AUTOMAT / Korg Electribe 2

Published on Jun 25, 2018 mishpult

"Taking the E2 for a spin through several fully automated patterns to create a short, 5 min set. The intention here is to restrain myself as much as possible from intervening with the machine and let it do its thing alone. Automation is the future, you know."

Resynthesizer: Modular Synthesizer Installation at MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Published on Jun 25, 2018 MIT Media Lab

Note this is an upcoming event. You can find previous posts featuring Joe Paradiso’s modular synthesizer here.

"In collaboration with the Department of Nuclear Science & Engineering and the MIT Media Lab, ACT presents Resynthesizer, a performance, installation, and public tour series of MIT Media Lab Professor Joe Paradiso’s modular synthesizer, temporarily installed within MIT’s internationally known Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC).

More information at: https://www.media.mit.edu/events/resy...
License: CC-BY-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)"

"Friday — Thursday
April 27, 2018 —
May 31, 2018
MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Building NW21, 190 Albany Street
Cambridge, MA

In collaboration with the Department of Nuclear Science & Engineering and the MIT Media Lab, ACT presents Resynthesizer, a performance, installation, and public tour series of MIT Media Lab Professor Joe Paradiso’s modular synthesizer, temporarily installed within MIT’s internationally known Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC). Resynthesizer will incorporate a month-long series of public tours of the synthesizer at PSFC intended to highlight a participatory dialogue between the varying departments—and the public—concerning transdisciplinary research efforts engaging one of the 21st century’s most pressing challenges: to produce the next clean, economically efficient, and sustainable energy.

The Paradiso Synthesizer, arguably the world’s largest homemade modular synthesizer, produces sounds which are 'programmed' manually by running wires between various outputs and inputs. Unlike today’s digital synthesizers, which normally hide their many capabilities behind menus or graphical interface screens that allow for changing only one parameter at a time, the modular synthesizer exposes all aspects of sound creation and modification simultaneously via the physical modules.

In Resynthesizer, the Paradiso Synthesizer will utilize final data gleaned from PSFC’s legendary fusion device, the Alcator C-Mod tokamak—one of only three domestic tokamaks housed within a US Department of Energy funded user-facility. In 2018, however, C-Mod lies dormant due to a completion of operations and termination of previously obtained government funding in 2016. Nevertheless, containing a wealth of data archived from more than 20 years of operations, C-Mod continues to exist on the MIT campus as the world’s only compact, high-magnetic field, diverted tokamak, allowing it to access unique experimental regimes and influence the direction of the world fusion energy program.

With this collaboration and contribution of PSFC data, the synthesizer’s modules will produce complex and varied sonic environments from the complicated “patch”—the set of connections—that Professor Paradiso creates. The patch determines both the sounds and how the sounds are controlled and triggered, ensuring that the sonic environment generated by the synthesizer will never be repeated. Made evident by Paradiso’s installation and performance, this experimental and artistic process of creation and modification is ultimately what connects both the history of fusion energy at PSFC and Professor Paradiso’s exploration of sound as a malleable product of digitized data."

Grp Synthesizer - The Sound in EuroRack

Published on Jun 25, 2018 Paolo Groppioni

Mutable Instruments Ambika 6 Voice Hybrid Synthesizer - 6 x SMR4 Filter

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"Ambika is a monster hybrid polysynth. Its design consists of a motherboard and 6 voicecards, each of them carrying a turbocharged version of the Shruthi hybrid synthesizer (digital waveform synthesis through analog VCF/VCAs). Whether you want to use this as six monosynths, a six-voice polysynth, or anything in-between is up to you: MIDI channels/keyboard range/patches/voices are distinct concepts, allowing complex layered, split, multitimbral setups. In addition, each voice has a switched individual output."

"Ambika offers all the delicious digital waveform synthesis algorithms (FM, vowel synthesis, wavetables…) that made the Shruthi famous, and some newcomers too: CZ-style emulation of digital filters and wave sequencing. The oscillators signal is now processed through a fuzz/distortion and a bitcrusher before being sent to the analog filters. The modulation possibilities are immense thanks to the 4 LFOs (3 synchronized and 1 free running), 3 ADSRs, and the large modulation matrix (14 slots, 4 modifiers)."

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Tama Techstar TAM500 Electronic Voice Module SN 300213

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Korg Prophecy Solo Synthesizer

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Roland's The Synthesizer 2nd Edition Vintage 1979

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"'The Synthesizer' Volume 2 group of 4 different books. Published by Roland in 1979 although written by independent writers. Collector item and still a great source for learning synthesis.

Volume consists of:
Practical Synthesis for Electronic Music Volume One
Practical Synthesis for Electronic Music Volume Two
Multichannel Recording for Electronic Music
A Foundation For Electronic Music

Books in great condition. Outer holder is in good condition with a slight scuff on corner."

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YAMAHA CS30 monophonic synthesizer

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1976 YAMAHA CS-50 ANALOG SYNTHESIZER

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Special Minimoog Restore (by Synthpro)

Published on Jun 25, 2018 synthpro

"Hey Guys,

This was a very sick minimoog that came to me for a restore and was on the verge of being too far gone to save. Because this unit was in such poor shape and I had the, "ok" from the owner, I decided to accept the challenge of the restore and add some customization to make it a one of a kind minimoog.

The music you hear during the slide show was performed on this actual minimoog, its just a rough track I put together for this video, I call it, "From Grave to Glory".

Special thanks to the following people:

Gary, for giving me this opportunity to restore your minimoog, was a fun and challenging project.

Johnny, from Accel Graphics for his help making the new labeling for the back panel jacks.

Also a special thanks to my Dad for always giving me his support and for his help sanding the cabinet, this was a huge help.

Thanks for watching and all the support from the viewers as well, would not be able to even have a business like this without all the support from the viewers and clients."