"2-channels, each with manual and preset controls, all fully programmable. Manual/preset can be switched with a button on the unit, or with a separate footpedal control. The unit is rack-mountable.
* Basically a MOOG for drummers!
* Each Channel has:
* Manual trigger button
* Sensitivity control
* Oscillator decay 1
* Oscillator decay 2
* Noise decay
* Sweep
* Pitch
* Wave form shape * click on/off control
* Noise filter
* osc/noise balance
* Master volume
* Audio On Off
* Pre-set or manual switch
Triggers are connected via 1/4" jacks on the back side (see photos). Any type of trigger or trigger pad may be used. The two original trigger sensors are included. In the video, they're attached to practice pads with velcro. Worked great!
If it's night time where you are at you can probably see it. Go look now. It's on the way out but you still have some time. Thanks goes to KHeck73 on the AH list.
"my current CD: http://www.ronaldjenkees.com/music-store (this beat will be on my next CD)
it cut me off when I said hello youtubes! not sure why it did that.
THIS IS FUN!!!!! I don't have much done on this beat, but like usual, I thought I would upload the beginnings of it. It's been one of my favorite beats to work on so far. It'll be on my next CD for sure.
I'm super-thankful for all the comments, subscriptions, and for those that check out my CD.
FYI: I made the beat using FL Studio (software) and the Yamaha Motif XS8. Again, I like this new keyboard, but I discovered I'm not a fan of weighted keys (except for piano stuff). I'll probably trade down to the XS7 eventually."
I added a few videos to the post below. BTW, whenever you come to the site, be sure to look for a red Update: in posts you've already seen. I often update posts as new info comes in. If the post is off the main page I will put up a new post letting you know about the update, however if still on the front page I usually won't so always check. If you check back a day later, be sure to click on the Older Posts link at the very bottom of the page to get to the prior day's posts.
"Puremagnetik Releases TB-303 Micropak for Ableton Live, Kontakt & Logic
February 20th, 2007 - Brooklyn, NY
Puremagnetik has released TeeBee, a collection of instruments and loops sampled from the Roland® TB-303 synthesizer. Meticulously programmed to flawlessly emulate the original synthesizer, Puremagnetik has employed many of the new features in Live 7, Kontakt 3 and Logic 8. Instead of using the DAW's built-in effects to emulate sounds, Puremagnetik has actually sampled the unique filter and envelope stages of the original TB-303. The TeeBee download includes 24-bit 96khz sample content and over 50 looped phrases styled after classic TB-303 articulations. For Ableton Live users, Puremagnetik has developed a version for Live 7 and a "light" version for Live 6.
TeeBee for Ableton Live 6 & 7 • Extensively programmed multi-sample instrument for Live 7 with Sampler • TeeBee Light for Live 6 • Over 50 Live Clips with integrated Ableton effects • Macro controls that faithfully emulate the original Roland® TB-303
TeeBee for Kontakt • Multisampled instruments for Saw, Square and Accented modes • Custom KSP easy edit user interface panels • Over 50 Beat Machine looped phrases with integrated Kontakt effects and automatic tempo sync
TeeBee for Logic & GarageBand • Multisampled instruments for Saw, Square and Accented modes • Over 50 SIAL instrument loops with TB-303 modulation stylings • Multi level zone and group modes
Puremagnetik subscriptions start at $5.75 per month. Please visit www.puremagnetik.com for more info."
via Christian: "Hi Matrix! Christian from Stockholm here. I'm working with the ABSOLUT MACHINES project that ABSOLUT VODKA is doing in collaboration with MIT Graduates Dan Paluska/Jeff Lieberman and Swedish studio Teenage Engineering. You might have heard of it already, but now we've got new images of the machines, new info and the New York gallery has opened.
Paluska/Lieberman have made a large-scale multi-instrumental installation that is quite spectacular. It is called ABSOLUT QUARTET and will be shown at a guerilla gallery on 186 Orchard Street in Manhattan, NYC during until the end of April.
Teenage Engineering’s machine is a robotic choir with an advanced speach synthesis function in the back end. ABSOLUT CHOIR is shown at Restaurant Publik in Stockholm until the end of April.
Both machines are really amazing and all about exploring artificial creativity and what happens when technology meet art, design and music. Online users from around the world can interact with the machines and create music with them at http://www.absolutmachines.com."
The press release: "A TRULY PIONEERING TECHNOLOGY PROJECT FROM ABSOLUT Interactive ins tallations let online visitors create mu sic with intelligent machines ABSOLUT is presenting a project that explores what happens when cutting-edge technology meets the creativity of art, music and design. To emphasize its deep commitment to the subject, ABSOLUT turned to some of the greatest technology visionary teams of our time, and asked them to create the ABSOLUT MACHINES. The result is two artificially creative and highly interactive music-making machines, as visually stunning as they are technologically pioneering.
The ABSOLUT MACHINES are shown in New York and Stockholm - and online user from around the world can interact with the machines at absolutmachines.com. This project marks the first collaboration between premium vodka brand ABSOLUT and cutting-edge visionaries from the world of technology. The ABSOLUT MACHINES are designed by Dan Paluska and Jeff Lieberman, both with a background from MIT in Boston, and Teenage Engineering, a Swedish studio in the fields of media, art and technology. “Technology is becoming an increasingly important part of our lives and is a key driver for contemporary culture. With the ABSOLUT MACHINES, we explore how technology merges with creativity, and we are thrilled to have such fantastic visionaries with us on this journey”, says Ulrika Lövdahl, responsible for trend communications at V&S Absolut Spirits.
The ABSOLUT MACHINES will be launched globally in early February 2008. Users from around the world will be able to interact with the machines over the Internet. The input from online users will be processed by the machines, which will respond with a unique musical composition – co-created by man and machine. The machines will immediately perform the songs, and their performances will be live-streamed to a global audience at absolutmachines.com.
For the ABSOLUT MACHINES, Dan Paluska and Jeff Lieberman have created the “ABSOLUT QUARTET”, an automated multi-instrumental orchestral machine, which does not look like anything you have ever seen before. It is a large-scale electromechanical sculpture consisting of three instruments and thousands of parts, working together to create one piece of music. The main timbre is a marimba played by balls shot from a robotic cannon. Other components include a series of wineglasses played by little robotic fingers and an array of robotic percussive instruments. “ABSOLUT has collaborated with great artists such as Andy Warhol, Tom Ford and Louise Bourgeois. ABSOLUT has the tradition of the past masters as well as the vision to do something new.
Of course we were excited when they asked us if we wanted to be part of a project exploring artificial creativity”, says Dan Paluska.
Teenage Engineering has constructed the “ABSOLUT CHOIR”, a multi-channel robotic choir, made up by 22 singing characters of various shapes and sizes. It is an architectural installation with an advanced framework of speech synthesizers and artificial intelligence software at the back end."
Update: a video on the project Absolut Machines Intro< YouTube via GustavoZilles
And examples of how the results may sound made by users:
"Here's an entertaining drawing for your readers today... a sneak peek at Donkey's new keyboard rig for the upcoming 20th installment of Retarded Animal Babies! :o)
The foreground synths are 100% autobiographical (including the "Frankenstands"), but the background, not so much (yet). Maybe someday!
Look for the new episode to be out by Easter, I hope.
"The S-101-x is a monophonic analogue synthesizer built by me over the course of some three-four years. I started planing to build a semimodular prepatched synthesizer sometime in the late summer of 2004 and it was more or less built, set up and properly tuned in January 2008."
You can find more info here. via David via the Synth DIY mailing list and via /kroffe in the comments of this post.
No, not the new Serge Gator of course. This one appears to be a DIY device. You can find more info here.
"The Gator is my implementation of an AM based synthesizer.
4 "suboscillators" with variable wavefom (saw / square) and range (LFO to above audio frequency) amplitude-modulate each other in a sequencial order. They form a chain of AM'd oscillators with a very complex output waveform which can be non periodic, i.e. never repeats itself - based on the interaction of the 4 underlying suboscillators.
The Gator features two of these chains (of 4 suboscillators each). For less chaotic results these chains can be synced in a special manner, still maintaining enough individual variations.
Frequencies of all 8 suboscillators can be controlled by knobs or via light dependent resistors. Special routing switches and knobs allow to dynamically change the way of AM - with an attenuating pot to define the amount of AM.
The signals of both oscillator chains pass through a 5 band equalizer - one independent EQ for each chain. Optionally a passive, coil/transformer based ring modulator can process the signals before sending them to the output socket on the rear."
Remember the Weltmeister Basset? KAADA WRONGROOM as a post up on it with a few more pics including one of the inside. My prior post linked to above also has more images.
YouTube via batzberlin. Via seb on the Matrixsynth Forum. "finally did my first solo concert with my drumset and a Nord Modular G2 + Nord Rack 2" "Seb plays "Steve": Live drums and synthesizer performance at Antje Øklesund Berlin, Germany."
trigger drums synthesizer song
"Acoustic drumset attached via MIDI-triggers to a Clavia Nord Modular G2 playing a jazz-funky song."
Celiar Structures has a nice post up comparing the Access Virus TI and the Waldorf Blofeld. You can find the original post in Spanish here or the Googlish version here.
"Personally, my choice is clear. Soy digno poseedor de un Waldorf Microwave XT y de un Indigo y un Indigo 2, me hago una idea del tipo de sonido que cabe esperar de cada uno y también soy consciente de mis necesidades y limitaciones. I am worthy holder of a Waldorf Microwave XT and an Indigo and Indigo 2, I have an idea of the kind of sound you expect from each other and I am also aware of my needs and limitations. Si puedo elegir me quedo con el Blofeld (de hecho se perfila como un claro candidato a próxima compra desde que salió). If I choose I stay with Blofeld (actually emerges as a strong candidate for next purchase since he left). Puestos a pillarme un Snow, me mojo un poco más y voy a por un TI en rack, que me ofrece bastante más por no mucho más de lo que ya cuesta el Snow. Posts to catch a Snow, I mojo a little more and I will go for an IT rack, which gives me a lot more for not much more than it already costs Snow."
"I want to support amateurs who want to build their own analog synth. And I also want you to support me to build my own. FarmVCO I FarmVCO II FarmVCO 4069 Basic Action about farmEG Wave Morph Steiner VCF MS20 Clone VCF 2 Three-phase LFO Phase Shifter OneBoard Farm" Click here for the site.
You can thank (or blame) Goodvillain on the forum for this one.
Click the image for the larger shot. Anyone know who that is? Curious if it's a band shot or a Roland promo shot.
Update via Ben in the comments: "The image name is "Kobe Kaige". Plugging that into Google suggests she's some kinda 'model' of a less-than-clothed nature.
Definitely not a Roland publicity shot."
You can find the video where this came from below also courtesy of Ben. Keytar comes in at 1:23.
GREG CERRONE "PILLING ME" KLAAS Remix Video Clip - Australia
A second YouTube via a2sidedcoin "A little off the cuff bend jamming.. I've added a second set of bend points to the left side, with another very curious dial. More to come out of the casio.."
YouTube via a2sidedcoin "This is a direct audio sync of what will become my first Analog DIY (Do it yourself) Synth and Step-Sequencer (it's in "manual" mode at the moment)-- I hope you enjoy, this is based around the dual 555 IC's."
YouTube via bigcitymusic "Here is a demo of the Frostwave Funk-A-Duck filter. It features sweepable low, high and band pass filters as well as an envelope follower with positive and negative envelopes. There are controls for input/output levels, one knob to fade from up, down or "none" envelope, resonance(which can self-oscillate), frequency, and speed of the envelope. It also has a bypass footswitch. This super versatile filter can be used on nearly everything including guitar, bass, drum loops, keyboards; All of them! bigcitymusic.com"
YouTube via stretta. I couldn't find a Part 1, so I'm not sure if Part 2 refers to just the piece or a prior video. "I'm playing a French Connection controller against a simple looping phrase. If you listen carefully to the phrase, the pulses change vary slightly throughout the composition.
The French Connection is controlling a small collection of modules including a Cwejman VCO-RM2, MMF1, Plan B model 11 and Doepfer VCA. The left hand joystick is controlling various parameters including the frequency of the slave osc of the VCO which is also frequency modulating one of the filters.
Vimeo has a better quality version of this piece, including stereo audio. Unfortunately, this piece is not really mono compatible - all sorts of phase cancelation occurs when youtube collapses the file to stereo.
"Welcome to Synthesized Dreams + Nightmares, the personal Homepage of Johann H. Stoeten. This Site will focus on Synthesizer-Programming; Sound-Design as well as on the Work of it's Owner. You may freely download Manuals for vintage Synthesizers as well as Samples and some other useful Stuff. Soon some online Discussion-Boards for specific, not yet covered Synthesizers will follow."
The last update listed on the site is from 2003, but do check it out. There's a wealth of synth resources there. It's odd how you run into sites you've never seen before. I found this one when putting up a Sequential Circuits Six-Trak auction on Matrixsynth-b. Be sure to check out the drop down menu on the top left when you get there.
The Synther-2000 (introduced in 1973) was the first attempt from the Italian company FBT Electronica S.P.A. (founded by Bruno Baldoni and Vincio Tanoni in 1963, and mainly dedicated to the production of amplifiers and mix consoles) to introduce itself into the emergent market of synths.
The Synther-2000 is a monophonic synth equipped with three VCOs (each with square and saw-tooth waveform generation) and based on the substractive synthesis method. It has also two simple filter & envelope sections. The filtering section is composed of a single filter with cutoff, a level control for each oscillator, and keyboard control, whilst the envelope control allows three different setups: AD (Attack/Decay), A (single Attack) and an interesting continuous attack (a rudimentary arpeggiator). It is also equipped with a noise generator for oscillators 2 and 3.
The Synther-2000 keyboard has 37 keys, but does not have pitch bend and modulation wheels. Instead, it has a slider for the continuous control of oscillator-1 frequency. In this respect, it does remind one of a Theremin sound. The Synther-2000 also possesses a sweep control that is very similar to the classic portamento effect.
Due to the small number of units made and their limited distribution area, at present it is really difficult to find one of these small pieces of vintage synth."
"FROM KRAMER / DOD THE PITCH RIDER 7000 MARK II GUITAR-MIDI INTERFACE. TO MY KNOWLEDGE THESE CRAZY THINGS LISTED FOR $800 IN THIER YEAR OF RELEASE:1986."
You are looking at Production Prototype 1 of the Mattson Mini Modular, owned by none other than me. It is not in my possession yet, but it is coming soon. Be sure to click on the image for a full size shot.
The base system is on the left. I opted for a few extra modules you see on the right. The M panels are blank panels, so the base system would normally have all blanks on the right. The whole thing folds into a very nice carrying case. Note you do get the full case with the base model. You can interlock multiple cases with the latches. If you blow up the picture and look closely you can see how the two are connected; you can just keep connecting and stacking.
I was going to hold off on putting up the new design for a bit, but it looks like Stretta beat me to it. Click here for another system and a good post on the relative price of modulars.
The back of the case will have the very sharp Mattson M as a reflective logo. This is actually the back of serial number 1. There are two Production Prototypes followed by the main production line starting with of course, 1. Mine was done before the reflective design so it will be flat. It looks like I'll have to get an additional one now... That sneaky Mattson...
Update: The problem with the images not loading should be fixed. If you still can't see the images, post a comment. Also note the missing knobs and leds in the Prototype 1 image above as it is not yet complete. George also let me know that the back pictured here is a custom wood back. The standard systems will be hardboard with the M. I forgot about that. I've seen them and the contrast between the logo and the solid dark back looks really nice.
YouTube via bubagoo "In this video I'm testing my newly completed modular synth and modular drum sequencer. The drum sequencer is a very simple home brewed design. You can find details and schematics here: http://www.casperelectronics.com/fini... The synth is based mostly on circuits from Paiaand Ray Wilson's site Music From Outer Space. For a detailed description of the individual modules go to http://www.casperelectronics.com/fini... Here is a list of the modules: 1x 16 step CV sequencer 4x VCO 2x noise source 2x VCF 3x VCA 2x LFO 2x AR envelope 1x ADSR envelope 2x ring mod 1x Attenuated mixer 4x CV mixer/inverter"
Via JH: "A ring modulator thread over at synth-diy last night inspired me to sit down at my CS-80 a little. No great music - just showing of the instrument's capabilities (and played thru a bunch of FX). (click the "Free Download" button for mp3 file)"
BTW, you might remember JH by his own label on MATRIXSYNTH. You can find his website here.
For those of you that saw my note regarding the MFOS videos being pulled to be updated later in the posts below, they are now up. I opted to update the original posts as the videos came in sooner than expected. Click here for all the videos including an older set I put up a while back.
YouTube via djthomaswhite "This is a cheap demonstration of what the Sequential Circuits Six-Trak analog keyboard can do with it's on board sequencer. The sequencer has 6 tracks and allows you to have multiple patches arranged in a fashion dependent on how many keys (polyphony) you want to hold per sequence. You can have 6 mono sounds, or three mono sounds and a three note chord for example. There is a second video on how the level of these tracks are controlled once the sequence is recorded. Thanks for stopping by!"
Remember the Stribe? CDM has a great interview up with creator Josh Boughey. Click here to check it out.
Intro: "Once the domain of the few, creating and customizing sophisticated DIY controllers is now more accessible than ever. That means, if you can’t find what you want, and you’re ambitious and knowledgeable enough, you go make your own. Josh Boughey was impressed by the Monome enough to buy one — but the Monome, a grid of on/off buttons, doesn’t provide any kind of variable control. So Josh built his own, combining a series of parallel touch strips with LED indicators. (The lights are the tricky part, requiring an obscene number of connections.)"
"Carl Stone's Al-Noor and Peter Grenader's Secret Life of Semiconductors will be presented among other studio electronic works at the 2008 LA Sonic Odyssey Festival in Pasadena, CA, March 28 and 29 at 8:00 P.M. For more information, go here." Pictured: "the analog synthesizer used to create The Secret Life of Semiconductors."
Update: be sure to check out the comments of the prior post. There's some good info from Carbon111 who will be creating some pages for the new Serge systems as well. If that doesn't get you excited just check out http://carbon111.com/. He has some of the best pages on individual synthesizers out there including Serge.
Ileana Grams-Moog wrote a touching post on Caring Bridge. The following is only a short excerpt, so do take the time out to read the full post.
"It has been almost exactly two and a half years since Bob's death, and over a year since my last entry. I had no idea that people were still visiting this site and posting tributes to Bob until my stepdaughter Michelle, the director of the Bob Moog Foundation, told me so. My chronic fatigue generally keeps me from using the internet.
I am so touched and grateful to know how much Bob meant and continues to mean to so many people. For my daughter Miranda and me he was as close to perfect a (step)father and husband as is humanly possible. Those qualities that we loved clearly affected the thousands of you who had only a brief encounter with him, but that made such a deep impression on you that the memory of it is still alive. It is traditional in Judaism to say, after mentioning the name of someone who is no longer alive, 'May his (or her) memory be for a blessing.' Bob's memory is a blessing for all of us who knew him, whether for a few moments or for years."
via this auction
* Basically a MOOG for drummers!
* click on/off control
