MATRIXSYNTH

Sunday, September 21, 2008

notron

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"gerard may not be the most nimble businessman... but his inventions in the music instrument space certainly are something special. wish i'd gotten me grubbin' mits wrapped solidly about one of those grex controllers before that venture went under..."

odyssey 2020

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"phil cirocco did a pretty thing, very pretty, very clever thing.

perhaps tangent: it is mine belief that the capitalism of the home electronics revolution virally infected the electronic music instrument space with horrible biases on specification over simian-mindful constructs.

genoqs' success is an example of cultural recovery from this. it could be said that old kit like this odyssey tend towards the simian-mindful.

that said, binding cc#42 to sample start position is hardly simian-mindful."

You might remember this Odyssey from this post.

Tim and Binder

"Secret Swords played in Columbus last night with our great pals Wicked Lung & The Wookalar www.myspace.com/wickedlungwookalar - they played all new songs that had me doing the shoulder dance like a freaking jackass maniac the entire time. Before the show we all hung out at Jason's and Elisa's for a bbq, which was awesome. The Tim and Binder dudes were talking about how they build their synthesizers from scratch, and the terminology they used was like a foreign language and completely over my head. They were a.ma.zing.

Oh yeah and there was free PBR for the bands last night which is always awesome and dangerous at the same time. Afterhour's was at Jason and Elisa's. I passed out on the couch at around 4am, we hit the road around a painful 9:00.

It was another totally amazing Columbus trip.

I am hungover."

Home-made Synth Weirdo Madness.

You can find images of the event on this electro-music.com thread.

Flizbee - Roland SH-1, MC-202, TR-707, Space Echo

YouTube via synthdood
"Roland SH-1, MC-202, TR-707, Space Echo RE-201, MSQ-100, Alesis MMT-8, Prophet 600, JH Solina tripple chorus, JH Krautrock Phaser, Electro-Music Klee sequencer, DIY modular synth."

EHX Flanger Hoax Feedback Loop

YouTube via Analogger
"This is a noise improv where I routed the Flanger Hoax effect out to the input and ran the blend out into a ModFactor and then into a mixer. The sound was sometimes processed with a little reverb, delay, and TC electronic FireworX."

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Serge Modular at Cal Arts

Gorgeous shot sent my way via CTRL VOLTAGE. Be sure to check out the site for more synth goodness.

Cwejman MX-4S, MMF-4, PH-4, PlanB, Doepfer, and Harvestman

YouTube via dkimcg
"I really liked the trapazoid generator in the last video, but it didn't quite fit my current workflow. So I replaced it with the PH-4 and a few other modules. The Cwejman PH-4 is a beautiful 4 phase LFO, it outputs 4 phases of one LFO at 90 degree invervals. It's excellent for panning. Here I'm testing out some stereo panning tricks with the PH-4. It and the Doepfer 143-1 Complex Envelope Generator/LFO are modulating the filters and the 143-1 is controlling one of the gates in the M13 Dual Timbral Gate. The Model 10 Polyphonic Envelope Generator controls the other gate. In addition to the Cwejman MMF-4, the PlanB Model 11 Evil Twin and Harvestman Polivoks filters are used. MFB Seq-01 sequences. and triggers the 143-1, Model 10, and Jomox MBase01 for the kick.

The MMF-4 is one sweet module for panning and VC for filters.

I thought the last video I uploaded was just too dorky sounding. I tried to make this one sound "cool". Put on yer sunglasses kinda cool."

Cwejman MMF-1 Reso Beats

YouTube via bigcitymusic
"This has to be one of the greatest eurorack modular filters available. There is such a beautiful clarity to it, rich and versatile. This is just resonance, it's sort of annoying but you get a since of the massive tone the MMF-1 is capable of. Multimode indeed! Dual bandpass kicks......well you get it. Did you know the Machinedrum can send gate pulses? Yep. That's what's controlling the envelope generator. Cool. Flashing lights courtesy of Dr.Bleep's Thingamagoop."