Matrixsynth Google Translated

You might noticed a bunch of little flags were just added to the top right of the site. These are Google translator links. If you click on a flag, it will take you to a Google translated version of the site.

Two Years of MATRIXSYNTH

I just realized I missed my two year anniversary. Matrixsynth went live on July 20th of 2005. You can see some of the early posts on the right side of the site under Blog Archive. Note that the current month is always expanded by default. Under each month you can see the titles for every single post. If you click on one it will take you to the post. If you click on one of the triangles to the left it will either close or expand the section based on it's current state. Thanks everyone. I hope you are all enjoying the site. This year I thought it would be interesting to see some stats for the last year. What surprised me were the number of unique visitors over the year. I thought there were fewer of us out there.

From July 20, 2006 - July 20, 2007:
1,912,361 Page Views, (2,630,413 all time so far)
306,646 Absolute Unique Visitors
00:08:43 Average Time on Site
29.05% New visits
463,196 (44.52%) Via Search Engines
295,687 (28.42%) Via Referring Sites
281,536 (27.06%) Via Direct Visits
27 (> 0.00%) Via Other (hmm... what would that be?)

Top 10 visits by location:
United States 484,381
United Kingdom 92,121
Canada 74,827
Germany 48,289
France 45,530
Sweden 30,351
Italy 27,093
Japan 25,020
Netherlands 23,020
Australia 22,399

Number of countries/territories that visited the site: 180
Crazy. BTW, I just added a Google Translation page on the top right. Let me know how it works.

Yamaha SY22 Resource Page

Title link takes you wolzow's Yamaha SY22 page where you will find a sysex viewer, a link to the operating manual, links to other resources and some notes on the synth.
"The sounds (voices, as Yamaha calls them) are normally combined of 4 different waveforms (2 samples, two FM) and this process is controllable with a cute joystick (this is the 'dynamic vector synthesis' part). The manual has a table exposing the ingredients of the factory sounds. I was curious about how the rest of the sounds (found on the net, that can be loaded via sysex dumps) are made up, so I examined the sysex spec and wrote a small utility to create similar table with details for any sysex file." The Yamaha TG33 was the table top version of the SY22.

Live Analog. ARP2600, Korg MS10&20

YouTube via tomwave2600.
"www.positionzero.se for more. Live performence with my analog gizmos."
Note there are mp3 downloads of some tracks including the end track of this video.

02.06.2006 - rock am ring (2)

flickr by hurti1000.

Sent my way via Jason

The drummer of Tool, Danny Carey with an EMS Synthi

Building a Robot

YouTube via robotmakers. Also see this post.
"The Robotmakers new video "Building a Robot" was filmed on location at their mysterious superterranean lair. Secrets are revealed, but questions are left unanswered."

Ratty Roland SH-1000 Rebirth

YouTube via tardis454.
"I bought this synth in many pieces and just finished restoring it. Here's a short demo of the Ratty Roland SH-1000 in some random note action."

ACKLEBOX ANALOG CONTACT NOISE SYNTH

via this auction.
"Simply touch the the metal contacts to make all kinds of chaotic sounds.
User must touch at least two contacts to produce the sounds.
Listen to a sample here.
Check out my other auctions here."

Roland TB-303 VCF Env Mod

Title link takes you there.

We're Bringin' Sexy Back

The biggest news of Summer NAMM 07. The NEW Timbaland Special Edition MiKo LX!

Timbaland