MATRIXSYNTH

Friday, October 22, 2010

YAMAHA SY-2 Synthesizer

via this auction

"YAMAHA SY-2 was the company's second venture into the blossoming synth market (no prizes what the first one was, then....). Its major claim to fame was the movie useage in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", when played by Francois Trufflemanger (or whatever his name was...) whilst waiting for the aliens to come out to play and give back the fighter planes etc they nicked (thieving gits...). He wasn't a great player.at all..only five notes in his portfolio. Its surprising that a Japanese synth was used at all. This was the era of synths when Moog & Sequential & ARP were champions of the the terrestial world....hey, thats the crazy world we and the aliens live in...........doo dee doo de doooooo"

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YAMAHA DX7 ROMS

via this auction

Synthesizer Group
Sound Effect Group
Sustain Group
Percussion Group
Wind Instrument Group
Keyboard Plucked & Tuned Percussion Group

Yamaha TF1 Module in Custom Wood Case

via this auction

"This is a plug-and-go ready MIDI module. Comes with power supply and XLR to 1/4" line out adapter cable.

Basically a DX7 in a box, just MIDI it up to your keyboard or other controller.

Editing is done via MIDI sysex from your computer. These units used to come in a rack holding up to 8 of them."

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Akai SynthStation 25

via moonbuz where you'll find one more pic and initial impressions.

Update: also see 1st impressions on Palm Sounds here.

Arturia Analog Experience The Player 25 Unboxing

YouTube via sonicstate | October 22, 2010

"Just in for review, The Player 25 is billed as the portable synth module. We'll be reviewing this in full shortly.
Please leave any questions in the comments below."

SoundPrism for iPod/iPhone (Halloween Teaser)

YouTube via Audanika | October 22, 2010

"A teaser of SoundPrism on an iPod 4G. SoundPrism is a universal app now requiring iOS 3.1.3 (so even 1st gen iPods can run it). It has built in recording capabilities. Recordings from iPads, iPhones 3Gs and iPod 3rd gen devices can be used as iPhone ring tones.

Friend us at http://www.facebook.com/audanika and follow us on http://twitter.com/audanika for news about SoundPrism."

iPads on Ebay
iPads on Amazon

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Vintage KORG Synth Ts via KORG

You can find the T-Shirts here.

MS20
Doncamatic
Mono/Poly
Trident

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via Computer Controlled

Polyfoo arduino synth

via Tobias Wahlström

"I have made a synth with a low-fi sound and some kind of polyphony and MIDI interface. Since I am better at software than hardware I wanted to use as little external hardware as possible. I have tried to make it easy to understand and use. No fancy optimizations more than some simple ones I really had to do to make it work.

On my site there are photos, source code and sound samples.

I provide it with no particular licesense - it would just be fun if someone else than me can have fun with it - or even improve it..."

Egadz :: Music Made With Buttons 4.0 :: We Want Neutrinos

YouTube via kidwithoutradio | October 20, 2010
CME MIDI keyboard controller and Akai MPD24
"want this song?: http://www.kidwithoutradio.com

follow up to the first amazing death defying finger stunt video by egadz. the original video is currently on it's way to half a million plays!

first: egadz ol schollin it up on his skate, all sketched out.

second: egadz finds his make shift home after the u.s. learns how to split a neutrino and uses a neutrino bomb to create an apocolyptic tragedy, forcing the masses to now live underground.

third: live song called "we want neutrinos" from the album "we want neutrinos". live looping, button mashing, and knob turning freak outs.

egadz is on tour this fall with sole & the skyrider band."