MATRIXSYNTH

Landscape & Roland System 100M / MC-4

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BTW, if you haven't check out Neil Vance's Electronic Music Stuff photostream, do it. There's an amazing collection of synth oriented scans - ads, interviews, etc.

Monome / Arduinome running Polygome

YouTube via blogdesorden
"Polygome improvisation with my recently built Arduinome. Polygome is a monome app made by stretta (thanks man!!!). The drum sounds are coming from Ableton Live. Sorry about the poor video and audio quality.

Check out my arduinome build log: http://blog-desorden.blogspot.com/sea...
Other Music and DIY stuff here: http://blog-desorden.blogspot.com/"

Mira and Hayden demo my arduinome using 64step

YouTube via ItsJustDave
"My kids are fascinated with the monome clone I'm building. It will have full color support when it's done, but for now I can swap cables for red, green, or blue. This composition was wholly the work of my 5 year old daughter and 1 year old son. Samples grabbed from the echoplex drum simulator's sound packs."

Arduinome 128 (80h)

YouTube via StarfireMX
"Finnaly got my button pads so here it is, it's alive!!!

An Arduinome 128 using 2 seeeduinos, 2 unsped shields, and 2 monome 40h button kits. It works great! Was just messing with the max patch boing, love this thing!"

deka3

YouTube via cirtcele
"'accept' by False God -
Dekatron sequencer and tube VCO provide synth sounds, Korg ES1 does the rest. Not much of a vid, unless you are currently undergoing self-inflicted serotonin replacement therapy....in which case - enjoy the pretty swirling colours!
btw - the relay clicking does not appear on the soundpath! (see dekatron sequencer vid)" more vids

Roland TR-808: Vocode me VP-330!

YouTube via retrosound72

"vintage synth demo by RetroSound

The 808 speaks over the VP330 Vocoder :)
Roland TR-808 output to Roland VP330 Vocoder Mic Input + analog strings and human voice sounds;
drums: TR-808"

Whoeiiiiii

YouTube via majorhostage. "Here wo go, juno style" GEM S2. You don't see them often.

RandomQ960

YouTube via davidryle
"Randomizing the timing to the Synthesizers.com Q960 step sequencer by using a Noise Generator into a Sample & Hold then the output voltage to an Instrument Interface module. Tweak it just right and you get a random gate pulse for the shift input on the Q960 sequencer.
This track also uses the Pan module to give a stereo ping pong effect from two separate oscillator, filter, envelope and amplifier voices. Two hard synchronized LFO's sculpted the filter even more for a tighter pulse sound. A Ring modulator and tuning the oscillator voices in octaves gave a variety to the voices. The Trigger bus module gave accent selection on one filter voice. All modules are Arrick Robotics synthesizers.com. The reverb is a Lexicon MX200."

Musikmesse: See Akai's new MPD18 and Miniak synth at Frankfurt 09

YouTube via musicradartv
"The folks at Akai give MusicRadar the skinny on what's new for Musikmesse 2009: the MPD18 USB pad controller and the Miniak virtual analogue synth."