MATRIXSYNTH

Monday, March 28, 2011

HighSage - Live PA in Los Angeles

YouTube Uploaded by shagghie on Mar 27, 2011

"Short clip of me warming up for what was a great night! Hope to replace everything in that rig with just the OctaTrack to make gigging a lot easier going forward... Note to others: girls like it live."

Tim Exile - Jam Shop

YouTube Uploaded by timexile on Mar 27, 2011

"Jamshops - the interactive jamming experience. Come along, jam together with instruments like this. No experience required! The Jamshop opens 2nd April 2011 as part of the Ether Festival. http://ether.southbankcentre.co.uk/5/events/tim-exile-jamshops/. www.timexile.com/jamshop"

Techno with three Roland W-30

YouTube Uploaded by SynthManiaDotCom on Mar 27, 2011

"I found some old diskettes with my old sounds when I used to play Techno in the early 1990s. Tonight I loaded them up in my three W-30s. This is how we did it back then ;-)"

Spectrasonics Omnisphere Bob Moog TRIBUTE Library "Sakamoto & Jarre" First Impression

YouTube Uploaded by ozashikiTECHNO on Mar 28, 2011

"Spectrasonics Omnisphere Bob Moog TRIBUTE Library
Ryuichi Sakamoto & Jean Michel Jarre Library Sounds First Impression !

Spectrasonics - Products - Bob Moog Tribute Library for Omnisphere
http://www.spectrasonics.net/products/tribute/"

Fuga Electronica© by Raul Pena III, performed by Oberheim Xpander

YouTube Uploaded by raulsworldofsynths on Mar 27, 2011

"Composition by Raul Pena III, from upcoming "Melodies from Raul's World of Synths". Performed by Oberheim Xpander, recorded at Switched On Electronics, Austin,TX."

Variation 13 version 2© by Raul Pena III performed by Oberheim Xpander

Uploaded by raulsworldofsynths on Mar 28, 2011

"Composition by Raul Pena III, from upcoming "Melodies from Raul's World of Synths". Performed by Oberheim Xpander, recorded at Switched On Electronics, Austin,TX. March 24,2011"

ARP Odyssey

YouTube Uploaded by synthypnosis on Mar 27, 2011

"VELVET VOYAGE - "ARP Odyssey" - Recorded on 3 stereo-tracks by Bruno Ender Lee
...my very first recording with the ARP Odyssey MK III in 2008...
original title "Distant Frontiers", taken from the soundtrack - CD "Geheimnisse des Universums" (a movie by Bruno Stanek)"

Solton K160 Sound Demo

YouTube Uploaded by Najvrtson on Mar 27, 2011

"Solton K160 was made by Ketron Laboratories in Italy, sold under the name of company Solton and finally, in Czechoslovakia was sold as Delicia Solton K160 with power adaptor and soft case made in Czechoslovakia. This instrument is almost forgotten now, so I decided to buy one and to make this sound demo. K160 was cheap 8-voice polyphonic preset synthesizer with analog filters (CEM3389). There are only very limited possibilities to modify the sound. All sounds presented here are factory presets as they are coming from the instrument. I only added the reverb to the pipe organ sound.
This video is a part of my website Czechkeys."

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Tensai rhythm machine, 80s boombox with drum machine

via this auction

"This is a really odd item, can't find any info about it online!?

So what i can tell you is: it's a 1980's boombox with built in analogue drum machine!

I've recorded the output here so you can get an idea of the presets:
http://soundcloud.com/maily/tensai-rhythm-machine

This device can also be used as a 2 track recorder, featuring a guitar and mic inputs.

I think this could make the basis of a really interesting circuit bend or just a super unique addition to the collection of a drum machine/ 1980's/ analogue recording enthusiast.

More photos here"

Update: some additional info via Jan:

"this boombox was also distributed in Germany under the "Lehnert" brand and was called the "Lehnert Studio-5000". My parents bought one in 1978 or 1979, I can't remember exactly. I tried to find more information about it and the company in the web a while ago, but alas no success. And my mother threw hers away some years ago…

More pics on [via this auction]

Judging from the German labeling with the correct Umlaut usage, and the more detailed description of the device's functionality on the lower left of the German front panel (compared to the English Tensai version), I assume that "Lehnert" might be the original (German? Austrian?) manufacturer.

More pics of the machine's guts: [link]

On [link] you can see the manufacturing date of the tape motor is 1977.

The 2 way speaker system sounded really nice, the rhythm section allowed pressing multiple buttons simultaneously to combine rhythms, the external input allowed to use it as an amp for my first synthesizers (Casio VL-Tone and Korg MS-20), and you could use is as a limited 2 track recorder. I had a lot of fun with it 30 years ago."

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