MATRIXSYNTH

Formations Part I (Triton, Fizmo & Z1)

YouTube via RanKirlian
"Live improvisation at The Blue_Room on July 2009
Gear: Korg triton TR, Ensoniq Fizmo, Korg Z1"

Wendy playing reversed Optigan Romantic Strings

YouTube via RothHandle

Wendy playing the Optigan Polka disc

"Yesterday...as in Saturday me and Wendy recorded some new and fresh stuff for a Canadian Danceproduction. By new and fresh I of course mean old and scratchy. Most of the day was spended rummaging around Mellotron tapes, Optigan discs and vinyl. Everything for the quest of the perfect noise and loop. A lot of laughs and a great lunch at Sundbybergs number one place for good Gyoza, Daichii.

This little snippet is of the wondrous Wendy playing My Optigan with the very elusive Polka disc in it.

If you are curious to learn more about Wendy she is of course on Myspace and if you want to find out more about the studio please mumble by www.roth-handle.nu

Thanks for watching,

Mattias"

Wendy McNeill playing scary Mellotron Choirs

Waves of Inspiration. The Legacy of Moog - Pics by David Rogoff

See David Rogoff's full set on Facebook. Note some of the pics are from the Moog reception at Big City Music in 2003. You'll be able to easily spot them.

Update: flickr set with larger images.

ARP 2600 restoration completed

YouTube via MusicMiK. follow-up to this post
"The last part of the ARP 2600 restoration video series.

Fixing the keyboard was the harder part of this restoration, i completely took it apart, cleaned everything, removed some rust, replaced the bushings and adjusted everything. Works quite fine now.

What you don't see in the video - i added a small circuit as a CV/Gate interface, which emulates the keyboard, so you can still use the portamento on your CV input and the trigger behaviour is exactly the same as with the original keyboard. This interface accepts TTL gate signals, so no problem with the 15V, you usually need on the ARP 2600. Schematics and layout will be published on mik-music.org after some minor corrections.

The whole restoration took about 50 hours of work and i really wouldn't do it again - except on my own 2600, if i ever get one :) Sure, it could have been done faster, but the motivation for this was curiosity and the challenge to get this done as good as possible :)"

KORG MS20 Modded

via this auction
"Here are the mods from left to right, described to the best of my ability.
- Touch sensor 1/8 inch jack.
- Midi jack. I haven't quite figured out how to use this, I believe you can trigger with midi, the little figure below the input shows it working for modulation wheel and momentary trigger
- Keyboard 1/4 jack
Touch sensor section:
- Attack release knob, positive or negative waveshape
- Decay amount
- Velocity level

- Touch press level knob, + or +/- SYM switch
Reverb section
- input balance between 1 or 2
- defeat switch
- dry out mix wet
LFO 2 section
- waveform
- frequency (w/ led indicating freq length)
1/4 inch jack modular section on the right:
- Osc1/Osc2 total out
- Osc1 triangle
- Osc1 saw
- Osc1 square/pulse

- Touch A/R
- Touch Press
- Touch Velocity
- EG2 Pos. Out
- LFO2 Triangle/Square
- Reverb 1/2
- Out
Mixer section
- 4 inputs, 1 output
- 4 inputs, 1 output
- 3 inputs, 1 output, with a switch between mix and multi function"

KORG MICROKORG MODIFIED

via this auction

MicroKORG without keys.

MODIFIED TABLE TOP VERSION

TWA LD-01 Little Dipper Envelope Filter

YouTube via ProGuitarShopDemos
"www.proguitarshop.com - The The LD-01 Little Dipper is a totally new envelope filter from the dudes at Totally Wicked Audio. If you dig classic funk, filter, auto-wah, and talk box sounds then the TWA Little Dipper is for you. Enjoy. http://www.proguitarshop.com/product...."