Matris Terra Ultionis

If you have been following this site over the past couple of months you should be familiar with the work of Richard Lainhart and Todd Barton (vgermuse). You will recall the Buchla 200e compositions from Richard posted here and the Akai EVI compositions from Todd posted here. You might also recall daddio of Tapewarm from these posts.

After hearing the brilliant compositions by Richard and Todd, Daddio contacted them about creating a new composition featuring theirs. They gave him the ok and Matris Terra Ultionis is the result. You can listen it here.

part one features:
metaliton, buchla2Crop, eviExtended, and buchlaStormBirds.
mixed with my WarStorm samples and an old waterphone recording

part two:
Thonk and SlowEvolution
w/more WarStorm samples and Launch

part three:
Orchestra of the Damned, SpaceMetal, buchlaDemo2, buchlaDrumSolo, eviSerge and eviSerge2
yet more from Warstorm (lol) and my My Hydrogen Gas Tank

Regarding the sources of the compositions:
"Thonk and Orchestra of the Damned are from Richard.
200e/Haken continuum

WarStorm, Launch and My Hydrogen Gas Tank are my compositions.
I used a Doepfer modular, twin Kaoss pads and a waterphone along with a boatload of samples.

All other files are Todd's: metaliton, buchla2Crop, eviExtended, and buchlaStormBirds, SpaceMetal, buchlaDemo2, buchlaDrumSolo, eviSerge and eviSerge2.
evi, buchla, serge"

moreofdeblo

Another Waldorf Blofeld demo via Stefan Trippler. This one via sequencer.de.

moreofdeblo.mp3

This one showcases wavetables and the new distortion.

Nord Lead 2x

click here for a flickr set by fischek.

full size

Roland D-50

click here for a Roland D-50 flickr set by fischek.

full size

A Drumbuddy Going up for Auction

Remember the Drumbuddy?

It looks like one will be up for auction on Jan 26th. I'm guessing this is indeed for 2008 as there is an update for 2007 on this site. You can read more about the Drumbuddy there, including more images of the 2007 Drumbuddy's, but DO NOT miss the official Drumbuddy site.

Austin Powers impersonation: Yeah... Baby. And don't miss the video (click on the image and watch it through).

snip:
"Only 10 Drum Buddies were made - all in New Orleans, Louisiana - and the one for sale (in the photo above) is serial #1. It is also the instrument which was originally intended to belong to Quintron. He has decided to let this one go and give 10% of all profits to the New Orleans Musician's clinic. The starting price is $5000 and the ebay auction will begin on Saturday, Jan. 26th @ 11:59pm and end on Tuesday, Feb 5th (Mardi Gras day) @ 11:59pm All 10 of the Drum Buddies except this one at FRESH KILLS have been spoken for -mostly by New Orleans Swamp Tech DJs. New York City musician Laurie Anderson has acquired one for her band as well as Los Angeles guitarist Nels Cline - famed improve music guru and latest member of the band Wilco."

The GM Voice

Produced through a partnership between Dan Lavin and Thomas Henry. via Scott Sites.

"Okay gang,

This one took me way too much time to complete, but I'm ready to start spilling the beans.

What it is: The GM-Voice is a standalone, MIDI driven multiple voice unit. It can create hundreds of pre-programmed high quality instrument sounds---some natural, some electronic---in addition to dozens of percussive instruments. Best of all, the voices respond to dynamics and you can play a minimum of 24 simultaneously! GM stands for General MIDI, as if you hadn't figured that out already.

Total outlay? About $25, if you know how to shop. This is probably the least expensive way to outfit a home recording studio with high quality sounds I can think of.

Here's the scoop. A decade ago our own esteemed Antman wrote me a note on his researches into the possibility of a standalone GM circuit. I was absolutely up to the gills in projects at the time and it's only recently I've been able to return to what he had originally proposed. Moreover, Antman was able to get me the crucial raw ingredient for ten bucks on Ebay a month or two ago, and it's all been downhill since then.


This project takes a Soundblaster type daughterboard, adds a little support circuitry and voila---the computer isn't even needed to extract its magic. It becomes a standalone instrument for the studio.

This is my first joint project with Antman, and it's been a great success. I hope we can encourage him to submit a general overview of the project, the overall process and some purchasing tips for newcomers. (I still have some of your letters from a decade ago---can I post them for general info to builders?) And then, I'll supply the new and improved schems, along with PCB artwork and wiring info.

Here are the features I've included in the Antman/Henry version of the
GM-Voice:

- reset button providing emergency all-notes-off action
- MIDI In
- two MIDI Thru jacks
- stereo and mono outputs
- fully buffered outputs for maximum protection
- improved MIDI activity LED shines brightly!
- internal power supply for true standalone performance
- carefully worked out digital/analog grounding for optimal performance

Attached are two photos of my unit. I only have a $25 digital camera, so the quality is a bit punk. but you'll get the general idea. The whole thing is about the size of a brick and looks very nice.

Okay Antman, care to jump here?

Thomas Henry

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There's a song Thomas composed and performed using the GM voice posted towards the end of the thread. Check it out!:

http://electro-music.com/forum/download.php?id=10971

"Antman" by the way is Dan Lavin.

Take care,
Scott"

More info on this electro-music.com thread.

My Korg Kaossilator Demo

YouTube via garykibler. Listen to this one in stereo.
"Just got my parcel yesterday for this year's new xmas toy. I decided to upload because, while this is far from a masterpiece of electronic music, many of the early kaossilator videos posted suck, if for nothing else that many are in mono and the stereo effects on the patches are the thing that add so much dimension to the sound of the device. So much fun with 4 AA batteries. Now if it would only have Save capabilities ..."

Cygnus Show, starring the Creamware Prodyssey ASB

YouTube via xaviercygnus.
"Aleatoric composition using the Prodyssey ASB. A bit messy at times, but a nice exploration of the filter and sample and hold modules."

Nonlinear Studios

YouTube via Sturzi.
"a little tour through the nonlinear studios with lots of knobs and synths...."

SURFMASTER 3000 test toast

YouTube via nevenen
"soothing surf noise for a relaxing sleep.

not filmed: me pulling my hair out over the buggy amp circuit i later added so the board could drive its own speaker. if i don't lose my temper and shank someone i'll film that and put it up eventually.

white, pink noise source through dual vca, modulated by two LFOs. annoying-ass amp chip to drive loudspeaker. hopefully it will run more than a night or two on a pair of nine-volts, but we'll see."