Friday, January 01, 2010
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year everyone! Welcome to the other side. I hope 2010 is a good one for all of us. Synth posts will be coming shortly, but before then I'd like to look back at the year for the site and share some of that with you. It would be impossible to dig through old posts and pick highlights as there are just too many, so instead I'll look at the number of posts that went up and other stats.
Last year a whopping total of 13006 posts went up! That's an average of 1083.83 posts a month and 35.63 posts a day. It's up from 10,090 posts in 2008. I haven't missed a single day posting in the entire year and plan to keep it that way. The total number of posts since the inception of the site on July 20, 2005, is 35,045.
For the year we had 2,565,300 Visits and 5,804,265 Pageviews. That would be 7028 visits and 15902 pageviews a day. That's quite a bit considering there aren't many subsections in the site. Everything new goes up on the front page. Aside from the homepage, what is the most popular thing on MATRIXSYNTH? Synth Babes at 37,629 hits. The most visited posts for the year? From Which the Gristleizer Came at 7573 hits followed by New SEM from Tom Oberheim at 6,112 and Schaltzentale - Incredible Steampunk Modular at 5,554. Since the inception of the site we had a total of 6,679,552 Visits and 13,310,057 Pageviews!
Total Visits:
2009: 2,565,300
2008: 2,010,102
2007: 1,383,340
2006: 513,060
2005: 207,750 (via AdSense)
Total: 6,679,552
Total Page Views:
2009: 5,804,265
2008: 3,865,863
2007: 2,519,689
2006: 912,490
2005: 207,750 (via AdSense)
Total: 13,310,057
As for world domination we are still short a few countries. North Korea is still avoiding me. Click on the map for the full size. Green means someone from that country visited MATRIXSYNTH! Google Analytics is off though. If you look at last year's map you'll see Niger is green while this year it is white.
The top visits are as follows:
1. United States 1,061,288
2. United Kingdom 228,943
3. Germany 164,705
4. Canada 147,475
5. France 123,881
6. Italy 87,409
7. Sweden 80,801
8. Netherlands 72,783
9. Japan 59,820
10. Belgium 51,663
And that's it folks. Enough with the numbers. Time to get back to posting synths. I want to end this with a HUGE THANK YOU!!! As I say every year, this site is not about me. It's about synths and what people (YOU and me) are doing with them. Years from now we will be able to look back on a little bit of synth history. Thank you for being part of that. I wish you all one hell of a new decade!
cheers,
matrix
Update: I've been thinking about what I'm most looking forward to in the new year on the synth front. For me it will be building out my eurorack modular and either the Apple tablet, a Windows tablet, or both! There's too much cool software out there that I don't use simply because I don't have a tablet. What are you looking most forward to on the synth front?
Last year a whopping total of 13006 posts went up! That's an average of 1083.83 posts a month and 35.63 posts a day. It's up from 10,090 posts in 2008. I haven't missed a single day posting in the entire year and plan to keep it that way. The total number of posts since the inception of the site on July 20, 2005, is 35,045.
For the year we had 2,565,300 Visits and 5,804,265 Pageviews. That would be 7028 visits and 15902 pageviews a day. That's quite a bit considering there aren't many subsections in the site. Everything new goes up on the front page. Aside from the homepage, what is the most popular thing on MATRIXSYNTH? Synth Babes at 37,629 hits. The most visited posts for the year? From Which the Gristleizer Came at 7573 hits followed by New SEM from Tom Oberheim at 6,112 and Schaltzentale - Incredible Steampunk Modular at 5,554. Since the inception of the site we had a total of 6,679,552 Visits and 13,310,057 Pageviews!
Total Visits:
2009: 2,565,300
2008: 2,010,102
2007: 1,383,340
2006: 513,060
2005: 207,750 (via AdSense)
Total: 6,679,552
Total Page Views:
2009: 5,804,265
2008: 3,865,863
2007: 2,519,689
2006: 912,490
2005: 207,750 (via AdSense)
Total: 13,310,057
As for world domination we are still short a few countries. North Korea is still avoiding me. Click on the map for the full size. Green means someone from that country visited MATRIXSYNTH! Google Analytics is off though. If you look at last year's map you'll see Niger is green while this year it is white.The top visits are as follows:
1. United States 1,061,288
2. United Kingdom 228,943
3. Germany 164,705
4. Canada 147,475
5. France 123,881
6. Italy 87,409
7. Sweden 80,801
8. Netherlands 72,783
9. Japan 59,820
10. Belgium 51,663
And that's it folks. Enough with the numbers. Time to get back to posting synths. I want to end this with a HUGE THANK YOU!!! As I say every year, this site is not about me. It's about synths and what people (YOU and me) are doing with them. Years from now we will be able to look back on a little bit of synth history. Thank you for being part of that. I wish you all one hell of a new decade!
cheers,
matrix
Update: I've been thinking about what I'm most looking forward to in the new year on the synth front. For me it will be building out my eurorack modular and either the Apple tablet, a Windows tablet, or both! There's too much cool software out there that I don't use simply because I don't have a tablet. What are you looking most forward to on the synth front?
Thursday, December 31, 2009
NOT NAMM: Mattson Mini Modular in New Modular Formats
Some shots via George Mattson's Facebook page. It looks like George will be making the MMM boards available for anyone that wants to build his modules in other formats. Via George on the MMM forum:"For those of you with a DIY lust, I'm working on getting my cart set up to offer Assembled/tested PC board modules.
This will allow the DIY enthusiasts to get a working module, edge mount it on whatever panel they choose to make (or have made) and get creative on panel size, graphics, I/O placement and whichever style and type of jacks, pots or knobs they desire.
I am currently digging up resources for reference to give the DIY customer places to go for panels, materials, etc.
I'll have wire kits available to support the I/O connections from the board-to-panel components and a list of panel components that will be required for each module.
90% of my circuit boards have the option of either using the MTA 0.100" 6-pin power headers as used standard in my system and synthesizers.com systems or, the MTA 0.156" 4-pin Blacet-style power connectors. The boards can be ordered with either or both. With both, the module can be used as a converter from one power scheme to the other.
Most of my circuits seem to be perfectly happy using +/-15VDC or +/-12VDC. The circuits that can be affected by the voltage source will be listed as such. For those, I will need to know what power source you would be using in order to calibrate the board properly.
I have been receiving requests to do this for some time to support the community who has already invested resources into formats other than mine. I thought it was a great idea, time to implement it was my biggest reason for the delay.
I should have the web site and WIKI updated by next week."
BTW, thank you for my MMM George! My first modular system. :)
Richard Devine - Live 2009 NYE After-party
Richard Devine - Live 2009 NYE After-party from Richard Devine on Vimeo.
"Here is a short snippet of my live show in Miami at the Phish after party. Some proper robot alien funk=)
First show with Ableton 8/Max for Live, and Machine drum, I love driving the tempo up to 999 BPM's quite fun."
Happy New Year and a MATRIXSYNTH by Alex in the Ukraine
A KORG MS2000 in custom case and a MATRIXSYNTH BY via Alex Mariasch in the Ukraine!"Happy New Year to all of the synth lovers community!"
A New Year's eve musician
Synth cat and a Nord Lead 2 via Marc-Henri in France who wishes you a Happy New Year!
A Happy New Year 2010 my first DS-10 play
YouTube via karenevil
"Never mind... anyway... A Happy New Year!,"
NAMM: moonmodular new Quad Quantizer M565v2 with the new M565e Expander
YouTube via moonmodular
"Gear in use: Trigger Sequencer M563v2, the new Quad Quantizer M565v2 with the expander M565e. Sound source Oberheim Xpander (5 voices unisono). Come to the next fullmoon party at the 2010 NAMM show, January 14 - 17. Hall A, Booth# S 6108. http://www.lunar-experience.com/565E...."
A Letter from the Board of Directors of the Bob Moog Foundation
"Celebrating great strides in 2009; building momentum in 2010
With your help we can continue to make an impact in science education and historical preservation.
Sincere best wishes to you for a happy, healthy and prosperous 2010 from all of us at The Bob Moog Foundation. While many folks are understandably glad putting the old year behind them, we proudly count 2009 as a good one for the foundation and Bob’s rich legacy. As a result, our New Year is less about making a fresh start as it is about building momentum. To that end, we need your support.
The Bob Moog Foundation exists to educate and inspire hearts and minds – young and old - around the intersection of music, science and innovation. The frontier of electronic music Bob Moog laid open to the world invites the brand of curiosity and creativity essential to generating answers for 21st-century challenges.
We have ambitious plans to nurture that kind of thinking and to celebrate the power and possibilities of electronic music. Thankfully, many others share those aspirations.
In 2009:
*The Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority gave $600,000 to help establish a Bob Moog Museum, or Moogseum, in Asheville. Costing more than $3-million, The Moogseum will serve as one of the world’s most innovative artistic and community development spaces.
*Hundreds turned out for the second Enter the Mind of Moog fundraiser and launch of a permanent MiniMoogseum at the Orange Peel in Asheville. Thousands more will interact with the display each month and explore its custom-built theremin.
*The GRAMMY Foundation gave $15,000 towards restoring precious reel-to-reel tapes from the Bob Moog archives.
*The Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, CA invited our support in staging Waves of Inspiration: The Legacy of Moog, which runs through April. Drawn largely from Bob's historical and extensive archives, this major exhibit is expected to garner national media attention and attract more than 15,000 visitors.
*Hundreds of individuals wrote checks, shared ideas and lent their muscle to generate a collective and critical mass that makes us more excited than ever about the possibilities and reach of what lies ahead.
We bow and thank those of you who have sown the seeds of success to date. We look forward to your continued faith and invite new supporters to join the Bob Moog Foundation community. Gifts of time, talent and treasure are all are needed, not only for future goals but to maintain current programs and services such as the Student Outreach Program, the Archive Preservation Initiative, planning for the Moogseum and our web interface, MoogFoundation.org.
The latter is a great window on the work of the foundation, where we’re headed and how we plan to get there. Please take a look and then act on the inspiration you find. It will be a sound investment in every sense.
If you have not done so already, we ask that you make a year-end, tax-deductible gift today that will allow us to nurture our programs and Bob's legacy in such a way that his impact will be felt by many generations to come.
Many thanks for your support and consideration.
Sincerely,
The Board of Directors of The Bob Moog Foundation
Ileana Grams-Moog (Chair)
Professor of Philosophy Emerita, UNC-Asheville
Mike Adams (Vice-chair)
President, Moog Music, Inc.
Erin Rafalowski (Secretary)
Manager, WriteMind Institute
Kathy Davis (Treasurer)
Certified Public Accountant
Ashley Capps,
Owner, AC Entertainment
Steven Heller
Owner, Upstream Productions
David Huskins
Director of Development, Brevard Music Center
Sean McDonald
Founder, Jute Networks
Bill Sautter
Chairman, Galaxy Venture Capital
Stu Zonder
Owner, Zonder Productions"
With your help we can continue to make an impact in science education and historical preservation.
Sincere best wishes to you for a happy, healthy and prosperous 2010 from all of us at The Bob Moog Foundation. While many folks are understandably glad putting the old year behind them, we proudly count 2009 as a good one for the foundation and Bob’s rich legacy. As a result, our New Year is less about making a fresh start as it is about building momentum. To that end, we need your support.
The Bob Moog Foundation exists to educate and inspire hearts and minds – young and old - around the intersection of music, science and innovation. The frontier of electronic music Bob Moog laid open to the world invites the brand of curiosity and creativity essential to generating answers for 21st-century challenges.
We have ambitious plans to nurture that kind of thinking and to celebrate the power and possibilities of electronic music. Thankfully, many others share those aspirations.
In 2009:
*The Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority gave $600,000 to help establish a Bob Moog Museum, or Moogseum, in Asheville. Costing more than $3-million, The Moogseum will serve as one of the world’s most innovative artistic and community development spaces.
*Hundreds turned out for the second Enter the Mind of Moog fundraiser and launch of a permanent MiniMoogseum at the Orange Peel in Asheville. Thousands more will interact with the display each month and explore its custom-built theremin.
*The GRAMMY Foundation gave $15,000 towards restoring precious reel-to-reel tapes from the Bob Moog archives.
*The Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, CA invited our support in staging Waves of Inspiration: The Legacy of Moog, which runs through April. Drawn largely from Bob's historical and extensive archives, this major exhibit is expected to garner national media attention and attract more than 15,000 visitors.
*Hundreds of individuals wrote checks, shared ideas and lent their muscle to generate a collective and critical mass that makes us more excited than ever about the possibilities and reach of what lies ahead.
We bow and thank those of you who have sown the seeds of success to date. We look forward to your continued faith and invite new supporters to join the Bob Moog Foundation community. Gifts of time, talent and treasure are all are needed, not only for future goals but to maintain current programs and services such as the Student Outreach Program, the Archive Preservation Initiative, planning for the Moogseum and our web interface, MoogFoundation.org.
The latter is a great window on the work of the foundation, where we’re headed and how we plan to get there. Please take a look and then act on the inspiration you find. It will be a sound investment in every sense.
If you have not done so already, we ask that you make a year-end, tax-deductible gift today that will allow us to nurture our programs and Bob's legacy in such a way that his impact will be felt by many generations to come.
Many thanks for your support and consideration.
Sincerely,
The Board of Directors of The Bob Moog Foundation
Ileana Grams-Moog (Chair)
Professor of Philosophy Emerita, UNC-Asheville
Mike Adams (Vice-chair)
President, Moog Music, Inc.
Erin Rafalowski (Secretary)
Manager, WriteMind Institute
Kathy Davis (Treasurer)
Certified Public Accountant
Ashley Capps,
Owner, AC Entertainment
Steven Heller
Owner, Upstream Productions
David Huskins
Director of Development, Brevard Music Center
Sean McDonald
Founder, Jute Networks
Bill Sautter
Chairman, Galaxy Venture Capital
Stu Zonder
Owner, Zonder Productions"
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