MATRIXSYNTH

Sunday Acid Jams

via Acid Box Blues
"devilfish tb303, the tr606 and the sh101."

"The First is pretty much dry, with the accent out of the tb303 triggering the sh101."

Sunday live jammed by DyLABs

"This is a distorted tb303 with overdrive and fm modulation cranked all the way going into more distortion and a ping pong delay."

Distorted Outer Spaced by DyLABs

YouTube via sparkey1 | October 24, 2010

"Triggering my new Tama TS-305 with the Klopfgeist softsynth (the metronome click!) in Logic9 on 6 tracks sent out thru multiple outputs from my Presonus Firestudio. I tried to do this first with Ultrabeat / multiple outs, but the thing would not behave. Bass/snare/"hat" sound are running through some TL audio tube preamps and a snare through a Roland Space Echo. Toms are dry. Sorry about the crappy audio quality on the camera, just a quick first test of this drumsynth."

Note: one just went up for auction here.

Alan Wilder Signs Pea Hicks Drumulator

via Pea of http://optigan.com/:
"saw Alan Wilder's RECOIL set last night and managed to get him to sign my Drumulator. This is the drum machine he used heavily on DM's 'Construction Time Again' album, notably on 'Everything Counts.' Also, if you listen to 'Work Hard' (a b-side), they even used the click pulse from the Drumulator as part of the rhythm track in addition to the regular drum sounds.

He told me he still has his, and dug it out recently, but it wasn't working. I also asked him why they chose the more "budget" priced Drumulator at a time when they could have afforded something a bit better like a Linn, and he said 'because we were cheap!'

also, here's a pic of the Recoil set, with Alan playing a Korg MS-20. I'm pretty sure he was just using the filter section, processing stuff from Ableton Live."

Keyboard

flickr By t-c-j

The Trail

YouTube via callmekorbi | October 24, 2010

"Sit back and relax...

Download Link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?tp6c9wu0byb..."

SuONOIO Demo Part 1 of 2

YouTube via AnalogSavior | October 23, 2010

"An in depth look at the SuONOIO synthesizer, designed by Alessandro Cortini, and The Harvestman. I go over all the features and explain how the synth works.

http://www.sonoio.org/

http://www.theharvestman.org/"

SuONOIO Demo Part 2 of 2

Walekko Noodle 001

YouTube via waveshaper | October 24, 2010

"Self playing Malekko/Wiard patch"

Crumar Bit ones: SSM2044 (rare) and CEM3328, polysix 2044 exploration

YouTube via sounddoctorin | October 24, 2010

"Bob Weigel Of Sound Doctorin' (http://www.sounddoctorin.com) compares the two version of Crumar's 6 voice x2DCO polysynth the Bit One. A short production of SSM2044 units were made. This is number 27. The ssm2044 is explored with more easy on the polysix nearby. But some good comparisons of the two units are made side by side and thought we can't be certain as to the precision of the alignments I believe they sound very close to each other but we can hear the subtle differences if we listen carefully in places. Hopefully the discerning ear can tell the difference between potential variations in tuning and the actual qualities of the circuitry."

x0xb0x & TB-303 with Distortion

YouTube via djthomaswhite | October 24, 2010

"Very basic and kind of obvious (except to me for a long time) video of the basic advantages of distortion in electronic music. In this example the subject is directed at Roland TB-303 and adafruit x0xb0x with a Marshall Rat distortion pedal. Techno, Acid, House and Trance rely on this simple addition to the sound circuitry of either acid machine to get the truly gritty sound needed for proper freaking out of the club peoples. Not a musical demo, rather a technical demo that will lead others to music."

Maplin Voice Vandal Kit - Digital Delay/Chopper

YouTube via djthomaswhite | October 24, 2010

"Out of production Maplin Voice Vandal Kit in 5U modular format. Uses a Holtek delay chip and has a chopping section, that when swept, can give you a nice cross modulation/ring type sound. Noisy, yes, but unique and colorful also a yes. More info and schematics here for this rare, out of production module.

http://www.mediafire.com/?a9dgz3gzxje

PS. Was heavily used by Dr. Who geeks to simulate the Dalek voices. Here it is heavily used by me, a different type of geek... Synthesizer Geek! More and less geeky at the same time somehow. LOL"