MATRIXSYNTH

OXYGENE 4 (EXTENDED VERSION) cover played on vintage synthesizers (new mix)

YouTube via AnalogAudio1

"I recorded this cover of OXYGENE IV - music by Jean-Michel Jarre.

NO SAMPLES were used - just the real thing (vintage electronic instruments). Every sound was played by hand and recorded onto multitrack without MIDI - like Jarre did in 1976. It was hard work - it required good timing - but I enjoyed the recording process very much! At the first picture in the video you can see a part of my studio. I used only the following vintage analog synthesizers / instruments:

EMINENT 310 U (for the strings and pads with Small Stone)
KORG MINIPOPS 7 DRUMBOX
ARP ODYSSEY (brass-like lead sound)
KORG MS-20 (bass)
MOOG MICROMOOG for the sequencer sound, white noise FX and the lead sound with ELECTRIC MISTRESS flanger.

I uploaded this cover track already two months ago on YouTube, but I was not 100% satisfied, so I remixed it again - this version sounds far better and it's also longer.

It took three days to record and mix this track. Recording and mixing was doing digitally with LOGIC - I also used the reverb and delay plugins - as well as some equalizer plugs.

Sure, JMJ used not exactly the same instruments - (I don't have a RMI or an ARP 2600). However, the ARP Odyssey that I used is the small brother of the 2600 and its basic sound is similar). For the RMI sounds I used the Micromoog, which has very fast envelopes.

Music reproduced by kind permission of Jean Michel Jarre, see

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=PL&am... - thank you Jean-Michel!

As a big JMJ fan I always wanted to make a very good OXYGENE 4 cover - as a maxi-single version, that never existed. For all JMJ fans (including me), here it is...

There are many Oxygene 4 covers on YouTube... but to come as close to the original as this, you need analog equipment - you will not get such a sound from digital stuff, vst plugins...

It is recorded in stereo, enjoy it... "

Aegis Sonix: An Early Software Synth With Patrick McCarthy Roth Mobot

YouTube via gearwire
"Aegis Sonix was cutting edge back in 1984, and it's even kind of neat now. But does it have Reversi?"

Dave Smith Instruments Mopho Sound Editor LE: Editing Patches Over MIDI

YouTube via gearwire
"Normal-named dudes Dave and Bill combine forces to make abnormal-sounding synth madness in this video on the Dave Smith Mopho and its included MIDI patch editor."

Happy Knobbing 2009 by nanotone

flickr set by nanotone
(click for more)

tabuleiro musical

YouTube via etonepan

BeatMachine - Amateur - Bottle Cap Sequencer

YouTube via marcinwalesa
"Więcej informacji:
http://mw.boo.pl/beatmachine/

Made by
Marcin Wałęsa and Krzysztof Wojtas

Filmed by
Jan Mazurczak

High Quality (112.3 MB, AVI)
http://www.sendspace.pl/file/HOtI525U/

Inspired by
Bubblegum Sequencer"

from arduino import keyboard

flickr by Neil

full size

"Python Cookbook modded to contain synthesizer. At (where else) Maker Faire."

Roland SH-101

via this auction

"SH 101 Specs: 32 Key monophonic analog synthesizer. Built-in sequencer (100 steps), arpeggiator with auto function, 1 oscillator with two waveforms, an 'octave-divided' sub-oscillator, and a low-pass filter/VCF capable of self oscillation... Input/output jacks for CV/Gate and external clock input."