MATRIXSYNTH

Friday, October 02, 2009

Oberheim 2-Voice Vintage Analog Synthesizer

via this auction

via this auction

"Hammond 102100 Monophonic Synthesizer. It was made in the USA around 1974-75. It's been estimated that there are between 40-50 in working order left in the world. It comes with the music stand - which is a brown piece of plexi and also comes with the metal stand that has the Hammond logo on it."

You can find a couple of videos of the 102100 Synthesizer here.

Disco house synth jam to Maethelvin Delight

YouTube via Torley

"REVISIT THE 80S @ www.myspace.com/maethelvin

DOWNLOAD MY MUSIC @ http://torley.com/music

KEYBOARD is NOVATION 49SL MkII"

"Astronauter" - on Yamaha HE-8

YouTube via organfairy
"Like astronauts /
just like astronauts /
we have a rendez-vous /
every night at 5 PM /
you in your Fiat Uno /
and me in my Citroën"

This Danish song by Troels Trier and Rebecca Brüel is about two people who have never met face to face. But they pass each other every night in the darkness on the highway - just like astronauts in their space ships.
I play it on the Yamaha HE-8 organ with a little help from the Roland synthesizer and Korg drum machine.
I had just bought a little camera at a jumble sale and I wanted to try out its capabilities. So I went out in the early evening and got some sunset pictures that I thought was usefull to go with this song.
And at the end I show the results of a classical photographical experiment I did many years ago: Leaving a camera with an open lens pointing upwards on a starry night."

Thursday, October 01, 2009

Novation Launchpad Video Update

New video added to this post. Also, don't miss the Q&A on CDM.

New Tom Oberheim SEM - First Samples

via WD on the AH list:
"Tinkering a bit this afternoon, I threw together a quick a demo, comparing the new and original SEMs. I created six different patches, which I programmed on both SEMs. Panning each SEM hard in opposite directions, I placed the new SEM on the left channel and the original SEM on the right. Percussion is Apple Ultrabeat. All other sounds are SEM. The mix is completely dry with no effects or EQing.

Here is a link that should open a player window

If the link does not work, then you can hear it on my webpage

The piece is titled, "2009 10 01 Alpha 01." [It's the first track in my playlist on the right.]

WD

P.S. Because my original SEM is not patched-out, I did not sync LFOs to MIDI; so, any variation in sync between the two SEMs is due to my inability to fine-tune them by hand. So, things like PWM and filter modulation will be out of sync between the two SEMs. Nonetheless, the LFOs are oscillating at nearly the same frequencies, thereby still giving a good sense of the similarities/differences of the two."

Folktek Arts New Time Scape

via the Folktek Arts blog where you'll find more info.
"The New Time Scape is designed for analog style delay, thousands of variations for effecting incoming sound and extreme sample fuqwithing. This work has automated patchable effects which amongst many other things can be made to process sample timing, allowing you to cipher through parts of a sample as it repeats or toggle back and fourth between any variation of ring mod or compression for example."

Folktek on Ebay

Kid Tesla: Jack Eurorack

flickr by Analogue Haven

"This is Kid Tesla's Eurorack rig as of the middle of 2009. View this forum thread to see more user set-ups: www.muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1135. Note that you may have to be logged in to see some photos."

click the image for the full size shot.