pzlonvent - New Flickr Set

flickr by pzlonvent. Title link takes you to a drool worthy set starting with Astrid.

Son of Frankensynth

Title link takes you to the module listings on Buzzlick Music.

EMS Synthi A/VCS3 Synthesizer Voice Card

Shot via this auction.

Chrispy Synthesizer

Title link takes you there. Not much info. Looks like a DIY synth. If anyone knows more about this one, feel free to post a comment.

via sequencer.de.

solventlive - New Flickr Shot

flickr toybreaker.

feedback loop 004 - New Flickr Shot

flickr by Mike M.

The Korgs - New Flickr Shot

flicky by Ian Tindale. Title link takes you to more.

The SMS Matrix

One knob to rule them all. Via Mike Jerugim.

The Song of the Dunes

That's right. Apparently you can create sound with sand dunes. Title link takes you to some video samples so you can see and hear it for yourself. Below is the abstract from this white paper. I guess if you can "play" water, why not sand. Another one of Earth's synthesizers.

"Since Marco Polo [1] it has been known that some sand dunes have the peculiar ability of emitting a loud sound with a well-defined frequency, sometimes for several minutes. The origin of this sustained sound has remained mysterious, partly because of its rarity in nature. It has been recognized that the sound is not due to the air flow around the dunes but to the motion of an avalanche, and not to an acoustic excitation of the grains but to their relative motion. By comparing several singing dunes and two controlled experiments, one in the laboratory and one in the field, we finally demonstrate here that the frequency of the sound is the frequency of the relative motion of the sand grains. The sound is produced because some moving grains synchronize their motions. The existence of a velocity threshold in both experiments further shows that this synchronization comes from an acoustic resonance within the flowing layer: if the layer is large enough it creates a resonance cavity in which grains self-synchronize. Sound files are provided as supplementary materials."

Peter Zinovieff Electronic Music Dairy Summer 1976

This one in via First Last.

http://members.tripod.com/werdav/vocpzino.htm

Peter Zinovieff was the founder of EMS.

"Electronic Music Studios Ltd (EMS) London, England. Beginning in a backyard bomb shelter, Peter Zinovieff has created the EMS Company devoted solely to the production of electronic music instruments." Quote pulled from this page.

Some excerpts from the diary:

"Today is another grey day ... I wish I was in Raasay. There was a storm last night and the studio roof started to leak. It has leaked every year since it was built and every year it is repaired. Water is dripping onto the computer section. Part of the ceiling looks as if it is going to collapse."

"What an idiosyncratic place they must have found EMS. Chickens in the garden. Computers in the basement. Children rushing around the kitchen. I wisk Sofka to school on the Honda. I meet Robin half way down Putney Hill. 400 yards zoom. "

"We discuss, rather drunkenly, the future of synthesizers and how organs are becoming more like synthesizers and synthesizers more like organs I explain that I have decided that EMS should not try and compete in this market but that we should continue to stick to educational and sophisticated machines."

"I tell Ludwig about the terrible week that has just passed and the exciting constructive week that lies ahead. Ludwig tells me of the bad financial state we are in and how the studio is too expensive for EMS to support and how I'm too extravagant. I can tell he is tired. I suggest that we discuss it at the EMS meeting tomorrow. Already then the meeting is diluted from microprocessors and Bessel functions into one of financial fussing. Another decision.
Later Ludwig quietens down. Nothing better than tea and cake, wine and a peat fire. We really get on very well. It must be a nightmare running EMS' financial affairs. We get to bed at about 1. I am glad Ludwig is back."

"We discuss the Glasgow Hospital project. This is an application that has been submitted to the Wolfson Foundation for a large amount of money to be spent on the computer interrogation of patients and the computer diagnosis of their illnesses. Apparently the right 12 questions could diagnose any known disease. The idea is that the patients will be asked questions in regional accents by the computer. They would then respond by pressing a set of simple keys. Yes, no, sometimes etc. EMS will provide all the hardware and the hospital would provide the doctors. It would be very interesting if it works. Alan will be in charge of the project."

"I must stop the EMS people drinking too much at these lunches. Peter Eastty will be slurred and cantakerous this afternoon if he has any more.
All the EMS team are very high powered. Even though some - like David Cockerell, Richard Monkhouse and Alan Sutcliffe are friends and consultants, they still play an enormously important role in the company. We are extremely lucky. "

"Two pop stars arrive with a roadie at 7. They meet everyone going off from the meeting to play pool at the pub. David and Tim are experts at billiards. In Raasay we found an old bagatelle set. I hope it pulls them back there. David walked in snow for the first time in his life at the new year in Raasay.
It soon turns out that the roadie is the greatest pop-star. He's from Tangerine Dream. One of the others wears a long furry earring. Call me Indie Robin recognises him from Chicago. He says he's travelling incognito. It's a good earring he wears for that.
German pop-stars always seem more workmanlike than Americans. English ones fall into one or other camp but usually are dressed up. The Germans wear scruffy jeans and shave. They have come to look at the Vocoder. We also show them the latest modules that Tim is making.
Robin soon takes them off for who knows what with some friends. Rose, Leo and I go to a newly-opened Russian restaurant in Putney. I become maudlin for the gypsies and the islands of Petersboorg that I never knew."

"I had a terrible dream last night about my neck being cut away leaving my head stuck rigid on my body. I woke rather sick. It must have been too much wine at dinner. Suddenly I realise that it is pouring with rain and that I had removed the polythene sheeting from the roof for Hans' lunch the day before yesterday. That is why I had nightmares and why I feel sick.
My worst fears are justified. Water is once again pouring into the studio. Two panels have fallen off the ceiling Onto the computer racks."

"We open a bottle of Champagne. Ludwig thinks I am extravagant. After lunch Richard comes with the video camera interface. It works as soon as he plugs in the board. My programs have been adapted and we are able to test it straight away.
With this invention I am able to derive patterns from a video image. At the sirnplest these images might be a waveform drawn on a piece of graph paper but at a more complex level I think I will be able to derive very useful musical patterns from more random video images. For instance say I point the camera at a flower and say I apportion density of image to harmonic content and I scan from left to right across the stern of the flower. Then imagine that these sounds are pretty mediocre. Dull. Say then that I turn the camera slightly to the left or choose another flower. Will the sounds be more or less interesting? They certainly won't be the same. What images will give the best sounds. In a way it is getting a video picture to provide a pattern for improvisation.
We try it out. I point the camera into the garden. I run VOCAB and I assign the Video parameters to control DOB.
Suddenly the most marvellously rich, varied and amazing sounds come pouring out of the speakers. They ripple and change. They are the first alssolutely fantastic sounds that the oscillator bank has made. Everyone is moved. At first no-one believes that they are not pr~omposed but as I turn the camera the sounds change. They are convinced. In some ways we are frightened. It's like in the story of tuning in to the death cries of roses as they are cut.
We call over Ludwig. He rings up Germany. I ring David in Paris we hold the telephone to the loudspeakers but there is probably little chance that they can hear what is going on. The children come down. I dare not alter anything. Perhaps the program has got into a random loop. I save it and restart it. Wherever I point the camera there is another set of sounds. Each more rich and varied than the last.
I must keep this a secret. I shall give it to Harry for Orpheus. We must not allow these marvellous things to be heard for a year or two. Apollo's gift to Orpheus was music. I wonder where these sounds come from. Perhaps it's not fluke that we have been working on Orpheus for 3 years. This is our reward.
What a day ! Perhaps all days will now be magical again!
I shall use the last seven days of this journal for my Glasgow Musica Nova talk.
Peter Zinovieff
Summer 1976
source: Bulletin of the Computer Arts Society May 1977 "

The Keytek CTS2000

Title link takes you to more including samples on DVDBorn.
"It's a wavetable synth with 2 oscillators/voice, 8 voices and analogue CEM 3389 filters, the same as in the Waldorf Microwave I. Each digital oscillator can read up to three wave tables at a time."

Mini Moog - New Flickr Shot

flickr by corkyburger. That would be a Voyager. Title link takes you to the full size shot where you can zoom in.

ARP 4012 Filter

Another shot of an ARP filter pulled from this auction. Funny. I never realized they looked like this. Learn something new every day... Check out the seller's other items as well.

filters - New Flickr Shot

flickr by shistec ra. Trips me out that the ARP filter modules came in little boxes like that. Title link takes you to more.

Update via inverse room in the comments:
"The Yamaha SY-2's filters are potted the same way...they were the same as the ones in the GX-1. Check this out, Old Crow tried (successfully) to replicate them by melting away the resin and identifying the parts: link."

Wolfram Tones

I missed putting a post up on this when I first saw it as I thought it was just a site to make ringtones. Turns out you can do that and a lot more.

"WolframTones works by taking simple programs from Wolfram's computational universe, and using music theory and Mathematica algorithms to render them as music. Each program in effect defines a virtual world, with its own special story--and WolframTones captures it as a musical composition."

via Doktor Future:

"I've used Mathematica for about 15 years now and have even used it as a synthesizer ala csound and even metasynth. It has functions built in for convolution, FFT's, and all sorts of stuff. Want an oscillator? just make a matrix with SIN's. It plays audio too. It can also be used to read and write MIDI! Not too shabby for a 'math' package :)

Here's a list of some of the 'notebooks' you can download to do this sort of stuff: link

(the list is interesting, but you need Mathematica to do anything in it)

There are few programs in the world as comprehensive as Mathematica. I went down to Champaign Illinois and visited their HQ in fall of last year.

Oh, and here's a really dull help file that shows you how to make a scale, and do stuff like play a perfect 5th.

link

It's texty, not sexy :)"

SynclavierX on DVDBorn

"SynclavierX is an OS X application to control actual Synclavier voice cards and memory without the need of the obsolete original computer." Title link takes you to more on DVDBorn, including links to resources, PostPro, Sound Design, and Reference manuals.

InSEQt Sequencer

Sequencer by Anyware Instruments, maker of the SEMtex. Title link takes you to more on sequencer.de.

Nature Diorama with Natural Synthesizer and Electronic Birds

Title link takes you there.

via sequencer.de.

Bontempi! - New Flickr Shot

flickr by stigeredoo.

The SMS Cinema Display and The SMS Matrix

The SMS Cinema Display via Mike Jerugim.
Add some knobs just above the keys and you'd be set.


Update: The SMS Matrix via Mike Jerugim. One knob to rule them all.

Oberheim OB-Xa

Title link takes you to shots pulled from this auction. It's currently at $2425.

Zero OSC in the Kitchen

Via Doktor Future in the comments of this post:

one
two
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updates via the comments:
From Doktor Future: 1, 2.
From Mono/Poly: link

Cynthia Zero Oscillator in Dotcom Format

Title link takes you to Cyndustries. Click on image for bigger shot.

Alesis Ion - Inside and Out

Title link takes you to more shots of the Alesis Ion - inside and out. Via Yan.

Soma Synthesizers - New Flickr Shot

flickr by get directly down.

PAIA Logo - New Flickr Shot

flickr by invisiblemute.

Moog Rock - New Flickr Shot

flickr by Lost America.

Bleeps and Bloops Update

Remember bleeps and bloops? Title link takes you to an update.

Mark Camp

Title link takes you to Mark Camp's photo set. Electron shots after the hop.

Animal Synth P*rn

Ok, get your head out of the gutter. CDM has a refreshing post up on Adorable Animals with Synthesizers, and Matrixsynth got a mention! Some cool shots and a good read to start the weekend. Title link takes you there. Thanks Peter! Oh, and you might notice, dogs! Check out the puppy named synthesizer after the hop. Someone get me a shot of Elhardt. : o

Liteworks

Title link takes you to a free download of Liteworks, a new album by Mike Mayfield. Lots of analog - kit list below. What's interesting is Mike did this in Texas while in exile from New Orleans due to Katrina.

Make sure to check out the rest of Backporch Revolution. Via Alec: "The Katrina connection is that Mike (like all of us on the label) being New Orleans residents were forced to evacuate and live in exile for a number of months. Mike used that time to make music, hence this project. We're also about to release a compilation CD of all our N.O. bands; see this link."



Kit List for Liteworks:
Moog Prodigy
Roland Juno-60
Roland SVC-350 vocoder
Ace Tone organ
Kimball Swinger organ
Thumb Piano
Ace Tone Rhythm Ace
Korg Rhythm 55
Roland CR78 Compurhythm
Various Electro Harmonix pedals
Akai MPC 2000
Tambourine and shakers

6 AM - Wanderland

Remember this shot by Rui Peixoto? Rui posted this killer triphop track on AH showcasing Modcan (basses and leads), Absynth, Battery and some drum loops. Check it out. It's not only a great showcase for these synths, it's a great track. Title link takes you to his site, Wanderland.net.

ALISA-1377

Title link takes you to shots pulled from this auction. via Brian Comnes.

Details (apologies for the uppercase, but I don't have the time to edit this):
"ALISA-1377 - RARE SOVIET-ERA MONOPHONE ANALOG VINTAGE SYNTH BUILT IN 1983 BY LUBERETSKY PLANT IN THE SOVIET UNION!

HERE DESCRIPTIONS FROM THE BOOK "VINTAGE SYNTH'S A-Z" BY PETER FORREST: Alisa 1377 - 44-note (F-C) 1-VCO monosynth. Designed as a standard monosynth, but also a source of "non-standardelectrical signals for scientific and educational needs". VCO has controls for waveform, FM, mod amount, PWM, harmonics, portamento, tuning, and octave switching. Simple vibrato LFO; VCF; ADSR. Switching is generally done with push-buttons.
IT IS BUILT LIKE A ROCK OF THICK STEEL AND SIDEPANELS ARE REAL WOOD. THE SOUND OF THIS LITTLE BEAST IS BRAIN DAMAGING!!! CRYSTAL CRISP WITH INCREDIBLE LOWS. YOU CAN FIND SOME EXAMPLES HERE.
No midi, no CV/Gate are installed. US customers will need a step-up power converter (this machine operates at 220V/50-60Hz). THE SET INCLUDES: ALISA-1377 SYNTHESIZER, POWER CORD, 5-DIN TO 1/4 JACK ADAPTER. "

"PANEL KNOBS:
- VIBRATO GENERATOR - FREQ, 1/10HZ SWITCH, GEN ON/OFF, WAVEFORMS (SAW, SQUARE)
- TONE GENERATOR - TUNING, OCTAVE SHIFT +1/+2, WAVEFORMS (TRIANGLE, SAW, SQUARE, PULSE - CAN WORKS SIMULTANEOUSLY!), PORTAMENTO, FM, PWM, HARMONICS
- FILTER - TUNING (WAVES SYNC), RESONANCE, VIBRATO (LFO), ADSR ON/OFF
- CONTOUR (AMP) - ADSR, FILTER ADSR
- OUT - MAIN LEVEL, OUT ON/OFF
- CONNECTIONS - LINE OUT, PHONES (REAR PANEL)
Dimensions - 700X360X150MM
Weight - 9 kgs"

Warning on YouTube

Just in case you plan to upload that next big hit...

"Before you upload that video of your 19-person indie rocker reggae band, for instance, you may want to read the fine print. YouTube's "new" Terms & Conditions allow them to sell whatever you uploaded however they want"

Click through for the full story. Then click here for more.

Arak and Legion

Legion sent me this funny video of his cats going at it. I noticed one of his cats looked like a black bombay. My cat JD is also a black cat and he's hasn't been doing too well lately. I mentioned the video reminded me of a younger more energetic JD to Legion and he said he knows the feeling. He lost his main bud, Arak. I asked him if I could ask a few questions as my wife and I were weighing options with JD. Legion was cool enough to oblige and I thank him for that. The picture in this post is a shot of legion and Arak. This post goes out to the pets that tolerate our habits. : ) Cheers Arak, and thanks Legion.

The SMS Yeti

There are some interesting updates on the SMS 2000 in the comments of this post as well as this HC thread. Entertaining stuff if you don't take all of this too seriously. I don't. Apparently all shots of the SMS 2000 have been saved with Photoshop 5 and have the same RGB profile as an image recently posted by Elhardt. Smoking gun?

Yeti shot by pizzamon. Good work pizzamon. : )

Another good one by mgd below.

JMJ Revolutions Performed by Carlos Feijão on YouTube

Sakata DPM48

Shots and details pulled from this auction.

"Very nice condition cool sounding 80's drum machine with volume sliders, lots of knobs and individual outputs. It comes with its original box. A rare item, it sounds retro and dirty...looks oldschool, it has no optical damage whatsoever. The sequence module is included with this auction. Sync this to a analog synth and you are in electro heaven"
If anyone knows more about this drum machine, please post in the comments. This one in via Rasmus A. Nyaaker.

Update via Roberto in the comments: More on the Sakata DPM48.


Update via hinotori mortal in the comments:

"hi
i am the proud owner of 2 of the DPM-48 drum machines.
they were originally made by SAKATA a company which, to my knowledge, only ever produced this machine. . . its design and name were then bought out by HAMMOND, and hammond produced this machine for a short time. . . before they decided their leap into the world of drummachines was a waste. . .largely due to the painfully high price that hammond were marketing them at.... . the machine was then marketed by JUGGBOX.
they are EPROM based drum machines and are incredibly incredibly difficult to use without a manual .
i have a copy of the manual in japanese. . and this helps a little. . but if anyone has the manual in english please let me know . . . :)

the only person i have heard of using this machine was prince .

it has an amazing sound to it, if you love the LINNDRUM / DMX / DRUMULATOR . .
very punchy lo resolution hip hop sounds .

i have another version of this machine loaded with the "electronic drum set"

as there is little information about this machine anywhere, im unsure as to wether the "electronic" version was actually produced by JUGGBOX or by yet another company . .

it is easily synced to my tr606, having a din sync in and out i chain them together in serial .

there is currently a midified version of this machine on an auction site in japan going for around 500 GBP.

!!!!!!!

i will put images of my DPM48s onto my flickr account for those whoare interested.

if you want the DPM sounds without the hardware then they are included in NOSTALGIA . in the "rare beat boxes" section . . . of course ;) "

elegant people - weather report on YouTube

Some Oberheim 4 voice, ARP 2600, Rhodes and more, although only the Rhodes seems to get the action in this performance. Via Pete.

Bruce Haack

Remember Bruce Haack and The King of Techno? Title link takes you to some audio of Bruce Haack's work courtesy of Pete.

Cooper Black in the Moog Documentary

flickr by sealine76. I just like this shot for some reason. More on Edd Kalehoff here. Anyone know what documentary this was from? I don't remember it from the current one for some reason.

Update via Max Kalehoff in the comments:
"It originally was from a Schaefer beer commercial, which featured my dad, Edd Kalehoff, playing the Moog. I recently wrote a post on it here: link."

I remember this from the recent documentary now. There was a clip from the beer commercial.

mdn303 - New Flickr Set

mdn303 just posted a buttload of synth shots on flickr. There are some really nice ones in this set. Title link takes you there.

Coagula - Industrial Strength Color-Note Organ

"Coagula is an image synth. This means that it is both a program for creating and manipulating images, and a program for generating sound from those images. You can use Coagula to generate rich and complex synth sounds. There are special drawing tools to help you create the pictures." Title link takes you there. Via Doktor Future in the comments of this post:

"I have solved the Buchla problem. Get Coagula, which can make music from a JPEG. Load the Buchla JPEG into Coagula, and hear the Buchla MP3. Finally we can hear MP3's of even retro synths too precious to record and share, or imaginary synths that don't even exist.

Thanks Coagula!"

Update via Brian Comnes in the comments:
"Well FruityLoops softare has had a picture to sound conversion tool for several years....stick in a shot of Pamela Anderson and you hear Kid Rock howling at the moon ....whether or not that is Buchla-like is another matter"

blue science - New Flickr Shot

flicker by arrika. Inside a Blue Roland SH-101. Title link takes you to grey science.

Buchla 100

Two shots in via Rick of electricmusicbox.

"This is a Large 38 module CBS era Buchla 100 assembled around 1969/70. The System has undergone complete repair/restoration including refinishing of the cabinetry and cleaning of all the front panels and hardware. It looks sureal in person, the pictures don't do it justice."

micro composer - New Flickr Shot

flickr by arrrika. Synths and cats, synths in nature...

Prophet VS Rack for $175

Title link takes you to the closed auction with a Buy it Now of $175. Just wanted to shar the pain...

"This is a rare but very cool find. It's in excellent working condition and in very good shape aesthetically considereing its age! It was used by a world class film composer. You probably would hear sounds from this unit in some of his earlier film scores. Power cord is included but no manual. Vector Synthesis is a type of audio synthesis introduced by Sequential Circuits in the Prophet VS synthesizer during 1986. The concept was subsequently used by Yamaha in the SY22/TG33 and similar instruments and by Korg in the Wavestation. Controlling the mix of four sound waves by defining a point on a vector plane using a joystick The Prophet VS vector synthesizer, which was Sequential's only digital synthesizer, came out in early 1986. Boasting a synthesis scheme known as vector synthesis, it combined the revolutionary digital waveform generator and vector joystick to the tried and proven analog Curtis filter, and resulted in a unique instrument with a very distinct sound. It still sees heavy use today despite its reliance on rare custom components with a high failure rate. Vector synthesis provides movement in a sound by providing dynamic cross-fading between (usually) four sound sources. The four sound sources are conceptually arranged as the extreme points of X and Y axes, and typically labelled A, B, C and D. A given mix of the four sound sources can be represented by a single point in this 'vector plane'. Movement of the point provides sonic interest and is the power of this technique. Mixing is frequently done using a joystick, although the point can be controlled using envelope generators or LFOs. "

Matrixsynth Flickr Badge and Set

You might notice a new flickr box in the right nav. It's not an ad. It's a random image player of all the shots in the Matrixsynth flickr set. Title link takes you to the set. I created it because I thought it would be a cool alternative to digging through the archives. Each image is a shot from a post in the archives. Click on one and it will bring you to the shot on flickr. The description of the shot on flickr is a link to the post on Matrixsynth. The idea is if you see an image that strikes you, click on it and check out the post. So far I have July 2005 through September 2005 for a total of 440 shots. I will add to the set as I have time. The goal is obviously to get every single shot in a post in the set. I promised myself I would put this up on my one year anniversary finished or not. The Matrixsynth flickr set of all posts also just went public today. If the images in the right nav are too small, try it instead. Please enjoy. This was an excruciatingly tedious and time consuming thing to do. : )

One Year Of Matrixsynth

The short version:

Today marks the one year anniversary of Matrixsynth. It's exactly one year and 3148 posts since I started this site to track everything synth. Thanks to everyone who makes this site great by either sending stuff in, posting in the comments or spreading the word.

The long version:
I started this blog because my old site Matrixsynth.com/old simply wasn't cutting it anymore. I created the original site in October 1997 as my portal into the world of synths. I'd see an interesting site and add a link (BTW, the alias matrix and the green on black color scheme came well before The Matrix movies. My first and favorite synth was an Oberheim Matrix-6, hence matrix. I'm a synth geek not a Matrix movie geek).

As time when on I found it difficult to find stuff I previously came across. So... I figured what better way to store and make all of this available to others than via a blog. The idea is very simple. I sub to a bunch of lists, feeds and forums; people send me stuff, I interact with people and I see things I want to save for posterity. When I see something I think I might want to see again, I post it. No discrimination. BTW, if you haven't noticed, this site is not meant to be a journal or publication. It's just a bunch of stuff about synths. If you enjoy synths, I hope you enjoy what you see here. It's a heartbeat on what others also into synths are doing, or rather what I happen to come across on a daily basis. Nothing more, nothing less.

When I first started the blog I never would have guessed so much stuff was out there. People asked me if I thought I would ever run out of things to post. I actually wondered myself. The answer turned out to be only if others out there run out of things to share themselves. Which leads me to...

THANK YOU

I want to say thank you to everyone out there who supports this blog. Anyone that has sent me something worth posting. Anyone that takes the time out to engage in the comments and of course everyone that reads this site and spreads the word. Thank you. It's actually crazy. I started the blog to track stuff only I came across. It's turned out to be a whole lot more. I never would have thought people would be enriching the site via the comments and letting me know when there was something else worthwhile posting. Thank you. BTW, you should notice that I frequently update my posts with comments and I always give credit when credit is due.

As a side note, at one point I offered to open up Matrixsynth for others to post but I got a resounding NO, so I created SYNTHWIRE for others to sign up and start posting. You can also promote your own stuff there, so use it!

Back on point. So, what next? Another year of posting. Thanks all, it has been one heck of a year.

Special thanks to moogulator of sequencer.de, Tom Whitwell of MusicThing, Peter Kirn of Create Digital Music, James Grahame of Retro Thing, Chris Randall of Analog Industries, Circuitmaster of GetLoFi, Carbon111, George Mattson, Brian Comnes, Dave (The Packrat), Dennis Verschoor, fmasseti, Loscha, Ross Healy, Steve Barbour of Gnostic Rocket, vlada of One Blue Monkey, deb7680 of Chroniques de la Mao, Rick of Electricmusicbox, Heath Finnie, DVDBorn, Mark Pulver, Doktor Future, Cikira, and of course Elhardt. ; ) You all contributed a little extra to the blog in your own way. Thanks for that.

And of course to the late great Bob Moog and all the synth manufacturers out there. Thank you.

And last but definitely not least, a HUGE thanks to my wife and daughter for tolerating the time and effort I put into this site on a daily basis. Thank You!

Update: I also want to thank Fernando Alves for making my favicon way back, and Paul and Brian Comnes for being the only two people that bought my matrixsynth shirt way back.

And of course, every person or site I've put up a post on. Thanks for having something worth posting about. ; )