MATRIXSYNTH

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

USB gampad rebuttoning to control Ableton Live

YouTube via larsby.
"I took a USB gamepad attached new buttons to it so I can control Ableton Live with it. Works well, instructions on how to make your own is included in the video."

Workspace and Environment: Eliot Lipp

"What is your current favorite piece of hardware?
My Korg MS-20. This synth is my signature sound. The first analog synth I ever bought."

click here for the full post on trash_audio.

Vangelis - Closing the Bounty

YouTube via WoIfshead. via fischek.
"My video featuring the movie "The Bounty"(1984) and the credits song by Vangelis."
Features: Yamaha CS80, KORG PS3300, ARP 2600.

WALDORF WAVE Synthesizer Demo. Delay effect without delay ?

YouTube via mikehuckaby. Unfortunately this is a really short one.
"This is a demonstration indicating the enormous potential of the Waldorf Wave. I was baffled when i was shown how a delay effect could take place on the WAVE, when it doesn't have internal effects at all. Listen to the audio in the clip. Each time a note or a chord is played, it repeats itself.

Just imagine a well thought out synth line, or chord progression using this effect. Oh boy, its time to make some serious music now.

mike www.myspace.com/mikehuckaby"

Polivoks Live in kitchen

YouTube via chicotilo. Audio comes in at :53.
"Midnight live on Soviet analog synthesizer Polivoks."

Electro-Harmonix Rhythm 12 & Muff Fuzz

YouTube via ZonkOut
"1970's EHX products reunited through an Atari Video Music."

Paia Oz & Phlanger

YouTube via ZonkOut
"Paia OZ through Paia Phlanger through Atari Video Music."
Remember to turn your volume back down if you turned it up for this one.

Monday, March 10, 2008

Detroit graffiti

flickr by ExcuseMySarcasm

full size

KORG strikes again. Click on the graffiti link below for two others.

1970/71 R.A. MOOG Minimoog # 77

images via this auction

"This is one of the earliest Minimoogs ever made - the 77th Model D (serial #1077) from around late 1970 early 1971. It was when the company was still owned by Bob Moog himself, following the 1960s modular synthesizer wave, so the badge still reads "R A MOOG" as on the old modulars. The front panel is metal, unlike the plastic/vinyl of later Minimoogs. The mod and pitch wheels are clear plastic - which only lasted a short time. Even the panel markings are different - with actual times (see "DECAY" in photos) listed instead of simple 1-10 markers.

This one is also unusual in that it was made with all-white switches, unlike the white-blue-orange of later Minimoogs. Some early Mini's have all-blue or all-white (I have never seen all-orange though). This one comes with an original owner's manual and two pieces of service receipts, when it has an oscillator upgrade done (tuning stability, octave buffer added, and calibration). It has been tested and DOES work as it should. It sounds great - that fat, yet clear, early Minimoog sound. The condition is quite nice - not perfect but still pretty clean considering its age - see the photos."

via Lyle

Update via Dave Cornutt in the comments (see them for more from others):
"More info: I looked up SN 1077 on moogarchives.com. It says it was shipped to Central Music on April 29, 1971. Central Music was David VanKovering's music shop in Orlando, and they were one of Moog's biggest dealers in the early days. This was before VanKovering joined Moog. Unfortunately, I can't find anything on who Central Music sold it to.

Doing some Googling, I found a message in the Analogue Heaven archives dated February 7, 1998 from someone identified as "steve" (you can see the email if you search the AH archive on retrosynth.com, although there's certainly no guarantee that he is stil at that same email address now). Oddly, he says it was modified by a previous owner and "it is now 2 pieces". He says the keyboard was painted black and was separated and connected to the synth by a cable. Obviously it isn't that way now, so either he or some subsequent owner must have restored it."

Korg MS-20 Bubble Machine

YouTube via Newueel
"The MS-20 is very useful for creating weird sounds, like some different types of 'bubbles'. Without using any patches the modulation generator can be used for three different types of frequency modulation (also combined):
- highpass filter cutoff frequency modulation
- lowpass filter cutoff frequency modulation
- VCO frequency modulation
Of couse many varieties can be made by changing waveforms and frequencies for the oscilators and modulation generator, and eh... but that'll up to you...

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KNOBS (First sound):
VCO1: [Sawtooth] [(not used)] [32']
VCO2: (not used)
PORTAMENTO: [0]
VCOMIX: [10] [ 0] [ 0] [ 0]
HPF: [10] [ 7] [ 5] [ 0]
LPF: [ 5] [ 5] [ 0] [ 0]
MG: [^(middle)] [5]
EG1: (not used)
EG2: [0] [2] [0] [10] [3]
ESP: (not used)"