MATRIXSYNTH

The Tone Generation

Note: these are long, so you might want to bookmark this one for when you have time.
You might remember The Tone Generation from this post when the program was first announced. In short, it is a radio series on the history of electronic music. Thanks goes to this post on Califaudio for reminding me of the series. The next program will feature the RCA synthesizer. I am now subbed and will post when it comes in.

Update: if you prefer to download these as mp3s for the road or other, you can find them here.

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Oswin synthin out

via Joshua

"I promise this is not posed, everytime I put him on the ground this is the first thing he goes for!"

Don Buchla checks out Dave Smith's Mopho #1

flickr by Yotsuba&!

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"Don Buchla checks out serial number 1 Mopho synthesizer as Dave Smith looks on. Roger Linn's ear can be seen on the far right."

Be sure to see the updates in this post.

Del Shannon Runaway

YouTube via delshannonnetwork.

Inspired by this excellent post: Synth pop, circa 1961 on Sequence 15.

"Del Shannon singing "Runaway" which was a #1 hit in 1961. This became Del's first big smash and catapulted him to superstar status in over 21 countries. Max Crook was his organ player, playing a "musitron" which was built from parts from a clavioline, Viking 85 reel to reel machine, Fisher K-10 Reverb Spacexpander, a Gibson guitar amp, and several other parts and pieces. Maximilian's musitron was the perfect compliment to Del's soaring vocals and seering falsetto."

Update via Stephen:

Del Shannon Runaway live 1982

Re- Published on Aug 30, 2009 hastronder

Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 Rev 2 takes over the lead.

Del Shannon Runaway Live David Letterman 1986

YouTube via DelRocksMySpace.

Paul Schaffer on Oberheim OB-Xa. The audio isn't too good on this one, but it is fun to watch. Update: image of Max Crook via his website.

I'm guessing that's the "musitron" Clavioline.

Meet the bitfreak! (reaktor synth)

"This is the Bitfreak for Reaktor 5, it uses pseudo-random, or pitched noise (NES, Atari 2600) as it's main sound source, and more than 200 types of it!!!There is no other software synth that does anything even similar to this (I have no idea why, because it sounds awesome!). Now you have another good reason to get your hands on Reaktor 5!"
You can find the download on Veqtor's corner.

Admin: Note on Post Updates and a New Synth by Tom Oberheim?

Just a heads up, but you might want to check posts for updates. Always, check out the current and last day's worth of posts to be safe. When I update a post I will put the word Update in red so it is super easy to find. Just scroll and look for the red Updates. Click on Older Posts after the last post on each page and look at the date for each post. Also, new days are preceded with a header date in red.

For anything older than two days, I'll put up a new post to let you know an update went up.

Why might you want to do this? Well... You probably wouldn't want to miss something like the update in this post. Go look. It's worth it. Trust me. This one goes out to the people that read this blog. Now the question of course is, is it real? Time will tell...

JayB's new Yamaha AN1x patches

YouTube via Hanni13579. Part 1 here.
"The second video for my AN1x, with some more "up to date" sounds. ;) Hope you like it.
Download my sound bank FOR FREE at http://jayb.ath.cx/"

JayB's Yamaha AN1x patches

"Patches now available for download:
http://jayb.ath.cx/Sounds.php#AN1x"

NI Reaktor ensemble: Spiral sequencing Clavia Nord Lead 2

YouTube via modular77
"New Reaktor ensemble Spiral sequencing/arpeggiating Clavia Nord Lead 2. Kick drum is not being controlled by Reaktor/Spiral.. on another NL slot, the drum synth channel is running, with the NL arpeggio assigned to the kick timbre. NL arpeggiator is MIDI clock-slaved to Reaktor, and set to 'Hold.. "

Ultradorky Patch: Sequencing the BassMuRF with the Modular

YouTube via dkimcg
"MFB Seq-01 syncs up the Moogerfooger BassMuRF with the rest of the patch. Master clock is Logic which send out a MIDI clock into the Kenton Pro Solo MkII which send a clock signal into the Seq-01. A gate sends out a pulse to the tap/step input of the Bass MuRF, and syncs it to the MIDI clock."