MATRIXSYNTH


Monday, February 10, 2014

F5D - Waldorf Microwave XTk Demos



"Starting from one of the preset performances, evolving to scifi soundscapes. This is my favourite digital synthesizer beside Nord Lead 3."

"Playing some pads with Waldorf Microwave XT for the last time before the end of the year, and before handing it over to a new owner. The sound goes through TC D-Two reversed echo, LX480 reverb, EMI TG limiter, Flux Stereo tool and Sonnox Limiter."

This one in via Soviet Space Child

Red Roland Sh-101

Note: Auction links are affiliate links for which the site may be compensated.

via eBay

1973 MOOG MUSIC MINIMOOG MODEL D with Original Suitcase

Note: Auction links are affiliate links for which the site may be compensated.

via eBay

"It has just been serviced, calibrated and PAT-tested by James Walker at Synth Repair Services. The keyboard contacts, pots and switches have been cleaned and the power supply recapped. It has been converted from 110v to 240v operation (this is easily reversible).

Dating from late 1973, this instrument is in excellent original condition - it has the early oscillator and filter boards (many of the pcbs are RA Moog boards). It comes in the original suitcase (which is missing its original foam - presumably long since deteriorated) and has a full complement of original literature: owner's manual, Tom Rhea Sound Charts booklet and unused user patch charts tear-off pad - all in excellent condition."

mutable instruments anushri 48 (in pittsburgh Cell 48 case)


Published on Feb 10, 2014 heodesalciphron·182 videos

http://www.dendrobate-magnetique.org/...

teardown and look inside moog minimoog voyager analog synthesiser keyboard


Published on Feb 10, 2014 markusfuller·6 videos

"A quick look inside and partial teardown of the bob moog minimoog analog synthesiser voyager electric blue . sorry there is a bit of out of focus in a few parts."

Also see the Prophet 12 teardown here.

Update via Qwave in the comments: "He is wrong on the number of user presets: you can use every memory slot for your own patches. That is 7 Banks (A to G) of 128 memory locations each. So 896 possible user preset memory slots. Happy patch creating. "

Roland FA-08 With Ed Diaz


Published on Feb 10, 2014 Synthtopia·6 videos

"Roland product specialist Ed Diaz demonstrated the new Roland FA-08 keyboard workstation for us at the 2014 NAMM Show, and addressed some reader questions along the way."

Light Face KORG RCA Victor Tribute M-500 Micro-Preset Vintage Analog Synth


via eBay

This isn't something you see everyday.

"Up for sale is Korg M-500 Micro-Preset vintage analog synthesizer, one of the most earliest and rarest synths Korg produced in the '70s. This one is a super rare version that Korg made under the name of Victor, which has different coloring to the genuine Korg M-500, although the synth itself are exactly the same."

I don't believe I've ever seen one of these before.  Note the RCA logo to the left of Victor. The Victor was the RCA Synthesizer.  You can watch a video on the history of The RCA Synthesizer here. Also see the RCA channel at the bottom of this post for more. Cool to see KORG pay tribute like that so many years ago.

Make Noise Rene as NonLinear Quantizer


Published on Feb 10, 2014 MAKEN0ISE·34 videos

"Demonstration of the Make Noise Rene Cartesian sequencer, used to quantize external voltages by CV-addressing the X-CV input in Snake mode. Since each location's value can be set independently, quantization can be as linear or non-linear as you prefer.

See James Cigler's excellent "Rene 101: Charming the Snake" for more info about Snake Mode" [posted here]

Eowave Capsule Titan Double Demo


Published on Feb 10, 2014 analoguezone·16 videos

http://analoguezone.com

"Patch #1

Oberkorn sequencer gate out - ADSR gate input
RAYONNEMENT ADSR output - Filter CV input

2x Discrete Oscillator Square outputs - Mixer input
Mixer output - MAGNETOSPHERE 24 dB Low Pass Filter input
1x Zone BF LFO triangle output - Oscillator PWM input


Patch #2

1x Zone BF LFO Random waveform output - multipled with TipTop Audio Stack Cable -
- 24 dB Low Pass Filter audio + CV inputs - filter in self-oscillation
- VCA input"

Program Change Matrix-1000 & JX-10 Sample Packs

You'll find them at the Program Change website here.
The following are a two demos and some details captured for the post.



"800 instant, high resolution sampled instruments taken from Matrix-1000, greatest sound module of the classic Oberheim world.

Legendary synth manufacturer, Oberheim had a wonderful plan in the late eighties: they developed a relatively cheap synth module with all the analogue goodies they had at the time (yes, fine oscillators and filters), give them a MIDI control and tons of preset sounds covering every sound style their instruments ever produced.

The result was Matrix-1000, and it fulfilled all the dreams with some exceptions. Its sound was as huge as an Oberheim should have, and they let it fly with 800 preset sound programs (plus 200 rewritable memory slot). But the control was not so perfect, you cannot edit the unit itself at all, and starting an external editor was also a pain due to the very slow microprocessor Matrix-1000 had."




"145 ready-to-play, high resolution sampled instruments recorded directly from Roland’s last analog classic, JX-10 a.k.a. Super JX.

In the mid-eighties Roland produced their most perfect analog machine of all times, the JX10 synthesizer, also known as Super JX. Structurally it was equivalent of two JX-8P synthesizer packed together in a single box, with wider, 76 note keyboard – but its fans loved it way many more than any of the JX-8P user loved his own instrument.

Super JX used up 2 x 2 oscillators for every patch combination you call up from the front panel – a so-called upper and lower unit of two sound boards. This resulted so huge, fat sound which is hard to describe. And they used the company’s best oscillators, followed by an excellent high or low pass filter which wasn’t too far from the ones found in the outrunning Jupiter series.

The only Achilles point was the lame MIDI implementation – but some experienced users solved the numerous problems and released an EPROM hack which made the instrument really usable."
PREVIOUS PAGE NEXT PAGE HOME



Switched On Make Synthesizer Evolution Vintage Synthesizers Creating Sound Fundlementals of Synthesizer Programming Kraftwerk

© Matrixsynth - All posts are presented here for informative, historical and educative purposes as applicable within fair use.
MATRIXSYNTH is supported by affiliate links that use cookies to track clickthroughs and sales. See the privacy policy for details.
MATRIXSYNTH - EVERYTHING SYNTH