Arturia Beatstep Pro & Elastic Drums & Minibrute & Meeblip Anode session

Published on Sep 25, 2015

"Elastic Drums is delivering the master clock for Arturia Beatstep Pro which is playing the 2 'melodic' lines of Arturia Minibrute and Meeblip Anode. Meeblip is connected via Beatstep's midi out, the Minibrute is connected to Beatstep's analog gate and pitch outputs. Unfortunately the knobs I am tweaking on the Minibrute are out of view, but I am basically playing with the filter settings."

iTunes: Elastic Drums - O-G-SUS

Live Set.26_RECIPROK_ - Ant GM - Octatrack + Machinedrum + Blofeld

Published on Sep 25, 2015 Ant GM

Stargate

Published on Sep 25, 2015 davidryle

"An electronic music performance with a modular synthesizer and the Casio Privia PX-5S.
Recorded real-time into Cubase. Video edited in Final Cut Pro.
Inspired by the asterism called Stargate. A great binocular or small telescope object to observe."

ARPIE - MIDI Arpeggiator [Main Features]

Published on Sep 25, 2015 midierror

"The ARPIE is a harware arpeggiator designed by Jason Hotchkiss. It has an insane amount of features as covered in the ARPIE online manual http://six4pix.com/arpie/manual.html

Currently available in kit form, it is soon to be available as a finished product. Watch this space!

These are some of the main ones."

::vtol:: Ra

::vtol:: Ra from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

"Ra is a sound object / synthesizer which uses laser for scanning the irregularities of the surface of the pyrite disc and further transforms this data to produce sound. Pyrite disc is a rare form of pyrite which is crystallised in radial shape (as unusual disc spherulites) which also was named ‘pyrite suns’ or ‘pyrite dollars’. The only deposit where pyrites of such morphology are found is in Illinois state (USA). Pyrite suns were formed around 300 million years ago.

more information and images - http://vtol.cc/filter/works/Ra"

"This project originated as a result of an interesting set of circumstances – a pyrite disc was given to me as a gift by a mineral seller in Boulder city (USA). Upon hearing about my works, she asked to do something with such crystal, and refused to take payment for getting it. In the same period, I was reading articles on various ways of archiving and preservation of sounds from the first, historical sources of the recorded sound – wax discs and other fragile carriers. All technologies were based on the usage of lasers. Inspired by these projects, I set out to create a self-made laser sound reader which would be able to produce sound from various uneven surfaces, using minimal resources to achive it. Thus emerged the idea to construct an instrument using the pyrite disc and a self-made laser sound reader.

The realisation of the object became possible thanks to the commission of the Sound Museum in St.-Petersburg which has it in its collection now.

I consider this object to be a landmark for me, as it united several practices and technical skills which I was working on in the last years - as well as the new resources and ideas which I approach for the first time. I.e. – creation of the synthesizers and sound objects, collecting minerals, topic of rotation, Pure Data programming, Arduino and Python, working with servo and stepper motors, raspberry pi and lasers, etc.

What is also important for me in this project is adressing the topic of occult futurology as a concept which corresponds in the best way my own artistic practices. In the first place, it can be seen in how Ra works with the perception of time – having pre-historic 'unearthly' mineral as its base, it adresses medieval times through the notion of alchemy; it also carries Bach organ motives, further bringing us to the echoes of the electronic instruments of middle of the 20th century, underlining all of this with lasers, code, noise and autonomy, all brought up in handicraft conditions."

See previous posts featuring vtol's works here on MATRIXSYNTH.

hardware:

- raspberry pi (with pure data)
- arduino nano
- diy laser pickup
- spin fv-1 dsp
- stepper motor
- servo motor
- 3W mono sound system

specification:

- line audio output
- 9 control switchers
- 10 control knobs (including envelope, filter, processors parameters and modulations)
- disk speed and direction control (via control knob)
- pickup position control
- 16 dsp fx programs

Modular Wild Presents PROFILE-Evaton Technologies CLX

Published on Sep 24, 2015 Modular Wild

"A short Overview of the features and functions of the Evaton Technologies CLX eurorack module. Sound and Video by Raul Pena."

http://www.evatontechnologies.com/

'Driving Home' from IKEA MS-20 mini - Electribe ESX-1 - Poly 800 - Volcas - Monotribe

Published on Sep 24, 2015 Arrayzable

"Music from the heart - car ride from IKEA
This is the finished track which I gave a little teaser of in my last video with the Solina B106.
As always live play with synths and sequencers.

Used in this track:

Korg MS-20 mini
Korg Electribe ESX-1
Volca Keys
Volca Bass
Monotribe
Korg Poly 800
miniKaossPad2"

New 2015 Optigan Disc Set - TRIPLE HEADER 2

Published on Sep 24, 2015 optigandotcom

"Now available for pre-order at www.optigan.com!

TRIPLE HEADER 2 is a new 3-disc set available at a special bundle price of $199.99. By popular demand, we've ported three more Orchestron sounds to the Optigan, and have also dug into the Optigan master tape archives for more unreleased material recorded 40+ years ago, and only now seeing the light of day.

CELLESTE features the Orchestron CELLO scale, along with a newly arranged and recorded accompaniment featuring Celeste and Glockenspiel in 3/4. These light sounds complement the bass tones of the cello nicely.

FOLK GUITAR & FLUTE pairs the Orchestron FLUTE scale with an unreleased rolling guitar accompaniment and drums/percussion from the Optigan master tapes.

LATIN GUITAR & TRUMPET features the Orchestron TRUMPET scale, along with more previously unreleased guitar/drums/percussion accompaniments from the Optigan master tapes.

These three discs represent the open/simple sound of many of the original Optigan disc titles- sounds that have become perennial favorites due to their wide applicability and haunting qualities."

TOM ELLARD MEETS THE PDP-12 AT THE LIVING COMPUTER MUSEUM

Published on Sep 24, 2015 Redmartian

"Tom was introduced to the PDP-12 while Stephen Jones was working through the restoration effort in the summer of 2013. Stephen sent videos to Tom and it made an appearance in the interactive fiction game [H.H.] Here Tom is experiencing the PDP-12 for the first time running a program called Kaleidoscope in which the user manipulates two dials (X and Y) which are then sampled and used in producing the image on the screen. The -12 has a speaker and every time accumulator 0 is used a flip flop generates a pulse or square wave. Based on how quickly this occurs you will usually hear this square wave in the audio range. The speaker has been amplified for this video."

I asked Red Martian when the PDP-12 came out and how it produced audio:

"1971, though it goes back to the LINC and LINC-8 computers starting in 1960. It has an analog to digital converter which can sample from 8 multi-turn pots and 8 1/4" jacks as well as a bank of 6 relays for switching things. The tone you hear is a flip flop producing a square wave at a frequencing in the audio range everytime accumlator 0 is used. So depending on how busy the system is doing the calculations for plotting points on the X/Y display in kaleidoscope you get a different frequency, sometimes FMish sounding.

I bypassed the speaker and wired in an amplifier for the sake of Severed Head's visit."

PDP stands for Programmed Data Processor. Wikipedia has page on it that goes through the history of the PDP line. On the PDP-12: "Descendant of the LINC-8; with slight redesign, and different livery, officially followed by, and marketed as, the 'Lab-8'."

http://www.livingcomputermuseum.org

FORMANTA UDS - soviet analog drum synth. FULL SET WITH PADS AND STANDS

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via this auction

"Here's the the full set Formanta UDS analog drum synth with a very-very fat soviet sound and some of the filters identical to polivoks synth (they were made on the same factory). It includes the synth itself, the pads, pedal and stands. In other words - everything that you see on the pictures.

"Electronic percussion instrument "Rokton UDS" (Formanta UDS) consists of synthesizing block on the stand, 7 drum pads with velocity sensetvity on 3 stands and on holder for pedal of bass drum. There is a pedal to control high-hat and to turn synthesis on. There are also built in functions of autorhythm in synthesizing block with 16 programmed patterns (rock 1-4, rumba, samba, bassanova, begin, waltz, slow rock, swing, lezginka, march, disco, tango, 16 beat).

Controls on the front panel:

ï (5 channels with identical parametrs - snare, small tom-tom, middle tom-tom, big tom-tom, bass drum)
o sensitivity
o tone (up/down)
o duration
o range (up/down)
o balance (tone/noise)
o filter
o attack
o volume
o sound ON (synthesis/autorhythm)

ï (1 channel - cymbals)
o sensitivity
o duration
o volume
o sound ON (synthesis/autorhythm)

ï (1 channel - high-hat)
o sensitivity
o volume 1
o volume 2
o sound ON (synthesis/autorhythm)

ï Autorhythm:
o switch synthesis/autorhythm mode
o start/stop
o tempo
o volume
o 8 knobs (select styles)

ï General
o out ON
o volume
o volume phones - out phones.
o synhesis ON.
o mains indicator
ï Connectors on rear panel:
o IN (1-7) - snare, small tom-tom, middle tom-tom, big tom-tom, bass drum, cymbal, high-hat
o IN pedal (1-2) - synthesis, high-hat
o out stereo (1-4) - R,L (jack/5 DIN)
o out mono (1-2) - jack/5 DIN
o power on/off"

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