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MATRIXSYNTH NAMM 2014: Dubreq Stylophone Pics

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MATRIXSYNTH NAMM 2014: Moog Music Booth Pics

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MATRIXSYNTH NAMM 2014: Monome ALEPH Looper Pics

You can find more info on the ALEPH via previous posts here.

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MATRIXSYNTH NAMM 2014: Dave Smith Instruments Booth Pics

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MATRIXSYNTH NAMM 2014: Elektron Booth Pics

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MATRIXSYNTH NAMM 2014: Buchla Booth Pics

This was definitely one of the biggest surprises for me this year at NAMM. The largest problem with any hardware modular system is the inability to save patches. Once you create something, you have to give it up to the ether to move onto the next patch. The Buchla 200e introduced the ability to store knob settings, but not patched cable points. The card you see pictured on the Music Easel allows you to save both knob settings and patch points. It stores 10 presets. You can then create and save as many patches as you like on a dedicated iPad app and then load any patch you want to the card over wireless. You can watch a video overview by Todd Barton in this post. The technology, minus the software of course, existed with the original Music Easel back in 1973, but then you had to literally solder the patch settings in a card. You can see one of the cards pictured here has "Figure 21 Variation" written on it. That's actually a Buchla patch by Allen Strange who wrote the manual for the original Buchla Music Easel as well as Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques, and Controls.

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MATRIXSYNTH NAMM 2014: Big City Music Booth & Aerosmith Pics

Highlights included Tiptop Audio, Future Retro, Surfin Kangaroo, Dewanatron, Analogue Systems and Metasonix. Note the prototype panning by Surfin Kangaroo. It has 8 Audio Inputs and a couple of outputs. You can configure it as an 8 in 4 out / 4 in 8 out / 2 in 16 out / 1 in 32 out. The black panel under it is just there to cover the rack and is not part of the module.

Don't miss Aerosmith's Steven Tyler. :)

Update: added some info on the Surfin Kangaroo prototype. It's actually a panning system, not a sequencer.

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MATRIXSYNTH NAMM 2014: Radikal Technologies Booth Pics

RADIKAL TECHNO pic on purpose. :) Jörg Schaaf got a kick out that.

Update: see this post for a video from Keyboard Magazine covering the updates to the Radikal Technologies Accelerator including, "unisono mode" to fatten up sounds, MIDI out support for the sequencer & arp for external synths, and the ability to save complete FX chains. via Jörg Schaaf on Facebook:

"In version 1.70 it's now possible to save complete FX chains independent from the sound programs. That is especially great when using the Accelerator for external sound processing like in my guitar example from 2013."

Accelerator sounds, FXs and external signal processing

Published on Feb 13, 2013 Jörg Schaaf·25 videos

"Listen to some of the Accelerator preset sounds and check the cool FX algorithms which are perfect for external instruments like guitar or bass."