MATRIXSYNTH

Saturday, January 20, 2018

MFB Tanzbar, Roland SE02 & Doepfer Dark Energy 2

Published on Jan 20, 2018 3rdStoreyChemist

"Jamming with the Tanzbar drum machine, Dark Energy 2 and SH101 synthesisers synced together (Tanzbar CV2 to Dark Energy 2 CV/Gate Ins, Tanzbar CV1 to S02 MIDI In).

A small amount of reverb has been used, no further processing except for normalisation."

Bonjour Le Strum: Unboxing my DIY Midi strum controller

Published on Jan 20, 2018 Olivier Ozoux

"Le Strum was one of my first DIY project, and I remember how happy I was that the little LED turned on and it sent Midi signals after I finished soldering all these little part together.

Then I completely forgot about until recently. Here's a quick little demo of this strange but fun little Midi controller"

You can find info on Le Strum by Jason Hotchkiss here.

Ironing is Fun (k) with a Volca bass analogue synth

Published on Jan 20, 2018 Ludwig Kopp

"We all love ironing. Right?
At least I gave it another try using a Volca bass.
Mostly used the three voices polyphonic
and recorded them into a 'Beatboy' (tuner-recorder-drummachine)
I wanted to use its built-in little Drummaschine.
But I had to record it seperately into a DAW 😨
and "iron-up" with the bass recording.
Still has some frowns here and there.

Thanks for checking this out!"

Never thought of using an ironing board as a stand before...

The Beat Boy appears to have been released in 2013 based on the video below. I don't think one has ever been featured on the site before.

"With many rhythm patterns for you to play along with, Beat Boy is a great way to develop your sense of rhythm. It's also fun to casually jam along with the patterns, or use them to refine your riff ideas. With offerings for every genre of rhythm pattern (8-beat, 16-beat, pop, funk, reggae, dance beats, and more), Beat Boy fully supports a wide range of musical styles. The volume of the backing rhythm can be adjusted, so you can set the mix balance accordingly with your guitar, ensuring that you'll be able to clearly hear the rhythm while you jam. The LCD display shows the drums actually being struck, providing a unique visual element. The tempo of each rhythm can be adjusted intuitively by using the tap tempo feature or it can be specified as a precise numeric value for more accurate settings."

Published on Sep 4, 2013 Korg

"The Korg Beat Boy enables guitarists or bassists to improve their skills quickly and easily with three practice tools plus a tuner, all in a single unit. In addition to the tuner, Beat Boy contains a rhythm machine covering 100 diverse styles, an effects section for sonic variation when jamming along with the rhythms, plus an onboard recorder that allows for 16-bit/44.1 kHz recording. The compact Beat Boy fits easily into the pocket of a gig bag, for practice both at home or on-the-go."

JMT NOSC12 drone experiment

Published on Jan 19, 2018 Wingo Shackleford

"Drone session with the JMT NOSC-12 twelve oscillator synth. Delay/reverb from the Earthquaker Avalanche Run (delay time tweaked w/expression pedal), and dirt/filter/pan fx supplied by the amazing Elektron Analog Heat."

Lyra-8 with Noise Engineering Loquelic Iteritas in the external input

Published on Jan 19, 2018 Sequenox

"Just good old Drones the way mama used to make them... #eurorackmodular #lyra8 #modularsynth"

Lyra-8 Tone Poem

Published on Jan 19, 2018 Sequenox

"Lyra-8 processed by 4MS Dual Looping Delay and Strymon Big Sky reverb #lyra8"

Friday, January 19, 2018

Mattoverse Winter NAMM Pedalboard Jam

Published on Jan 19, 2018 mattoverse

"Messing Mattoverse Winter NAMM Pedalboard setup..."

Analogue Solutions Treadstone Press Release & Price

We've seen the demo videos including initial details (scroll down when you get there). We now have the official press release and the price: £499.00 GBP, $599.00 USD, and €589.00 EUR.

"Analogue Solutions spreads synthBlocks series wings with tiny Treadstone true analogue mono synth

KINGSWINFORD, UK: hot on the heels of its inaugural Mr Hyde and Dr Strangelove so-called synthBlocks (launched late last year to widespread critical acclaim), British boutique electronic instruments innovator Analogue Solutions is proud to widen the self-explanatory series’ scope with Treadstone — taking the same smart, small, and affordable desktop design-driven analogue attributes of its similarly superior-sounding signal-processing siblings and applying them to a true analogue mono synth that packs a lot of (patchable) punch into a perfectly-matched, portable package — as of January 19…

Treadstone takes its intriguing name from a fictional highly-classified, heavily-guarded secret program that features in the series of books based on a fictional spy and associated feature films; it is shut down as the thrilling plot thickens, alas. As the latest addition to Analogue Solutions’ synthBlocks series — squarely aimed at laptop and audio plug-ins-focused digital musicians wishing to apply analogue, hands-on hardware sound-sculpting creativity to their sometimes sterile-sounding computer-based creations, the tiny Treadstone true analogue mono synth is far from fictional, however; hearing is believing, but it would, without question, make for a superior-sounding, space-saving desktop addition to any discerning film composer’s creative studio space — or anyone else’s, for that matter!

More meaningfully, maybe, Treadstone treads far from carefully, but boldly goes where few analogue synthesizers dare to win... with an all-analogue audio path and modulation circuits based on superior-sounding designs dating back to the mid-Seventies, so no CPU (Central Processing Unit) stabilised and quantised circuits, no DCOs (Digitally-Controlled Oscillators), and no digital EGs (Envelope Generators), as are often found on other ‘all-analogue’ affairs. Analogue as in really analogue — aside from the MIDI-to-CV circuit (which, by its very nature, must include a digital element) — in other words.

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Dr.Strangelove (Analogue Solutions) Ring modulator Demo by Dziam Bass

Published on Jan 19, 2018 Dziam Bass

"Dr.Strangelove (Analogue Solutions) This short demo shows simple Ring modulator with several filter settings in AE Modular.Soon I will add with more advanced modulations, it shows how great the analog ringmod sounds from Analogue Solutions"