MATRIXSYNTH

ROLAND GR-100 FLOOR GUITAR SYNTH

via this auction

"The Roland GR-100 is the least known of all the vintage Roland guitar synthesizers. If six fuzz pedals with six -12 dB low-pass filters can make a guitar synthesizer, then this is a guitar synthesizer. But Roland wisely decided to call the GR-100 an "electronic guitar,". I would have to say it is a fuzz box with an adequate filter and a very nice chorus and vibrato circuit.

The GR-100 Synth Engine:
In this way, it is very different from the GR-300. The GR-300 generates its hex-fuzz sound by using the hex-fuzz circuitry contained in the guitar controller. For example, the G-202 has a different hex-fuzz circuit than the G-808. And the G-707 has no hex-fuzz circuit at all. But none of that matters with the GR-100, as it has a slightly more sophisticated version of the G-303/G-808 hex-fuzz design.

The hex-fuzz in the GR-100 is smoother than what you hear with a GR-300, and it also has an additional sustain feature. With the mode switch in the down position (mode 1), you hear guitar only. In the middle position (mode 2) you hear the basic GR-100 hex-fuzz sound, and with the switch in the up position (mode 3) you hear the GR-100 hex-fuzz sound with an additional sustain/compression circuit. As a side note, the hex-fuzz circuit in the RC-1324 is designed to emulate this overdriven, mode 3 hex-fuzz sound."

travelKontr0l teaser...

YouTube via EATYone | July 07, 2010

"travelKontr0l"

P4KO - Happy Birthday Ringo Starr!

YouTube via P4KOTV | July 07, 2010

"The Beatles - Birthday
Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
http://soundcloud.com/fco_rmz
http://twitter.com/fco_rmz"

American Eagle Selling Little Phatty Shirts

via Sandeep:

"I thought I'd share a cool finding w/ you. I was shoping on american eagle's site and found a shirt in the clearance section that looks like a picture of a moog lil phatty. I ordered it and when it arrived, yup! it's a lil phatty. I got it for only 5$ too!"

auralAntics1.mov

YouTube via rezzn8r | July 07, 2010

"VCOs: Cynthia Zerocillator and BlacetVCO/Miniwave combo
VCFs: Livewire Frequencteiner and FoH Plague Bearer
VCAs: Blacet and Modcan
EGs: Bananalogue Serge VCS and Blacet EG1
Sequencing: Blacet Binary Zone and Klee v2
Delay: BugBrand PTDelay and Moog MF-104z"

A proper bass line from a Sequential Circuits Pro One

YouTube via rezfilter | July 07, 2010

"Here's the sound of an SCI Pro One bass line being controlled by an Oberkorn analog sequencer (separate cv and filter). The Roland System 100m is also being controlled via the sequencer.

"What synth will get me that bass sound?" This one."

Analogue Sequencer (DIY Rhythm Box)

YouTube via nathanielscott | July 07, 2010

"This video shows an old project I started nearly a year ago and then forgot about. I pulled it out of the closet and got it to work enough to at least make this video. What it is is a self contained sequencer (runs off its own 9V battery) that has one channel of voltage control and two channels of gate/triggers.

In this video you can see the little sequencer driving my modular synth which has Paia, Dot Com, and some of my self designed modules. The next step for this little sequencer is to build in three oscillators: one with a bass sound to be controlled by the voltage control to create simple bass lines, and a snare and drum sound generators to be triggered by the channels of gate/triggers. This would then make a simple self contained rhythm section box.

If all goes well I will likely sell the little device. Let me know if you are interested in it.

Lastly, you may notice that there are some shots of a spider and spider web cut in with the video. While I was shooting the video I discovered this spider above and to the right of my modular synth. So I decided to include the little beast. I believe that the spider is a male araneus gemmoides, but if you know better please let me know."

Note: I added a Nathaniel Scott label below.