MATRIXSYNTH

Quasimidi 309

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

Details:
"It has the audio expansion which turns the 309 into a powerful production machine due to its capability to seperate the parts to their own outs. It has the drum expansion and the synth expansion. It also has the latest os 3.00a.

I've made with the 309, you can visit my myspace page: Listen to the song called (mini). The drums are the 309 and the synth parts are a polymorph. Believe it or not, I recorded this live and did not add effects or process it in any way. The 309 allows you to assign patterns to the 18 buttons (pads) on the sequencer, so you can set up a song and move through it live by pressing each pad as you progress. This is how I made this song. Anyway, I guess what I'm trying to say is, don't doubt the 309, it's not only alot of fun, but extremely powerful and versatile if you dig into it. These are pictures of the actual 309. The readouts show the os version, and the expansions, (I/O) = In/Out, (D) = Drum, (S) = Synth. Beautiful."

15-front

flickr by GermanDragon.

MOOG Model 15

click here for the full sized shot.

Alex Mauer - Vegavox

YouTube via balansamba. Via Music Thing.
"Video from Alex Mauer's Vegavox album, exported from Nestopia (NES emulator) - available soon on a real NES cart, for more info: http://www.myspace.com/alexmauer"

Audio Damage Dr. Device Demos are Up

Remember Dr. Device? Demos are now up on the product page. Title link takes you there - just scroll down when you get there.

Modular Synth In Darkness

flickr by essex sound lab.

"Primarily synthesizers.com modules, plus Cyndustries Zeroscillators and Suit & Tie Guy modules."

Title link takes you to the set.

AudioRealism Drum Machine (ADM)

Remember the AudioRealism Drum Machine? Looks like it's had a bit of a face lift.

Details:
" Booming bassdrums, saucy cymbals and crispy snares can be used to describe the sound of drum machines from the early 80's. ADM contains three classic vintage drum machines from that era rolled into one, combined with a 32-step internal sequencer and pattern controlled fx (PCF). Get all your patterns into ADM via the Import Rebirth function or directly from your old 909 via sysex (we will provide a free tool for dumping sysex).

Sounds

ADM contains 25 drum generators, each one carefully modeled after the classics' analog circuits and 4 PCM players, for a total of 34 sounds (some generators have two sounds). Certain sounds have been extended with extra parameters, like the tuning and attack of the 606 bassdrum. The accents effect on bridged-T oscillators that make up the bassdrum and tom-tom sounds has been closely simulated and the hihats and cymbals sound and react very close to the originals.

The complete list of sounds is as follows: BD808, BD909, BD606, SD808, SD909, SD606, LT808, MT808, HT808, LC808, MC808, HC808, LT909, MT909, HT909, LT606, HT606, RS808, CL808, RS909, MA808, CP808, CP909, CB808, CRASH909*, OH606, OH808, OH909*, CH606, CH808, CH909*, CY606, CY808, RIDE909*."

Formant Modular Through Dynacord Demo

Update: You can find some pics of the modular posted here.

Title link takes you to an awesome demo of the Formant Modular via Georg. Right click the link and save it locally, and then play it. You can follow the timeline below that way.

Details
- Q+ Arpeggiator is driving via Midi CV/Gate the Formant
- Formant into Dynacord TAM 21
- Dyncard DRP20 used with Warm Gate Preset

Formant Drums

0:00 - no patch cords
0:13 - Feedback Loop with the RFM (Resonant Filter Module)
0:26 - Noise into the 24 dB filter
0:39 - Decay tweaks for filter and amp envelope
1:00 - tweaking the RFM settings
1:25 - Full LFO action on the TAM 21
1:35 - Stepping through TAM 21 modes
2:00 - Killer Resonance of the TAM 21
2:39 - Envelope Follower on Resonance
3:00 - TAM 21 off
3:05 - DRP20 off

Update via Georg:
"It is the Formant as introduced in the magazine Elektor in 1977/78 designed by C. Chapman. My Formant was built from Kits of a company called ICA, which sold those kits in Germany. It is not the Formant Pro or MSS2000."

More Updates via swissdoc (Georg) in the comments:
"Those kits are not available anymore, you may find a used system though. The original VCO Design was uA726 based, a chip which is not produced anymore.

Check this links, the latter has the scanned books with all the circuits:
http://www.analoghell.com/studio/forsale/formant/
http://rubidium.dyndns.org/cag/

The soundcharacter of the formant.dynacord demo is quite much from the TAM 21, a BBD based analog flanger plus the RFM module of the Formant, which is a 3 band parametric equalizer."

and

"Some more sound examples from the Formant, this time directly taken from the output, no further processing.

The VCOs - First showing off the 5 different waveforms of one VCO (sin/tri/sqr/saw/spaced saw) then activating more and more waveforms on the 3 VCOs until all 15 are active

PWM - 3 VCOs with square waves, then gradually ativating PWM for all VCOs by the 3 LFOs, then tweaking 12 dB filter settings and the envelope

12 dB Filter LP/HP/BP - Running the VCOs through the 12 dB Filter in the various modes while tweaking envelope intensity, filter frequency and resonance.

FM - The VCOs are set up in a circular FM configuration, 1->2, 2->3, 3->1 with maximum intensity, then various waveforms are switched on and off on the 3 VCOs

Georg."

LolCatSynth "contest" on CatSynth.com

He's baaaack...

For those interested, title link takes you to a caption the cat synth contest on CatSynth.com.

Commitment by PXP

YouTube via Sharpblue (click for more).
"Track 8 from our'Calcium Waves' CD originally released in 1998, from a concept that took Andy and myself two years to complete. This track was originally started of life as a demo recorded and sequenced entirely on an Ensoniq SQ80, sounds which are prominent throughout the track. This track also features some lovely analog sounds from the Yamaha CS40M the baby brother of the CS80.

Music by PXP (Andrew Russell, Mark Keen)
©1998 PXP Music MCPS

I hope you like it. Again no video just the iTunes visualiser"