Exploring the Geddy Lee Minimoog Model D!

video upload by moogfoundation

"Enter our fundraising raffle to win this gorgeous limited edition Geddy Lee Minimoog here: https://bit.ly/GeddyLeeMinimoog2025

This brand new synth comes with the following:

🎛 Numbered Certificate of Authenticity, personally hand-signed by Geddy Lee

🎹 Satin red finish exclusive to this edition

🎛 Hot-rodded VCA circuit for extra sonic punch

🎹 Custom 'Starman' badge on the front and matching sticker on the rear

🎛 Limited-edition 10" red translucent vinyl featuring Rush’s "Xanadu" and "Jacob’s Ladder"

🎹 Exclusive Geddy Lee Minimoog Model D poster

The raffle runs through May 19th and is open internationally."
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I spy a packrat in the video. ;) / umop

Bob Moog Foundation 2020 Year-In-Review Recap!

moogfoundation

"As we prepare to turn the page on 2020, we pause to reflect on all that has taken place for us at the Bob Moog Foundation. We have faced some great challenges, and made some great accomplishments, and we want to thank you more than ever for your support throughout this year. As we continue to adapt and explore new ways to serve both our local and global communities, we are deeply grateful for all of your support!

Many thanks to all of you who have supported our innovative path forward.
Please support our work here: http://bit.ly/ContributeBMF

Music: "Ties That Bind" by Parallax
Written by Randel Osborne and David C. Lovelace
umop.com/parallax.htm"

Moogsaic: Bob, Synths, & Artistry T-Shirt

via The Bob Moog Foundation

"Celebrating Bob's contribution to the world of synthesis, illustrator David C. Lovelace offers a beautiful hand-drawn creation for our newest art t-shirt design, Moogsaic. Composed of over 250 hand-drawn, detailed synthesizers, modules, and other sonic components, Bob's image and intense gaze emerge to compel the viewer to examine the mosaic of skillfully placed musical hardware. Bob's signature wavy hair, composed of patch cables, crowns the design. It is a striking homage.

You can purchase the Moogsaic t-shirt here and you can read more about David's artistic process in developing the t-shirt here.

All purchases from our online store go to benefit our educational and historic preservation projects. Please keep us in mind as the holiday giving season approaches!"

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P.S. David C. Lovelace is supporting MATRIXSYNTH member! Thank you Dave! You can find more of his work and music on his official website, umop.com. He is the man behind The Packrat synth comics and the synthtastic Parallax.

Keyboard Solo Medley: Chapter II

Published on Jun 18, 2017 hamsterdunce

"More music on umop.com/parallax.htm

It's been 11 years since my first video here on YouTube: the dreaded 1980s Keyboard Solo Medley! [see below] This time around, after a mere 19 takes and a few weeks of prep work, I decided to expand the selections by plus or minus a decade or so. The song names and original artists are all titled in the video for your convenience!

Other fun links:

A Facebook page where I Photoshop laser beams onto cats (naturally this page is getting rather popular): facebook.com/catlazers

My PATREON page where as of this writing I am currently earning $11/month so it's kind of a joke but maybe donate anyway: patreon.com/catlazers

My Packrat comic book, 60 pages of synthesizer cartoons and amazingness: umop.com/packrat.htm

Here's a place where you can buy some DVDs of my animations: umop.com/dvd.htm

There's a crapload of other links I could post here but you get the idea. I make lots of art & music and want you to buy all of it.

Thanks for watching! --Dave"

1980s Keyboard Solo Medley

Uploaded on Feb 21, 2007

"All (or at least most) of your favorite cheesy keyboard solos wrapped up in one medley. Sorry about the jacket."

So awesome. And the jacket still fits! :)

White Hole by Parallax - instrumental synthesizer & keytar solo

Published on May 1, 2017 hamsterdunce

"Performed on the standard Roland JD-800 mod, along with an old 01/W sequence & a few surprises including a Nord Stage 2 organ solo & a couple of Roland Axistron niblets. More music on umop.com/parallax.htm ... if you like the music, grab a CD!"

The Packrat Gets a New Waldorf Quantum

via http://umop.com

Demons actually raised by trillion-note synthesizer wizardry by a man in his pajamas

Published on Mar 25, 2017

With a custom white Roland JD-800 no less.

"Here's a performance of 'Fractal 1' off my 1998 Parallax CD 'umop apisdn' available at umop.com/parallax.htm for five tiny dollars.

I have a chest cold and accidentally took the Nighttime DM Extra Strength Robitussin this morning, so now I am convinced that I have travelled back in time from 2080 to play the music that your great grandchildren are already tired of. Enjoy!

--Dave"

A Minty Fresh Assblaster

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via this auction

"One used Metasonix KV-100 Assblaster serial number 13 - a rare item, out of production and from a limited run. Barely used maybe 20 hours, virtually mint with power supply."

This one in via Brian Comnes:

"Reluctantly I am selling my Metasonix Assblaster. It's just not being used and I can use the bucks for some other items. Gotta like those graphics however. 8-)

So if you had achoice between adding an Eventide H9 pedal or getting asmall Linnstrument keyboard what would you choose.

When Buchla raised the price of the Easel AUX expander from $499 to $799 I dropped interest in that, sheesh you can get a lot of good synth stuff for $800."

You can find a demo video of the Metasonix KV-100 Assblaster here.

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Korg Karma - Demo

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Published on Aug 31, 2016 hamsterdunce

"Selling a Korg Karma synth - available for sale here: https://reverb.com/item/2861243

This demo shows me running through a few patches to display full functionality. This video may be removed from the channel at some point, but subscribers may feel free to enjoy the '80s shredding until then. :-)

More interesting music & art things available to digest at umop.com"

And some pics via the auction.

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"Cowboys From Hell" by Pantera - performed on TOY PIANOS by a ridiculous idiot

Published on Jun 4, 2016 hamsterdunce

"COWBOYS FROM HELL, HAIL YUSS - more radness to be found on umop.com and please subscribe to Hamsterdunce and blarbirty blar blarrr keyboards whoooo"

A new classic track from MATRIXSYNTH Member, David C. Lovelace. Check his site out! You'll find plenty of whacked up sights & sounds there.

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.

The Confines - original instrumental electro-prog lounge-shred - Parallax

Published on Nov 11, 2015 hamsterdunce

"Here's an old unreleased Parallax song played on a Korg SV-1 RV. The sequence is naturally from a floppy-disk-fueled Korg O1/W from 1990-something, so the drums are primitive, to say the least. The lobsters are just there to keep us company.

Parallax CDs, artifacts of a synthesizer Utopia that is both fun and treacherous to visit, are available at umop.com/parallax.htm"

David C. Lovelace of Parallax aka hamsterdunce is a supporter of MATRIXSYNTH!

AHNE 2015 - a terrifying room full of synthesizers and their insanely lucky owners

Published on May 17, 2015 hamsterdunce

"Another month of May, another annual Analog Heaven NorthEast (AHNE) gathering. This year it all went down at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, in the rotunda of the Genko Uchida Building. Most people don't even get to see this kind of stuff in person, let alone touch it. One attendee called it a 'Synth Petting Zoo.'

This video breezes around the entire room in an almost unfairly brief fashion. Around every turn there was yet another mind-burrowing megapile of cables and knobs waiting for a scientist with a 300 I.Q. to actually figure out how to use. One presented even had a brainwave interface.

Granted, on a music level, there was about as much soul in the room as a stale can of tuna fish, but this gear isn't about soul. It's about building a sonic robot army in your basement and terrorizing your neighbors at 3AM.

Subscribe to my channel for more occasional synth-related videos, and check out umop.com for art, animation, and other craparoni."

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!

YYZ on a keytar - no further description is needed

Published on Dec 2, 2014

"Welcome to another installment of ridiculousness!

Thanks for so many years of YouTube support. Despite my intergalactic adventures I am a real person in need of real support. Please visit patreon.com/packrat for more information.

This film was masterfully cinematographied (blorg?) by one of my very best friends, an 8-year-old by the name of Jaxon Ventura. It doesn't matter that you don't know who that is; your kids will absolutely worship him sometime in the 2030s.

It's all OK.

You have no idea what is happening right now. It's weird when time travelers post shit on YouTube. Anyway, that's just going to have to be all right with everyone, and most especially Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart, who wrote one of my favorite all-time songs, "YYZ," which I've decided to sequence on an old Korg O1/W keyboard for nostalgic, shreducational purposes, and play along with it on one of my 1984 Roland Axis keytars controlling a Roland JD-800 synth. This is all happening at the Safehouse, which is an independent republic located in the heart of Connecticut and recognized (by at least five people) as a sovereign state known as "The Din." Its liege lords, the Royal Din, are what you would call "my band," and while we don't marinate in this kind of progressive wankadoo horseplay while playing live in front of anyone, we do on occasion do some pretty amazing musical feats together. It can be monitored on royaldin.com.

Meanwhile, keep coming back to this YouTube channel for more feats of berzerking amusement, and of course umop.com for updates on my comic strip "The Packrat," which contains a lot of synthesizer references and other stuffs of nerdist delight.

Pants by Betabrand, shirt by Beloved.

--Dave"

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."

The Packrat's Halloween Costume

via The Packrat

"The Halloweeny October edition!"

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

the Packrat Comic for July, 2014

via The Packrat on Facebook

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

Parallax - Emulation (legendary unicorn synthesizer blastacular electronic bullcraparoni!)

Published on Feb 6, 2014

"More music over at umop.com/parallax.htm

Hey pants plunderers! Here we go with another late-nite synth spectacle from the mighty unicornical sequencers of Sir David C. Lovelace of Thunderdump, Connecticut. Sequenced on a Korg 01/W and performed on a Roland JD-800 (customsynth.uk white) and Nord Lead 2X Anniversary Edition (oh, the opulence!), with other keyboards just kind of sitting there wondering why they too cannot share in the majesty of this singularly original asshole fingerplay. OH WELL KEYBOARDS you must wait until the next video, or until more people purchase delicious Parallax albums and merit your infernal usage, bitchmeisters!

HOORAY FOR YOUTUBE DESCRIPTIONS! They are both educational and mentally black-holey. Stick a fork in your ear for even better aural clarity. Just kidding, forks do not go in ears. DISCLAIMER: NO EAR FORKING! Lawsuits are not in the Parallax budget. Just be cool and don't do anything dangerous after watching this video or reading these word-texts. P.S. Unicorn Masks only cost $20 at Amazon but you cannot purchase the attitude needed to actually wear them. You must live a hard life of not giving a single crap when your parents tell you that everything you are doing is wrong and you'll never give them grandchildren acting like this. Um, what else? DON'T DO DRUGS! As in, don't have sex with drugs. Don't "do" them, right? Because that's not what they're designed for. Stupid ear-forking drug sexers. Sheesh."

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