MATRIXSYNTH

Alesis Ion

via this auction

Hmm... dice for knobs...

KAWAI K5 Digital Multidimensional Synthesizer

via this auction

I almost put this one up on MATRIXYSNTH-B but found the MULTI-DIMENTIONAL reference on the user manual interesting enough for a post here. Click the image below. The Kawai K5 is a digital additive synhth. Instead of raw waveforms for oscillators you add harmonics to create sound. I'm not sure on the K5, but on the K5000s editing is similar to editing bands on an equalizer in that you have a row of various harmonics that you can individually adjust. You can route envelopes and LFOs to them as well.

Update via Mike of Spatial Creations in the comments: "I've conquered the K-5. I used one in school to write a piece of Avant Garde Music.

intelligent design theory · Electric Dream

I did all the sound design and used two K-5s with Performer for the Mac. This was in 1992. Let me know what you think..."

http://soundcloud.com/idtmusic

Waldorf Blofeld Pt1

YouTube via vinyljunkie07
"Self made patches pt1 sorry for the poor playing, this vid will only be up for a limmited ammout of time...just wanted to show the other side of this thing"

Waldorf Blofeld pt2

"Self made patches pt2 sorry for the poor playing, this vid will only be up for a limmited ammout of time...just wanted to show the other side of this thing"

Cellular automata music on Novation Launchpad

YouTube via hotchk155
"I wondered what it would sound like if I tried to turn "Conways game of life" into music. With help from wikipedia I found several of these cellular automata algorithms and coded some of them to use the launchpad as a display and input to toggle cells as the program ran. The buttons on the right select between different algorithms. The bottom row of buttons is mapped across a major scale and the scale is also moved by the program in a kind of 12-bar progression. The output is MIDI piped into Reason via midi yoke. See my other clips for midi source code...
Its interesting how these rules come up with intricate semi-random repeating patterns which map well to music.. worth more playing i think"

Synthesizers.com 1.30 Min Oscillator Madness

YouTube via marsl808state
"synthesizers.com 1.30 Min Oscillator Madness"

Synthesizers.com Trancie Sequence.

Synthesizers.com A Happy Sequence

Roland SH-101, JUNO-60 and JUNO-106 analog synth song: "Climb the mountain"

YouTube via sloocer106. Potentially NSFW.
"Gear used is juno-106, 2x juno-60 combined via dcb, sh-101, td-20 V-drums. Recorded and mixed in Sonar 8. EFX from Sonar, additional EFX from DEP 5."

Tattoo VST for OS X Update

via Analog Industries

"The port to the OSX side of things has begun, and is (in output, at least) halfway done. We'll start the AU today, and frankly, this is the Great Unknown of this whole project, and is the last remaining hurdle. I'll keep you posted, but it won't be long, unless Very Bad Things happen."