MATRIXSYNTH

Sunday, March 03, 2013

Korg MS Series - Vocoder Pads

Published on Mar 2, 2013 Newueel·37 videos

"Usually when I want to play dreamy pads I use the Korg Triton (which I like a lot). This video demonstrates a typical Triton sound built on the MS series.

Used gear:
- Korg MS-50
- Korg MS-20 (2x)
- Korg MS-10
- Korg VC-10
- Korg SQ-10

The pad sound is created using the VC-10 and 1 MS-20 (and a chorus effect) and it also uses a little help from the MS-50. The vocoder is fed with a sawtooth waveform (a fixed tone from the MS-50 oscillator). The VC-10 itself adds a bit vibrato, pitch control is done by the VC-10 keyboard only. The vocoder output sound is then plugged into the MS-20 external input, so it uses both MS-20 filters. The MS-20 also adds some white noise (VCO1) and a bass note (VCO2 sawtooth 32'), the amount varies during the track (MS-20 vcomix). The MS-20 initial gain is controlled by the MS-50 voltage supply and is 'open' the whole time. This way the MS-20 doesn't need a trigger value for the main envelope (EG2), so it will process the vocoder's sound at any time. The MS20 pitch (CV IN) is controlled by the MS-10 keyboard (which also controls de pitch for the other MS-20 and the MS-10 itself).

The SQ-10 has three 8 step sequences. A: Rhythm section (played by the MS-50), B: The 'guitar' groove played by the MS-20 (lower right) with also some portamento from the SQ-10. C: Staccato melody played by the MS-10 (lower left). The MS-10 sequence is controlled by the probability patch, which is programmed using modules from one MS-20 and the MS-50. The probability itself is controlled by the MG pulse width (MS-50), max wide = 100%, max right = 0%. In this track the probability starts with a value of 0% (all steps are muted), from around 1:30 the probability is set to 100% (all steps are played), then around 2:19 the probability is set to 50% (each step has 50% chance of being played). The probability patch is always a great way of making an 8 step sequence more interesting. The MS-20 'guitar' groove is mixed with the MS-10 control wheel. The MS-50 rhythm section is mixed using the upper MS-20 control wheel.

The track has been recorded and mastered using Ableton Live."

via Juda Leijonien on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Protein Der Klang for iOS

Protein Der Klang - Official Trailer Published on Mar 3, 2013 Pierre Guilluy·6 videos

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Protein Der Klang - Pierre Guilluy
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"Protein Der Klang is a fresh audio sampler fit for public performances.

Play, record and manipulate your audio samples on stage or on your bed using an intuitive multi-touch musical application.

Features:

- Play with 12 simultaneous samples on the 3 coloured tracks.
- Scratch, revert, slice, pause, fade & resync up to 4 clips on each track.
- Play with an effect on each track & a master effect.

- 5 sound effects: Crusher, Repeater, Delay, Phaser, LP Filter.
- Import and export your samples and patches using iTunes Sharing.
- Record live loops from audio-input and internal mixer.
- Exclusive playback resync feature.
- BPM-synced clip trigger and playback & metronome.
- Smart controls for faster actions.
- Low latency audio engine.
- 4 fresh demo patches.
- 140+ audio samples included.
- Support for 16bit wav samples.
- Embedded user manual and feedback.

Available for iPad, iPhone & iPod Touch.

http://proteinderklang.com"

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CousinSlewey

Published on Mar 3, 2013 Dmitri SFC·78 videos

"Serge Dual Neg Slew, Peak & Trough, Voltage Controlled Slew, Tripple Wave shapers, 73 Envelope Generator, 73 Filter, CGS VCA ...and 4 step Programmer.________
_The Two NEG slews are the Oscillators, They are each patched into a Wave Shaper, The Wave Shapers are being VC modulated by the 73 Envelope Gen and the V.C.Slew. One of the sounds is being Gated on the way into the TWS using the CGS VCA rather than after the TWS (Thanks to Doug Lynner for that tip !!). A pulse coming from a step on the Programmer or some where is pinging the 73 Filter into self oscillation to make a low rumble bass drum/ giving this patch its third sound. The bass won't be very noticeable on small speakers. The V.C.Slew is used as an Attack Release Envelope and simultaneously its End Pulse Out is clocking the Programmer. The 73 EG and V.C.Slew make great funky clock dividers with VC control. When using the Pulse In on the V.C.Slew it functions like the 73 EnvelopeGenerator, Meaning it won't start a new envelope until its done with the one its working on so, If you feed it a clock that is fast while the 73 EG has a long Envelope setting... The Envelope starts at funky times making cool rhythms. One might think being adjusted by a pot with no time quantization that it would be random but its not. Its pure funk bubbling out of the electrolytics inside. Kind of hard to not fall into a rad syncopated poly-rythm."

Update:

Slewster

Published on Mar 3, 2013 Dmitri SFC·79 videos

"SERGE POS, SSG, DVG, 73 VCF, 73 EG, CGS VCA , VCA___________
_Each Positive slew is cycling and used as a VCO they are both also gated by a VCA. One half of the Dual Voltage Processor is used to mix the two Gated audio signals before being patched into the 73 Filter. The 4 step Programmer VCs one Positive Slew while the Stepped section of the SSG samples A row of CV from the Programmer and in turn pitches the second half of the Dual Positive Slew. SSG is SAMPLE AND HOLD. the other half of the DualVoltageProcessor mixes CV signals from the EG and SSG, the Output its patched to CV the Filter. The 73 EG is generating an Envelope that controls a Gate, Also the END Pulse out of the 73 EG is clocking the Programmer in one direction. The CYCLE out of the SSG clocks the Programmer in the other direction a couple steps here and there."

The Sound of Tomorrow: How Electronic Music Was Smuggled into the Mainstream

This one comes in recommended by Ununseptium Warehouse

"I was given it for Christmas and found it a very absorbing and well written historical overview of the uses of synths and other electronic devices in popular culture."

via Amazon:

"London, 1966: Paul McCartney met a group of three electronic musicians called Unit Delta Plus. McCartney was there because he had become fascinated by electronic music, and wanted to know how it was made. He was one of the first rock musicians to grasp its potential, but even he was notably late to the party. For years, composers and technicians had been making electronic music for film and TV. Hitchcock had commissioned a theremin soundtrack for Spellbound (1945); The Forbidden Planet (1956) featured an entirely electronic score; Delia Derbyshire had created the Dr Who theme in 1963; and by the early 1960s, all you had to do was watch commercial TV for a few hours to hear the weird and wonderful sounds of the new world. The Sound of Tomorrow tells the compelling story of the sonic adventurers who first introduced electronic music to the masses. A network of composers, producers, technicians and inventors, they took emerging technology and with it made sound and music that was bracingly new..."

AMSynths March News Letter

"Newsletter March 2013
Latest News: At last a new AMSynths newsletter after nearly 6 months! We can only say we have been really busy....here is the latest news and plans for 2013.

Xmas was a busy time and we shipped over 25 modules to customers and completed the design of the AM8328 Mirage Filter - which has been shipping since early January. Customer demand has increased in 2013 , so we are we have restarted our sales to the SDIY market with panels, and blank PCB's now in stock and on sale in the online store. We have also added a free online reservation system here from the web store, so customers can be sure they will get a module. Production volumes have slipped back in February due to various holidays and a busy day job, but March and April will see more modules shipping and new products arriving.

Module Plans
The popular AM8012, AM8075, AM8071 and AM8109 filter modules are in production but there is a queue of reservations to satisfy before they will appear in the online store in large volumes. The new AM8328 Miarge Filter will see another 10 modules built in March, along with the arrival of the AM8044 VCF & VCA which has cleared testing and is going into production. It is the first module we have implemented with both a filter and final stage VCA, so all it needs is a dual ADSR and dual VCO to create some fantastic sounds. A special Dave Rossum tribute VCF, the AM8040 will be launched as a PCB sets for the SDIY market initially. It will have both 2 and 4 pole modes, and can use either a rare SSM2040 chip or the HM2040 replica. If there is sufficient customer demand it will be introduced as a completed EuroRack module based on the HM2040 chip, it will have the same panel design as an AM8109 JP8 VCF and provides the sounds of the SCI Prophet 5 early models as well as the original E-mu Systems Audity 16 voice synthesizer.

The versatile dual SVF filter, the AM8060SE, is completing it's first production PCB build this weekend and if this goes ok we can start manufacturing modules for a 24 March 2013 launch. I have put some photos of the prototype on the web store, and I will add some new demos soon. The Dual ADSR AM8140 is the other product launch for late March, with a first production build to check everything is ok. Then there is the AM8005 Diode VCF to finalise on 12V and get into production, I know alot of customers are waiting on this module, so it is top of the list!

The dual VCO's remain in development with the ARP version (AM8027) about to go into a final production stage, the reason for the delay is we had to find some switched vertical jack sockets that fit the design, which we now have. The JP8 Dual VCO is at design stagee with a few more months work to get all the extra features loaded, such as the quantiszed picth knob (using a PIC) and the in-built analog LFO. The VCO designs have been switched to dual rather than single to reduce the overall costs of 2 VCO's, which everyone needs.

A set of new modules planned for 2H2013 are waiting on the arrival of the right log response vertical pots from Small Bear. This includes a dual linear and expo response VCA (AM8164) and the AM83272 Ambient VCF (using the CEM3372). The AM8706 LFO can now more forward with the right vertical jack sockets, so expect this module and the AM8019 ARP style VCA to appear by mid 2013.

Customer Feedback
AMSynths really appreciates customer feedback and ideas. Just send an email to me at sales@amsynths.co.uk. The recently launched AM8328 Mirage Filter was all down to one of our customers, Adam, asking us to make this module using CEM3328 chips. This had led onto the idea of a Key Track pot on some new modules (AM8040) which enables filter cutoff to be varied up or down by the note played on the keyboard. So do let me know of the features and modules you would like to see. For example we have new ideas floating around at AMSynths HQ, for an audio mixer, ring modulator and noise source module, which kinda replicates the middle of an Roland SH-5 (AM8002) and a programmable ADSR with 64 patches which can be voltage controlled (AM8056). And if anybody on the list writes coolt DSP code, we would love to launch a Z-plane digital filter.

Future Plans
Our biggest problem is manufacturing enough modules to meet the increasing customer demand, and that is before we do any press marketing or shows! So we are completeing reaseach into larger scale assembly and manufacturing for some modules, to see what it does to the margins and retail prices. AMSynths have launched a partnership with SynthCube, where you buy my designs in MOTM, FracRac and other non-Euro formats. The AM4023 2 pole OTA filter is the first SynthCube module to hit production, but many more will follow in 2013. The web store will move to a new platform in late 2013 to provide a better presentation and more features. We will continue to operate 2 web sites, one as a secure store and one as a blog and information portal. And Finally, many thanks to all our customer for purchasing AMSynths products and your patience in trying to buy more. I will get more newsletters out this year, timed with product launches."

Left: "AM8328 VCF PCB Set

This is a PCB kit for the AM8328 Mirage VCF which enables you to build a EuroRack Module with a 16-pin 12V Doepfer Bus power connector. It may also work on 15V but I have not tried it out.

The AM8328 is a 4 pole Low Pass Filter that uses the CEM3328 filter chip to produce a amazing sounding VCF.

Project Notes:

Kit Components
The AM8328 PCB kit contains:
AM8328 POT PCB (ROHS compliant, blue solder mask).
AM8328 VCF PCB (ROHS compliant, blue solder mask).
You can also purchase Pot Brackets (x7), Jack PCB and an AMSynths factory AM8328 EuroRack panel.
Kits EXCLUDE the CEM3328 chip. You will need to locate one on eBay. An Ensoniq Mirage has 8x inside."

Above: "AM8328 The Mirage Filter

This module is based around the CEM3328 4-pole Low Pass Filter chip that was released in 1984, as one of the last filter chips and with some great features. It has differential signal inputs, an accurate exponential scale over 14 octaves and voltage controlled resonance. It has a unqiue feature, the signal level is automatically increased as the resonance goes up, thereby avoiding the usual signal level dropping off as resonance comes in. The CEM3328 was late onto the analog stage, just before digital filters appeared, so it only made it into the BIT01 and Ensoniq Mirage (and a few drum machines). So this chip has never really seen action, and was never under analog pot control, just lonely digital parameter access! In the Mirage it was not even allowed to oscillate…..We just love giving it a new lease of life in a new analog module!"

360 Systems Slavedriver Guitar Synthesizer Interface CV/Gate Converter

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"During their short lifespan, 360 Systems designed and produced an interesting set of effects, guitar synths (a repackaging of the Oberheim SEM), and synth-specific utility items such as the Slavedriver.
The Slavedriver uses a hex pickup (installed on your favorite guitar) to channel guitar notes to the main unit which converts your playing into range of control voltages to interface with your favorite monosynth.

The Slavedriver features 1/4in CV/Gate outputs for: guitar, pitch, loudness, trigger. There are controls for octave range: 2, 4, 8, 16, 32; and footswitch interval. There are also 1/4in inputs to connect footswitches (not included) to control sustain and transpose hands-free.

Internal dials allow the user to adjust each string’s sensitivity. Once you get pickup situated on your guitar, and patch the Slavedriver into the cv and gate jacks on your synth, you can have hours of synth guitar fun.

This particular unit is good shape, and works well. The pickup as been hard-wired to the cable and unit (it came to me this way), but could easily be modified to incorporate a jack for added convenience..."

KORG MS20 SN 147855

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Moog Source Synthesizer Model 341A SN 3614

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"Enjoy vintage tones with the Moog Source, a monophonic synthesizer. With a 3-octave, 37-note (C-C) keyboard, this Moog synthesizer covers a wide range, for greater versatility. This Moog synthesizer features a two-digit LED screen and a single data knob to view and adjust your settings. This monophonic synthesizer features a 24 dB/octave VCF that can be altered for keyboard tracking, cut-off frequency, resonance, and envelope amount. Besides, the Moog Source has two ADSR envelope generators, for shaping the harmonic and spectral content of your sound. This device also supports up to 16 factory presets, enabling you to select from Lead 1, Lead 2, Horn, Flute, Clav Bass, Vibes, String Bass, Harpsichord, Organ, and a few others. Moreover, the Moog Source features a rudimentary sequencer that lets you record, edit, and playback music..."

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