recording.

flickr by adam_kremer

"the monster goes rawrr recording. myspace.com/themonstergoesrawrr - by adam kremer."

Rhodes Chroma CPU Plus (CC+) Firmware Update Revision 213

Available on the excellent Rhodes Chroma site. The update features "support for transmission of Polyphonic Key Pressure via MIDI (if a pressure sensor is installed)"

monome greyscale 64 now available

available at monome.org

DOEPFER A-100 ANALOGUE MODULAR SYNTHESIZER

flickr set by mono80

"The Doepfer A-100 in my self-made cabinet. Below are a simple keyboard, also in self-made case (to fit the look).
The cabinet includes 22 modules:
A-110 VCO (3x), A-114 Ringmod., A-118 Noise/Random, A-119 Ext.In., A-120 VCF (24dB Lowpass), A-121 VCF (12dB multimode), A-124 VCF (Wasp clone), A-130 VCA (Lin.), A-131 VCA (Exp.), A-138 Mixer (Lin.), A-138 Mixer (Exp.), A-140 ADSR (2x), A-145 LFO (2x), A-148 S&H, A-170 Slew Limiter, A-180 Multiples, A-185 Bus-Access, A-190 MIDI Interface."

Illuminated Sounds monome apps for the Novation Lauchpad

Now available on Illuminated Sounds
Update: the code is Stretta's ported for the launchpad. Note Stretta's code is open source, and this is not.

Roland SH 101+ RE 150 + TR 606 + CR 8000 + Boss DR 550 + Korg KMS 30 + Yamaha RX 11

YouTube via cosmohelectrastudio
"All these machines playing together."

Roland SH 101 + Roland TR 606 + Boss DR 550 + Korg KMS 30

"SH 101 + TR 606 + DR 550 playing together + Yamaha RX 11 as Midi master (no sound).

Midi clock goes to tr 606 and Dr 550 via the Korg KMS 30, SH 101 arpeggio is clocked by the TR 606 trig out."

Casio Cleaning

YouTube via organfairy

"I got this little Casio MT-110 at a charity sale. It works fine but unfortunately somebody had put stickers on the keys which made them all sticky and gooey. On top of that the instrument was quite dusty and greasy - like if a kid had played it immediately after eating a jam sandwich (and yes, that is often the case with second hand toy keyboards). So I took it apart. Cleaned all the parts. And assembled it again.

Again the music is something I made in 1997. It is played on Roland SH-2000, Casio SA-1, Casio SA-3 with Boss OC-2 octaver, Kawai MS-20, and Yamaha PSS-12, and Roland CR-1000."

MIDI retrofit for CR-78 Part 5

YouTube via MusicMiK. follow-up to this post

"A bit tired on the first day of 2010, but enough to do some cleanup in the source tree and implement basic CR-78 hardware interfacing.

The hardware works as desired, the rest of this is just tricky firmware to have all the desired features enabled. Sync/Start/Stop still needs a bit improvement, but the way the machine works in detail is now analyzed and can be handled.

Currently implemented:

MIDI sync in and out
Triggers to/from MIDI, currently with not special handling for the Accent-trigger, which will be mapped to velocity later.

Still some things to change in the main logic to compensate some hardware strangeness of the CR-78 like the VCAs being shut down when the unit is stopped, so it always needs to run to get the triggers from MIDI routed to the hardware.
The handling of the switch between internal and MIDI control can also be improved using the start/stop button to switch off pure MIDI control and return to native machine clock.

Usual disclaimer: I will not build and sell kits and i will not implement your firmware wishes. This is your job, when the finished version of schematics/source go to http://www.mik-music.org/MIDItriggs"

Doepfer A100 GROOVE 6 New Year 2010

YouTube via unyo303. "Doepfer A100 + MPC500 + DrumStation"

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?