"Los Angeles, CA, January 13, 2009 — Roland is pleased to announce that renowned keyboardist Jordan Rudess will be performing at this year’s NAMM show in the Roland Showcase Theater, Thursday, January 16, 2009 at 3:00pm. Rudess will be performing on an exciting new Roland keyboard to be announced at NAMM.
Rudess is best known for his innovative work with the band Dream Theater, which he joined in 1999. Dream Theater’s most recent album is entitled Systematic Chaos, and the band has toured it extensively worldwide through 2008. In September of 2007, Rudess released his latest solo album, the acclaimed The Road Home, which features incredible musicians such as Steven Wilson, Ed Wynn, Kip Winger and Rod Morgenstein.
Jordan Rudess has worked with many other renowned artists including the Dixie Dregs, David Bowie, Enrique Iglesias, Tony Williams, Jan Hammer and the Paul Winter Consort. He has also authored two books, Total Keyboard Wizardry and Dream Theater Keyboard Anthology, plus two instructional DVDs entitled Keyboard Madness and Keyboard Wizardry.
Currently, Rudess is at work with Dream Theater on a much anticipated new release. Don’t miss this extraordinary musician in the Roland Showcase Theater, booth #2672."
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
The Csaba DIY and Electronics - dsPICFun 2
"This board can generate four Control Voltages with a 12-bit DAC7554 for outputs and has four inputs hooked up to the ADC port. It also has 4 potentiometers hooked up to the ADC board two buttons and a rotary Encoder for values and settings.It has a LCD port, DCI port , UART and SPI/I2C . Now this is where it gets interesting : the flexibility of the board is imense as it be configured for MIDI, RS-232 or USB. DCI port can take any Audio CODEC and I assume some memory handling might be possible with another µCU via the SPI port. Giving us a great and flexible dsPIC based Audio development sytem.
My Idea is to have some wavetables that leave the digital domain and are feed into a SSM2044 VCF that then is controlled by the CV of this powerful µCU dsPIC33FJ128GP708 running @7.37MHz."
more info and pics on Casaba.ch.
MATRIXSYNTH WIKI and Discusson List?
Update: I've decided to put this on hold. It turns out the Wiki site has a 100M limit which is a non starter for synth images, audio samples and the like. The votes on the list vs. forum below favor the forum and I do not want run both as it would just dilute information further. So.. for now things will remain as is. Thanks for taking the time out to vote and provide feedback everyone.
NOTE: this would have zero impact on the blog. This would mainly be for your use, not mine.
I've been toying around with the idea of a WIKI and Discussion/Email List.
Here's why:
WIKI
A number of people have suggested I turn MATRIXSYNTH into a WIKI that everyone can contribute to. That obviously isn't going to happen. MATRIXSYNTH the blog is what it is, a blog and it will remain the same. I do see the value of a WIKI though. There's Wikipedia, but when it comes to "EVERYTHING SYNTH" it can be difficult to navigate. There are also other synth wiki's out there, but most are either centralized on a single synth/topic or they get lost in the shuffle. I'd like to think our WIKI will have a chance as I can make it a permanent link in the header above. Note a WIKI is only as good as those that contribute to it and with the blog I will have very little time myself. That said, it will probably be a slow process, but I like to think long term. In five to ten years from now it could be quite the resource. I created one here and I added the list of manufacturers from my labels. Note in our world manufacturers include one offs and people that design synths, not just businesses. Vote below on whether or not you think this is worth doing.
Discussion/Email List
We currently have the Forum, however there are two problems with it. One it's hosted on a paid server so as it grows the cost of hosting it will grow and should something happen to me it will go down. Two, you have to actually go to it to see what's new and if you are tight on time like me, you may not check often. There are questions there that go unanswered and honestly there hasn't been much traffic on it, so I'm thinking now might be the right time to move to a Discussion Group. With a list, you don't have to do anything. The emails come to you and you can decide to engage or not. You can organize everything that comes in on your end as you want it and everything will be archived online. The Analog Heaven, SDIY and Waldorf lists are amazing for this. But... Analog Heaven has a strict rule on analog only, SDIY is pretty much SDIY and Waldorf, Waldorf. There's a list called Digital Hell that is supposed to compliment Analog Heaven for everything else, but it really doesn't get much traffic. The discussion list will be hosted here. Note that although the UI isn't great, most activity will be via email. The site will just serve as a searchabe archive. Another thing worth noting is that with the old forum you had to create a new separate account. The WIKI and the Discussion List are hosted by Google, so you can use a gmail account for them as well as comments here on the blog. Vote below on whether or not you think this is worth doing.
NOTE: for those voting no, feel free to comment why and/or email me directly with why. You can find my contact info on the bottom right of the site.
NOTE: this would have zero impact on the blog. This would mainly be for your use, not mine.
I've been toying around with the idea of a WIKI and Discussion/Email List.
Here's why:
WIKI
A number of people have suggested I turn MATRIXSYNTH into a WIKI that everyone can contribute to. That obviously isn't going to happen. MATRIXSYNTH the blog is what it is, a blog and it will remain the same. I do see the value of a WIKI though. There's Wikipedia, but when it comes to "EVERYTHING SYNTH" it can be difficult to navigate. There are also other synth wiki's out there, but most are either centralized on a single synth/topic or they get lost in the shuffle. I'd like to think our WIKI will have a chance as I can make it a permanent link in the header above. Note a WIKI is only as good as those that contribute to it and with the blog I will have very little time myself. That said, it will probably be a slow process, but I like to think long term. In five to ten years from now it could be quite the resource. I created one here and I added the list of manufacturers from my labels. Note in our world manufacturers include one offs and people that design synths, not just businesses. Vote below on whether or not you think this is worth doing.
Discussion/Email List
We currently have the Forum, however there are two problems with it. One it's hosted on a paid server so as it grows the cost of hosting it will grow and should something happen to me it will go down. Two, you have to actually go to it to see what's new and if you are tight on time like me, you may not check often. There are questions there that go unanswered and honestly there hasn't been much traffic on it, so I'm thinking now might be the right time to move to a Discussion Group. With a list, you don't have to do anything. The emails come to you and you can decide to engage or not. You can organize everything that comes in on your end as you want it and everything will be archived online. The Analog Heaven, SDIY and Waldorf lists are amazing for this. But... Analog Heaven has a strict rule on analog only, SDIY is pretty much SDIY and Waldorf, Waldorf. There's a list called Digital Hell that is supposed to compliment Analog Heaven for everything else, but it really doesn't get much traffic. The discussion list will be hosted here. Note that although the UI isn't great, most activity will be via email. The site will just serve as a searchabe archive. Another thing worth noting is that with the old forum you had to create a new separate account. The WIKI and the Discussion List are hosted by Google, so you can use a gmail account for them as well as comments here on the blog. Vote below on whether or not you think this is worth doing.
NOTE: for those voting no, feel free to comment why and/or email me directly with why. You can find my contact info on the bottom right of the site.
Ondestrak - Mechanical Inspection
YouTube via craigtorso
"This is a visual inspection of the Ondestrak, a musical controller inspired by the Ondes Martenot and built from a Gametrak video game controller. I happened to be listening to Gus Cannon and His Jug Stompers when I made this video. If you don't like it, go ahead and turn the sound down since I didn't actually have the controller hooked-up during the filming of this video. My intention was just to make a detailed look at how it works, mechanically.
See the full instructions for building an Ondestrak on the Instructables website. http://www.instructables.com/id/The_O..."
Ondestrak - With Timbre Filters
North: "M-33" instrumental EDIT
"Instrumental excerpt from a demo recording (1980) by our then-newly formed prog band called "North", recorded on 8-tracks at a student recording school. Posted here to show what we were doing at the time with my new Yamaha CS-80. Three players on this track: keyboards, violin and drums, incl. SynDrums. Keyboards are almost entirely the CS-80, with an almost tuned baby grand piano, and some bass lines overdubbed on Arp Odyssey. (Vocal sections have been edited out for brevity, as this was originally over 14 minutes long!!!) CS-80 enthusiasts will recognize many of the performance features that made this such a great synth: Aftertouch Modulation, initial pitch-bend, ribbon controller, Portamento and Glissando, etc.
Keywords: prog rock, CS-80, Yamaha CS-80, CS80, instrumental"
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