anonymous quote.

from "Electronic Music: Systems, techniques, and controls" by Allen Strange

flickr set by kernelslacker, sent my way via Dave.

"The availability of a particular patchcord is inversely proportional to its need."

Anonymous


Note the book and others are listed in the Synth Books section.

Inside My OSCar

You'll find more images with details on insidemyOSCar

Roland System 100 Service Manuals

You can find them here via florian anwander.

Synth Stories

A thread by Ralph of insidemyOSCar went up on the Analogue Heaven mailing list asking people to share their funny synth stories. Here are my two entries, followed by a funny one from customsynth.co.uk. If you have any feel free to send them in and I'll update this post. I'll also add this to the More Stuff section towards the bottom right of the site.

My stories:
Several years back I went to Maui. I set my wife up with expectations that we would hit every single pawn shop while there. We never got around to it until the last day when we were partially sunburnt and just plain beat. I convince my wife to trek around the island. Over two hours of hitting pawn shops with nothing but jewelry we give up. On the way back to the hotel I see one. I ask her if we can go in and she says hell no. I then see a Taco Bell right next to it and realize its about lunch time and we are pretty hungry. I say how about Taco Bell? :) I manage to get us a quick look in the pawn shop and sitting in the back I see a beige drum machine. I think, no, it can't be. I'm thinking it's probably just a TR-707, but when I get up to it, it's the 909. I pick it up and aside from being dusty it's in prestine condition. I see a few amps and ask if I can try it out. They go searching for a cable for about 15 minutes and can't find one. I'm thinking maybe it's busted, but I look for a price and see a little sticker on it. 220, no $. I think, no way... that can't be the price. I ask someone and it happens to be the owner of the shop. I shout accross the room "is 220 the price?!" The response? Oh, I can take $30 off of it! I whip out my credit card. Cash only. I have no cash. I ask him if there is an ATM near by. He says there's one accross the street, but he's closing shop as he has a movie to catch. He suggests the next day, but my plane leaves before they open. I ask him to give me five minutes. I run accross the street (think hwy/mini freeway), get the cash and run back. I get back and I see him locking up the doors. I get that sinking feeling in my stomach. He turns around and he has the 909! I pay for it and head back to the hotel. It's in pristine condition both cosmetically and functionally.

Another story, this one short. I went to a local guitar center and they had a Pro-One sitting there. I ask them if I can try it out and the guy says yes but it's broken - one note just hangs. Their tech looked at it and couldn't figure it out. I buy it for $125, take it home, open it up and bend a j-wire so it isn't in constant contact with the bar. Worked perfectly after that. :)


customsynth.co.uk
"the sh09 and sixtrak i found in a farmers barn , covered in hay and i mouse nest in the sixtrak was an interesting find , both were just rust buckets , but looked great chromed , and the sh black and orange , both are on my home page ,
jeff : )"

Update: see the comments for more. I also added a link to the More Stuff section twoards the bottom right of the site.

ARP 4027-1 VCO Clone

MM8027 Module - ARP 4027-1 VCO
"Overview This is a clone of the ARP 4027-1 VCO that was used in the ARP 2600 as well as the basis for the VCO's in every other ARP synthesizer from 1972. This replication has been carried out with care and detailed research, including borrowing a recently serviced ARP 2600 to test out the capabilities of the VCO design, to ensure I could achieve or even improve upon the original ARP design."

More info on The Emulator Archive

Top image is the original ARP 4027-1 VCO
Bottom two are the clone

circuit bent effects casio va-10

YouTube via spunkytoofers
"another from the casio va-10. just wanted to demo the added looper in the feedback path."

Me playing Depeche Mode "Fools"

YouTube via DX5.

Previous vids here.

"Fools. Backtape, sounds search and assign, and rehearsing in an hour or so. No samples or sounds coming from the original song.

Above: Roland JX-8P
Mid: Yamaha DX7 mk1
Below: E-mu Emax"

Sequential Circuits Studio 440 Part 6

YouTube via WISSJE. follow-up to this post.

Kaossilator Jam 2

YouTube via blackmuzzle
"A quick jam with the Kork Kaossilator and KP3. I'm slowly getting the hang of switching scales on the fly. What a fantastic little box..."

Minimoog Voyager Old School. In a Wardrobe

YouTube via hafstrat
"Hafstrat is now hafmoog. Nothing sounds like a moog."

Yakitori Song - KORG microKORG XL with GarageBand

YouTube via jetdaisuke
"I composed this song with KORG synthesizer "microKORG XL". I used only a few Presets.
And recorded with Apple GarageBand

Title logo and lyrics animations are made with a Nintendo DSi software "Ugoku Memo-cho (うごくメモ帳)"

Yakitori is Japanese style grilled chicken.

[Yakitori song] lyrics(English translation)
My favorite yakitori is negima.
My favorite yakitori is seseri.
My favorite yakitori is sasami.
My favorite yakitori is bonbochi.
liver
burn enough
So liver
rare
salt or sauce
sauce or salt

【やきとりのうた】歌詞
焼き鳥のネギ間を食って
焼き鳥のせせりを食って
焼き鳥のささみを食って
焼き鳥のぼんぼち食って
レバー　よく焼き
そう、レバー　生焼き
しお、たれ
タレ、塩"

OSCar Monosynth Audio Demo

YouTube via JMPSynth
"Not many OSCar synth demos about so here's an audio demo of the one I had a while ago, apologies for lack of video footage on this one. Includes use of the built-in arpeggiator."

BEAM READY HOMAGE TO REED GHAZALA

YouTube via SonofCastille
"Well, special thanks to Reed Ghazala, who sent me some really killer cold war era military surplus lamps. The big one says BEAM READY, and the smaller one has the atomic symbol, hence the name. Enjoy"

Akai MPK49 Controller Overview

YouTube via gearwire
"The Akai MPK49 controller keyboard makes things easy -- as some would say, a little too easy. It's a keyboard controller with 49 keys that won't break when you touch them like other types of keyboard keys, 12 pads and enough options to where you could probably record something that sounds passable as music while you're off in the Caymans in the middle of some kind of money coma.

Bill Holland demonstrates.

See more on Gearwire.com."

Patching using the Patch Cable Generator

via Synthesizer Art where you will find more models of "electronic musical instruments in 3D"

"Here you see the results of feeding the X, Y and Z co-ordinates of some of the jack sockets into my Patch Cable Generator"

MIDIBox SID

via the forum, up for auction here.

"Synthesizer based on the famous SID chip from the C64

* Finished MIDIbox SID constructed - based on the DIY project UCAPPS
* Easy to use, all functions are controlled by the large display (2x40) immediately reachable
* Addition, all parameters Midicontroller or editor software controllable
* 8580 Sid chip from the C-64
* 3 Oscillators, filters LP, BP, HP
* 6 LFOs, Wavetable sequencer / Arp
* Sync Midiclock
* Audio-IN ... u.v.m.
* 128 presets
* High-quality 19 "Rackgehäuse
* Midi In / Out
* Internal power supply"

Stupid Design Green Machine

New videos here.

via the forum.

Happy New Year!!!

Happy New Year everyone!
I hope it was a great one! This year was a great one for the site.

I said this last year and I will say it again. This site is NOT about me. It's about EVERYTHING SYNTH. It is about what's out there. It's about all of us, it's about what others with similar interests are doing - videos, music, pictures, events, the new and the old, EVERYTHING SYNTH!
I want to THANK ALL OF YOU FOR A WONDERFUL 2008 and I WISH YOU ALL A FANTASTIC 2009!!!

Once a year I like to share a little bit about what the site is about, its history and its readership.
Some stats for the fun of it. World Domination? 12 countries short! If you remember last year, we had 181 countries visiting the site. This year (top map), we are up to 194 countries. Since the inception of the site in 2005 we are at 201 countries (left map)!!! If you click on the map, anything in green means someone out there visited the site from that country. Those in white haven't. The darker the green the larger the number of visits. According to the map, only the following 9 countries out there have not visited the site: Western Sahara, Chad, Central African Republic, DR Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Turkmenistan, and North Korea. Crazy! Someone from every other country out there visited the site. It boggles the mind when you think about it. [Side note: I think I found a bug in Google Analytics: Take a look at the top map followed by the left. The top is this year, the left is all time. If you look closely you will see Tajikistan and Kyrgyztan flip colors. For the all time map both should be green if you think about it.

Numbers:

Total Visits:
2008: 2,010,102
2007: 1,383,340
2006: 513,060
2005: 207,750 (via AdSense)
Total: 4,114,252

Total Page Views:
2008: 3,865,863
2007: 2,519,689
2006: 912,490
2005: 207,750 (via AdSense)
Total: 7,505,792

For reference, Site Meter has:
4,289,986 Total Visits All Time
7,960,740 Total Page Views All Time
The total Page Views for Dec was 433,030, the total visits 197,214.
The average Page Views a day for Dec was 13,969, average visits a day 6362.

Pretty amazing when you think about it.

As for number of posts:
I put up 10,090 posts in 2008
21,962 posts all time
That's an average of 27.64 posts a day for 2008 and nearly double 2005, 2006 and 2007 combined.
What this simply means is that there is more out there.

Some history:
I created the original matrixsynth.com in October of 1997 as a portal for me to track "everything synth." The site consisted of two frames. A simple link list on the left and a viewing frame on the right. If you go to the site you will see what it pretty much looked like since its inception. The problem was that the links on the left were only to the root of the sites. I found that a ton of the interesting information out there was deep within sites, and sometimes the info was not even in an actual website, but on various sound, image and video shares, forums, email lists, and so on. I had a backlog of emails saved and bookmarks in my web browser. In July of 2005, I decided to start the blog to track everything.

What am I trying to do anyway? When people ask I usually just say its a blog that I track stuff with. It is that in essence, and over time, I hope it will become something more, something much more.

What is the bigger picture?
I want the site to be a place people can come back to in time. 50 -100 years from now, I want people to be able to come to the site and look back in time. I want anyone that is curious about the world of synths to be able to see a glimpse of it here. A log in time of what was out there every single day. I know I won't capture everything. There are other blogs and other websites for that. What I do hope to capture is just glimpse of it all. I hope it will be a fun trip back in time for future generations. This is actually why I chose Blogger as my platform. When I first started the blog, I started it on my site matrixsynth.com. I hosted it, but the site eventually went down due to increased traffic exceeding my allocated bandwidth. The event made me remember losing some great synth sites out there like drummachine.com (anyone remember that one?). I ended up choosing Blogger as it is owned by Google and you can host the site on their servers instead of your own. Hopefully this will translate into the site running long after I am gone.

Hopefully this wasn't too long. I just figured I owe some background on the site at least once a year. :)

Again, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! HAVE A GREAT 2009 and THANK YOU!!!

Goodbye 2008 - The Most Important Decision of 2008

Two vids. One good, one bad, you decide below. Not sure if this is fair as the bottom video isn't even from 2008, but neither is most of the content on this site, so... :) Vintage or...

Guru Josh Project - Infinity 2008 (Official Video - Klaas Vocal Edit)

YouTube via HammerDontHurtEm. via Lt. John Rambo's Goodbye 2008 post which obviously instigated this post and thus gets the title. "A freak like me... just needs the Trinity."

Disclaimer: so as you've probably figured out by now, my number one rule in putting up a post is that you have to be able to ID the synth. I'm usually pretty strict on this, but during the holidays I lighten up a bit. As for this post, the excuse for posting is the KORG Trinity. Or is it the Triton? Who knows... Enjoy the sax... or not.

As for the second video...

Fluke - Atombomb (Video Version)

The synth connection is... the KORG Trinity... and the Synth Babes of course, although the only real Synth Babe is in Fluke. I actually saw Fluke live over a decade ago. I remember the female in the band playing the Trinity live. I was quite impressed. At the time my friend gave me a call and let me know Spectrum was playing the same night. I already had tickets to Fluke so I went with Fluke. My friend told me Spectrum had this funny little suitcase synth which turned out to be the EMS Synthi. In hindsight, Synthi aside, I made the right choice. Fluke was indeed impressive and this video was a track for the times. Good memories... New Years shouldn't just be a reflection of the prior year in my opinion, but rather your life up until this point. Past. Present. Future. Make it all good.



The vote for the hell of it...



BTW, I'll be putting up my traditional Happy New Years post with stats for the year tomorrow on the day. As the festivities will obviously happen before then, have a VERY HAPPY (AND SAFE) NEW YEAR! SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE!!!

MB-6582

flickr by SineSurfer
(click for more)

inside the MIDIBox SID

Noisebug Buchla and Plan B at Winter NAMM

http://noisebug.net/
http://buchla.com/
http://www.ear-group.net

Dictee Supreme

YouTube via bubagoo.
"This is a heavily modified learning toy called La Dictee Magique.
That's the french version of the much more common Speak&Spell.
I added the standard range of glitch and pitch bends and also added:
-Pitch modulation LFO
-2 Baby driver toy sound circuits
-Voice changing megaphone sound processor circuit
-Atari joystick control port (for triggering sounds and glitches)
-Defibrillator paddle control jacks (trigger sounds and HOLD effect)
For more info go to casperelectronics.com"
The Magic Dictator! as in dictation of course.

Roland TR 700 Rhythm 1974?

YouTube via abertronic. "its big and from the 70'S"

Big Toad with Newt Sequencer Demo

YouTube via bluelantern320
"Demo of a rare Big Toad Synth with all CV's routed for Semi Modular action. Only 1 was made and auction on ebay."

BIGTOAD alone

"DEMO OF A RARE SEMI-MODULAR TOAD SYNTH USING A KORG EA-1 AS A MIDI CONTROLLER (NOTES ONLY)."

Doepfer Analog Modular Synthesizer System

via this auction
"Livewire:
Frequensteiner multimode filter

Doepfer:
2x A-110 VCO
A-146 LFO
A-131 Exp VCA
A-143-2 quad ADSR
A-119 Ext. In.
Blanking panels"

Update: this was supposed to go up on MATRIXSYNTH-B. Oh well... there you have it. Click on each for the full size shot.

Oberheim Matrix-12

via this auction

via N o n p l u s

Paul McCartney - Coming Up (Music Video)

YouTube via beatlesfan4ever13. Yamaha CS80. I'm guessing the brass is the CS80.

Transanalog Casio SK-1 MIDI Retrofit

via TRANSANALOG
"Works for SK-1, SK-5, SK-8, SK-10, and DM-100 (top keyboard). Available soon for PT-1, VL-1, Yamaha VSS-30 and many others.

All features accessible from side of keyboard!

User selectable MIDI channel or set it to respond to all MIDI channels. Can also be set to respond to the first MIDI channel received after reset.

SK-MIDI retrofit turns on and off with the keyboard. Will not drain the batteries.

Responds to MIDI notes 53 to 84.

Optional out of range loop feature allows the SK-MIDI to respond to MIDI notes 0 to 127.

Best of all - the internal speaker is retained!"

ARP Axxe 2310 (Old Version)

flickr set by transanalog
(click for more)

"WWW.TRANSANALOG.COM

The original version of the ARP Axxe in surprisingly good condition. Has the Moog type ladder filter that caused all the patent infringement problems for ARP. Part of my personal collection."

inside an ARP Axxe

Eurorack Modular Synth

flickr by Richard M
(click for one more)

full size

Joe and Synth

flickr by benus

full size

KORG MicroKORG

frost

via customsynth.co.uk

"have a great new year"

Access Virus TI Polar
Roland VSynth White
Roland Fantom White

Last MoPho noises in 2008

mopho16.mp3 via Stefan Trippler.

"Stylus drums, lots of fx, little patience as always ;)"

salzmanufaktur feat. psychotronic - scheisskreis

YouTube via salzmanufaktur
"Playing around with the Elektron Machinedrum, Sony Vegas 8 and an old VHS recorder.
Happy 2009!"

The Buchla Bongo - MAKEN0ISE

YouTube via MAKEN0ISE http://makenoisemusic.com/

"One of the defining sounds of 60's electronic music created with the Buchla instruments, the electronic bongo is easily re-created using modern euro-rack format synthesizer modules such as the Quad Multi-Mode Gate."

Underworld "Cups" Tutorial

.
YouTube via Felix2036. Anyone ID the synth?
"Check out my vid on how to play that searing synth pattern from Underworld's "Cups" (the second part). It was kinda hard putting it all together; the syncopation between left & right hand is a killer. Took me a couple of hours to master. Still, it's worth it. Enjoy!"

MaxMSP 5 synthesis experience

YouTube via jamesvla
"here you have another synthesis patch I've made with MaxMSP.. It combines pre-estabilished stuff with generative/stockhastic elements, in order to make some sort of crazy thing"

DS-10で除夜の鐘2008/2009

YouTube via aqi
"自然発生的に起こった「KORG DS-10による除夜の鐘」制作ムーブメント！僭越ながら、そのまとめ動画を制作いたしました。まだ買ったばかりの方からスゴ腕の名無しさん、そして有名なアノ 人まで・・・十人十色の除夜の鐘を堪能しつつ、新年を迎えましょ う！！！ 尚、108つめはスタートから大体19分のところとなっておりま す。 本年中は本当にお世話になりました。また来年もよろしくお願いい..."
Googlish:
"Just happened "KORG DS-10 from the bell," making movement! The僭越, has produced a video together. SUGO名無SHI arm has just bought from the still, while 10 people enjoy the colors of the bell of the famous people and ANO,迎EMASHOU the New Year! ! ! The second is about 108 from 19 starts and you are minutes away. Thank you very much this year. I also request for next year's best ..."

ThumbDrum

"If you’ve ever found yourself drumming with your thumbs on your keyboard or tapping on the table, then you’ll love Thumb Drum. It’s made to be fun for everyone, adults and children, musicians and non-musicians alike. It’s all about the simple enjoyment of tapping and making music. ThumbDrum is way more than your ordinary drum machine. On top of being able to play five different Drumkits (Real Drums, Drum Loops, Ancient Music Box, Cool Sounds & Singer Voices) you can also record up-to 16 short sounds samples which can then be mixed together to create a new customized drum-kit.

It has a stunning user-interface, and if you have large fingers, or prefer to play using landscape mode - you can select to view 4, 9, 12 or 16 drum pads - whichever setting you find more comfortable.

You can also choose between different skins to change the appearance. ThumbDrum also has virtually no lag and can play jams super-fast.

Have fun ThumbDrummin’."

You can find ThumbDrum here:

via Palm Sounds.

Voyager Spacecraft

SonicStateTV via moognut
"A space video made using video clips from NASA and music soundtrack created using a M-AUDIO KEY RIG keyboard and Synth software. http://www.webwonder.co.uk/"
Not sure what soft synths were used, but I figured this one was worth posting for the new year. The last day of the current year is usually when people look back and reflect on their lives over the past year. Watching this video definitely made me reflect on the planet. It's absolutely mind boggling to think we live here just floating around in space. Life is a fractal of sorts.

a very good 2009 to all!

YouTube via vonhaulshoven. via the forum.
"happy new year. I say it with a stone age sequence improvisation (the last thing I do in 2008)"

GForce Webcast 2008

"GForce Webcast 2008

It’s been a busy year as usual culminating in the release of the M-Tron Pro in late October and no sooner had people started taking delivery of the instrument, the tracks started to arrive here at GForce HQ.

Once again we were uber-impressed at both the high quality and wide variety of musical styles cascading out of our speakers and within weeks we had so many good ‘uns we realized we had enough for another webcast.

So welcome to what seems to be an annual event for us, highlighting and broadcasting the pick of the bunch. Also, as this is a reflective time of year, we’ve compiled a small pdf document giving you some inside info as to what went on in 2008 along with some of our favorite images of the last 12 months.

GForce 2008 Retrospective

We’ll see you in 2009 but in the interim best wishes to everyone who’s both helped and inspired us during 2008.

Have a great Holiday

Dave, Chris and the entire GForce team."

You can find the webcast with track listing and instruments used here.

Klee Sequencer and Appendage: Klee Bit Shuffle

YouTube via ScottStites
"The Klee is controlling my modular - the Appendage Touch Ribbon makes an appearance as well, controlling a couple of VCOs through my Triple Wilson SVVCF."

Fever Dreams

YouTube via bigcitymusic
"Ever had those? We start with the King Capitol Punishment Utopia Synth, then the Zvex Box of Metal, to the Moog MuRF, and on to the Analogue Systems rs290 Delay/Sampler module.

All of these pedals sound incredible on their own. The A.S. delay time is being modulated by the rs80 LFO module. No, you do not need the huge system. You can buy these modules separately and there are a variety of cases available including small ones. I don't wanna go back to sleep."

Doepfer Unplugged

Doepfer Unplugged from Isotope Of Me on Vimeo.
http://www.isotopeofme.com
"Here's a short noisy one for all of you Modular purists out there. These are a couple of cuts from some time playing with a few ideas on the Doepfer. Essentially VCO 1 is frequency Modulating VCO 2 through the linear input. The signal being fed into VCO 2's FM input is being gated/enveloped via VCA and EG 1 so that it only modulates the attack, leaving the sine output unchanged during the decay phase of the sound.

LFOs 1 and 2 are driving the S&H unit, which in turn is feeding the VC input of LFO 3 which is in turn triggering the EGs.

Cubase is feeding in a 4 note sequence for a bit of tonal change in addition to the rhythmic element to the patch.

The final output is coming from the VCF bandpass output, which is also being modulated by EG1."

tranqui // kp3 basic sampling demo

YouTube via abfahrtranqui
NOTE: I'm thinking of picking up a KP3. I'm actually looking for a decent hardware looper and I'm pretty sure I'm down to the KP3 or the Electro Harmonix 2880. If you have an opinion of either, feel free to comment. The one thing I like about the 2880 is the volume faders for each loop, so you can adjust the volume of four loops in real time. Can you do this with the KP3? Update: I just checked the manual online and once the sample is recorded you can adjust the level via the touch pad, so the answer is yes. I also read that the sample time at a tempo of 140 is 16 beats or roughly 7 seconds. It then states that at 73 it goes down to 8, 39 goes down to 4 and so on. Does that mean 7 seconds is the max per loop? The 2880 with the included 1G card can do 31 minutes per track.

Video description:
"this is a short vid recorded upon request to demonstrate the very basic sampling functions of korg's kp3.

sorry for the audio quality, I have a shitty camera (11 kHz audio / 3 minutes max time for video recording) and didn't take the time to prepare any decent sounds or record the audio separately. also, instead of making explanatory subtitles and stills, I wrote this text 'cause I'm a lazy bastard.

but enough with the apologies, I think most people should get the idea; this is not supposed to be an in-depth tutorial, but merely a short demo on how to sample and resample on the kp3. nothing fancy - just the tip of the iceberg...

all 3 fx units are set to 130 bpm. actions are as follows:
- activate poser mode and show off kp3 text scroll function
- launch a loop on kp2 (prog 63)
- record the loop into the efx-1000
- destroy the loop a bit using the feedback loop trick on the efx-1000 (credits to james zabiela or whoever discovered this easteregg)
- record the loop into the kp3 (sampling button), pad A
- record a loop generated by the kp3 (prog drm.4) by resampling (shift button + sampling button, then sample pad), pad B
- sync the beats (shift + sample pad + program knob), switching between pads to verify sync
- layer white noise synth (prog syn.9) over pad B and record it to pad C by resampling
- layer bass synth (prog syn.1) over pad A and record it to pad D by resampling
- overwrite pad A by sampling random bleeps from kp2 (prog 75)
- cacophonia

like I said, this is NOT supposed to be a "look what I can do" vid because the sounds obviously suck. it's a "look what the kp3 can do" vid.

I might do a show-off vid sometime, but not today ;) this vid is for those among you who are curious about basic sampling and resampling on the kp3, nothing more. I hope you enjoy it nonetheless.

cheers to all fellow fx bendin' knob tweakin' bastards out there!

http://www.tranqui.net (now relaunched!)
http://myspace.com/tranqui"

lp kp md live looping

YouTube via vcovcfvca
"Machinedrum MD UW MKII as master clock to a Korg Kaoss Pad KP3. Also starring a Moog Little Phatty Stage II and Nord Electro 2.

Basically I start with a simple MD beat. I then lay down a few loops from the Electro into the KP3. The mixing board (Mackie 802-VLZ3) has Alt3/4 going to the KP3 so when the switch is engaged there is no noticeable volume change but the KP3 can sample/effect whatever particular channels are Alt3/4.

I then sample (with a mistake due to forgetting to Alt3/4 the board!) the LP into the KP3. By 3 minutes in I get all the tracks in place :-)

Finish it off with a little KP3 and MD tweaking and we're done. The nice thing about this setup also (not shown here) is that by simply enabling Alt3/4 on the MD channel I can use the KP3 effects on it as well.

A very powerful little live looping setup that I've been having fun with lately."

MonoMiK Demo 1 Part 1

YouTube via MusicMiK
Welcome to a more complete demonstration of my current DIY synthesizer project, the MonoMiK. I needed a bit more to carefully test the latest module, which consists of the waveform selectors and the sub oscillators for the VCOs. The setup uses one VCO module (2 VCOs), the new VCO mixer module (waveform mixer and sub oscillator per VCO), the ladder filter module (only transistor ladder used in the video) and the envelope modules.

MonoMiK Demo 1 Part 2

click here and scroll for more videos by MonoMiK previously posted here on MATRIXSYNTH.

EXS Minimoog

YouTube via twelvebits
"I just discovered the sampled minimoog in EXS24 in my logic express 8 - here I use the lead synth sound. It sounds so nice that now I have to get a real moog!"

E-mu SP 1200 - Roland Alpha Juno 1 - Oberheim Matrix-6R

YouTube via twelvebits
"Beats: SP
Chord: Juno
Bass: Matrix
String arpeggio: Matrix
Audio interface: Echo Audiofire 12

Beats are sequenced with the SP to get that nice swing. The SP is synced to Logic 8 which controls the synths, records the audio and adds some delay effects. This tune is just something I'm still working on."

E-mu - Oberheim - Korg

"SP 1200, Matrix-6R and Wavestation sequenced with Logic 8. Synths are without external efx."