flickr by SineSurfer.click here for the full size shot and be sure to check out the rest. More synths after the hop.
Friday, August 10, 2007
moog the source detail 2
flickr by SineSurfer.click here for the full size shot and be sure to check out the rest. More synths after the hop.
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Tenori-on Website is Up
Title link takes you there.via Robert
"Tenori-on finally has its own website. I e-mailed a Yamaha UK rep and he said the site will have stuff on it starting next week. Yamaha is launching the product in the UK on Sept. 4. No word yet on price."
Piano in a Can
If it only had MIDI...Canned Piano Roll, play it by Can! from STRAPYA
YouTube via tomonaring. Product page.
The Chemical Brothers Talk Synth on Remix Magazine
The Chemical Brothers are featured in this month's Remix Magazine. And... There is currently an excellent video up on the Remix Magazine site. The video is on the bottom right. DO NOT MISS THIS. Really, really good stuff. I wish more bands talked about gear like this. They love and know their synths. Be sure to check out their site as well. They are currently promoting their new album We Are the Night. You'll find tour dates, videos and more. I saw them back in 1997 - amazing show.Update: It looks like some of the interview is up here.
via brian comnes.
Update: For the archives: direct link to the vid here.
Alesis Ion Complex Synthesis - FM & Sync Feedback
YouTube via futureimage.
"Demo of the Alesis Ion doing some rare complex synthesis you won't find on any Alesis demos. What's happening is both the oscillators' sync and FM functions are being used, making a feedback path of modulation around the 3 oscillators. This way you can find some pretty wacky sounds.
Please note there's a small echo in the sound as the direct sound from the Ion and the sound from my camera's mike are merging."
SIEL C64 Synth
via this auction. Anyone know more about this? The following are the details from the auction:"COMMODORE C=64 DISC
featuring an amazing, SYNTH (check the picture)-that you can play using your commodore's own qwerty keyboard and other programs to make music.
LOW and noisy BASS SOUNDS, retro!!
TIRED OF ALL THOSE SAME SAME SAME SOUNDS?!
try this synth out!
303, 909, 808, it's always the same, isnt it?
here you can program stuff, play it, maybe put it in your sampler, mod it, f*ck it up and then sh*t it out on yer mixer, boyee!!
CHIPTUNE ENTHUSIASTS! DJs WITH BRAINS!
BEDROOM LEGENDS!
come to life with this UNIQUE synth!!!
I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS ANYWHERE-CHECK g*ogle OR ANY EMULATION SITE, IT'S NOWHERE!
...AND IT'S REAL!
..comes in a plain floppy disc, tested and ready to turboload!
I FOUND THIS IN MY BASEMENT AND DONT KNOW WHERE THIS COMES FROM, I SELL IT AS IS.
100% tested to work fine!!
THE DISC IS A PLAIN DISC, NO LABELS. CANT ASSURE IT'S ORIGINAL."
Keyboard Pics
Title link takes you to synth pics on e-prog.net. There's a Hammond CX1 listed as a sampler. Anyone know if it was just a sample based Hammond emulator or an actual sampler? via Magnus
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
EVOS Modular Scans
Via Mike Peake on AH:
"From 1997 through 1999, Dennis Graham advertised a new modular synthesizer of his own design. I was in contact with him, and received literature on the system. I believe that I contacted him again in the early 2000s; there may be a post from me on AH confirming this, when the name EVOS comes up every now and again.
I tried phoning and emailing him today; his phone number is disconnected and I have neither received an email bounce nor an answer (although only an hour or so has gone by- the foibles of the information age! If it isn't instant, it may not exist!). I didn't want him inundated with the curious, but if he answers, I'll post about what he's up to.
Pardon the quality of the scans; the machine I used didn't press down on the papers, so the folds cause curving of the images in places! They are lower quality due to there being 20 pages; perhaps I can send the lit to Joe at the Audio Playground for true archive-level scanning."
On flickr
And via John Loffink of The Microtonal Synthesis Web Site and The Wavemakers Synthesizer Web Site
"I don't know if Dennis ever made prototypes, but circa 2002 he did confirm that he never shipped any systems."
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KORG With Accordian Style Chromatic Keys
via the comments of this post.If you know more about this one, feel free to comment.
The image is from the Nishimoto Laboratory.
Complicated Protocol
YouTube via ComplicatedProtocol. Via Dewb in the comments.
electro-music European Modular Event 2007
Via Matt:"The first sets of photos from this awesome event that just wrapped up: chateau_sonore, pedrotrotz, the original thread on electro-music
Looks amazing, doesn't it!?
Matt"
Yep, I would say so. : )
Prophet64 Meets MOOG
Remember the Prophet64? Here's a one built into a custom case with MOOG style knobs and small display. It was seen on sheebo's MySpace page. Via sequencer.de.
alka
Title link takes you to a flickr set featuring a Roland SH-101, a field and in some shots, Bryan of alka."they were used for promotional purposes for my project: alka. I am currently working with Roger O'Donnell on his upcoming CD and my solo CD "principles of suffocation" will be out this month on the 21st on electronic eel records...
i hope you like the shots.. if you do, feel free to use one for matrixsynth. keep up the excellent work..
bryan michael"
MOOG The Source
Click here for shots via this auction. Be sure to check out Matrixsynth-b for more.
"The Moog Source was notably used by New Order to create all the bass parts for their hit 'Blue Monday' and was the replacement to the Minimoog and has the classic moog lead and bass sounds. The Moog Source is a monophonic microprocessor-controlled analog synthesizer manufactured by Moog Music from 1981 to 1985. The Source was Moog's first synthesizer to offer patch memory storage. The design was also the first (and only) Moog synthesizer to feature a flat-panel membrane keyboard to replace the standard buttons, knobs and sliders. In addition to the memory capable of holding 16 presets, the Source features a 37-note keyboard, and two VCOs that can be selected between three waveforms and three octaves. Programmed presets can be saved to a cassette interface to free up the onboard memory for additional new patches. The 24dB/octave VCF has parameters for keyboard tracking, cutoff frequency, resonance, and envelope amount. There are two ADSR envelope generators that can be set in single or multi trigger modes, one for the VCF and one for the VCA. For modulation, the Source features LFO and sample and hold. The Moog Source is a 2-VCO, micro-processor-controlled, programmable monophonic synthesizer, with 16 memory locations, and a 3-octave, 37-note (C-C) keyboard. It features an arpeggiator and a digital sequencer with memory for two seqences of up to 64 notes. The Source was one of the first to use digital parameter access for programming, a method now commonly found in today's synthesizers, using membrane switches, a two-digit LED display and a single data knob. Both VCOs have three available waveforms (sawtooth, triangle, and pulse; with pulse width modulation) and three available octaves (32', 16', and 8'). VCO2 can be detuned at fixed intervals and it can be also synced to VCO1. The mixer section features levels for VCO1, VCO2 and Noise. The VCF (24dB/octave) has parameters for keyboard tracking (off, 1/2, and full), cutoff frequency, resonance, and contour (Moog's word for envelope) amount. There are two ADSR envelope generators, one for the VCF and one for the VCA. The envelopes can be set in single or multi trigger modes. The LFO (triangle and square waveforms) can be routed to the VCOs and the VCF. The Source also features a sample-and-hold which can be routed to the VCF. To the left of the keyboard is the pitch bend and the modulation wheel, along with two octave-switching buttons. These and a volume knob are the only dedicated controls. On the back panel are the audio out, cassette interface, a recessed pitch knob (for fine tuning), and CV and S-trigger inputs and outputs."
ARP 2600
Title link takes you to shots via this auction.ARP 2600 model 2600P, serial number 26846, and matching keyboard model 3604P, serial number 36846.
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Yamaha CS80 Vids
cs-80 history
"a small history video about the old yamaha cs-80 synth, made by arturia upon the releaso of the cs-80v vst synth"
"a small history video about the old yamaha cs-80 synth, made by arturia upon the releaso of the cs-80v vst synth"
Synths in TV and Film Added to Sticky Posts Section
Just a heads up that I added the Synths in TV and Film post to the Sticky Posts section on the right.
Steiner Synthacon VCF
Peng recently posted a Steiner Synthacon VCF for sale on AH. I asked him if he wanted me to put up a post and if so how long the images and samples would remain on the page. He gave me the go ahead to back everything up and put up a post, so here it is. You can find his contact info if you are interested in picking it up on his page. If the page is gone it's probably sold. Images saved here.
Stiener / Synthacon VCF
Built using a CGS35 pcb and a pcb designed and etched by me. This extra pcb adds an AP input with Wet / Dry control,
Bipolar FM input, and normal / inverting LP, BP, and HP input attenuators
Front Panel Express MOTM size and layout panel
Bourns and Spectrol pots
Sheilded cable for audio inputs
This VCF has a lot of charactor and many faces
Responses range from sweet coloring to extreme distortion
Using the AP input and Dry/Wet knob it can produce phaser-like sounds
Price: $250.00
Controls
FREQ - manual cutoff frequency
RES - Resonance control (sometimes called Emphasis). Turned fully clockwise the filter will oscillate
AP MIX - This control mixes between the Dry signal presented at the AP IN jack and the filtered signal. At the right settings you get phasing sounds.
HP IN, BP IN, and LP IN - controls the level and polarity of the input signal(s).
FM1 - bipolar (level and polarity) control for FM1 signal,
FM2 - level control for FM2 signal.
Inputs and Output
The four audio IN jacks (LP,BP,HP,and AP) can be used simultaneously. A spectral mixer. That is one of a handful of things that make this filter special.
AP IN - the signal presented here is routed to four places after it is buffered: The Dry side of the AP MIX pot, and the normalled lug of the LP, BP, and HP IN jacks.
Plugging into any of these jacks will disconnect the AP IN signal from getting to that input. A huge variety of sounds can be produced by plugging different VCOs into the seperate filter input stages.
LP IN - audio input for LP stage of filter.
BP IN - audio input for BP stage of filter.
HP IN - audio input for HP stage of filter.
1V/OCT - CV input for control of cutoff frequency. Commonly used for keyboard tracking. This is not exactly 1V/OCT! the filter will oscillate with the RES cranked but will not acurately track the keyboard. See the sound sample below.
FM1 IN - CV input for control of cutoff frequency.
FM2 IN - CV input for control of cutoff frequency.
OUT - Final output.
Important Notes
I could have ironed out some more of this filter's quirks, but I find that these quirks contribute a lot to the VCF's charactor.
I wanted to keep it as pure to the original design as possible.
Be forewarned, this design behaves very different than most VCFs you may be familiar with.
There's nothing else like it.
The output signal range is huge. Cranking up the input attenuators and RES level results in a large signal (I measured a little over +/-10V!). At certain mixes of the AP MIX pot and phase reversed input levels, the signal is well below +/-5V (assuming +/-5V input signals are used). You'll have to whip or tame this beast with an external mixer. Most times this is a nonissue since a VCA and/or mixer will commonly follow a VCF in the signal chain.
In the original design, turning the RES control would result in audible scratchiness. Once set the scatchiness disappears but using it a performance control was a no go. This has been improved greatly by adding a cap across the RES pot. Now it can be used while playing but the scatchiness is not completely gone. It is lessened by maybe 90% from how it used to be but, in some cases, can still be detected. This is not from a bad pot (I tried a half dozen different types)! It is a product of the circuit itself. It's nearly a nonissue but still, you should know.
High settings of inputs and RES will lead to unusual and downright unpredictable behavior. Not a bad thing IMO.
Youscope (oscilloscope demo)
video upload by tejeez
"a demo using an oscilloscope to display something. It was third in assembly 2007 shortfilm compo, and won altparty's most original demo prize. The oscilloscope is connected to PC soundcard and is in X/Y-mode, with right channel connected to X and left to Y input."
Title link takes you to more info. Via HarriL "There's a link to a youtube video in that page.
The video was made by a 16-year Finnish boy (tejeez), for a demoparty called 'Assembly' (www.assembly.org). It's basically an audiofile(available for download from the koodaa.mine.nu-page) being played from the computer into the oscilloscope. the soundtrack was obviously added later."
MDCB60 Midi kit for JUNO60
Remember the Dtronics MDM60? It looks like it is now available."This unit fits inside your JUNO60 and replaces the DCB plug with a MIDI-in and MIDI-out plug.
Installation is simple:
Open the Juno, disconnect the DCB plug, connect the MDCB60 plug
Replace the DCB-plug with the MDCB-bracket and your done!!
So, What does it do?
It converts the Juno DCB signal to a midi signal, So you can use the Juno midi-out to control other midi devices.
It only sends out midi-on and midi-off messages.
It also converts midi to DCB, now you can use the Juno as a sound module and play the Juno with your sequencer.
It only converts midi-on and midi-off messages, no other things as control messages or program-change and pitch control.
You can select the midi channel (IN and OUT) with a simple dip-switch.
We designed this internal interface as a simple and cheap midi-dcb converter.
If you need more features than only playing notes than you should find another (more expensive) midi-dcb converter.
For more information, please visit this products webpage."
via Dennis.
Hispasonic Nebula Reverb (and More) - Free
"Nebula is a wonderful "FX gear emulator" VST plugin for Windows from Acustica Audio, based on Volterra Kernels Series. It emulates different types of vintage gear: equalisers, filters, microphones, preamps, compressors, reverb and generic time-variant processors (chorus, flangers, phasers).
Nebula HS Reverb (Hispasonic Edition) is a free version of Nebula with 18 exclusive reverb presets made by Jorge Ruiz, commemorating the new look of Hispasonic.com, the biggest website and community around musical creation & production in spanish. Here you can download it for free!
We have also published a quick tutorial in spanish for Nebula HS Reverb. Here you have the Google-translated version."
Title link takes you there. via CDM.
Suzanne Ciani on YouTube
Looks like Suzanne Ciani has a YouTube account. The following are some vids she posted. Note some of the equipment (notably the rack with vocoder) is the same as what she had in this Letterman appearance. Click here for all Suzanne Ciani posts on Matrixsynth. The following are a bit long. If you do not make it through them, do check out the last two videos, one of her recording a bit for a GE commercial and a more recent video of what she is doing now.
Fifth Wave Recording Session Part 1 of 3
Fifth Wave Recording Session Part 2 of 3
Fifth Wave Recording Session Part 3 of 3
"My recording session of the fifth wave song called, Water Lullaby. It appeared on my first album, Seven Waves. You can buy my first album at link"
GE Dishwasher Production Session
"This video was filmed by Julio Cintron as a documentary about the GE "2800 Dishwasher" at my small studio in 1984."
VH1 - A Summer's Day
YouTubes via SuzanneCiani. "This was from my Neverland album"
via U.S.O. Project via AudioLemon.
Fifth Wave Recording Session Part 1 of 3
Fifth Wave Recording Session Part 2 of 3
Fifth Wave Recording Session Part 3 of 3
"My recording session of the fifth wave song called, Water Lullaby. It appeared on my first album, Seven Waves. You can buy my first album at link"
GE Dishwasher Production Session
"This video was filmed by Julio Cintron as a documentary about the GE "2800 Dishwasher" at my small studio in 1984."
VH1 - A Summer's Day
YouTubes via SuzanneCiani. "This was from my Neverland album"
via U.S.O. Project via AudioLemon.
Nyle Steiner on IMDB and Philip Dodds of ARP
Peter Grenader of Plan B sent this one into AH. Title link takes you to Nyle Steiner's (of Steiner Parker fame) IMDB page. The following is the list of credits. Click here for previous posts on Steiner Parker.
Miscellaneous Crew:
* 1990s
1. Merry Christmas, George Bailey (1997) (TV) (musician: E.V.I.)
* 1980s
2. Mississippi Masala (1991) (musician: ewi)
* 1970s
3. No Way Out (1987) (musician) (as Nyle A. Steiner)
4. The Mosquito Coast (1986) (musician: synthesizers)
5. Enemy Mine (1985) (musician: electronic ensemble)
6. Apocalypse Now (1979) (musician: synthesizer)
... aka Apocalypse Now Redux (International: English title: longer version)
Self:
1. One Voice (1986) (TV) .... Synthesizer
For fun I checked on Philip Dodds of ARP. He has a page as well.
Filmography
Actor:
1. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) .... Jean Claude
... aka CE3K (USA: informal short title)
... aka Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Special Edition (USA: reissue title)
Additional Details
Genres:
Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi
STARmeter: ?
^ 4% since last week why?
Miscellaneous Crew:
* 1990s
1. Merry Christmas, George Bailey (1997) (TV) (musician: E.V.I.)
* 1980s
2. Mississippi Masala (1991) (musician: ewi)
* 1970s
3. No Way Out (1987) (musician) (as Nyle A. Steiner)
4. The Mosquito Coast (1986) (musician: synthesizers)
5. Enemy Mine (1985) (musician: electronic ensemble)
6. Apocalypse Now (1979) (musician: synthesizer)
... aka Apocalypse Now Redux (International: English title: longer version)
Self:
1. One Voice (1986) (TV) .... Synthesizer
For fun I checked on Philip Dodds of ARP. He has a page as well.
Filmography
Actor:
1. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) .... Jean Claude
... aka CE3K (USA: informal short title)
... aka Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Special Edition (USA: reissue title)
Additional Details
Genres:
Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi
STARmeter: ?
^ 4% since last week why?
Roland SH-101
Title link takes you to shots via this auction. Be sure to click on the All Sizes link for the full size shot. There is a short video at the auction while it's up.
Roland RS-202
Title link takes you to shots via this auction."This synth is a rare beauty, the fatter version of the roland RS-09. capable of the most warm strings you will ever here." Anyone confirm this?
Casio DM-100
Click here for shots via this auction.
"The Casio DM-100 is basically a Casio SK-5 and a MT series keyboard in one housing. I believe it was the only mini-keyed keyboard to have dual keyboards on it.
Strangely though, not all of the SK-5 features are present (or at least brought to the control surface). Absent is the ever-useful lions roar, laser gun, dog, and surf sounds, but it features a few others instead. It does keep up to four samples and retains the useful sample tune, reverse, loop, and amp envelopes. The samples are stored in the memory after power off as long as batteries or AC adapter are present. I never cracked it open to see, but I imagine that some of the other SK-5 features are still there on the circuit board and accessible to hardware hackers and circuit benders. It has a built-in microphone as well as a 1/8" line-in jack for the sampler. The larger speakers on the DM-100 make it sound better than any SK-5 ever did.
The bottom keyboard has a PCM sampled soundset with the ability to layer any two of the 20 sounds together for a total of 210 possible combinations.
It also has rhythm accompaniment as well as Casio's auto chord accompaniment feature. It has a mixer section to balance the sound output of the top and bottom keyboards with the accompaniment and a 1/4" headphone jack on the front. On the back are RCA outputs, a 9V DC-in (AC adaptor not included) and individual tuning knobs for each of the keyboards so you can get detuned chorus-style effects out of this thing if you play both boards at once."
via devetron
Update via Alex in the comments: "Hate to break it to you, but the sampler is not based on the SK-5. I've owned two of these and had a good, long look inside them. The sampler is basically a stripped down SK-8 with the same instrument set and sampling capabilities.
So, you won't find any lion's roar or laser gun in this keyboard, I'm afraid. Neither will you find the oriental features or even any of the ROM related features."
Monday, August 06, 2007
Santuaries Makes the Associate Press
Remember Sanctuaries? Title link takes you to a write up via the AP.
"It was one of the more unusual summer concert tours veteran composer Gary Chang had undertaken, performing futuristic, electronic music in centuries-old sacred cathedrals.
Chang, who has composed dozens of soundtracks and scores for movies and television, recently returned from Italy, where he brought modern surround-sound-type compositions to some of the country's most venerable landmarks.
'It was kind of a monumental idea,' Chang said with a laugh. 'Let's send 500 pounds worth of gear halfway around the world and drag it around to churches.'
But he'd been fascinated for decades by the acoustics of the ancient cathedrals and always wondered how they might sound when filled with electronic compositions that were filtered through a state-of-the-art 5.1 theatrical sound system."
"It was one of the more unusual summer concert tours veteran composer Gary Chang had undertaken, performing futuristic, electronic music in centuries-old sacred cathedrals.
Chang, who has composed dozens of soundtracks and scores for movies and television, recently returned from Italy, where he brought modern surround-sound-type compositions to some of the country's most venerable landmarks.
'It was kind of a monumental idea,' Chang said with a laugh. 'Let's send 500 pounds worth of gear halfway around the world and drag it around to churches.'
But he'd been fascinated for decades by the acoustics of the ancient cathedrals and always wondered how they might sound when filled with electronic compositions that were filtered through a state-of-the-art 5.1 theatrical sound system."
Roland SH-101, Doepfer, Sherman and More on SoNiCbRaT
Title link takes you to more shots. Some demos might be coming as well.
Sal Mar Performances
YouTubes via ZanterM
"I took this video in April of 2004 at "New Directions in the Study of Musical Improvsation: An Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Conference" hosted by the UIUC Musicology division. It features David Rosenboom, dean CAL Arts [Music School], playing the SAL MAR for the first time in 20 years ; the culmination of the efforts to revive this amazing instrument! Viva la Sal! Viva la SAL MAR! MZ"
picture of David Rosenboom with the Sal-Mar Construction as restored by engineer Greg Danner, University of Illinois, April, 2004. via AudioLemon.
You can find additional posts featuring the Sal-Mar here.
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