MATRIXSYNTH

Sunday, August 05, 2012

PAIA Stringz n' Thingz String Synthesizer

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" The PAIA Stringz n' Thingz was PAIA's answer to the ARP String Ensemble. Jon Simonton used a top-octave chip with octave dividers to create an affordable polyphonic synthesizer in kit form in the late 70s. While it doesn't have all of the richness of the ARP/Solina string synthesizer, this PAIA unit is in some ways better -- it included a piano(ish) polyphonic sound that was fully mixable with the strings; the violin/viola section could be separated from the cello sound at two different keyboard split points, and probably best of all, the modulation for the string sound (sort of a phaser/flanger effect) was fully controllable by the player, unlike the ARP sound, which was fixed to their idea of a good string sound. There are two outputs, one for the piano sound alone, and one for a piano/string mix, the balance of which is controlled by a pot on the control panel."

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Tape 002

Tape 002 from Rastko Lazic on Vimeo.

Recently I have acquired two Kommander`s from Koma Elektronic.

The Kommander`s provide the Serge modular synth with gate and CV signals by tracking my hand movements.

This is very similar to the possibilities of the Theremin , https://vimeo.com/42150452 , but in a much smaller package.
On the other hand Theremin is a self contained instrument and Kommander is not.

More info on the Kommander can be found at Koma`s page www.koma-elektronik.com.

Vangelis Improvisation (better image & sound)

YouTube Uploaded by Nimanty on Nov 28, 2010

"Rare footage of Vangelis performing an improvisation on synthesizer at his Nemo Studios.

Recording of this performance took place by Spanish Television in 1982, also when Neuronium (Michel Huygen) visited Vangelis to perform together.

Some enhancement of the original tape video with denoising, contrast improvement and color correction.
Sound remastering for better clearity and stereo imaging.

Enjoy! - Nimanty -"

Originally posted here.

Random Looping Sequencer

flickr By sduck409

"This is my version of the Random Looping Sequencer, a design by Tom Whitwell."

MI Ambika

flickr set By MukSys
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Op-1-Atari Arcade

Op-1-Atari Arcade from Richard Devine on Vimeo.

Making some atari arcade sound effects with the Op-1 and schippmann filter. Modular running Cyclebox II and WMD gama wave into two MakeNoise Optomix's all clocked from one plan-b mini-ELF LFO.

Fatduino v2.0 - analog synth with Arduino control

YouTube Uploaded by nibblernibbles on Oct 23, 2011

"A tour of the Fatduino v2.0 - a homebrew analog midi monosynth and sequencer, made from glueing Paia Fatman and an Arduino Mega microcontroller. Build for no good reason whatsoever other than surviving the grinding misery of a bleak Scottish winter. But surprisingly turned out to be quite a nifty generator of bleeps, whooshes, kruunks, flumpps and zizzes. Features a range of parametric algorithmic pseudo-randomnesses, which lends it a certain glitchy charm, like the mutant offspring of Basstation and a mulfunctioning educational toy.
In the coming eons I may post some show'n'tell demos of the cooler features. Until then, please be awed at the quality of my wiring."

Fatduino Tour - Arduino synthesizer

Uploaded by nibblernibbles on May 3, 2010

"A tour of the "FatDuino" - a homebrew synthesizer made from a modified Paia Fatman analog monosynth controlled by an Arduino Mega.
Schematics, source code etc from here:
http://sites.google.com/site/nibblernibbles/"

Fatduino sounds - Arduino synthesizer

Saturday, August 04, 2012

flys n drones

YouTube Published on Aug 4, 2012 by UNDEADINSTRUMENTS

"timeFrogIII driving the synth system of the MC909. It's just a pleasure to have the 16 instruments directly available on the groovebox and to master the band (only 3/4 there to be honest...), it makes forgive the 40°C and the lack of wind."

flys n drones 2

Published on Aug 4, 2012 by UNDEADINSTRUMENTS

Tiptop Audio Dragonfly Delay

Image via The Harvestman's Juliana Jaeger on Facebook

http://www.tiptopaudio.com

"The Dragonfly Delay is a collectin of 8 Voltage Controlled time-based, delay algorithms in mono and stereo. This collection includes delays, ping-pongs, multi-taps, and polyrhythmic madness with a variety of controls..."