ALESIS HR-16 by S-CAT.

YouTube via PHONICPOTION. S-CAT/PHONICPOTION on Ebay
"CIRCUIT BENT WITH 21 MODIFICATIONS."

YAMAHA DD-6 by S-CAT.

"CIRCUIT BENT WITH 10 MODIFICATIONS."

straker on monome and audiocubes

YouTube via cassieldotcom
"A pot-pourri of performance technologies. The sample manipulation is courtesy of the shard plugin, which is being controlled by the monome and the audiocubes using the straker sequencing framework, which itself is built on top of the shado rendering library for the monome."

Roland V-synth Demostration part 1, by S4K performed by Gilles

YouTube via Space4Keys

FX-1 and MDR-1 2008.11.15

YouTube via cnxww893
"My FX-1 was delivered on 14th November, 2008. The first thing I did was checking MDR-1 and 3 inch floppy disc if they are woking or not. It seemed to be OK, but suddenly communication between MDR-1 and FX-1 was failed. Anyway I will update my platying someday soon."

Korg Lambda baroque style

YouTube via kennykeyboard
"Just like something your piano teacher would have you play, this piece was created by me with heavy influences by Bach and Mozart some 25 years ago. Never mind the bobbles. My teacher always told me to keep playing."

Steve Scuilli - Hartmann Neuron Live

"Musician Steve Sciulli will perform on the Hartmann Neuron - a very rare electronic synthesizer on Tuesday, Nov 18th at Your Inner Vagabond. This is part of "Electric Larryville" the monthly series that "showcases the most innovative electronica that Pittsburgh has to offer."

Also performing will be Bureau of Nonstandards and from Black Moth Super Rainbow Power Pill Fist
Start time is 8pm and goes until 11:30. This is an all age show and is FREE. Your Inner Vagabond is located at 4130 Butler Street, Pittsburgh. Phone: 412-6831623

The Hartmann Neuron uses a form of Artificial Intelligence and memory recognition as it develops its binaural soundscapes. It builds internal neuronic networks that offers 3 dimensional sound choices. All in glorious 5.1 surround sound! This blends perfectly with Steve's core philosophy of connecting the sacred with leading edge technologies. "These are all steps in our evolutionary journey". Steve is excited to be premiering his new instrument at Your Inner Vagabond on Nov 18th.

The Neuron was designed and built by the German designer Axel Hartmann. Around 500 of these instruments were build. This just might be the first time that this boundary breaking musical instrument is played in the Pittsburgh region. Steve will also be utilizing the Akai EWI 4000s wind synthesizer for this show.

Steve Sciulli – Musician and ambient music pioneer. Steve built his first synthesizer at the age of 10 and started the flute at 14. Founding member of the early 1980's progressive group "Carsickness" (which Trouser Press compared to Van der Graaf Generator) and the Celtic rock band "Ploughman's Lunch" along with numerous other regional and national touring musical groups. Steve along with his wife Ami make up the trance healing musical duo Life In Balance. Life In Balance has toured from Alaska to Florida and have been featured on NPR. Their CDs are available on Koch Records and The Relaxation Company. Steve's flute playing can be heard in the new Robert DeNiro and Bruce Willis movie "What Just Happened""

Frac Plague Bearer

flickr by parasitk
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Retrosynth MiniROM

You might remember the MiniROM from this video. via Retrosynth where you'll find more info including how to order the MiniRom:

"The Retrosynth MiniROM is a Blacet Mini Wave and Wiard Waveform City compatible ROM that provides eight times more waveform capacity than a traditional waveform ROM. The MiniROM can be installed in any open ROM socket on the Mini Wave or Hylander Expander. MiniROMs can be stacked with MiniROM selection handled by a panel mounted toggle or rotary switch....

The first MiniROM is available with PPG waveforms programmed by Jason Proctor. The PPG waveform set provides 32 banks of 64 waves each. A small wiring harness (provided) is soldered to the Mini Wave to facilitate access to the extended waves and banks." Blacet MiniWave.

Deep Space 11/16/2008

You might remember Deep Space from this previous post. You can find images of the performance by RandoRadio here.

"Deep Space
Improvised Sonic Exploration
A Special Live Remote Broadcast!

On Sunday, November 16th 2008,
Richard Lainhart and Jordan Rudess too the airwaves to perform improvisational space music. The program, called Deep Space, was hosted by Treavor Hastings and Gus Mason featured a mixture of interview and spacey sounds performed live. Richard performed on his Buchla 200e with Continuum and Jordan used his Moog Voyager and VSynth along with various gadgets and goodies.

The program was filmed and broadcast live to the entire world."

ookpikk

"the album is basically a showcase of the Sherman Filterbank and the DSI Evolver in a more obvious way than I've heard yet, and I figure that some matrixsynth readers might be interested...

you can find samples at www.myspace.com/ookpikk and http://ookpikk.googlepages.com/totalhome-job , as well as at itunes, beatport, and emusic.

To fully pick it apart, here's a track-by-track gearlist.

James Rocketface -
Drums: Samples (Filterbanked)
Bass: Nord Modular (FBd)
Lead 1: DSI Evolver
Lead 2: Waldorf uWave2

Hair Suite -
Drums: Samples (FBd)
Bass: Evolver
Lead 1:Evolver
Lead 2:Evolver (FBd)
Guitar: Samples (FBd)
Pads:Waldorf uWave2 (FBd)

Hooray For Public Healthcare!
Drums: Samples (Evolvered)
Bass: Nord Modular (FBd)
Lead: Evolver
Pad: Waldorf uWave2 (FBd)

Squire Twain, His Merry Men
Drums: Samples (Evolvered)
Bass: Waldorf uWave2 (FBd)
Lead: Evolver
Precussive Lead: Waldorf uWave2
Acid: Waldorf uWave2

Shop Teacher
Drums: Jomox Airbase99 (Ebbe und Fluted)
Bass: Nord Modular (EuFd)
Log precussion: Nord Modular (EuFd)
Lead: Evolver

Wisps
Drums: Jomox Airbase99 (FBd)
Bass: Evolver (FBd)
Lead: Nord Modular (FBd)
Pad: Nord Modular (FBd)
Bells: Nord Modular (FBd)

Sodafountain Of Youth
Drums: Samples (FBd)
Bass: Evolver
Lead: Waldorf uWave2 (EuFd)
Chords: Waldorf uWave2 (FBd)
Bells: Waldorf uWave2 (FBd)
Enchantment Under The Sea Guitar: Samples (FBd)

Total Home-Job
Drums: Jomox Airbase99 (EuFd)
Bass: Nord Modular
Lead 1: Nord Modular (FBd)
Hard Panned Lead: Evolver

Mr Carnivale
Drums:Samples (FBd)
Bass: Evolver (FBd)
Chords:Waldorf uWave2 (FBd)
Lead 1: Evolver

For Lloyd And Lloyd Alone
Bass:Waldorf uWave2 (FBd)
Bells:Waldorf uWave2 (FBd)
Lead 1:Evolver
Lead 2:Waldorf uWave2 (FBd)
Strings Waldorf uWave2 (FBd)"

Remember folks, the posts are about the synths. In this case you can hear a bit of the character of each synth used in the mix. The rule as always is you have to be able to focus on the individual synths either visually or via audio.