MATRIXSYNTH

Friday, May 14, 2010

Circuit-Bent Roland TR-707 Drum Machine

via this auction
"Diabolical Devices offers an extensively modified version of this classic drum machine. Our modifications include 10 pitch controls, one for each sound/group (corresponding to volume faders) and 12 point ROM bending patch-bay. Each drum sound/groups pitch can be independently adjusted from above normal to WAY below normal pitch. Each external clock generator (which controls the pitch) can be bypassed using the corresponding toggle switch. The ROM bending patch bay will generate a wide variety of circuit-bent sounds including filtered, distorted, modulated, and otherwise unique effects.
Diabolical Devices aka Class A Electronics, LLC is a leader in Professionally Modified Synthesizer and Audio Equipment, Expert Repair Services, and has a full line of Hand-Wired Tubes Amplifiers and Effects (Diabolical Amplification). Their work has been featured at NAMM, art galleries, music videos, countless tech blogs, and used by musicians all over the world, professionals and enthusiasts alike. The circuit-bending and synth mods are the work of head-technician James Gramling who has spent the last 12 years in professional audio service and electronics prototyping. Check out the new www.circuit-bent.com for updated specs, custom work questions, and new releases from Diabolical Devices

Diabolical Modified Roland TR-707 Features:
(10) External CMOS CLK Generators/Pitch controls with bypass switch and LED indicators
12 point circuit-bending patch bay (patch cables included)
Blue LED color change"

video previously posted here

Circuit-Bent Alesis HR-16 Drum Machines

via this auction and this auction
Top: "This modified Alesis HR-16 features a custom designed Matrix Patching Grid from Diabolical Devices. A single LED patch pin connects bending points which will generate a wide variety of effects and glitches ranging from distorted, filtered and modulated effects to bizarre sounds and warped drum loops. The patch pins have LEDs that will react to ROM data and put on a light show. We have also incorporated a Master Pitch/Clock Rate Control with bypass switch and LED indicator. These are great machines and the HR-16 is loaded with original features. The modification unleashes the evil monster that has been hiding inside since the 80's.
Diabolical Devices aka Class A Electronics, LLC is a leader in Professionally Modified Synthesizer and Audio Equipment, Expert Repair Services, and has a full line of Hand-Wired Tubes Amplifiers and Effects (Diabolical Amplification). Their work has been featured at NAMM, art galleries, music videos, countless tech blogs, and used by musicians all over the world, professionals and enthusiasts alike. The circuit-bending and synth mods are the work of head-technician James Gramling who has spent the last 12 years in professional audio service and electronics prototyping. Check out the new www.circuit-bent.com for updated specs, custom work questions, and new releases from Diabolical Devices

Diabolical Modified Alesis HR-16 Features:
35 point Matrix Patching Grid Triggers Glitches and Effects
Master Pitch/Clock Speed Control with Int/Ext Clock switch and LED
Blue LED Color Change"

video previously posted here

Bottom: "Version B of the Diabolical Modified Alesis HR-16 features a very simple circuit-bending interface and master Pitch/Clock modification. ROM bending is accomplished using 12 position rotary switch, position 1 is off, 2-12 are a variety off odd reactions from bit-reduction, modulation, filtered sounds, to holding and staccato effects. The Pitch Modification is the same as Version 1.
Diabolical Devices aka Class A Electronics, LLC is a leader in Professionally Modified Synthesizer and Audio Equipment, Expert Repair Services, and has a full line of Hand-Wired Tubes Amplifiers and Effects (Diabolical Amplification). Their work has been featured at NAMM, art galleries, music videos, countless tech blogs, and used by musicians all over the world, professionals and enthusiasts alike. The circuit-bending and synth mods are the work of head-technician James Gramling who has spent the last 12 years in professional audio service and electronics prototyping. Check out the new www.circuit-bent.com for updated specs, custom work questions, and new releases from Diabolical Devices

Diabolical Modified Alesis HR-16 (Version 2) Features:
12 position Rotary Switch Circuit-Bending
Master Pitch/Clock Speed Control With Int/Ext switch and status LED"

Diabolical Modified Casio SK-1 Circuit-bent MIDI 6/02/09b

YouTube via classaelectronics — June 02, 2009 —

"Diabolical Modified Casio SK-1 with MIDI, bending patch bay, and dual oscillators. Available occasionally at circuit-bent.com."

via this auction

"The Diabolical Modified Casio SK-1 (Version 3) is the new and improved circuit-bent glitch monster from Diabolical Devices. Create vast sound-sacapes, unique synth sounds and total chaos, all packed inside your favorite childhood toy. The Casio SK-1 is loaded with original features, sampling capabilities, and great sounds (for what it was....) all Diabolical modified SK-s include MIDI retrofit from Highly Liquid which allows you to trigger any of the SK-1's notes via MIDI input, this is great for playing original sounds with larger keyboard or triggering glitched sounds from a machine or sequencer.

Diabolical Devices aka Class A Electronics, LLC is a leader in Professionally Modified Synthesizer and Audio Equipment, Expert Repair Services, and has a full line of Hand-Wired Tubes Amplifiers and Effects (Diabolical Amplification). Their work has been featured at NAMM, art galleries, music videos, countless tech blogs, and used by musicians all over the world, professionals and enthusiasts alike. The circuit-bending and synth mods are the work of head-technician James Gramling who has spent the last 12 years in professional audio service and electronics prototyping. Check out the new www.circuit-bent.com for updated specs, custom work questions, and new releases from Diabolical Devices

Diabolical Modified Casio SK-1 Features:
20 point circuit-bending interface: Heavy-duty banana jacks on hand made turret board panels. This patch-bay allows you to scramble sound data as the synth addresses it, and the result is an endless variety of weird effects, noise, filtered and modulated bends, and one of a kind sounds (seriously, you might one hear some things once). It's a mixed bag of playable bends and bends that play themselves. These patch locations will affect each preset sound differently and also affect samples and chord/auto-play functions. This patch-bay also allows you to cross-patch with other bent devices for more ROM scrambling goodness.

Dual Square Wave Generator: A Diabolical Devices original. This mod allows you to patch the output of two different oscillators into circuit-bending patch locations. One oscillator is an LFO (low freq.), when patched to this point it will create controllable modulation, pulsing bends, and other strange reactions. The second stage is an Audio Frequency Oscillator which will react similarly to the LFO and create tunable overtones. Each Oscillator has an on/off switch with LED indicator, pitch/speed control, and a corresponding patch point.

Skew Bank: This is a great mod adapted from Reed Ghazala's original SK-1 bends, basically its a bank of 5 switches, when activated each switch will generate a different pulsing or semi-looping bend which affects original keyboard sounds.

MIDI INPUT by Highly Liquid (www.highlyliquid.com)
1/4" Audio Output
Blue Power LED"

Thursday, May 13, 2010

the chicken whistle

YouTube via horchacha — May 13, 2010 — mc chicken whistle dave wright www.notbreathing.com

Korg Oasys PCI synthesizer system

via this auction

"Original box, breakout cable, unused card...everything.

Also included will be a bonus disc given to me by the seller which has many programs written for this open sourced synth. They are all easy to find on the web but this way you won't have to go digging for them or download them individually.

It's like having every Korg synth from the past 15 years at your fingertips and so much more. Z1/ Prophecy/ Triton/ Karma...so many synths. The Oasys PCI is a card/program that Korg released before the standalone Oasys keyboard.

A quick read on this system will show that there are many dedicated, fanatic users still today. The only thing is that you need an old Mac or old PC to run it. Mac can't have higher than OS 10.9.3 on it and Windows has to be 98 or earlier. From the computer you interact with ADAT and MIDI."

Rare Vintage Vox JMI GEM String Thing Synthesizer Piano

via this auction

"Controls:

Sliders: Tune, Vib. Intens. Vib. Speed, Piano, Bass, Harpsichord
Switches: Power, Piano/Bass"

Rare Vintage PAIA Synthesizer String Section

via this auction

inside a PAiA Strings n Things.

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Vintage ElectroComp Analog Synthesizer Keyboard #101

via this auction

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Movement MCDU1 Update

Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams featuring the MCDU1 added to this post.

Physical Touchscreen Knob for the iPhone/iPad

Physical Touchscreen Knob from adam kumpf on Vimeo.

"Here's another quick hack to add more physicality to touch screen displays. With a small knob, it's natural to grab it such that your fingers actually touch the screen making it nothing more than a physical prop to provide some tactile feedback. We experimented with conductive fabrics, copper tape, etc., but found that it worked best with simple physical objects.

Read more at dsLabs:
dslabs.teague.com"

EKOSYNTH Manual?

Anyone have a copy of the EKOSYNTH Manual? I linked to one in this post, but it looks like it is gone. I should have mirrored it then.

Atari Jazz Console Version 2 - video 4.AVI

YouTube via dolphinicus — May 13, 2010 — "This is the 4th video of my Atari Jazz Console Version 2. I now have the 8 bit shift register; pair of Exclusive OR's and triple Voltage Controlled SPDT switches, up and running. This is a simpler video with myself not changing the patch in any ways, except for adjusting pitch controls. This video does help to hear a couple of more possibilities from it though. :) More coming in the future as the final modules are decided upon and added to the AJC V2."

The Samchillian Tip Tip Tip Cheeepeeeee Demo

YouTube via leggo — January 07, 2006 — "This is a demo of my musical keyboard invention, the samchillian tip tip tip cheeepeeeee. This keyboard is based on interval changes of pitch, rather than fixed pitches, as on a traditional keyboard. This system allows for very quick and unusual melodic improvisations. The video goes through the various features. You can download a software version for the keyboard at my website - see below. NOTE: the video seems to indicate a vibrato function obtained by moving the finger side to side on the key. In fact this is not a feature currently available, but one i hope to include shortly."

I thought I saw this before - back in 2006.

Math Camp "Live From The Knitting Factory"-Whiteface

YouTube via leggo — December 18, 2007 — "Math Camp on "Live From The Knitting Factory" for B.E.T. Jazz Cable, performing "Whiteface", by Leon Gruenbaum

Math Camp "Live From The Knitting Factory"-Whiteface
04:45
Math Camp on "Live From The Knitting Factory" for B.E.T. Jazz Cable, performing "Whiteface", by Leon Gruenbaum

Sept 30, 2002"

These came in on the diykeyboard list.

CNMAT Summer 2010 Workshops: Max/MSP/Jitter

Full details at cnmat.berkley.edu.

snip:
"CNMAT presents a series of summer workshops for students, artists, musicians and anyone interested in learning new software. This year we have completely redesigned our popular beginners and advanced courses to be more immersive. We will also be offering our week-long Jitter course, plus a redesigned workshop for developers wishing to learn how to code Max/MSP externals in C.

* Max/MSP Day+Night School, July 26-30, 2010, 10AM-9PM: This intensive week of hands-on classes covers a wide variety of topics related to Max/MSP programming; features Max 5.0, Max for Live; instructors: John MacCallum, Michael Zbyszynski, Ali Momeni and other experienced teachers, fee: $750
* Developers Workshop for Max/MSP/Jitter Externals, August 2-6, 2010, 10AM-12, (12-1 lunch break), 1-3PM; features Max 5.0; instructor: John MacCallum; fee: $450
* Jitter Night School, August 2-6, 2010, 6-9 PM: This five-evening sequence of classes covers Cycling 74’s Jitter environment and is designed for students with at least a basic understanding of Max programming; instructor: Andrew Benson; fee: $450"

KORG DS-10 Blog Shuts Down Tomorrow

The final post:
"SEE YOU SOON ! さよならKORG DS-10 BLOG
カテゴリー: 未分類 — sanodg @ 11:26:41 PM

KORG DS-10 BLOG will be closed tomorrow.
Thanks for your visiting and lots of love for DS-10.

Keep making DS-10 tunes !!!
See you soon !!!

Nobuyoshi “sanodg” Sano, KORG DS-10 director

■

佐野です。おひさしぶりです。お元気ですか？

早いもので2年と３ヶ月、ついにKORG DS-10ブログも明日で完了、大団円を迎えることとなりました。

たった今、ほろ酔いで昔のブログを読み返しつつ思いました。作っている僕らが惚れに惚れ抜き、その上、予想を遥かに上回る多くの皆様に、これまた予想を遥かに上回る愛情を注いでいただいている商品を担当することが出来て、本当に嬉しいです。

実はDS-10を作る直前までは、ゲームづくりなんて、いや、モノづくりなんてこんなもんだよ、第一ビジネスってのは、なーんて、分かったような事を言うばっかりで手が全く動いていない、本当に嫌な感じのオトナ開発者になりつつあったのですが、DS-10とそしてそれを心の底から愛してくれている皆様のおかげで、佐野もすっかり素直でド直球なコドモ開発者に逆行いたしました。

せっかくここまで逆行させていただいたので、賢そうなオトナに惑わされず、これからもみなさまにより一層楽しんでいただける、そして、それに負けないぐらい自分が楽しめる、そんな製品をつくっていきます。

近いうちに、また、

「佐野ちゃんさあ、その、言いにくいんだけど、すっごい嬉しいその気持はもちろん分かるんだけど、全く商品説明になってないよ」

・・・という、まあつまり、今まで通りな感じで皆様の目の前にお邪魔すると思いますので、その節にはどうぞよろしくお願いいたします。

それでは皆様、引き続きKORG DS-10、DS-10PLUSをお楽しみ下さいませ。

佐野信義　KORG DS-10 開発プロデューサー/ディレクター"

Googlish translation of the Japanese text:
"Sano is. Long time. How are you all doing?

Two years and three months earlier which finally completed tomorrow KORG DS-10 blog, and will celebrate the finale.

Right now, I reread the old blog while on the go. We fell in love fall in love without that they are working on it, much to everyone far more than expected to be made responsible for the views of products are higher than the affection and expectations, which I'm really happy.

DS-10 until just before actually making the game making never, no, That's the way it is manufacturing, the first business I was, and ever happen, they are all working hand in Bakkari know say things like No, I was becoming really nasty-looking adult developers, DS-Thanks to everyone that loves me and that from the heart 10, and nursery development is also completely honest fastball de Sano We go against the person.

So far, so much trouble you will be retrograde, wise without being captivated by an adult, everyone can now enjoy the more, and lose what you enjoy about it, will make such products.

In the future, also

"Now Sano-chan, that I hesitate to say this, but I was really happy feeling that I know of course, it is not at all product descriptions."

... That, well that is so disturbing I think everyone in front of us feeling as before, and thank you very much on that occasion.

So everyone still KORG DS-10, DS-10PLUS Enjoy.

KORG DS-10 Sano Nobuyoshi development producer / director"

Hopefully they will keep the blog up as a resource. Click here for all posts mentioning the DS-10 Blog.

Alesis AirFX AIR FX HAND THERAMIN SYNTH EFFECTS

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via this auction

Like staring into a blue HAL.

"ALESIS AIRFX
Connect the airFX to any line-level sound source and speaker system. Then move your hand, or any other body part through the invisible 3D sphere formed by our patend pending Axyz technology. You can move in any direction; up or down, right or left, or in or out, to twist any sound in an infinite number of ways. The slightest movement of your hand tweaks the tones of our ultra-modern DSP system and turns your tunes inside out!!"

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Switch On Synthesizers by Dr Philip Springer Synth Book

via this auction

"Switched On Synthesizers! This book gives you the patch setups as well as the transcription for each song! No matter what keyboard or synth- you can use this book! Plenty of classic tunes in here! Even if you've owned your keyboard for years- this will open new doors! This book is new old stock!"

Programming Synthesizers Beginners Guide Synth Book

via this auction

"Programming Synthesizers- A Beginners Guide To Editing Presets! This book takes all the question out of programming your synthesizer or keyboard! LFO's, Filters, VCA's...these can be scary terms for someone not accustomed to hearing them. And when you see them come up on your programs- do you know their effect on overall tone? This book explains it all- allowing you to adjust your tone with confidence! Even if you've owned your keyboard for years- this will open new doors! This book is new old stock! This is a no reserve auction! Don't pass this by!!"