Tuesday, July 22, 2008
the ASM-1
YouTube via lesingemonotone
"Synth based upon Gene Stopps' ASM-1. Still work in progress and quite noise video unfortunatly."
The Optigan Archives Vol. 1 Sample DVD-R!
YouTube via peahix
"This video features a series of very simple demos of sounds from the Optigan Archives Vol. 1 Sample DVD-R, compared with their related sounds from the Optigan/Orchestron/Talentmaker sample CD. (Please see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeUeME... for an infomercial for that CD.)
This is an exclusive set of loops and keyboard samples culled from the original Optigan/Orchestron studio master reels.
While the Optigan itself always sounded very lo-fi due to the limitations of its optical-soundtrack technology, the original master tapes retain their hi-fi sound quality (albeit in mono).
The Optigan master reels are a vast archive of early 1970s era musical building blocks, covering a wide range of popular styles from the period. Ultimately, only a small portion of this material ever made it onto production Optigan discs. For this initial collection of samples, I'm focusing on that small portion and related out-takes. Future volumes in this series will comprise entirely unfamiliar material- out-takes which never saw the light of day on any Optigan disc.
To find out more information about this DVD-R, and to place an order, please visit http://shoptigan.ecrater.com/product...."
Replicas [cover] by Failed Muso
YouTube via FailedMuso
"A fairly simple and short cover of "Replicas" by Tubeway Army/Gary Numan. Based more on his live version than the album track. Everything programmed on Reason by me with the lead line, also from Reason, played live on my Akai MPK49 (you have no idea how many takes it took, mainly because I am shit at playing live !)
Enjoy.
Of course, all copyright belongs to Mr Numan and Beggars Banquet and whoever else. I am simply demonstrating my [lack of] skills."
Tiptop Audio Distributes Through Schneider's Buero
via Tiptop Audio:
"It has been a while, but we have some exciting news! We officially have distribution in Germany through Schneider's Buero! As you already know we have one of the absolutely best distributors here in the states, the amazing Analogue Haven but we really felt that we were leaving our European counterparts out of the loop!
This has been a very exciting process for us and we are proud to have finally secured overseas distribution, but to top that off, it is with one of the best and most well-respected distributors in Germany! What more could we ask for?"
The Messy Studio
click here for the full set. I picked one of the messiest shots of course, so be sure to click through for some of the better gear shots. There are some good ones.
Ghetto Lab
Ghetto Lab from jon johnstone on Vimeo.
"Finished my MFOS Sound Lab. Listen to the sweet sweet sounds!
Actually I have no idea if this sounds right or not. I'm just happy that my second project, after an atari punk console, didn't burst into flames when I turned it on."
PlanB Model 17 Triple Event Timer gearporn
YouTube via dkimcg
"More experimentation with the triple event timer. Turns out it's really really nice for making little tribal sounding resonant drum patterns when used with the Model 13 Dual Timbral Gate. You can really hear the vactrols here since the gates are literally just open or closed with a pulse. That resonant almost membrane type sound is the slowness of the vactrols. Sweet huh? So in this patch the Model 10 was free to do other stuff, but I think it was just cycling back into the control processor for the second timing on the right side. Ah, that loudness in levels must have been feedback. Sorry about the levels being way too loud at parts, I think the voltages got too high too. I need a voltmeter in the rack...
YOu can see pretty clearly what the Model 17 does with the LFO feeding into it going slow. The timer's positive direction send out one set of pulses to the 1st gate, the negative direction send out a 2nd set of pulses to the 2nd gate giving you two voices played with one LFO timing everything out. 6 triggers events total, so you can do some nifty timing stuff with it. See the other video for a better idea on the outbuts at the lower section."
advanced Loading... PlanB Model 17 Triple Event Timer Outputs
YouTube via dkimcg
"Not too complete, the negative triggers don't seem to be firing anything in this patch (probably pulsing to a filter or something while quiet), but you can see the or outputs which look like they could be used for a backbeat drone or trigger another note/event.
See the other video for a better idea of what the triple event timer can do. I really like this thing a lot now that I know what it can do. No stereo really, it's a raw recording with no delay or anything, just the two gates mixed together in mono."
Machinedrum and A.S. 8500 Short Sequence
YouTube via bigcitymusic
"Here's a tough little sequence from the Analogue Systems rs200 Sequencer module synced up with the Elektron Machinedrum via the rs140 MIDI/CV module. The rs140 is one of the most feature-laden MIDI to CV converters available, and it's in eurorack format!
http://www.bigcitymusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/bigcitymusicdo...
http://www.bigcitymusicblog.blogspot.com"
"They say it's gonna rain" - on Böhm Station One
YouTube via organfairy
"I don't know very much about this German workstation. In fact I have only found out a fraction of its capabilities. But I have used it to play the rhytm and some of the voices on this song. The rest is played on the Yamaha organ which also acts as keyboard for the Böhm."
MFB Filterbox Demo
YouTube via tobsenteque
"Clocked MFB Filterbox applied to a Synth Sequence. Some additional EFX"
The tiny YMO click module (take2)
YouTube via denha
"This makes a model of MOOG moduller sequencer. The sound has been changed."
Monday, July 21, 2008
Synthorama - Synth Museum Walkthrough - Parts 1 - 5
YouTube via matrixsynth.
This is the walk through of the Synthorma synthesizer museum in Luterback Switzerland. Before you watch this video I want to make a few notes. First of all, be sure to click on the synthorama label/link below to see all posts on my visit to the museum. Second, this set of five videos is literally walk through the museum. If you have been following the posts you will know that the majority of synths are hooked up to headphone amps. There is a very good reason for this - you are encouraged to explore and listen to the individual synths without the disturbance of others doing the same. Because of this there is obviously no synth audio in this set of videos. The purpose of this post is to give you an idea of what is there and to give you a sense of what it would be like to walk through and see all of this before you put the camera down and start playing. :) There is no background track as you walk along. Just a ton of synths you want to explore.
For those of you that get camera sick watching videos like this, apologies ahead of time, and there are plenty of shots of the museum in my prior posts if that works better for you. Hopefully the vids aren't too bad.
That said, enjoy this set of videos, or not. Remember you can mouse over the video and click on the forward and backward links to move on to the next video if you do not have the time to watch all five in one shot.
Thanks again to Martin Hollinger for hosting such an incredible synthesizer asset for the community and a special thanks to swissdoc for not only driving me to the museum with the great synth talk, but also for dropping by the music shop and brockenstube on the way there. I couldn't have dreamt of a better synth fix on my vacation. Thank you.
Synthorama - MISC Shots
click here for the last set of images of the Synthorama synthesizer museum in Luterbach Switzerland. The set includes that last random shots I took of the museum after completing a tour of all the synths. Next up, the video tour of the musuem. Click on the synthorama label below to see all the posts of my visit.
FC-303 - Roland TB-303 Famicon
Famicon as in Nintendo SES. Gizmodo has a post up on various cartridge art. noisesource spotted this one of a Roland TB-303 and sent it in.
"Rounding out our Nintendo news trifecta today is the annual Famicase art exhibition. It's like many other art exhibitions from around the world, made infinitely cooler by the fact that the artwork is composed of imaginary games pasted to old 8-bit Famicom carts."
That said, I'm guessing this is not a TB-303 for the NES. If anyone knows more about this one, feel free to comment.
RobbleGrobble, babbling patch on the modular
YouTube via dkimcg
"PlanB generates sound and processes timing from 2 envelopes I borrow from the Paia and uses the model 10 a secondary envelope. The main swell in volume is the Paia's adsr envelope rising slowly and cutting out. the model 24 generates the randomness in the patch. The triple time pulls it's weight on this one. Watch it's LEDs blink timing out 2 envelopes. The model 24 processes 2 LFOs from the Filtered Coffee unit and one of the envelopes from an AR envelope from the Paia. It the nsend out modulations to the filters and ocillators. It's a pretty complicated patch, but most of it was trying to get the Model 17 triple timer to time out events where you really see and hear it in action.
The space echo is turned on about 1/4 of the way in to fill out the sound a little. All analog on this recording, no processing in the computer at all."
Alesis Micron VS. Waldorf Micro Q
YouTube via Gtechture
"This is a song created on the Waldorf Micro Q accompanied my a Micron"
Testing the Waldorf micro Q multimode
YouTube via trom69
"All sounds are coming from the micro Q (4 timbres + drums). Paterns sequenced using Cubase."
ARP 2600: Sample and Hold
YouTube via AutomaticGainsay
"Here is a demonstration of the sound and functionality of the Sample and Hold circuit of the ARP 2600."
scope + planb + frequencies + expressions + After Effects
YouTube via dkimcg
"I combined a bunch of analog sequences I recorded from my PlanB modular synth to make a "song". I shot the waveforms of the song through an oscilloscope. I did some simple expressions and overuse of the kaleida plugin. Just a sketch. But it looks trippy if you're into trippy things. Go hippie go!
But if you're prone to seizures, this may not be a good one to watch. Seriously."
Circuit Bent Yoda Glitch Ambient Synthesizer
via this auction" * This is a glitch synthesizer
* Comes with two glitch pushbuttons
* One On/Off switch
* 1/8" MONO Output
* Runs off of 4 AA Batteries (Not Included)
* This sounds like a Furby how he glitches out but he says his Yoda stuff (just how you like it)
Please visit my page at: WWW.MYSPACE.COM/GlitchedOut"
Univox Mini-Korg
images via this auction"MINI-KORG ELECTRONIC KEYBOARD SYNTHSIZER SERIAL NUMBER 2580 117VAC 50/60 HZ INCLUDES FITTED FLIGHT CASE WITH "CRISPELL FREE-FLIGHT" STENCILED ON."
Crumar Stratus
images via this auction"Recently discovered at a 40+ year old music store where it has been in storage since it left the factory. Everything works. It is an extremely versatile and powerful 49 key 2 oscillator 6 note polyphonic analog synth that uses CEM chips, the same type inside the most sought-after vintage analog polysynths, so there's a very similar sound. The LFO can be routed to the VCOs, the VCF or the VCA. Available waveforms are square and sawtooth. There is a knob controlling rate and depth, and a simple ramp generator, controlling how fast the modulation affects the sound, with knobs for slope and delay. There's also an organ section with 4 drawbars and separate volume controls to determine the volume of each of 4 octaves, which can be used simultaneously with the synth sounds. The filters sound really great - the very desirable warm analog sound. The LFO can do FM, wah or tremolo. The LFO section also has adjustable slope and delay, which many similar synths didn't have. There's a button that causes the LFO to automatically do 1 octave square wave pitch modulation, which is a really useful feature. The oscillator glide can be set to single or multi trigger. There's an oscillator pitch envelope as well. Otherwise, it has all of the standard polysynth features. One unique feature is the ability for the voices to alternate between square and sawtooth waveforms at the same time. This is a cool synth that can sound really nice and would make a great addition to a vintage synth collection, as it is in pristine cosmetic and working condition. Includes the factory demo templates for Honkye Tonkye Strings, Brass Poly Decay and Filter Sweeping Inverted Envelope.
Check out the original factory demo and spec info at: link"
Human League - Path of Least Resistance (live BBCtv 1979)
YouTube via spacehopper70. spot the synths
"Top clip of the original line-up performing a song from the first album on some programme called "Mainstream". Repeated as part of the "Sounds of the Seventies" series, hence the daft bookending with Paul Darrow and Patrick Troughton."
Polygomé demonstration
Polygomé demonstration from stretta on Vimeo.
"A quick tour of the polygomé application I created for the monome. The software can be downloaded at stretta.com."
Alan Haven and an Arp2600
flickr by ☆eightbaII☆full size
"www.myspace.com/officialalanhaven
www.vintagesynth.com/index2.html
'The ARP 2600 is without a doubt one of the finest analog synthesizers ever.'"
Metunar's Psychedelic Modular Movie
SonicstateTV by Metunar
"# Happy Knobbing 2008
Modular Synthesizer Meeting Germany
# Link http://www.metunar.ch/musik/diverses/hk2008.mp4"
YMO Technopolis Live - 3 Years of MATRIXSYNTH
YouTube via matrixsynth.
OK, it's the day after my official three year anniversary on the blog. I wasn't going to mention anything but I figure why not. As for this video. Someone just commented on how it was their favorite. I of course watched it again and realized how good it was. I also noticed that out of 34,470 hits on the video, only 35 came from this site. I usually get a heck of a lot more, but I realize this is because I put up this post back in August of 2006. The obvious observation is I have a heck of a lot more visitors today versus back then so people are missing a LOT of old content. My recommendation is to visit the archives every now and then, but... there was an article I read on the guy that is credited with starting blogs and he gave a few rules on what a blog should be. First, posts should be very short, two they should capture and send people to other sites, and three you should actually post the same content more than once! I used to have a rule that I only post things once. I'm not about to go crazy posting things I already put up, but considering what a "blog should be," I'll be putting stuff up that I might have put up in the past (like this video) should it strike me. If you've seen it already, just ignore it and appreciate that others are now enjoying it as well.
As for numbers, this is post #17,087, the site has had over 2,958,261 visits, 880,569 visitors and over 5,253,505 pageviews. We have not yet conquered the world. Click the world map image below. The green countries have visited MATRIXSYNTH. A bit crazy when you think of it, especially when you consider Iraq and Afghanistan. Anyone into synths there have my utmost respect. Thank you and of course thanks to everyone else that has visited. The white countries however, have not yet visited! I'm guessing either I'm banned in those countries or internet access is of course very sparse. Not sure what the North Koreans have against me though... they do have a kick ass website. Anyway... to those of you that appreciate the site and to those of you that have contributed, THANK YOU!!! I've mentioned it privately to a few people but my goal is to have somewhere for people to be able to reflect on what was coming through the synth waves in this day and age. The site is a repository of everything synth, every day from the inception of this site until I finally stop posting. I'm hoping this will be an interesting look back in time 30, 40, 60+ years from now. It's far from perfect, but IT IS a slice in "synth time." Whether you appreciate it or not, it exists and will continue to exist. To those that support the site: you get it, you know who you are, and THANK YOU.
Synthorama - Yamaha Room
click here for images of the Yamaha room at the Synthorama synthesizer museum in Luterbach Switzerland. Click on the synthorama label below to see all posts in this set. An EMS Hi-Fli is also in this set.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Synthorama - KORG Room
click here for images of the KORG room at the Synthorama synthesizer museum in Luterbach Switzerland. Click on the synthorama label below to see all posts in this set. An EMS Hi-Fli is also in this set.
Synthorama - Drum Machine Room
click here for images of the drum machine room at the Synthorama synthesizer museum in Luterbach Switzerland. Click on the synthorama label below to see all posts in this set. An EMS Hi-Fli is also in this set.
Update via Martin: "Around 60 Rhythm Machines are not placed and also all 90 Electro-Harmonix Effects are stored. You can see that the Synthorama has really a big space problem :-)
LABELS/MORE:
Alesis,
BME,
Casio,
Digisound,
EHX,
Firstman,
Korg,
MFB,
MOOG,
Multivox,
MXR,
Oberheim,
Roland,
Sequential Circuits,
Simmons,
Star Instruments,
Synare,
synthorama,
Synthorama Matrix,
Vermona
Synthorama - PPG, EDP, EMS, Skyway Lord Room
click here for images of the PPG, EDP, EMS and Skyway Lord room at the Synthorama synthesizer museum in Luterbach Switzerland. Click on the synthorama label below to see all posts in this set. No, I was not fortunate enough to hear the Lord synthesizer.
Synthorama - Roland Room
click here for images of the Roland room at the Synthorama synthesizer museum in Luterbach Switzerland. Click on the synthorama label below to see all posts in this set.
Update via Martin: "In the Roland room there are only a few synths from my stock. From Roland I have a lot of other models but there is no space left to expose them."
Synthorama - Italian, French and Russian Room
This is the next post on the Synthorma synthesizer museum in Luterbach Switzerland. Click here to see the Italian, French and Russion synthesizers in the museum. This is actually two adjoining rooms as you come down the stairs from the first floor. Be sure to click on the synthorama label below for all posts in this set. Note the labels for the various synth manufacturers in this collection.
Q119 Synthesizers.com sequencer in action
YouTube via marsupialmicron
"Here it is, my first night with the Q119 Synthesizers.com sequencer. The music is just to show the sequencer and the audio is from a camcorder, so don't expect too much. the other synth is an ARP odyssey and it is doing a melody taken from Philip Glass, The Hours, 2002. Enjoy "
DIY Analog Synth and Rhythm Sequencer MK3
YouTube via abstractjuz
"My newest synth.
Dual, 2 part, oscillators with hard sync and independent pattern generators for Pitch, PWM and Gating.
Just 1 quick routine here. The synth's clock is synced to Logic via an Audio Gate Input. I'm messing around with the PWM pattern and the balance between OSC1 and OSC 2's PWM."
Tune Juno 106-Alnitak
YouTube via Kobolnova
"Somtimes this must be done,tuning a older typ of synthesizer,is dul and boring to do,so i add some pictures i found on the internet of my hometown and around it,also a tip how to make connections to make a good music video,and you can have a view into my homestudio I hope it stays tuned for a while LOL ;-)"
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