Synthesized Heart [Draft]

"This is part of an artwork made for a poster of a party that will take place in Sofia on December 16th. That synthesizer really made me sweat."

flickr by NeverB4Breakfast

Update: here's the flyer: link

Admiring Morpheus

flickr by pozdno

Title link takes you to a few more shots featuring:
Korg Microkorg
E-MU Morpheus
Korg N5ex

Oberheim Matrix-6R

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction. Click the image to see the full set of paramaters. Seriously underated synth.

A little Matrixsynth trivia: the Matrix-6 was my first synth, hence the alias matrix and the name of the site, Matrixsynth. It has nothing to do with The Matrix line of films and I actually had the green on black going before the first movie, back in Oct, 97: old Matrixsynth site.

Korg MS-50

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction.

Details:
"The Korg MS-50 is modular in design and completely at the top end of the MS range of synthesizers. This keyboard-less expander type module is completely patchable and uses Korg's Hz/V type of CV and Gate for control with other synths like the MS-20. There are lots of knobs and patch points to play with on this one... The MS-50 is still a single VCO monophonic analog beast but offered more patchability and power than any other MS synth. Other features include a ring modulator, voltmeter and sample & hold. It was also designed to complement the SQ-10 sequencer. It has been used by countless artists including recently The Chemical Brothers."

Korg MS-20

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction.

Some details:
"In addition to two analog oscillators, the MS-20 featured two resonant VCF filters, two VCAs, sample and hold, a noise generator, an assignable mod-wheel and lots of knobs! The VCF filter section is capable of high-pass, low-pass, notch and band-reject which is unique and different than your basic lowpass style filter. External sound sources can be routed through the filter section as well. In fact William Ørbit uses the filter in his MS-20 relentlessly to filter and tweak his samples, beats, delay returns, vocals, etc.

There's also a Pitch-CV converter for triggering sounds from external sources. Aphex Twin makes quite a bit of use of this, feeding the input stage of his MS-20s with drum sounds and other untrackable audio to get the synth to make a wide variety of crunch/squawp/screech noises by mistracking the filters, etc."

Matrix_Mixer.JPG

"passive 3x3 matrix mixer in vhs tape box."

flickr by Inglizian. Title link takes you to a few more. via .alex in the comments of this post.

ms20wired

flickr by reiven.

Pethu Hahaha Synths

Hahaha CS01 & CS01II


Hahaha CS33


Hahaha CS33 Evolution Edition


Title link takes you there. Via sequencer.de.

Suzanne Ciani

Title link takes you to a few more shots of Suzanne Ciani on Failed Muso. Also check out these previous posts for more.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Turkey day to those in the US. I did a quick image search for "thanksgiving synth" and this came up. I guess if there ever was a Turkey Synth, this would be it. Although this Korg Trident definitely has the colors going for it. BTW, this keytar shot ended up being from this CDM post from last year. : )

OK, off to go gorge myself. Leave it to the good old USA for creating a holiday where the main purpose is to completely stuff yourself.