MATRIXSYNTH

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Serge STS Custom Analog Modular Synth Panel

via this auction

Update via cebec in the comments: "I'm not sure that's actually an STS panel. There's no STS logo, for one, and it has the old style Serge logo at the bottom of each function cell. The panel material looks different, as well.
Buyer beware..."

EMS Synthi VCS3

via this auction

ARP Odyssey II 2810

via this auction

"The first of the Odyssey II series, this synth has the model 4035 ladder filter that got ARP in trouble for copying Moog's patented design. Few Odysseys have this filter"

Roland SH-101 Red

via this auction

complex modulation lullaby

"improv Serge drone on a cold, windy night"

via live modular improvs by cebec

Roland SH-101

Sonicstate.TV by TheCircuitSymphony

MFB Kraftzwerg early explorations

YouTube via simonsound1
"I picked this up to use as a mobile modular setup for live shows. Really impressed so far. I'll be using it for some upcoming gigs - find out more at www.myspace.com/thesimonsound"

The Simonsound Transmission

"The Simonsound Transmission is a 60 minute mix featuring music from pioneering electronic composer Fred Judd, Canadian pop-psych group The Sugar Shoppe and British jazz artist Bob Downes amongst further library mood music, spaced out rock and electronics. You can intercept the transmission at www.thesimonsound.com

The first Simonsound single is released on the 2nd of March on 7" vinyl and as a digital download available from iTunes, Amazon, Napster and emusic.

The A side shoots The Jimmy Castor Bunch into outer space aboard a rocket ship full of synthesizers. The result; a switched on Moog version of the classic B-Boy funk track 'It's Just Begun'.

The B side features an equally spaced out journey but this time the destination is inner space. 'Bad Love' features the achingly beautiful vocal talent of Debbie Clare set against a wash of strings, horns, drums and electronics.

To celebrate the release of our single we will be playing records of a psychedelic nature with an accompaniment of live electronics & spaced out sounds at selected venues in the UK from the 26th of February.

You can expect to hear exclusive tracks from our forthcoming album "Reverse Engineering", alongside 60's Rock, Psych, Library recordings and music for TV & Film.

We'll be visiting Newcastle, Leeds, London and Bristol.

For more info about The Simonsound go to www.thesimonsound.com

Thanks
The Simonsound"

"Minimoog Voyager, Synthesizer Dot Com modular, Tone Generator and recorded to tape"

Tangerine Dream - live in Paris 15Feb73 (part 1)

YouTube via MOB666. via rustyanalog.
"angerine Dream live at the Theatre de l'Ouest in Paris, February 15, 1973."

Tangerine Dream - live in Paris 15Feb73 (part 2)

Rhodes Chroma Site Turns 10

via Chris Ryan on the Rhodes Chroma List:
"Ten years ago [2/21/99] today the first version of the Chroma site went live. I posted five pages on the instrument to my personal site, and sent a short announcement to comp.music.midi (Usenet! how things have changed). I've attached a screen shot of the home page from 1999.

A decade later, the site comprises 327 pages and more than 975,000 words--about the length of ten or eleven novels--including over 3700 posts to the mailing list (which now has about 150 subscribers). It all adds up to 330mb of information on our beloved synthesizer. All of the documentation is available, along with most of the known reviews, a gold mine of technical information, software, patches, numerous downloads, and a lot more: take a look at the site map to get an idea of the scope if you haven't browsed recently. Of course, I couldn't have done it all myself; see the list of contributors.

Perhaps most significantly, activity surrounding the instrument has resumed, with excellent projects such as the CPU Plus, SPSU kit, and more. Some have purchased and/or restored their instruments as a result of the community and the resources available at the site.

There have been more than a couple hundred thousand visitors, which is astonishing considering we have figured out that only about 1500 Chromas were manufactured, and probably only a few hundred, at most, are currently in use or even in working order. I've updated the Site Statistics page with information through the end of 2008; it's quite interesting to see the changes in browsers, referring sites and search engines, and top pages over the years.

Thanks, everyone, for your continued participation, contributions, and donations. It's been really rewarding; I've learned a lot and have heard from many great people from all over the world.

Chris"

I want to congratulate Chris on running THE BEST dedicated synth site on the web hands down. It really is amazing how much life Chris has given to the Rhodes Chroma through the site and the email list. As someone on the list said, if it weren't for the site his Chroma would be a paper weight. As a proud owner of a Rhodes Chroma myself, I sincerely thank Chris for all he has done for us. I still need to get me a CPU Plus one day. :) If you haven't checked out the site, do it. It's a vast resource not only on the Rhodes Chroma but the Polaris as well.

silver apples on the moon

YouTube via LightsOutLightshow. via rustyanalog
"morton subotnicks silver apples of the moon is the sound track for a JAHL vs. GMHL death match w/scott bartlett as the judge."

JOHN BOWEN SOLARIS SYNTHESIZER PROTOTYPE DEMO NUMBER TWO

JOHN BOWEN SOLARIS SYNTHESIZER PROTOTYPE DEMO NUMBER TWO from RED MARTIAN on Vimeo.
http://johnbowen.com Watch the screenshots. It's great to see manufacturers come together like this.
Update: Solaris demo 1 here.

UCHU SENKAN YAMATO SEQUENTIAL SIXTRAK SYNTHESIZER

UCHU SENKAN YAMATO SEQUENTIAL SIXTRAK SYNTHESIZER from RED MARTIAN on Vimeo.
"Arranged on the Sequential Circuits Sixtrak and recorded onto cassette 18 years ago. The sequencer is very limited on the Sixtrak, however, its good for prototyping tunes."

Sequential Circuits Six-Trak

images via trevor

click on each for the full size shot.

custom wood sides.

circuit bent casio sa-2

YouTube via wotatwaat
"feedback, power drain, deep crash, distortion, bass, led, 3 drum triggers
alot of info for this one came from casper electronics. cheers"

The Barn Synth Resurrected

You might remember the Roland SH-09 found in a barn and resurrected by CustomSynth. If you missed the story, see this post and this post.

Here's a few more shots.

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Oberheim OB-12

for this auction

Be sure to click on these for the full size shots. You can find a couple of videos of the OB-12 here.

Arduino Drumsequencer

YouTube via zapallalla
"I own a Juno-G and it's greath synth. It's only missing a good "live drum" facilities such able to switch between verse/chorus patterns and requesting a drum fill.

So I made own sequencer with footswitch. Arduino is sending MIDI-signal to Juno-G which plays the drum sounds.

Features: start beat count, tap tempo, pattern change, verse/chorus = hihat/ride :) and fill-in."

Synth - The Oregon Trail

YouTube via tenderstems
"Synth - Graphic Design by Skott.
Based on The Oregon Trail Video Game"

Synth with Sliders

YouTube via tenderstems. "Synth controlled by slide pots"

Small Stone phaser clone test

YouTube via MusicMiK
"A friend told me he needs a Small Stone phaser after once again hearing it in Jarre's Oxygene album. And i found the schematics of the old 1975 version in the web. So i tried it on the breadboard and liked it. Besides this, i was looking for some simple circuit to practice making PCBs, and i even had a lot of those hard to get CA3094s around. So i decided to use this as a first test project to practice the whole procedure of the CAE steps, PCB exposure/etching, drilling the holes, assembling it with SMD resistors. And it worked like a charm. All in all i made 2 of those phaser boards in about 12 hours.

More on this will go here: http://www.mik-music.org/Small+Stone+..."

Note the Sequential Circuits Multi-Trak and KORG Poly-61.

rrich motm730demovi

YouTube via rrichamoeba
"Robert Rich demonstrates the MOTM 730 Clock Divider, showing how to make the style of syncopated rhythms he's known for on albums like Bestiary and Electric Ladder."

Korg Delta RARE analog polyphonic vintage string synth

YouTube via abertronic

"demo of korg delta up for auction ebay. Output from string synth panned to the right. Output from the synth section panned to the left."
Korg Delta Search on Ebay. Remember to include your auction IDs in your video descriptions.

look ma! no MIDI pt.1

YouTube via helitr0n
"helitron, modular jam, no midi sequencers."
"helitron tr-606 sh-101"

look ma, no midi! pt.2

Vanderson - Electronic Impressions Part 2

YouTube via grooveproject
"roland mc-808 mc-505 an1x alesis fusion"
what's the top keyboard?

Variation on Satie's Gymnopédie No 1 for Modular Synthesizer

YouTube via justwaving
"This is another tune done just using the Q119 and Q960 sequencers. The synthesizer is playing on it's own."

Flesh Works 2

YouTube via beckhusen
"Pure electronic sound made with Novation A-Station and Korg Kaoss Pad 3. I know, most of you won't like it, but be fair, your taste isn't the one and only ;)"

Flesh Works tattoo-art with Novation A-Station

"Electronic pure, made with Novation A-Station (and Korg Kaoss Pad 3).
In this video you can make a short tour in my tattoo-studio in Braunschweig, Germany.
I know, the sound isn't well for everybody, but i like it to turn knobs and listening the rhythmic sound

variations.
Be fair and accept that your taste is not the one and only ;)
The original sound has around 16 minutes."

Roland MC-909, song: Dchungle Beat 1

YouTube via beckhusen
"2nd song which i made only with my new Roland MC-909. After first worries with the manual it begins to make really fun."

Quasimidi Polymorph Song Demo

YouTube via Yorkshirelad69

"This short piece of music was used by Quasimidi to promote their virtual analogue Polymorph synthesizer module. It was available as a download on their website and was one of the reasons I bought one!

It seems that Klaus Schulze had quite a say in it's design and he also programmed many of the presets and sequences that came as standard on the Polymorph."

Buchla 100 demoed

another flickr by guiltysin

full size

"Visited the Cantos Foundation and took a lot of pictures & video.

Our guide, Brandon, showing us the Buchla 100."

Wall of MOOG

flickr by guiltysin
(click for more)

full size

note the double mini

"This is a shot of part of Canto's collection of MOOG synths.

Visited the Cantos Foundation museum of electronic instruments and keyboards in February 2009 and took a lot of photos and videos.

Confession: when I first saw this, I squee-d in absolute and uncontainable glee."

Tenori On "RAINDROPS"

Tenori On "RAINDROPS" from Gattobus on Vimeo.
"I was killing time on a boring rainy day playing with my Tenori-on and this tune came out...

...so I decided to share it with everyone.

I hope you like it!"

Previously posted:

Tenori On "FIREFLIES"

Tenori On "FIREFLIES" from Gattobus on Vimeo.

FabFilter Timeless Has More Crazy Controls Than You Can Shake A Stick At

YouTube via gearwire
"FabFilter Timeless, a pretty little grey and lime green plugin, allows you to control more parameters in more ways than we can possibly enumerate here. When was the last time you saw separate controls for a dry and wet mix? Yeah, that's what I thought.
See more on Gearwire.com."

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Dunkirk

Dunkirk from Pete Ashton on Vimeo.
"A film for Film Dash by Pete Ashton, Rachael Marchant and Danny Smith.

Made in 48 hours from construction of the camera through to the final edit.

Production diary:
peteashton.com/2008/10/film_dash_diary_pt_1
peteashton.com/2008/10/film_dash_diary_pt_2
peteashton.com/2008/10/film_dash_diary_pt_3

We only went and won!
filmdash.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/and-the-winner-is

Our websites:

Pete: peteashton.com
Rill: rachaelmarchant.carbonmade.com
Danny: edgetrinkets.com"

elektrolise - beethoven remixed

YouTube via tobsen1234567890
"electrocrab and his friend are freestyling on beethovens for elise"

Litlle Phatty Sequence

YouTube via Rothgar777
Little Phatty of course.

GorF Build

YouTube via VacolocoSynth
"A short video showing the suggested build sequence.
There's also a list of the kits at the end of the video, these will be available soon (just waiting on some of the parts)."

VOCODER iPhone App

YouTube via jetdaisuke
"'Vocoder' is the smallest and cheapest vocoder, because it is a iPhone App. You can change your voice like a robot."
on iTunes:

re 150 roland space echo

YouTube via abertronic
"demonstration of re150 for ebay auction"
Roland Space Echo on Ebay

BRATIGEL ROTARY ANALOG STEP SEQUENCER

YouTube via heidibeerbel

"Bratigel - Germany ,Rotary Modular Step Sequencer with 2 x 12 Steps , forward/backward Counter, CV Clock Many Controls, Precis.CV Scaling and switchable Glide, very nice Trigger Divider with many LEDs..."

BRATIGEL Rotary Analog Step Sequencer II

"Modular Rotary Step Sequencer from Bratigel - Germany with 2 x 12 Steps, up/down Counter,Cv Clock,Start/Stop/Step/Reset Controls ,2 x CV Outs with prec.Scaling and Switchable Glide, and a nice Trigger Divider ...in a 6 HE Rack..."