MATRIXSYNTH

Altered State of Being ( Version 2 )

Published on Jul 23, 2016 Todd Smith

"In this jam I take my previous track and add more drums and synth variation. My new Korg Volca rack appears thanks to Mike Smith, his racks are top notch and make the whole song creation process so much better, I'll put a link below to his store page !! I added 2 patterns to the Teenage Engineering PO-12 chain, total of 4 patterns running in a 8 pattern chain. The Arturia Microbrute adds a sequenced sub bass while the Roland Boutique JP-08 adds a guitar type sequence. The Korg Volca keys is used for a backing sequence but I kinda opened the filter a little to much during the jam. It sounds great at lower filter ranges but doesn't fit in well with a open filer, lesson learned. The Roland Boutique JU-06, Korg Volca Bass and Microkorg all take on the same roles as my previous jam.

: Gear Used :

Korg Microkorg
Korg Volca Bass
Korg Volca Keys
Roland Boutique JU-06
Roland Boutque JP-08
Arturia Microbrute
Teenage Engineering PO-12
Midi Solutions Quarda Thru
Behringer Micromix MX400
Tascam US-144mkII Audio Interface
Waves Supertap 6 ( VST )
Waves TrueVerb ( VST )
Waves Vcomp ( VST )
Ableton Live 8 ( Used as digital mixer / multi track )"

RIP Ray Wilson

Hi everyone. I have some incredibly sad news in today. Ray Wilson of Music From Outer Space passed away on Thursday, July 21. As many knew, he was battling stage 4 cancer. His family's GoFundMe page is still up and has not yet reached their goal. His family will likely have bills, so if you'd like to contribute something, please do. For those that would like to donate to Ray's family directly via Paypal, I am told his Paypal address is info@musicfromouterspace.com.

Regular readers of MATRIXSYNTH will surely know who Ray Wilson is. For anyone that doesn't, Ray was the man behind the synth DIY site Music From Outer Space. The domain name was registered back in Nov 2003; I'm not sure when the site went live, but there is an archive of the site from the WayBackMachine dated Jan 15, 2004.

Ray's contributions through his website and his YouTube channel have influenced synth DIY hobbyists and budding new makers and manufacturers alike over the years. Many owe him for their start in the world of synth DIY. You can see the exhaustive list of his DIY projects on his site here. His most popular project of course was the MFOS Soundlab Mini-Synth. His work has contributed to more than 590 posts here on MATRIXSYNTH. I'm sure there will be more to come. The first time MFOS was featured on MATRIXSYNTH was back on August 30, 2005, just over a month after I launched MATRIXSYNTH.

Ray Wilson was also the author of Make: Analog Synthesizers.

Something you may not have known is that he was also an amateur standup comedian, and he shared his performances on his main YouTube channel. As you know, I started MATRIXSYNTH back in 2005, Just over a year after MFOS launched. The first time I saw one of Ray Wilson's standup shows I thought I was on the wrong channel! :) When I realized it was him, it of course brought a smile to my face. The first thought that came to my mind was, wow, this is a truly genuine human being. The following is the last standup performance shared on his channel, from August, 2014:

The Ray Wilson Show August 26th 2014

Published on Aug 26, 2014 Ray Wilson

"AMATEUR DOING STANDUP - NOT SYNTH RELATED AT ALL. This is actually sit down comedy. I don't include profanity in my bits because I'm no good at it. If you want to be the Chopped Champ don't miss this episode. If you know someone else that might get a smile out of this I definitely appreciate shares."

Quincas Moreira, who also does synth DIY work, was a friend of Ray's. Together they composed the following piece. Update via Quincas:: "That's Ray singing. It's his song, lyrics, melody and harmony. He'd done a previous version but I thought the song was so awesome it deserved to be properly produced, so I got him to send me the original session and recorded real drums, bass, piano, percussion and backing vocals."

"Quincas Moreira and Ray Wilson collaboration - Are We Waves... Physicists are still working out our true physical nature - currently confusion reigns."

"He'll finally find out if we are waves or particles. Rest in peace my friend."

The following is the last video on Ray Wilson's YouTube channel. He will be missed.

Goofing with two MFOS SL Mark IIs, Ultimate and Sequencer.

Published on Apr 26, 2016 Ray Wilson

"Having some fun with the synth. It definitely is therapeutic."
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Heartfelt thanks to Lorne Hammond & Skot Wieddman who sent the sad news my way.

Steady - Electrix Mo-FX at work with my analog synths

Published on Jul 23, 2016 FlavioB

"Just got my second Mo-FX unit, had to play with Roland analog gear to test it (MIDI sync).
TB-303 Quicksilver
TR-606 Quicksilver
SH-101
ZAQuencer
Electrix Mo-FX"

Make Noise #027 (DPO vs RxMx) (Stereo Explorations)

Published on Jul 23, 2016 thisisprisma

"Stereo patch so make sure you listen with a pair of speaker and well positioned or good headphones. enjoy it.

DPO only sound source, the six waveforms into optomix, moddemix & lxd, Tempi trigerring envelopes (maths and function) and striking the lpg's. Mod enable channels on the Tempi for pattern variatrions.
Then the six audio channels mixed in Rxmx wich is sending channel A to left side, B to mono and C to right side.
Pitch sequences by Rene and PP which is also cv'ing channel select on the RxMx.
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https://www.soundcloud.com/thisisprisma
https://www.mixcloud.com/thisisprisma"

J. S. Bach - "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" (BWV 140) for analog synthesizer

Published on Jul 17, 2016 Felipe Kern Moreira

"Música: 'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme' a 2 Clav. e Pedale
(Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 - 1750)
Artist: Felipe Kern Moreira (Dave Smith's Evolver)

Destra 8 Fuss. (Evolver Bank II - Patch 8)
Sinistra 8 Fuss. (Evolver Bank II - Patch 71)
Pedale 16 Fuss. (Evolver Bank II - Patch 118)
#davesmith #evolver #bach #synthesizer #wachetauf"

New JoMoX Alpha Base Analog Drum Machine in the Works?

If you zoom in you will see the panel graphics appear to be a plastic overlay. The body appears to be an XBase 999 as you can see below.

Tracking new material for Black Line.

Tracking new material for Black Line. from Black Line on Vimeo.

DJM/REX has Evolved.

Black Line collaborators existing and new:

Cyrusrex

Douglas J. McCarthy

Baseck

Ken Hiwatt Marshall

Bon Harris

Brad Apodaca

Prophei

Anthony Baldino

Paul Barker

Tom Oberheim Two Voice Pro Synthesizer SN 0167

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MOOG ROGUE SN 10 87

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"This Moog Rogue comes from a private collection of highly acclaimed NYC- based producers Sweet Rains.
100% working condition , with original manual ( hard to find these days) and incredible full blown fat real analog MOOG sound, mostly famous for its juicy leads and HUGE basses. All latest Moog models don't come even close to that sound quality and fatness. The unit has a very early serial number ( shown on pics) , and extremely nice cosmetic condition , as it was only used in the studio . All pots work fine , one slide cap slightly differs in color , please see it on the pic , but it's hardly noticeable. All keys are in like-new condition , respond well and equal in action . It's really difficult to find this unit in such conditions these days , considering its age.
Power supply has been replaced with the better one from Armin's shop . I quote the one and only Paul T. Schreiber: "Focusing on the engineering side of this: a) a power supply 'rating' of current is usually given as 80% load at 25C. For example, a 100ma rating means it will really give 80ma at 25C, and at any higher temperature, the current starts dropping (so maybe 65ma at 40C). So, WFT does '100ma' enter into it if really 80ma is the "reality". For international buyers: this is a US- standards power supply, you might need to get a transformer to make it work in EU ."

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