MATRIXSYNTH

360 Systems Digital Synthesizer

images via this auction
"Up for auction is an extremely rare and vintage 360 Systems Digital Keyboard. It has recently been serviced. It has had all the keyboard bushing replaced with new properly lubricated bushings and the keyboard leveled. It has also had many of the capacitors in the analog signal path replaced. To my knowledge it functions 100%. It has factory installed MIDI, not retrofitted, and has been tested. It includes three PROM boards and 11 sounds. The sounds are as follows as best as I can describe them:

1. Piano - This sounds great. It has 48 PROM chips dedicated to just the piano so there is almost no "stretching" on the samples.
2. Mello Bass / Acoustic Guitar
3. Electric Guitar #1
4. Electric Guitar #2 (E to C)

5. Slap Bass 1 / Slap Bass 2
6. Rhodes
7. Oboe? / French Horn
8. Sax? / Trombone
9. Sax? (bottom octave is looped)
10. Alto Sax
11. Cello / Strings - When this sound is "doubled" it is very lush and very nice! Its best sound in my opinion.

The PROM chips are labled with the sound and chip number. They are described as follows:

1. PNO: 1-48
2. MSC2: 4-7
3. GIT7: 1-6
4. ?? (the labels came off): X4
5. FNK3: 1-8
6. RHO4: 1-4
7. HORN: 1-10
8. CEL: 1-20
9. VLN: 11-40
10. 12 Empty Slots + space for one additional PROM board for a total of 4.

The keyboard is 8 voice polyphonic and can be doubled or layered for 4 voice polyphony. The keyboard can be split and sounds can be swapped. It has pitch and mod wheels with variable LFO speed. I say that it functions like a Mellotron because it only plays the length of the sample and doesn't infinitely loop. ...Or I haven't figured that part out. The analog section of the synth's circuitry has many CEM chips for filtering and dynamics."

You can find more shots in this flickr set. via Jeremy.

Oberheim OB-12 Factory Patches

In case you are looking, you can find them on the friends of OB-12 Yahoo list under the files section.

Harmonic Table Keyboard

Playing synths in bed...

via synth-diy where you will find the full post.

snip:
"This is another project I just started working on. It is a keyboard/MIDI controler based on the harmonic table (like the c-thru music controler). This one is just switches which all connect to a midi core module (from ucapps.de) which translates the various keypresses to midi signals. There are 50 keys/notes and although I'm going to use letra-set rub-ons to write the notes onto the keys, you can make out which note is which from the blue keys."

Buddha Machine II times two

flickr by Chris_Carter_

The new Buddha Machines are out. You can find them here.

YouTube via fm3zhang
boxing 2

Dorit Chrysler

http://www.myspace.com/doritchrysler

via navs.modular.lab where you can find a post on a few electronic shows coming up.

punkdISCO on the Roland MKS-80 and Doepfer Drehbank

via punkdISCO on the AH mailing list: "I cant understand why a few people are unimpressed with the MKS80. Maybe it's the interface? Anyway, I have had mine for maybe 6 years and for 5 years it remained unused (interface). I also had a Doepfer Drehbank that was also unused (it was setup to control a few synths so subsequently controlled none). I have now decided to setup the MKS80/Drehbank permanently paired. This means that when I turn then on, they work! The Drehbank has 64 knobs - the MKS80 has 64 editable parameters!
drehbank1_mks80.jpg
drehbank2_mks80.jpg
drehbank3_mks80.jpg
drehbank4_mks80.jpg
drehbank5_mks80.jpg

The MKS80 is an incredible synth. It just sounds wonderful. Extremely powerful and with the unusual modulation options, you can get some very aggressive/unusual sounds out of it.

I don't know where the previous poster got the 6dB bass boost figure from (I don't ever recall hearing it quantified) and I don't even know if the well documented boost actually exists, although I have no reason to doubt it. With or without this boost, it has a bass to die for. So much so that nearly every patch I use tends to have the HPF turned all the way up (unless it's a bass patch).

Oh yeah, and the duo-phonic is very nice, as is the very flexible unison modes."

Note the custom face on the Drehbank which normally looks like this image. Also note the punkdISCO logo in the top shot.

Non-specific acid with a prototype Make Noise QMMG

Non-specific acid with a prototype Make Noise QMMG from jeswa on Vimeo.
http://makenoisemusic.com/
Be sure to check out http://devsnd.blogspot.com for more.
"Only the Doepfer monster case was used, everything is just blinking alluringly, attempting to distract you.
Doepfer A-155 randomly sequencing a Livewire AFG sine,
Doepfer A-147 square wave clocking Doepfer A-149-1/2,
Doepfer A-149-2 random gates triggering QMMG CV triggers and CV resonance in no particular order,
QMMG master out lightly treated with Doepfer A-199 spring rev & Doepfer A-188-1Y (256) (CV2 modded with A-149-1)

Actually the patch took less time to set up than it did to write this explanation.

Mind you, this is a prototype QMMG, and I'm only using 2 of the 4 modes (and of those 2 modes used I didn't properly demonstrate their respective ranges, nor did I intend to) this does not properly demonstrate all of the module's enormous potential, just a little jam.

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Numerology 2 Demo #1

YouTube via JimAtFive12.

Audio comes in at :32. Sent my way via Suit & Tie Guy
"A selection of sequencing techniques offered by the new version of Numerology, from Five12. For more information, demo downloads and more, visit five12.com and the Numerology forums at five12.net."