Gershon Kingsley Has Passed Away

Gershon Kingsley- Music to Moog by, full LP (1969) Published on Feb 8, 2015 Gershon Kingsley


Gershon Kingsley - Popcorn

Published on Jun 16, 2007 sometest353

"The Original Popcorn Video cuz i didn't found it on youtube."

This one was sent my way via Joshua Shroyer.

Via user Peake on Muffs

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/8546355/gershon-kingsley-dead

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Gershon Kingsley demonstrates a Moog Synthesizer on Aug. 25, 1969.

via Billboard where you'll find the full article:

"Composer, conductor and electronic music pioneer Gershon Kingsley, who wrote the top 10 hit “Popcorn” and played a pivotal role in popularizing the synthesizer sound, died Dec. 10 in New York. He was 97.

The Emmy Award-winning composer recorded 'Popcorn' in 1969, but it was a remake by Hot Butter that reached No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1972, and No. 1 in at least six other countries. In 2005, Crazy Frog released its version, with the song again going to No. 1 in a number of countries. In 2018, Kingsley released a yellow vinyl 12” of his trademark song for Record Store Day.

Kingsley, who also composed 'Baroque Hoedown,' the theme song for Disney parks’ Main Street Electrical Parade, was born in Germany in 1922. He came to New York in 1946 and then attended the LA Conservatory of Music..."

You can find previous posts featuring Gershon Kingsley here. One of my favorites growing up in Los Angeles and going to Disneyland as a kid (as well as an adult during NAMM :), was Baroque Hoedown with Jean-Jacques Perrey.

Thank you for the memories Gershon Kingsley, they literally lasted a lifetime. You made the world a better place for so many.

Baroque Hoedown 1967-2015

Published on Mar 8, 2017 Macro Magic

"The original Baroque Hoedown plus all variations used in the American Disney theme parks. Tracks used:

Baroque Howdown- Jean-Jacques Perrey and Gershon Kingsley (1967)

The Main Street Electrical Parade Soundtrack: Disneyland (1977-1996) Magic Kingdom (1977-1991) (1999-2001) Tokyo Disneyland (1985-1995) Disneyland Paris (1992-2003) Disney's California Adventure (2001-2010)

Disney's Electrical Parade/Dreamlights: Tokyo Disneyland (2001- present) Magic Kingdom (2010-2016) Disneyland (2017)

Paint the Night Parade: Hong Kong Disneyland (2014-present) Disneyland (2015-2016)

No audio owned by me. All rights go to their respective owners.
Enjoy!"

Gershon Kingsley Part 2

YouTube via moogfoundation.
"Joel Chadabe, president & founder of the Electronic Music Foundation, introduced Gershon Kingsley"
I'm not seeing Part 1 yet. I'll update this post and let you know if it goes up later.

Gershon Kingsley - Popcorn

YouTube via sometest353.
"The Original Popcorn Video cuz i didn't found it on youtube."

Gershon Kingsley plays Popcorn 2007

YouTube via GKingsley
"The Composer himself at the August Foerster Grand"

Update: Excerpt on Popcorn via kingsleysound.com where you will find more:
"Despite the wide range of music Gershon Kingsley has composed, he is most well-known for a 1972 instrumental dance hit called "Popcorn."

Kingsley recalls that he wrote the primary melody to "Popcorn" in about 30 seconds. The song was first released in 1969 as part of a Kingsley solo album called "Music To Moog By." LINK TO: MOOGBY Then the First Moog Quartet, while on their nation-wide tour of college and universities, used "Popcorn" as their encore song.

In 1972, "Popcorn" was recorded by a group of musicians under the band name Hot Butter."

Gershon Kingsley's Sabbath for Today with the Moog Synthesizer 1971

Gershon Kingsley's Sabbath for Today.mp4

YouTube Published on Aug 10, 2012 by GKingsley

"1971 from Temple Rodeph Shalom. Ephraim Biran cantor/soloist, Rabbi Gunter Hirschberg, speaker, Alfred Drake, narrator, Kenneth Bichel, Moog Modular"

Update: 14 minute version:

Gershon Kingsley's Sabbath for Today 1971

Published on Aug 14, 2012 by GKingsley

"Gershon Kingsley's Sabbath for today, conducted by the composer, broadcast on Channel 13 in 1971 from Temple Rodeph Shalom. Ephraim Biran cantor/soloist, Rabbi Gunter Hirschberg, speaker, Alfred Drake, narrator, Kenneth Bichel, Moog Modular"

Gershon Kingsley - Popcorn ( 1969 Original )

YouTube via TONYM2M2
Re-Uploaded on Jun 16, 2007sometest353·1 video

Details:
"Gershon kingsley's " Popcorn " is one of the worlds most recognisable tunes ...not bad going for a man who penned the track in two minutes.! ! ..... It was recorded in 1969 for Kingsley's solo album " Music To Moog By " http://www.virginmegastores... which saw Kingsley pioneering the use of Dr. Moog's early synthesizer.....Hot Butter released a more up-tempo version of Popcorn in 1972 . This became an instant hit across the world, and has the distinct title ot being The Worlds First Commercially Successful "Synthesizer" Record, WOW !!......Just as the name Moog is connected to Synthesizer...so too is Kingsley to Electronica......"
Funny cover version
Gersh. kingsley site

Gershon Kingsley [Episode 210]

Published on Dec 26, 2019 CatSynth TV

"We discuss the life and work of Gershon Kingsley, who passed away on December 10, 2019.

Kingsley is perhaps best known for his 1968 synth-pop tune Popcorn, which has been covered many times. However, he had quite a varied career as an electronic musician, with a variety of styles as the founder of The First Moog Quartet, and also as the composer of many modernist works exploring Jewish identity and liturgy."

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Also see Gershon Kingsley Has Passed Away

Popcorn by Gershon Kingsley on the Moog One synthesizer (vintage 1971 Moog version)

Published on Nov 16, 2018 Sean Christopher - Evoking Emotion Through Music

"I thought that I would recreate the 1971 vintage version of Gershon Kingsley's popular synth piece, Popcorn with the Moog One synthesizer. Composer Gershon Kingsley first recorded "Popcorn" for his 1969 album Music to Moog By. In 1971 the track was re-recorded by Kingsley's band First Moog Quartet. The record was one of a rash of Moog synthesizer-based releases, following the Billboard pop Top 40 chart success Walter Carlos had in 1968 with Switched-On Bach, and which characterized electronic music of the future."

Analog Synth Record Collection

Check out this auction list while it's up. There is a slew of old analog synth records. I saved off the album covers, titles and any details given for each; title link takes you to one monster htm file. I listed the albums below as well for anyone that wants to search for them in the future.



-Moog Synthesizer, The Essential, Perrey & Kingsley
-Moog Synthesizer, Moog Indigo by Jean Jacques Perrey
-Amazing New Sound of Jean Jacques Perrey
-Spotlight on the Moog; Kaleido-scopic vibrations
-The in sound from way out, Perrey - Kingsley
-First Moog Quartet by Gershon Kingsley
-Yankee Transdoodle; ARP 2600 + Obenheim equipt.
-Giorgio; 1977, exclusively electronic keyboards
-It's about time, Tonto
-White Noise / An Electric Storm
-Plugged in Joplin, Minimoog and EMS Synthi AKS, 1974
-Firebird by Isao Tomita
-Ragnarok; Electronic funk by Paul Beaver and Bernard L. Krause
-Skylab; Electronic butterflies play instrumental hits
-Electronic Music for Jean Dubuffet's Coucou Bazar by Ilhan Mimaroglu
-All Good Men by Beaver and Krause
-Beyond the sun, the planets Patrick Gleason and the Eu Polyphonic Synth
-Electric Love Moog synthesizer and strings
-Good morning Starshine with Moog synth by Tartaglia
-Mother Mallards Portable Masterpiece Co recorded at R.A. Moog !
-Short Circuits by Ruth White / Moog Synthesizer
-Moog synthesizer album, Everything you always wanted to hear on the Moog but were afraid to ask
-Music to Moog by Gershon and Kingsley
-Quadradisc Highlights - quadraphonic record album
-Electronic Hair Pieces Mort Garson with Moog synthesizer
-Copper Plated Integrated Circuit - 1969
-Switched On Gershwin - Moog synthesizer
-White Noise 2 David Vorhaus, 1975, Concerto for synth
-Popcorn Gershon Kingsley's First Moog Quartet
-Apollo 100 Masterpieces includes Popcorn
-Hot Butter with Stan Free at the Moog synthesizer
-Realistic Life Mechanical Sound Effects record album
-Flowers Of Evil

Synplant jam with Vangelis & Grandmaster Flash remix

YouTube via Torley

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Irene Cara's ''Fame'' 16th-note sequence

Published on Sep 2, 2017 SynthMania

"Viewer request: 16th synth pattern from Irene Cara's ''Fame'' song. I couldn't find much information on the synth used, other than the synth player in this song is Ken Bichel, a very famous NY keyboard session player: and I've seen photos of his ARP 2600, but was also in Gershon Kingsley's First Moog Quartet, so could also be a Moog or other synth:
"Bichel attended the Juilliard School where he graduated with a master's degree in piano performance in 1969. While at Juilliard he met Gershon Kingsley and Robert Moog, the inventor of the music synthesizer. He became a founding member of Kingsley's First Moog Quartet, a live performance synthesizer ensemble, and was recognized as the preeminent synthesizer authority in the New York recording industry from that time on" - http://www.kenbichel.com/Welcome.html"

Gershon Kingsley's Moog Modular System Up for Auction

Note: Auction links are affiliate links for which the site may be compensated.
via this auction

This is the one featured in this video posted yesterday.

"This extraordinary and historic Moog modular system has been completely and expertly restored to full working conditon by E.A.R.S./The Analog Lab of New York City. They are New York's premier repair and restoration center for analog synths, and head tech Jeff Blenkinsopp has spent months (and I have spent several thousand dollars) on this restoration. All jacks, switches, and knobs have been thoroughly cleaned, all faulty modules have been repaired, the keyboard has new bushings for a smooth and consistent action, and it's tuning has been re-scaled, etc. In fact, the tuning is as good as you'll ever find on a 5 octave Moog keyboard- you can play the entire range and it will still be in tune with itself. Also, 3 of the oscillators had a factory mod done which makes the tuning more stable on them. This was done at the factory by Moog Custom Engineering, not by a third party. Everything else on the whole system is totally original and stock. A link to a video,below, allows you to hear the synth as well as see it, but first a bit more about what modules it consists of and it's history:
It is actually several things put together- the guts of the system , over half of it, was the original modular system first owned by Gershon Kingsley. He was a famous synth pioneer of the 60's and a good friend of Bob Moog's. He used it in a group called The Moog Quartet, who famously gave the first ever live public performances of a synthesizer at The Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. By the way, Gershon will be celebrating his 90th birthday this fall with a performance in NewYork at Lincoln Center and has expressed an interest in using this synth for it. If the buyer is on the East coast of the U.S. I can put you in touch with him, and you might be able to rent him the system for that performance.
Several modules were added over the years, such as the reverb module (a great sounding spring reverb), and finally around 1977 the double sequencer cabinet. Most of the modules are dated Jan.1969 (they are stamped inside), some Oct.1969, some 1971, a few later than that.
It is a huge system, with 6 oscillators, 4 filters (2 low pass, one high pass, & one fixed filter bank), 2 VCA's, 4 envelope generators, and many other modules, some quite rare (such as the filter coupler) and topped off with 2 sequencers, complete with sequential switches and a sequential interface A complete list of the modules follows. with cabinet #1 being the furthest left in the photos, #4 all the way to the right:
Cabinet 1: 1x 904a Low Pass Filter, 1x 904b High Pass Filter, 1x 904c Filter Coupler, 1x 911a Dual Trigger Delay, 1x 903 White Sound Source, Control Voltages (no model #), 6 blanks
Cabinet 2: 1x 901 VCO, 1x 903a Random Signal Generator, 1x 905 reverb unit, 1x 995 attenuator, 1x 912 envelope follower, 3x 901a oscillator controllers, 5x 901b oscillators, 2x 4 channel mixer modules (no model #) Cabinet 3: 1x 907 Fixed Filter Bank, 1x 904a Low Pass Filter, Filter and Attenuator (no ID #), 2x 902 VCAs, 4x 911 Envelope Generators, 1x 911a Dual Trigger Delay, 2x 962 Sequential Switches, Envelope and Trigger Voltage Module (no model #), Mult module, Power Module w/ trigger and pitch in/out (no model#)
Cabinet 4: 2x 960 Sequential Controllers, 1x 961 Sequential interface,

Here is a link to a video made by The Analog Lab, who just completed the restoration. If you have trouble opening this link, try pasting it into your browser, or go to their website,www.theanaloglab.com and you will find the video You can hear the synth-the entire piece was recored on it a few days ago."

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Custom JMT UNVO-1 (Drone)

Published on Dec 15, 2019 Kris Lennox

"- EDIT TO ADD - I just heard that Gershon Kingsley passed away. Sad to hear; I spoke to Gershon a number of times last year in relation to his piano music (Gershon improvised at piano, so no scores existed; I was transcriber for his works). The transcription project remained unfinished/my contact was with Gershon directly, so if Gershon's publishers happen across this and are looking to speak RE his scores, they can drop me a line via my email (krislennoxpiano@gmail.com). I've posted one of his score samples here for verification - https://imgur.com/a/EDDcwcf

In any instance, all best to his family.

To the video at hand:

A short while back I was working on quite a large-scale/major project that required copious quantities of noise; possibly the finest noise synth presently on the market (with the most diverse range of noise-based sounds) is the JMT UNVO-1. I contacted Tetsuji and asked him if he'd build me a custom/modified model, which is what you are seeing here.

Great instrument. Very powerful oscillators. I'll upload some videos demonstrating the 'noise' side of the UNVO-1 (in context with other instruments etc), but the included is possibly more accessible as a first listen/introduction to the instrument.

Tetsuji's instruments are quite impeccable - and his attention to detail is on another level. Granted, the uses of an instrument such as this are relatively limited, but if you're working on a noise-based sound design project, it is a no-brainer.

I asked Tetsuji to build the case in olive drab, as when used as a noise synth, it is distinctly reminiscent of an old military radio (pure noise through to squelch sounds etc). Tetsuji agreed that the aesthetic works well for the synth.

I also suggested he take some photos from during the build phase: he sent a few through, and I also have a selection of the innards that I took when the synth arrived. Once I have it ready, I'll upload a small article/include a link. In the meantime, here's a link to Tetsuji's website where you can see my custom order - https://www.jmtsynth.com/single-post/...

I picked up a few instruments for the project; some off-the-shelf, others custom-built. In the new year I'll probably add a few here on YT.

Best
Kris"

JMT UNVO-1 posts

Two Performances on The Ondioline

YouTube via BeeldenGeluid | Oct 16, 2010 | 4 likes, 0 dislikes\

The Ondioline
"De Fransman Jenny heeft een electronisch muziekinstrument uitgevonden. Hij komt, toetsenbord onder de ene arm, draagbare versterker in de hand van de andere, een geluidsstudio binnen, installeert het toetsenbord en sluit de versterker aan. Daarna demonstreert hij, samen met drie andere musici
(saxofoon, banjo, viool), hoe goed zijn uitvinding echte muziekinstrumenten kan nabootsen en speelt tenslotte samen met een violist een duet op de melodie van 'Plaisir d'amour'.
Jouw TV-favoriet op DVD bestellen?
Ga naar: http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/tvfavoriet"

Googlish:
The Frenchman Jenny has an electronic musical instrument invented. He comes, keyboard under one arm, portable amplifier based on the other, a sound studio in, install the keyboard and connect the amplifier. Then he demonstrates, along with three other musicians (Saxophone, banjo, violin), how good can mimic real musical invention and finally with a violinist playing a duet on the melody of 'Plaisir d'amour.
Your favorite TV on DVD order? Jump to: http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/tvfavoriet "

via elgauchoandres in the comments of this post on Oskar Sala and the Mixtur-Trautonium.

And via Andres: "The video on BeeldenGeluid channel [above] shows a very early model of the Ondioline like the one is on the Museo de Ureña in Spain [here].

This other video: [below] shows three different models of Ondioline on minute 8, featuring Jean-Jaques Perrey and Gershon Kingsley. As here.

In the case of interest here's the schematic: http://www.danacountryman.com/Jenny/Repairs.html and lots of info in http://www.ondioline.com/"



Electronic Musician Jean-Jacques Perrey on "I've Got a Secret"
YouTube via rrgomes | Mar 20, 2010 |

"Electronic music pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey appears on "I've Got a Secret" (November 21st, 1966) with host Steve Allen and panelists Betsy Palmer, Bill Cullen, Bess Myerson, and Henry Morgan.

After several other musicians are introduced along with their instruments (violin, French horn, bagpipe, clarinet) we learn that Perrey's secret is "I play one instrument that can sound like all of these."

After the game, that instrument is revealed to be the Ondioline, an early synthesizer-like keyboard instrument. He demonstrates that it can indeed mimic the sounds of the others and make unique sounds of its own.

Perrey and his collaborator Gershon Kingsley, with whom he recorded the 1966 album "The In Sound from Way Out", then play one of their compositions."

Also see this post and of course the Ondioline label below for more.

Wanna see Gershon Kingsley's Moog used at the First Moog Quartet's premiere Carnegie Hall concert?

video upload by EMEAPP

"Wanna see Gershon Kingsley's Moog used at the First Moog Quartet's premiere Carnegie Hall concert? Check out this quick video that tells the story of this innovative electronic music pioneer and one of his most influential performances.

Archival photos Courtesy of The Bob Moog Foundation archive."

God is a Moog by Gershon Kingsley

God Is a Moog: The Electronic Prayers of Gershon Kingsley (2006) on 36 15 MOOG

There's actually a few copies currently on Amazon for a surprisingly good price. Added this one to the Synth CDs post.

Ultimate Classic Moog Album Collection and Some Others

via these auctions

"Plugged In, Switched On! the MOOG synthesizer is featured this week. Check them all out: 26 different Moog LPs - Playing Bacharach, Playing the Beatles, Playing ABBA, playing Popcorn, Playing Bach, playing Country and Western, and always striving to "improve" on the classics. Some are pretty common, others are pretty rare, but all the epitome of good taste and artistic enlightenment such as MOOG LPs of the 70s came to represent.

"The Synthesizer Sound Machine - The Fantastic Pikes
Its incredible that all that sound comes from a machine!
That lass is rich with popcorn, and coincidentally, the song "Popcorn" features. No self respecting Moog album should be without a version of that wondorous tune.......
SONIC 9044 (Astor Goldengroove series)"

"The MOOG Strikes Bach - Hans Wurman - 1969
RCA LSC3125
Stand back as a switched-on anonymous nerd plugs-in the bewigged old masters
Thank Gott for electronic reworkings of classical favourites"

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An Interview on Gershon Kingsley with Reflections on Bob Moog

Full interview on Astronauta Pinguim

"ASTRONAUTA - Today (May 23) is the day we celebrate the birthday of Robert Moog. You had contact with him in the beginnings of the invention of the Moog synthesizer and also in the last days of his life, when you were interviewed by Hans Fjellestad to the "Moog" documentary. How did you meet Robert Moog and, in your point of view, what is Bob's greatest legacy?

GERSHON - I met him in 1969 up at his place in Trumansburg and after considerable time of learning this specialty of frequency modulation, I bought with my last money the synthesizer. Luckily, in a few weeks, I got my money back making a commercial for hair dryers.

Bob's greatest legacy is the probably the polyphonic synthesizer and further development of the Theremin..."

via @astroping

Update 5/23 4:23 PST: I'm finally getting around to reading the interview in full myself. If you hadn't had the chance yet, make a note or bookmark it for when you do. It's a great interview. You'll pick up lots of interesting bits of synth history. I never knew the following regarding Popcorn: "GERSHON - When it was first recorded and we didn't have a title, one of the musicians suggested 'Popcorn', but not because it sounded like popcorn, but "pop" for popular and 'corn' for kitsch. It came out like a Russian folk tune or a Bach invention originally.

To be honest, not much. However, I do like the Popcorn International I oversaw that was done with the Cologne Radio Orchestra, Popcorn Fantasie arranged by Benny Gebauer, and the M & H Band '80s version, Goodiepal (with the extra beats), the Crazy Frog version and the Swedish Chef Muppet version.

As a side remark, when I conducted in Japan in the early 80's, Yamaha invited me to their factory where I heard for the first time Popcorn as a sample in one of the Yamaha synthesizers."

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone!!!  I hope 2012 treated you well and I wish you the best in 2013!

As I do each year, I thought I'd reflect a little on the past year.  These posts are always difficult to write, and I always wing them, so bear with me.  It's impossible to justify a whole year's worth of synth coverage in a single post.  The following is just a small bit of what comes to mind when looking back.  You'll find a top ten list of posts with the most page views followed by my picks for the year further below.  Apologies if I miss anything, and of course, if you have anything to add, feel free to leave a comment below.  I'm curious what you, the readers of the site, felt stood out in the world of synths this past year.

First, I want to begin this post with a HUGE THANK YOU!!!  If you are reading this it obviously means you have come to this site and some of you have been coming here for years! Thank you for sticking with me. This site is a journey I hope to continue for years to come. Thank you to everyone that has taken the time to showcase their synths, and thank you to those that share what they find! Thank you to those that link to the site and help spread the word on MATRIXSYNTH via Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and your own websites! And of course, THANK YOU to all the sponsors on the right who believe in the site enough to support it!

A nod to previous New Years posts, pictured to the left is the MATRIXSYNTH world domination map. :)  I always think it's worth taking a look at who's watching the site.  Synths are global and you are looking at a map of the readers of MATRIXSYNTH.  Everything you see in green represents a visit from that country.  The darker the green, the higher the number of visits.  This is just for the year, but for the life of the site, we still haven't gotten a single hit from North Korea!   I don't know what they have against synths!  ;)   You'll find the top 10 visits by country further below.

This is the eighth New Year the site has gone through!  The focus for the site this year has been the same as previous years, and I plan to keep it that way.  This site is about showcasing specific synths, not just synths in general, and not just news and press releases.  The focus is on the individual synths that have existed throughout history, the technology behind them, and the lives they lead with their odd owners, myself included.  :)  Yes it is about the gear, their makers, and their players.  It has always been my opinion that synths in general have a tendency to be undervalued. Compared to say collectible guitars, they are often discarded and devalued in favor of next year's model, next year's technology.  It has always been my opinion that every synth has something of value to offer,  something specific and something unique that gives it its character. I built this site to showcase that.  This site is about the history of synths as their history unfolds - videos and images of synths being played and used, by both those that make them and those that play them.  Vintage synths being offered in the second hand market, being exchanged from one sonic explorer to the next. It really is a wondrous thing. Think of the magic synthesizers bring into your world. That is what this site is ultimately about.  Some posts may not seem to make sense now, but they will in time, because they will be a look back in time. A day in the life of a particular synthesizer.  I love analog and I love digital. I love all synths and this site celebrates that.

And now for a little reflection on the year. This year we had a total of 16678 posts including this one.  That comes out to roughly 45.69 posts a day.  Not a single day of the year went without a post.  So what dominated the synth year?  Mobile, modulars and a few dedicated hardware synths.

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Perrey & Kingley on "I've Got A Secret" - 1966

YouTube via happymoogman.

follow-up to this post.

"Jean-Jacques Perrey makes a 1966 appearance on popular game show, "I've Got A Secret". Steve Allen is the host. In this episode Perrey appears with live musicians, and simulates their real instruments' sounds with the sounds of the electronic Ondioline.

At the end of this episode, Gershon Kingsley comes onstage, and Perrey & Kinglsey play a "live" version of "Spooks in Space" - one of the tunes from their "The In Sound from Way Out!" album. This is the only known television appearance of Perrey & Kingsley."

An Interview with Jon Appleton - One of the Creators of the NED Synclavier

via Astronauta Pinguim where you'll find the full interview.

"APPLETON - I have the first and the second Synclavier but I don't play them. I am not sure they work. Sydney and Cameron and I developed the instrument first from something called The Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer. It was my conception and their design..."

Check out the "all-star" pic below. You should recognize some of the names. Peter Zinovieff was he man behind EMS. Via Fabricio Carvalho on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Astronauta Pinguim also brought us interviews with Vince Clark, Gershon Kingsley, Herb Deutsch, and Jean Jacques Perrey.

Remember you can find all interviews featured on the site via the Interviews label below.

PhatOne - New DIY Programmable Mono Rack Synth Based on AS33xx and Arduino

DIY Synthesizer - PhatOne Demo (AS33xx and Arduino based) Published on Apr 28, 2019 Krzychu1995

English description below
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Mam przyjemność zaprezentować instrument PhatOne - monofoniczny, programowalny syntezator w formacie rack 19" 1U. Sterowanie odbywa się za pomocą kilku przycisków na panelu wraz z 2 enkoderami (konfiguracja, edycja presetów i ich zapis). Moduł zbudowany jest w oparciu o układy serii AS33xx firmy Alfa z Łotwy, w części cyfrowej znajdują się dwa układy ATmega 328P-PU zaprogramowane w środowisku Arduino (łącznie ok 2000 linii kodu). Zastosowanie mikrokontrolerów umożliwiło ponadto pozbycie się sprzętowych generatorów modulacji (ADSR i LFO), co znacząco wpłynęło na koszt instrumentu.

Parametry:
-2x 3340 VCO TRIANGLE, SAW, PULSE/SQUARE
-1X 3320 VCF (OPARTY NA OBWODZIE Z PROPHETA 5)
-2X ADSR (ZREALIZOWANE W SOFTWARE)
-2X LFO (ZREALIZOWANE W SOFTWARE)
-MATRYCA MODULACJI 4 SLOTY (SOFTWARE)
-MODULACJA FM VCO1 - VCO2
-128 MIEJSC W PAMIĘCI

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I am pleased to present PhatOne instrument - monophonic, programmable synthesizer in rack 19" 1U format. For steering purposes there are several buttons on panel and 2 encoders (configuration, preset edit and saving). Module is basen on AS33xx IC produced by Alfa in Latvia, in digital part there are two ATmega328P-PU chips programmed in Arduino environment (around 2000 lines of code). Employment of microcontrollers made possible to get rid of hardware modulation sources (ADSR, LFO). Thanks to this costs are lower.

Parameters:
-2x 3340 VCO TRIANGLE, SAW, PULSE/SQUARE
-1X 3320 VCF (BASED ON PROPHET 5)
-2X ADSR (MADE IN SOFTWARE)
-2X LFO (MADE IN SOFTWARE)
-MODULATION MATRIX 4 SLOTS (SOFTWARE)
-FM MODULATION VCO1 - VCO2
-128 MEMORY LOCATIONS

And two previous development videos:

DIY Monophonic Synth Demo

Published on Oct 14, 2018 Krzychu1995

Gershon Kingsley - Popcorn (cover) [SYNTH DEMO]

Published on Dec 31, 2018 Krzychu1995

"For the end of year - short demo of my DIY synth. It played bassline and lead. Rest of arrangement done on Arturia Minimoog and Microbrute."