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Time for a Little Stretch...

You might notice the site looks a little bit different. No need to adjust your screen. You are now entering the MATRIXSYNTH ZONE...

The site was beginning to feel a bit narrow and compressed so I stretched it out a bit. No other changes were made, so those adverse to change (myself somewhat included), you will find everything where it is as usual. I hope you like it. If not, I hope it grows on you. :) It should make viewing videos, pics and everything for that matter better. Note old videos and image embeds will not resize as they are fixed size - it's what YouTube provides and how Blogger uploads pics, so unless I go and update the previous 106397 posts it's not going to happen. So... it's not going to happen. Vimeo embeds appear to play nice and resize, so that's good. Minor tweaks to the site template may follow.

Don Buchla Interview on San Fransisco Classical Voice

"Buchla began infusing new ideas into music not long after he graduated with a degree in physics from UC Berkeley in 1960. He found like minds close by at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, founded in the early 1960s by composers Morton Subotnick and Ramon Sender, with input from Pauline Oliveros. “I was borrowing the Center’s three-track tape recorder,” Buchla recalls. “I only had a one-track Wollensak, and I wanted to do mixes. They were working with electronic music, but they weren’t using any instruments. And I proposed making an instrument for music, specifically, and not just an adaptation of a laboratory instrument. I talked with Mort, he liked the idea, and they helped me design a system.”

Photo by Peter B Kaars
The result, dubbed the Buchla 100 series, began selling in 1966, and Subotnick made use of it on his Silver Apples of the Moon in 1967, the first electronic work commissioned by a record company (Nonesuch). Buchla found himself in competition, of sorts, with Robert Moog, a New York-based Ph.D. who’d hooked a synthesizer up to a keyboard in 1964, and had attracted major attention after his invention was showcased on Wendy/Walter Carlos’s popular Switched-On Bach LP (Columbia, 1968)."

Read the full interview on the San Fransisco Classical Voice here.

via I Dream of Wires on Facebook

Roland Vintage Synth M-VS1 "Faker"

(c) 2014 synthesizer demo track by RetroSound

all sounds: Roland Vintage Synth Module M-VS-1 (1995)
sequencing: Doepfer DarkTime step sequencer
recording: multitrack

via Marko on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Dreamy Sequence

Published on Feb 20, 2014 Human Koala·69 videos

René --o a156 transposed by pressure point
Hz Donut + stg wavefolder --o Qmmg
anti-osc --o Qmmg
Qmmg --o tyme sefari
Soft Reverb

via Human Koala on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Xynthesizr 1.1 Video Demos

Xynthesizr 1.1: Basic Features

Published on Feb 15, 2014 Yuri Turov·3 videos

More info: http://www.xynthesizr.com
Get it on the App Store:
Xynthesizr: 32-step matrix sequencer/synthesizer with generative features and MIDI - Yuri Turov

Xynthesizr 1.1: Some Presets

Published on Feb 15, 2014

"A demo of some of the songs and presets bundled with Xynthesizr for iPhone and iPod touch."

Xynthesizr 1.1: Virtual MIDI Jam using Thor, Sunrizer, ThumbJam and MoDrum

A short jam showcasing Xynthesizr's MIDI and transposition capabilities.

"Thor, Sunrizer and ThumbJam are all simultaneously sequenced by Xynthesizr using its notes to MIDI channel mapping feature. MoDrum is synced to Xynthesizr's MIDI clock."

Moog Circuit Bending Challenge 2014 - PART 3 for 'Haxxor Amstrad Synthesizer' (Feb 2014)

Published on Feb 20, 2014 Haxxor Soniq·41 videos

"This is Circuit Bending, otherwise known as the Art of Glitch....

Part 3 of my entry to the Moog Circuit Bending Competition 2014."

All parts here.

Irregular Machine

Irregular Machine from joseph fraioli on Vimeo.

"A patch exploring the shifting of trigger start points to create complex evolving patterns with preset sequencing of mutable instruments braids and the cyclonix shapeshifter .

Trigger sources used:

4ms Rotating Clock Divider/Rotating Clock Divider Break Out
4ms Shuffling Clock Multiplier/Shuffling Clock Multiplier Break Out
ALM Busy Circuits Pamela's Workout
(main clock source: Intellijel Dixie)

Sound sources used:

Kick: TipTop Audio BD808
Sub kick: Qu-Bit Nebulae (One Shot mode - kick sample made in WaveWarper)
Perc 1: Braids Meta Mode > TipTop Audio ZDSP Dragonfly Delay
Perc 2: Intellijel/Cyclonix Shapeshifter > Modcan Dual Frequency Shifter
Ratchety Hi Hat: Synthesis Technology E350
Pads: The Harvestman Piston Honda MKII > Serge resonant EQ > Make Noise Echophon > Flame FX6
End Karplus Plucked: Cyclonix Cyclebox > Make Noise Optomix > Mungo d0 > Mungo g0> Cwejman MMF-1

Reverb: Eventide H8000FW"

via Joseph Fraioli on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

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moonpatrol (demo remix)

Published on Feb 20, 2014 thevco·86 videos

"roland juno 60 doing the moonpatrol theme"

via Damon Flowers on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge as a follow-up to the recent Rotberg post.

Here's the original:

MOON PATROL arcade game by Irem 1982

Uploaded on May 8, 2008 manatsea·32 videos

"It's not about the gaming skills here, just trying to bring back some memories.
Player drives a moon buggy jumping over craters, rocks and land mines, shooting simultaneously at rocks in front and aliens above while dodging their missiles. Features very catchy background music and cute bouncing tires when the buggy is destroyed. Foreground and background terrain scroll at different rates giving the illusion of depth."

Roland Dimension D SDD-320, Spatial Chorus of a Special Kind

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via this auction

"inputs and outputs: Stereo balanced (XLR) and unbalanced TS
Can be used mono/stereo or stereo/stereo (switchable).
This Dimension D SDD-320 is in very good condition for its age and coming from a non-smoker environment. It was tested not long ago and performs simply great.
The sound is full and round, better than the emulations on the market. For those who need the original Dimension D effect there is only the hardware acceptable.
All switches work flawless. This SDD-320 has no dents or enclosure damages except a few scratches over the decades. The condition is visible on the non retouched photos
and I would even think it would be perfect as a collectors item."