Hartmann Neuron VS with the Twirl iPad App

Published on Jan 15, 2017 Bon Lucas

"Demonstration of the Hartmann Neuron VS Plugin with the Twirl iPad App. This App was still available in the Apple App Store at the time of Uploading this. Check out Michael Aldridge's video below, as his description goes into more of the 'Hardcore' details.

Download the Neuron VS (OS X Only): http://www.neuronsynth.com/html/Home....
Twirl App: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twirl
Michael Aldridge's 'Twirl' Video: [here]

Video Recorded with a Nikon D5100/AF-S Nikkor 18-55mm & CamStudio Screen Capture.
Audio Recorded through a MOTU 2408 mk3 with Presonus Studio One."

MusicPostBot909303 - Wavenet "deepdreamed" IDM

This one was spotted and sent my way via Altemark. In short, these are compositions generated by a neural network cloud bot.

The SoundCloud description states the following:

"Bot automatically uploading experimental electronic music created using deep neural network. As of this moment, the network is at very early stages of training, and is more of a synthesizer than a fully fledged music producer. In order to expand on its abilities, I need your help to fund training.

2x 8-core 64-bit
Training rate: ~60 sec/step
Receptive Field: ~125 mSec
Sample Rate: 32 kHz

Help me learn faster:
BTC: 18cDZhzvihYy6Kd9UZipwi4wtEah7AA57X
DOGE: DSSBeuKz8PDN9YTSV3So7uJZmaq1S9aMqj
Paypal: vektor@oxo-unlimited.com

All donations go towards buying more training power!"

The following is some additional info posted by the creator, Veqtor, on Muff's:

"This is project I've been working on, running on two 8-core machines in the cloud. One trains a deep neural network, called a wavenet, on experimental electronic music, the other downloads the latest model generated by the trainer, generates 20 secs of audio, creates a name, uploads to SC and then goes on to do the same with the newest model.
I finally got it up and running tonight, generating 20 secs takes about 5 hours. Dead Banana
Training has been running around the clock for about three months now.

If I had the resources I'd upgrade to running a Nvidia Titan at home, which would speed up training from ~60 sec per step to ~0.5 sec per step. Hoping it'll go viral somehow and I get bitcoin donations to fund cloud training on Amazon Web Services.

I have a long roadmap of improvements but it's hard to work for free doing weird AI stuff"

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"maltemark wrote:
What data set of IDM are you using for food to do this? Sounds fucking awesome. Trying to help the viralizing get into motion.

Initially it was my own my music but since around 20k steps ago or so (about 30% of current training) it's been running on a larger dataset also including all the usual suspects like autechre, afx, squarepusher, amnesia scanner, M.E.S.H., etc

maltemark wrote:
EDIT: we need much more powerful processors in eurorack so we can get this as a module paired up with ER-301:s and the likes.


Yes, actually, tensorflow models can be quantized to run simple classification tasks at low rates (think 10 hz / triggered / sequenced) for stuff like generative CV and similar. This could mean that we could possible run a rather simple model for generative music on something like a raspberry pi zero"

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"akrylik wrote:
Are the soundcloud posts in order of training duration? If so, doesn't it seem like the results are getting closer and closer to white noise as training progresses?

Very cool idea by the way. love


It might seem that way, but what is really happening is that it "oscillates" between signal and noise as a part of the gradient descent optimizer. This is normal, I hope to put an algorithm into the generation phase that gives up if the current step is generating too much noise (some sort of FFT-based spectral width mean something). Another thing that might be causing the noise is that it could have reached a step that is overfitting a bit, what this means in practice is that, because the network is essentially a super complex filter, seeding it with a very bright and noisy seed will also cause it to produce output similar to that seed."

Exploring Moog Sub 37

Published on Jan 15, 2017 BoBeats

"Today I am exploring the Moog Sub 37 and its LFOs. It has 2x LFOs and many ways to modulate parameters. It is perhaps not as deep as say my Analog Keys but you can create some really cool stuff on it. This is me playing two notes having the LFOs do the movement of the sound."

Update:

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Furby Organ Diary Pt1, How to sync a circuit bent furby to a synth

Published on Jan 15, 2017 LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER

Those eyes!!!

"So I'm planning on building quite a large project involving 50 furbies from a concept idea notebook from 2011. it involves each furry being tuned and hooked up to a separate key.

but it didn't go smoothly to start with so i started to build something else. which was a furby with 2 simple bends, but the major difference between this and other circuit bent furbies is its able to be synced to a synthesiser.

The schematic is at the end of the video! screenshot it, I've omitted any extra components to make it super simple!

it uses just 2 5v relays. i used EDRZ01A500 if you type that in on the electronics shop of your choice, or eBay! you'll find it. also you can find the pinout on the data sheet.

the relays basically just turn on the circuit bends on the furby when there is enough voltage to do so!

the 2 bends i used are very common and can be found on this site for more info :- http://circuit-bent.net/furby-bending..."

Rhythm Machines: The rise and fall of the presets by Alex Graham

Update: An updated Rhythm Machines III is now available.

via Amazon:

"At last… an A to Z of drum machines. RHYTHM MACHINES documents the rise and fall of the preset drum machines that emerged in the late 1960s, and were manufactured in large numbers until the emergence of the programmable drum machines in the early 1980s. Nearly three hundred units are detailed here, with two hundred pages packed with colour and monochrome photographs of these highly collectable rhythm units. From Ace Tone to Korg, Roland to Yamaha – the book has detailed information on all units released by both the well-known and obscure instrument manufacturers. RHYTHM MACHINES is an essential guide for instrument collectors, drum machine enthusiasts and recording artists."

"Alex Graham is a musical instrument collector and drum machine enthusiast."

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Super Rare 70's STRIDER SYSTEMS MICROSEQUENCER USEQ

via this auction

Here's something you rarely see. This is actually the first image of one to be featured here on MATRIXSYNTH. RetroSynth Ads has a write-up on the brochure for one posted here. You can find additional posts on Strider via their label here on MATRIXSYNTH.

Update: according to this price list, these went for $569 when released.

Update2: I didn't notice at first, but the tree logo appears to represent roots to trace nodes. How cool is that? Thanks to @RetroSynthAds for calling out the cool logo.

EMS Synthi AKS Synthesizer

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"Vintage Original EMS Synthi AKS synthesizer in NEAR MINT condition.My father purchased a EMS Synthi AKS synthesizer in ruff condition.For many years he kept this Synthi in its original box and never put a hand on it.The unit is currently in working order and has been basically untouched and un-used."

Good price as well considering.

Update: I have a couple of reports in that this one might be a scam. Priced at 5,271.81 it may be too good to be true. As always be careful!

Update2: here it is from 2012.

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MOOG MINIMOOG MODEL D with Premium Stardust Dust Cover & Extras

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via this auction

"IN TERRIFIC COSMETIC CONDITION AND FULL WORKING ORDER,
WITH PRISTINE ORIGINAL OWNERS MANUAL,
PRISTINE ORIGINAL SOUND CHARTS BOOK,
A SET OF PRISTINE ORIGINAL BLANK PATCH SHEETS,
ORIGINAL NORLIN WARRANTY SHEET,
ORIGINAL NORLIN REGISTRATION CARD,
ORIGINAL NORLIN DEALER PAMPHLET,
ORIGINAL NORLIN 'POINT OF SALE' DISPLAY CARD,
ORIGINAL S-TRIG PLUG ENVELOPE,
COPIES OF CIRCUIT DIAGRAMS,
RECEIPT FOR MAJOR OVERHAUL IN 2013.
CUSTOM HIGH QUALITY 'STARDUST' FITTED DUST COVER.
BESPOKE BLACK TOUR-GRADE FITTED FLIGHTCASE (NOT PICTURED AS IT'S IN STORAGE)."

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Vermona Synthesizer w. modified Moog ladder filter

Published on Jan 15, 2017 RadekTymecki1984

VIRUS TI REVIEW The best Synthesizer out there?

Published on Jan 15, 2017 Instinct-learning

"This is my little spontaneous review of the Access Virus TI II

I Really Love the Synth and used it a shitton during the last ten years."

A look at the total integration software.