MATRIXSYNTH

Monday, June 11, 2007

Oberheim OB-X

Click here for shots via this auction, including shots of the inside. As a follow up to this post, I took a quick look at the voice boards of my OB-SX and they are indeed different. All voice boards between the OB-X, OB-SX and OB-Xa are different.

via JZ.

Update: see this post for a close-up of the OB-SX board.

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Synton Syrinx

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"Synton Syrinx BLUE edition - it is the most expanded Syrinx ever made - look at the picture for the inputs, the black edition and even the expander version doesn´t have that.

My Syrinx has been serviced one week ago and is in very good condition for it´s age!

The Syrinx uses seven Curtis chips for its VCO's, VCF's and envelopes. It has two analog VCO's, a sub-oscillator and three flexible VCF filters. You can switch between the three filters for either a 24 dB lowpass, or two bandpass filters, and they can be patched in four different ways (series/parallel). Additionally the Syrinx has two LFO's, FM, PWM, osc-sync, 2 ADSR envelopes, ring modulation, portamento and a cool touch-pad that can control various parameters from pitch-bending to the LFO rate. The Syrinx's Mixer section lets you adjust levels for each VCO and the sub-osc as well as the Noise Generator and Ring Modulator."

via Benjamin.

Synthesized Sounds: Beach & Sea

"I've put video to some older synthesizer audio files I've done over the years. They make good demonstrations of what can be accomplished using analog subtractive synthesis. Each video lists what synth was used, in addition, some standard outboard effects were used such as EQ, reverb, digital delays, and/or chorus. -Ken Elhardt"

Kenneth B. Elhardt Synthesizer Page

Click here for Kenneth's new Synthesizer Page on Google pages. There are a couple more shots up. Hopefully even more will come.

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Octave Cat demonstration 1

YouTube via OriginalJambo. You might remember OriginalJambo from these Polysix vids.

MOOG Liberation

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"This is a custom model that was modified directly from the Moog factory...
First of all, it has a really nice custom paint job... baby blue with yellow trim and mod-style yellow arrow up the back. The ribbon controller has been replaced with a pitch/mod wheel. The wheel is not center-detented or spring loaded and at first I didn't like as much as the ribbon controller on the Micromoog I used to have, but after a few minutes of playing around with it, I changed my mind as it is very expressive and allows for very natural, smooth manual vibrato and the notch in the wheel fits right into the players thumb so it can be manipulated very quickly. There are some additional switches on the neck compared to the stock Liberations I've seen. There is one marked "Ext Trig on/off" which presumably allows you to turn off the CV/gate to an external synth (located on the rackmount interface) so that you can double your lead lines with an external synth, then switch it off when returning to rhythm or bass line (much like the feature included on the Polypedal with the Polymoog). There is an unmarked switch below it which changes between low and high note priority... this is very handy when using the monosynth (2 oscillators plus ring mod) along with the polyphonic (i.e. divide down oscillators) section, as the monosynth can be selected to play either the bass or lead part of a chord with the flip of a switch."

Roland SH-1000

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Updates on the OB-SX Post

If you haven't checked it out yet, check out the updates and comments to this OB-SX post. There are some interesting bits of info as to how Oberheim marketed the OB-X, OB-SX and OB-Xa as roughly the same synth. I disabled comments in this post to keep the comments on the previous post, so if you feel the need, comment there.

PS, you can find the full size version of this image here.