Electribe 2 - meet me in montauk (cover) & deep house

Published on Jan 15, 2015 john bree

"First cover on new electribe"

Korg Electribe2s on eBay


Electribe 2, first deep house try

Submersive sublime sounds

Published on Jan 15, 2015 rezzy blips

"Triton dolphin string jam thought if my listener are in a chilled mood they should like this as I have expanded to a new synth"

Roland Airas on eBay

do what

Published on Jan 13, 2015

"stay tuned for more all animation and music by spen"

Wha' da funk.

Modular Synth - Turing Machine Sequencer + Bytes

Published on Jan 15, 2015 isvisible / isinvisible

"Turing Machine with Bytes expander.

2 cv outputs from Turing to the Doepfer A-156 Quantizer.

Klee sequencer. CV output A controlling the transpose of the A-156. CV output B controlling sequence length in Turing Machine via Bytes.

1 cv output from Turing to cv A-106-6 filter.

2 x Doepfer A-110 oscillators. One for bassline, one for melody.

Doepfer A-106-6 filter for melody.

Doepfer A-101-2 LPG for bassline.

One output from A-106-6 to Ibanez AD-202 Analog Delay (rackmount), stereo out.

One output from A-106-6 to Synthesis Technology E580 Delay, stereo out.

Two outputs from A-106-6 to Tip-Top ZDSP with Shimmer Reverb loaded, stereo out.

Drums provided by Touched by Sound Syncussion DRM-1, triggered by Mutable Instruments 'Grids'.

The Rainbow Turing Machine was originally built by Eli at Circuit Shaman, he also did the Bytes upgrade for me. Top notch build and service.
www.circuitshaman.com

www.isvisible.co.uk"

Dapayk's Live Setup (Elektron Octatrack, Rytm, Analog Four, Arturia Microbrute)

Published on Dec 14, 2014 Dapayk Solo

"This short video shows my live setup and is the start of a series of under-3mins-videos, we call 'The Nerd Sessions'. ;)"

Elektrons on eBay

Dapayk & the Teenage Engineering OP 1

Published on Jan 15, 2015 Dapayk Solo

For those on headphones, there are some pops/clicks at the start of this one.

"Sunny winter day in Berlin... looping around with the OP-1"

via musikgear

HARMS MAC16 MIDI Analog Converter

Here's one from obscure synth history. I found this on Florian Anwander's website when updating this post.  This is the first post on MATRIXSYNTH to ever feature the HARMS brand.

"The Harms MAC16 is a rare MIDI-to-CV/Gate converter which was made by a small one man company Harms in Hamburg Germany in the late nineties. The original price was around 1250 Deutschmarks (about 600 Euro). It provides 16 channels, which can be configured for any kind of MIDI to analog conversion. Basically there are five modes:

VCO (CV) - which converts note data, pitchbend into either Oct/V or Hz/V Voltage. Portamento can be added. There is also the possibility of microtuning, octave spread (for mistuned or non standard synths!), pitch offset and keyboardsplit zones

VCF - converts basically the note info into a voltage; then a SoftEnvelope, a SoftLFO, and one MIDI controller (modwheel or aftertouch) can be added; the amount of the envelope and/or the controller can be controlled by the velocity of the corresponding note. The converter channel can get its information either from a MIDI channel in general (using the last note) or can be assigned to a dedicated VCO-channel for polyphonic setups (* see below); keyboard splitzones are possible

VCA - same as VCF, only with other name

Aux - same as VCF, only with other name

Lite - similar as VCF, but no assignment to a dedicated VCO

Gate/Trigger - creates a gate (positive or inverted) from a note on event. Again it can use either the last note information from all notes of one MIDI-Channel or it can be assigned to a dedicated VCO-channel for polyphonic setups (* see below); splitzones are possible too of course
DIN-Sync out from MIDI-Clock"

See Florian Anwander's page on the Harms MAC16 for a pdf of the manual and more.

Baumann BME-700 - Ultra Rare German Synthesizer from 1976

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via this auction

This is the only BMD-700 I have ever seen for sale. There was a general post on the BME-700 back in 2006 here, and there was actually a software emulation of the BME-700 posted here. There is only one other BME post which features the Rattlesnake here.

This is as rare as it gets.

Ultra Rare E-Pro Spirit Vintage Dutch Analog Synthesizer

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via this auction

Googlish:

"The Spirit is working properly and is in very good technical and optical condition

This is a real rarity only very few prototypes were made by the Dutch manufacturer E-pro.

Epro was a Dutch producer who had also built the little-known and lesser "Minisynth"

Wurdem built by Minisynth still about 40 h, the Spirit was but a few prototypes much less frequently (not to be confused with Crumar Spirit)

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Chord-Trigger for Korg Polysix and Poly61

Chord-Trigger for Korg Polysix and Poly61 from Florian Anwander on Vimeo.

"This is a demo of an addon module for the Korg Polysix and the Korg Poly61. The addon establishes a trigger input, which triggers the played voices of the synth if an external trigger signal is provided. If no cable is inserted in the trigger input, the synth will behave normally.

This is still a prototype, and the final version will look a little bit different.The addon module will be available as kit and as complete module.

To add the module to the Polysix/Poly61 good skills in desoldering chips are required. It is easily possible to remove the kit and to bring the synth back to the original state.

If you are interested in the module, please visit http://fa.utfs.org/diy/korgpolysix/. As soon as I will have the final version, I will announce it there."

Update: the following are some other projects by Florian Anwander:

Most well known are the Korg Monopoly Modifications (and the simplified adjustment procedure)
http://fa.utfs.org/diy/korg_monopoly/index.html
http://fa.utfs.org/diy/korg_monopoly/modifications.html
http://fa.utfs.org/diy/korg_monopoly/vco_adjustment.html

Modifications for the Jupiter 6:
* adoption of the signal level to the resonance
* linear FM for the Crossmodulation
* Filter-FM
http://fa.utfs.org/diy/rolandjp6/
(I can put the sound examples to soundcloud, so you can include them easier)

A very simple addition of a LED to the voicecards of Yamaha CS50/60/80, which makes it much easier to tune the synth.
http://fa.utfs.org/diy/yamaha_cs60/

A DIN-Sync to Trigger-Module
http://fa.utfs.org/diy/a100/sync2clock/
It can be used as 3HU modul or as module in other boxes. Like in a CR-78
http://fa.utfs.org/diy/rolandcr78/cr78_DINSync_interface/ (this one is with a prototype board, but meanwhile I have a complete pcb)

Other information that might be interesting is

about the Harms MAC-16, a rare 16-Channel MIDI-CV/Gate converter
http://fa.utfs.org/diy/harms_mac16/

a overview about all analog roland filters:
http://fa.utfs.org/diy/roland_filters/

the service manual for the Akai S-612
and also some information about the rare multisampling option for the S-612
http://fa.utfs.org/diy/akai_s612/"

CME Xkey37 Arrives in Time for NAMM

Announced last year at the Musikmesse, it appears the CME Xkey37 poly aftertouch keyboard controller is finally arriving.

Aside from the extra octave, the Xkey37 adds a new Xport connector for:

MIDI OUT (DIN-5 through Xcable).
Sustain Pedal input (6.35mm (1/4") jack through Xcable).
Expression Pedal input (6.35mm (1/4") jack through Xcable).

Note the original Xkey was USB only.  The new MIDI cable should make using the Xkey37 with stand alone desktop synths possible, however being USB bus powered, I'm guessing you will have to have it connected to a USB power source at the same time.

Dimensions

Width: 553 mm (21.77 in)
Height: 135 mm (5.31 in)
Depth: 16 mm (0.62 in)
Weight: only 880 g (1.94 lb) - 20% lighter than a 11-inch MacBook Air!

CME XKeys on eBay