Sealed's New Roland U-110 Page

Title link takes you to Sealed's new Roland U-110 page with info and samples. It sounds a bit like a Korg Wavestation to me.

The Free Information Society - Schematics

Title link takes you to The Free Information Society Audio Electronic Circuit Schematics page. Synths are on the list.

via Dave

Analoghell - New Flickr Set

flickr by analoghell.

Title link takes you to the set.

"Memorymoog, Jupiter 8 and Waldorf Wave"

Update: The shot belongs to the Turnkey flickr set, so I'm guessing that is where it's from. Can anyone confirm? I heard Turnkey had a room filled with vintage gear but I didn't realize it looked this nice. I also heard most of the gear came from The Museum of Synthesizer Technology and Turnkey has indeed sold most of it off: link to a previous post on the Museum and Turnkey.

Update via GRONDO 2001 in the comments:
"This huge collection used to be there at the bottom floor, but it's been gone for the last 3 years. They used to offer some time in this 'lab' when you bought a hardware sampler, otherwise you couldn't access it. When they got rid of it, they didn't say anything, it was just gone one day, and today it's just another show room."

Update via anonymous in the comments:
"On a number of occasions they would shoot interviews there - anyone who remembers the C4 series "The Shape of Things That Hum" would remember Nick Rhodes being interviewed in there from the Fairlight episode... "

Phillip Werren - Electronic Music (1968-1971)

For those of you wanting to hear some Buchla. Title link takes to more info including a sample.

"In 1971 Phillip Werren released a 4 Lp box through Simon Fraser University of his early Electronic Work which was recorded at S.F.U., McGill University & Radio Warzawa, Poland. Only 100 copies where ever made. A few years ago I discovered this record and was completly blown away. The Lp has heavy elements of tape collage, Modular Synthisis, voice, and experimental thought. Some of the pieces where conceived by psychedelic and occult influences. Much of the record was done with a Buchla System 100,the first of their modular synthesizers. I tracked down Phil in Toronto where's he's been living a number of years. Phil taught music composition and theory at York University in Toronto from 1977 to 1997,where he headed York's Electronic Music Studio."

via Paul Sop.

Two Wasps and a Spider

shots via this auction.

Tiny Little Synths

Title link takes you to a bunch of tiny little synth pictures. via this VSE post. Apologies for this one. I just like tiny little synths.

Yamaha DX100 Only Track on Shepitology

Title link takes you to 4 tracks of Yamaha DX100 via Shepitology.

Doepfer Sale at Analogue Haven

If you are on the look out for doepfer.

"hello,

We (Analogue Haven) are having our summer Doepfer sale again. All new Doepfer gear purchased up until midnight on Saturday, August the 12th will be discounted by 10%.

This sale applies to all new gear that Doepfer manufactures: a-100 modules, systems and patch cables, midi controllers, sequencers, oem/diy products etc. Please see our front page "news" section for details: link.

About 98% of Doepfer gear is in-stock and our web carts are updated so we should be able to fill most orders quickly. : ) That includes all 7 types of the new BBD module:picture, and the new Universal Vactrol module: picture.

Also lots of other new gear has been released the past 2 months, some modular and some not. I don't want to cross the line into spamming too much so check our front page for details (most of it is there) or email us at the general account. :)

Thank you,

Shawn Cleary
www.analoguehaven.com"

via AH.

Matrixsynth by stepwriterun

Marion MSR-2

Evererything in it's right place (paris live 2001) on YouTube

Great example of the Korg Kaoss Pad used for sampling tweaks.
Title link takes you to more videos on Music Thing.

Prototype CV Sampler by Bruce Duncan of Modcan

Via Paul Sop:

"Bruce Duncan of Modcan completed a prototype of a CV sampler (vs. audio sampler). MP3's and discussions are in the Modcan Yahoo Group. He hopes to release it before the end of the year. He's been inundated with feature requests, CV delay, granulation, looping, etc... not withstanding, so if you have any specific needs for CV delay control, post to the Modcan Yahoo group so he knows your interest and can plan for it.

link"

Update from Paul Sop:
"Here is a URL to a pic I took from the file area of the group:

http://www.paulsop.com/gear/modcan/cv_recorder.jpg

Here are 2 good mp3's (some examples are not so good):

cv_recorder_chained1.mp3
cv_recorder_Drumloop.mp3

The second one uses low-freq sampling of a drum loop. Bruce's CV sampler is not for audio (he's making one of those too), but it can be used for some really nice crunchy trance like low-freq effects too.

He also has examples using it as an LFO:
cv_recorder_LFO.mp3
cv_recorder_LFO2.mp3

The neat thing is, if you slow down the play back rate, the CV-Sampler becomes a sequencer. You could feed its output into a quantizer, and well, there you go!"

Awesome. Thanks Paul!

Tweak That Knob... By Frederic

Tweak that knob, this one too
Knew that sound, this one's new
Play a chord, E minor
Play some notes, then some more

Go, go, sequencers, go
Let me drift on your flow
Journey starts up the sky
Spread my wings, have to fly

Activate my fingers
Modulate my filters
VCO my hero
And nothing on zero

Night is light with music
Round and round synthetic
Journey starts up the sky
Spread my wings, have to fly

Bravo Frederic. I love synth poems. We need more of them.

Update to Matrixsynth RSS Feed

Update: I heard back from synthwise. I caught them midflight, so this was somewhat of a misunderstanding. They have added links to my posts and credit. I will remove the comments regarding the site from my posts. My feeds however will remain partial. If you feel strongly about this, feel free to comment.

Original Post:
I have unfortunately discovered that another site is plagiarizing my posts word for word and are not giving me credit or links back to this site. I'm guessing that they are scrubbing my RSS feed along with a bunch of other sites and the whole process is automated. Because of this I will be updating my feed to a partial feed. What does this mean? For people subbed to this site with RSS or blog readers, you will only get a portion of the post. To get the full post you will need to click through to the main site. For people that come directly to the main site, this will have zero impact on you. I have also started adding "This post plagiarized on Synthwise. Find the original post on Matrixsynth" to each of my posts for the time being. Synthwise is the site ripping me and others off. I will not link to them. I set the message to black font so it does not show up on this site, but if you have an RSS reader you will see these messages. Please just ignore them.

BTW, it is unacceptable to copy any of my posts without written permission from me. Putting up Your own post with a courtesy link back to my post and site is fine as it let's your readers know about my site and where you got the topic of your post from. I do it and all the other bloggers do it.

cheers,
matrix

Free Moog event in LA Friday, 8/4

Via AH:

"from LA Weekly:

FRIDAY, August 4

Can't get enough Moog in your life? Today is for you. Downtown's Grand Performances kicks off at noon with Moog Mania, a concert featuring 'Moog magician' Arlan Schierbaum, dream-funk percussionist Marcus Joseph and their Mojo Triage, who bring more varieties of the synthesizer than Eskimos have words for 'snow' Later in the evening, everyone returns from the postconcert Moog study groups for a film on the Moogster himself, Robert Moog. Dress as your favorite member of Yes. California Plaza, 300 S. Grand Ave., downtown; Fri., Aug. 4, noon (concert) & 8 p.m. (film); free. (213) 687-2159."

No title link.

Moog - New Flickr Shot

flickr by ZoneNekros.

Way To Stop - Memorymoog Track by The Guts

Title link takes you to a few tracks by The Guts. The track Way To Stop features 100% Moog Memorymoog for synths and Roland V-Synth with vocal designer card for vocoder. Other tracks feature Moog Memorymoog, Roland Vsynth, Akai MPC, Novation Supernova, Korg Polysix, and Oberheim 2 voice.
via First Last
Note on submissions: I only posts tracks that showcase a synth or two. The idea is you get to distinctly hear what the given synth/s sounds like. The focus of the post is on the synth. If you want to post tracks that feature more than two synths in general, please feel free to sign up and post on SYNTHWIRE.

CP-251 and lights - New Flickr Shot

flickr by felixinferious.

I love the color in this shot.

More Moogerfooger after the hop.

New Stuff from Music From Outer Space

Via Ray of Music From Outer Space on the DIY list:

"Hi All

I have come up with some new stuff that you may want to check out..

A sample and hold with some cool features...

A VC-LFO also with some cool features...

My "Cornucopia Of Noise" (multi-noise & random gate generator) circuit is
just around the corner.

Cheers

Ray"

I so need to build a SoundLab.
Hmm... Maybe I should put the blog down for a bit. : )

Poison Ivy - New Flickr Shot

flickr by devowski.

Looks like this one was inspired by the real thing:

"i am covered with this shit. ive been trying to think of new things to come. so far it has been successful mentally, but physically might be some ass bustin."

Feel better devowski. Nice work though. : )

Matrixsynth by...

Matrixsynth by underface (original image)


Matrixsynth by Shepitology


Matrixsynth by Frederic - Being and X-Men fan, I was surprised and happy to see this one. : )


Matrixsynth by Javier

Yamaha DX100


Waldorf Microwave XT


Waldorf Microwave PC Editor


Clavia Nord Modular


Kurzweil K2000S


Ensoniq ESQ-m

BTW, I want give a HUGE THANKS to everyone who took the time to create and submit these. There have been a total of 47 shots so far. I know how busy things can get, so the fact that you took the time out to one, create the patch/name, two, take a shot of it, and three, send it in is really flattering. I thank everyone privately in email, but I just wanted to say THANKS again in public. I said it in my one year anniversary post and I'll say it again, the contributions by the readers of this site really do add to it. Running the site by myself can be overwhelming with a day job and a family to take care of, so stuff like this really makes it worth it.

As for any of you that think these Matrixsynth by... posts are a bit too much, I will start putting up one post a day with all Matrixsynth by... shots. I'm also guessing over time the number that come in will naturally go down, but I do welcome people to feel free to send these in whenever they feel like it. It would be cool to see one come in a month after they stop. Thanks again. matrix

Turn That Knob...

Thought you all might appreciate this one. Before I pass judgment, my cat JD loved chewing the few knobs on the Sequential Circuits Multi-Trak. Guess it helped him come up with some patches.

Title link takes you a few more shots while they are up on electro-music.com.

Matrixsynth Header is back

Thanks to Des and Tom of Music Thing for letting me put up their logos each for a day. Tom's was fun considering how horrible it looked on my site, tiny with a black background. No offense Tom, your logo looks awesome where it belongs, on Music Thing. : ) BTW, Tom originally sent it to me for a post, not the header. I asked him if I could put it up for fun and he agreed.

Des, I was very, very tempted to keep your logo. Nicely done, so thanks for that. I did miss my simple clean little header though. And the wife made me keep it. : ) For whatever reason she's grown fond of it and says it's the way it should be. It also looks good on a T-shirt for some reason. BTW, regarding Ts, I need to order a sample again from cafe press. Their colors on black Ts are supposedly brighter, but they are still in Beta last I heard, so it will still be a bit before I have them available. I tried spreadshirt and the green came out aqua, so that's a nogo as well.

TONTO on YouTube

TONTO & Stevie Wonder


TONTO in Phantom of the Paradise

Get your freak on...

Yamaha ED10 Analog Synth Drum

Click here for shots pulled from this auction.

Details saved for posterity:
"2 YAMAHA ED10 ANALOG SYNTHSIZER DRUM PADS
very rare '80s japanese analog percussion synthesizer like synare drum synth there are 10knobs for control synthetic sound and touch sensitive drum pad SENS, PITCH, SUB SONIC, FILTER, NOISE, DECAY, BEND, CLICK, FILTER MOD, VOLUME so you can tweak around these knobs and easily get warm and phat analog synth sound from deep bass drum like TR808 or TR909 to industrial noise percussion or spacey disco tom sound! it's very easy and funny to create your own sounds and play it with pad. it also has MIX INPUT,SIGNAL OUTPUT,PAD OUT/IN,DC 12V IN,DC 12V OUT PAD OUT/IN accepts trigger or audio signal so you can control from your drum machine."

Spectralis Update

"Install at your own risk - there is a chance that Users of Radikal Technologies' Spectralis Synthesizer may not recognise their instrument anymore!

The already powerful Hybrid Synth now sports three independent monophonic Synths, which the User can configure freely from the array of available soundmodules of the soundengine. This feature by itself would have justified an Upgrade, but here it is only the beginning.

A bunch of new features has been added to the Step-Sequencer which can now even be used to trigger and control external MIDI and Software instruments. This makes the Spectralis the perfect centerpiece and control-unit of any Synth setup. The number of available Stepsequencer lines has doubled from 16 to 32 - and a good thing it has! After all these sequencer lines are now enabled not only to control the Hybrid Synth and the Midi Instruments but also the Sample Engine of the Spectralis.

Due to the brandnew open routing of the lines parameters such as the FM-or phasemodulation-depth, filter resonance or even exotic parameters like the Time Linearity Modulation can now also be controlled with sequencerlines of up to 192 steps. Also NEW is a switchable Glide-function, which in addition to the previous hard step value changes and the popular step envelopes now also allows for buttery soft transitions when used to control parameters.

Hold it -there is more! The step sequencer is not the only section of the Spectralis able to control external instruments. ANY Part of the Spectralis can be selectively assigned to the MIDI-Out port. This means that even the powerful Drumgrid Editor can be used with connected sound sources. When a new song is selected the Spectralis can also automatically set the outside instruments to the proper sound programs and adjust their volume and panorama positions.

A very special new feature is the Random Sound Generator, which can deliver an almost infinite number of new, surprising and instantly usable Sounds. We should mention that a Hold Parameter has been added to the Hybrid Synthesizer Envelopes. Of course there are also a bunch of smaller modifications and tweaks to further improve the Spectralis' functionality and user friendliness. "

Title link takes you there.

Ken Rich on Sonicstate

Title link takes you to a video of Ken Rich on Sonic State. Ken Rich restores vintage and sometimes not so vintage gear for a-list celebrity musicians. He loves doing custom work. Some of this stuff is over the top. The video primarily focuses on Hammonds and electric pianos, but there is a Minimoog with a translucent red case. Unfortunately you only get to see it in a photo album. You can see the intense red, but as he says you really need to see it on the computer screen or in person to get the full effect. Regardless of the lack of synth content aside from this, the video is well worth checking out.

via Shepitology.

BugBrand Modular and Mini-Modular Synths

Remember BugBrand? Looks like they now have a Modular and Mini-Modular Synth. Title link takes you to the BugBrand Sound Devices page currently featuring the Mini-Modular with samples. Here is a link to the Modular Synth page.

The Mini-Modular contains:
* Input Mixer - Audio Input Preamp, Noise Source, Extra Channel
* VCOs x 2 - Lofi Voltage Controlled Oscillators with audio or lfo rates producing vari-shape Tri / Sqr waveforms - certainly no 1v/oct tuning here!
* State-variable VCF - Voltage Controlled Filter with Lo / Band / Hi - pass responses and variable resonance (up to screamy self-oscillation)
* Output Mixer - two channel output mixer
* Ring Modulator - AD633 type with modulation option
* Attenuverter - signal level control and inverter
* Foot Control - CV generator from volume pedal with adjustable range

via sequencer.de

DIY Drum Grid Editor for Touch Screen

Title link takes you to the post on Music Thing. Apparently this will also work on regular screens. The author of the software stated he will make it available for free. Music Thing will post a link as soon as the link is available. It looks pretty interesting. Like a software version of the monome.

Star Trek MIDI Controller?

Someone should make a MIDI controller out of this


for this: The ConBrio ADS 200


Title link takes you to Star Trek auction shots on the BBC.

Star Trek controller via fmasseti.

Matrixsynth by The Packrat

The Packrat makes a short return from "The Matrix."
Whoah... Move over Keanu, he'll re-synthesize the shit out of you.
You can imagine my reaction when I saw this one sitting in my inbox.
Thank you Dave. BTW, if you don't know The Packrat, go here now, scroll and start with the thumbnail dated 2/23/05. Dave, did I say thanks? : )

Adding Lights to Circuit Bent Gear on GetLoFi

Title link takes you to the post on GetLoFi.

Yamaha VSS-200 8-bit SAMPLE GRINDER shots pulled from this auction. This is definitely a case of "turn the lights off" before you play.

: )

The Orgon Enigiser

Remember the Orgon Modular? Meet the Orgon Enigiser, analog synthesizer. Love the green. Title link takes you to more info on sequencer.de.

PAIA Strings & Things

Title link takes you to two big shots of this PAIA Strings & Things pulled from this cl post. I wonder how these compared to the other string synthesizers out there.

via brian comnes.

BTW, condolensces to brian comnes who lost his 14 year old cat recently. May he be living it up in kitty heaven with all the other synth cats.

cheers,
matrix

A(mbient ) - 100

Title link takes you to Widtek Studio and A(mbient)-100. A(mbient)-100 is a collection of tracks from various artists using the Doepfer A-100 modular synthesizer. Tracks feature Efofex, Unyo303, and Charles Graef; a few names I recognize from the various synth lists. There's more info on the project and downloads after the hop. Yes, you can download the whole thing for free as part of the Creative Commons license 2.5. Very cool.

Moog Minimoog - New Flickr Shot

flickr by d-stop.