MATRIXSYNTH

A Noisy Afternoon

Click here for the full flickr set by sentencesintensenses. There are some great shots in this set so be sure to check them out. As always click on the image in the set followed by the All Sizes link on top for the full sized shots.

via David

Frostwave Sonic Alienator w/ Machinedrum 1

YouTube via bigcitymusic
"This is just one pattern from an Elektron Machinedrum into the Sonic Alienator. This incredible little box offers bit crushing "sonic decimation", distortion, analog filtering with resonance and variable routing/orientation of the filter, decimator, and distortion. Available exclusively at www.bigcitymusic.com"

New Percussa Forum

"I am Bert Schiettecatte, the founder of PERCUSSA, and the inventor of the AudioCubes, beautiful and intelligent cubes which work with your computer and music software to stimulate your creativity.

Several of AudioCube owners have sent me emails with feedback over the past few months. I am grateful for your input and try to feed as much as possible into software updates.

Some have asked about the existence of a forum, so they could exchange ideas about applications of AudioCubes with other people and ask questions.

I've now put a forum online and I'd like to invite you all to register and participate. Together we can explore the potential of this promising tool for sound and music exploration and live performance!

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You can find the forum here: http://forum.percussa.com/
More info about AudioCubes: http://www.percussa.com/
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Warm regards from Belgium,

Bert Schiettecatte
PERCUSSA"

Allen Strange will not be Performing

More info here.

NUSofting Broken Drum Machine - BDM

"To the fact that the broken sound is desirable. Yes! Knobs turn for satisfaction defective!

Inspired by a combination of several old school beat boxes and the circuit-bending culture that revolves around cheap, and old, hardware musical instruments (such as the “toy” Casio and Yamaha keyboards of the 80s), Broken Drum Machine brings the lively, "ever changing", circuit-bent drum machine sounds to your DAW.

BDM is a plugin instrument designed for the musicians who love chaos and usually find the unpredictable behaviour of an uncontrollable sound machine stimulating and inspiring.

BDM offers four drum pads in the style of an old beat box- one each for Bass Drum, Snare, Hi-Hat and Stick. Each pad features the usual suspects for shaping the synthesized sound, including tone, decay, pitch, pan and gain. On top of the standard controls comes the broken factor - each pad features its own sliders for chaos and chance. Chaos sets the amount of variations to the original sound, and chance is the probability algorithm for the chaos to occur. By varying and automating the chaos and chance sliders, you can achieve a range of wild and unpredictable sounds, similar to creating glitches and bleeps by manipulating an analog circuit."

more info including audio.

PS3100 KORG in colors (NightBirds Studio - 2008)

flickr by NightBirds (Electronic Music - France) (click for more including the Oberheim Xpander)

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Ken MacBeth's Studio

via Ken MacBeth:

"Hi Matrix- just thought I'd drop you a line! I think that the matrixsynth blog is great and keeps people well in touch with everything synth- I visit everyday to see what's going on! Anyway for your interest or others- here are some pics of what I use and record with mostly. As you can see, it's pretty minimal- but none the less fun! When I get the time, after building, this is not only where I test what things sound like, but it's an opertunity to record too. Hopefully people will recognise some of the stuff I use. There are also, in the pics, other interesting devices- notably Function Generators which are serious fun to use with modular gear- or infact, any gear with CV inputs- I see them as way complex modulators- ebay is perfect for getting this stuff cheap! Look under Test and Measurement in the electronic parts dept! On my next run of M5N, I hope to have one myself! Kind Regards to All, Ken"

Thanks Ken! Click here for more shots of Ken's studio and of course check out MacBeth Studio Systems.