"In this interview, Herbert Deutsch recounts his life in music—including the genesis and collaborative process behind creating the first Moog synthesizer with Bob Moog. These two pioneers of synthesis worked together to create a portable electronic instrument with endless sound potential, thanks to the power of “voltage control.” The Moog prototype is an essential part of music history; its sound has continued to impact popular and experimental music alike since the 1960s. Today, Moog Music, Inc. continues to revolutionize synthesis—while paying homage to the root notes of its past."
"This is a powerful MIDI prototyping platform that converts incoming MIDI events into electrical signals that make experimentation easy!
A few years ago we built a synthesizer prototyping tool called Protosynth. The project was such a big hit that people requested the ability to buy their own, so we designed a powerful MIDI controlled version!
Over the last few years, we have refined Protosynth Midi to be powerful, flexible, and easy to use.
Protosynth Midi are built in limited quantities by hand here at the Tymkrs Wrkshp. Every unit is assembled, tested, and given a unique serial number. The beautiful handmade hardwood cases with traditional joinery hold your circuit at an angle so you can tinker in comfort and style!"
"First run with the Roli Seaboard Rise 49 into Expert Sleepers FH-1 controlling a single voice from the modular (2 Dixie II's, Cyclebox and STO sub, into Korgasmatron). Processing by Malgorithm and then Clouds. Pitch and gate from FH-1 (obviously). Using custom script from Roli, the XY pad has been mapped to the outs of the FH-1 and is used to control bit depth and sample rate in the Malgorithm, as well as size and position in Clouds. Pressure controls the mix on the Malgorithm. The slide parameter of the Rise is routed to a VCA, which controls an LFO routed to the frequency of the LPF (Korgasmatron)."
"listen with headphones or proper monitors.
Attention, deep fat bass inside.
from my modular directly into the camera (except a little tune from MI Ambika through El Capistan)
still working on my techno maschine:-D
nice filtersweeps from Doepfer Wasp in highpass mode and Happy Nerding MMM VCF n stereo lowpass mode.
unfortunately some hickups from the reset of a sequencer I still have to solve.
Instruments are:
TT808 Kick
DPO-RxMx-MMG-Optomix Bass
Nebulae-Optomix Sample
Telharmonic-Lxd Pad
Mysteron High Hats
Erbe Verb for Reverb
DubJr for Delay"
"First mins spent on the 2 panels I cleaned from the Serge Paperface.
TBK sequencing + trying a NTO FMed by PCO + Variable Slope VCF.
No effects added and the volume is also not corrected."
"An itinerant Model 15 stopped through Synth City a few weeks back. There was just enough time for our product specialist Wesley Groves to coax a wall of droning doom and pitch black dark ambience out of the synth, presented here in one live take. No talking, no patch breakdowns, just pure live Moog power.
Equipment used: Moog Model 15, Moog 953 keyboard, Moog CP-251, Moog MF-104M Delay, and Strymon Blue Sky Reverb."
"We've been asked if there's a demand for a Linndrum cover in 2016. The answer is obvious: NO! It's only love"
Thought this was pretty cool. I used to get some the same question regarding some of the posts that have gone up over the years here on MATRIXSYNTH. In case anyone still wonders... We do it for the love of synths. :)
How's that for pretty cool. The wording follows and matches the Cheetah MS800 manual. You can see an image of one here (there are only a handful of references to the MS800 on the site). This is one rare synth.
"The Aphex Twin Cheetah EP uses digital sound generation techniques combined with wave sequencing technology to bring you sounds with movement and depth rarely found on records today.
To assure you that your Cheetah EP will give you many years of enjoyment, please be sure to read the owners manual carefully before attempting to operate the Cheetah EP.
If you wish to experiment and create some sounds of your own, first try editing some sounds we’ve already made for you, before attempting to create a patch from scratch.
We sincerely hope that having battled through the programming of the Cheetah EP, you have not become familiar with the exceptional potential of this record.
Have fun programming, and if you create any superb patches and tones which you feel deserve to be appreciated by other Cheetah EP buyers, send a MIDI System Dump of them, on a disc to us at WARP and if we also think they are superb, you could be rewarded for your efforts. Try us!”
Features:
Digital Wave Sequencing Synthesizer
Sounds programmed to sequence through changing waveforms as the note plays, giving exceptional movement and character to the music
15 note polyphonic
Velocity Sensitive
Multi-Timbral
Stereo Output
Fully programmable from the front panel
LED display"
Update: Cheetah Sweet Talker cassette pic in via Luan Correa.
What the?...
See video below. Curious if he has one and if it will be featured...
Note this is the first post out of currently 139,421 to feature the Cheetah Sweet Talker, and thus gets the illusive exclusive label. You think you've seen it all and then this. Thanks to Luan for sharing!
BBC Micro Speech Synthesis Published on Nov 24, 2012
"I found a speech synthesis chip for the BBC Micro, so I had to try it out! :L This is just running the demo program. The chip was a Cheetah 'Sweet Talker' extension pack. Sorry about the poor visuals; I would have re-recorded it but the power supply blew up shortly after this video.
For any of my subscribers wondering about the lack of Tiny Tim updates, an awful lot has been happening on the design side of things, and I'm doing regular updates on the website (http://www.northdownfarm.co.uk/rory/tim/). However as not much more has been done on the hardware side, there hasn't been anything to film yet. I will hopefully get a new vid up about memory in the next to weeks."
