MATRIXSYNTH

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

"Continuum performance by Randy Kerber, music by John Williams
Randy Kerber writes: As far as the synths used with the Continuum, I used a Reaktor 5 ensemble called Steampipe 2, and I also used a simple modular CV synth made by Analogue System. Using the continuum in mono mode alone, the instrument is so wonderfully expressive that I was very happy to have it in my arsenal. In respect to timbres used with the continuum: A string cluster(polyphony made possible by a Pitch Shifter plug-in from Logic 8)which started from very, very soft and crescendoed to fortissimo. A low pad with modulated filter cutoff(Y-axis). A filtered sawtooth wave in heavy reverb and multiple delays doubling woodwinds at times and french horns in one instance.

I'm very excited about working more with Reaktor. I am quite encouraged by the myriad of possibilities, both
from the program and certainly from the continuum.

I look forward to more music with your fabulous controller." You can find the audio here.

Synth Pics via HisShado

click here for more. Be sure to check out all pages. The three images here are just a sample of what you will find.

Note the descriptions here are mine. It's just what came to mind when I saw the top two shots.

Oberheim OB-12 "poltergeist" shots
Yamaha CS20M "atrium" shots
Inside an Oberheim Matrix-6R
Inside a Crumar DS2

Synthesizerpark Graz 2008

You can find more images on sequencer.de

MacBeth M5N

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Korg MS-20 doing a disco beat

YouTube via zioguido
"My MS-20 is playing a disco beat by itself! This is an endless loop created by retriggering the notes using the MG pulse output.
The connections on the patch panel are as follows:

1) MG sqr out to TRIG IN (the jack I'm inserting and removing to start/stop playback)
2) WHITE NOISE to VCA IN
3) VCA OUT to ESP IN with low-cut and hi-cut filters all the way up
4) ESP band-pass out to EXT SIG. IN
The white noise fed into the ESP and then into the EXT.IN does the hi-hat, while the EG2 with a rapid decay does the bassdrum using the hi-pass filter and the EG1 with the delay time set to 1 does the octave jump on the bass. You can see the other settings in the video.

Watch your speakers! This is gonna be loud!"

Mondo Modular Episode 5

YouTube via scootermccrae. You can find all episodes here.
"Back-in-action after a short hiatus (note new studio set-up -- but more about that in an upcoming video), I'm finally making good on some of that Herb Deutsch footage I promised a few episodes back. I figured there was no better time to do this than around the time of what would have been his 74th birthday (May 23rd).

I'll post a couple of fun stories from Gershon Kingsley next time and then return to the familiar format (ie: my dorking around with my various knobs and patch cables).

Special thanks to the Grammy folks who recently gave some money to the Moog Foundation to try and get the various papers and prototypes in Bob's old work shed in some kind of order and will hopefully see to the future preservation of."

Roland Jupiter 6 Demonstration

YouTube via nickeax

Roland Promars

YouTube via mopipi2

Casio CZ-3000

images via this auction

JHS Pro-Rhythm Drum-Synth

via this auction

Lell UDS

via this auction
"THE FIRST RUSSIAN VINTAGE DRUM SYNTH LELL UDS is a unique bitembral analog drum synth made in the early eighties in the former USSR. Sounds more better than SIMMONS, TR-909 etc. One of the first russian electronic drum synth. The module has no MIDI, it's audio trigger controlled - you can hook it to any audio device, be it a synth, a drum machine or a sound card and trigger the sounds. The sounds can be tweaked using 24 different knobs. All the labels are in cyrilic. It has 2 independent and identical channels with powerfull parameters of synthesis such - sensitivity, tone pitch, attack, env mod, rezo, noise/tone balance, accent etc.
NO MIDI ARE INSTALLED."