The short version:
Today marks the one year anniversary of Matrixsynth. It's exactly one year and 3148 posts since I started this site to track everything synth. Thanks to everyone who makes this site great by either sending stuff in, posting in the comments or spreading the word.
The long version:
I started this blog because my old site
Matrixsynth.com/old simply wasn't cutting it anymore. I created the original site in October 1997 as my portal into the world of synths. I'd see an interesting site and add a link (BTW, the alias matrix and the green on black color scheme came well before The Matrix movies. My first and favorite synth was an Oberheim Matrix-6, hence matrix. I'm a synth geek not a Matrix movie geek).
As time when on I found it difficult to find stuff I previously came across. So... I figured what better way to store and make all of this available to others than via a blog. The idea is very simple. I sub to a bunch of lists, feeds and forums; people send me stuff, I interact with people and I see things I want to save for posterity. When I see something I think I might want to see again, I post it. No discrimination. BTW, if you haven't noticed, this site is not meant to be a journal or publication. It's just a bunch of stuff about synths. If you enjoy synths, I hope you enjoy what you see here. It's a heartbeat on what others also into synths are doing, or rather what I happen to come across on a daily basis. Nothing more, nothing less.
When I first started the blog I never would have guessed so much stuff was out there. People asked me if I thought I would ever run out of things to post. I actually wondered myself. The answer turned out to be only if others out there run out of things to share themselves. Which leads me to...
THANK YOU
I want to say thank you to everyone out there who supports this blog. Anyone that has sent me something worth posting. Anyone that takes the time out to engage in the comments and of course everyone that reads this site and spreads the word. Thank you. It's actually crazy. I started the blog to track stuff only I came across. It's turned out to be a whole lot more. I never would have thought people would be enriching the site via the comments and letting me know when there was something else worthwhile posting. Thank you. BTW, you should notice that I frequently update my posts with comments and I always give credit when credit is due.
As a side note, at one point I offered to open up Matrixsynth for others to post but I got a resounding NO, so I created
SYNTHWIRE for others to sign up and start posting. You can also promote your own stuff there, so use it!
Back on point. So, what next? Another year of posting. Thanks all, it has been one heck of a year.
Special thanks to
moogulator of
sequencer.de, Tom Whitwell of
MusicThing, Peter Kirn of
Create Digital Music, James Grahame of
Retro Thing, Chris Randall of
Analog Industries, Circuitmaster of
GetLoFi,
Carbon111, George Mattson, Brian Comnes, Dave (
The Packrat),
Dennis Verschoor, fmasseti, Loscha, Ross Healy, Steve Barbour of
Gnostic Rocket, vlada of
One Blue Monkey, deb7680 of
Chroniques de la Mao, Rick of
Electricmusicbox,
Heath Finnie,
DVDBorn, Mark Pulver, Doktor Future, Cikira, and of course Elhardt. ; ) You all contributed a little extra to the blog in your own way. Thanks for that.
And of course to the late great Bob Moog and all the synth manufacturers out there. Thank you.
And last but definitely not least, a HUGE thanks to my wife and daughter for tolerating the time and effort I put into this site on a daily basis. Thank You!
Update: I also want to thank Fernando Alves for making my favicon way back, and Paul and Brian Comnes for being the only two people that bought my matrixsynth shirt way back.
And of course, every person or site I've put up a post on. Thanks for having something worth posting about. ; )
Two shots in via Rick of electricmusicbox.
Title link takes you to the closed auction with a Buy it Now of $175. Just wanted to shar the pain...
You might notice a new flickr box in the right nav. It's not an ad. It's a random image player of all the shots in the Matrixsynth flickr set. Title link takes you to the set. I created it because I thought it would be a cool alternative to digging through the archives. Each image is a shot from a post in the archives. Click on one and it will bring you to the shot on flickr. The description of the shot on flickr is a link to the post on Matrixsynth. The idea is if you see an image that strikes you, click on it and check out the post. So far I have July 2005 through September 2005 for a total of 440 shots. I will add to the set as I have time. The goal is obviously to get every single shot in a post in the set. I promised myself I would put this up on my one year anniversary finished or not. The Matrixsynth flickr set of all posts also just went public today. If the images in the right nav are too small, try it instead. Please enjoy. This was an excruciatingly tedious and time consuming thing to do. : )
flickr by devowski. I keep telling myself I'm going to skip the next shot by devowski and then he comes up with stuff like this. A Casio Rock. This brings a new meaning to the saying, dead weight.
