MATRIXSYNTH

Roland Gaia SH-01 patches by Alba Ecstasy part 3

YouTube via adimsimion | July 27, 2010

"you can download some of those patches here:
http://www.albaecstasy.ro/blog/sintet..."

Keyz 'n Beats Summit 2010 Highlight Reel

YouTube via rolandmedia | July 27, 2010

"Highlights from the second Roland Keyz 'n Beats Summit that took place in Hollywood, CA at the famous Musicians Institute on Saturday, April 24, 2010."

Concertina

YouTube via electrofaustus | July 27, 2010
audio demo comes in at 1:43
"Squeeze box converted into an oscillator"

Galaxy of Terror (1981) - Barry Schrader and the Buchla 200

via Barry Schrader

"Shout Factory has just released a remastered version of Galaxy of Terror (1981) as part of their Roger Corman collection on both blu-ray and regular DVD. I did the music for this movie entirely on the Buchla 200, with the exceptions of the use of a soprano voice and a sitar in a few places. (Michael Hoenig is credited as "performer: synthesizer" on this film, but I can assure you that I did 100% of the music myself. Michael's credit may refer to sound effects, however, which were done separately; I honestly don't know.) This was one of several films I scored in the 70s and 80s, and, perhaps, the most unusual. Working with the Buchla Electric Music Box for scoring a commercial film wasn't easy as there was no traditional keyboard, and as all of the music is multitracked, sometimes using as many as sixteen tracks mixed down to the final master. Of course, there was neither computer-control nor digital recording of anything in those days, and the fact that everything had to be done within a roughly three-week time span make working very difficult. There was no way that I could compose in the manner I was used to, which is rather slowly, as every day was a deadline for something. The music was composed in CalArts' studio B303, watching the work prints of the film on a 35mm moviola as I got them from the studio. The synth setup I used was essentially the same as for Lost Atlantis, with a large Buchla 200 system and the Fortune Modules. The film hasn't been available in the U.S. for many years, but, even so, it's achieved a sort of cult status, partially for some truly outrageous scenes which almost got the film an MPAA "X" rating. I've been asked several times about releasing the music from the film, but, of course, this is impossible for me to do: I don't own the music, and all of the original masters were delivered to the studio for transfer. When they were cleaning up the film for this new release, Shout Factory contacted me and I gave them all of the copies of cues that I had left, and, now, I have no copies of any music from this film. Perhaps that's best, though, as I never thought of any of the music I did for Galaxy of Terror as having much relevance away from the film. The new release includes a documentary on the making of Galaxy of Terror which has new interviews with myself and other cast and crew members."

Update: You can find Galaxy of Terror on Amazonand eBay.

Custom MEK with Blue Side Panels

via Ivan:

"Finally got my custom wood end pieces and different knobs put onto my MEK. End pieces by Synthwood and then I had them custom finished"

electro sea level #01 - Denshi Kaimen

YouTube via eicheph | July 26, 2010

"Promotion Video to come on 08062010 at uplink/factory Shibuya Tokyo Japan. Hideyuki eicheph Fukasawa versus Mr.Nobuhiko Nakayama on the stage of real-time synthesizer patching. It will be a strange party ever.
8月6日（金）「電子海面01」が渋谷UPLINKにて開催！出演、中山信彦、深澤秀行 http://www.uplink.co.jp/factory/log/0...
http://twitter.com/denshikaimen
Nobuhiko Nakayama http://twitter.com/nakayamaworld
Hideyuki Fukasawa http://twitter.com/eicheph"

Marion Prosynth

via this auction

"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"

car synthesizer

flickr by ColorMeKatie

The great void

YouTube via attorks | July 27, 2010

"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."