MATRIXSYNTH

Aelita synth : POWER OF SOUND 2

YouTube via cores303 — May 01, 2010 — SOUND OF AELITA SYNTH

Nanoloop on ipad

YouTube via deepliferecords — May 01, 2010 — "Demo of this gameboy-homebrew all growed up to a full blown ipad app"

nanoloop on iTunes:

Piston Honda, Sidstation and TR-606

YouTube via pss50 — May 01, 2010 — "The Harvestman Piston Honda, Elektron Sidstation, Roland TR-606."

YouTube via RetributionBody — May 01, 2010 —

"A quick video to show of my new uLFO and Sound of Shadows delay. Bed drone of AFG Pulse out into SEM20, AFG Saw out into a LPG on the QMMG, then into the SoS (with a Plague Bearer in the feedback loop), and a bit of high sine wave love from the Cloud Generator. uLFO patched all over the place.

Better audio can be downloaded or listened to at: http://retributionbody.bandcamp.com/t..."

Thirty-Three Winters

"RetributionBody — April 10, 2010 — Celebrating my birthday with my cat, Ernie. Download all 27 minutes of drone-y goodness (recorded on real mics not built-in to my phone) here: http://music.retributionbody.com/trac...

Retribution Body will be performing at Cafe Fixé in Brookline, MA April 13, 2010.
Info about the show can be found here: http://nonevent.org/upcoming/retribut..."

Also see Spring Drone and Zazen II. All posts featuring RetributionBody here.

studio setup | may 2010

flickr set by hpsounds
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Electrify Demo

YouTube via shagghie — May 01, 2010 — "First app bought with the ipad 3G today. amazing piece of software...and this is rev 1!
www.electrifyme.net for more info"

DIGITANA Electronics EMS Synthi HiFLi Re-Release Update

Plans for the HiFli re-release was announced in January. The following is an update via Steven Thomas of DIGITANA Electronics England:

"Hi all..just to advertise that I have made an agreement with Robin Wood at EMS to built 15 re-release Synthi HIFLi's under license. The agreement is that I build 15 to sell directly. After that I may build more and also build for EMS to sell rebadged as an EMS product, depending on how sales go.

So far I have 9 people down on my build list.

For pricing, estimated build times and how to get on the waiting list see :-

http://www.synthi.co.uk/hifli.html

where further information and several sound demos may be found.

No deposit is required. Each person on the build list will be offered the chance to purchase or not when their unit is ready.

So far 2 units have been completed.

I plan to update the webpage with serial numbers as each unit is built so people can keep track.

cheers

steve thomas
(digitana)"

ReBirth for the iPhone

YouTube via PropellerheadSW — April 26, 2010

"ReBirth is back! Propellerhead Software's legendary Techno Micro Composer has been resurrected and made available for the iPhone. http://rebirthapp.com

ReBirth faithfully emulates dance music's three backbone devices: The Roland TB-303 Bass synth and the Roland TR-808 and 909 drum machines. Combine these with FX units, fully featured pattern sequencers and a quick-acting, scalable iPhone interface and you'll soon be making techno on the train, trance on the tram or beats on the bus."

x TB-303 Bassline synths
TR-808 Drum Machine
TR-909 Drum Machine
Pattern Controlled Filter
Distortion unit
Compressor
Mixer
5 user mods
Pattern sequencing
Full automation
Combine patterns to build songs
Share songs with other ReBirth users

"ReBirth is back...In your iPhone! Propellerhead Software's legendary Techno Micro Composer has been reincarnated. This time around, ReBirth takes the form of a seriously block rocking iPhone music app. Released in 1997 and discontinued in 2005, Propellerhead ReBirth was the first music software to reproduce the sound and behavior of those three classic Roland devices that defined the sound of early Techno and Acid House: the TB-303 Bassline Synth and the TR-808 and TR-909 Rhythm Composers.

With dual basssynths and pattern sequencers, two sets of drum machines plus FX and mixer sections, ReBirth gives you an extremely streamlined but very powerful music production environment. Every knob and button on ReBirth's devices can be tweaked and turned in real time, so when you plug your iPhone into that massive sound system, you're in charge everything from pattern selections to the depth of those nasty Acid filter squelches.

ReBirth for the iPhone may be small and ever so cutesy looking, but it's no toy, believe it. With a fully featured song mode and advanced copying and pasting capabilities, ReBirth is a fully featured iPhone music software product that lets you arrange and compose full tracks for saving to your iPhone. You can even share your songs with other ReBirth users - one single click will upload your composition to the ReBirth server, allowing other users to enjoy your music in their iPhones.

ReBirth for iPhone – music production software for the iPhone, perfect for music making on the go and with the sought after sounds for everything from Techno to Electro, House to Hip Hop, Electronica or whatever style you are into."

Propellerheads on iTunes:

No word on an iPad HD implementation. This will of course work on the iPad, but at lower resolution.

Update: 1st user video:

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MAESTRO RARE SOVIET USSR DIGITAL SYNTHESIZER

via this auction
"Keyboard electronic musical instrument (KEMI) "Maestro" is a portable polyphonic four-voiced synthesizer with microprocessor control (KR-580) & pre-programmed timbres "presets". It has been assembled on FORMANTA factory, the one which made well-known POLIVOKS.

Number of presets- 20. There is possibility to get vibrato frequency with depth & frequency control. This instrument includes "chorus" effect with depth control, filter with cut-off frequency & resonance control. There are also "arpeggio-tremolo" arrangement with speed control and joystick that pitch shifts & vibrato depth controls.

Specifications:

— Number of octaves in a keyboard, 3
— Weight with case, 15 kg (approx. 36 Pounds)

Some examples of how it really sounds:
http://ruskeys.net/eng/base/maestro.php#sn"

video here