MATRIXSYNTH

Monday, April 12, 2010

OBERHEIM DPX-1

via this auction

"Super bright LED screen!
-Comes with an enormous library of samples including Moogs, sfx, pads & countless others!"

Nord Modular Virtual Analog Synthesizer Rack

via this auction

"Introduced in late 1997, the Modular is something really innovative from the point of view of programming facilities and sound research. The basic idea comes from the original analog modular synthesizer, a technological masterpiece that during 70's inspired the most important artists, from Wendy Carlos to Keith Emerson. Despite his incredible power in sound programming, the analog modular synthesizer's success was limited by four important problems: programming time, high cost, large size and overweight. Clavia surpassed these limits proposing a new idea: a little sized unit that, for a reasonable cost, offers the same programming power thanks to a virtual patching enviroment supported by an external computer (Mac/Win platform).

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Edirol - Virtual sound Canvas Muti pack

via this auction
""the complete high quality midi synthesizer inside your PC or Mac. The VSC-MP1 providesthe best software solution to instantly playback midi music on your computer with remarkable 902 sounds and 26 drum sets, compatible to general midi (level 2) and Roland GS format.

16 part Software Synthesizer
902 tones + 26 drum sets GS mode
256 sounds + 9 drum sets GM2 mode
up to 128 voice polyphony
reverb, chorus and delay effects
full control over instrument selection
volume' effect send level, expression and pan
TVF filters for fine tuning original sounds
Midi to WAV and AIFF converter
includes over 100 royalty free midi file songs.
Standalone version plus VST and DXI"

Serge Clock Multiplier

YouTube via b3nsf — April 12, 2010 — "I sent a slower pulse (the bass drum trigger) to the middle Wave Multiplier then on to the ÷N comp which creates this cool rhythmic effect, spitting out triggers to the beat. Those triggers are ringing the filter...Pretty cool trick I think... Enjoy!"

miniSynth PRO Polyphony Demo

YouTube via YonacSoftware — April 12, 2010 — "miniSynth PRO is now polyphonic! This is just a very brief demo, ending with a nice and thick major chord. For more, please visit the iTunes App Store, or www.yonac.com"

miniSynth on iTunes:

12042010109

YouTube via sitonka — April 12, 2010 —

Famous Fairlight Sounds Part 1

YouTube via bitleyTM — April 12, 2010 — "Demoing some of the (currently) 597 NNXT patches available in the refill, here's a few clips I'd like to know if you can recognize."

Darrel Johansen - Snapshots of Early Serge History

"1107 1/2 N. Western Ave. Serge's Hollywood factory. The door is just to the left of that brown sedan, to the right of the wig store. This is just a few yards north of Santa Monica Blvd."

"A test station in the Hollywood factory where transistors were matched for Serge's low-noise, high-gain VCAs."

"An assembly station, with circuit boards in rails so that multiple boards could be assembled at once. The styrofoam on the left was used to cover the boards which could then be turned over to be soldered. The styrofoam kept the components in the board when the whole assembly was flipped over. Some finished panels are on the shelves up on the wall."

"Someone's wooden Serge unit on the floor. The broom was used to sweep up the clipped metal leads that would cover the floor as PC boards were assembled. It was also used to sweep up when the ceiling collapsed --causing pigeon quano to rain down over the assembly stations during a disaster that took days to clean up."

"The Haight Street facility in San Francisco in 1980. This is in the lower Haight, and right next to the "Gentleman's Social Club" on the bottom left. Eric Drew Feldman wrote a song for Butch the dog, the club's mascot, who was usually hanging on the street with the mostly older 'gentlemen.' They looked with amusement at the young white people coming and going to Serge's."

"A look up the street. If you travel past the shop on the right (the brick structure with bay windows just beyond the church), you go up the hill to "upper" Haight, the more famous part of the street, adjacent to Golden Gate Park."

"My front office, with bay window to my back. This is on the second floor. Serge lived on the third floor, and the first floor, which was a shop at one time, was mostly vacant."

"My test station."

"A look down the shop and assembly stations. The face panels were developed with a photographic process on the right."

"Panel assembly station in SF."

"PC board assembly station. Note the styrofoam was replaced with these velcro'd panels with foam rubber --causing the resistors and capacitors to acquire fuzzy heads as the heat melted the some of the foam on the components. The two Anchor Steam bottles, I think, are evidence of Paul's station."

"Another angle of my front office. Very cold in winter."

"zero case system"

"When I was teaching at The Evergreen State College, I assembled this new electronic music studio."

"Chas Smith in his recording studio, with his Serge - circa 1980"

Update via Kevin Fortune in the comments: "Interesting to see those old photos. I started working with Serge in Newhall before that first photo. I built those worktables and just about everything else in there. When we first got to the L.A. shop in '76 or '77 the shops next door were a little different... If you were coming down Western Ave (from the right in the 1st photo) and read the shop signs from top to bottom they read: Live Nude Hamburgers Wrestling. Later I came up to Haight St to help him get started renovating the building. Check out "The Mighty Serge" photos in my Facebook page. I built it in '77 and finished in april '78. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1038349981&ref=profile or www.kevinbrahenyfortune.com

I go to do engineering at Sound Transform in Wisconsin every few months. We've upgraded the components and the grounding and the audio quality is superb! Orders of magnitude above what we were making back then."

[VST] Kawaisound Casio CT-390 V2

YouTube via KawaiFS630 — April 12, 2010 — "NOTE: Hear this video with a medium / low volume. (Sorry for that, different output volumes) This VST doesn´t sound like the video. It´s because youtube.

NOTE2 : Sorry for latency...

Yes! Full Action auto-rhythm! xD. Besides that, fully sampled presets, 44khz flat EQ, 200 mb uncompressed, 100 megabytes compressed.

Instruction & operation manual included. Download at: http://kawaifs630.iespana.es/"

The Nebulophone and The Pico Paso

flickr by Dr. Bleep
(click for more)

http://bleeplabs.com/

Mattson5UEGTest.wmv

YouTube via JohnLRice — April 12, 2010 — "A quick test for fun of a Mattson Mini Modular EG behind a 5U panel prototype. (Thanks George!)
More info at http://mattsonminimodular.com/"

ESKAMON: "Fine Objects" - Ableton Tutorial by ill.Gates

ESKAMON: "Fine Objects" - Ableton Tutorial by ill.Gates from ESKMO on Vimeo.

"To Download the free Ableton Live Pack for ESKAMON: "Fine Objects", visit ESKAMON.com
Video tutorial shown here by illGates.com

ESKAMON is the new collaboration project between Amon Tobin (Ninja Tune) & Eskmo (Warp, Planet Mu, Ancestor). “Fine Objects” is the first single by the duo that’s set for release on Eskmo’s own imprint “Ancestor.”

“Fine Objects” is the result of the pair’s unique take on sonic exploration and the manipulation of field recordings. From the onset, the two went out with a recorder, gathering sounds from around the house, yard and studio. Material recorded out of the studio included sounds from a parking garage elevator, a broken harp and the droning tones from a discarded piano. These were combined with more home-centric sounds to form the central theme to the song. With lumbering alien bass and intentionally dry, off-kilter percussion, “Objects” quickly grew into it’s own symbolic representation of taking “odd pieces” and allowing them to grow into something a bit more “refined and ablaze.”

As part of the release ESKAMON released a free WAV sample pack of the sounds created in the song. From these original WAVs, an Ableton Live pack was also created by ill. Gates for the project and given out for free with the release as well. This video is the tutorial ill.Gates shot to help explain the features he made on the Ableton side of the project.

“Fine Objects” (Ancestor, ANC004)
ancestormedia.com/ANC004.html
Written and produced by Amon Tobin & Brendan Angelides
Publishing: Just Isn't Music / Ancestor Publishing - ASCAP"

via Resonant Filter

Roland OP-08 CV Interface

via this auction

"The Roland OP-8 interface was designed to control Roland polyphonic synthesizers that were equipped with a DCB (Digital Control Bus) interface such as the Roland Juno and Jupiter via a analog sequencer such as the Roland MC-4 Microcomposer or the System 100 model 104. The OP-8 and synthesizer were connected together usin a DCB cable wich added in this auction. The OP-8 and analog sequencer can be patched together using patchcords via each of their patchbays.

I did used the machine with an Juno 60 and a System 100 sequencer. Works like a charm and fun to patch. + It looks great ;-)
Its a 220v device, but can easily be converted.
Check out the pics, its a museum piece..."

Hannah Peel

via It's Full of Stars

Dotcom and Moog Modular
ARP 2500

AHMW 2010 by glacial23

flickr set by glacial23
(click for more)

Pictured: Wiard System

1976 Steiner Parker Ad

via Retro Synth Ads where you'll find the write-up.

New Products From Blacet Research

"VCA2930 Quad VCA/Mixer, Expo to Linear Control pots, Master Channel, dual
panners.

FX3030 FX/Reverb.

DAD2930 Delay, Attack, Decay, LFO.

MA3010 Multi Attenuator.

All available for order.

More Details and Order Page:

http://www.blacet.com/news.html

http://www.blacet.com

http://www.blacet.com/store2.html"

Waldorf Largo Filter - Wicked!

YouTube via LacunaFlow — June 09, 2009 — Its Amazing!

My Waldorf Largo Presets

Blofeld Wavetable Creator patch from the Scratch

YouTube via LacunaFlow — April 11, 2010 — "A Patch from the Scratch ;-)

The Sounds in the beginning are 100% selfmade Wavetable Patches + Drums from Waldorf Attack

No Mod Matrix Tweaking, just for fun.

Plz feel free to Comment! :-)"

via Kotró László Lehel on the Waldorf list:

"Hi Blofeld users!

Check my wavetable creator (only for PC)
- freehand wavetable drawing
- sin, triangle, square, saw, random harmonics
- morphing

Blofeld wavetable creator screenshot
Program download link
and some simple wavetables (for any users)"

spunkytoofers rabbit hole delay unit

via this auction
"circuit bent boss ps-2 delay sampler synth/pitch shift pedal with expression pedal/footswitch inputs and alternate wet/dry outputs...

last one availble for quite awhile!!!

here are the modifications:

they are broken up into 7 discrete sections:
1. rhythmic cutups
2. tonal and synth
3. pitch modification
4. sampler or pitch shift lock
5. randomizer
6. LFO
7. alternate wet/dry outputs
-1/4" jack added for expression pedal input (50k recommended ie. yamaha fc7)
-1/4" jack added for footswitch control of sampling (hosa fsc-501 recommended)
-1/8" jack for full wet signal output
-1/8" jack for full dry signal output
-14 toggle switches: cut up row, sample and hold row, tonal row, and synth row. use singlely or in combination for flexibilty in sound sculputing and rhythmic breakups.
-1 switch: activates extended range pitch knob.
-1 overall extended range pitch knob: from abstractly low to extremely high pitched
-2 body contacts: responsive touch control of pitch
-1 sub mini switch: activates light theremin.
-1 light theremin control cell: cells are picked for best articulation and control over pitch and sound.
-1 switch- loop sample hold. activates sample without pitch control..
-1 stomp switch: activates pitch control knob and sample hold
-1 vintage pilot lens: the lens shines a bright orange light though the glass jewel lens whenever a sample loop is activated by user
-4 momentary pushbuttons: one low random play back, one high random play back, two cutup random playback with no pitch variant.
-2 knobs: left knob pulls up to activate the low frequency oscillator. left knob turns to adjust oscillator's rate. right knob adjust oscillator's depth
-1 lfo indicator light: new stock vintage dialco soft green red led with housing to indicate depth and rate of oscillator when lfo is activated.
-non slip rubber feet
-painted in metallic colors with multiple coats of clear protectant.
-compact design and interface to fit easily into your setup
-throughly setup, tune up and play tested prior to despatch

the pedal will function as normal without any bends activated..

a very unique and powerful sound processor you won't find elsewhere.

original owners manual and bend diagram emailed to winning bidder.

the pedal works perfectly and cleanly. excellent cosmetic condition. all components, paint and the enclosure that holds all the modifications are brand new and has not been used.

some components might slightly differ from the photo above depending on stock, but i will take great care to match colors and aesthetics.

it would be impossible to start to describe what the pedal does in it's entirety after modifcations.. first there is the delay side of this pedal. this adds alot of synthesizer variants and cut ups and a wide assortment of sound mangling and tonal and synth sound variations. the delay side is capable of being a synth pedal and a bizarre comb filter in it's own right the pitch shifter side can be thought of as pitch shifter and a synth pedal. the synth or pitch tracked sound can be isolated by mixing fully wet onboard the pedal. you can sustain the pitch shifter/synth so that it doesn't track to the input signal. the synth/pitch shifter can then be control via delay time and pitch knob. this synth tone and all the applied bends can be thought of a fully circuit bendable monophonic synthesizer. a few hours of experimentation and you will discover new effects impossble to describe.. here's one descption of just one effect i've discovered from tweaking: cascading flanged sample and hold with infinite variety in a delay loop cycle.. there's plenty more to discover..you'll have to listen to the audio samples and live performance videos to get a good idea of just a few of the sounds available. your input source and the onboard stock pedal controls will interact with all the bends in many different ways. although i use this primarily with feedback loops, pedal chains, or vocals most frequently i've also used this with clarinet, guitar, and a few other acoustic instrument with great results.. if you like to free form improvise with vocals this is probally one of the most intuitive and spontaneous devices with lots of elements of predicatablity vs. randomness to improvise with or against..

the pedal has an alternate wet/dry output independant of the mixed output on the onboard output jack on the boss pedal. these are located on the right side of the interface on 1/8" jacks. this allows you to plug additional outs to be processed independantly of the mixed output. this really allows for some extreme and creative possibilities!!!

regarding the extended pitch/delay time knob. it's an extended range that takes the delay time and stretches the time and pitch further. it will go so low in pitch and time it will granulate the sound, reduce the sample rate (in real time) and acts as a unique decimator in that lower range. the expression pedal input: this duplicates the knob control i've added onto the interface in case your hands are tied up. for use with a 50k expression pedal (i use a yamaha fc7 or equivalent rating, expression pedal or footswitch not included you have to supply your own) and on the left side on thebody of the enclosure i added a 1/4" inch jack so you can plug a momentary or latching footswitch to sample the input on the fly. this type of interface is perfect for those playing a guitar or something where both hands are tied up. here is a video of a previous build called the moon cycle delay that i don't make anymore due to costs/sales. i'm using an analog synth controlled with a wind controller. the moon cycle is a different design then the rabbit hole delays but will give you an idea what kind of control is available with the expression pedal and sample locking on the fly."