MATRIXSYNTH

2010 Goals for Ruin & Wesen

* polishing the Minicommand firmwares
* creating a community around Mididuino
* releasing our first analogue synthesizers

Read more about each on Ruin & Wesen

Optigan Call for Music Concrete

via Optigan.com

"In December 2010 we plan to release an experimental Optigan disc called “Musique Concrète,” which will essentially be a collage of 57 sound loops in the tradition of early electronic studio tape music. We’re completely disregarding the Optigan paradigm of chords and keys, and simply assigning a different abstract sound loop to each chord button and key. We thought that the most interesting approach for this disc would be to invite Optigoners everywhere to submit sound loops of their own making (please, no samples from commercial or copyrighted sources), from which we’ll choose the best for inclusion on the disc." See the link above for more info.

Scion Magazine 15: Casper Electronics

Scion Magazine 15: Casper Electronics from Scion A/V on Vimeo.

"With a drill and a soldering iron, circuit bender Casper Electronics manages to make a toy megaphone sound even weirder. For much more go to scionav.com/lifestyle/scionmagazine."

The Akai iPK25 Still Lives?

It's listed for $99 on the Nova Musik website here. No release date listed, but according to Chris in the comments of this post, Guitar Center and Musician's Friend have the release date listed as March 3rd. Still nothing on the Akai site.

Update: I heard from Akai. It is still on track, same price and release date. The name has officially changed to the SynthStation25. The info page was removed at Apple's request.

"The Akai iPK25...now renamed SynthStation25 does in fact live. When developing hardware for Apple ipod products, Apple has a large number of hoops for developers to jump through. There was one hoop we missed so Apple made us take down the information from our web page. We are now working our way through this issue and it will be back up on the web page when we are allowed to put it back there. This has not affected shipping dates or anything, just our ability to have info regarding it up on our web page."

1Song1Week1Year - Week04 - DotGame

YouTube via DJDJSMusic. more vids here
"Week 4's song in my project to write one song each week for the year 2010.
This week once again thinking of the electronic music of the 70's and 80's that inspires me.
But once again at 120 BPM with a solid beat"

Circuit Bent Yamaha RX7 and Nintendo NES

YouTube via Destroyifyer
" This is a circuit bent Yamaha RX7 and an NES. As a warning, there are many loud, high pitched sounds in this video."

via this auction
"4 point patch grid on both machines, RX7 has a 24 channel mixer split into 4 groups of 6 by 3 switches. The RX7 has 6 fully routable pots (four 50k, one 250k and one 500k) connected by 5 switches and a 6th routes the last to the first making a loop. The NES has 8 routable pots (six 50k, one 100k, and one 250k) connected by 7 switches with an 8th that routes the last to the first. The video and the sound of the NES can be modified, triggered and controlled with the RX7, and the NES can mod its own picture by itself as well as sounds of the RX7. Both machines are fully functional, the NES is excellent and plays games without hesitation or glitches. RX7 will come with many of the drums edited, which can all easily be reset to the original factory settings if desired. A couple of the factory kits have been delightfully mangled to be very non-decaying and sound oriented to take a break from drum sounds if you wish... these can be easily overwritten (although they have been saved with the factory settings if they are missed). The RX7 is capable of making many non-drum noises and by both using the patch-grid and programming the machine a good selection of sounds can be achieved. It is recommended to research the RX7 and its capabilities if unfamiliar with this machine. Accessories include an NES controller, a 9V power adapter and random game for the NES, a power adapter and owner's manual for the RX7, as well as plenty of patch cables. The price of shipping includes insurance. For international bidders, please contact me a day or so in advance for a shipping quote. These machines will go to the highest bidder and ship out somewhat immediately.

Right-click and "save target as" or similar mac operation to listen.

Sound Sample One
Sound Sample Two
Sound Sample Three"

Sold For: $425.00

ELKA SYNTHEX SAMPLED (2)

YouTube via soundsofsynthex.

via this auction follow-up to this post.

"(my apologies for not being a musician...lol...Also the noises crackels and pops are due to the videocamera poor quality microphones...the samples are crispy clean :-)

My own project of the Elka Synthex multisampled professionally, on 2 DVD, 9773 WAV files for a total of over 8 Gb covering all 80 factory presets and memory presets, a great chance to own the sounds of this fantastic synthesizer. Choose your format from the following:

Halion (Steinberg)
EXS24 (Apple)
Kontakt (Native Instruments)
Sampletank (IK Multimedia)
Reason (Propellerheads)
VSampler (MAZ Sound Tools)
Soundfont (EMU)
Gigasampler (Tascam)
Structure (Digidesign)

You are buying 2 DVDs with a unique product not available anywhere else, result of hours and hours of efforts in achieving the best possible quality. Free shipping worldwide."