Future Retro Revolution mk2

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video upload by JG

via this listing

"Future Retro Revolution MK2 for sale on Reverb.

00:00 - Playing with patterns
01:03 - Switching Waveform|
01:30 - Daft Punk - Da Funk
01:43 - FX Controls
02:03 - Remix Controls
02:23 - Overdrive

The sound in this vid is recorded directly into 1010Music BlueBox, with no added mastering, compression, or limiting.

Kick drum plays to show the unit receiving MIDI clock and transport without hiccups."

via this listing

"Future Retro Revolution mk2: a rare and gnarly Roland TB-303 clone for that classic acid house sound. (demo video in image gallery).

Here's the good stuff:

Rare analog monosynth
Onboard digital effects processor
3-pole (18 dB/oct) filter like the original TB
Onboard overdrive
New onboard memory battery
Run external signals through the filter and gated sequencer
CV, Din Sync, MIDI IO
Easily programmable sequencer (unlike the original TB-303)
remix your patterns with 256 algorithmic variations (more than 65,000 combinations)
Note: screen IS NOT foggy. That's just my phone failing to expose correctly."

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Dream Walk /// JG Downtempo feat. Intellijel Cascadia, Sealegs, Soma Pulsar-23, & MN Strega

video upload by Jon Gee

"Went for a walk in a dream.

Happy #jamuary2025

🎥: ‪@chris_economou‬ 💖"

Throwing Into The Void /// JG Downtempo feat. Cascadia, Pulsar-23, Strega & Polybrute

video upload by Jon Gee

"Sequenced and clocked by the Polybrute
Cascadia into Sealegs
Strega doing her thing
Pulsar-23 on the beat

Thanks to ‪@chris_economou‬ for camera B and eternally positive vibes."

Tyme Sefari : MK I MKII Kompare

Robotopsy Robotopsy

"Here's a little Comparison video of both versions of Tyme Sefari.
While we wait for the MKIII, it can be a good idea to study the past and present. A big thank you to all the artists who agreed to let me use their music.
J.G Thirlwell
Manorexia : Armadillo Stance
http://www.foetus.org/content/
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Christian Wolz : Devil intus mestra de la fore
https://citoma.de/

Jorane : In Motion
http://jorane.com/

IN MOTION
Music: Jorane
Production: Jorane
Sound recording, mix and mastering: Eloi Painchaud.
Voice, cello: Jorane
Guitar: Jesse MacCormack
Guitar: Eloi Painchaud
Double bass: Nicolas Caloia (Ratchet Orchestra)
Drum: Stefan Schneider (Richard Reed Parry, Thus Owls)

Antoine Dufour : Reality
https://www.antoinedufourmusic.com/

Gloom Boy
???????___ !!! ?????.gloom"

Glenn Gould On the Moog Synthesizer

Published on Aug 3, 2019 Bruce Cross

Great bit of synth history. Do not miss the interview. Jean-Jacques Perrey and the Ondioline get a mention.

"Glenn Gould's radio programme on the Moog Synthesizer as rebroadcast on May 21, 1969.

0:00 Ken Haslam introduction
0:56 Glenn Gould introducion
5:25 On the Moog Synthesizer: interviews with W. Carlos and Jean Le Moyne
42:06 Glenn Gould conclusion
45:09 Ken Haslam credits
45:26 Ken Haslam introduces J.G. Parr [James Gordon Parr (May 26, 1927 – April 28, 2000)]
45:55 Parr lecture
59:52 Ken Haslam conclusion"

Eurythmics Sweet Dreams tutorial for the UNO synth

Published on Mar 3, 2019 Starsky Carr
Update: Re-Published on Mar 15, 2019.

"A quick look at recreating the famous riff and leads from one of the all time synth pop classic by the Eurythmics.

Easily created on the IK Multimedia UNO monosynth in a couple of minutes. It's so close there's a copyright dispute on the recording
!! I guess I should take that as a compliment.

Here's link to the patches
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kvgjzbfjzzq...

..and here's the documentary I mention:"

Synth Britannia

Published on Mar 16, 2012 clr

"Documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop stage.

In the late 1970s, small pockets of electronic artists including the Human League, Daniel Miller and Cabaret Volatire were inspired by Kraftwerk and JG Ballard and dreamt of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain.

The crossover moment came in 1979 when Gary Numan's appearance on Top of the Pops with Tubeway Army's Are Friends Electric heralded the arrival of synthpop. Four lads from Basildon known as Depeche Mode would come to own the new sound whilst post-punk bands like Ultravox, Soft Cell, OMD and Yazoo took the synth out of the pages of the NME and onto the front page of Smash Hits.

By 1983, acts like Pet Shop Boys and New Order were showing that the future of electronic music would lie in dance music.

Contributors include Philip Oakey, Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, Bernard Sumner, Gary Numan and Neil Tennant."

Behringer Neutron overdriven stoned wankery (re-up with better audio)

Published on Nov 17, 2018 J G

"Neutron played via BSP pads, BigSky fx, Minimoog bass drone, drum loop. Was mashed so it's a bit rough. Soz about the lousy camera angle. More synth and less chin would have been good :)"

Moby's Drum Machines For Sale

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You can find them on Reverb here.

Don't miss the video here.

Update: some pics and details captured. I made the mistake of trying to capture them all and then realized how many were listed. :) I ended up switching to the more esoteric models. Quite a few have never been featured here on MATRIXSYNTH before. What's a little bit interesting, is only two new labels were needed, one for Domino and one for Side-Kick-Er. All other brands have been featured before. See the labels at the bottom of this post. Side note: Blogger limits the number of characters to 200 for labels, so I wasn't able to capture them all for this post. You can always search for the brand names featured for more. I assume most do this anyway. The labels are more for maintenance and for finding posts that may not feature brand names in descriptions.

Pictured:

Realistic Concertmate Electronic Accompanist-Metronome

"Fully analog rhythmic companion utilizing 5 beat buttons to combine how you wish. Features metronome, speaker and line out, and tempo control.

Serial: 42-2103. Works with no issue."

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0 Coast test

Published on Mar 29, 2017 J G

"Enjoy the sound of a Polymoog blowing up at 2:41 :o( Kinda lost the will the go back and do a better take after that. Anyway, 0-Coast doing plinky-plonky sequence, Juno 60 bass, and Korg ESX1 doing drums and more weird plinky percussion bits. Polymoog 280A on lead Vox Humana until it dies, then Minimoog takes over.

Recorded live in stereo."

CotFG: New Media Art & Sound Summit 2014

On Kickstarter here. Note Bleep Labs will be hosting a synth workshop at the summit.

"Preparing the 6th Annual Journey to the Apex of Sonic Innovation and Fearlessness: New Media Art and Sound Summit 2014.

Church of the Friendly Ghost and Austin Museum of Digital Art present the New Media Art and Sound Summit (NMASS) from Thursday, June 12th until Saturday, June 14th, 2014. The festival will feature music performances, sound installations, film screenings, and workshops!

Your contribution to this campaign underwrites the production of NMASS, paying for things such as artist travel, accommodation, equipment rentals, sound engineering, and venue costs. Your support is an investment in a creative summit which contributes to the unique cultural identity of our great city! 100% of admissions proceeds are paid to our featured guest artists and performers. NMASS and COTFG are completely volunteer-run. You can support this campaign even if you're not in Austin or can't attend the festival in person!

Here is a partial list of artists and musicians confirmed so far for NMASS 2014:

J.G. Thirlwell (NYC; Foetus, Manorexia) performing with a string quartet and separately with Noveller (NYC; Important Records), Stephen Farris, Flcon Fcker, S U R V I V E, Chad Mossholder (of Twine), Malloc, SYMBOL, Xander Harris, Kyle Evans (of Cracked Ray Tube), Vision System, Sounding Vessels, Bourdon Ensemble, Steve Parker / Bob Hoffnar / Jason Phelps trio, CotFG iOS app ensemble, Scott Stark / Allison Leigh Holt (SF) film performance, Code in Motion film program curated by Clint Enns (Toronto), Vanessa Gelvin sound installation, Meason Wiley cymatics demonstration, Bleep Labs DIY synth workshop, Gary Wilson, Weasel Walter / Sandy Ewen / Damon Smith trio, Moonsicles, Aunt's Analog, Bradley Telcom Ensemble, Darcy Neal, and more!

Church of the Friendly Ghost is a 100% volunteer-run nonprofit cultural arts organization founded in Austin in 2003. We operate under the sponsorship of Salvage Vanguard Theater, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with support from the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin, and the Texas Commission on the Arts. All contributions, other than ticket purchases, are federal tax deductible. Tax exempt status information available on request.

The full 3 day festival pass is just $40! You can purchase that right here, right now by backing us at that level!

Regular t-shirts designed by Lindsey Taylor and Stephen Fishman or NMASS Exclusive T-Shirts designed by Laurel Barickman of Recspec.org!"

Raymond Scott Radio Special Featuring Jeff E. Winner, Thom Rhea & More

"To celebrate the 75th anniversary of Raymond Scott's music, Brian Carpenter will host a live 3-hour WZBC radio special on Friday, November 16th, at 7pm EST. Co-hosted by Jeff E. Winner (me) of the RS Archives, and Tom Rhea (Berklee, MOOG Music), with special guests: J.G. Thirlwell (FOETUS, STEROID MAXIMUS), DJ SPOOKY, Stu Brown, Will Friedwald, Daniel Goldmark, Irwin Chusid, David Harrington (KRONOS QUARTET), and more. LISTEN HERE: http://wzbc.org/ -or- tune your boombox to 90.3 FM.

http://raymondscott.blogspot.com/2012/10/live-wzbc-radio-special-with-irwin.html"

via Jeff E. Winner on Facebook

Update via Jeff E. Winner in the comments: "• LISTEN HERE: The show can now be streamed from its permanent home: http://briancarpenter.net/content/radio-webcasts-imaginationandinnovation.html"

MUSE RECEPTOR PRO Jr. 750GB VST SOFTWARE SYNTH RACK UNIT

via this auction

"This is the Receptor PRO Jr., meaning it has the upgraded CPU and RAM but origanlly had 400 gb smaller hard drive and was upgraded to a 750 gb drive which was the largest in this series of units, so you have more than enough space.

It is mounted within a 2"foam re-inforced Anvil road with removable front and back case.

Also included are the following software programs (worth hundreds of dollars): Spectrasonics Atmosphere, Native Instruments B4II, Kompakt Nostalgia, Bosendorfer Ivory, MTron, and SampleTank 2. Look them up. You would pay over $800 in software to buy these package programs. I have never toured with this rig and it has limited hours on the machine. I used it in 2008 for a recording session. The strings/mellotrons on Rocco Deluca's "Mercy" album, recorded with Daniel Lanois were from this Muse Receptor.

Also incuded is a 17" Envision Monitor, a full sized typing keyboard and a mouse.

Other soft-synth programs that come inside this machine ( I am picking out the better ones... ) include: 4 Front Bass Module, 4 Front EPiano Module, 4 Front Piano Module, 4 Front Rhode Module, A Sine, Cheese Machine, Claw, ComboSister, CosmoGirl, Crystal, daAlfa2k, daHornet, Delay Lama, Drawbar, Drum Kid 4, DX10, E-Flex, EMM Knagalis, Enigmatron, ePiano, EVE, Express 3, Free Alpha, GTG 7, GTG Micro, JG-3, LogSynth, MPS.1, Mysteron, OnePingOnly, Pandemonium, PDPoly, Piano, PQNCooly, PQN Mopar, sf2, Synger

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jg moog.mov

YouTube via zackdagoba | July 09, 2010

"jg plays along to the linn lm1 on the moog modular and synthesizers.com"

Synth Britannia Airs This Friday

via Electronic Battle. For those of you in the UK, Synth Britannia airs this Friday night at nine o'clock, on BBC Four. Mark your calendars as unless something new comes up between now and then, this will be the only post. For the rest of us, here's a trailer [previously posted].


YouTube via Synthasy2000
" In the late Seventies small pockets of electronic artists such as The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle were inspired by Kraftwerk and J G Ballard to dream of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain.

Gary Numan's 1979 appearance on Top Of The Pops heralded the invention of synthpop, which would provide the soundtrack as Britain entered a new, ruthless era in the Eighties.

Depeche Mode, four lads from Basildon, came to embody the new sound, while post-punk bands such as Ultravox, Soft Cell, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark and Yazoo took the synth from the pages of the NME and onto the front cover of Smash Hits.

By 1983 the Pet Shop Boys and New Order were pointing to where the future of electronic music lay in dance.

Contributors to Synth Britannia include Philip Oakey, Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, Bernard Sumner, Gary Numan and Neil Tennant."

BBC4 Synth Britannia Trailer

YouTube via Synthasy2000
" In the late Seventies small pockets of electronic artists such as The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle were inspired by Kraftwerk and J G Ballard to dream of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain.

Gary Numan's 1979 appearance on Top Of The Pops heralded the invention of synthpop, which would provide the soundtrack as Britain entered a new, ruthless era in the Eighties.

Depeche Mode, four lads from Basildon, came to embody the new sound, while post-punk bands such as Ultravox, Soft Cell, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark and Yazoo took the synth from the pages of the NME and onto the front cover of Smash Hits.

By 1983 the Pet Shop Boys and New Order were pointing to where the future of electronic music lay in dance.

Contributors to Synth Britannia include Philip Oakey, Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, Bernard Sumner, Gary Numan and Neil Tennant."

Rowland 303 - $100

Classic one from Craiglist Seattle sent via JG:

"rowland 303 - $100
Reply to: sale-304154428@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-04-01, 9:01AM PDT


my boyfriend didnt come home last night (again) so i'm selling off his stuff
apparently this is some sort of synthesizer. he listens to that shitty techno music so maybe that will help you.

i'm so fucking mad at him right now that the first person here with some money gets it. or you can take me out to breakfast and have it. i dont care i just want to make him mad.

* Location: cap hill
* it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interest"