Curtis Roads Update

A couple of updates and good comments coming in on this prior post.

Some Old Audiovisualizers and new synthesizer sounds

YouTube via VironCybernet
"Late 1980's LYTE audiovisualizer, large VU meter, and small LED VU meter all responding to some new synthesizer sounds I made. Except I didn't make the LYTE.

If you like the sounds, you can download an mp3 of them at:
http://www.onanother.net/ViRandom_Syn..."

It's just a phase

YouTube via mysteritmo
"This piece of music was created during the first test of my new phaser; The Big Brick Stage Edition. The phaser was built by Michael Kukat inspired by the Electro-Harmonix Small Stone Phaser. Make sure to watch all his You Tube videos building the phaser from start to finish."
That would be these videos.

abanondoned sat calls home

YouTube via 909techno
"Nord Lead 1 with 2.0 expansion. headphone out to laptop input."

Spring Chicken and the Vostok

YouTube via bigcitymusic
"Here's a dirty little sequence from the Analogue Solutions Vostok suitcase synth. We're running it through the new Malekko Heavy Industry Spring Chicken reverb pedal. The Spring Chicken sounds awesome and the controls are pretty easy. You've got one knob. If you want more spring reverb, turn it up! This is the super slick red version of the Vostok. We decided to skip the pin matrix (not Matrixsynth!) and use patch cables this time. The Vostok is pretty gnarly and it's definitely unique." :)

Arduino & Processing Synthesizer

Arduino & Processing Synthesizer from anthony mattox on Vimeo.

Audio comes in at :40
"Synthesizer built with Arduino board with an interface scripted in Processing.
view more information in my blog at anthonymattox.com/blog"

Announcing MATRIXSYNTH-C

I just created MATRIXSYNTH-C. What is it? In short it will be a blog for "Bands That Play Synths" and support MATRIXSYNTH. The focus will be on the music. It's my way of saying thank you to anyone that supports the site. I'm going to limit posts to vids that are directly sent in by you, the readers. To keep any one person from overtaking the site, please chose what you send in carefully. Showcase your best. The only rule is the music has to feature synths, BUT, it doesn't have to be specifically about the synths like here on MATRIXSYNTH.

MATRIXSYNTH is all about the gear first
MATRIXSYNTH-C is all about the music first
MATRIXSYNTH-B is all about gear for sale first

My contact info is on the bottom right of this site.

Thanks goes to Chris Randall for the orange. I've been meaning to start this site for some time but wasn't sure what color to go with until he commented on orange being next year's green in response to Peter Kirn's comment in this post. Maybe he's right. :)

My Intern David recording Double Tremeloed Omnichord

YouTube via RothHandle
"Yesterday we kept on working on the Victorias Moralez track piecing together rhythms and ambient stuff to create layers to be used behind the song. My intern David was a complete trouper helping me out. My initial idea was to have a Autoharp chord at the beginning of the "big " middle section but it didnt really turn out too great. So we moved on to the Jery JOnes sitar and tuned the resonator strings....still didnt do the track. So...finally we ended up recording the OMnichord using two tyremeloes to give it a wide random fluttery effect. This was of course dubbed to enhance the effect.

If you are curious about the studio please visit www.roth-handle.nu for more information, booking and blogs.

Thank for watching !

// Mattias"

YAMAHA PSS-480 by S-CAT

YouTube via PHONICPOTION. picks up at :56. S-CAT/PHONICPOTION on Ebay
"CIRCUIT BENT WITH 7 MODIFICATIONS"

BONTEMPI MINSTRAL by S-CAT PT.1

"CIRCUIT BENT WITH 25 MODIFICATIONS"

BONTEMPI MINSTRAL by S-CAT PT.2

A Vintage 16K Music Demo (William Tell Overture)

YouTube via VironCybernet. Music starts at 3:05
"This was made by Garry and Linda Howard in 1982. There was a 32K version... but... The code was published in a magazine and the terms of use were to type it in and save it on a tape and then run it as is, which is what I did, having to push either 30000 or 60000 keys, I only had 16K so I typed in that version. The longer version had the less interesting part of this melody.

Before it plays you can hear what the program data sounds like on the tape as it reads almost 16K of data from the tape at about 1200 baud.

It's not a copyright violation to run it and show it to people as it is, because that is what it is for.

I can describe the USUAL musical sounds from this machine as sounding very much like the buzzer on a game show when someone gives a wrong answer. This program probably made the best sounding music ever with the TRS-80, and I show it to you because it's on an 8-bit 16K machine with usually crappy sound, like my 1985 synthesizer disk for the Apple II, and it's a historic demo that was famous with people who had TRS-80's but is almost forgotten now.

And also it is either evidence or proof of concept of getting a lot of high quality sound or music without much memory, certainly much less than an MP3 of it would need."