MATRIXSYNTH

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Get The Most Out of Your Vintage MIDI Gear Using Polyend Play

video upload by Polyend

"Polyend Play - Have Fun Making Music.

MIDI sequencing a Yamaha EX5R, bringing back these nostalgic 90ties vibes.

Dust off your old gear and breathe new life into it with Polyend Play. Besides its impressive audio mangling capabilities, Play is also offering you instant control over and a fully configurable MIDI sequencer. Its grid adds another layer of real-time composing and music performance.

With the Scale, Fill and Chord generator functions it brings the music theory under your fingertips in a moment. An innovative groovebox instrument and a best friend for you - musician, beatmaker, and music producer! No matter how experienced you are, it's here to help you discover new ways of making music.

Audio & Video by @Isobutane"

Mannequins Just Friends as a Sound Source ✨ | Eurorack Ambient Jam

video upload by Andrea Marzilli

"Just Friends in FLOOM mode is incredible.
I’d like to spend few words for this really simple patch.
JF 1v/oct receives some randomic cv from uO_c, randomly triggered by my beloved @busy Pamela’s New Workout.
Plaits in chords mode (WTF) modulates the FM input on JF (WTF pt.2).
Monsoon for the long awesome reverb, modulated by a rampy LFO from @mutable Stages (Position).

Sometimes keeping it simple is the key.

Headphones. 🎧"

V.A.I. 77 : CRB VOCO STRINGS / CRB COMPUTERBAND 2000 / SIEL CRUISE

video upload by Vintage Audio Institute Italia

"Combining two very rare oddballs - both manufactured by CRB Elettronica in the late 1970s : The CRB Computer Band 2000 and the CRB Voco Strings.

The Computer Band 2000 is an analog auto-accompaniment machine with a range of chord and arpeggiator sounds with decay controls, as well as a bass section and a drum machine with individually mutable sounds.

The Voco Strings is CRBs take on the Roland VP-330 - a string and vocoder machine. Were there any other commercially produced vocoders in Europe apart from this one and the Sennheiser VSM-201? Let us know in the comment section.

We're letting the CRB Voco strings process the Computer Band, via the regular audio input, while a third player, the Siel Cruise, a lovely Mono / Poly machine, is connected as an external carrier signal, via the instrument input.

More videos of this lovely combination will be going up soon.

Vintage Audio Institute is a gear vendor and recording facility in Florence Italy."

group - I hear the thunder '91 (1991)

video upload by Steven Templar - Retrospective Channel

"Copyright Steven Templar, 1988.
This version recorded in 1991 using an Ensoniq ESQ-1 synthesiser and an Alesis SR-16 drum machine onto cassette tape."

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Eurorack Turntable

I made a eurorack turntable module to play with @makenoisemusic gear. ☆(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ* pic.twitter.com/tx9wnPs8AZ
— victoria shen (@EvicShen) August 30, 2022

"I made a eurorack turntable module to play with @makenoisemusic gear. ☆(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*"

ARP2600 + 1613 Sequencer

video upload by Synth Cube

http://synthcube.com/

Steiner-Connolly Synthacon In the Works

Spotted this one over at Synthtopia.

Here's what Steiner-Connolly had to say about it:

“For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, the Synthacon is back!

This is an authentic, discrete, through hole recreation of this iconic 70’s synthesizer under the direction of Nyle Steiner himself.

We have added midi via a FATAR keybed, and a couple new features, but this unit has been tediously recreated right down to the original circuit board design and vintage components.”

The Steiner-Connolly Synthacon is available now to pre-order for $3,000 USD. Contact the company at support@steiner-connolly.com for details."

You can find tons of posts mentioning the Synthacon and various adaptations including individual modules and systems in previous posts here. One of my favorites though, is this demo by Todd Barton aka vgermuse. That sucker sounded brutal.

Roland Introduces TR-8S v2.5/TR-6S v1.5 Firmware & TR-EDITOR Update

video upload by RolandChannel

"TR-8S v2.5 and TR-6S v1.5 update load your Rhythm Performer with a stack of exciting new features. In this video, Dustin Good demonstrates the ins and outs of the new firmware and TR-EDITOR software updates.

Both TRs add six FM-based drum models—kick, snare, tom, clap, percussion, and cymbal. These models include new editable FM parameters which can be controlled from both the TR hardware and TR-EDITOR software for creating intricate, evolving sounds.

Rhythm tracks get a dose of unpredictability with a fresh sequencer update that adds probability, sub step probability, and master probability. Probability can bring your drum programming to life by setting percentage values to individual steps that dictate the chance of that step playing. The higher the percentage, the more that note will be played.

Quickly assign new sounds to your pattern with random kit and random instrument. Create spontaneous sonic changes in patterns and then easily restore back to the original kit.

Then run sounds through four new MFX options—Tone Fattener, Vinyl Simulator, Pitch Shifter Delay, and Ha-Dou Reverb.

Plus, upgrade the TR-EDITOR software to version 1.5 for deeper control of the new FM, probability editing, and more.

Chapter Breakdown:
0:00 What’s New in TR-8S v2.5, TR-6S v1.5
0:36 Table of Contents
0:45 New FM Drum Models
4:36 Using the TR-EDITOR
6:38 Editing FM Drum Models
8:36 Random Kit and Instrument
9:45 Probability
14:14 New FX

TR-8S v2.5 update: https://www.roland.com/global/product...
TR-6S v1.5 update: https://www.roland.com/global/product...
TR-EDITOR v1.5 update: https://www.rolandcloud.com/catalog/e..."

*NEW* TR-8S v2.50 Firmware update

video upload by Starsky Carr

"A demo of the new Roland TR-8S v2.50 firmware update. It's got 6 new FM models that have full parameter access, plus 4 new effects and probability.

All in all a very welcome and very cool update."