MATRIXSYNTH

NI Maschine - Fun with the FX

YouTube via SuicideServer
"NI Maschine is running in standalone mode. No external FX was used. NI Maschine is running through NI´s Audio Kontrol 1 Audio Interface."

YouTube via organfairy
"The HE-8 from 1989 was the biggest organ in the HE series from Yamaha. I works with a combination of wavetable and FM synthesis which Yamaha called Advanced Wave Memory - or AWM.
Normally I use it with an external drum machine. But in this the third organ demo I use it as it is with nothing attached.

The songs are:

Seven Tears (W.E.Stein, W.Jass)
Equinoxe VII (J.M. Jarre)
Cry just a little bit (?)
La Chambre séparée (E.Donato, J.D.Parker-Tanja, W.Lang, T.Ockerse)
Hi-Fi (Troels Trier, Rebekka Brüel)
Rivers of Babylon (Brent Dowe, Trevor McNaughton)
Lovers Concerto (Sandy Linzer, Denny Randell)"

YAMAHA DD-11 by S-CAT

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

ASMO : circuit bent toy drum analogue sequencing test

YouTube via eddie23a. "toy drum sequencing test"

disko check

YouTube via se7ense7
"just a random video for a new track I made...
Arps are Nord,
strings are sampled Juno's
sawbass is Nord
303 - ish sound is Yamaha AN200
Vocoder is the free but insane TAL software vocoder
Drums are freeware Drumatic (oldest version) and samples that came with the MPC1000."

Walking Stick Dual-CV Ribbon Controller Demo

YouTube via 12T0NE

"This is just a little improv thing I did whilst goofing around with a few Dotcom modules and one of my Dual-CV Ribbon Controllers . These controllers add a new dimension to my standard 20" single-CV ribbon design, by offering a secondary CV output that can be varied by applying different amounts of pressure to the ribbon's surface.

For the purposes of this demo, I placed enough modules inside of a small 8-space cabinet to build up a very basic FM patch. The ribbon's CV is being routed through a set of multiples to control the pitch of the two VCOs, and the controller's pressure CV is similarly routed through multiples to the state-variable filter's cutoff frequency, and to the control input of a single VCA. Oscillator #2 is running thru this VCA, back into the frequency input of oscillator #1. When pressure is applied to the ribbon's surface, the VCA opens up and increases the amount of frequency modulation going on between the oscillators. In absence of a final VCA, I'm using the ribbon's pressure sensitivity to open-and-close the cutoff frequency of the filter. With no pressure applied, the filter allows no sound to pass. This allowed me to "envelope" the notes being played on the controller with a single touch of the finger.

Thanks for viewing!"

Getting Started with the Open Labs NeKo

YouTube via MakeItFunkyProds
"(Note: If you see the message, "We're sorry, this video is no longer available" then press the HQ icon below the video and it should play.)

This video explains how to:
1. Turn on your NeKo / Miko studio.
2. Connect your external VGA monitor.
3. Play the Open Labs vsti's in your software.

(BONUS: How to exit the Open Labs Shell.)

~Vince
http://myspace.com/makeitfunkyprods"

Musikmesse: SchneidersBuero Superbooth is Back!

http://www.superbooth.com/manufactures.htm

You might remember SchneidersBuero skipped hosting last year's Superbooth at the Musikmesse.

some links:
http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/search?q=schneidersbuero
http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2008/04/totally-wired.html

via sequencer.de
via https://twitter.com/moogulator

Wecome to Monome

Wecome to Monome from sam_square on Vimeo.
"What is a monome? Monomes are fun to watch, but what is actually going on?
ma-gnome!"
via https://twitter.com/stretta

Synth legends, stories and rumors

Sequence 15 has a fun post on the following synth rumors. You can find the answers there along with some videos and samples. Even if you know the answers to these, it is worth a look. I remember the first time I heard the Edgar Winter ARP 2600 as a keytar rumor. For a short period of time I actually thought it was the full on unit. :)

Story: Laurens Hammond, inventor of the Hammond organ, was tone deaf and couldn't play.

Story: No recording was ever made of the Telharmonium, the first synthesizer.

Story: The Rhodes Chroma was actually designed by ARP.

Story: Prior to the creation of MIDI, Sequential Circuits had designed a serial bus for musical instruments which was much faster than MIDI.

Story: The prototype of the Moog Voyager Old School was stolen from Moog.

Story: Edgar Winter used to play with an ARP 2600 on a guitar strap.