MATRIXSYNTH

Ursa Minor.wmv

YouTube via notepool2 | September 25, 2010

"A fast scan rate, hand-built velocity switches and advanced key-mechanics enables a level of velocity sensing unheard of on a multi-button MIDI controller until now. Choices of wieght and velocity setting extend to instant loudest and quietest notes, tracking the way you play.

Sorry about the speaker hum. By 4.00am it's easy to forget things and mess up levels while recording from a speaker with a mic in front, covered with a tea towel, plugged into a camcorder - it is for me, anyway!"

Hidden Animals.wmv

notepool2 | September 25, 2010

"Why 'Hidden Animals'? When I played back the footage, I noticed that the cat on the T-shirt I was wearing was leaping forwards as I leaned forward to start to play - purely acciddental!

This is an Opal Chameleon connected to a Roland VK-8M mondule, for my experiments with rhythm patterns and riffs in preparation for playing rock keyboard parts in my next band (when I get to build an Opal I can keep!)

I also took the opportunity to address forum writers who, new to the note layout, noticed that the 4th interval is not one of the keys adjacent to the tonic (of whichever key you're playing in). As with a conventional keyboard, you would normally play inversions while switching chords anyway, so it helps that on the sonome, the 4th minus an octave IS one of the keys adjacent to the tonic. Its location right under the tonic makes an inverted 4th with some bottom end eady and intuitive. Of you can invert the tonic and alternate fast with a root-position 4th.

I've tried to show all of this in the video, using my version of Spencer Davis 'Gimmie Some Lovin' as an example. I hope it helps new sonome users find ways to navigate fluently."

Early work on a granular/additive patch in Camel Audio Alchemy

YouTube via newechoproductions | September 24, 2010

"At Electro-Music, there was an old florescent light in my room. It made the coolest sound when you turned it on.

I of course recorded it with my handy Zoom H2 and now I'm working on some patches using this sample as source audio. A quick video of early work on a patch in Camel Audio Alchemy.

www.MarkMosherMusic.com"

JAM: Peregrin+Simon 20100918

JAM: Peregrin+Simon 20100918 from Mysta Squiggle on Vimeo.

" Simon on the tiny analogue Korg "Monotron" synth which he had brought back from his recent Japan trip (for AU$50, US$45). Here he is processing Peregrin's Swedish "MachineDrum". Jam was at Neutral Bay Sydney 18th October 2010 for a SHARE Sydney tech session with sqgl (silent behind the camera)."

Korg MS02 and MS03 Signal Processors

MS02 via this auction
"Korg MS02
- converts hz to volts/octave and vice versa
- converts trigger too
- allows other synths to run your MS10 and 20
- run other synths from you MS 20 and 10
- wame livery as other MS series
- Solid build
- also runs Yamaha CS series (hz and strig) too
www.korganalogue.net..."

MS03 via this auction
"Korg MS03 signal processor
- This signal processor converts any audio signal input into a synthesizer control signal
- Works for voice guitar drums samples anything. Acts as a trigger for your synth
- classic kit , livery is part of the MS familiy ie MS20
- Will look great beside your MS10 or 20
- Please note this is a 110volt piece of kit and therefore will need a 110v to 240 v transformer to use in the UK
www.korganalogue.net..."