MATRIXSYNTH

Monday, September 27, 2010

Roland TR-727

"classic 1980's roland latin percussion drum machine."

Richard Lainhart @ Creative Music Incubator October 4 NYC

A chance to see a Buchla 200e and Haken Continuum live.

via Richard Lainhart
"Friends: on Monday, October 4, at 7:30PM, I'll be performing as one of a rotating group of improvisers at Creative Music Incubator at The Tank in Manhattan:

http://www.thetanknyc.org/music

Creative Music Incubator unites experimental sonic artists on the first Monday of every month to share creative concepts, explore new sonic possibilities and collaborate in new line ups and in unique situations. Each month is curated and hosted by a member of the NYC experimental music community. Creative Music Incubator is a monthly event produced by the Oxygen Music Collective and is dedicated to the experimentation and exploration of new sonic possibilities.

This month's lineup:

Richard Lainhart - Buchla 200e and Haken Continuum
Mitch Blank - Dulcimer
Tres Warren – Guitar

Richard Lainhart - Buchla 200e and Haken Continuum
Bob Siebert – Thumb Piano and Circuit Bent Casio SK-1
Tom Swirly – Electronic Woodwinds

Adam Dym – Tenor and Alto Saxohones
Lucio Menegon - Guitar
Brian Olin – Guitar

Brian Thayer - Guitar
Jon Worthley – Waterphone, Percussion, Toys
Steve Orbach – Sax, Drums

Damien Olsen - Synths
Isaac Taylor - Bass
Bob Siebert – Circuit Bent Casio SK-1

Tickets are $8 at the door, and I hope to see you there."

Steve Moore

via One Thousand Pulses where you'll find into on an upcoming show.

Remember the gear gets the post.

Baby Keys & Other small Instruments

Baby Keys & Other small Instruments from bside on Vimeo.

"A little jam on some instruments I've made / modded, including:

A toy keyboard (the oddly named "Rock n Board")
A synth I made from a transistor radio
Some oscillators

The bass & drum loops are playing from Reason, switched with an Akai LPD8

The song is called "Bondage & Discipline" and it's on my album here: baldwinfunmachine.bandcamp.com (free song download right meow)"

Quick Looping Jam

Quick Looping Jam from bside on Vimeo.

"Last night I strapped a camera to my head and had bit of a play with a real-time looping program called Mobius.

Instruments in order of appearance: LFO, Shaker, HR16B Drum Machine (with Big Muff), Animal Band toy keyboard, LFO.

Audio jumps around a bit at the start. Sorry."

Yamaha cuonet synth battle no4 ~ no6

Yamaha cuonet synth battle no4 ~ no6 from cuonet on Vimeo.

"Yamaha cuonet synth battle no4 ~ no6"

euro with behringer vintage time machine

YouTube via cray56 | September 27, 2010

"Euro with Behringer Vintage Time Machine"

Drum & Synth Seq

YouTube via humankoala | September 27, 2010

"a little noodle with a beat and a little synth seq animated by the wavefolder
audio from hz donut a& wogglebug
sequenced by a160/161, logic module and wogglebug
filtered and fxd by qmmg, borg & stg wavefolder"

Aalto Virtual Synth - Buchla Forest Patch

Aalto Virtual Synth - Buchla Forest Patch from Richard Devine on Vimeo.

"Here is my first patch using 3 different layers of the Madrona-labs Aalto synth. Buchla-inspired complex oscillator, with FM, timbre and waveshape controls makes some very interesting sounds."
Update: You can find more info on Aalto at http://madronalabs.com/

Ableton Live+Novation Launchpad- Progtronica's 130 Twisted Beats mix

Ableton Live+Novation Launchpad- Progtronica's 130 Twisted Beats mix from Nigel Sifantus on Vimeo.

"A live mix by Progtronica producer Nigel Sifantus using Ableton Live, the Novation Launchpad, and ZeRO SL mk II. This was improvised early on Sunday morning after quite a late Saturday. Visit nigelsifantus.com for more details."

Gem paint

YouTube via shaolinmonk01 | September 27, 2010

CGS / Bridechamber Event Sequencer

via this auction

"Read more here:
http://www.bridechamber.com/bridechamber.com/C_Event_Seq.html

and here:
http://cgs.synth.net/modules/index.html#cgs28

The Event Sequencer will sequence audio or control voltages, and when clocked with a high frequency is an excellent 8 step wave shaper (kind of like a DoubleDeka).

The mix control allows an audio signal to be mixed with the outputs. I normalled ~8v to the switching lug of the mix in jack so the mix knob also acts as a transpose control when sequencing cv's.

I used a center off switch for the direction control. The center position stops the clock. It bounces a bit, but it's really nice to have a sequencer that can stop.

This module includes the programmable gate bus. Normally the LED's would be where the switches are. The extra jack below the stage 1 pot is the gate bus out jack.

Module is MOTM / 5U high by 4U wide, requires standard +/- 15v MOTM power supply. Includes power cable and black mounting screws."

Crumar Stratus polyphonic synthesizer organ hybrid

via this auction

"This is a analog polyphonic synthesizer/organ. It can be played separately (Synth/organ) or both at once."

ROLAND JX-3P

via this auction

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Arp Omni

via this auction

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Sunday, September 26, 2010

Hallowechos 2010 modular synthesizer + Korg Monotron

YouTube via MrRitchieDrums | September 26, 2010

"I took the 3 sections used for the digital delay module Demo video & produced a song. It is in the Halloween Spirit with the spooky Korg Monotron added. All 4 parts are being processed through the Synthetic Sound Labs delay module seperately. LFOs were also added to the CV input."

Jupiter-8 bearded Greek style

YouTube via SynthManiaDotCom | September 26, 2010

"A Roland Jupiter-8 demo, Vangelis / CS-80 / Blade Runner type.

FX: Alesis MidiVerb II"

Zn'shñ @ Nana-hari, Tokyo, Japan

YouTube via znshn | September 26, 2010

"Live performance of Zn'shñ (Franck Smith & Elvire Bastendorff: electronics) @ Nana-hari, Tokyo, Japan. (Recorded September 16th, 2010)

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Zn'shñ's electronic setup:
 - Biscuit (by Oto Machines) 
- 2x Sleepdrone 5 (by King Capitol)
- Glamour Box (by King Capitol)
 - Kaossilator Pro (by Korg)
 - Restyler (by Sherman/Rodec)
 - Space Echo (Boss RE-20)

  http://www.odiolorgnette.com
  http://znshn.blogspot.com

Discographic works by Zn'shñ:
 * Zn'shñ, "Butoh sweets" (July 2010)
* Zn'shñ, "II" (September 2009) 
* Zn'shñ, "++" (April 2009)  

Operating as a dual noise-manufacturing unit, specialized in electronics, Zn'shñ is designed for soundtrack production, live performances and audiovisual works. Created by Elvire Bastendorff & Franck Smith. 

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Zn'shñ, "Franck Smith", "Elvire Bastendorff", double electronic music, Sleepdrone, Odiolorgnette, Glamour Box, Kaossilator Pro, Korg, Sherman, Rodec, Restyler, Biscuit, Oto Machines, 8-bit, Analog Filters, king capitol, space echo, noise manufacturing"

Vermona PerFourmer Quad Analogue Synth

via Computer Controlled on the forum: "Selling my PerFourmer Quad Analogue Synth. Works perfect, looks perfect minus a small ding in the bottom right corner. Sounds wonderful, kind of like 4 SH-101s in a rack unit, minus the Sequencer/ARP of course =o] This is the version with all the Chrome knobs, so it's ballin' big pimp stylee. It can do the Mono/Poly thing of cycling through all 4 VCOs, only on the Vermona, each VCO is actually it's own synth, so it can get some sounds unique only to this synth. Each synth engine can receive on it's own MIDI channel as well. It has a total of 6 inputs, so you can throw all sorts of audio at it for crazy filtering. The FM options on this are pretty nutso as well. Asking $1200 shipped in the US. Or will trade for a Mono Lancet + $600."

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SquareTron

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KORG Monotron

Novation Supernova arpeggiator

YouTube via rdaedalus | September 26, 2010

"just a really simple pendelum pattern, using one note across 3 octaves"
via Resonant Filter

linndrum testing and making a few 80's beats

YouTube via glendamster | September 26, 2010

"just got my linndrum after searching for many years, not to many of them in South Africa. this one is in perfect condition and i only paid $550."

Drink and Live tr 505 mam mb33 emu 1616 boss os 2

YouTube via JVGmidi | September 26, 2010

"live sound created with the titles stuff.
TR 505 is master sequenser"

Cous Cous Music 5

YouTube via SacherStudioTV | September 26, 2010

"Un breve, visionario viaggio sulla falsariga di Lewis Carrol, in compagnia di quel gioiello della Wavestation A/D di Korg. Compagni di viaggio: Crumar Bassman, Korg Electribe R, Line6 Echo Pro. Maggiori informazioni su www.sacherstudio.splinder.com"

AS Oberkorn MK3 Tutorial #08 - Voltage Out to Clock CV Input

YouTube via rezfilter | September 26, 2010
Mixes up at 2:43. Machinedrum, TBX-303 and black faced Oberheim SEMs come in.
"HOW TO: Change clock time & create uniquely timed patterns using the potentiometers on the AS Oberkorn step sequencer [www.analoguesolutions.com].

By patching a VOLTAGE OUT to the clock CV INPUT, one is able to dial-in odd timings and patterns on one of the 3 CV strips of the sequencer. This can be useful in many applications.

One particular application of this technique would be in sound design, where the Oberkorn is controlling the filters, envelopes, LFOs etc. of a modular synthesizer. Sounds such as drones could feature rhythmically interesting timings based on your custom dialed-in settings.

Many possibilities - try it yourself!"

Theremin: An In-Depth Session with a Moog Melodia

YouTube via dnteuxurois | September 21, 2010

"Frank O'Brien and Kip Rosser discuss and demo the Moog Melodia built by Frank's dad in the early 1960's."

Update via Gordon Charlton in the comments: "You can find build instructions and schematics for the melodia here - http://is.gd/fvgVL - the article is 49 years old so you'll need to find modern equivalents for components. If you do build one please please please document your work and share it - I would *love* to have a melodia but my electronic skills are almost zero."

My (kind of) duophonic Moog FreqBox (Plogue Bidule + 2 Moog FreqBox)

YouTube via GruithuisenCityMan | September 26, 2010

"Hello ! My name is Frederic Gerchambeau. I have made this movie. The music has been made in one take with Plogue Bidule and two Moog FreqBox. Enjoy !"

Cyndustries Milton Sequencer

via this auction

Also see the seller's other items for more.

"The Milton Sequencer is the coolest analog sequencer ever made! It's heart is 4 rows of 16 steps (cv values) that can be driven by a clock in the standard fashion, but one of the things that really makes this a standout sequencer is it's ability to be driven by any control voltage signal...plug an oscillator or envelope into the CV IN and watch the sequencer scan across the values! Drive it with audio rate signals and use it as a 64 stage tunable waveform generator!

It's got gate outputs at each step, and x/y trigger bus, remote enable mode (think arpeggiator), outputs for each row and more! After purchasing this new from Cyndustries, I sent it back to them to get the trigger bus upgrade so it now consistently outputs triggers.

Easily compatible with Modcan, Serge, Buchla, Bugbrand, etc."

Chase vintage synth Catalog

via this auction

"Chase was a vintage shop operating in the UK. These are flyers from their catalogues, complete and very rare!"

If anyone knows where to find decent scans of these let me know. Interesting bit of synth history.

Vintage Roland Rhythm 77 Rare Analog Drum Machine

via this auction
Some of the description appears to be from the dubsounds.com sample pack page. "The Rhythm-77 (TR-77) was the product that launched the Roland Corp. in 1972 and was the flagship of the Rhythm trio, which included the R-33 and R-55. Its place in history is secured as the first Roland drum machine ever made. It was Ikutaro Kakehashi's baby which he used to introduce the world to ROLAND after he sold off Ace Tone and moved on to bigger things. The Rhythm-77 (TR-77) came in two versions, the more common organ style wooden case with built in music stand and a black tolex "roadie protected" (TR-77V). Incidentally, if you don't already know TR stood for Transistor Rhythm. It had separate faders for the Kick, Snare, Guiro and Hi-Hat/Cymbal/Maracas, making it a very flexible machine in the studio. As with many early drum machines you could get more out of them by selecting multiple rhythms and layering them over each other.

Sonically, the 77 is probably the warmest sounding of all Roland's analogue beat boxes (before or since). The kick does lack punch but more than made up for that in bass content and the percussion sounds are very nice indeed. The standout sound has to be the guiro pattern which you can fade in over the top of the Cha-Cha and Mambo rhythms. Unashamedly "lounge" and instantly recognizable.

You can spot the TR-77 on quite a few tracks from the late '70s. It was quite popular for a few years until the CompuRhythm range took over. Gary Numan used it briefly on the "Replicas" album before moving on to the CR-78. Ultravox (with John Foxx) also used a 77 first before Foxx immortalized the CR-78 on his seminal "Metamatic" album. The 77 is also heard quite prominently in the intro to Squeeze's "Take Me I'm Yours" and "Girls On Film" by Duran Duran.

Rhythms:
Latin: Rhumba, Beguine, Cha-Cha, Mambo, Samba 1&2, Bossa Nova, Baion, Bolero, Tango
Rock: Rock'n'Roll 1&2, Slow Rock, Ballad, Western, March, Jazz Waltz, Waltz, Cancel (quiet)
2beat & 4beat: Bass Drum, Snare, Fox Trot, Swing, Parade, Shuffle

Drum Sounds:
Bass Drum, Snare Drum, Low Conga, Low Bongo, High Bongo, Rim Shot, Maracas, High Hat, Cymbal, Tambourine, Guiro, Cowbell."

Sound Source Unlimited Korg M1 M1R Synthesizer Collection ROM Card

via this auction

"vintage Korg M1/M1R "Synthesizer Collection" sound ROM card from 1992. "Synthesizer Collection" is a complete set of early classic synths (Chroma, Oberheim, Roland Juno, Korg Poly 800, etc.) and new modern synth emulations (Roland D50, Fairlight, Kawai K4, etc.). Basses, Pads, Solo instruments, splits, multi-layers and sound effects are also included in this collection. There are 100 Single Patches and 100 Combinations including 'D50 Ocean', 'Jupiter 8', '2Juno 60's', 'The Abyss', 'Silver Moon', 'Mentor', 'UFO 1' and many more."

Shruthi-1 Acrylic Enclosure...

flickr set By fcd72
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"Tips, Tricks & Hints for assembling the Mutable instruments Shruthi-1 Acrylic enclosure."

chrome_rene.mp4

YouTube via yerpa58 | September 26, 2010

"MakeNoise René prototype running Stored Quantized Voltage Function. Simple patch with René quantized CV driving Doepfer A-110 VCO. René's Gate-X and Gate-Y outputs are driving two different VCA envelopes from MakeNoise MATHS to Doepfer A-130 VCA. MakeNoise Wogglebug generating clocks to Doepfer A-160 Clock Divider which patched to René's X-Clk and Y-Clk inputs."

DIY hardware programmer for Kawai K3m Synthesizer and CR-78-clone

YouTube via stereoping | September 26, 2010

"This video features my 2 last diy-projects: a hardwareprogrammer for the Kawai K3m and an analogue drumsynthesizer. Sorry for the shaking, had to hold the cam the whole songrecording.

1. I made a hardware programmer for my beloved kawai k3m which is normally painful to edit. It's made out of an old keyfax phatboy which is quite useless normally because it only sends mostly useless fixed controllerdata. I spent it a new brain of an atmega8 and connected it to the multiplexers and switches. After some programming it now sends sysexdata suitable for the K3. Of course any incoming mididata is merged through. Notes have priority before sysex to prevent notelags. There are 3 color-modes which can be switched by a 3-way-switch in the upper right corner of the controller.

2. Second featured DIY-project in this video is my "Viscand 16" - a frankensteinproduct of a VISCount 160 and the rolAND cr78. It eats mididata and listenes on 16 notes to trigger the voices. Its hard to find coils today, the CR78 needs some for filtering (tambourine, metalbeat aso.) . I tried to overcome that by filtering the noise with a simple opamp-bandpass before it gets into the circuit. Another try was to use old relais-coils together with some capacitors, well it worked somehow. The sound is quite near by the cr78. Although i still got some problems with a clean accent-amp the video shows how it sounds.
Other synths used: v-synth (suqareblip), polysix-plugin, albino-plugin (Bass) and dynacord studioquad for reverbs."

TouchOSC on the iPad and Native Intruments B4II

YouTube via mvpadrini | September 26, 2010

"O app TouchOSC para iOS permite enviar mensagens OSC por conexão Wi-fi. Com um computador Windows ou Mac é possível receber estas mensagens e convertê-las em MIDI para controlar VSTis, outros softwares ou até mesmo hardwares.

Neste vídeo criamos um layout especialmente para o Native Instruments B4II utilizando o TouchOSC Editor (gratuito). Para receber as mensagens OSC e convertê-las em MIDI utilizamos o OSCulator para MacOS.

Confira mais sobre apps musicais para iOS e outros dispositivos móveis em www.musicapps.com.br

The TouchOSC app for iOS allows to send OSC messages using Wi-fi connection. With a Windows or Mac computer is possible to receive those messages and convert them into MIDI to control VSTis, other softwares and even hardwares.

In this video we created a custom layout for NI B4II using the TouchOSC editor (free). For receiving the OSC messages and for making the MIDI conversion we used the OSCulator for MacOS.

More about Music Apps on MusicApps.com.br

If you are an app developer and want to have a review about your musical app in portuguese, please contact us: marcus@musicapps.com.br"

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Use-Audio Plugiator demos

YouTube via RanKirlian | September 26, 2010

"Collection of brief demos from the Use-Audio Plugiator desktop DSP running Minimax, B4000, Lightwave, Prodyssey, Pro-12 and FMagia synth engines shown thru the Plug-in manager software interface."

September 2010 Wiggler meetup

September 2010 Wiggler meetup from Pete Shambler on Vimeo.

"Monthly Muff Wiggler meetup, this time in beautiful Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Thanks to Opsybug for hosting!"
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POLYVOX POLIVOKS

via this auction

"SOVIET ANALOGUE LEGEND IN MINT CONDITION WITH ORIGINAL ALUMINIUM CASE... THIS IS A MOOG-TYPE SYNTH WITH AN OWN CHARACTER. THE SOUND IS RICH AND AGGRESSIVE. SO IF YOU DO NOT OWN A MOOG YOU CAN USE IT AS A (MUCH!) CHEAPER ALTERNATIVE, AND IF YOU OWN A MOOG YOU CAN ADD A POLYVOX FOR THE SOUNDS YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GET OUT OF THE MOOG, YET OF THE SAME TYPE."

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Folktek Harmonic Field Version 2

via this auction

"The second version of one of our favorite works here at the folktek labs, this one steeped in greater possibility - still almost entirely touch based. We've added a 12 part key section to control the touch plates and a very nasty filter to either grime up, liquify or subdue the sound."

videos previously posted

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Roland CR-8000 CompuRythm

via this auction

Roland Drumatix TR-606 Drum Machine

via this auction

inside a Roland TR-606

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Roland S-550 Digital Sampler

via this auction

"80's digital sampler. I bought the device and then hunted down a monochrome screen.. I download the original synth sounds off the internet, and ripped them to double density 3.5 floppy disks which aren't available anymore. You can find high density 3.5 disks and put a piece of tape over one of the holes which converts them to double density. After that I had to format the disk with windows 98 so I could set the size to 720kb. I was able to get the system disk and every sound that Roland made for the device. works great, if you don't mind waiting 60 seconds to load a sound bank of about 8 different samples. You can record samples and play them back in different keys. auction includes the Roland s-550 with monochrome screen user manual flopply disk drawer and over 60 disks."

Roland Jupiter 6 Vintage Analog Synthesizer

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moog the rogue with original box

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TAMA TECHSTAR TS-204

via this auction
"TAMA TECHSTAR TS-204 VINTAGE ANALOG DRUM SOUND MODULE - SYNTH ‘Clap’

MT-NM

Product Description:
A classic unit that will deliver that fat, chunky ‘clap’ like the Simmons clap-trap sound in Gary Numan’s ‘Cars’, that famous ‘Betty Davis Eyes’ song, or even the more modern Muse song ‘Uprising’.

The second sound is a synth –sound, adjustable to be a whispy sting, or a low-end hum."