MATRIXSYNTH

AVR Synth

"The AVRSYN is a monophonic "virtual analog" synth based, originally, on the Atmel AT90S8535 microcontroller and was designed by Jarek Ziembicki. His aim was to check to see if a simple micro could be used for sound synthesis purposes. And the result? The AT90S8535 managed to do all the tasks: front panel switches and pots services, receiving and processing MIDI messages, and sound generation!

The synthesis architecture is simple:-
two DCO's, a DCF, and a DCA. There is also an LFO and an AR/ASR envelope generator.

Sound samples: 1 2 3

Paul Maddox jumped in at this point and started to design a pcb for the unit but selected the
ATMEGA16 as the AT90S8535 is no longer a production item. Paul has had to temporarily withdraw from this process and so I have taken over the reigns and am releasing the pcb, along with an optional kit of components, to assist those who wish to build and/or develop their own AVR-based synthesiser."

via CDM

Akai MPC500 Official Site Up

Title link takes you there.

Doktorfuture's "Radio Modular"!

Update: I added a permanent link to the feed on the right.

Via Paulsop, aka Doctor Future:
"I've hooked up a feed of the main mixer from my modular and now stream it on the net. link

Here is a pic of what is making the sound.

Tonight's (and probably for the next few days) selection is minimal: 4 noise sources: white, pink, +/-, and + from a Modcan 07a (link). The +/- and + are sent to a Moog 904a lowpass and lovely glassy late model Arp Odyssey 4072 (Modcan 36a). These sounds are then sent to the Quadraphonic 33a surround position module (LFO's decide what the positioning is), and also through, to various modulated extents, two Ibanez AD202 and a Pioneer SR202 reverb. Envelopes and triggering is from Metalbox. Each day I'll tweak it (requests?) and keep it streaming.

I'm working on levels and stuff. There's no compression or anything. Just the modular->Motu Traveller->to stream. Let me know how it sounds? I am terrible with levels.

The modular is always on, and always squawking out something. Can't guarantee it'll be any good, but as far as I know, it's the first 24/7 modular source, so "yayz me!" It's all creative commons attribution stuff, so samples can of course be used.

Now, if other folk want to try something like this, I have plenty of bandwidth to host their radio streams. We could even make a 'meta modular' where we could, in real time, mix various modular streams (in a modular of course), and stream that out :)"

Very cool. Feel free to comment if you are interested."

The GRP Synthesizer

Via Antonio Tuzzi:

"Hi Matrix,

Paolo is friend of mine and he is building synth on demand: already 15 built! he has a very clean style, as you can see from the ebay A3 synth (on this ebay auction)

Is a mini style synth, but with 2 LFO, hard sync and cross modulation between the 3 oscillator and a ring modulator!

You can check his style in this other creation the 6 oscillator monster: the GRP Synthesiser"

PONG

Title link takes you gagmewithaspoon.com, the new website for Dave Lovelace's new band PONG. Note this is just a teaser site at the moment and the links do not yet work. Dave is the creator of The Packrat series and more.

"Here's a link to a teaser site I made for "PONG," the new '80s band that just got put together. It's basically like Plastica, but 100% New Wave hits (i.e. not as punk, nor anything too obscure), and possibly more in tune with the private party / wedding scene.

We're also going to stick with the original "cheese factor" of the originals as much as humanly possible to really make people feel like it's 20 years ago. It was very tempting in Plastica (as it is with other local bands that play an occasional oldie) to "rokk out" the wimpier hits (or just go for comedy), but this time around we're going to try to embrace the vintage sound and see what happens.

Should be an update in the next few months about gigs; for now we're dusting off our material. We only just completed auditions and got commitments from everyone within just this past week, actually..."