MATRIXSYNTH

Introducing Auxy for iPad

Published on Oct 29, 2014 Auxy

"Modern beat making without distraction
Download free from the App Store: http://appstore.com/auxy
Let us know what you think: feedback@auxy.co or https://twitter.com/auxyco"

"Introducing a new way to make electronic music. Create your own drums, bass lines, and synth melodies. Auxy is modern beat making without distractions."

DreDrum & Maths

Published on Oct 29, 2014 mCKENIC

"A quick & dirty demo of the Buranelectrix DreDrum & Makenoise Maths for my Wiggler friend plastilina/Gerardo.

Maths CH4 is set to cycle and the EOC (on CH4) out is going to Ch1's Trig in. The OR output is triggering the DreDrum and sweeping from Log to Lin on CH1 speeds up the triggers. I hope you can see the Maths set-up at the end of the video, the lighting makes everything a little blurry (sorry).

The DreDrum is a FANTASTIC module and capable of much more than I demonstrated here. I hope to pick-up a 2nd. If it had cv over the pots/osc switches and individual as well as mix outs... it would be to die for! As it is it is a brilliant 3 voice perc, noise, osc and at a bargain price!"

Modular Jam #2 with Analog Four and Maschine - "Creepy Shadow Monsters"

Published on Oct 29, 2014 Matt Keenan

"Free download of the track: http://music.mattkeenan.co.uk/track/c...

Equipment used:

- Elektron Analog Four
- Native Instruments Maschine
- Intellijel Metropolis, Atlantis
- Grayscale Synapse
- 4ms Shuffling Clock Multiplier (and breakouts)
- Synthrotek Sequence 8, Echo
- Make Noise Maths, Pressure Points, MMG
- Music Thing Modular Mikrophonie
- Doepfer A-143-4 Quad VCLFO/LFO

For the bass, clock comes from Analog Four through Synapse and 4ms SCM, to Metropolis. Pitch and gate goes to Atlantis. Pretty basic setting on Atlantis, just a bit of FM on the filter. The output goes to MMG then audio interface.
Metropolis has two auxiliary modulations. One comes from Pressure Points, which changes the octave. The other is from Sequence 8, transposing the notes. Sequence 8 is being triggered by CV trigs on the A4, so I can have a pattern which stays on the root note and doesn't trigger the transpose.

The echoey rattling comes from Mikrophonie, into Echo and out to audio interface. The rate on Echo is modulated by the Doepfer LFO through Maths for attenuation.

The other synth parts are on Analog Four, being muted and unmuted, and modulated by a few performance macros.

Drums on Maschine."

Sequential Switch Swing Clock (COTK C 962C)

Published on Oct 29, 2014 alternatingbitmusic

"Another use for the Club of the Knobs Sequential Switch is using it almost like a clock divider. Here I have two different pulse rates via an LFO, having a 3rd LFO sine wave determine the rate of channel switch, all pumping into the CLOCK IN on the SympleSEQ."

Volca Keys Acid 'Acidious Dorianski at the Volca River' KP3, Electribe + MT25d (Monotribe multimod)

Published on Oct 29, 2014 Arrayzable

"A little track that I have been been playing for a little while now.
On advice from 'Neon Horn' I have tried to vary the drums a little more than in my last couple of tracks.
On advice from 'The Phantoms Guest' I have tried exploiting this new modern thing called STEREO a bit more :D

Personally I enjoy playing this track very much - I hope you'll enjoy listening to it!

As always one take live session - No DAW.
This track was recorded on the miniKP2

Dedicated to my wife who puts up with my constant synth music playing and reading Jules Verne books!

Graphics and blinking colours on the television screen in the back ground is all by me and my awesome BASIC V2 programming skills on my Commodore 64 :D"

Audulus 2.9 Improves Contextual UI

Audulus 2.9 from Taylor Holliday on Vimeo.

"Audulus 2.9 adds the ability to hide the toolbar on iOS and operate the app via contextual menus. 'What you see is what you’ve built,' says developer Taylor Holliday. 'This is particularly useful on iPhone where screen space is limited.'

Audulus is a minimalist modular software synthesizer and effects processor. With Audulus, users can build synthesizers, design new sounds, or process audio. All with low latency real-time processing suitable for live performance.

Audulus 2.9 upgrades include:

- Non-Modal context menu on iPad. The menu won’t interfere with turning a knob.
- Reduced memory usage for making huge patches.
- Updated AudioBus
- Improved AudioUnit support on Mac
- By user request: add a Toggle option for the Trigger node.

Audulus for iOS is available on the App Store for $14.99. An iPhone 4s or iPad 2 is required.

Audulus for Mac is available on the Mac App Store for $29.99. Mid 2010 or later Mac is required.

Audulus for iOS can be used as a stand-alone instrument or in conjunction with Audulus for Mac, for a round-trip workflow between platforms. Users can begin a patch on one platform and finish it on another – iPad, iPhone or Mac – since Audulus syncs user patches via iCloud.

For more information, visit audulus.com."

iTunes: Audulus - Wilson Holliday
Mac Store: Audulus - Wilson Holliday

Ambient Progressive Jam (Moog Nord Prophet Tempest)

Published on Oct 29, 2014 Mitch Wiseman

"Nord released a new piano patch, mellow upright, so I thought I would try it out. Prophet and tempest provide string type pad sounds in the background. The moog is going through an MXR carbon copy, pretty much everything is going through valhalla reverb plugin."

1985 Doepfer Sound-Sampler German Ad

via synthmuseum.de

This is the ad for the Doepfer CV/Gate controlled modular sound sampler featured here. That one went up for auction back in 2007. You'll find some additional details in the post. The system was meant to be used with the Commodore 64 (C64).

Note this ad is from roughly 30 years ago. Doepfer's first ad was from the year before in 1984, also for the Sound-Sampling system, featured on synthemuseum.de here (previously posted here). I reached out to Dieter Doepfer asking him if this was the first eurorack module. He replied:

"Yes and no. The dimensions of the frontpanels of the Sound Sampler and the VMS (Voice Modular System) were already the same as what is now called eurorack. But the bus was different. Each pcb had a fixed dimension (100x160 mm) with a 64 pin edge connector. I realized that this standard would waste a lot of needless pcb space and the connectors were very expensive. Not to mention the costs for the bus board (about US$250-300 for each 84 HP bus board). So I developed another idea:

variable pcb space (i.e. only the required area of pcb space)
16 pin bus
variable length of the connection between module and bus by using a 16 pin ribbon cable (later also 10 pin if +5V, CV and Gate are not required)

The sound sampler was available also as a book published by ELEKTOR (with schematics, pcb and front panel layout, software for C64 and so on). ELEKTOR is the same publisher who published the FORMANT synthesizer."

Dieter Doepfer stated he still has a working version of the original Sound-Samplers.

For a timeline of Doepfer products, see here.