folktek - Matter

And some other stuff.

Cheers"

Folktek Matter

Published on Feb 9, 2016 Cray

Modular Synth - Koma Komplex + Circadian Rhythms Sequencers

Published on Mar 11, 2017 isvisible / isinvisible

"Here's me working on a new track. The main focus I guess is on the Tip Top Audio 'Circadian Rhythms' and the Koma 'Komplex' sequencers, and not forgetting the old workhorse, 'Pamela's Workout' by ALM. All of which work perfectly together.

Audio as follows:
Bass - WMD 'PDO'.
Plinky Plonk - Livewire 'AFG'.
A fairly passable lap steel guitar type sound - Mutable Instruments 'Rings'.
Percussion - Folktek 'Matter'."

Folktek Mescaline - Hybrid V2 Channel , V1 Motion , V1 Mental, frame and PS

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"One complete Folktek Mescaline with frame power supply and collection of duPont patch cables.
This is a hybrid of V2 Channel and V1 Motion and V1 Mental.

This unit is in great shape. The only blemish of note is 1 patch point that shows some wear but is fully functional. See pics for detail.

The power supply has a 3 part pigtail that powers all three modules from a single wallwart rated at 1500ma.

Includes original manual and some other info.

Mescaline is one of the finest times you'll have. It might seem intimidating at first but ultimately once you dive in, you realize there was nothing to fear and it's only here to help open you to extreme possibilities. It's capable of creating entire compositions and the possibilities are vast. -

Each of the 3 boards are eurorack compatible and can be installed in a eurorack system individually or all together. Each has its own eurorack power plug on the back. Each module is 44HP
Each of these boards is capable of being powered on a standard 12v adapter. Each has a 2.1mm jack on the back.
When used together, all power can be jumped to power all three boards off the same 12v power source or eurorack power source.
A 12VDC power supply and 3 way jumper is included in this sale.

CHANNEL
A 10 note polyphonic synthesizer with a sweet, warm sound and a huge custom designed reverb which also has an audio input and can be used to process external sound. Channel becomes a powerful effects processor with some very nice DSP designs we've been working on for the past year.
-A touch-based synth which provides a sweet sounding 10 key oscillation based 10 filtered and reshaped analog square wave oscillators, each with a decay on the amp.
-Each key is tuned individually and can be tuned to specific notes on the back via tuning trim pots so you can create intervals or pitch arrangements as you like.
-Master pitch control (with control voltage) lets you change the tuning of all notes simultaneously.
-10 note polyphony and all notes can be triggered.
-Synthesis passes through any of 4 selectable custom DSP effects - reverb which is huge and near infinite, notated tight delay, pitch shifter delay and palindrome reverse delay. Each effect has mix, two controls over effect changes and a low pass filter or damping.

V2 has Gain stage adjustments on Channel
V2 Noise filtering on Channel
V2 pitch range trim pot added to allow for great control of the master frequency

-3.5mm jacks represent audio in, audio out (x2 = right and left), cv in.
-Jumpable headers for all functions as well as power.

MOTION
Motion is made up of two sequencers with simple but fully-capable function and some added function that other things don't/can't perform that help Mental to really shine. Both sequencers have clock division to break the rhythm but perhaps most important is how the trigger sequencer works - using opto-couplers (switches) to trigger parts within Mental to create sounds, textures and rhythms that voltage sources simply can't. It does this by directly connecting multiple parts within Mental. The CV does a great job of synching Channel.

Motion also has sine modulation (vactrol or cv), gate triggers, resets for the sequencers to determine sequence length, and can got into chaotic territory but jumping voltages into the clock inputs.
-8 part CV Sequencer
-8 part trigger sequencer with multi-add functionality
-5 part clock division for each sequencer
-vactrol-based sine modulation
-3.5mm jacks represent clock in, cv sequencer clock out, cv sequencer cv out, modulation out, trigger sequencer clock out.
-Jumpable headers for all functions as well as power.

MENTAL
Capable of so many things. It's an incredibly unique drum synth that will create odd and beautiful beats for days. It's a Drone synth that's generates some incredibly rich drone with multi-oscillation and in-circuit filtering. It's an audio processor that can take any incoming audio and chop it into place, filter it, distort it and screw it in ways that nothing else does.
-Based on the root synthesis of other Folktek instruments Materia, Mentalis and Matter.
-17 input points to control synthesis and filtering via the sequencer trigger or cv points as well as the clock division points.
-removable breadboard to allow for development and experimentation.
-4 patchable pots to attenuate signals and gain more control *and/or* create direct patches to create drone scapes or use Mental as an audio processor.
-volume control
-3.5mm jacks represent audio out and two vacant with representative headers to input voltage or audio signals from external modules or audio sources.
-send Mental to the input of Channel to add reverb to the signal.
-Jumpable headers for all functions as well as power."

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Distco - Folktek Blacklight Improvisation

Published on Oct 1, 2018 Distortion Productions

"For this patch, I used a collection of Folktek modules in a Make Noise CV bus case. Mescaline's Mental and Matter were the sound sources, processed by Alter and Conduit, sequenced by Mescaline's Motion."

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone!!!  I hope 2012 treated you well and I wish you the best in 2013!

As I do each year, I thought I'd reflect a little on the past year.  These posts are always difficult to write, and I always wing them, so bear with me.  It's impossible to justify a whole year's worth of synth coverage in a single post.  The following is just a small bit of what comes to mind when looking back.  You'll find a top ten list of posts with the most page views followed by my picks for the year further below.  Apologies if I miss anything, and of course, if you have anything to add, feel free to leave a comment below.  I'm curious what you, the readers of the site, felt stood out in the world of synths this past year.

First, I want to begin this post with a HUGE THANK YOU!!!  If you are reading this it obviously means you have come to this site and some of you have been coming here for years! Thank you for sticking with me. This site is a journey I hope to continue for years to come. Thank you to everyone that has taken the time to showcase their synths, and thank you to those that share what they find! Thank you to those that link to the site and help spread the word on MATRIXSYNTH via Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and your own websites! And of course, THANK YOU to all the sponsors on the right who believe in the site enough to support it!

A nod to previous New Years posts, pictured to the left is the MATRIXSYNTH world domination map. :)  I always think it's worth taking a look at who's watching the site.  Synths are global and you are looking at a map of the readers of MATRIXSYNTH.  Everything you see in green represents a visit from that country.  The darker the green, the higher the number of visits.  This is just for the year, but for the life of the site, we still haven't gotten a single hit from North Korea!   I don't know what they have against synths!  ;)   You'll find the top 10 visits by country further below.

This is the eighth New Year the site has gone through!  The focus for the site this year has been the same as previous years, and I plan to keep it that way.  This site is about showcasing specific synths, not just synths in general, and not just news and press releases.  The focus is on the individual synths that have existed throughout history, the technology behind them, and the lives they lead with their odd owners, myself included.  :)  Yes it is about the gear, their makers, and their players.  It has always been my opinion that synths in general have a tendency to be undervalued. Compared to say collectible guitars, they are often discarded and devalued in favor of next year's model, next year's technology.  It has always been my opinion that every synth has something of value to offer,  something specific and something unique that gives it its character. I built this site to showcase that.  This site is about the history of synths as their history unfolds - videos and images of synths being played and used, by both those that make them and those that play them.  Vintage synths being offered in the second hand market, being exchanged from one sonic explorer to the next. It really is a wondrous thing. Think of the magic synthesizers bring into your world. That is what this site is ultimately about.  Some posts may not seem to make sense now, but they will in time, because they will be a look back in time. A day in the life of a particular synthesizer.  I love analog and I love digital. I love all synths and this site celebrates that.

And now for a little reflection on the year. This year we had a total of 16678 posts including this one.  That comes out to roughly 45.69 posts a day.  Not a single day of the year went without a post.  So what dominated the synth year?  Mobile, modulars and a few dedicated hardware synths.

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