MATRIXSYNTH

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Drumcomputersystem Dynacord ADD-one/ADD-drive/BigBrain

Googlish translation from German:

"In this auction to offer you a complete Dynacord Sampling drumcomputer System consisting of one ADD-ADD-drive (including the sampling option), and the Big Brain Sequencer. Who wants to know how the system sounds, should the first edition of the Synthesizer-Magazin care.

Dynacord ADD-one
The Dynacord ADD-one has a hammer in terms of sound, handling and editing. The Samplingdrumcomputer ADD-one was from June 1985 to February 1986 from a Dynacord cooperation with the American team of designers Froward Fast Design (former Oberheim). For example, the spring comes the legendary Oberheim Marix-12 and Xpander.

In 1987, the ADD-drive, a RAM with the motherboard has been extradited. This is one of the ADD-an external analog to digital input jack or XLR and a 3.5 "floppy drive to the external sample storage. Without this board RAM is the ADD-one with up to three sample-ROM Paltinen upgradeable.

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KORG DS10 Announced One Year Ago

via the DS-10 blog

"On this day last year,at the same time,we have annouced “KORG DS-10″.

We’d like to say kind words to everyone who loves DS-10!!!!

A thousand thanks!!!!

And enjoy DS-10 more!!!"

Happy Anniversary to the KORG DS10 team! It is a great synth and I am enjoying mine. :)

Blindoldfreak at the Knitting Factory

Califaudio has pics up of the Blindoldfreak show at the Knitting Factory in LA.

both Buchlas (the original 200 and the new 200e), the MacBeth M5N, Roland TR-808, TB-303, Frostwave Resonater, a Moogerfooger and some other pedals.

The most modified SK-1 ever!

via GoodVillian on the forum.
More details on his MySpace page.

excerpt for the archives
(jump to the MySpace page for more):
"Here is a sneak peak at something I have been up to. Unfortunately all I have is this camera phone picture until tomorrow. This is a prototype of my sample smasher synth. I haven't came up with a formal name but sample smasher sums it all up.

The user can record or overlap samples and then change and glitch out the sound using the patch bay below the joysticks. You can also turn those samples into synth sounding basses, pads, leads, and effects as well with the proper tweaking. More importantly you can create sounds no commercial synth can produce.

Additionally you can run your cable connections through pots (the knobs) and fine tune your sound.

The 4 joysticks on the right allow you to play up to 32 notes. And trust me, playing with joysticks instead of keys is not only fun but it is just as easy if not easier to play the synth. The patch bay you see below the wires already jacked in allow you to program which note range the joysticks play so you can set them up to your liking."

Update: clearer pics

moog rotary pot

flickr by transanalog

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Get out and rooooock

flickr by brentus, usa

Gakken SX-150 synth dude

Untitled

flickr by grodrick

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KORG Electribes

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

CS15

YouTube via higleyvideos. Note this video is from Nov 2008, so it's most likely not on Ebay anymore. I'm putting this up now because I missed it at the time and I like this guys demos. The demo comes in at 1:57. See this search on higleyvideos for prior vids posted.