Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Erae 2 Sound Design - Hand Drums, Space & FX
video upload by embodme
"In this session, we dive deep into the expressive world of the Erae 2, exploring how its unique surface transforms sound design into a tactile experience. From organic hand drum rhythms to immersive space textures and evolving FX layers, this performance showcases how touch and movement can shape sound in real time.
🔹 Featuring: Custom patches, layered percussion, ambient effects, and gesture-based modulation.
🔹 Focus: Expressivity, sound sculpting, and spatial design on the Erae 2.
🔹 Gear: Erae 2 + synth & FX setup.
If you love experimental sound design, performance-based synthesis, or just want to hear what’s possible with the Erae 2 — this one’s for you."
Minimal electronic with norns shield & OP-1 field : Extreme Drop 2025-10-21 by atnr
video upload by atnr
"A piece created with norns shield and @teenageengineering OP-1 field.
A minimal ambient composition built from looping phrases and reverb-soaked synth pads that subtly shift in tone and rhythm.
On the norns shield, the script AWAKE is used to sequence the phrases. The trigger probability is set around 60–70%, creating a semi-random timing for each note. The phrase patterns are controlled via monome grid.
On the OP-1 field, harmonic synth pads are recorded live and looped on the spot, with additional hand-played layers performed over the loops.
Using @ChaseBlissAudio LOSSY, effects are applied to the norns shield’s sound. In the early section, a filter is manipulated to fade the sound in, while in the outro the tone shifts toward a more lo-fi texture.
Daily Sound Experiment No.668"
NEW 2025 Panoptigon Disc - TREMOLO VIOLIN/VIOLA featuring Batya MacAdam-Somer
video upload by optigandotcom
"Now available from the Quilter Labs web store! https://www.quilterlabs.com/collectio...
TREMOLO VIOLIN/VIOLA features our friend, violinist Batya MacAdam-Somer (https://www.batyamacadamsomer.com/) tremolo-ing on the violin (upper half of keyboard) and viola (lower half of keyboard).
TREMOLO VIOLIN/VIOLA can only be played on Panoptigon, and is not compatible with Optigan or Orchestron.
Violin & Viola by Batya MacAdam-Somer
Edited and mastered by Pea Hicks
Disc design and mastering by Robert Becker
Jacket label art direction and layout by Michael Buchmiller"
NEW 2025 Optigan Disc - VIOLASCAPE featuring Batya MacAdam-Somer
video upload by optigandotcom
"Now available from the Quilter Labs web store! https://www.quilterlabs.com/collectio...
VIOLASCAPE is the latest in our "scape" series of discs, particularly suited to creating rhythmic chordal textures. Our friend, violinist Batya MacAdam-Somer (https://www.batyamacadamsomer.com/) is featured on viola.
The time signature of this disc is 11/16, which means that if you play chord changes timed in a more familiar meter like 4/4 or 3/4, the rhythms of the music repeat over a longer cycle, creating more complexity. The chord buttons are simple pizzicato patterns that can be combined to create more complex interlocking rhythms and extended harmonies. The keyboard features bowed notes in a rhythmic pattern, offset with each other to create complex composite patterns when you hold down chords. The SFX tabs are similarly bowed patterns on 5ths.
Monday, October 20, 2025
This Synth Has Soul – Sequential Fourm Ambient Performance
video upload by Sineway
"I didn’t expect a dry, mono analog synth to sound alive. But the Sequential Fourm has something different - I'd go as far as saying it has a soul.
This performance is completely free-form: no tempo, no MIDI. I built a flute-like patch that reacts to touch in unpredictable, musical ways and just recorded it in one take. It's using polyphonic aftertouch, but there's something else going on that seems to come from the filter feedback and envelope.
Reverb and delay were added in Ableton to bring it all to life. I then recorded a couple of other layers in the same way, all from the Fourm.
❤️ Support my work and download the flute patch used in this jam by joining the Patreon community: / sineway
► Synth: Sequential Fourm
► Reverb and Delay: Ableton's Hybrid Reverb and Air Delay Pro
► Recorded live, no quantization, no midi
► Genre: Ambient? (Let me know if I'm off here - it's my first in this genre!)"
HiChord — Tiny Synth, BIG Sound | Unboxing & First Jam
video upload by Pocket Trax
Black model in previous posts here.
"Meet the HiChord, a pocket-sized synth that proves tiny gear can sound massive.
In this unboxing and first jam, I dive straight into its sound engine — exploring joystick chord control, dual-track looping, built-in drums, and that surprisingly big tone packed into a solid aluminium case.
🎛️ Highlights:
• Dual-track looper for live layering
• Expressive joystick for chord control
• Built-in drums & rechargeable LiPo battery
• MIDI in/out + USB-C connectivity
• Premium, ultra-compact metal design
🎧 Watch as I layer loops, experiment with its unique modes, and push this little synth to its limits — it’s way more powerful than it looks.
If you’re into pocket synths, grooveboxes, or mini studio setups, the HiChord might just become your next obsession.
👉 Learn more or grab one here: https://hichord.shop"
LoFi Tape Simulator with MetaModule
video upload by 4ms Company
"You can view the patch notes on our forum: https://forum.4ms.info/t/lofi-tape-si..."
Make Noise Live Demo + Q&A Coming to Perfect Circuit This Saturday 10/25
via Perfect Circuit
"Saturday 10/25: Make NoiseFounder in the Shop
We're stoked to host Tony Rolando this Saturday for a hangout and demonstration of Make Noise's New Universal Synthesizer System."
See Perefect Circuit's Event Page for additional details & upcoming events.
Erik Norlander Announces Keyboard Sale to Benefit the Bob Moog Foundation
Note: links to listings are affiliate links for which the site may be compensated.
Reverb's press release follows. Pics are via The Bob Moog Foundation. I'll be capturing some of the listings here on MATRIXSYNTH daily for posterty. See the Erik Norlander Listings label.
October 20, 2025 (Asheville, NC) – Musician, composer, and music technologist, Erik Norlander, is selling a collection of 40+ vintage and current synthesizers and keyboards on Reverb.com starting on October 6th. Thirty percent of the proceeds will be donated to the Bob Moog Foundation to support its work in education, archive preservation, and the operations of the Moogseum. Erik Norlander’s Bob Moog Foundation Benefit Sale can be accessed here.
Some of the notable synthesizers and keyboards for sale include: Oberheim Matrix-12, OB-Xa and OB-8 analog synthesizers, Rhodes (ARP) Chroma analog synthesizer, Rhodes Mark V and Mark II electric pianos, Farfisa Compact Duo CD/30 combo organ, Farfisa Syntorchestra, Korg Maxikorg DV800, Logan String Melody string synthesizer, Roland VP-330 MK-1 Vocoder, and the Waldorf Q wavetable synth keyboard, among many others.
“I am excited to offer part of my rather sprawling keyboard collection for sale to benefit the Bob Moog Foundation,” noted Norlander.
“I have been a supporter of the Foundation since 2007, and I strongly believe in generating funding to empower its work in education, archive preservation, and the operations of the Moogseum.”
Erik Norlander is an accomplished keyboardist, composer and producer with over 40 album credits including nine solo albums, seven with his Rocket Scientists project, and 11 albums with vocalist wife, Lana Lane. He serves as a member of the Board of Advisors of the Bob Moog Foundation. Erik toured and recorded with Asia Featuring John Payne from 2007 to 2014 and recorded two albums with the Asia spinoff project, Dukes of the Orient, in the years following. He toured extensively in the US and Europe in 2016-2018 with Last in Line featuring original Dio members Vinny Appice and Vivian Campbell. Before Last in Line, Erik toured with Big Noize, a supergroup featuring hard rock all stars, Joe Lynn Turner, Simon Wright and Carlos Cavazo. Erik also wrote the music and produced the album, Roswell Six - Beyond the Horizon, in 2009 for science fiction author, Kevin J. Anderson, in support of the first of his Terra Incognita fantasy novels.
Outside of the music world, Erik co-designed the UNO Synth analog synthesizers for IK Multimedia, carrying on the legacy of his design work on the legendary Alesis Andromeda analog synthesizer in the late 1990s. Erik also created IK Multimedia’s Syntronik virtual instrument libraries based solely on samples of his synth collection along with scores of sample libraries for SampleTank 4. Prior to that, Erik was the first synthesizer product manager for Alesis Studio Electronics and presided over the creation of the QS series of synthesizers, DM5 and DM Pro drum modules and several other products. He is currently the Director of Keyboard Product Development for Moog Music and the inMusic Family of Brands."
Reverb's press release follows. Pics are via The Bob Moog Foundation. I'll be capturing some of the listings here on MATRIXSYNTH daily for posterty. See the Erik Norlander Listings label.
October 20, 2025 (Asheville, NC) – Musician, composer, and music technologist, Erik Norlander, is selling a collection of 40+ vintage and current synthesizers and keyboards on Reverb.com starting on October 6th. Thirty percent of the proceeds will be donated to the Bob Moog Foundation to support its work in education, archive preservation, and the operations of the Moogseum. Erik Norlander’s Bob Moog Foundation Benefit Sale can be accessed here.
Some of the notable synthesizers and keyboards for sale include: Oberheim Matrix-12, OB-Xa and OB-8 analog synthesizers, Rhodes (ARP) Chroma analog synthesizer, Rhodes Mark V and Mark II electric pianos, Farfisa Compact Duo CD/30 combo organ, Farfisa Syntorchestra, Korg Maxikorg DV800, Logan String Melody string synthesizer, Roland VP-330 MK-1 Vocoder, and the Waldorf Q wavetable synth keyboard, among many others.
“I am excited to offer part of my rather sprawling keyboard collection for sale to benefit the Bob Moog Foundation,” noted Norlander.
“I have been a supporter of the Foundation since 2007, and I strongly believe in generating funding to empower its work in education, archive preservation, and the operations of the Moogseum.”
Erik Norlander is an accomplished keyboardist, composer and producer with over 40 album credits including nine solo albums, seven with his Rocket Scientists project, and 11 albums with vocalist wife, Lana Lane. He serves as a member of the Board of Advisors of the Bob Moog Foundation. Erik toured and recorded with Asia Featuring John Payne from 2007 to 2014 and recorded two albums with the Asia spinoff project, Dukes of the Orient, in the years following. He toured extensively in the US and Europe in 2016-2018 with Last in Line featuring original Dio members Vinny Appice and Vivian Campbell. Before Last in Line, Erik toured with Big Noize, a supergroup featuring hard rock all stars, Joe Lynn Turner, Simon Wright and Carlos Cavazo. Erik also wrote the music and produced the album, Roswell Six - Beyond the Horizon, in 2009 for science fiction author, Kevin J. Anderson, in support of the first of his Terra Incognita fantasy novels.
Outside of the music world, Erik co-designed the UNO Synth analog synthesizers for IK Multimedia, carrying on the legacy of his design work on the legendary Alesis Andromeda analog synthesizer in the late 1990s. Erik also created IK Multimedia’s Syntronik virtual instrument libraries based solely on samples of his synth collection along with scores of sample libraries for SampleTank 4. Prior to that, Erik was the first synthesizer product manager for Alesis Studio Electronics and presided over the creation of the QS series of synthesizers, DM5 and DM Pro drum modules and several other products. He is currently the Director of Keyboard Product Development for Moog Music and the inMusic Family of Brands."
Oberheim Matrix 12 Analog 12-Voice Synthesizer, with deluxe custom ATA flight case
Note: links to listings are affiliate links for which the site may be compensated.
video upload by moogfoundation
via this Reverb listing
See if you can spot the Matrix-6 screen. I think that was accident. Capturing it for posterity. :)
"A towering icon of analog synthesis! Nicely restored, beautifully preserved, and built to tour or record for another lifetime.
This Oberheim Matrix-12 is in very good condition, has been restored by Rosensound, with some recent restorations performed by synth legend and former Oberheim engineer Marcus Ryle. It comes in a new, custom-built, heavy-duty flight case. It’s a US version, upgraded with a new control panel overlay from Sweet Discrete (UK) for a clean, sharp aesthetic. Everything functions beautifully; a truly top-shelf example of one of the most powerful analog polysynths ever built.
Cosmetic notes: the Sweet Discrete panel overlay LED registration is a bit off in a few places, so some LEDs look slightly off center (as shown in an included close-up image). Performance is not affected. The new overlay generally looks beautiful, but not strictly 10/10. There is also some stubborn tape residue on a few of the keys which can also be seen in the photos.
Details:
12 voices, each with 2 analog oscillators, multimode filter, and extensive routing
Legendary 96-point modulation matrix; no menus, just raw power
Velocity and pressure sensitivity, 5-stage envelopes, and complex LFOs
Massive analog presence with surgical control
US voltage model (no step-down needed)
New road-ready flight case included, $600+ value
Restored by Rosensound and Marcus Ryle, two of the most trusted names in analog synth servicing
New Sweet Discrete panel overlay from the UK; clean, legible, and sharp
Used by Hans Zimmer, Keith Emerson, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, and countless electronic pioneers, the Matrix-12 is the pinnacle of analog polyphonic design; often called “the last great analog monster.”
30% of this sale supports the Bob Moog Foundation, preserving the history of synthesis and inspiring future creators."
video upload by moogfoundation
via this Reverb listing
See if you can spot the Matrix-6 screen. I think that was accident. Capturing it for posterity. :)
"A towering icon of analog synthesis! Nicely restored, beautifully preserved, and built to tour or record for another lifetime.This Oberheim Matrix-12 is in very good condition, has been restored by Rosensound, with some recent restorations performed by synth legend and former Oberheim engineer Marcus Ryle. It comes in a new, custom-built, heavy-duty flight case. It’s a US version, upgraded with a new control panel overlay from Sweet Discrete (UK) for a clean, sharp aesthetic. Everything functions beautifully; a truly top-shelf example of one of the most powerful analog polysynths ever built.
Cosmetic notes: the Sweet Discrete panel overlay LED registration is a bit off in a few places, so some LEDs look slightly off center (as shown in an included close-up image). Performance is not affected. The new overlay generally looks beautiful, but not strictly 10/10. There is also some stubborn tape residue on a few of the keys which can also be seen in the photos.
Details:
12 voices, each with 2 analog oscillators, multimode filter, and extensive routing
Legendary 96-point modulation matrix; no menus, just raw power
Velocity and pressure sensitivity, 5-stage envelopes, and complex LFOs
Massive analog presence with surgical control
US voltage model (no step-down needed)
New road-ready flight case included, $600+ value
Restored by Rosensound and Marcus Ryle, two of the most trusted names in analog synth servicing
New Sweet Discrete panel overlay from the UK; clean, legible, and sharp
Used by Hans Zimmer, Keith Emerson, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, and countless electronic pioneers, the Matrix-12 is the pinnacle of analog polyphonic design; often called “the last great analog monster.”
30% of this sale supports the Bob Moog Foundation, preserving the history of synthesis and inspiring future creators."
Erik Norlander's Oberheim OB-8 vintage analog 8-Voice Synthesizer
Note: links to listings are affiliate links for which the site may be compensated.
video upload by moogfoundation
via this Reverb listing
video upload by moogfoundation
via this Reverb listing
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