MATRIXSYNTH

at 10/28/2006 12:01:00 AM

Remember the Kinetic Sound Prism? Title link takes you to a 3.99M demo according to Elhardt. The question mark? Well Elhardt is the man who brought us the Bahn Sage, and is suspect number one on the SMS 2000, so...

"The following excerpt is a mp3 I recorded off of the Prism demo tape. As
can be heard, it's probably a better advertisement NOT to spend $30K on this
synth. It doesn't seem to be making any kinds of sounds that couldn't be
done on something like a Prophet-5, except that with the polyphony and
multitimbral capabilities, maybe it can be done without multitracking. And
by the time the Prism appeared, NED had added sampling to the Synclav, and
there was the Fairlight. Both with demo tapes that made you want to buy
them. If I can find somebody to host large MP3 files, I can record those
demo tapes too.

I should point out also, that bubble memory was not a useless or obsolete
technology. It maintains memory on power down without battery backup, just
as my Apple ][ bubble memory card has been doing for the past 25 years, and
might be able to do so even with an EMP from a nuclear bomb. Bub mem was
still being sold up into the 90's in the form of RAM Disc computer cards.
Maybe still is."

at 10/27/2006 02:11:00 PM

"This is a sculpture that produces electronic synthesiser sounds and precussion. I used to see the old photographs ow ww1 submarines and the "talking tubes" that connected the various areas of the submarine."

Via Mike Ford. Title link takes you to more of his incredible work. Absolutely beautiful. Mike also tells me he will be putting up some videos of his work on YouTube. I can't wait. I'll be putting up posts as soon as they come in.

at 10/27/2006 01:51:00 PM

Title link takes you there.

via Gijs.

at 10/27/2006 01:47:00 PM

Here's a shot of the Waldorf Nano card for the CME range of MIDI controllers. The image was grabbed from an animated gif on this site. Sent my way via aves.

at 10/27/2006 01:25:00 PM

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this VSE thread. Note that it's for sale.

at 10/27/2006 01:17:00 PM

flickr by basilb.

at 10/27/2006 01:16:00 PM

flickr by basilb.

Title link takes you to more synth shots.

Update via one of the anonymous in the comments:
"This one is also on the Hinton modification page: link1, link2.
It belonged to a band called Zorch."

at 10/27/2006 01:12:00 PM

flickr by tvvork.

Title link takes you to more cover shots in the set.

BTW, you can download issues of Synapse magazine off of the Cynthia website under the goodies section.