Modular 2003 Conference Review by mosc

Note the year is 2003, so this one is a trip back in time. You can find the full review by mosc on this electro-music.com thread. It's good to see electro-music.com threads do not disappear over time.

"The conference was attended by musicians and music technologists from many countries. They heard papers on a very wide range of topics. There were papers about Linux as a platform for music and audio, new concepts in musical instrument interfaces, using swarm theory to automatically generate free jazz, "circuit bending", and even huge concrete acoustic receivers built in England during World War 1 to listen to airplanes coming in over the channel. The meeting was provided with one of the first public looks at the highly anticipated new Nord Modular G2 Synthesizer, as well as reviews of several pieces of music software including MAX/MSP, Super Collider, JMAX, and CSOUND."

Buchla Matrix Mixer Clone

via vtl5c3 in this electro-music.com thread where you will find updates.

"In preparation for an upcoming surround sound gig, I built an 8x8 matrix mixer, using the Buchla 205 schematic as my guide. It was a fairly easy build - most of the wiring I did directly on the pots, creating a column style buss with them. That's really all a matrix mixer is - rows & columns, like an excel spreadsheet or an HTML table. You have your 8 inputs, that you can bring up at different volumes on each of the 8 outputs. In my first audio test, I simply connected 8 oscillators, using different waveforms and each running at a different frequency. Fading the inputs in and out on one of the output columns reminded me of wavetable synthesis, but very manual. I think you can do some incredible sound collage with a tool like this.

I'll try to record a few samples later on. I'll post the press & peel pcb layout, once I make some corrections."

Make: Tokyo Meeting 02 Personal Report

YouTube via MMTAKEDA55 "The Breadboard Band UDA 4.0" The Breadboard Band comes in at 2:30 followed by the UDA 4.0 and interesting, small, electronic accordion-like device.

Sequencer hysteria

YouTube via bubagoo
"I added a few inputs to my sequencer that allow you to advance the playback one step at a time using external clock sources. I connected two independent clocks to the sequencer. One is telling it to go forward the other is telling it to go backwards. As i adjust the two clocks you can see them fight for control of the sequence. Pretty simple but cool effect."

Crumar DS2 in Custom Case

via this sequencer.de forum thread.

via swissdoc

Rob Papen RG Getting started

YouTube via robpapen
"Introduction into the concept of Rob Papen's RG"

Synth Wankery Pt. 4: MIDI'd Bach

YouTube via snevelin
"I didn't play it by hand, just controlled the synths by a MIDI file of the song along with some overdubbing as they're monophonic. :P"

Quantized LFO's

YouTube via bigcitymusic
"Not only can the Analogue Systems rs260 quantize your analog sequencer's pitch outputs with superb accuracy, it also does crazy random arp stuff too! We took a slow triangle wave LFO and ran it into the Voltage Quantizer then ran the quantizer output into the rs95 oscillator 1v/oct input. The rs260 is nice too because it has two voltage inputs. The second input can be used to input a transposing voltage or in this case you can run a ramp up LFO into it and get more crazy modulations going. Start sampling!"

Quadatrix 4x4 Sequencer - 3rd demo

YouTube via dolphinicus
"This is a VERY short video, of the 4 x 4 step's Semitone + Vertical and 1 x 4 step Octave sequencers, playing a 4 bar bassline from a well known dance tune, from many a year ago. ;)"

Tenori-on + Sp-404

YouTube via foofighter013. "experimental jam"