MATRIXSYNTH

Happy's Synthseite

Click here for Happy's Synth Site. via sequencer.de

1980 electronics book synth quote

via alka

"I picked up an electronics book from 1980 at the sale table of my library recently. There is a section in the book entitled "Music Synthesizers" wherein I found this slightly humorous quote:

'Unlike the electric guitar, the electronic organ and the electronic piano, one does not "perform" at the keyboard of a music synthesizer. Instead, one assembles bits and fragments of musical phrases from various sources, and records them on tape. It is almost as laborious as animating a Disney cartoon.'

I guess I could understand if the book had been from 1967, but 1980!? It's like the author disregarded the whole development of synthesizers through the 1970's, let alone all the bands that effectively utilized them up to that point!

Here is the complete citation:
Houglum, R. J. (1980). Electronics: Concepts, applications, and history. Belmont, Ca.: Breton Publishers." on Amazon

HarriL - Sublight (Live)

video upload by HarriL

"MP3 Here: http://www.mikseri.net/music/play.php...

Hello, I'm back once again with a (tech?)house track, featuring; EMX, ESX, 309, Evolver and the Revolution! Everything is live as usual."

The Thomas Henry Mega Percussive Synthesizer (MPS)

Scott Stites put up a new page on The Thomas Henry Mega Percussive Synthesizer (MPS). The following is a short excerpt. Be sure to check out the page for more including a sample.

"The MPS is truly an inspired design. One very important element of the MPS, the impact generator, was derived directly from a modular percussion patch by one of the great synthesizer masters. In fact, the MPS contains three seperate tunable oscillators. In addition to the oscillators, the MPS utilizes a ring modulator, it has a noise generator, a voltage controlled resonant filter with two selectable responses (low pass or band pass), three VCAs, and a mixer section for mixing all of the elements together to fine tune a very realistic percussive sound.

The MPS will deliver anything from a convincing snare to toms, to bass, to a sizzling high hat, to a glorious cowbell. When Christopher Walken demands "more cowbell", the MPS can deliver. Not only can the MPS deliver standard percussive sounds, it can easily be tuned to the "out of this world" percussive sounds. It can easily supply voices ranging from the electronic disco drums used in modern day hospitals to empty stomachs of their contents to the sound of an alien craft taking off with each drum beat. In fact, at the flick of a switch, the MPS will transform from a percussive synthesizer to a full-on sustained..sound..generator capable of fully rendering the Neptunian Planetary Anthem in full four part Neptunian harmony. "

make noise moddemod

Currently available at Analogue Haven.
this circuit was originally utilized in the generation of single side band modulation; a military developed radio communications technology. a program (speech, data) would be mixed with a high frequency carrier waveform using this circuit. after filtering an rf amplifier would be used to broadcast the transmission. at this point the signal could be said to be modulated, sounding unintelligible. at the receiving end, this circuit could again be used to demodulate the radio transmission by re-introducing a carrier waveform of the same shape and frequency used to create the transmission. as you can imagine, some cool distortions happen on account of the inadequacies of this technology, variation in the two carrier waveform generators (both frequency and shape), signal levels and of course, interference. reclaimed for artistic purposes by harold bode (and perhaps others) reclaimed this technology for artistic purposes in the early 1960's (utilizing carrier waveforms in the audio range instead), and bob moog (in collaboration with bode) incorporated it into his modular synthesizer systems in the 70's. by then the design was pretty different and they were calling it a "ring modulator" possibly for the "diode ring" configuration originally utilized or perhaps they knew it was a more appealing name that, to some degree, described the clangorous, bell like sounds a single iteration of the circuit was capable of creating.

the moddemod features 2 identical circuits that may be used together or individually. when using them together there is no need patch the output of circuit 1 to the input of circuit 2 as they are internally patched when nothing is inserted at the output of circuit 1 and the input of circuit 2. i worked very hard to minimize carrier bleed. the amount varies from unit to unit and even circuit to circuit within each unit. however, all units match or better the level of bleed you hear in most ic based ring modulators. for this type of circuit, that is very good!

to use this module you will need a minimum of 2 signal sources. 1 will be the program. this signal is inserted at the program input (sockets 1 or 4). the 2nd is the carrier, and it should be inserted at the carrier input (sockets 2 or 5). the outputs are at sockets 3 and 6. by varying the frequency, shape and level of these signals, many different timbres may be heard.

this module is a 4hp wide euro-rack module that consumes no current.

a fun movie about the moddemod."

YouTube via MAKEN0ISE

audio:
the sound is way out, just listen!
something percussive
something else percussive

FREE ALBUM DOWNLOAD::: WENCHUAN and The Sound of Earthquakes

via SoNiCbRaT. See the forum for details. BTW, also see Califaudio's The Sound of Earthquaks.
"Geeks, friends and foes. Let's do our part in lending a hand to help with the recent Sichuan Wenchuan Earthquake. This is my little effort to encourage people to donate. I've even set up a fundraiser page so do drop by. The music in this album uses KORG M3-88, though the mix could be improved (by miles) but I wanted to do it in a day so we'll have to live with the little imperfections.
The recent Sichuan Earthquake in China had shocked the world. With more than 28,000 dead and more than 190,000 injured and many homeless; the victims there need our help."

Cremate your soul session 98

YouTube via synthman70
"a video of my old studio in 1998, with some of my massive collection of analog gear, some which i sold ten years later, like my Oberheim Matrix-12, it just expensive to up keep those instruments, I also sold my OB-8, but I still have quiet a few good pieces, and hopefully in time i will be posting a more up to date video of my collection.

PS the songs that you hear is not typical of what i do, I am hugely influenced by Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Kraftwek, and the old school guys, but I also like Depeche Mode and some modern stuff.
For some of my work log on to
www.myspace.com/emodmusic
www.itunes.com under artist seach type in emod"

Jon and Vangelis on juno6

YouTube via mik300z. via synthzoom
"sorry if I offend anyone who loves this song as much as me but I had to give it a go! Almost every sound is coming from the juno's, either sampled or sequenced. I am playing the melody live, the juno's freq. is set very high for jon anderson's vocal part so it can be heard above the other instruments. very difficult to get the same sound vangelis used on the melody, I tried for ages using pulse wave mod. but just sounds so hollow compared to the Yamaha CS80 I would imagine he used for it. very intersting to come across the chords and arrangements he used though, a bit tricky near the end. Knowing vanglis he probably composed it first take out of his head. His chord arrangements are beautiful and it's only when you try take them apart you realise the true genius he is."

house of crazy talk

YouTube via PHAEDRIDER. via synthzoom.
"fuzzy video of 10 minutes of messin with my babies, all being babysat by a dr550 and a yamaha sequencer .. a little delay was added to the ody to kinda synch it cause she dont got no inputs whooohah!" arp odyssey juno 106 60 sh-1000