MATRIXSYNTH

at 11/28/2007 03:57:00 PM

at 11/28/2007 03:55:00 PM

at 11/28/2007 03:47:00 PM

YouTube via retrosound72.
"audio sound demo with some self-made retro-sounds by RetroSound. more info: www.retrosound.de"

at 11/28/2007 03:43:00 PM

YouTube via Vtolus.

at 11/28/2007 03:42:00 PM

YouTube via demokid2000.

"Just some pictures of my Moog Music Inc. Minimoog model D, serial number 1737. It is in very good condition incl. Kenton MIDI."

at 11/28/2007 03:41:00 PM

YouTube via demokid2000. via Nusonica.
"My friend plays around with my .COM modular synthesizer. The step sequencer in the Poly Evolver Keyboard controls the .COM. Sounds pretty good. :D"

at 11/28/2007 03:34:00 PM

flickr by dpcamp.

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at 11/28/2007 03:24:00 PM

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via heliospace.

"This one has just been serviced by Studio Electronics and is working 100%. It has a new custom face panel and a new rack enclosure so it looks pretty much new. These are very rare and even more so in this kind of condition. As some of you may know these are made from real Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 boards and are not cloned. "

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at 11/28/2007 03:00:00 PM

Link

Red Roland SH-101

via Sonicbrat

at 11/28/2007 02:59:00 PM

via Stefan

" i bought the parts from Technology Transplant, after i stumbled on this site. i put some picture on a picassa webalbum"

at 11/28/2007 02:57:00 PM

"This week we the winners of the Circuit Bending Challenge, the rather wonderful Experiments in Musical Intelligence, the Harvestman Polivoks Filter Module R1982, Atmosphere and Trilogy for Intel Macs, the weird world of celebrity perfumes, Windows hold on to XP and Logic 7 not working on Leopard."

Click here for the full description and link to the podcast. Analogue Haven gets a mention as well.

at 11/28/2007 02:55:00 PM

Click here for the list on JoeMcGinty.com.

at 11/28/2007 02:50:00 PM

"USB to CV/GATE converter

Convert direct from your PC or MAC to cv/gate!!

features:
USB to cv / gate ( v/oct , 5v gate. Also responds to pitchbend!)
USB to sync24
USB Midi interface (Midi in, Midi out)

Midi to CV/Gate (*)
Midi to sync24 (*)

(*) available soon with a new FREE firmware upgrade." Dtronics website

at 11/28/2007 11:11:00 AM

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at 11/28/2007 11:02:00 AM

via Mr. Array.

at 11/28/2007 10:14:00 AM

Pictured: Synthesizer Demonstration Record: The Serge Synthesizer, Volume One

You can find this and other synth recordings on Orpheus Music.

at 11/28/2007 10:11:00 AM

YouTube via auris1948. via ghostdog. New video here.
"Interviev about Oxygene live in tour living room Jean Michel Jarre"
Also see this post. OXYGENE Jean Michel Jarre.
Update: Anyone know if this will be available on DVD? I did a quick search on Amazon.
I only found the CDs. Anyone know if the CDs include video content?

Update: Link to the DVD via the comments. There are also different versions. You can find more info here.

Update: Someone else posted this video as:
Making of interviews new Oxygene DVD

at 11/28/2007 10:10:00 AM

YouTube via Vtolus. Via the Russian YouTube.

"Small demo of two rare guitar synth's no external FX beat was made with Korg ESX-1"

at 11/28/2007 10:08:00 AM

YouTube via Jexus.

"1975 Korg 800-DV "Maxikorg". Brought to you by WC Olo Garb. The sounds have been programmed by WC Olo Garb. Video editing by WC Olo Garb. ||| Syntezatory.prv.pl Videos: showing you not what a synthesizer can do, but what a man can do with a synthesizer."

at 11/28/2007 10:06:00 AM

YouTube via drjackohollious.
"this is me using the korg emx-1 and a kaoss pad 3. I programed the emx the other day and I am just playing around. I am programing the synth parts and seeing what i can make. let me know what you think."

at 11/28/2007 10:03:00 AM

YouTube via drjackohollious. Via Nusonica.
"Just got this of of ebay. It is so cool. This is just a little insight into just some of the sounds and some of the knob tweaking. Cant wait to hook it up with my electribes. Keep checking in for new videos."

at 11/28/2007 09:51:00 AM

YouTube via retrosound72.
"audio sound demo with some self-made retro-sounds by RetroSound. more info: www.retrosound.de"

at 11/28/2007 09:49:00 AM

YouTube via Vtolus. I think this is the first video from the Russian YouTube I've put up.
"Small jam of circut bent Yamaha Rx-17, Alesis Micron, Korg Kaoss Pad2, ESX-1 and circuit bent Roland Tr-626"

at 11/28/2007 09:43:00 AM

YouTube via MADRRRRR.
"And yes this what we call funk ! you can do it too .. Only dutch sorry"
This video gives you an idea of how you select different instruments on the Roland TR-606. You can see the LEDs light up for each drum part selected.

at 11/28/2007 09:41:00 AM

YouTube via MADRRRRR.

"Just playing around with my 'new' simmons sds7. The accent of the 909 works on the trigger too and gives random responses.

To bad the analog part of the bassdrum is a bit busted. Some pots react only at the end and one of the toms leaks noise when it set to zero.

But listen to those cem 3340's osc's, the lovely noise and those 8bit crushed & cut up sounds.

Can't find any clues on the filter but it's sweet ! if anyone got any clue about the filter please let me know. Also i would love to have service manuals but i think they're just not there anymore. If anybody got more cards or a 'full' working sds7 let me know too.

thanks to theo parrish for the groove inspiration and 123synthland for pointing at the sds7"

at 11/28/2007 09:35:00 AM

via kalbata.

spiderman

"heres my new prodigy, the later expanded model, u can see an italian crb combo organ in the background and the 303 in the back of spidy there too."

at 11/28/2007 12:07:00 AM

Two shots via derma_tek.

at 11/28/2007 12:06:00 AM

YouTube via IranContras

"The CV out from a Moog Rogue controlling the high pass frequency cutoff of a Frostwave Resonator. Beat courtesy of a somewhat broken Oberheim DX."

at 11/28/2007 12:05:00 AM

YouTube via chachijones.
"Jesse Clark performs for the Robotspeak 5 year anniversary party in San Francisco, CA. Filmed and edited by Andrew Cavette. http://www.jsclarkstudios.com/"
Spot the synths.

at 11/28/2007 12:04:00 AM

"the resonant accordion sound is from a Prophet 2002 sampler, with a Wine Country purchased accordion sample run through the Prophet 2002 filters which are analog - hardly sounds like an accordion does it? The MP3 doesn't do the sound justice, there is a gorgeous chimey/ring quality to it live. The drums are a Korg ER-1 thru an Alesis Bitrman and that's about it, Ableton Live is the sequencer"

Baghead

at 11/28/2007 12:03:00 AM

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serial number #170

"This was the first of the Voyagers and was limited to only 600 units which sold out nearly immediately after being announced."

at 11/28/2007 12:02:00 AM

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"Maestro is the first russian synth with microprocessor inside. Maestro synthesizer was prodused on Kachkanar military radio plant on the same factory where well known Polivoks synth was prodused. Synth has nice compact design. There are 16 base waveforms onboard. Some waveforms feed to analog filter with resonanse. There is interesting arpeggiator also with memory of key's order and speed control. The synth is polyphonic, you can play 4 voices at one time. Than there is nice sounding rich chorus effect with mix/dry amount control. LFO can modulate pitch by triangle waveform. There is controls of modulation speed and amount of pitch modulation. There is nice funky 2-dimensional joystick for modulation
control."

at 11/28/2007 12:01:00 AM

via this auction

"A-104 is a fourfold formant filter as used in the Mixtur Trautonium by Oskar Sala. It is made of four parallel resonance filters, each filter can be switched to low pass or band pass or off. Frequency, resonance and level are controlled for each filter separately (no voltage control). The frequency range for the filters is about 50Hz...5kHz. The filter audio inputs are very sensitive so that distortion may intentionally be used to create new sounds - if desired. The A-104 is a versatile module for sound modification. In the first place it is used for reproduction of resonances (e.g. the vocal-like effects known from the Trautonium). In combination with the subharmonic generator A-113, the Trautonium Manual A-198 and some other A-100 modules one obtains a Trautonium replica."

at 11/28/2007 12:00:00 AM

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"Univox vintage drum machine with 20 beats. You can adjust the tempo, volume, and even bass, drum, and snare variations for the "fox Trot" beat/ Works Perfectly."

Univox Drum Machine

YouTube via thesuperrockfunshow.
"univox drum machine with various beats"

at 11/27/2007 05:05:00 PM

Check it out. Boland.

Via Lyle.

at 11/27/2007 04:49:00 PM

"The Roland S-50 was a futuristic looking black metal monolith with a fluorescent screen. It felt long and had 61 keys. Compare that with the measly cheap feeling two octave Oxygen 8 I use now! You could hook it up to an external monitor. I had mine hooked up to a 13″ green CRT poised on a three tier Ultimate Keyboard Rack. It also came with a digitizing tablet and pen similar to a Wacom tablet. This allowed you to draw waveforms but it was more gimmick than useful.

It was 4 part multitimbral and 16 voice polyphonic. It had a 3.5″ disc drive and 750k internal memory. You could sample at 12-bit at 15-30kHz." Click here for the full post on the Roland S-50 on wire to the ear.

at 11/27/2007 04:45:00 PM

Computer Music (Synthesizers, Synclavier) 1986 Pt. 1

YouTube via cowsill2x2.

via Nusonica.

"Outdated but still interesting. Features news on "new" music making machines, including the Synclavier II. Max Matthews, Ronald Surak and Richard Head discuss sampling. Mason Gross. Rutgers. MIDI. PBS. Innovation"

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at 11/27/2007 04:39:00 PM

Vocoder What Is It? EMS 2000 Demo w/ Oberheim OB-8

YouTube via intromix. via Nusonica.
"Here is how an analog vocoder works. I am not going to use technical "jibberish" so I will speak normal vocabulary. This is the legendary EMS Vocoder 2000 (from 1977) which soundwise compares against Sennheiser, Moog(Bode), Synton, Roland, Korg. I will give a basic demonstration on how to use a vocoder and how a vocoder functions to give it that "robotic" sound. I used an Oberheim OB-8 Keyboard to trigger the pitch on the vocoder"

Sennheiser VSM-201 Vocoder Audio Samples

"Here are some audio samples dedicated to the usage of the legendary Sennheiser VSM-201 Vocoder. Being that there is hardly any info on the web in reference to this unit, I took the initiative to be probably the first person to post audio samples of this vintage dinosaur....ENJOY!!!"

Cylon Costume With Vocoder Sample

"Here is a sample of what my Cylon costume sounds like with the vocoder and red eye warble sound."

at 11/27/2007 04:37:00 PM

YouTube via ohrspace.
"a virtual visit of "astrolab" recording studio. http://www.myspace.com/astrolabstudio"

at 11/27/2007 04:35:00 PM

YouTube via retrosound72.
"short synth demo
Reso-Bass: SCI Pro-One
Melody: Yamaha DX-7 II
Drums: Roland TR-707
hand-played
more info: www.retrosound.de"

at 11/27/2007 04:34:00 PM

YouTube via siedgey.
"Hi everyone,

Thanks a lot for continuing to watch and enjoy my videos on Youtube, brings a tear to my (incredibly manly) eye.

I don't really know what genre this track is - if anyone has any ideas then comment! It was made in 1 night, recorded the next night. Smooth, rolling, melodic, highly compressed, slightly French...I could go on...

For some reason, the sound quality is far worse on the upload than the recorded video - apologies for that. Kinda makes it sound quite bass-heavy...ach well!

If you have any comments or questions, I'd love to hear them. Thanks again for watching...enjoy." Access Virus Classic.

at 11/27/2007 04:27:00 PM

YouTube via lewisjp8young.
"here's a demo clip of the bassline for the song (into the groove)it needs cleaning up with the correct notes etc. the sound is created by using very short decay times. the minimoog's 2 oscillator were very finely tuned by myself to get that grit sound that the minimoog growls out. if you know what i mean. these synths sound much better in real life."

at 11/27/2007 04:25:00 PM

flickr by Wzrdry.

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MOOG Voyager

at 11/27/2007 04:24:00 PM

flickr by dpcamp.

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at 11/27/2007 04:22:00 PM

YouTube via jjuup. Via Music Thing.
10 Roland TB-303s.
"Alle markan teevee presents: UMF Sunday 5.Aug.2007 Finnish maestro Jori Hulkkonen spent his sunday afternoon with his friends and ten 303s.

Jori Hulkkonen, Jesper Dahlbeck, Perttu Häkkinen, Aku Raski, Petri Salonen, Tin Man, Kimmo Oksanen, J-P Parikka, Tatu Peltonen, Janne Puurunen ja Tuomas Toivonen.

Sorry about the very crap sound. I am accepting donations for a better camera. There was a lot of pro cameras and mics around the stage, so there will be other hifi sources available, don't worry...

Turku Finland Europe. Tku10.net"

at 11/27/2007 04:20:00 PM

YouTube via caseyjclark. via GetLoFi.
"a short documentary about a group of circuit benders. recorded in chicago, usa. produced by Casey Clark."

After watching this I came to the epiphany that Circuit Bending is like the anti-christ of DIY. "Not that there's anything wrong with that..." A Seinfeld reference for any fans.

at 11/27/2007 11:38:00 AM

Looks like Novamusik is giving away an Access Polar TI. Click here for more info. BTW, I have always had the best service from Novamusik - highly recommended.

via brian c

at 11/27/2007 11:07:00 AM

"Somewhere in proffessor Elektrovolt's studio,in the vruchtenbuurt,the Hague we can find a huge, rare british modular synthesizer from the early 80s, the Digisound 80 modular. Invented and designed by Charles Blackley who would print the designs in the Electronics Today International and Electronics & Music Maker (E&MM) magazines. As obscure and extrentic as the EMS synthesizers the company from Blackpool faded away in the early 1990s."

Click here for more including images and a demo. BTW, the Music & Recording header image on top of the page is worth a visit alone.
via Pete.

at 11/27/2007 12:20:00 AM

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Here's an interesting auction. A MOOG Liberation being sold to fund a Syntar. Note the Syntar actually predated the MOOG Liberation as the first keytar ever, a interesting bit of synth history. The Syntar featured an amazingly expressive control interface on the neck that has yet to be reproduced and it did sound quite nice. You can read more about the Syntar on Carbon111's excellent Syntar Page as well as this interview here on MATRIXSYNTH.

It's worth noting that the person behind the Syntar was George Mattson who is currently the man behind the new Mattson Mini Modular.

As for this Liberation, here are the details from the auction:
"# This auction is only for a complete MOOG Liberation Analogue Synthesizer
# In good physical and playing condition with checking and dents in the wood
# Please click on the images below to see larger photos to inspect physical condition
# NEW chipforbrains slider caps
# NEW chipforbrains sliders installed by analogsynthservice.com
# Foam sheet over PCB has been removed and PCB has been cleaned!
# Rackmountable power/CV unit
# Control Cable has not nicks or cuts
# Hardshell carrying case
# Print outs of the owners and service manuals
# Shipping is $50 in the USA, $150 elsewhere
# Interested? All offers will be considered. The chipforbrains sliders are meant to be drop in replacements. However CY has stated that some Liberations will behave slightly differently in the Envelope Generators. If you're familiar with the Rogue or the Liberation, you will notice a difference in the behavior.

I am selling my Moog Liberation because I asked George Mattson to build me one of his unfinished SYNTARs that has sat idle nearly 30 years. As you can imagine it took quite a bit of money to convince him to dust off the SYNTAR and continue working on it. Subsequent interest in the SYNTAR has brought along his latest project: the Mattson Mini Modular .. I order two populated cabinets, so you can see, I need to LIBERATE myself of this Moog to pay Mr. Mattson."