MATRIXSYNTH

Monday, February 09, 2009

via this auction
"Memorymoog Plus synthesizer with factory midi and poly sequencer... Autotune version is 84. Synthesizer was recently serviced and calibrated by Mike Bucki, former Moog tech with 25 years experience. Second set of rare factory programs patch sheets included. Program tape included."

johnson intonation trainer synthesizer tunable keyboard

via this auction

"Johnson Intonation Trainer
Made by the E.F. Johnson Co.
Waseca, Minnesota U.S.A.

* Cool four-voice tunable electronic keyboard (scale selector switch offers choice of standard/tempered tuning or tunable modes)
* Originally used to test the relationship of pitch-matching and pitch-discrimination abilities

Highlights
* Three octave keyboard
* Scale Selector - choose between reference (tempered tuning) or tunable
* Tunable Scale Controls - correspond to notes on keyboard and adjust pitch in tunable mode
* Voicing - choose from four voices - - basic sine wave to reedy / edgy

* Speaker in case (can also connect to external amp, mixer, etc)"

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Smother - Luis Gispert, 2008

via Josh Kay (Phoenecia): "I just finished a soundtrack for a 26 minute film called Smother. I used my monster-case housed Euro-Rack modular and an Arp 2600 as the primary sound sources. These analogue synths were made for drones. There was plenty of post-processing involved, but not a single vsti."

Regarding the image:
"This is my system (the monster case on the left) mixed with Richard Devine's setup. That's the Arp I used on the soundtrack, it used to be mine. Actuality, Rich sold it to me many years ago and eventually I sold it back to him. Since then he's had Phil Cirocco (CMS) thoroughly baptize it (all options except the Moog ladder filter).

In my system, I'd have to say my favorites are the 2 Livewire AFG's the Frequensteiner, the Zeroscillator, the Bananlogue Serge VCS (I wish I had 3 of them), The Plan B model 10 and 24, the Doepfer BBD's (I do have 3 of them), and without a doubt, the MakeNoise QMMG. "

Smother - Luis Gispert, 2008 (Phoenecia's Alternate Score & Edit) from Josh Kay on Vimeo.

"Smother (Phoenecia's Alternate Score & Edit)
Directed by Luis Gispert
Score & Sound Design by Phoenecia (Joshua Kay & Romulo Del Castillo)

From the New York Times review:
"A boy lies on a trampoline, clutching a boombox to his chest. Gradually the blue tarpaulin turns a sickly green as he empties his bladder. “Smother,” a riveting new 26-minute film at Mary Boone Gallery by the New York artist Luis Gispert, explores the relationship between this 11-year-old chronic bed-wetter, also depicted in the photograph at right, and his domineering mother. Like “Stereomongrel,” Mr. Gispert’s 2005 film collaboration with Jeffrey Reed, it follows a precocious pre-adolescent’s odyssey through a perilous adult landscape - in this case 1980s Miami (where Mr. Gispert was raised).

“Smother,” which has a script by Mr. Gispert and the artist Orly Genger and a soundtrack by the experimental duo Phoenecia, is the throbbing, flamingo-pink heart of Mr. Gispert’s two-gallery show, at Mary Boone and Zach Feuer. With its tropical palette and episodic magical realism (which might be too real for some animal lovers), it can seem less like a film than a tenuously linked series of Mr. Gispert’s stills. Dialogue is sparse, and as melodramatic as a telenovela’s. The camera lingers over the spectacular stucco-mansion setting, which Mr. Gispert has aptly described as “narco-nouveau-riche.”

At Zach Feuer Gallery, a sculptural installation echoes the film’s lurid scenery. Photographs of truck interiors, racing-striped walls and high-gloss, heart-shaped speakers put forth a Miami version of the hot-rod-inspired art that emerged in 1960s Southern California. - Karen Rosenberg

Notes:
The alternate score & edit is a remixed version of Smother including parts that were omitted from the release version. An alternate reworked 20 minute version of Smother appears on Phoenecia's Echelon Mall, a collection of works for film & gallery exhibitions. Echelon Mall is scheduled for release in March on Schematic.

Links:
Mary Boone Gallery page:
maryboonegallery.com/exhibitions/2007-2008/gispert/index.html
Zach Feuer Gallery page:
zachfeuer.com/luisgispert_2008.html
New York Times review:
nytimes.com/2008/01/25/arts/design/25wart.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=zach+feuer&st=nyt&oref=slogin
Artnet Magazine review:
artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/davis/davis2-15-08.asp
New York Sun review:
nysun.com/arts/dislocating-dreams/70863/
Phoenecia:
schematic.net & schematic.net/phoenecia"

E.S.C Monophonic Synthesizer

YouTube via hilltree
"Noodeling around with my old analog E.S.C monophonic synthesizer.
After 30 years it's still alive ... Muhahaha !!!!!!"

A Clockwork Orange - Theme Song C64 synth sample style

YouTube via feelie75
"Ultra-Violence.

That's the theme of A Clockwork Orange, an awesome movie by Stanley Kubrick.

I've merged a 1985 Commodore 64 cover of the theme (by Georg Feil) with clips from the movie to create this montage.

The theme, btw, is based on Henry Purcell's "Funeral Music for Queen Mary".

Enjoy!"

NAMM: WNAMM09: Plan B New Stuff

via Sonic State.

Thought I Was Awake

YouTube via JohnLRice
"Just a simple test that ended up as a little . . . . thing. ;-) The look of the video after processing reminded me of occasional nights of insomnia, especially during an illness, where after staring at the dimly lit walls for hours it sometimes became difficult to know if I was awake or asleep, hence the title."

COTK C1680 Demo

YouTube via JohnLRice
"Quick functional demo of my new Club Of The Knobs C1680 Voltage Controlled Analog Delay."

COTK C1670 Ensemble Generator

YouTube via JohnLRice
"Quick initial demo of my new Club Of The Knobs C1670 Ensemble Generator."

Synth Jam With Modular Lead Solo

YouTube via JohnLRice
"I was playing around with my synths are I though "Hey, this sounds pretty good!" So I turned on the camera and recorded for a while and well . . . . . it was better before I turned the camera on . . honest! ;-)"

MOTM-485 - An Exploration Of A Filter

YouTube via JohnLRice
"The Synth Tech MOTM-485 GX-1 is not your ordinary VCF! I received mine a few days ago and this demo hopes to show some of the more unusual effect it can help to create."

LIVE JAM AT S-CAT 008

YouTube via PHONICPOTION
"S-CAT MC-202 TR-606 TR-909 PRO-ONE R-8 MS-10 MS-2000R LEXICON ALEX SYMETRIX 525 EFFECTRON DRAWMER LX-20 MAM MB-33 BASS STATION DEP-3 BOSS DS-1 KENTON PRO-2 MACKIE CR-16 1402vlz ROLAND JUNO-106 JUNO-6 LEXICON MPX 550 KORG ESX-1 VESTAFIRE D-1X INTERLECT 3000 PHONIC-POTION STUDIOS."

Trailer Kraftwerk.mov

YouTube via catchil. Kraftwerk documentary.
"Cómo esta banda alemana de Dusseldorf, emergió del entonces reciente Krautrock para trascender más allá del género y ser un referente indiscutible del inicio de la electrónica"
Googlish:
"How is this German band from Dusseldorf, then emerged from the recent Krautrock to transcend beyond gender and be an indisputable beginning of electronics"

Anyone know what this is from? I'm guessing it's Kraftwerk And The Electronic Revolution on Amazon
It's the only documentary that came up on a search for Kraftwerk documentary, other than Kraftwerk: Man, Machine and Music which is a book.

microkorg multi tracked

YouTube via danmusicstoke
"A song i put together using the Korg MicroKORG to test out my new fostex rackmount HD multitrack.

i used 9 tracks of microkorg, all the bass, strings, leads and drum sounds all come from the microkorg.

All sounds are original and i used no presets.

more music @ www.myspace.com/danmusicstoke"

Mike's Salty Romance Explosion

YouTube via theonetrueaen. audio comes in at :26. Pitch shifting followed by LFO comes in at :56.
"Newwwww feedback/bypass looper from Dwarfcraft with LFO for the depth of the feedback loop."

Korg MS family party (MS-50 + MS-20 + MS-20 + SQ-10)

YouTube via Newueel
" I recently bought a MS-50 so I organized a small MS family party. I'm not quite sure but they seemed to be very happy... Anyway, all sounds (incl. beat) are created by the 3 analog synthesizers (MS-50 + 2x MS-20) using the analog sequencer (SQ-10).

The MS-50 creates the beat using 2 separated circuits. The SQ-10 plays a 16 step loop (A+B) which is used by all synths for different purposes. Another 8 step loop (C) is creating the pitch changes on the MS-20 (below). The SQ-10 also generates 3 different triggers. The multiple trig out (each step) triggers the lower MS-20. One MS-50 circuit (EG1) is triggered each 1th and 5th step, the other MS-50 circuit (EG2) is triggered each 3th and 7th step. The Kaoss pad (KP3) only adds some delay to the upper MS-20.

http://www.cosmicspring.com"

ReBirth RB-338 AssaultandBat-StarlightRain

YouTube via tathtath
"Great tune made by AssaultandBat, using ReBirth RB-338 - The synthesizer emulator."

ReBirth RB-338 AlexM-Xyron

Remember, one of the points of these is to listen to each individual part in the track - all of this is ReBirth.

Playing Yamaha CS-80 with elkorus and other chorus units

YouTube via wutierson

"Test session with Sergio Koval playing his Yamaha CS-80 at Synthoma studio. The test is a chorus comparison with the CS-80 built-in chorus, a Digitech multieffect chorus, and the élkorus analog bbd chorus. Now the CS-80 can do a very nice strings, not only brasses!! More info about élkorus and synthoma in general, at www.synthoma.net"
You can find prior posts on the élkorus here.

Android FX 4 iPhone & iPod touch

YouTube via kay101011
"http://iphonemusician.com/
a very short preview of Android FX a simple synth available thru the app store for my blog"
You can find AndroidFX on iTunes here:

FMScreen 4 iPhone & iPod Touch

YouTube via kay101011
"http://iphonemusician.com/
a very short preview of FMScreen a simple FM synth available thru the app store"
You can find FMScreen on iTunes here:

The iPhone 303 Comparison, Bassline, Randgrid, DB-303

YouTube via kay101011
"http://iphonemusician.com/
I only used features that are similar on all Apps to show you the difference of the filter and oscillator implementation. This is no feature comparison! (I will talk about differences of those Apps on my blog tho)"
You can find Bassline on iTunes here:

You can find Randgrid on iTunes here:

You can find DB-303 on iTunes here:

Randgrid App for iPhone / iPod Touch

Finger Bassline App for iPhone/iPod

EMS SYNTHI-E Modded with Banana Jacks

images and notes in German on Aliens Project. You can find the Googlish version here. There also appears to be a trigger and/or clock mod for integration with other gear.

Sunday, February 08, 2009

VCSfront

flickr by sduck409
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"This is my build of the Bananalogue Serge VCS in MOTM format. This is an extremely quirky multifunction module that was originally designed by Serge Tcherepnin in the early 70's, resulting in the Dual Universal Slope Generator that is in Serge modulars. I always wanted one, having watched several friends with these synths program complex patches based on this module. When Bananalogue came out with this module in euro and frac format, I approached them about buying several of the pcb's so I could put them behind MOTM format panels, but was refused, as they were plannng on producing them in that format "soon". Some time passed, and apparently the plan was dashed, as they seem to be reorganizing, and selling off all their old stuff. I bought several pcb's from them, including 2 of these in MOTM format, and it was a pretty simple build once I figured out a panel layout."

Experimental Beat Jam 110808

YouTube via STATIX4321
"Noodling around and adding few filtered sounds to the simple beats using MPC 1000, KP3, and a microKORG..."

Melody Sampling

"I'm trying to combined reggae dub sounds and movie scores together by using the KP3 and the microKORG synthesizer..."

Found it!

flickr by bugbiteme

full size

Simple Clock Divider finished

flickr by fonitronik

full size

drum computer

via Deviant Synth
"the synt is an sh 201…. if u liked this then more can be found at: www.myspace.com/akraftwerkorange….."

Roland JV-2080 playing around with pads #1

YouTube via hoeppc
"This is a Roland JV-2080 sound module in Performance-Mode playing some ambient, drone-like pads."

Roland JV-2080 playing around with pads

"This is a Roland JV-2080 sound module in Multimode (Performance) with three Keyzones playing some ambient pads."

Studies for two TENORI-ON(s) by Smith

YouTube via znshn
"Studies for two TENORI-ON(s) w/ analog filters.

N.B.- This first test is a prepartory work to ta series of solo pieces inspired by John Cage's experiments for prepared piano and Conlon Nancarrow's player piano studies.

IF POSSIBLE USE HEADPHONES OR CONNECT YOUR COMPUTER TO A QUITE DECENT SOUND-SYSTEM.

Material in this video:
- 2 TENORI-ON(s)
- MI Audio Pollyanna Octave Synth
- Moog Low Pass Filter (MF-101)
- Moog Ring Modulator (MF-102)
- Moog Bass Murf (MF-105b)
- Jomox M-Resonator
- Rotary Ensemble (Boss RT-20)
- Boss FV-500L (as expression pedal for LPF Resonance)
- Boss FV-500L (as expression pedal for RM Frequency)
- Boss EV-5 for Rotary Ensemble speed

http://www.odiolorgnette.com
http://www.myspace.com/sthintosmithereens
http://www.myspace.com/znshn"

One Tone - Roland

YouTube via tonylewis344
"In 1984 I borrowed a 'Roland Juno 106' and immediately wrote this short piece of music - hence the title, 'Roland'. This is my tribute to this lovely little synthesizer. Copyright 1984."

homebrew SN76477 synthesizer

YouTube via glacial23
"A run-through of the SN76477 based noisemaker I just finished. Schematic based on the Saratronics SARA-002, with a few changes. Panel inspired by the Remco Sound FX machine (also SN76477 based) from the late 70s/early 80s."

Klee Sequencer 69 - Chaining Two Klee Sequencers

YouTube via ScottStites
"This is the first opportunity I've had to chain two Klee Sequencers together. Two or more Klee Sequencers can be chained together by connecting the gate bus out of one Klee to the random input of another Klee, and vice versa. In that configuration, both Klee's share the same pattern - the pattern cycles back and forth between both Klee's. This video uses a four bit pattern, but because both Klee's are in 16X1 mode, it turns into a 32 step sequence. Each Klee is controlling it's own voice in this video. This is a very simple patch - the number of permutations derived by chaining Klee sequencers is quite vast."

ReBirth RB-338 Amar_SBecker - Prophecy

YouTube via tathtath
"Great tune made by Amar_SBecker, using ReBirth RB-338 - The synthesizer emulator."

FuzzMix2

YouTube via zamisers7k
"Done with ARP Odyssey mkII, Yamaha RS7000, PeaveyPC 1600 Midi Controller, Magix Music Maker , Pinnacle Studio, CoolEdit, Sony Digital 8 Camera, Toshiba Satilite Notebook, AT&T Labs Text to Speech, Audio Technica Mic., Yamaha MW10 Mixer & Me."

Da Funk x0xb0x

YouTube via BIM0X
"explicit title. sound from webcam. switch for muffler distortion on the rear"

Access Virus TI Polar

via this auction

Sequential Circuits Pro-One

via this auction

"This is the more sought after J-Wire version and plays wonderfully."

click here for more

Eight^2 Tutorial

Eight^2 Tutorial from Lo-Fi Massahkah on Vimeo.
"Eight^2 - a flexible grid 64 step sequencer. A Pluggo to be used with a VST host and Jazzmutant Lemur. This is a tutorial/demo movie. Enjoy!"

DyNAmic sequencer

DyNAmic sequencer from Lo-Fi Massahkah on Vimeo.
"A sequencing synth for Ableton Live, Jazzmutant Lemur V2 and Cycling74's Max5.

This is a video tutorial walking through most of it's abilities. The part between 3.40 and 11.00 minutes is only for the most interested among you - a walkthrough of every aspect of the Lemur interface. The parts before and after that are more lively!

You can download it from Jazzmutant"

mono-poly - noiseringkleebuchla100noodleXXXL

via mono-poly in the comments of this post
"self playing patch on my homepage with the blippoo and buchla 100 done, and of course the great wiard noisering and kee sequencer."

You can find an image of mono-poly's set up on his home page.
You can find more of his audio experiments on his OVI channel, The Daily Noodle.

Modular Soundscape

Modular Soundscape from verstaerker on Vimeo.
"this patch is done with the Serge Animal for the drone-noisescape, Livewire AFG random melodie with basses and blips, Cwejman S1 for the bells"