Gotharman's Fuzion - Harmonic Resonator

Published on Sep 25, 2015 gotharman

"A few impressions of the harmonic resonator, that will be available in the next update."

Song For A Day Off

Published on Sep 25, 2015 Pierre Fontaine

"I have the day off today and wanted to do something created. So, I made up this song and recorded it directly to a Zoom H1 using a Belkin Rockstar Headphone Splitter.

The synths used (in order of appearance) are a Korg MicroSampler with a Mellotron Flute sample, a Korg Monotribe providing bass and rhythm, a Korg Volca Sampler providing some stereo percussion, Volca Bass with mono audio cable causing it to pan hard right and Volca Keys with it's own digital delay.

Also pictured (but not used) is a Bliptronic 5000 and some mounting boards for a Littlebits Korg Synth Kit. The Synths are sitting on a custom made base made from scrap foam core found at work to keep everything organized.

I'm a big fan of inexpensive synths and love trying to make music with really simple and budget friendly devices. The Microsampler was purchased second hand on ebay while the Volcas were purchased second hand from Guitar Center."

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."