MATRIXSYNTH

1981 Moog Source Ad

via Retro Synth Ads where you'll find the write-up.

Buchla 100

flickr set by mono-poly
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via Folktek

"Another of the drum scape series by Arius Blaze - antique analog, huge bass, deep drone, brass and hints of bakelite. More on the drum scape series on the folktek site; http://folktek.com/instruments/quadrum"

Folktek on eBay

The End of JazzMutant and the Lemur

via JazzMutant
"Since 2002, JazzMutant has been a acknowledged pioneer in the field of Creative Computing and Multi-touch technology, being the first-ever company to develop and bring to the market a product featuring a multi-touch screen as early as 2005. Since its market launch, the Lemur has been endorsed by a fascinating community of music and video artists. Nine Inch Nails, Richard Devine, Hot Chip, Ritchie Hawtin, Matthew Herbert, M.I.A, Mike Relm, Alva Noto, Ryuchi Sakamoto, Daft Punk, Bjork, ... : The list of prestigious and influent artists who have made the Lemur their favorite pet companion on stage would be way too long to be mentioned here. Its visionary concept and groundbreaking technologies allowed the Lemur to win numerous international press awards and was recently elected "Innovation of the decade" by Future Music.

During five years and despite the new fever surrounding touch technologies, the Lemur remained the only Multi-touch device capable to meet the needs of creative people. From now on, this ecosystem is evolving quickly : powerful consumer tablet devices are becoming mainstream, bringing the power of multi-touch to everyone. In the meantime, JazzMutant, renamed Stantum in 2007, has become a technology-centric company and developed partnerships with tier-one industrial partners to speed up this democratization. As a result, the need for a high-end dedicated hardware is doomed to vanish in the near future. This is why Stantum is announcing today that it will close its JazzMutant activity unit and stop selling its legendary Lemur Multi-touch hardware controller at the end of December while the stock lasts! The last batch of Lemurs just came out of the factory. These very last units are now available at a special discounted price from JazzMutant's webstore and from its authorized distributors and retailers. These very last units are now available with 25% discount! Moreover, the Dexter App and an original Lemur T-shirt will come along for free. Don't miss this last opportunity and grab the legendary Lemur from authorized retailers while the stock last! The Technical support and after sale service will be handled until December 31, 2011. The jazzmutant website will stay online in order to let the user community access support resources and share their projects.

We would like to thank all the people involved in this fantastic adventure: first of all the user community which exceeded our wildest expectations in creating the most amazing templates; our devoted resellers, who helped us to show the Lemurs all over the world; finally music software editors for their support."

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"1. What will be the future of the company? Is Jazzmutant planning to launch any new hardware/ software versions next year?

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Nautiluss PA demo

Nautiluss PA demo from graham zilla on Vimeo.

"Song title: Chamber 5

Gear used: Elektron Machinedrum UW, Dave Smith Prophet 08, Moog Little Phatty, Electro Harmonix Holy Grail Reverb, Line 6 Modular delay, Mackie 1402, Ableton.

Earlier this year I decided to overhaul my studio. There were a few reasons I did this:

1) I am an internet addict. I often found that when I was working on music on my laptop that I would suddenly be tempted to open facebook or my email and next thing you know I would be watching talking cat videos for the next hour.

2) Tactility. In this day and age of virtual existence, I find myself really needing more hands-on experiences. I grew up playing guitar and so this gave me the ability to return to a more traditional way of working with music.

3) Hardware has limitations. The problem with using software synths is that you tend to have an unlimited supply of them and so it's really hard to limit yourself to one or two and just learn them inside out. I wanted to give myself limitations and so I picked a few piieces of gear and really spent alot of time trying to get the most out of them.

4) Live PAs. In this day and age EVERYONE and their grandmother is a dj. Most people have access to the same music and it's not rare to see an opener and a headliner playing 90% of the same music. I really believe that live PAs will be way of the future for producers that want to provide a unique, ever-changing experience for people that come to see them. This setup, as you will see, lends itself to live reproductions."

TENORI-ON #01

TENORI-ON #01 from Akira Yamasaki on Vimeo.

"It was beautiful sunset on the terrace played TENORI-ON"

Synth-Jam

Synth-Jam from Tripnomind on Vimeo.

"Virus TI Snow, with Launchpad and Ableton Live"

"RollDice" Elemental Studio Jam #2

"RollDice" Elemental Studio Jam #2 from elemental on Vimeo.

"Second try at recording a studio jam... expanding on the track in #1.

Track entitled "Roll Dice"

The music and video were done in one take, edited down a bit. Loops and sounds prepared earlier and tweaked during the track.

Gear used: Genoqs Nemo sequencing an MC-202 and modular via Silent Way vst + MOTU Ultralite mk3, plus the Rozzbox (on pads). Maschine doing drums and samples. TC Electronic Nova Repeater, and Ibanez analog delay. Reverb is the one built into Ableton."

Jacob Sikker Remin: Cheap, FAT, and Open

Jacob Sikker Remin: Cheap, FAT, and Open from The People Speak on Vimeo.

"Jacob Sikker Remin of campingsex.org shows off his new open source synth/sequencer Cheap Fat and Open.

See tthheessiiss.wordpress.com/ for more info"

Update:
CFO MFRU 2010 flickr set here.

Added CFO label for these. This is the first post.

Beat-crushing drums routines on Octapad with "Biscuit" (by Franck Smith)

Beat-crushing drums routines on Octapad with "Biscuit" (by Franck Smith) from Franck Smith on Vimeo.

Watch your volume levels on this one.

"Lo-Fi/8-bit processing electronic drums routines on Roland Octapad SPD-30 and Oto Machines "biscuit" bitcrusher. Performed by Franck Smith © 2010

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rosebruit.com
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IF POSSIBLE USE HEADPHONES WHEN VIEWING VIDEO MATERIAL OR CONNECT YOUR COMPUTER TO A QUITE DECENT SOUND SYSTEM.

Biography: Multi-instrumentalist and noise manufacturer using electronic devices, digital percussives, vinyls, anvils, gongs, sirens, drums, piano... also (un)known as Ijnveïq de Ernestine, Tlü Ejtko, Phrenq, Qiipnm'id Yorgomnüg... Franck Smith runs the private recording collection Odiolorgnette and works as an independant artist in electronic fields, experimental audiovisual contexts and soundtrack production... Member of the dual electronic unit Zn'shñ and co-founder of audiovisual production Rosebruit...

On his Odiolorgnette collection Franck Smith publishes a catalog of hybrid recordings from personal studies on Pygmy polyphony, cartoon/video-game music to Butoh dance and Noh theater soundtracking via pure experimentation, noise and radical electronic... With Zn'shñ he recently played in Japan for a series of concerts in Tokyo around the cd release "Butoh sweets (Adventures in dance, flour and colours)"... With Rosebruit he works on new performances involving experimental VJing, film making and electronic music...

N.B.-- both Zn'shñ and Rosebruit are collaborative projects with visual artist and sound-activist Elvire Bastendorff.

Recent discographic works:
* Zn'shñ, "Butoh sweets" (odl.9173-659) 
* Franck Smith, "Théorème de point fixe" (odl.9173-658) 
* Zn'shñ, "II" (odl.9173-657)
 * Zn'shñ, "++" (odl.9173-656)

"Franck Smith" Octapad Roland SPD-30 drums electronics percussion Odiolorgnette drum-synth Biscuit Oto Machines Bitcrusher Lo-Fi 8-bit"