MATRIXSYNTH

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Delicate_fluctuation

Published on Mar 16, 2013

iPad APP DM1,Manetron2
Arturia iMini minibrute

"Just got back from a trip to europe, and stayed with my friend Julius, one of my friends who records for Compost. He has done some pretty cool projects [building a VST interface to Kraftwerk pioneer Florian Schneider's most recent vocoder purchase] as well as creating his own VST plugins for Mac / PC called Kammerl Kaske [http://www.kammerl.de/audio] The details of the Florian Schneider project -- About 2 years ago, Florian put the original Kraftwerk vocoder for sale on eBay [quite possibly one of the rarest eBay sales ever, at least for music equipment]. It wasn't that Kraftwerk was getting out of 'vocoding' but rather, he found one of the earliest vocoder projects out there. A professor at a German university in the speech department was building a rather large rack of about 32 drawers of band-pass filters that were aimed to create at one point, a vocoder. As the professor passed away some time ago, the speech department was looking to part ways with the project and Florian had come into contact with the university. He made an offer, and they sold him the remnants. Now there's another friend of Julius' that creates some rather crafty devices known as SND, aka Sebastian Niessen. He's most known for his SAM-16 sequencer, fixed filter banks and other fun stuff. Sebastian engineered the hardware, and Julius designed the software, and the result is this So as some "parting gifts" / compensation, Sebastian received one of the first Kraftwerk speech synths, and Julius received ONE of the FOUR MIDI Robovox units."

Published on Mar 16, 2013 RothHandle·1,500 videos

Recording bass on the Yamaha CS-60 with Necromonkey

Published on Mar 16, 2013 RothHandle·1,500 videos

"A short little work in progress video from the yesterdays Necromonkey session. We worked mostly on a track called Mod Midi (The first track I recorded using the Midi to Clock module in the system)

We are currently working on four eps that will be released over the next year.

If you are curious about the band or interested in getting a copy of our first album please drop a line to Necromonkeyness@gmail.com"

More CS-60 bass on Mod Midi ?

euro and Buchla

Published on Mar 15, 2013 cray56·154 videos

Vactrol Storm - Demo of Nyle Steiner's 24 Stage String Filter

Published on Mar 16, 2013 Mark Steiner·4 videos

"I learned recently of a sweepable 24 stage vactrol filter Nyle Steiner designed. He said he built about 12.

He found the one he has and plugged it in for the first time 15 years and we had a listen. It's just beautiful.

I told him I could find no information on line or even photos etc. of it and he let me borrow it to do a demo recording. This video is my demo of the device.

It was made to make violin/string sounds using it as a static filter with 24 band pass stages, but also can do some amazing effects with the stages being swept using 24 separate vactrols.

It's a pretty long, overproduced demo but I really wanted to capture a lot of aspects of this amazing filter. I played an A6 Andromeda, Steiner EVI, white noise, and also played a bovine acoustic simulation device into it (by popular request)."

Squeeze Ribbon Synthesizer - Modification of an Eowave Ribbon

Squeeze Ribbon Synthesizer - My modification of an Eowave Ribbon.

Published on Sep 30, 2012 Mark Steiner·4 videos

"Squeeze Ribbon. I added a squeeze nuance inducer to this Eowave Ribbon. More consistency of dynamics across a phrase of notes than the pressure sensor on the ribbon controller. This would be a great way to phrase an Ondes Martenot. This frees up the left hand for sound changes, another instrument, chords, hitchhiking etc.

A small pressure sensor should do the same thing, used this way, perhaps thumb against ring, or index finger or (as Dana Countryman suggested to me) thumb against the third finger. First test of this, could be refined but good proof of concept.

Special thanks to Nyle Steiner for adding CV routing into a Steiner EVI sound module to allow this and some other modifications I'm working on.

Have a look at 'ThePinesofMars.blogspot.com'."

Friday, March 15, 2013

Ruin Electronics TCG-1 Tone Cluster Generator Noise/Drone synth.

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Published on Mar 15, 2013 psyingo·23 videos

"The Ruin Electronics TCG-1 is a compact noise synth. The 'Tone Cluster' is a group of four Oscillators that can all be tuned with a single frequency control, but the oscillators can also be spread from the center frequency with the 'Spread' control. This gives great control over the four Oscillators using only two knobs. The oscillators can either be mixed in equal amounts or ring modded together. These modes are changed with a toggle switch. The Oscillator Frequency also has a CV input, labelled F CV that can be used with external gear. The output of the Oscillators is sent to the Filter. The Filter has Lowpass and Bandpass modes changed with a toggle switch.. There are knobs to control the Cutoff Frequency, and the Resonance. The Filter also has a CV input, labelled C CV.

The TCG-1 can either be powered by a 9v battery, found in the lid, or with an external center positive adapter from 12-18v."

via this auction

'This is the Ruin Electronics TCG-1 (Tone Cluster Generator). This is a one of a kind instrument. It was professionally built and designed by Ruin. The unit has been built into a wooden case with a hinged lid. The TCG-1 is new; no previous owners.

The TCG-1 is a 100% Analog compact noise synthesizer. The 'Tone Cluster' is a group of four Oscillators that can all be tuned with a single frequency control, but the oscillators can also be spread from the center frequency with the 'Spread' control. This gives great control over the four Oscillators using only two knobs. The oscillators can either be mixed in equal amounts or ring modded together. These modes are changed with a toggle switch. The Oscillator Frequency also has a CV input, labelled F CV that can be used with external gear. The output of the Oscillators is sent to the Filter. The Filter has Lowpass and Bandpass modes changed with a toggle switch.. There are knobs to control the Cutoff Frequency, and the Resonance. The Filter also has a CV input, labelled C CV.
The TCG-1 can either be powered by a 9v battery, found in the lid, or with an external center positive 2.1mm adapter from 12-18v.
The output from the TCG-1 is a 1/4" jack.

Space sounds, crackles, hums, percussion, alien speech, warbles, zaps, clangs, bangs, basslines, sequencer runs, rhythms. This is a great unit for performance, sampling, or just plain old fun!
Please see the video further down for a demonstration.
The units approximate measurements are:
7" width x 4" depth x 2.75" height

The unit features:

Tone Cluster VCO (Voltage Controlled Oscillator) There are 4 Square wave VCOs in the Cluster, which can be tuned with the Frequency control, and spread from the center frequency in pairs, with the spread control. When the knob is close to center, the oscillators are closest to the center frequency, when it is turned either CW or CCW two Oscillators will move up and the other two will move down in frequency. There is a switch to control Ring mod or Mixing mode.
Bandpass/Lowpass VCF (Voltage Controlled Filter). The filter is extremely resonant and will self oscillate. The VCF has a Frequency and Resonance control and a switch for Lowpass/Bandpass response.
CV inputs for VCF and Tone Cluster control. The CV inputs are 1/8" jacks.
1/4" Output
9V battery or DC adapter. With a choice of either 9V battery or external DC adapter the unit can be a portable unit for busking or impromptu outside jam sessions (when accompanied by a portable amplifier) or a studio piece. Featuring an on board regulator the unit will clean up any power source from 12-18V"