MATRIXSYNTH

Monday, December 04, 2006

RadioShack MicroMoog

flickr by asbestosis.

Title link takes you to more gear shots.

Roland CSQ-100 Sequencer

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction.

Also posted on Synthwire by the seller, UNIT-SOUND.

Roland Planet P Piano Module

No title link, just these three shots pulled via this auction. I never realized the buttons lit up like that.

Details:
"Mono timbral instument with 8 patches - piano 1 & 2, clavi 1 & 2, harpsichord 1 & 2, e.piano 1 & 2 with more variations of these basic sounds available using MIDI patch changes.
An effects section provides simultanious chorus/flanger and tremolo.

The basic front panel controls are:

tune, volume & brilliance
chorus or flange toggle with rate & depth controls.
square or sine tremelo mod toggle with rate & depth controls.
8 patch select buttons.
MIDI channel up & down buttons with LED display.
The back panel features Mono/Stereo out and MIDI In & Thru only."

Portable Analog Synth and Effect Processor

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction.

Details:
"This is a new, handbuilt synth unit and effect processor. Built into a rugged aluminum carrying case. This unit is excellent for creating very unique and unusual sounds. great for drones and noise music or use in a modular system. Unit contains 2 oscillators with pitch knobs for each, an LFO for modulating the sound with frequency and modulation depth, an external input with gain for creating distortion effects, a mixer to mix osc 1, osc 2 and the external input, fed the output from the mixer is an effect similar to bit reduction which has a depth knob and can be bypassed, and finaly there is a lowpass filter for further sound shaping."

Samples (also mirrored here):
the synth
using the external circuit

Texas Instruments TI99 Speech Synthesizer

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction.

Details: "This is a new sealed TI 99/4 SPEECH SYNTHESIZER See side photo of intact warning sticker and intact packaging. These were sent out by TI as premiums for buying a certain amount of carts and this one was a spare. Overseas bidders note this item weighs 11 oz. includes instruction booklet and original box/packaging as pictured."

Analog synth - Roland Juno 106

flickr by cicciostoky.

The Human League Documentary

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

via sequencer.de

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Synth Movies

Be sure to see Synths in TV and Film for videos and pics.

Deconstructing Dad - Raymond Scott

OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music (2005)

Moog (2004)

Tangerine Dream Live at Coventry Cathedral 1975 (2007)

Modulations: Cinema for the Ear (1998)

Better Living Through Circuitry (1999)

Oxygene: Live In Your Living Room (3D version here)

Et la tendresse?... Bordel!

Liquid Sky on IMDB
Liquid Sky on Ebay
Liquid Sky on Amazon

via synthetic in the comments of this post: "Neil Diamond's "The Jazz Singer" was on cable a few days ago and the synth player was rockin' an ARP Quadra. I think I saw a String Ensemble in there too. The last concert scene, "Fahhh, we've been travelin' faaahhh..."