MATRIXSYNTH

STOLEN GEAR ALERT! BUCHLA MUSIC EASEL - SAN FRANCISCO

via Derek Gedalecia/Headboggle:

"STOLEN!!! SAN FRANCISCO - My brand-new Buchla Music Easel was snatched out of my apartment entryway sometime in the last few days. I live in the Tenderloin district, San Francisco.

Only the suitcase was taken so if anyone gets a wild offer on an incomplete 'like-new/used' Music Easel, please let me know. Closed up, it looks like a normalish suitcase. Some patches and non-standard shorting bars are inside but no A/C or extras

I am offering a reward for return or information. Please contact me by phone or computer, (also pictured by coincidence)
headboggle@gmail.com

Remember: When a door is a jar, it's opened! .. And insure your stuff, like i didn't."

Be sure to see the stolen channel below for more.

Update via Derek:

"The coop venue I last played (that I had checked with before at least twice) located my Easel in pretty much the same condition at coop annex across the Bay.

Apparently there are a lot of people at both organizations so thanks to the help of the synth community, a friend of a friend of a friend recognized the synth in an e-waste/recycling/junk
pile.

Nearly 2 months after it disappeared, the Easel is back in my hands... just going to move on, what a strange and mysterious turn.

Love goes out and back to everyone out there

Best,
Derek"

"The story i'm given is that the venue i played at (which i had already checked with) didn't have it.. but then they closed down for renovations and a bunch of their coop donations got moved to a sister coop.. a lot of people at play here... it ended up as a junked item across the bay essentially until someone in the know took a look, contacted someone who contacted someone else.. then i got word finally today, ... it's been on the lam since June 7th...

Anyway,.. all's well that ends well... insure your stuff! and spread the word when it goes missing cuz you never know what might happen"

Faxi Nadu's Modular Crash Course

"We will be using the Sonic Core Scope DSP Platform and Modular System for this course. You absolutely do not need to own the system, as the concepts shown are valid for any modular system. Of course, you will get an in-depth look at the Scope Modular, and get acquainted with this very nice system. In the last session we will have a brief look at other systems like the Nord Modular G2 and the analog Eurorack (via webcam). Agenda - Basic layout and workflow of Scope DSP System - Why modular? - Differences between modular system concepts - Basic layout and workflow of Scope Modular System - Modular components and signal chain. - Modular tricks and unique modules We will get in depth and build a variety of machines while explaining how and why things are done. Goals of the course: - That you will feel much more comfortable with synthesis in general, and be able to understand better what is going on behind the scenes of any synth. - Getting you going in using modular synthesis. - Providing you with concepts and tools to take your own modular ideas to the next level. - Getting you addicted :)"

via Psy Nina on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Roland MKS80 Super Jupiter Synthesizer with MPG80 Programmer

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Make Noise Echophon

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"Pitch Shifting Echo with smooth Time Modulation, Tempo Sync, saturating Feedback and a unique Pitch Shifting algorithm inspired by the Springer Tempophon and lovingly engineered by DSP Guru Tom Erbe of soundhack . "...the most inspiring module of the year." -Electronic Musician.
•Shift Pitch of signal +/- 2 Octaves
•Exponential control of delay time -Maximum Time 1.7 Seconds, Minimum Time 7 ms
•Tempo input allows synchronization of Echoes to multiple or division of an external Clock
•Two independent internal digital Feedback paths (Loop 1 and Loop 2)
•External Analog Feedback Path for filtered or processed echoes
•FREEZE button/ gate input allows for hold, stutter and sampling techniques
•24 bit ADC/DAC, 32bit processing, 16bit delay storage operating at 40khz
•Vactrol based Mix circuit for smooth blending of dry and wet signals
•All Analog Dry Signal Path
•voltage Control over ALL parameters
•Pairs well with the Phonogene"

Brian Eno's The Fat Lady of Limbourg for the Raspberry Pi

"Here's an updated version of Eno's favourite chubby girl, but rendered with a slimline synthesis model. All in an attempt to get this runnable on a single Raspberry Pi. This uses the non-oversampled synth, so everything is computed at 44.1kHz. It's using the newer variant of the BPCVO model, and I've redone all the synth presets to remove the filter on everything pitched to eliminate that particular computation burden. And there are tricks you can play to bring back a 'filtery' sound - for example, morphing from sin to saw or sin to square sounds like a filter opening up as harmonics get introduced, and that trick has been exploited to turn the pair of 'Brass' into pure 1980s digital filter-free synthesis. But despite the trick (early ramp via EG to morph from sin to saw, giving a harmonic enrichening over the first 100ms or so of the sound) you simply can't replace a filter with tricks, so the sounds do suffer as a result. But hey, no free lunches here, the goal was to make it burn less CPU and still get a decent sound. So the 'Fat Lady' bass has also gone filterless, ditto the Warm Jets 'guitar', ditto Phil's Wiggly Manzanera. The percussive elements remain filtered as they just have to be, they rely on the resonant filter to generate anything at all apart from hissy noise.

But after the filter removal and the performance tuning, this version now runs in exactly 24% of an iPad 2. It may actually run on a Pi in this form. Really, there is a damn good chance that £20 of woefully underpowered educational computer will be able to synthesize this in real time, without resorting to a Pocket Orchestra. Bear in mind, 'this' is now 14 notes of polyphony, many stereo delays (seven? eight??), a global reverb and 10 separate synths.

Audio was captured from the iPad and not processed in any way, these are exactly the bytes that I computed. Cool, eh? Plus, big bonus, you get the Eerie Noise - which is actually a combination of a dedicated 'Eerie Noise' synth and the pair of brasses, turned way down and pitch bent to buggery. Yay!

Next step - get this codebase rebuilt on a Pi and actually run it."

And the original:

noisering anti-oscillator boogie LPG mutable drums kaossilator

Published on Jun 18, 2014 heodesalciphron·240 videos

"just repeared my wiard noisering by changing a faulty IC, time to jam with, pure love for making mutables sequences on the fly, quantized by megawave"

improvising from scratch

Published on Jun 18, 2014 millolab·52 videos

"Headphones highly recomended

this is all played Live from scratch.

Gear used: Waldorf Blofeld, Arturia Microbrute, Elektron Machinedrum, Akai mpc500 as main sequencer, Korg Ms2000, Clavia Nord Modular G2 and DSI Tetr4. Hardwire DL7 and RV8 were used on the Tetra."

Got Random? - A Serge Modular Synthesizer Tutorial

Published on Jun 18, 2014 Doug Lynner·23 videos

"Use a Serge Smooth and Stepped Function Generator to create a random voltage generator.

Though this is illustrated on a Serge the concepts apply to many modular synthesizers. Let me know how you apply this on your modular synthesizer.

To see the modules used in this patch in detail see the Mystery Serge at http://www.serge.synth.net/gallery/dl....

Doug's website is http://www.neatnetnoise.com.

Interact with Doug:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1LRX...
https://soundcloud.com/doug-4
https://www.facebook.com/doug.lynner"

Korg KR 55 Drum Machine with Midi & seperate output mods

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via the seller: "This was produced by Korg & was one of the last preset drum machines produced.It had 96 patterns plus fills.The sounds are all analogue & have a TR 808 sort of sound (if you never heard it before).

If you are a Depeche Mode fan then you will certainly have heard this on their early recordings,the snare & Hi Hat sounds being especially prominent.

I bought this unit back in the early 2000's & had it modified by Analogue Solutions to accept midi triggering (also has a Midi thru) & provide separate outputs for the most useful sounds."