via ::vtol:: (links to more videos) "ASAM - Audio Synthetic Artifact Manager. Modular version of my Robo Synth. Ultimate source of anti music - drone madness and radio beating, pitch-shifter and digital distortion... All futures of old Robo + modular banana routing options and external control capabilities.
general features: - 4 main sound modes - feedback oscillation - triple morphing modulator - pitch control - theremin mode - analog oscillation and "drone" mode"
"The VX-323 returns with 7 new songs in his visionary electronic robo-pop style – 1982 meets 2082. The new album, Robotiques, crackles with energy, hooks, and...humanity.
The robot musician uses the digital voices in his real-time OS to sing songs about both the machine and human worlds, imbuing them with wonder and warmth. It’s the singularity meets Serge Gainsbourg.
Tracks:
1.Android Sex Doll...has feelings, too. Up-tempo synth pop torch song
2. Euro Star...minimal old-school electro love song, feat. CR-78 and vocoder
3. Chain Smoking...jittery robo-grunge- dub, will get the kids on the dance floor (and to the tabac)
4. Souls...clanging, buzzing meditation on being made in the image of your creator
5. Les Parisiens...synth pop love story about the coolest kids on the planet
6. Pets...rollicking jam about a robot and his lost pet
7. I Dream...soundscape of a robot in sleep mode. Electric!"
via MATRIXSYNTH CLASSIFIEDS. This is the first music promotion listing to go up! In general, they'll go up here on MATRIXSYNTH as well.
BTW, some of you might remember the VX-323 from this post back in 2009 as well as Bitnotic's speech synth posted back in 2008.
You might remember the robo synth by ::vtol:: from these posts (you'll find a video in one of them). You can find some more images just sent in here. The following is a track featuring the robo synth from russian electronic group "Ugol Ratmanova"
"Three Songs quickly thrown together using a single alphabot Pal. 5 tracks were used with no looping or duplicating of waves. Theses are all raw sounds from the instrument and there was no processors, plugins, or compressors used. Warning!!!! Watching this video will probably"
You might remember the Bitnotic VX-323 voice synthesizer from this post.
THE VX-323 is also a music project, "I am The VX-323, singer, songwriter, speech synthesizer. My debut CD, Chansons, is out now. The CD is packed with robo-electronica like you've never heard before. Some of you will really dig my music, while there will be some who just don't get it. That's cool...
You can listen to tracks at MySpace or Last.fm. The links are at the top of the page, next to my name. The album is available NOW through Amazon, iTunes, CD Baby, Napster, and Lala."
I was on the fence on whether to post this here or on MATRIXSYNTH-C. MATRIXSYNTH is about the gear and MATRIXSYNTH-C is about the artists. I decided to post it on both as the album features the synth. I received a copy of the CD as a thank you for my prior post and I must say that I really like it so far. It's surprisingly soothing to the senses - great to unwind to.
Details:
"After playing Mutek, CTM and Moogfest, and years of fabrications, tweaks, tests – winning also Visual Music Award 2017 and Initiative Music 2017/18 – robotics engineer and media artist Moritz Simon Geist releases world’s first techno album entirely played by real robots!
Produced by Mouse On Mars' Andi Thoma and due out in November, 'Robotic Electronic Music' is Moritz' debut album, to explore and pioneer the sounds of the more than ever robotized society of nowadays.
'Robotic Electronic Music' is pure mechanical music: precise, pneumatic patterns repeat themselves exploring the sound of mechanics, but none of its beats is like the other.
The album is being preceded by an EP due out in October, inaugurating Sonic Robots Records
(distributed by Kompakt), a label all about automations, mechanics and... techno."
Making Techno with Robots - Behind the Scenes!
Published on Sep 10, 2018 Moritz Simon Geist
"New sounds from the future! Here I explain, which robots I used for the Techno robots video. Everything you hear and see comes from robots. No syntheziser, samplers or CGI added! We want to show a futuristic way of creating music - without synthezisers, but with robots in the real world!
All Robots were built by Moritz Simon Geist and the team of SONIC ROBOTS. This production was funded by the Initiative Musik and the Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen.
Camera and Cut: Robert Arnold / Cuthead"
And the press release:
Moritz Simon Geist, media artist and robotic musician, publishes his first record. It is the world's first techno record played entirely by self-made futuristic robots.
All of the sounds on his records are played by robots: small motors that beat on metal, futuristic 3D-printed robo-kalimbas, salvaged parts from old hard drives that click and cut. It took Geist several years to build, tweak, test and play all his DIY robotic instruments.
His 'Sonic Robots' try to push the boundaries of the imaginable. He did so already in 2012 with his well-known oversized 808 robot – an iconic drum machine gotten real, 4 by 2 meter, filled with robotic parts which play the instruments live and in front of the audience.
Now, Moritz Simon Geist goes even further to discover the unknown and futuristic world of techno robotics. For this quest, he teamed up with the Berliner sound wizards from Mouse On Mars and dug deep in the history of mechanical music and experiments of early electronic music.
"My synths and device can be found here:
https://distropolisgoods.com/
Song #8 from my set at Shibasaki MOD in Tokyo, April, 2025.
I ended my set with a cover of the K.K. Slider song "K.K. Cruisin'" which is a family favorite. My first experience with K.K. was in Animal Crossing - New Leaf back when it was released for the Nintendo 3DS.
I didn't have a vocoder with me in Japan, so I just sang out into the room with no mic.
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The M8 is doing most of the heavy lifting here: bass, drums and sending MIDI notes to the Prismatic Spray MKii.
I'm using the Phantasmal Force (tiny white MIDI controller) to send chords to GREAT CONJUNCTION (purple box). Channel 1 of GREAT CONJUNCTION is in 'keys' mode, while the other two channels playback a some randomized sequences which cause some CONJUNCTIONS and offset modulation to the FM key sound.
The Prismatic Spray MKii comes in to mimic the 'vocals'. M8 is handling the note playback via MIDI and I'm just playing the A and B runes/knobs.
For this recording - I sang through a BOSS VE-500 to get that K.K. robo-dog sound.
It was a great way to end the set with a upbeat feel!"
"Demo of the new Mastertone bank for the SonicProjects OP-X PRO-II virtual analog Oberheim VSTi synth plugin. No external effects or any other treatments have been involved. All sounds are coming directly from OP-X PRO-II.
The bank offers 64 excellent presets which all have a warm and full character. The patches are a pleasure to play and too perfectly fit in any mix. The sounds have been modelled after the following synths:
A collection of 112 patches, designed for the OBX8. The sounds are Dry or wet, as specified in the video and were directly recorded into Ableton Live."
"Breathe new life into your drum machine, percussion module or workstation. Drummer is an interactive drum pattern sequencer that signals an end to the tedious chore of programming each and every beat, without resorting to stiff "Robo-Beats".
Drummer features one hundred drum "Patterns", including user programs.Each Pattern can be assigned one of 100 rhythmic "Feels", a tempo, time signature. and one of eight "Extra Percussion" settings, creating a Drummer "Preset". It is these "Feels" that give Drummer its characteristically human fiavor. Each Preset can be assigned to play one of the sixteen programmable "Kits" in the Drummer, used to organize the percussion and drum sounds in your rig. Presets can be strung together in up to sixteen full "Songs".
Like any good drummer, the Oberheim Drummer listens and reacts to your playing. Dynamics, fills. and other features can all be set to follow and respond to your MIDI performance in one of the unique Drummer "Jam" modes. Files can be saved and loaded via MIDI. Four footswitch jacks allow for real time performance control of the Oberheim Drummer.
Drummer
The Oberheim engineers have designed the perfect tool for creating drum pattems, rhythms and fills to interface to drum machines and modules...the Drummer. By adding the Drummer to a MIDI setup, stilted mechanical drum pattems are a thing of the past. The Drummer is easy to use and makes drum tracks come alive allowing more time to be spent on other aspects of the music.
With over 10,000 different rhythm possibilities, the Drummer has just about everything needed to expand drum programming. In addition, there is a built in sequencer which will allow new patterns to be recorded. Finally, if that was not enough. the Drummer has an interactive mode called "Jam" which will follow the tempo set by MIDI IN data (from a keyboard or drum trigger).
The Drummer will become a valuable addition to live performances. recording sessions and compositions. Now everyone can have drum tracks that sound like they were played by a live drummer. Here are more of the impressive features of the Drummer:
· Randomized "human" drum fills
· 16 Programmable drum kits
· 100 Presets (Pattern and Rhythm)
· Song Mode (Preset chain)
· Programmable Fills in Song Mode
· Jam Mode (Drummer will follow playing styles)
· Supports MIDI Sysex for storage of Pattems and Songs
Four foot switch inputs (Start; Break; Add Percussion; Fill-In )
· Programmable Tempo and Time Signature."
"Live recording of the Makenoise DPO, Brains, DeModmix, Pressure Points, Doepfer A-105, A-145. Mini sequence of randomness. Nice robo vocal performance midway through. First proper mess around with latest setup."
"My first official album "Static" has being released on "Far away records" label. The experimental work was totally performed by handmade machine "RoboSynth".
via ::vtol::
You might remember the robo synth by ::vtol:: from these posts (you'll find a video in one of them). You can find some more images just sent in here. The following is a track featuring the robo synth from russian electronic group "Ugol Ratmanova"
red robo
flickr by in9varr
via vtol
You might remember the Bitnotic VX-323 voice synthesizer from this post.
Like any good drummer, the Oberheim Drummer listens and reacts to your playing. Dynamics, fills. and other features can all be set to follow and respond to your MIDI performance in one of the unique Drummer "Jam" modes. Files can be saved and loaded via MIDI. Four footswitch jacks allow for real time performance control of the Oberheim Drummer.
Drummer
The Drummer will become a valuable addition to live performances. recording sessions and compositions. Now everyone can have drum tracks that sound like they were played by a live drummer. Here are more of the impressive features of the Drummer:
via ::vtol::
