MATRIXSYNTH

Sunday, September 20, 2009

metasonix|machinedrum

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"metasonix tm-1 and a machinedrum sps-1."

YouTube via davidryle
"Arrick Modular live recording of a patch.
Heart of the patch is of two sets of Q117 S&H and Q118 Instrument Interfaces fed off of one Q110 Noise Generator. Instrument Interface's were output to two Q961 Interface modules for long gates, then routed to two Q128 Switches to select a control voltage for the oscillators from the Q960 Sequential Controller stages.
This created a random combination of two pitches for each step from the sequencer even though the control voltages were still tuned. Some of the voltages were sent to more than one oscillator which in turn fed either soft sync or low frequency oscillators. Some oscillators were sent through a Q116 Ring Modulator. A Q105 Slew Limiter modified one oscillator for down glide pitch modulation.
A Yves Usson Gate Delay (STG Soundlabs) module was used for late timings and slew into a couple of oscillators for some of the background effects.
Three filters were used. A STG Soundlabs Sea Devils Filter, a Q107 State Variable Filter and a Q150 Transistor Ladder Filter. Four envelope generators, two mixers, four amplifiers, a distributor, a multiple and a Pan/Fade module rounded out the patch modules.

Two Behringer DD400 digital delay units were used in line with some of the oscillators, and a Lexicon MX200 was used for final delay.

The last few seconds were a fade in of the drone oscillator used in the background without the sequencer running. Audio mixed in Cubase 4 by Steinberg and the video edited in iMovie by Apple."

Moog Space Jam

YouTube via br0therl0c0
"Back to basics! A simple performance using just the Minimoog knobs. Pure analog.

Voyager OS runs through MF-104Z analog delay, with the external loop of the delay running through the MuRF. I've patched the mod wheel to control delay feedback and MuRF envelope shape, with some CV modification courtesy of the CP-251.

Annotated for the curious (and as an excuse to mess with iMovie)."

Prelude # 1 in C (J. S. Bach) by Les Baxter + Fashion from 1967

YouTube via cosmocorps2000
"Clip from the german TV show PARIS AKTUELL from 1967.

Music is PRELUDE # 1 IN C (J.S. Bach) by Les Baxter from his 1968 album MOOG ROCK - Greatest Classical Hits."

Update via Qwave in the comments: "Actually this is not the original Bach version, but the "Ave Maria" composed by Charles Gounod based on the harmony and texture of J.S.Bach's Prelude No.1 in C Major from Well-Tempered Clavier Book I (BWV 846).
Here is the version without the added melody by Mr. Gounod"