MATRIXSYNTH

Yamaha CS-50

Yamaha CS-50 for sale on Ebay #230418035258 from Alex Natsis on Vimeo.

"Just a quick video of my Yamaha CS-50 showing some of the features of the synth. Thanks for watching :-)" On Ebay

flickr by fonitronik

"here is the finished module using a proto PCB. works quite fine!
it basically is a 4017 based step sequencer providing CV out, Trigger out, and Gate out. the tricky part is the voltage control of the possible patterns: an incoming CV gets manually scaled to 0-5V (LEDs will help to do that), and then gets processed by a 8-bit ADC. the parallel out gets converted to grey code and switches the steps/stages of the sequencer on or off. they can be controlled manually too, by using the toggle switches that overwrite the ADC data...
www.fonitronik.com"

NAMM: Mellodrama at NAMM

via the BIG City Music blog, and mentioned in this previous post. Note the event will start with Amin Bhatia and documentary filmmaker Dianna Dilworth discussing the impact and evolution of vintage keybards. Michelle Moog-Kouss will join for a Q&A. You might remember the name Amin Bhatia from this previous post.

MELLODRAMA: Mellotron/Chamberlin Documentary Trailer
YouTube via MellotronMovie

"From a California garage to Royal Albert Hall, Mellodrama is a documentary film by Dianna Dilworth that explores how the haunting sound of an ingenious contraption called the Mellotron changed the production and texture of popular music, from the Beatles to Kanye West.

The film will be released on DVD at the end of 2009.

http://www.mellodramadvd.com
http://www.mellotronmovie.com
http://twitter.com/MellotronMovie
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mellodr...
http://www.myspace.com/mellotrondocum...

http://bigsky.bside.com/2009/films/me...
http://www.bafici.gov.ar/home09/en/fi...
http://www.documentamadrid.com/ficha....
http://www.revolvefestival.com/schedu..."

DIY Digital Analog Modular Audio

see the update in this post

Richard Lainhart @ Issue Project Room January 14; And A Download

via Richard Lainhart:

"Friends: on January 14, 2009, I'll be performing realtime electronic works for Buchla 200e and Haken Continuum at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, NY, along with composer/performers Kyle Bobby Dunn, Sarah Lipstate (Noveller), Michael Waller, and Cammisa Forrest. For more information, directions, and tickets, go here.

This concert has been curated by Kyle Bobby Dunn.

And, for those who missed it, here's a downloadable 256kb MP3 of my complete hour-long realtime Buchla 200e/Haken Continuum performance from electro-music.com's New Year's Eve 2010 live 24-hour streaming concert event:

Richard Lainhart Electro-Music NYE 2009 by rlainhart

http://soundcloud.com/rlainhart/richard-lainhart-electro-music-nye-2009

Thanks, and I hope to see you in Brooklyn."

Link-O-Logic iMoog

via Link-O-Logic: "I sampled some Moog Voyager sounds and made a free Kontakt instrument. All samples are made with analog outboard gear like API A2D, 5500, 2500, SMC 2b or Hammer EQ. For now you can download the first two demo packs: "Big Boy" and "I saw U". More sound packs will come."

iMoog Big Boy - Saw - Demo - 01 by ajondo

Mister Clean

Mister Clean from Huba&Silica on Vimeo.

via Ernesto: "All synth sounds were made with the Voyager, and the voice glitching manually cut with an MPC1000; the track was sequenced in Ableton Live 6." "And here we have some 'making of...' pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kapitals/sets/72157623020177725/"

Googlish video translation from Spanish:
"Mister Clean - Huba & Silica feat. Angie Cruickshank
jazzrobot.com

Direction, camera and animation - Carlos Saborio zavorio.com/
Production and editing - Manuel Al-Ghassani cargocollective.com/manuelxx
Photography - Paul Murillo pablomurillo.com
Co-production - ConejoPanda conejopanda.wordpress.com/

Special thanks to Daniela Vesco for letting us do the shoot in his studio Fish Tank, production would not have been possible without your help fishtankstudio.com/

MisterClean is produced by Huba & Silica, co-produced by Dynamostar, with the special participation of Angie Cruickshank (vocals) and DZ-J (MPC1000).

Mastered by Simon Davey @ The Exchange, UK.
Distributed: Moonchild Records

For more music Huba & Silica
hubasilica.bandcamp.com/"

Limit Cycle - Max4Live EP

"These four tracks are in a sense experiments: They are all made using possibilities open up by Max4Live, the extension to Ableton's Live sequencing software, which allows for easier control over things such as algorithmic composition. And this EP is filled of just that. Variations on the concept spawned by Per Nørgaard's Infinity Series are restrained by mutating scale quantizers while psuedo-random pattern and weighted random generators create constantly moving rythmic material. These numbers comes to life via synthesizers in which all sound parameters are slightly, slowly moving, creating an organic texture of sounds. These tracks could have been created before Max4Live of course, but I can only imagine having to spend at least 6 months on every track, working out these tremendously complex mathematical relations between the notes by hand, in a traditional sequencing enviroment."
You can find the download and more details on Veqtor's Corner.

seiko ds-250 additive synthesizer

YouTube via spunkytoofers
"pardon my lack of keyboard skills to demonstrate, this is just a short one for matrix since there wasn't much in the way of the seiko keyboards.

this was a craigslist find, hoping to resell but i might want to hold onto it for a little while. it does retro pads nicely. it reminds me of old organs i've used like the conn electric band sans spring reverb or the moog organ sans filter except the seiko is bi-timbral. it has some basic preset sounds selectable for each timbre which define timbre and attack while there are simple controls on each voice for volume, decay, modulation slider with a on/off switch for a delay into the lfo cycle. you can detune the voices up to 14 percent and you can assign each note of polyphony a few selectable intervals. a chorus reminescent of the old junos except this one is on a continous slider from 1-2 chorus in stereo. single voice mode, bitimbral mode or split point voices. key transposable, volume controls, pitch wheel, on/off buttons and a nice layout with simple but nice led displays.

no memory but it's simple to setup. midi in/out. midi seems primitive as i could really only get note on/off to respond although there is a way to recieve each voice over midi by a 16 way rotary switch by each voice 1/ voice 2 output on 1/4" also on the side panel is alternate summed mono output, headphone jack, pitch fine tune, stereo rca outputs. input to footswitch sustain (although mine wasn't working on a regular 1/4" footswitch) input for trs expresion pedal for volume. looks like there is room for modular expansion but i don't have any of the modular components to this keyboard. i could see how easy it would be to approach additive like this with really simple controls and some of the expanders but as you might imagine controls are limitied.makes for a nice retro pad machine. even though it's simple i like it because it's not trying to be anything else but itself."