MATRIXSYNTH

The First Digital Polyphonic Keyboard?

The project by by Michael J. Bauer began in 1972 and was published in 1976.
You can find the full story here
"A hybrid polyphonic instrument incorporating the best advantages of both the digital and analog worlds was realised. As far as I know, mine was the first digital polyphonic instrument design ever published (Electronics Australia, April 1976). Unfortunately, the instrument was not destined to be a commercial success. Apart from my lack of entrepreneurial skills, there were other factors leading to its swift obsolescence. The keyboard logic was implemented entirely from small-medium scale TTL devices. It was based on a kind of state-machine architecture. A little invention called the "micro-processor" made my TTL design obsolete. In the same year as my E.A. article was published, Motorola introduced the M6800. I bought a Motorola 6800 'D1' evaluation kit, and so began my career in embedded electronics design."

Manuel Gottsching Talks About Moog Instruments

YouTube via scootermccrae. Don't forget the upcoming Moog event!
"Wow, almost one year to the day after-the-fact, I'm finally posting this video footage of Manuel Gottsching at one of the three U.S. concerts he performed last summer (his first time performing in the United States).

As I'm a big fan of his music and his legendary group Ashra Tempel, I made contact with him just before his arrival in New York to see if I could help out by videotaping the concerts (which he was happy to have done). I also asked if I could shoot some interview footage so I could help out the Moog Foundation with a little video of his visit so they could post it on their youtube channel.

The Moog Foundation has been (happily) very busy lately with some wonderful stuff and not as interested in posting new videos with so much other work to be done, so I thought I'd finally put this on youtube so like-minded folks could enjoy a brief snippet of one of the excellent performances Herr Gottsching gave -- and also hear him reminisce a bit about his own and the Moog's wonderful legacy.

Hopefully someday the concert footage will be edited together and sold via his website. For now, please enjoy this excerpt (and if you're not already familiar with his work, please do visit www.ashra.com to find out more).

And of course, don't forget to visit the Moog Foundation at www.moogfoundation.org

Thanks as always for taking a look,

Scooter McCrae"

Roland JX-8P + Jupiter-4 + TR-606

YouTube via retrosound72

"vintage synth demo by RetroSound

'Roland Arpeggiator'

bassline: Roland Jupiter -4, arpeggiator in random-mode is triggered by the TR-606
warm pads: Roland JX-8P
drums: Roland TR-606
FX: reverb and delay"

danelectro shift daddy (circuit bent)

YouTube via Vtolus
"some more shots - http://samoletuvvp.narod.ru..."

Alien-Devices circuit bent TALKATRON

via this auction

"6 Voice Modifications including Random and Repeatable Glitches
Pitch Dial and Body Contact for Pitch Modulations
2 Loops for Smooth and Rhythmic/Chaotic Loops
Internal Speaker and Standard 1/4" line out with switch for easy audio integration"

samples at the auction while up.

x0xb0x (tb303 clone) and TR707

YouTube via se7ense7
"Just a clip I made for showing off the X0XBOX with custom design, mods and SOKKOS firmware.

Download my album (that sounds nothing like this video) for free here: http://www.4shared.com/file/120115238...

Or visit my page at
http://www.myspace.com/simonderycke - http://www.facebook.com/alienrobotdance - www.vi.be/alienrobotdance

Be sure to check out my other videos!"

SoCold (molten rubber rmx)

"Original song by dodoka (myspace.com/dodokaspace).

For more stuf of mine, check out myspace/com/simonderycke, facebook.com/alienrobotdance or download my full album for free at http://www.4shared.com/file/120115238..."