MATRIXSYNTH

Roland SH 1000

via this auction

some shots of the inside

Son of Cyclosity - modular synth + Numerology

YouTube via doctorvague

"Previously improvised Numerology session played back in 3 voices fed to a MOTM 650 MIDI interface to 2 synthesizer dotcom oscillators and a Modcan VCDO into MOTM 440 filter (to the right of the white Modcan - kickass filter) and below that the dotcom State variable filter, 2 dotcom EG's and all that geeky stuff baby! Much use is made of the dotcom oscillators' soft sync in, with musical intervals driving the aforermentioned. This is an overdub for a bigger piece with loops and like, 'real' music."

Ellatron 1.4 is in review

flickr by Omenie

full size

"Exciting, eh?

EllaCello - we heard that people just couldn't make our MelloStrings play notes that were low enough. A problem we understand round here, as we have bass guitars in Ellatron central. So EllaCello now becomes the proudest, bassest member of our tape frame family.

So StellaPhone - what's that all about? Well - have you ever thought "If only I had a Mellotron?" - what about - "If only I had a Stylophone AND a Mellotron - then I could play Space Oddity all on my own!". Madam, your wish is our command - say a big hi to StellaPhone!!!"

Not yet on iTunes. previous posts

DIY MIDI Program Changer with Note Filter

via the audioMIDIblog where you'll find the full post. Pretty cool...

"For our live setup, one of the keyboard players in my band plays my MIDI’d Prophet-5 along with an Alesis Ion. One really annoying detail of the Ion is that it’s really a bitch to change patches quickly on it (before you write and tell us how incompetent we are, try doing it in the roughly one second time period between a verse and a chorus, while continuing to play something with your other hand). You can either hit one of the tiny, poorly located, poorly labled up/down buttons, or you can take your chances with the inc/dec knob and hope you don’t overshoot it by turning it too far. Now, the humble Prophet-5 has eight BIG, LED-lit program select buttons right by the keyboard that you CAN’T miss- much better."

Record micro tutorial 2 - Reason & Record integration

YouTube via PropellerheadSW
"This micro tutorial shows you how Propellerhead Software's Reason and Record work together, seamlessly integrated into one application."

max+ableton

YouTube via alkopop79
"Tracking red in video signal from my webcam. The values are sent to Ableton as CC. So much fun:)"

Casio SK-1: The Everyman's Sampling Keyboard

YouTube via gearwire
"Even for those of us not long enough in the tooth to remember when the Casio SK-1 came out, the legend of this handy device looms large, even though the thing itself is not that big. One man band Willis P. Jenkins demos the SK-1 for us, and continues to amaze us with his penchant for instruments that make multitasking seem easy."