MATRIXSYNTH

Moog Polymoog Synthesizer 203A Demo Video

YouTube Published on May 17, 2012 by lesingemonotone

"Showing some of the possibilities of the Polymoog Synthesizer. However, this particular one lacks its Polypedals, so I'm using an ordinary sustainpedal as only accessory in this video."

CRUMAR TRILOGY Analog Synthesizer 1981 | HD DEMO

YouTube Published on May 17, 2012 by AnalogAudio1

"This is a short HQ sound demo of the Crumar Trilogy. I played it dry without any additional effects.

The Crumar Trilogy is a multi keyboard instrument / string machine from 1981. It has 3 polyphonic sections: ORGAN, SYNTHESIZER and STRING ENSEMBLE. The best about the Trilogy is the polyphonic synth section, which has 2 VCOs per voice, 24 dB filters which employ the famous SSM chips... The STRING ENSEMBLE and ORGAN sections sound somewhat cheesy, but hey, sometimes you need some vintage cheesy sounds ;-)

Very impressive looking. It has no patch memory like you might think. The Oberheim-type led buttons just recall presets.

On a Vangelis record (I don't remember the title) you see a picture of the Trilogy.

Sounds & pics by AnalogAudio1"

Buchla Interlude - Modular cooking

YouTube Published on May 17, 2012 by batchas

"Time for a short sonic pause."

The George Jenny Ondioline synthesizer!

YouTube Published on May 17, 2012 by sounddoctorin

"Bob Weigel of http://www.sounddoctorin.com gets a glimpse of what is apparently one of the few remaining original high portability synthesizers; the George Jenny Ondioline. Parker is planning to sell this to a museum so don't ask about acquiring it at this point. This is just for historical reference and to give a little visual on an instrument that probably doesn't have any youtube coverage otherwise. This instrument obviously used vacuum tubes and no I have no diagram for it. The tilters on the left are for changing various typical parameters of this type of thing. Probably footage mixture and filter controls. As some know it's the instrument used in Del Shannon's 'Runaway'. I do a song by this title also. Mine doesn't use an ondioline :-). It does have great lyrics and a moving beat though. It's found on my myspace site as I recall. enjoy :-)"

Triadex Muse Guitar

YouTube Published on May 17, 2012 by NakagawaGakki

"I have built an interface for using the Acc. Output signals from the Mighty Triadex Muse to drive circuits. In this video I have the 8 Muse outputs switched down to 4 then run through an OPAMP buffer to little motors striking a 4string instrument. The motors have silicon plectrums on them that stretch when spinning but clear the strings when stationary, they strike from the bottom. This way the motors never stall. One motor in this video is faulty...
An infinite variety of sequences is possible with this set up, it gets really interesting when the tempo and theme parameters are altered. Complex harmonics are heard through the individual pickups, rhythmic drones. This video is shot using the low end camera mic. Sorry. A weird querk is when the Muse is shut down... for some reason the motors spindown and drain a voltage.
I plan to use a similar interface as a sequencer for my Modular, but in reality the complex pulses can be used to drive just about anything"

Pittsburgh Modular Filter Introduction Video

YouTube Published on May 17, 2012 by amphonic

http://pittsburghmodular.com/filter/

"The Filter defines the Jekyll and Hyde sound of Pittsburgh Modular. On the one hand, it offers a warm, organic sweep through the full frequency range. The lowpass filter is gummy and relaxed while the highpass is clean and defined. On the other hand, switching into oscillator mode turns theFilter into a howling beast capable of chunky walls of distortion and noise. The goal was to produce a filter that does not have a single sweet spot. We worked to make every turn of a knob or flip of a switch offer something new and musically engaging."

Buchla 250e as a MIDI Sequencer via Expert Sleepers

YouTube Published on May 17, 2012 by rollerskater

"expert sleepers' ES-2-2 and Silent Way plugins process Buchla 250e control voltages to MIDI note output.

250e to Format Jumbler to ES-2-2 to MOTU 828 to Mac running DP with Silent Way CV Input to Silent Way CV to MIDI, then MOTU MTP AV to DSI PolyEvolver"

Quintette

YouTube Published on May 16, 2012 by RADIOKLOW

"Quintette is a collective work achieved with a group a four students of Lycée Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France : Laure Varichon, Noé Charmet, Clément Poignet, Kiefer Wiessler. During the year 2011-2010, they joined a course I created about philosophy of aesthetics and electronic music. The result of our work is this composition in five movements for Virus TI, Microkorg and Doepfer, to which we added parts for voices and piano. The voice parts are the free theater like interpretation of two famous texts by Emmanuel kant and Friedrich Nietzsche about the question of genius. The voices and the piano were sometimes transformed with the GRM Tools. The five films were created by the four students and I to illustrate the notion of creation in a free way, through the process of a painting's creation followed until the end of the fifth movement. A bonus consisting in one of my own composition was added to the Quintette. The whole work was shown for the first time in Lycée Edouard Herriot on friday 11 May 2012, to a large audience during the Week of Arts of this high school. I want to thank the four students for their friendly involvement and beautiful work in this project !"

The movements and synths used:

1st Movement [Doepfer for intro, Access Virus Ti for majority of piece, MicroKORG solo at end]
7:15 2nd Movement [All MicroKORG]
11:50 3rd Movement [Access Virus Ti - appearance at 17:06]
21:25 4th Movement [All Moog Filtatron]
26:35 5th Movement [Access Virus Ti]
33:57 Bonus [Access Virus Ti]

Pittsburgh Modular Foundation Introduction Video

YouTube Published on May 17, 2012 by amphonic

http://pittsburghmodular.com/foundation/

"The Foundation is a fully modular, eurorack, analog synthesizer. A patchable system styled after the great monosynths of the past with no hardwired signal path or fixed voice architecture to restrict creativity. Driven by two wide range analog oscillators the Foundation produces a huge, warm sound that can't be matched by digital or VST synths. All of the elements of a classic voltage controlled synthesizer are available as an open, patchable, modern synth."

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