MATRIXSYNTH

Saturday, March 01, 2008

Weird Sound Generator

YouTube via IINewIIVirusII
"Can be purchased at www.circuit-benders.com. Please visit the designers site at www.musicfromouterspace.com"

magnetic fields part 2 solo (nord wave)

YouTube via graal7
"the solo to the magnetic fields part 2. vibrato with aftertouch on nord wave"

Voice of Saturn (Sound Generator Kit)

YouTube via CuriousInventor. via this auction
http://www.curiousinventor.com/kits/voice_of_saturn
"Loosely based on the Atari Punk Console with some custom tweaks and an LFO front end, this box makes a ridiculous amount of different sounds (mp3 coming soon), all from three 555s. Watch the video or download the mp3 for some samples. Comes as a bare-bones kit, an everything-kit with knobs and case, and a fully-assembled and tested version. It's open source and has small area on the pcb for easy circuit bending. Skill level: Beginner / Intermediate"

Friday, February 29, 2008

Serge Creature and M-Class Panel on Carbon111

The Serge Creature and M-Class Panel pages are up! You can find them on the Serge section of Carbon111. You will find more info and images, so go check it out!

Pictured: Sequencer A.

DIY VOICE CHANGER KIT

Bookmarking this one for a rainy day. More info here.

Some notes via Drew on AH:
"There is very little info on the web about the WIN8072 IC that's in there, but it does an interesting job of mucking up the sound--it does vocoder like effects, frequency shifting, and harmonizing (all very crude, Lo-Fi, and rude, but fun for $16!) It's very interesting with pink noise through it, and does a halfway decent (but glitchy) pitch doubling sending a VCO through it.
If anyone wants to build one of these and wants to know my sloppy and unscientific mods, reply off list. It was VERY quick and easy to build, and at that price nearly disposable if you don't like it.
I may end up using this on Act 3 of my cartoon. I could easily see building a few of these for messing up drum tracks in stereo. It has its own built in noise gate (glitchy) as well.

A note of warning--my kit came with 2 sets of instructions. One was good, the other was so far off that it was obviously from a different but similar kit.

Has anyone here ever built a VCF using the THAT2180 or the DBX/THAT215X series?"

Analogue Heaven Northeast 2008

via Kyle on the Analog Heaven mailing list: "Gather up your analogs and come on down! AHNE 2008 (Analogue Heaven NorthEast) will be held on Saturday April 26 in Bolton, Massachusetts. Visit our website for more information at: link. deknow will kindly be hosting an afterparty nearby on Saturday evening. Thanks to Eric Crawley for getting this great thing started, and for all of the local volunteers helping out in so many ways!"

DIY MAQ 16/3

"My device is a replica of the building from the magazine elektor from the year 1993. Prozessorplatine und Bedienplatine sind orginal Doepfer. Processor board and Bedienplatine are original Doepfer. Die Potiplatine habe ich selber geroutet. The board voted Poti myself routed. Das Projekt habe ich im Jahre 2003 begonnen und erst jetzt nach fast 5 Jahren endlich zum Schluss gebracht. The project, I started in 2003 and only now, after nearly 5 years finally concluded. Große Probleme hat mir die Prozessorplatine gemacht, aber dazu weiter unten mehr. Major problems has given me the processor board, but see below for more information."

You can find more info on this German page and in Googlish here.

via Robert