MATRIXSYNTH

Roland D-50 charm :)

Oxford Synthesiser Company OSCar

YouTube via jbfairlight | July 13, 2010

"Synthétiseur monophonique produit par Oxford Synthesiser Company entre 1983 - 1986."

Sherman Filterbank 2 Experiments

YouTube via zibbybone | July 13, 2010

"A couple of months ago, a buddy of mine asked me to pick up this Filterbank he found on the Dallas Craigslist. When he came to town to pick it up, we whipped up this quick video of it. First we run an unfiltered saw wave from a Roland SH-101. The gate out from the 101 is running into the FB's ADSR trigger in and the 101's CV out is running into the FB's FM input. Later, we run a Roland TR-606 through it, using the trigger out from the 606's low tom to trigger the FB's ADSR. Let the mayhem begin!"

Reason Micro Tutorial - Kong's Synth Drums

YouTube via PropellerheadSW | July 11, 2010
Double Rainbow ref in this one.
"Has music just not sounded the same to you since Miami Vice went off the air? Then you're in luck! The synth drums in Kong bring analog drum sounds back to your music. Most analog sounds these days are sampled, meaning the sound you load is the sound you've got. In this micro tutorial you'll see how easy it is to make wonderfully tweakable analog synth drums and assign them to your pads."

Turning a Matrix M1000 into a Monster Xpander

via Artesia on this Midibox thread

"Heres a little project for you,
its been sat at the back of my mind for a while, that it should be entirely possible to make a oberhiem matrix xpander / m12 type synth from the venerable m1000 rack units, by realising the full potential of what should be possible with the humble little cem3396 chips they are based on.

It seems abit of a shame that the chips are capable of fast, realtime control changes; yet the m1000 processor is so slow ..it just cant cope & the filter cascade should also be hijackable in the manner seen in the matrix 12 / xpander synths (for massive filter choices)... however they also lacked some niceitys, like -proper- resonance control, continuiously variable stereo pan for voices (preset pan positions) ...and having much faster envelopes would bring the chips to life for percissive sounds.

this project intends to allow the user to get the best out of the humble chips, and allow them to realise their full potential - and with a little luck, the project should be a considerable improvement on the xpander synths too ;)"

JRS Mystery Modular?

This one in via Jeff of The Tangeant Project. Anyone know what it is?

Some bits from Jeff:
"I have a collection of odd old modular things that a friend had salvaged from the UMASS music department dumpster. He gave them to me a couple years ago and I have no idea what they are or what they do. I've attached a pic of one of them [i have 3 of this module and another different thing - a VCA bank if I recall]. I searched high and low and nobody can identify them - the closest anyone came was some sort of custom made 'daisy' modular, but that was not even a solid bit of info. They are not in good condition - all the barrier strips for powering them are missing and some chip sockets are empty, but the internal wiring seems to be intact and most of the boards are fully populated. They are just collecting dust in my basement."

Followed with the second image:
"The only identification i have found is an etching with the letters 'JRS' on all of them, and this module seems to be a "PWG-2" ['pulse wave generator'?].

So it's some sort of JRS modular system that is a mystery to everyone - a friend even contacted some people in academia that worked at UMASS and one of them said they recalled seeing it but never used it or knew what it did.

I've just been so afraid to do ANTHING with these, as i can't even tell what they need voltage/current-wise. i suppose somebody with more electronics chops than i could look at some of the volatage ratings on components[caps, resistors] and make a decent guess and not blow it up, but that person is not me. Of the 3 of this particular box, a couple have hand-written labels on them that say 'clock bad' and that would seem to be a major function, but who knows..."

DieHard Battery vs. Gary Numan

YouTube via DIEHARD | July 09, 2010

"http://www.diehard.com
The power of one DieHard Platinum battery powers 24 cars without batteries, the man that invented electronic music, and his lights and keyboards. Bring on the groupies.

See more torture tests at http://www.diehard.com.
Hear The Pleasure Principle album in its entirety live this fall: http://www.garynuman.co.uk"

via Brian Kehew

Octave Kitten Synthesizer

via this auction

Octapad : Stick to it! (by Franck Smith)

YouTube via odiolorgnette | July 13, 2010

"Vintage drums on Roland Octapad SPD-30 by Franck Smith © 2010

http://twitter.com/franck_smith
http://francksmith.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/odiolorgnette

IF POSSIBLE USE HEADPHONES WHEN VIEWING VIDEO MATERIAL OR CONNECT YOUR COMPUTER TO A QUITE DECENT SOUND SYSTEM.

"Franck Smith" Octapad Roland SPD-30 drums electronics percussion Odiolorgnette drum-synth"

Meet Aalto.

YouTube via madronalabs | July 12, 2010

"Aalto is a new softsynth coming summer 2010 from Madrona Labs. http://madronalabs.com."

Buchla sound in software. Also see this post.