MATRIXSYNTH

Monday, May 22, 2006

Serge Modualr Synthesizer Prototype - New Flickr Set

flickr by wayneandwax. Title link takes you to more.

Listen Tu Compiuters

Ok, this one took me a bit to figure out. This originally was going to be a New Flickr Shot post for this. I was wondering if this unit actually existed because it looks pretty sweet in red. I then clicked the all sizes link to get a bigger shot of the image so I could read the text. It read more like a graphics design technique on placing text. So I think, ok this is just someone's photoshopped work for a design class or the like. Then I click on the link to www.compiuters.com at the bottom of the flickr shot. I get there and I see what looks like an interactive large scale version of this keyboard. Some music starts playing and I click a key, but nothing. So... I'm thinking this is a work in progress and eventually it'll be playable. Cool! I then notice the player controls and click the forward button. Nothing. I go about my browsing wondering if I should even post this and a few minutes later music starts playing but this time it's actually a song! And... It's actually interesting - catchy, geeky, computer, synth pop in Spanish (actually one track reminds me of "Bust a Move" and another reminds me of Bow Bow Wow for some reason). Catchy stuff. So at this point I'm obviously guessing this is a band's site. Pretty clever considering how I found it through flickr as a synth tagged shot. If you know more about them and/or if that's a real Casio product feel free to comment.

Polyfusion - New Flickr Shot

More great scans by bdu. Title link takes you to more including one for the Oberheim OB-X. Click on the All Sizes link on top of each shot to get to a bigger image.

JSH Pro Rhythm Drum Synt SD1

Shot pulled from this auction.

Details:

"For more pictures and SOUND SAMPLES go to here.

This drum synth sounds AMAZING - check out the samples at the link above.

The synth section has two oscillators, multi mode resonant filter, LFO, ring modulator, two envelope sections and an amazingly versatile architecture allowing the creation of sounds that most analogue synths could not manage.

Better still the drum pad is VELOCITY sensitive so the sound, filter, pitch, etc can change depending how hard you hit the pad!!

The controls are as follows:

VCO 1 (oscillator) - Frequency, Switch (square wave/noise/ring mod)
VCF (filter) - Frequency, Switch (low pass/band pass/high pass), Resonance
VCO 2 (oscillator) - Frequency, Switch (LFO/OFF/saw), Modulation amount (routable to VCO1 and VCF).
SWEEP (envelope section) - Switch (VCO1/both/VCO2),VCO (amount envelope modulates pitch of selected oscillator - allows positive and negative), VCF (envelope mod of VCF), Decay.
VCA - Decay, Volume.

10 knobs and 4 switches.

The architecture and modulation possibilities make for a very versatile unit that can produce sounds from the usual space drum to Kraftwerk snares, Kicks, hats and metal sounds (thanks to ring mod). Also the bass sounds are amazing and really unusual - great for sampling to allow accurate pitch control - or "play" the Frequency knob."

Electronic Latin Love - New Flickr Shot

flickr by AdamVandenberg.

Synthi AKS Vids on YouTube

Via Des choses et d'autres. The following was translated from the post via Google translator:
"Here five vidéos here of Ems Synthi Aks, truth, which was posted by Cores303, a happy owner of this superb synthetizer. It has just carried out very different sequences, showing the possibilities of this sonic instrument. Moreover, obviously, its Ems Synthi Aks was modified. "

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Click each image to launch video.

Udpate via deb7680:
"Here are the modifications of the Ems :
It possesses all the modifications proposed by EMS in the 70s: - modif. on the reverb - modif. on the envellope cad that we can activate(start) a sequence by pressing on the red button - inversion of tensions: with 4 reversers, the sound is to play has to, exellent for news(short stories) sound creations –
- Synchronization 3 oscillateurs which allows to controler chaqun of them independently, this modif. allows to create sounds very complex impossible with a normal aks - modif. on the forms of waves in particular on the third to oscillateur which allows to explode the sound - finally, great pleasure, The aks is entirement CV and Gate, cad that it is completely midi via a kenton kit kind(genre) pro solo or pro on 2000."

Also check out this post.

Sunday, May 21, 2006

Des choses et d'autres - New Video Blog by deb8076

deb8076 of Chroniques de la Mao just launched a new blog, Des choses et d'autres, which will feature videos. So far he has a performance by Soft Machine and some killer Synthi AKS videos on YouTube. I'll be putting up a post on the Synthi vids with tomorrow's set of posts in a bit, but if you want to see them before then, check out deb8076's new blog. Via deb8076 in the comments of this post.

Warning - Hongkongsupersellers

I've been hearing a lot of bad things about hongkongsupersellers, suppliers of ICs and other parts. Title link takes you to the latest on GetLoFi. Here's a bit from somone on AH who wishes to remain anonymous. Consider yourself warned. Chipsforbrains on the other hand is apparently all good.

"This guy sells a lot of out-of-production IC's on E-bay, I've seen him offer SSM filter chips & 4096-stage BBD IC's. The latter is what I got screwed on, it seems he's selling counterfeit (knock-off's) MN3005 & MN3205's........what I got was a 2048-stage BBD (still in production & cheap to buy) that had been relabled as a MN3205 (discontinued). What's worse, I've let him know they are counterfeits & about to send 'em back for a refund, but he is still selling them....so he's got no scrupples.

Both the MN3205 & MN3005's look fake comparing them to the panasonic chips I've got & Chip4brains stock. He's sold a bunch of them already (in sets of 10), so I'm sure a lot of folks are gonna be pissd off."