MATRIXSYNTH

monome tuner

"semitone and strobe tuner display using a monome grid and arc"

This is just a reminder to check out the Updates label daily. It doesn't take much time and you never know what you might miss if you don't. You can find the perma-link in the menu above. A gem just went up.

Ken Stone CGS Serge Not Quite Quad Slope

via Appliancide where you'll find additional shots and details.

"Like most modular synthesizer users and builders, I suffer from Serge envy. Thankfully for all of us, Ken Stone licensed some of Serge's designs to sell as CGS PCBs.

Here is my first module using these Serge designs"

Bottom pic: "Here's a picture of the project supervisor."

Firstman SQ-01 Sequence Synthesizer From Multivox Ad

via Gary Leder on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Hollow Sun TriOSC Now Available

"TriOsc is styled on equipment retrieved from an ancient, disused rocket launch control centre and features three oscillators with samples of valve sine and triangle waveforms taken from a rack of vintage test equipment to create dense clusters of retro sci-fi electronica.

Unique to TriOsc is the 'SERENDIPITY' button (labeled '?'). You see, TriOsc has a mind and being of its own. Clicking this button generates new patches and sounds randomly created by TriOsc that instantly evoke the spirit and electronic tonalities of the early Radiophonic Workshop, 'Forbidden Planet' and other classic sci-fi movies, Morton Subotnick, Tristram Cary and other early electronic music pioneers working with primitive equipment - an astonishing source of inspiration which can lead you down different roads of musical ideas and exploration. The randomly generated sounds can then be tweaked and shaped to your own particular needs using the comprehensive panel. They can even be saved as normal NKIs for future use.

TriOsc is available now and costs $8
http://www.hollowsun.com/HS2/sli/triosc/index.htm

Requires Kontakt 4.2.2 or higher. It will work with the free Kontakt Player but only in 'demo' mode and the session will be time limited."

via Atomic Shadow who's vintage oscillators where used for TriOSC.

Polyrhythm experiments using AudioCubes

YouTube Uploaded by Percussa on Jun 18, 2011

"More info about Percussa AudioCubes at http://www.percussa.com

In this video we show how AudioCubes can be used together with our MIDI generative software to create polyrhythms.

We set up the Impulse drum machine in Ableton Live 8 (backbeat room preset) as a sound source, and connected this via MIDI to our software, which uses the position of the AudioCubes to start and stop patterns, and the orientation to change patterns being played back.

Each of the cubes is attached automatically to a drum sound (kick drum, snare, closed hi-hat,...)

The patterns are all 32 steps in length and are played back in sync, by each of the cubes. The software was playing back the patterns at 70 BPM (beats per minute).

Each of the cubes can play any of the patterns, on any of the sounds, simply by turning each individual cube."

Percussa AudioCubes presentation at UCSD

via Percussa where you'll find additional details.

"Bert [pictured] was invited to give a presentation about AudioCubes during a class of Professor Slomo Dubnov. This class is taken by electronic music PhD students.

PhD students of UCSD asking questions about AudioCubesDuring the first part of the talk Bert talked about the AudioCubes and in a second part Chris Warren showed the Max/MSP patch he created to let AudioCubes control a custom synth"

Continental Shuffle ~ [_E_U_R_O_S_T_E_P_]

Continental Shuffle ~ [_E_U_R_O_S_T_E_P_] from cv slime 800 on Vimeo.

"Just finished adding speaker carpet and protective corners to my Doepfer A-100LC9 Low Cost Case so it's more durable for portability and gigging (these are the cases that come with a raw wood finish). I also attached 4 thick rubber door-stops (please don't laugh) on the back so that it can be played while laid flat. The stoppers elevate it enough to get a right-angled IEC cable in under there and also so I can reach under to the on/off switch on the back.

PATCH NOTES (well, some highlights of what I remember...):

Hi-hats are created with the 6 oscillator output of a Doepfer A-117 Digital Noise/808 Sound Source going into the high-pass input of an Elby Designs CGS735 Synthacon Filter (while an MFB Drum-05 Snare Drum goes into the band-pass input). I'm using the Analogue Systems RS-60 as the Envelope Generator for the hi-hats. I 'play' the one-shot switch and also hit the gated repeat switch for out-of-time bursts of hi-hat. The other noise output from the A-117 (2 oscillators) is going into the Frequency Modulation input of the Harvestman Piston Honda. I only just discovered using noise as a FM source which is probably old hat to some (no pun intended).

A clock source is feed into the B input of a Malekko Switch and the Pittsburgh Timetable is 'cued to play' with the manual push-button on the Switch. The Doepfer A-166 Dual Logic Module is doing trigger/gate combining with various outputs of the 4MS Rotating Clock Divider and the Timtable to create shuffled rhythms for the hi-hats and the MFB Drum-04 Bass Drum.

2 X STG .mix are used like 2 halves of a stereo mixer
sent in to a newly arrived Flame FX-6 Multi-Effect module.

If you're in Melbourne, I'm doing 30 minute improvised performance with my modular this Tuesday the 21st of June at 2:15PM. It's at the Goethe-Institut 448 St Kilda Rd Melbourne as a part of the 2011 Fête de la Musique. Free."

[1996] keith303 - anxiety express (origin: FT2 / xm)

YouTube Uploaded by keithX303 on Jun 18, 2011

"the keith303 oldskool releases
'anxiety express'
a tune written in october 1996 with Fasttracker2 on a Gravis Ultrasound 1024kb"