MATRIXSYNTH

Korg EA1 "schulze"style sequence

YouTube via synthargentina
"Well, here`s a sequence that takes inspiration of (for me)the best electronic musician ever."

"Schulze" cover sequence

"Some solo sounds and a cover sequence of Klaus Schulze"

Kawai K5m & K4

YouTube via synthargentina
"Some combination sounds of two kawai digital synths: k5m & k4, different synthesis, but same label"

Moog Voyager Solo

YouTube via filtersweeperVCO
"Jay Bos playing his wicked synth. JX-3P and Hammond in back."

via this auction

for those with a knob fetish

"The Polivoks synth is rare socialist moog like madness! The sound is fantastic rich and warm – 100% pure analog machine! It was made in period of 1982-1990 and sold in Russia (then USSR).

The Polyvox (Polivoks) is a duophonic analog synthesizer, with a 49-note (13F-E) keyboard. It features two VCOs, a noise generator, one LFO, a filter (low-pass and bandpass), and two ADSR envelope generators. VCO1 can be cross-modulated by VCO2. Each ADSR can be switched to auto-trigger, each with independent rates.The sound is quite rich and somewhat harsh and aggressive. This is more of a space-synth. You can be sure that you will have never heard the sounds this one can produce. It sounds like these old Yamaha CS-30's, but then fat filters like in Moogs. It is built like a rock, pure military technology, contacts will last forewer. The body is solid and the knobs feel nice. It runs on 220V AC. Polivoks (Polyvox) is the most popular vintage Russian synthesizer all over the world. It has inimitable peculiar sound and very powerful aggressive filters outperforming the famous Minimoog! A fat, lush and very analogue sound is achieved through instability and thanks to unique architecture of the Soviet-era components; in addition, highly reliable military technologies were applied in the process of production. The synthesizer may be used for hard electronic music, or for soft ambient/old school projects and for modelling various effects as well."

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MOOG Voyager

KORG DS-10 Japan Release Date

And we have a release date... for Japan.

July 24, 2008, only at Amazon Japan

Worldwide will come. via Cnet where you will find the full article. An interesting side note is that the people behind the DS-10, AQ Interactive, brought us Hatsune Miku, the "Vocaloid2 girl." Hatsune Miki is an anime character that uses the Vocaloid engine - she will sing whatever text you enter. Image below for reference - I went with the work safe one.

"Korg DS-10 is approved by Korg (I don't know what "approved" means actually!), but will not be released from this firm. A Japanese game developer, AQ Interactive Inc. of Tokyo, will distribute DS-10. Actual development has been done by Korg and Cavia, Inc., another speciality game developer in Tokyo.

The original MS-10 (price 53,500 yen in 1978; US$300 then) was a monophonic, single oscillator job. DS-10 simulator works as two synthesizers (each of them, dual-oscillator affair), since Nintendo DS has dual-screen, upper and lower.

Adding to this two tracks (or two synthesizers), four tracks of drum machine sounds have been built-in. Altogether, DS-10 can be treated as six tracks, 16-step synthesizer/sequencer. Maximum, tune of 99 phrases long can be produced.

Three ways of note entry input: Touch-control screen, keyboard screen, and X-Y matrix screen. All three of them controlled by DS stylus."

Roger O'Donnell of The Cure Plays to the Cows

YouTube via worldsfair. via Tara Busch of AnalogSuicide, where you'll find a post on a new Cure Tribute CD, Perfect as Cats. Tara will be doing a cover of "Let's Go To Bed." Hmm...

video description:
"Roger O'Donnell will soon be releasing his debut solo album, "The Truth In Me", a beautiful and profound departure from his rock & roll pedigree with The Cure and Psychedelic Furs. Here, he sets up in a cottage near his home in the UK to video a brief performance, only to find himself in the company of some rather unexpected audience members... The cows from the farm next door can't help but wonder where those sweet space sounds are coming from - music soothes the savage beast. Hear , see and read more Roger O'Donnell at www.rogerodonnell.com and myspace.com/rogerodonnell"

Candylicious 08

YouTube via Synthomania
"This is a song made for a norwegian celebration called "Russ". Vocals recorded at my studio, mixed at my studio. Im using mostly Korg Ms2000 in this song, with drums from my RX5,Mc307, DR100, and mc09. Pads by Juno2 and D-50."