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Doepfer Dark Time is my Tom Tom Club :D

YouTube Uploaded by deepeightyeight on Jul 6, 2011

"a new toy... just messing with it and drumstation.... cool and fun, now it's time to use it seriously with some real synth :D
the korg esx is just synced out"

Mother In LOL - Episode 5: "Growing Pains"

YouTube Uploaded by MotherInLOL on Jul 5, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/user/MotherInLOL

From the creator of The Packrat, Retarded Animal Babies, Parallax and more: http://umop.com/. And the creator of the The MATRIXSYNTH Packrat which has a permanent home on the right of the site.

"In 2009, things seemed pretty promising for an attractive young couple of newlyweds and their Mother In LOL. But as time went by, things went right down the crapper. Perhaps you can relate? No? You're a filthy liar."

Realtime Composition and Performance - Bill McGettigan

YouTube Uploaded by BillMcGMusic on Jul 6, 2011

"A Demo of my University Final Year Project titled 'An Investigation Into Realtime Aleatoric Composition and Performance'"

Modular: the documentary on Facebook

Modular: the documentary (video here) is now on Facebook here. You'll find some behind the scenes dialog along with modular synth pics. Pictured here on top is the current profile picture featuring a Buchla 200 modular and below is a primarily eurorack modular plus MacBeth M5, Analogue Solutions Vostok, Roland TB-303 and TR-606 and more uploaded by Cyrus Rex.

This one in via Solvent and George Mattson.

Rockit 8 Bit Synth Kit on Kickstarter

This one in via Joel. DIY synth on Kickstarter. For those not familiar with Kickstarter, it's a site where you can put a project up for people to support by pledging different amounts of money. Typically different pledges get different returns, for example in this case $20 gets you a shirt, $25 gets you a barebones kit, $125 gets you a complete kit, and $200 get you a fully functional synth. I added a Kickstarter label to the site where you can find additional projects. I also created a Rockit label for this project. The following is the description from Kickstarter for the synth archives here on MATRIXSYNTH:

"Hello Kickstarter! Thanks for checking out my project and helping to turn my blood, sweat and tears into a real product.

My goal in designing the Rockit 8 Bit Synth is to make an inexpensive open-source synth kit. For musicians, Rockit will be a source of gnarly full-blown synth sounds and, for hackers and electronics enthusiasts, Rockit will be an engaging electronics project and a platform for synth exploration. I'm near the end and I'm glad to report that Rockit rocks on both counts. The synth makes deep fat bass, chip noise leads, sci-fi robot weirdness and eveything in between. The hardware is well-documented and the code is written in easy to follow C with ample comments, so the average electronics geek will find a project with enough depth to keep them busy for a good while. If you'd like to read about the design process and the design in depth, visit hackmeopen.com.

Specs:

Fully Open Source Hardware and Well-Commented C Software Design

Digital Analog Hybrid Circuitry

2 Digital Oscillators with 16 waveshapes, updateable to more

2 Low Frequency Modulation Oscillators with 10 destinations

Innovative Digitally-Controlled Analog Filter with Low-Pass, Band-Pass, and High-Pass with Envelope Control and External Audio Input

Analog Voltage-Controlled Amplifier with Envelope Control

Drone/Loop Mode for Playing by Itself

19 Knobs to Twiddle and 8 Switches

Full MIDI Input and Output

Sound Patch Save and Recall

What's in the Kit

The Rockit kit Includes the circuit board and all the electronic components necessary to build the synth, along with a wall wart power supply. The kit does require soldering, but I'm also making it available in fully built form, for the moment by yours truly. Neither form presently comes with a case.

What's the money for?

The money I'm raising is to purchase parts for the first run and to provide the fuel to keep it going. If all this works out, the synth will eventually be available in kit and finished form on my website, hackmeopen.com. I'm planning on making derivatives and expansions of this design. In the end, I'd love to free myself from the chains of corporate engineer bondage to pursue creating open source hardware audio electronics."

Arturia Minimoog V 2 my 1st Demo Song

YouTube Uploaded by MrBa6 on Apr 30, 2011

"My first demo song using 12 instances of Arturia Minimoog V 2, all sounds incl. drumsounds using Minimoog V 2 with a little bit of EQ and compression with Logic 9"

Arturia Prophet V vs. SCI Prophet 5

Arturia Prophet V vs. SCI Prophet 5 Part 1/3

YouTube Uploaded by MrBa6 on Apr 27, 2011

"Comparison of the factory sounds of a real hardware Prophet sound demos on the internet recreated with my Arturia Prophet V software synthesizer."

Arturia Prophet V vs SCI Prophet 5 Part 2/3

Arturia Prophet V vs. SCI Prophet 5 Part 3/3

This one in via Roman