MATRIXSYNTH

Friday, December 11, 2020

The joy and agony of music on vintage science equipment

HAINBACH

"In which I unbox a rare and beautiful piece of Danish science and engineering history and try to make music with it."

Funny at 7:29. Also makes you think the SOMA Ether could be an interesting alternative for some of these sounds. Anything can be an interesting sample source...

Roland MKS-30 | Better or Worse?

Espen Kraft

"The Roland MKS-30 is the module version of the JX-3P, both excellent analog synthesizers from the early 80s.

The MKS-30 responds to velocity, something most stock 3Ps don't have. The MKS-30 can also store its patches on a cartridge and it can use the PG-200 and Midi at the same time.
There are several different manufacturers making mods for either synth and these mods will rectify a lot of things, among them the ability to send and receive sysex data, somethings sorely missing on the originals.
It's a "common" thought that the MKS-30 sounds thinner and weaker than the the 3P. I can certainly testify that they do not sounds the same.

If you want to listen to the two demo songs in a Wav format, and compare, you can download these here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RmOJ..."

Thursday, December 10, 2020

Seventy-Five Amazing Prophet X Patches

SynthMania

"Demos of the Sequential Prophet X hybrid synthesizer (2018)

00:00 Avant Choir
01:18 PX Tease
01:45 Prophet-5 Bass
01:59 Poly Super
02:38 Clunky Favinet
03:01 Beat Engineering
03:32 Elegy
04:20 Suspension Cloud
05:20 Mandoloop
05:48 Marimba Dream
06:38 Modern Grand 1990
07:19 Soft Scoring Grand"

La Lune A Un Mètre / The Astronomer's Dream (new soundtrack)

Nick

"1898 silent film by Georges Méliès with newly composed soundtrack by Nick St George (2020). Thanks to archive.org for Public Domain footage."

Great timing in this one.

"I used Cherry Voltage Modular virtual synth, some of Garageband's virtual instruments and one or two Apple Loops e.g. the stings when things disappear or the astronomer falls over. An M-Audio keyboard controlled the instruments. I assembled it in GB and then 'mastered' it in iMovie."

via Electronic Battle

Pittsburgh Modular Local Florist New Module Lab with Richard Nicol

Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizers

New module coming from Pittsburgh Modular.

ISLA Instruments S2400 live group Tutorial Session

Ken Flux Pierce Fluxwithit

"Here is a live stream dedicated to helping new owners of the S2400 come to grips and get to know their new machines!"

Unboxing Rock n Roll History! Yamaha TX7 Mark Lindsay Rik Marston DX7

Rik Marston Official

Supporting member, Rik Marston picks up Mark Lindsay's Yamaha TX7.

"Unboxing Rock n Roll History! Yamaha TX7 from Mark Lindsay
(former lead singer from Paul Revere & the Raiders)
**Watch in HD!** **Check out Mark Lindsay's music!**

I just purchased the Yamaha TX7 from music legend Mark Lindsay!
It is an honor to have this unit in my studio, it means so much to me!
The packaging was PERFECT & the shipping was FAST!
BTW Mark still has his other TX7 for sale on eBay!
Buy it before I grab it! I am sooooo tempted to get it!
I have already tested the TX7 out & it WORKS GREAT!
I promise to make a few video demos of this actual FM unit!
It's MONO output makes it incredible to fix in a mix! SERIOUSLY!
-Plus it still has all of Mark's personal DX7 voices! Awesome!
Thank you again, Mark! You are fantastic & super nice!

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