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You can find some article scans from Noyzelab previously posted here. Also see the EMM channel for other posts including various DIY synths from the magazine.
"Job lot of 1980s E&MM magazines. Fantastic stuff! These are packed with brilliant interviews, ads, reviews, and circuits and electronics projects. The pictures included of the inside offer a random preview of what to expect, but are only scratching the surface - there's some classic stuff in there! A goldmine of information that is not available on the internet..."
Update via the comments: These have gone here: http://www.muzines.co.uk
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Thursday, December 24, 2015
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Monday, November 09, 2015
Thursday, November 05, 2015
1985 E&MM Casio CZ101 Review - Phase Distortion Synthesis Explained
via noyzelab where you'll find the rest including some audio demos.
Page 2 gives a great overview of Phase Distortion Synthesis. You may have heard it to be Casio's implementation of Yamaha's FM synthesis, but you will see it is actually a bit different. Instead of operator algorithms with various configurations of oscillators modifying each other, an initial sinewave is "distorted" by a "phase angle" that results in a new waveform, hence "Phase Distortion Synthesis".
BTW, if you have an iPad, you can explore the full blown CZ engine with some extras here:
CZ App for iPad - CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
Friday, August 28, 2015
ARTHUR_ETO_PAIA_16#09 - noyzelab voltage controlled microtonal oscillator composition
"short little track on my prototype voltage controlled microtonal oscillator module [april 2012]. cellular automata sequencing the oscillator [running as 2 voice in this track], some vague info on this module here, although a lot has changed on it since then... :)
microtonalmodular synthcellular automata"
Wednesday, July 08, 2015
noyzelab's David Burraston & Russell Haswell: Wired Lab CV Session #1 released on ALKU
noyzelab's latest release with Russell Haswell on tape features his custom maniac cellular automata & spacetime gravity modulator as well as the hinton music lab modular. The limited edition black chrome cassette comes with a 16 page booklet. You'll find full details including additional pics at noyzelab here.
You can find previous posts featuring some of noyzelab's creations including custom work for Aphex Twin, here on MATRIXSYNTH.
Friday, June 19, 2015
noyzelab's David Burraston Releases T.H. CYCLE on Cassette & Digital Download
via noyzelab:
DAVID BURRASTON
T.H. CYCLE
SAUNA26 C35
Limited Edition Cassette
Now available at Important Records
recorded 26 may 2014 at noyzelab
--------
ultra-minimal digital modular chaotics setup recorded direct to 2 track
Digital available via Cassauna Bandcamp
Cassette also available at Mimaroglu Music & Forced Exposure.
Friday, April 03, 2015
MILLS COLLEGE BUCHLA 100 Cellular Automata THRASHUP
Published on Apr 3, 2015 noyzelab
Side note: noyzelab has a gig tomorrow in Oakland. Details in the flyer below.
"Recent visit to the Mills College Electronic Music Studio where I was given free reign on THE original Buchla 100. This was a little selfie video I took during an extensive recording session.
Special thanks to John Bischoff & Chris Brown for arranging my studio time + Jesse Austin at Mills for being on hand for tech stuff + assorted fun nattering.
++ Ultra double thanks to Robbie Martin (Fluorescent Grey) for a lift back to San Francisco!!!
more info at http://noyzelab.blogspot.com/2015/04/..."
Thursday, January 01, 2015
Happy New Year From MATRIXSYNTH! - A Look Back at 2014
Happy New Year everyone!
I want to start by thanking everyone that comes to MATRIXSYNTH and helps make it what it is - the readers, the supporters, and of course all the sponsors on the right.
THANK YOU and have a GREAT 2015!!!
This site is a labor of love and a ton of work. This site is ultimately meant to be an testament to everything synth in the making. We have over nine years of daily synth history captured here, 119,983 published posts. I can't wait to see what the future brings us in 2015!
That said, here are a few interesting bits from 2014 in the longest post of the year. ;)
Monday, November 10, 2014
Massive Aphex Twin Interview Part Two on noyzelab & 21 Free Modular Tracks
Follow-up to this post. The second part of the massive interview with Aphex Twin is up on noyzelab here. Tons of gear talk, pics and demos, and MATRIXSYNTH gets a mention! :)
On a related note, Aphex Twin just released 21 modular tracks on SouncCloud (embed below). Buchla & the ARP 2500 are featured.
Pictured: The JH Matrix FX, from the late Jürgen Haible.
From the interview: "he died the day he posted it to me which was very sad, a huge loss to the community ,he was the analogue fx don of dons, a genius."
Begins with a bit of Buchla. Track 21 features the ARP 2500.
Monday, November 03, 2014
Massive Aphex Twin Interview with Tons of Synth Talk
You'll find the full interview at noyzelab
Some interesting bits regarding the EMS SYNTHI 100 pictured below and the three KORG PS3300's to the left which were originally owned by Dave Simmons.
On unusual ways of making sounds with the EMS SYNTHI 100: "2nd thing that comes to mind is putting a bank of ldr's and a few thermistors over the oscilloscope of the synth 100, its 20 ldr's and 3 or 4 thermistors, so you get a nice visual feedback thing going on, sounded insane, got to record it next time! pitch transition were so nice..also got to record synthi100 with all oscillators synced,..that IS a sound...all oscs on that thing have sync
but like that you are going from electricity to light waves then back to electricity and then finally to sound waves in air, top...oh and then electrochemical in yer hed and then.......______ s100 with ldr's+thermistors
ive got a cv in control on the lights of the synthi 100 so can also use those to operate the ldr's, also putting the bank of ldr's behind a fish tank with light on other side, fish modulation :)"
On the three KORG PS3003's "so going back to about 93/94 ish there were 3 for sale in loot newspaper london for £10k for bloody ages, like 6 months or something, nobody was buying them! I mean i remember thinking that was a shit load of cash then even. so i went too see them, I had about £2k to my name then to live on and i would've dropped the lot on one of those bad boys so thought id go and see if i could get one of them at least. Went around with my friend vic, it turned out it was owned by Dave simmons of simmons drum fame! and his wife! was so cool to find that out but was REALLY bad atmosphere because they were SO SO nice to us, very welcoming showed us the synths , played us their music even , they didn't know who the fuk i was, even if id told them they wouldn't have known who i was.. but it became pretty apparent to me they were very in need of the money prob coz his business had gone down tubes, bought 3 korg ps3300's in better times for god knows how much...they even made us dinner thinking I was going to buy all 3 , it became really horrible atmos..then i was like ill buy one of you ...silence...tumbleweed..., here I've got 2k in cash now! they were so sad and didn't sell it to me , so i went home also sad.. then ffwd about 6 years and better money times for me and I was buying up loads of cheap analog on ebay and i thought i wonder what happened to those 3 korgs, id heard a rumour cold cut had bought them, pulled some strings and realised matt black lived literally 5 mins away from me! so i thought ok, its destiny. went to see him, they were all fucked, but working AND midi'd, he'd midi'd them. Matt, really lovely guy, was very friendly and lushly agreed to sell me one, it was unusable, used it on fenix funk for the mental spectral sounds at the beginning with pitch bend applied to it oh and dissonant sounds at end.
Some interesting bits regarding the EMS SYNTHI 100 pictured below and the three KORG PS3300's to the left which were originally owned by Dave Simmons.
On unusual ways of making sounds with the EMS SYNTHI 100: "2nd thing that comes to mind is putting a bank of ldr's and a few thermistors over the oscilloscope of the synth 100, its 20 ldr's and 3 or 4 thermistors, so you get a nice visual feedback thing going on, sounded insane, got to record it next time! pitch transition were so nice..also got to record synthi100 with all oscillators synced,..that IS a sound...all oscs on that thing have sync
but like that you are going from electricity to light waves then back to electricity and then finally to sound waves in air, top...oh and then electrochemical in yer hed and then.......______ s100 with ldr's+thermistors
ive got a cv in control on the lights of the synthi 100 so can also use those to operate the ldr's, also putting the bank of ldr's behind a fish tank with light on other side, fish modulation :)"
On the three KORG PS3003's "so going back to about 93/94 ish there were 3 for sale in loot newspaper london for £10k for bloody ages, like 6 months or something, nobody was buying them! I mean i remember thinking that was a shit load of cash then even. so i went too see them, I had about £2k to my name then to live on and i would've dropped the lot on one of those bad boys so thought id go and see if i could get one of them at least. Went around with my friend vic, it turned out it was owned by Dave simmons of simmons drum fame! and his wife! was so cool to find that out but was REALLY bad atmosphere because they were SO SO nice to us, very welcoming showed us the synths , played us their music even , they didn't know who the fuk i was, even if id told them they wouldn't have known who i was.. but it became pretty apparent to me they were very in need of the money prob coz his business had gone down tubes, bought 3 korg ps3300's in better times for god knows how much...they even made us dinner thinking I was going to buy all 3 , it became really horrible atmos..then i was like ill buy one of you ...silence...tumbleweed..., here I've got 2k in cash now! they were so sad and didn't sell it to me , so i went home also sad.. then ffwd about 6 years and better money times for me and I was buying up loads of cheap analog on ebay and i thought i wonder what happened to those 3 korgs, id heard a rumour cold cut had bought them, pulled some strings and realised matt black lived literally 5 mins away from me! so i thought ok, its destiny. went to see him, they were all fucked, but working AND midi'd, he'd midi'd them. Matt, really lovely guy, was very friendly and lushly agreed to sell me one, it was unusable, used it on fenix funk for the mental spectral sounds at the beginning with pitch bend applied to it oh and dissonant sounds at end.
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Aphex Twin - Fenix Funk [early Mix] UNRELEASED
"Aphex Twin - Fenix Funk [early Mix] - unreleased version of the classic Analord track. From the forthcoming exclusive Aphex Twin interview with Dave Noyze at Noyzelab :
noyzelab.blogspot.com/2014/09/aphex-…y-mixdown.html
noyzelab.blogspot.com.au/2014/09/unre…arclays.html"
Fenix = Synton Fenix? We'll have to wait and see. :)
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Hinton Music Lab Multimode Filter
via noyzelab where you'll find additional pics, details and audio.
"This is quite a unique VCF module, and my Music Lab contains three of them. The filter cutoff frequency can be adjusted with ultra-precision using a 10 turn lockable potentiometer, usually only found on VCO's. The filter Q (resonance) is also switchable between normal (fully resonating) and limited. The outputs are low pass, high pass and band pass with both level and +/- phase adjustable. The inputs are duplicated to nuclear physics spec Lemo connectors which connect to the virtual earth inputs on the module, allowing input signals to be summed directly on the Pin Matrix module. Also note that two of these modules are designated ML1501, although they are actually ML1502's underneath. The ML1501 panels have a slightly different layout which includes a voltage controlled Q input, although this is not connected internally and the PCB's are all designated as ML1502."
"This is quite a unique VCF module, and my Music Lab contains three of them. The filter cutoff frequency can be adjusted with ultra-precision using a 10 turn lockable potentiometer, usually only found on VCO's. The filter Q (resonance) is also switchable between normal (fully resonating) and limited. The outputs are low pass, high pass and band pass with both level and +/- phase adjustable. The inputs are duplicated to nuclear physics spec Lemo connectors which connect to the virtual earth inputs on the module, allowing input signals to be summed directly on the Pin Matrix module. Also note that two of these modules are designated ML1501, although they are actually ML1502's underneath. The ML1501 panels have a slightly different layout which includes a voltage controlled Q input, although this is not connected internally and the PCB's are all designated as ML1502."
Sunday, September 14, 2014
ULAMIZER - II - HINTON - 2007 - EXCERPT
"ULAMIZER II is a prototype of a CA (cellular automata) music module, designed to be part of the Noyzelab studio environment for both modular and MIDI synthesizers."
via noyzelab where you'll find more pics & details.
Saturday, September 13, 2014
1985 Gear List for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Including Serial Numbers
via noyzelab
Do you own one of the SNs listed? Curious where they are now. You can search for serial numbers here on MATRIXSYNTH to see if any have gone up for auction.
Friday, September 12, 2014
Hinton Music Lab Module Closeup - ML1812 Sequence Generator
via noyzelab where you'll find additional pics & details.
"Some close up pictures of the Hinton Music Lab modular ML1812 Sequence Generator. The ML1812 was built by Graham Hinton back in the mid 70's using wire wrapping! This module also has a logic buss at the rear for the 8 sequence bits, which I can interface directly to my MANIAC & Arthur prototype systems. This makes them particularly handy for being modulated by Cellular Automata logic patterns."
Thursday, September 11, 2014
JUPITER4 - MOUNTAIN [2005]
"Roland Jupiter-4 (my own custom CV/Gate mod) & MC4 + sundry synth clatterboxing + home built ring modulator
Recorded 2005 at Noyzelab Studio, Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia
+ see studio pix =>"
Tuesday, September 09, 2014
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