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via CatSynth

"This is of course coming a little less than a week after the major raid on Zuccotti Park, so things were a bit sparse, indeed less active than some of the events I have attended in San Francisco. The ban on tents was in full force, with not a single tent in sight. I had also heard about a ban on musical instruments. So here I am playing the Smule Magic Piano on the iPhone in defiance."

Side note: this is post #16918 on MATRIXSYNTH for the year and breaks the record number of posts in a given year. I made a point not to save any particular post for the record. I wanted to see what came in by chance. I couldn't have thought of a more fitting and interesting post. I wondered what the first OWS post might be. This is it. Two firsts in one post. Go CatSynth! :) (see CatSynth for the full post)

Feel free to send any synth related OWS content in for a post to matrixsynth@gmail.com

Elektron Octatrack Dubstep & IDM Remix (Neonim - "Iklamin")

YouTube Uploaded by paulshemyakin on Aug 28, 2011

"In this video I tried to make the live remix for the great song "Iklamin" of my friend Michael Emelyanov and his band Neonim. The device used in the video is my Elektron Octatrack DPS-1, 8 tracks performance sampler - very cool thing to make the remix with!"

Side note: this is post 16917 for the year and ties the record for last year. Next post breaks it.

Portland Synth Gathering Pics via Mackenzie England

You can find some pics of the event on Facebook here.

via Mackenzie of Voice to Spirit on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Pictured below: Malekko Wiard Modular & Folktek Luminist Garden

See the PDX label below for more posts on the event.

1977 KORG Polyphonic Ensembles S and P & Maxi-Korg K-3 Ads

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

JUPITER T 3.0 + KIMBALL PT2

YouTube Uploaded by chamberofsounds on Nov 21, 2011

"In this video i'm running the Kimball Challenger drums into the Jupiter T from one output and into another amp from the second output. This way you can hear both the dry & effected sounds. Go freakin' space crazy with your own Jupiter, only from chamberofsounds.com"

Chamber of Sounds on eBay

KURZWEIL K2500R with RM2-P2 & More

via this auction
"When used with a sequencer, this unit and it's siblings (K2600, K2661, K2000, etc,) cannot be beat. On top of that they have the V.A.S.T. engine which means the voice engine is like a modular synthesizer and the voice path can have extremely sophisticated and complex routings unlike everything else out there which still tend to have very simple synth engines. In other words, you can get very complex sounds out these units..."

"The RM2-P2 ROM block adds an additional 8 meg of Kurzweil quality samples along with 100 additional new preset programs and 50 new additional preset setups.

The Contemporary Expansion Board is a collection of Kurzweil's hottest sounds, designed for use in a full range of contemporary music styles. Sounds include a variety of Electric Guitars, Ethnic Percussion, New Drum Sounds, a large collection of Classic Synth Sounds, Hammond Organ, Muted Trumpet, Alto Sax and much more!"

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