MATRIXSYNTH

Burble

click here for a new Buchla 200e track from Chris Muir. Scroll when you get there; it's the first track on the list. You will find more under it as well.

"Burble is the combination of two little improvs that were done a few days apart. After I had recorded the less rhythmic, droney, layer I wondered if that rhythmic thing I had recorded a couple days earlier was in the same key and tempo enough to fit on top.

It wasn't, but I glued them together anyway. I go back and forth on whether to add a lead sound to this one. What do you think?

For this one, my system was augmented with a borrowed 259e waveform generator, which I used heavily. There's probably a lot less reverb & delay on this track than you think."

Blancmange and the Roland Jupiter-8

Blancmange 'Blind Vision' 1982

Blancmange 'God's Kitchen' 1982

Blancmange 'Living On The Ceiling' 1982

YouTube via AGESOFTHEROD. Sent my way via Synthhead.
"performing on The Tube UK TV pop show ... 31 December 1982"

Off-the-record: Sonic Charge [ENG]

"This time our special guest is Magnus Lidström, the mind behind Propellerhead Reason 2's Malström synth and our beloved µTonic (or MicroTonic), released under its own Sonic Charge brand. Magnus is taking a little vacation in the deep forests of Småland (Sweden, of course!), where he's meditating on his next software...

hardware device? And what do you think of new interfaces/technologies like multi-touch screen, etc.?

I'd love to go hardware some day. There is just something magic about turning a real knob as opposed to using a mouse. One thing that bothers me about software is the way it quickly decomposes if it isn’t kept up-to-date by the manufacturer. Give it a few years without updates and you risk not being able to load it up anymore on your latest computer with the latest OS. Software loses value quickly this way, as opposed to hardware, which if kept in good condition can hold for decades, and actually increase in value. About future interface technologies I am really intrigued by the multi-touch interfaces you mention. The physical qwerty keyboard is for keeps (and physical MIDI-keys and knobs for that matter), but I’ll happily throw out the mouse any day."

click here for the full interview on AudioNewsRoom. via brian c.

AnalogLive! Day 1 Rehearsals

Some images of the gear sets and people of Analog Live!, day 1 of rehearsals. You can find more info on the upcoming event this Friday on the Redcat website.

Images of sets in order:
-The rehearsal room
-Alessandro
-Richard Devine/Alessandro
-Grenader
-Chas Smith (guitarzilla)
-Thighpaulsandra

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prophet64

YouTube via 7jen.

P64 sync'd to mc909 via MIDI

"FirestARTer's DIY midi interface v1, synced via midi clock to mc909. MC909 set as Master."

PAiA 9710K VCA/LFO/Envelope Walkthrough - Part 1

"To the uninitiated PAiA is a US based Electronics kit manufacturer that specializes in audio kits including synths, theremins, a vocoder, various guitar effects, and Preamps. The 9700s is a powerful modular synthesizer that they carry that has 4 sections or modules. I’ve already built the 9700K MIDI2CV8 Midi to control voltage converter (Converts regular midi data into control voltages suitable for manipulating analog synthesizers) and found it really fun and much easier to build than I had initially thought. I learned a lot about electronics and I think I picked up a new hobby!

The 9710 is the VCA (voltage controlled amplifier) module. This module shapes the sound of the synth with an envelope. The PAiA VCA module comes with a noise source and can be used as an LFO (low frequency oscillator) to modulate other aspects of the audio that you are processing with it."

click here for the walkthrough on Electricity & Adrenaline. via Mike.

Flaming Lips - W.A.N.D.

From "At War with the Mystics" Spot the synth. posted here

Modern Android Cybernaut

YouTube via robotmakers. See the first video here.
"2nd in a series of films created in the mysterious superterranean lair of the Robotmakers. Original music and film. Questions left unanswered."

Update:
"it features:
- Zeroscillators in a Moogerfooger Freqbox mode modifying guitar (during initial laser sequence)
- Zeroscillators in an FM brass patch, heavily EQ'ed in an attempt at imitative synthesis (at the end of the tune)
- closeup of Gerd Schulte Audio Electronik Compact Phasing A, with its "Feedback" and "Osc.-Period" knobs going to 11
- interesting visual effect with laser projected through steam to form a "tunnel" through which the protagonist walks (ala "Won't Get
Fooled Again" from "The Kids are Alright")
- rhyming of the words "karate" and "tall soy latte"
- dancing Moog / dotcom / Cyndustries / MOTM / Blacet / homebrew CEM modular synth racks (stop motion animation and casters)
- Citizen Kane allusions
- robot
- shot on location in the mysterious superterranean lair of the Robotmakers and the Hamptons"

Seiko DS 310 Synthesizer Programmer's Guide

via this auction

"This Original vintage 1970`s Seiko Programmers Guide is just what you are looking for! For the DS-310 Synthesizer. 21 pages that tell you how to get the sound you want. Was part of the inventory of Des Moines Music House and has been carefully stored for 30 years."

Again this seller has a ton of vintage documentation up for auction. Too much for me to grab all the shots from, so I will only be putting

up the stuff that I find, really, really interesating. A synth by Seiko, the watch company, for example.

Update via Till "Qwave" Kopper in the comments:
"The Seiko DS310 additive synthesis add-on module (son on the pic as the left unitbehind the main keyboard) for the DS202 was the most affordable way to use additive synthesis in the mid eighties (released 1983?).
It had only 4 memory slots for sounds. You had 16 harmonic and three specrums per sound. A kind of preselection envelope with only 2 or three parameters was used as volume envelope. And at the same time it cross fades the three spectrums at staic point in the envelope. A typical ADSR envelope shpae would use one spectrum for the attack, would cross fade in the decay time to the sustain specrum and would crossfade to the third spectrum in the release section. At least, this is my memory.

I sold it to gain money for my first PPG wave 2.2 in 1987.

The other unit shown here is the sequencer add-on module on the right. Not seen to often."