MATRIXSYNTH

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

(Android) EerieSynth Ambient Jam

YouTube Published on May 22, 2012 by metabog

"Here's an ambient jam with my work in progress Android app, EerieSynth. Yes, it IS coming out soon. I'm sorry I've taken so long, but I am the only developer and I am also working on my thesis."

Google Celebrates Bob Moog

I thought I'd start the day with a post in honor of Bob Moog. He would have been 78 today - in Japan that is. :) Bob Moog's birthday is technically tomorrow, May 23. It's still the 22nd in the US, UK and Europe, but not in Japan and soon the rest of Asia. Midnight hit just over an hour ago and in honor of Bob Moog's birthday, Google Japan has the playable image to the left on their homepage: www.google.co.jp/ (thanks goes to synthwood for sending it in)! A little birdy told me there would be something big at midnight tonight, I'm hopeing this will be on the rest of Google's local homepages. Think about it. For one day, all of the world will see this. That is pretty awesome.

Don't forget Moog Music will be donating 50% of all online clothing and merchandise to the Bob Moog Foundation and for every $350 they will donate one Etherwave Theremin to the Foundation's educational program, Dr. Bob's SoundSchool. It's a great initiative to bring arts and electronic music to kids. You can find the full details including videos in this post.

Moog Music clothing and merchandise can be purchased from the company’s online store: www.moogmusic.com/products/clothing and http://www.moogmusic.com/products/Merch

Update: it's also on https://www.google.com.au/ and it is playable.

Fully Working Yamaha CS60 for Parts

flickr by Ramcur

"CS serie parts for sale ( KENTON MIDI KIT AVAILABLE )

The synth is working perfectly . All parts are for sale you can email the owner Jared at : spaceman.west@gmail.com

( NO YAMAHA YM LSI ICS FOR SALE WE WILL KEEP THOSE IN MONTREAL )"

This is a tough one to post. Does it make more sense to keep a fully functioning CS60 intact or to part it out to bring other CS50s, CS60s or CS80s back to life? You be the judge.

Click the pics for the super size shots. See Old Crow's page on the CS50 for some similarities and differences between the CS series.

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Monday, May 21, 2012

New Cwejman DP-1 Dynamic Processor Eurorack Module

"The DP-1 is a one knob compressor with additional features for dynamic treatment of music material in standard and some unique ways. The module consist of three main parts:

Compressor
The compressor is build around a high performance VCA circuit with low distortion and low noise floor. Instead of two controllers it has only one RATIO controller which compensate the signal loss at increased compression. It means that the low level signal is boosted and the high level signal is attenuated. The incoming signal passes the LEVEL INPUT controller and the outgoing signal is controlled by the OUTPUT GAIN. All parameters, such as the envelope follower (output ENV) with ATTACK and RELEASE, RATIO and OUTPUT GAIN are controllable manually by knobs and by CV inputs. The switch SOFT KNEE activates the function for gradual compression action.

Mute
The Mute (or squelch) circuit allow amplitude re-shaping in many ways for compressed or uncompressed audio signal. The muting circuit has four controllable parameters, TRESHOLD for activating the circuits at variable signal level, DEPTH for the muting process, from 0 to 72 dB deep, ATTACK and RELEASE controls for the muting process derived from the Gate. The Mute allows a complete re-shaping the dynamics for the audio signal. You can remove the unwanted and high spikes from heavy compressed signal due the compressor attack time which prevent overload the outgoing signal. The result is a compressed signal with short attack time and with no overshoots of the signal. Another example is treatment of beats, drum sounds or other sounds with variable accents or dips, variable fade in and out, also called as “push, pull”, “breathing”, or “suction” sounds. Just two examples and all four parameters are CV controllable, as well.

Side Chain Filter
The side chain is the circuit which determinate the compression and mute action related to the frequency characteristic of the side chain filtering. A side chain with equalization controls can be used to reduce the volume of signals that have a strong spectral content within a certain frequency range: it can act as a de-esser, reducing the level of vocal sibilance in the range of 6–10 kHz using the high pass filter or "de-bumper", as I called, for reduction of strong bass or sub bass signals by using the low pass filter in the sidechain path. The build in side chain filter is a 12 dB/octave multi mode filter with low pass and high pass outputs for mentioned duties and others since the corner frequency is controllable by external CV signal."

via http://www.cwejman.net/dp-1.htm

Puremagnetik alphaSynth - Alpha Syntauri Sample Set

"A library of old-school computer sounds captured from a late 1970s 8-bit Apple ][ with an Alpha Syntauri music system."

Available at Puremagnetik

This set comes from Chris Randall of Analog Industries & Audio Damage, with more to follow: "It is a heavily re-tooled and much improved version of the sample set I used to have here that I made from the alphaSyntauri. They are much, much better at that sort of thing than I, what with doing it for a living and all, and the alphaSynth set is available in several formats, including Live Rack, Kontakt, and ESX Universal.

I've made a bunch of other samples for them with various pieces of Apple ][ based kit, and you can watch out for those in the future."

Playing Monnix synth app over modulars

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Playing Monnix synth app over modulars from cv slime 800 on Vimeo.

Description from chrisjeffs.com/monnix :

"This live performance synthesizer uses three points of touch to control the distribution of up to 16 harmonics, allowing for unique sound effects.

Movements can be played back in the Replay page and the pitch altered by tilting the device forward. The Sample & Hold screen freezes the partials according to the selected tempo. FM ratio, jitter and envelope parameters can be set in the remaining pages, allowing for a wide variety of sonic mayhem."

iPads on eBay

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Vimeo by richard scott

"Serge and Bugbrand Modular Synthesizer"

Broken Silicon Error Codes #1 for Tiptop Audio Z-DSP

New codes for the Z-DSP by Broken Silicon spec sheet via tiptopaudio.com/

New video from cray56 below and be sure to catch the earlier one from Richard Devine here. The first demo with Broken Silicon's Error Codes #1 was in this teaser for the Tiptop 909 Hats.

Published on May 21, 2012 by cray56

"Snazzy FX Ardcore and The Broken Silicon chip for the ZSDP filmed by CV Slime"

optofilter demo

YouTube Published on May 21, 2012 by squeakyfromme69

"livewire afg, doepfer a130, homemade ad env, OPTOFILTER VCF, midiverb4, ableton. hopefully making a small production run of 10 units soon."