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Arturia Introduces the V-Collection 4 - Matrix 12 V, Solina, Spark 2 and Vox Continental V

Published on Dec 2, 2014

"Arturia releases the V-Collection 4 including new software instruments: Matrix 12 V, Solina, Spark 2 and Vox Continental V."

Arturia introduces Matrix 12 V

Arturia Matrix 12 V tutorial part 1

Published on Dec 2, 2014

"Glen Darcey, VP Product Management, takes you on a tour around the Matrix 12 V."

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Buchla Christmas by Warner Jepson

"SHINKOYO is very proud to release for the first time ever, a most auspicious recording, Warner Jepson's Buchla Christmas. I'll let Warner explain it in his own words...

San Francisco Bay Area: 1969

"I'd been playing Buchla music in various galleries for openings, as well as MOMA openings. They liked them enough, since the music gave a good time, was infectious and totally new to people. So MOMA asked me to provide music for their annual Christmas party for Children on a Saturday morning.

So I took off one evening for Mills College where the Buchla now was kept to take up my usual time time slot of 8pm. At the time use of the Tape/Buchla room was very loose; I could stay as long as I liked after the building closed at 10; sometimes I would be there almost till dawn. There were times, however, when I'd go back home at midnight dejected at having found nothing exciting.

This night I was already across the Bay Bridge when I realized I hadn't brought any Christmas music, no carols! I was going to have to remember what I could. Turned out I knew enough of them to play with.

The Buchla doesn't' have a keyboard like a piano (with twelve notes to the octave), just slits in a metal plate with two tuning knobs to give each slit a pitch or a pair of pitches. I didn't have to reconstruct all twelve notes of a scale, just the notes needed in the song. Tuning what few notes I needed for each tone was fairly easy. But one carol sounded like church bells because it one of the notes sounded out of tune as some church bells because their tuning doesn't fit with a tempered tuning so goes out of tune with the other notes. At first I thought this a problem, but since it did resemble church bells it decided it added to the charm. Other sounds reminded me of lighter caroling bells as I imagined in old Germany or the Alps, at least, as I remembered hearing them.

The most pleasure came when I incorporated the sequencing module that gave a tune rhythm that it never had nor would have, since it came from a synthesizer with a different kind of creativity that a human wouldn't have. The unusual rhythm added a kick to the carol.

I didn't have enough carols to make a long enough session so I added here and there, especially at the end, some synthesizer music that I'd previously made on the Buchla that sounded shimmering and might evoke a starry sleigh filled night."

credits
released 15 December 2010
Composed, Arranged, and Recorded by Warner Jepson at Mills College Electronic Music Studios. December 1969, Oakland, California. Composed on the Buchla 100 Analog Modular Synthesizer. Recorded to Ampex PR-10 Tape Recorder.

Cover photograph by Warner Jepson. Design & Typography by Severiano Martinez.

www.shinkoyo.com"

Image of Warner Jepson below back in the day via Synthtopia.

Korg MS-20 Mini - Drum Synthesis Tutorial Videos by WaveAlchemySamples

Published on Nov 28, 2014 WaveAlchemySamples

"Sound designer Matt Urmenyi offers tips and advice on how to synthesise kick drums with analogue synthesis, using a Korg MS-20 Mini."

Playlist:
Korg MS-20 Mini - Drum Synthesis Part 1 - Kick Drum
Korg MS-20 Mini - Drum Synthesis Part 2 - Snare Drum
Korg MS-20 Mini - Drum Synthesis Part 3 - Cymbals
Korg MS-20 Mini - Drum Synthesis Part 4 - Toms
Korg MS-20 Mini - Drum Synthesis Part 5 - Congas

KORG MS20 Minis on eBay

Giant ARP 2600 Booth at NAMM in the 70s

via Control Voltage

"ARP 2600 booth at The NAMM Show, circa sometime in the 70's."

Minimal Glitch - Modular Improv

Published on Dec 2, 2014 Modular Cult

"This patch started out as a single voice sequence. Ended up as an experiment in using gate signals as audio sources.

An output of the 4MS RCD is used as a audio source, along with some enveloped white noise to make the rhythmic glitches. Also the stuttering 'ghost' of the main sequence is produced by modulating the sine wave output of the main VCO with another output of the RCD through a Yusynth Balanced Modulator. The result is filtered by a CGS 1973 Serge VCF."

Musikmesse 2002 – Bob Moog

Published on Dec 2, 2014 Sven Steglich

"Bei einem Spaziergang am Aufbautag 12.03.2002 auf der Musikmesse Frankfurt habe ich auch zufällig Bob Moog in 3 kurzen Einstellungen festgehalten."

Googlish:

"During a walk on set-up day 12.03.2002 at Musikmesse Frankfurt I also happened to Bob Moog held in 3 short shots."

Tonetest

Published on Dec 2, 2014 zack dagoba

"Testing out a self playing patch on the Serge and Buchla 100 for a new project. See http://myblogitsfullofstars.blogspot.... for more"

OP-1 Monkey Jam

Published on Oct 14, 2014 Nupfi-Катзе

"I got the chance to get my hands on an OP-1, so here is what I came up with after a little jamming. :) It's a fun little "DAW-in-a-box"; if you see one on Ebay, go ahead and get it! ;)

Video was clearly inspired by retro video game tunes...
I was using Cuckoo's fantastic 8-Bit patches in this vid.
You can get it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZjNB..." [embed below]

CUCKOO - OP1 NES 8-bit presets and tunes

Published on Jun 4, 2012 cuckoomusic .

"Support me here: http://www.cuckoo.no

For more on CUCKOO: subscribe.
Just made some 8-bit presets and tunes on the OP-1 this weekend. Couldn't resist playing some old classics like Metroid, Megaman, Castlevania, Zelda 2 and Balloonfight. :)
To download the presets, go to:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3..."