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Thursday, February 29, 2024
A Eurorack Mix & Output Problem Solver // The NEW! Output Bus from DivKid & Befaco
video upload by DivKid
"Introducing the new OUTPUT BUS module from me (DivKid) and Befaco. It's an 8HP summing mixer, output stage, soft clip limiter, line level integrator, LED meter visualiser, headphone monitor and more ... it has many features that aimed to solve typical mix and output problems you'll find yourself working with in a Eurorack modular system."
A 5 minute rave on the Divkid Output Bus.
video upload by mylarmelodies
"Weirdly Ben has made almost exactly the module I need right now, as I'm building a modular mixer in my latest live system, and I need to sum and 'vibe up' the Roland TR-8. My pal Ben @DivKid sent me one for free - so here's me starting to use it! (Video update on this case coming soon!) 🙌 "
via DivKid
"The Output Bus is your ultimate output module: Presented by DivKid and Befaco, meant to be the last link in your modular chain!
Inspired by pro audio and studio summing units the Output Bus allows for summing style mixing, external gear integration, soft clip limiting, flexible output types, headphone monitoring and level visualization.
The module works great mixing all your other mixers in your setup, to return mono or stereo FX into the master bus and for bringing in external stereo line level gear with ease. All of this in just 8HP while also being able to visualize your final levels, output appropriate signals on the right cable type and monitor in headphones.
FEATURES
Six stereo inputs.
Line/synth selector in input six.
Modular level minijack out.
6,5” Jack balanced out.
3.5mm and 1/4″ headphone outs.
Led VU-meter.
Soft clipping circuit at main output."
Saturday, September 16, 2023
Knobcon 2023
video upload by Jeremy Parker
"My first Knobcon! What took me so long? It's about way more than just modular, and I simply had a great time. People were so nice, whether they were faces to names I knew online, or complete strangers that I just talked to randomly. This isn't a comprehensive view of everything the con has to offer, but it was a glimpse into my experience. So many people to thank and acknowledge below:
https://www.knobcon.com/
Ben Alman and The Entire Robot: https://www.twitch.tv/theentirerobot
@TheEntireRobot
Oberheim: https://oberheim.com/
Sequential: https://www.sequential.com/
Juanito Moore:
/ @ozerik
Modular for the Masses: https://modularforthemasses.square.site/
Hammond Organ: https://hammondorganco.com/
Circuit Happy: https://circuithappy.com/products/the...
The Golden Shrimp Guild:
https://gsg.live/
Kyaa & AE Modular: https://forum.aemodular.com/board/22/...
A Yellow Sine: https://www.ayellowsine.com/
@gerbilhamsterrecords3342
00:00 Intro
02:12 Friday Night Welcome
03:34 Saturday Exhibits
3:53 Oberheim OB-X8
4:35 Sequential Trigon-6
5:34 Juanito Moore
9:05 Hammond
12:05 Circuit Happy
14:08 The Golden Shrimp Guild
15:50 Lectures
16:06 Kyaa Modular
16:45 A Yellow Sine
16:56 Schedule
17:24 Golden Shrimp Jam & Outro"
LABELS/MORE:
Circuit Happy,
DIY,
Knobcon,
MATRIXSYNTH Members,
Modular for the Masses,
Oberheim,
Sequential
Monday, November 07, 2022
NETWORK-ERROR - LIVE - AV #040 - Suzuki OMNICHORD OM-36 Folktek circuit bent synth improvisation
video upload by NETWORK-ERROR
"Playing with a Susuki omnichord OM-36 circuit bent synth
modified by Folktek, Ben Houston."
Saturday, November 14, 2020
Friday, October 04, 2019
New England Synthesizer Fest Fall 2019 at Microsoft - Live Performances
Published on Oct 4, 2019 Bill T Miller
Poster Artwork by Dave C Lovelace. See this post for a walkthrough.
"New England Synth Fest September 28, 2019 at Microsoft Burlington/Boston. noon to 6pm.
THIS VIDEO produced/edited/fx by Bill T Miller
- xtra thanx to Sheri Hausey, Deftly-D, JP Tuttle, Konopka, Dewb
5 of the 12 Live Performances were captured via short iphone 1 minute or less clips with mono audio. The entire 18 minute Bill T Miller set was shot multi-cam (iphones) & stereo audio and will be released at some point.
1-Bill T Miller of Orgy Of Noise
2-Bob Familiar
3-Joe Brown
4-LIMBC
5-Andrew Neumann
Live Projection Screen VISUALS
-Christopher Konopka
-Michael Dewberry
=====
Second part is a random slide show of PHOTOGRAPHS of other performers, workshop talks, vendors etc that were shot by Bill T Miller. The synth soundtrack during slide show is by BTM as well. ALL the AUDIO you hear in this video is from the synthfest.
-PERFORMERS
-Bill T Miller
-Bob Familiar
-Ben Alman
-Joe Brown
-J.P. Tuttle
-Chris Konopka (visuals)
-LIMBC - Anda Volley
-Andrew Neuman
-Eleleletrix (duo)
-Eric Crawley
-Petridisch
-VERA
-Dewb = Michael Dewbery (visuals)
-ARTISTS, WORKSHOPS, VENDORS, ETC-
-Mandy and Bob Familiar
-Synth Petting Zoo
- Izzy Maxwell - Real Fake Knobs
-Piotr Rotkiewicz
-Luke Stark and SOUP
-Circuit Happy Jam Room
-Bob Chidlaw
-Sam Holland
-Joe Paradiso
This is only a fraction of what was going on that afternoon in six different rooms at Microsoft. Originally I was only going to PLAY SHOOT RECORD my BTM MOD SYNTH LIVE SET, but over the day ended up shooting pix and few short vid clips and edited it all together as a gift to the people that were there or wanted to be there.
+Poster Artwork by Dave C Lovelace
+THANX to hosts Microsoft & Bob Familiar and Eric Crawley o Analogue Heaven North East& Kent Lundberg & Paul Geffen of Boston Modular and all who where there.
NESF - http://nesynth.org
BILL T MILLER - ORGY OF NOISE via
http://OrgyOfNoise.com"
Wednesday, September 05, 2018
FTL Cosmos Remix on the Novation Circuit
Published on Sep 4, 2018 Ben Prunty
"I made a remix of FTL's Cosmos on Novation's portable standalone groove box Circuit. Cosmos Battle is arguably the most dance-able piece in FTL, so it made sense to make it a full dance party on the Circuit."
one more:
Neon - Live performance on the Novation Circuit
Published on Jul 9, 2018 Ben Prunty
"Buy my music at benprunty.bandcamp.com, or check it out on Spotify, iTunes, or Google Play Music.
I made this one night in a hotel room and then decided to polish it a bit and then record it live. Let me know if you want to more videos like this!"
Friday, July 21, 2017
Malekko Heavy Industry Q&A + Product Demo
Published on Jul 21, 2017 Perfect Circuit Audio
With Ben Davis of Malekko
July 19, 2017
at Perfect Circuit Audio, Burbank CA
www.PerfectCircuitAudio.com
www.MalekkoHeavyIndustry.com
MATRIXSYNTH Members get %10 off at Perfect Circuit Audio.
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Polynomial-C [Circuit Remix]
Published on Apr 14, 2017 Ben Coleman
"A crude recreation of the legendary Aphex classic done entirely on my Novation Circuit, no external effects or sources, only sample was the drum loop. It's not perfect but what is..."
And one with the Ultranova:
UltraNova & Circuit - Ambient Improv
Published on Dec 21, 2016 Ben Coleman
Sunday, April 16, 2017
RIP David Alan Luce - Former President of Moog Music & Creator of the Polymoog
News is in that Dave Luce passed away yesterday, April 15, at the age of 80. That's him working on the Polymoog back in the day. I spotted the image and news in this tweet by @casadistortion.
"RIP David Luce, designer of the groundbreaking Polymoog."
You can find a video interview with Dave Luce in NAMM's Oral Histories site here.
See here for a polymoog promotional film featuring David Luce.
via The Buffalo News:
"After a brief stint at Sperry Rand, where he worked on high-speed digital circuitry, Mr. Luce joined Moog Music in 1972 and invented the first commercial polyphonic synthesizer, the Polymoog.
He became head of engineering, was promoted to president of Moog in 1981, and became a co-owner in 1984. He oversaw and contributed directly to the development of Moog synthesizers and other products.
In developing those instruments, he worked with Keith Emerson of Emerson Lake & Palmer and many other artists on whose music his innovations had a significant impact.
After Moog closed in 1987, Mr. Luce embarked on a new career, helping to develop and refine ophthalmic diagnostic instruments at Reichert Technologies. In 2000 he made an important discovery relating to properties of the cornea, and in 2005 he published a now widely cited paper that earned him recognition as the 'Father of Corneal Biomechanics.'"
And via Marc Doty, aka Automatic Gainsay:
"Dave Luce has passed away.
Bill Waytena, the guy who bought R.A. Moog and turned it into Moog Music in the early part of the 70s, hired Dave to create a polyphonic synthesizer. The synthesizer he created was the Polymoog.
The Polymoog was a complicated design that tried to cope with the issues involved in creating an articulated polyphonic design. Polyphonic electronic keyboards had been created for years, going back to 1937, when Harald Bode created the Warbo Formant Organ. But the problem with applying Bob Moog's synthesis concept to polyphony was that the user was probably going to want each voice to be fully articulated... and that was complex and expensive.
Dave's design essentially addressed the challenge by creating an IC chip for each key that gave each key a synthesizer.
The Polymoog was riddled with challenges and failings, but overall, it was a huge success... being the first, and most effective, application of voltage control to polyphony.
Of course, it couldn't have a ladder filter per key, which meant that the Polymoog had great presets, but fell short when it came to polyphonic synthesis.
Bob described Dave as pursuing overly-complicated designs. Anyone who has ever owned or repaired a Polymoog, should probably agree.
But still... the Polymoog got us started in the modern age, and it was a popular and useful design. Dave Luce worked hard for Moog Music, and is responsible for a lot in regard to that which was created by that company in the 1970s.
Thank you, Dave, for all of your great work.
http://buffalonews.com/…/david-alan-luce-moog-president-pi…/
P.S. We should also thank Keith Emerson... because his input on the Apollo design led to the improved Polymoog."
You can check out the Moog Apollo in the Bob Moog Foundation Archives videos posted here.
Update via Ben Luce in the comments:
"This is Ben Luce, Dave Luce's son. I appreciate the commentary above very much.
Thank you for posting it. I would like to comment though that I have never agreed
with Bob Moog's characterization of my father as pursuing overly-complicated designs.
As your good commentary above notes, my Dad was struggling with very complicated design issues
with the polymoog, and was doing so in era where integrated circuits and instruments of the complexity
of the polymoog were quite new and unexplored.
But perhaps more to the point, to my understanding the primary failing of the poly was that the individual
circuit cards for each key were not soldered down: They were intentionally left removable because
there was some well grounded concern that voltage spikes from bad power on the grid
could cause the special chips that each carried to fail occasionally, necessitating
occasional replacements. As it turned out, these chips almost never failed, which I think is a testament to
the careful design of the chips in terms of component tolerances and such, and of the circuitry
that supported them. So in fact, the failure was really an engineering problem, not
a failure of my Dad's design work per se. Moreover, my Dad worked on all sorts of synthesizers for
Moog Music after that, and created some before that, and in no way were these generally plagued by some
tendency towards over complicated design. The same holds for his subsequent work on
ophthalmic instruments, which led to him finally to be recognized widely as "The Father
of Corneal Biomechanics".
In truth, my father actually loved and sought simplicity in
his work wherever it could be found. He was a true physicist, and physicists are steeped in the
virtues of simplicity and symmetry and mathematical beauty from the get-go.
Finally, it should be mentioned in this context that Bog Moog only worked directly with my
father for a few years, and I don't believe he worked very directly with him on
detailed circuit design issues, except perhaps when my Dad was first involved with improving
some of Bob's older designs. Bog also made those comments long after having left the company for
reasons that had little to do with my father, and that these may reflect some overall bitterness
about that not related to my Dad. For my Dad's part, I never heard him say an ill word about Bog.
He greatly admired Bob's work, and was proud to worked for him and for Moog Music in general."
Update: see this post for a recent restoration of David Alan Laces Polymoog.
Monday, October 03, 2016
Product Overview: The Novation Circuit
Published on Sep 23, 2016 Magnetic Magazine
"Magnetic contributor and Moody Records label manager Ben A drops an excellent overview of the Novation Circuit.
Earlier this year we got a look at the Circuit during the annual NAMM conference, and we were blown away. The Novation Circuit is actually an independent musical sketchpad that has it's own onboard drums and synths + it works with your DAW like any standard MIDI controller.
No computer no problem. The four–part drum machine and two polyphonic synths can be sequenced in real time or via steps. You can listen to your composition on the onboard speaker or plug in your headphones; this thing runs on batteries, so you are truly mobile."
https://us.novationmusic.com/circuit-components-components
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Sony Walkman Synth
Published on Dec 29, 2015 Circuit Ben
"Using the motor as a sound source, changing the motor speed, passing the sound through the amplification circuit, overdriving the amplification circuit, using the motor control chip's unused outputs to modulate the motor speed."
Sunday, September 13, 2015
An Interview with Barry Schrader
Hi everyone! As you know Barry Schrader will be giving his farewell concert at CalArts on September 26. The following is the beginning of my interview with him. I opted to post the questions and answers as they come in. New QAs will get a new post so you do not miss them and they will be added to this post so we have one central post for the full interview. This should make it easier for all of us to consume in our busy lives, and it will allow you to send in any questions that may come to mind during the interview process. If you have anything you'd like to ask Barry, feel free to send it in to matrixsynth@gmail.com. This is a rare opportunity for us to get insight on a significant bit of synthesizer history, specifically with early Buchla systems, and I'd like to thank Barry for this opportunity. Thank you Barry!
Thursday, August 20, 2015
808 Cowbell Morse Code
Published on Aug 20, 2015 Circuit Ben
"Maybe we've been looking at this alien communication thing all wrong, perhaps they are looking for a combination of Morse Code and 808 Cowbell as evidence of an intelligent civilisation.
Special thanks to Holger M Mürk for the 808 cowbell schematic."
Monday, July 06, 2015
Cat Music.
Published on Jul 6, 2015 Circuit Ben
"Soporific"
LABELS/MORE:
Ben Francis,
Circuit Bending,
DIY,
New,
New in 2015,
New Sound Machines,
New Sound Machines in 2015,
Synth Cats,
Video
Sunday, December 07, 2014
More ART. by Circuit Ben
Published on Dec 7, 2014 Circuit Ben
"Babble babble babble art."
3D open electronic contraption sound device.
Saturday, November 08, 2014
Voltage controlled tape player (sort of.)
Published on Nov 8, 2014 Circuit Ben
"Probably part of a tape delay/vibrato at some point, a good start anyhow."
Tape to synthesis to circuit bending back to tape.
Saturday, June 28, 2014
mika vainio & franck vigroux live @ le generateur 3
Published on Jun 28, 2014 Compagnie d'autres cordes·1 video
"Vermona mono lancet, Moog, Octatrack, Akai vx90, Electribe ESX"
And one more from Franck Vigroux:
Franck Vigroux's "2024" video by Fabien Zocco from The Wire Magazine on Vimeo.
"Watch a video made by Fabien Zocco for musician, label runner and festival curator Franck Vigroux's track, '2024' exclusive to The Wire.
Speaking with Brian Morton in The Wire 364, Franck Vigroux – while influenced by GRM and composer/philosophers like Bernard Parmegiani, Xenakis, Penderecki and Morton Feldman – describes himself as part of a generation of composers in France 'who’ve been trying to regenerate music theatre or hybrid forms. I can’t really analyse my ‘philosophy’, but I am particularly obsessed by the intrinsic nature of sound, which surprises me constantly. So I spend my time in the studio searching for sounds, using all sorts of machines and devices. For instance, I’ve just finished a record where I simply played an old guitar through an amplifier with very little additional in the way of effects but with a range of tones and overtones [accordages] – which then become the object of meticulous research.'
Alongside curating Les Instants Sonores music and arts festival in Mende, southern France and the White Noises festival in the Paris suburb of Arcueil, since 2003 Vigroux has run the D’Autres Cordes label, releasing work by Samuel Sighicelli, Elliott Sharp, Matthew Bourne and others. Vigroux also regularly collaborates with vocalist Ben Miller as Transistor, video artist Antoine Schmitt as Tempest and with Reinhold Friedl and Mika Vainio.
Vigroux and Reinhold Friedl’s Tobel is released by La Muse En Circuit. Les Instants Sonores takes place 11–15 June.
Saturday, May 24, 2014
The Birth of Flickerstep
Published on May 24, 2014 Circuit Ben·126 videos
"Ladies and Gentlemen, abandon all sense of rhythm, sanity and hope.
I bring you Flickerstep."
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
SNES Pitch-bending and Glitching.
Published on Jul 16, 2013 Circuit Ben·112 videos
"babble babble babble babble. Picture of where the glitch wires go is the thumbnail of this very video :)"
Monday, June 17, 2013
Stereo Analog Filter for Gameboy.
Published on Jun 16, 2013
"Built using some boards from this guy - http://www.youtube.com/user/manufacturedZ3R0
Womp Womp Womp Womp."
Note Z3R0 is now X1L3 on eBay (RSS)
via Circuit Ben on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge
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