"The Marion Systems Pro Synth is the latest in a series of modern instruments attempting to recapture the sound of analogue monosynths, but without their inherent tuning problems and unreliability. Housed in a 1U rackmount, and proudly bearing the name of its creator Tom Oberheim.
The Pro Synth is 8-voice polyphonic with just a stereo output pair, no headphone socket, no effects, and no sampled waveforms. A simple multitimbral implementation allows up to eight different sounds to be driven from their respective MIDI channels"
"This afternoon I was watching two videos on the MATRIXSYNTH website were John Bowen demonstrates his Solaris prototype on the PNW Synth Gathering 2010 [link]. Seems like a very powerful machine but it is not likely that I can afford one. After seeing that I thought, my Waldorf Q Keyboard can't do all that but it can do some. So I ended up programming this sound and sequence which I liked a lot and I decided to video it. Connected the MIDI out of the Q to the Doepfer MAQ16/3 to be able to add synchronized sequences from the MAQ16/3 and the Synthesizers.com Q960. Row 1 of the MAQ16/3 has a double-time 8-step sequence driving the self-built Modular. The gate output of row 3 of the MAQ16/3 shifts the Q960 which has sequences on row 1 and 3 driving the Synthesizers.com Modular. I use the A, B, C and D slots of the Clavia Nord Lead 1 to vary the sounds of the solo's. Slot D contains a kind of FM'ed strings sound. The Roland XP-80 also does a solo voice.
This video show the first 10 minutes of a 30 minute video. You can see/hear/download the video and music from my website soon."
"Hello ! My name is Frederic Gerchambeau. I have made this movie and this music. The music has been made entirely with the Tassman 4 in one take. Enjoy ! http://www.myspace.com/fredericgercha..."
Basically - each cell can be alive or dead. Once in a generation, each cell looks at it's surrounding cells, and dies if it is lonely or overcrowded. If a dead cell has an optimum amount of neighbors, it will come to life! Each generation, all the cells which have come to life will sound a note. The notes are assigned based on the cell's y position, and are all in the pentatonic scale.
There's a few controls at the bottom which change how things work too.
Start/Stop - Starts/Stops the automation. Load - Loads a pattern from the text box. Export - Exports the current pattern to the clipboard. You can send it to friends, or save it for later, then load in with the load button. Clear down - Stop and clear the current pattern. Law Mode - An error when coding the cell rules gave this other odd mode. Skip Audio - Just show the cell animations. Sing Dead - Instead of singing the recently revived notes, sing for the recently deceased. Note duration - Alter the system speed.
Also, along the top there are banks of preset systems. Click play to start a saved pattern, and click assign to assign the pattern currently displayed to that button. You can also trigger each pattern with the keyboard keys 1-8.
When you press Export, your pattern is automatically copied to the clipboard, so you can save it, or share it with people. Here's a pattern I made - you can load it by pasting it into the load box, and pressing Load!
The app is fully compatible with Flash Midi Server (my Flash to MIDI audio interface app) - it checks to see if it is running when the app is launched. If it's not, then it uses fancy Flash Player 10 dynamic audio! I'm hoping to roll this out to the Flash Midi Server class soon - so any app which tried to access the midi server and fails, will use the dynamic audio as a backup. I'll keep you posted!
A piece he describes as "Rhythmic cycle w/ abstract animation. Basic keyframe animation using flash, without scripting."
Seeing as I'd just made a Flash based Midi Server for playing music through Flash, I thought I'd try and reproduce the basic elements of it - but using scripting.
This is my homage to Sonar - Basic scripting in Flash, using FlashMidiServer and FruityLoops for dynamic audio.
"I've just finished the first prototype of a project I've been working on - a processing based app which lets Flash/Air apps send midi (notes and CC) data, and I've put together a video showing an early app dermo.
The demo shows the Processing based Midi server (blue app in the bottom right), and also a Flash Webcam based synesthesia type audio tool. The Flash app takes still images from a webcam, and analysies them for 4 colours within them. These colours are then mapped to a range of notes, so for example, a white image will send a high note, whilst a black image will send a low note. These notes can then be played back by sending out Midi data, and the corresponding images are displayed.
As an extra feature - the "activty level" (amount of movement) in the webcam can be monitored, and sent as CC data.
Most of the sounds coming out of this demo are pretty nasty, but it shows the basic idea of the Flash Midi Server - which could be used in loads of different ways. Eventually I'd like to release a suite of Air apps - interective and generative music toys, using various Flash capabilities - and invite other people to contribute their own.
Hopefully there'll be some more polished versions coming soon.
"Classic Roland mono synth . Has all you need to make fat bass-lines and peaky leads. The very nice (very roland) sounding filter can also be utilized by a sound source through its external audio input. Solid construction and design makes it much more hard wearing than the later plastic cased sh101."
"Has a 24 point RCA patch bay that short circuits the eprom chips. The different chips are for certain samples, so some patches effect only certain sounds. You can patch with in the chips and chip to chip. In addition to the patch bay there are four input / output on/off switch section with toggle switches and momentary buttons. If you know the voltages are orrect to can patch into other cuircit bent items. For instance, I have two RZ-1s and have patched them together. I've also done this with some other small keyboards.
There is now a switch to bypass the RZ-1s main timing crystals with two getlofi 1799 precision oscillators to allow for some great pitch control.
I've added 10k pots on the top to easier access the samples tone controls. Costume wood panels. A bunch of patch cables."
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