MATRIXSYNTH

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

SIEL Owners Manuals

Two shot via two auctions:

Siel Expander 80
Siel DK70

Monday, November 05, 2007

"The Alesis A6 Andromeda is without any doubt the most powerful and flexible analog polysynth ever made. But all that power and flexibility comes at a price: complexity. The sheer number of patch parameters is almost overwhelming yet most can be easily controlled with all those knobs and switches.

But it's quite a different story for multi-timbral Mix setups. The A6 display is more than adequate for most tasks but using it to set up a Mix can be awkward, tedious and quite error-prone. Mix Maker was designed to make that process a lot easier and user-friendly by providing a familiar and intuitive mixing desk interface to those 'hidden' Mix parameters." [link]

ANDROMIZER 1.2

Random patch generator for the Alesis Andromeda A6.

"Tired of your A6 always sounding the same? (Yeah right ;-)

ANDROMIZE it!

ANDROMIZER is a utility designed to screw up your Alesis Andromeda's current program edit buffer. Utterly, completely, and irretrievably.

ANDROMIZER sends series of MIDI sysex messages to your A6, automatically changing lots of program parameters to random values. The result can be stored in patch memory or tweaked until doomsday and then stored, or even discarded on the fly.

What to expect?
Your instant, self-running, aleatoric chaos patch will not appear just using a randomizer. Remember that the only thing this tool does, is: to give a host of parameters totally random values. Most often, after a complete run of ANDROMIZER, what you will hear is complete silence, because most combinations of parameter values in a system like this just do not make sense. I have tried to reduce the number of useless configurations... but not too much, since such a selection process necessarily means applying personal taste. Be prepared to spend a lot of time tweaking, trying to figure out why the bloody thing sounds like it does (or does not make any sound at all), and how to make it sound more to your liking...

How to use it?
In all the ways it wasn't designed for, how else? :-) Seriously, I could tell you how I've used it successfully to create some remarkable sounds, but that wouldn't be much fun, would it? The only advice I will share: be selective about which modules to randomize. Not all of them are equally useful. And don't forget you can use the Normalize button to (wholly or partly) initialize your patch to default values."

click here for more info and the download.

W. Palm 'Der kleine'

click here for the flickr set by janvanvolt.

W. Palm as in Wolfgang Palm of PPG

Ego Death

YouTube via inducejack. via a new blog, Chicago Jack (check it out).
"SUPER FOUL 707 JACK WITH REVOLUTION 303 emulation accompanied with a random arpeggio from the infamous pss 480 triggered electribe style."

MOOG CEMS X-Y Controllers

currently up for auction on VEMIA.
"RA Moog X-Y controllers all in a row. These five, serial numbers 1002-5 and 1008, are part of the CEMS custom Moog system. Joel Chadabe and the other guys who used the system would set up elaborate interacting sequences with the eight 960/962s, delays, VC mixers etc., and then tweak them with these joysticks."
follow up to this post. To see all VEMIA posts to date, click here.