MATRIXSYNTH

JoMoX XBase09 XRom install

YouTube via LyndonTCorbett. Update: this is now on Ebay.
"After hounding Kaspar to do one more run of Xrom kits, he finally caved in. I ordered 2 and here is one that I just finished and installed. All that I'm doing here is checking everything to make sure it is working as it should.

The red LEDs are working in binary with 1 being "ON" - [00] is bank 1, [01] bank 2, [10] bank 3 and [11] bank 4"

Firstman SQ-01 demo 1

YouTube via LyndonTCorbett

"This is a simple demo of the Firstman SQ-01 manufactured by Multivox in 1981. It requires that 2 bars be programmed, so if you were wondering why I repeated the first four notes 8 times you now know why.

As for control, it has 2 filter controls for Cutoff Frequency and Resonance, 2 knobs for Oscillator - Fine and Frequency, and 3 knobs for Sequence Control - Tempo/ Release/Bar (2/4/8/12/16). There is a knob for Sustain and one for Volume. 2 envelopes - Saw and Square and the option for 6/8."

Firstman SQ-01 demo 2

"This is a simple demo, using the square wave of the Firstman SQ-01 manufactured by Multivox in 1981. It requires that 2 bars be programmed, so if you were wondering why I repeated the first four notes 8 times you now know why."

The Story Of The BBC Radiophonic Workshop and the Oramics Optical Synthesizer

via Steve Marshall:

"I wrote a 12 page article about the history of the Radiophonic Workshop for the April 08 Sound On Sound and it's now free to read on-line.

As a result of that article being printed, Graham Wrench got in touch - he's the engineer who'd built the prototype Oramic synth for Daphne Oram in the 60's. The current Feb 09 SOS has my new article about Graham and his story. Here's a link, but only to a preview.

Ray White has just put up a new gallery of Radiophonic Workshop pics - some not seen before; http://whitefiles.org/rwg/"

Also see Steve Marshall's SURROUNDHEAD for scans from 70's Studio Sound magazines.

Above: "Daphne Oram with the wobbulator (centre of shot), 1958."

Left: "The unique Oramics synthesizer was controlled by drawing onto 35mm photographic film."

Prophet 5 Rev 2 Test

via Scott Metzger on AH:
"Just had a Kenton Kit installed on my Prophet. So happy with it now. Unison is very, very thick. Does anyone know about patches acting weird on it? Some old patches on it seem to not allow proper tweaking, but if I go to the default panel then overwrite the patch all is good, and I never have issue on that bank or patch. Was hoping someone could shed some light..

Oh, and here is a test I did if anyone wants to hear..

mp3 here

Using a Jomox 888, and a Geiger Counter for Bit distortion on the snare. If anyone gets a chance to pick that pedal up, you can grab it from AH. Very very cool pedal and it adds a nice tone to the Snare that is pretty week on the 888. I hope Jomox releases a new drum machine with a new snare. I think the Jomox would be the best drum machine hands down if it had more of a punch with the snare."

Tapestri for iPhone Now Available

You can find it here:

See this post for more info.

Pulse Feedback

Pulse Feedback from Ernst on Vimeo.
"Quick and raw footage of my oscilloscope getting input from a patch in my doepfer a100 system.

Patch is roughly:
Pseudo-Random Pulses made with 2 LFO's feeding into an A149-1 Source of Uncertainty.
Output (via mixer- see later) of which is filtered by an A128 fixed filterbank which is amplified afterwards by an A119 pre amp.
Output of that is fed back via an A130 mixer into the A128.
Feedback point is crucial for the sound! Actually this feedback functions as the resonance factor of the A128.

Other speciality of this patch is that I actually use the A149-1 as an audio source..."