Site Update

Well, I am officially done! What a crazy two days that was. All 594 posts on the old blog have been migrated over, links have been updated, and I've set up redirects from my old site to here. Now I can focus on what I like to do, browse the net on synth stuff and post it.

I want to thank Peter Kirn of Create Digital Music and Tom Whitwell of Music Thing. They both contacted me offline and offered their help. Thanks guys. It really made a difference.

Now, back to blogging! : )

Oh, and a plug for Blogger/Blogspot.com. So far it rules! Super easy to use and more importantly, I feel much safer knowing it can handle the load. I was back up in about an hour and fully up in two days. It literally saved my blogged. Cheers.

Mind the Puppet - New Flickr Shots

Bdu has some new pictures up on Flickr. Title link takes you there. Enjoy.

Stolen gear: Jim O'Rourkes Synthi AKS

In via AH. Spaces in email and @ to AT intential to prevent spam bots from picking it up. Make sure to correct that if you send email.

"Jim O'Rourke's EMS AKS Synthi was stolen last week in Gothenburg, Sweden.

"Please contact joachim AT idealrecordings.com if you have ANY information or
you can leave the synth at Nefertiti Jazz Club. No questions asked."

http://www.idealrecordings.com/01.php

So please be cautious if offered a Synthi from Sweden.
I am sorry i don't have any more info than this.

Johan"

Yamaha Analog Delay

Another one via Craigslist Seattle. Never saw one of these before.

Synergy for sale - Craigslist Seattle

Title link takes you there. You don't see these for sale too often. I once played one at a local music shop. It's all digital, but it had a certain organic quality to it. It sounded beuatiful for what is was.



From the post:
"Digital Keyboards came out with this instrument called the Synergy. The Synergy is a push-button machine and it doesn't offer any programming like the GDS, but it has some interesting aspects to it. One is that it has a sequencer. It was the first keyboard that had a sequencer anything like this. The sequencer allows you to overdub and play on top of the sequence. It is real easy to use. The Synergy provides the ability to be able to control multiple sounds [up to four] simultaneously from the keyboard - also a first. You can do that with some analog synths, but you wouldn't actually know which key was going to play what sound, and have absolute control over that kind of thing, with the synergy. It can track your hands up and down the keyboard. You can get six floating split zones, and there are all kinds of different modes for assigning sounds to keys. There are various other features of the synergy that make it a useable peice of music history "

Wiseguysynth

This is a tough post to write. I posted on Larry Hendry's passing just yesterday. Someone posted a link to this page on what Larry did for his day job. I hadn't been to his site before. I back tracked to an amazing site rich with modular synth content. It's an odd feeling having missed his site for so many years only to discover it with his loss. It also makes me wonder what will happen to his site now that he is gone. I hope it lives on as a tribute to his love for synths.

MOTM 300 VCO

Aemit Modular

In via AH. Title link takes you to more including full specs and a few more shots.

Carbon111's DSI Evolver Resource Site is up!

Includes samples, the definitive guide to the Evolver, wallpaper, and... WAVETABLE CHARTS!!! Wow. Carbon111 has been busy. Click through title link for more.

Site Issues

Update: And I am officially done!!! Thanks for hanging in there with me.

Update: Actually it looks like I can save the static links!

Update: Well it looks like all my external link redirects are bust. I can either redirect unique posts to one given post or to the default site and hope people find the article. I opted for the default site obviously. Cie la vie. Sorry all.

Udate: All posts have been moved over to matrixsynth.blogspot.com. This will be the blog's permanent new home. I need to scrub links back to previous posts as they will need to be updated to the new blogspot links. I also need to take a look at the comments, but I have a feeling they are gone. Unless I want to open myself up to spam (I received 28 spam comments on my last post in a matter of minutes), I'm going to keep the text verification up. Feel free to add new comments.

Update: I'm getting there. I'm litterally moving all posts over. I've gotten a couple of emails offering help and asking for thier synth crack. : ) Thanks for that, made my day. I promise more will come soon enough. I just want to get everything over first just in case. Thanks all.

Update: If you've been back a couple of times you will notice that this site is changing format and content. Pleae bear with me or enjoy the rebuilding process. : ) You can watch this evolve over time.

I had site issues with my previous hosting provider. I am temporarily moving the blog here and will decide whether I want to keep it here or move it back. Posts coming shortly. And of course the content will need to be built back up if I decide to stay here.

Baldwin Syntha-Sound and Tempo-Matic

Ran into these on a post on Vintage Synth Explorer. I never knew these existed. Title link takes you to Audio Playgrounds Synthesizer Museum page on Baldwin. Click through to get a bigger shot of each. Oddly you have to click on the Syntha-Sound picture on the first page to get to the Tempo-Matic picture.

I found the following in the AH archives regarding the Syntha-Sound:

"Interesting box, but not what I recall as a terribly remarkable sound.
Three sections: a variable synth department, some preset synth tones
(trumpet, trombone, sax, cello) and a monophonic organ section comprising
flutes at 16', 8', 4', 2-2/3' and 1-1/3'. I think they can all be used at
once, but they were all monophonic.

Some controls on sliders, a lot of mode selection controls on pushbuttons,
like the VCO octaves, waveforms and 'mode' controls, which essentially set
you up with preset envelopes. The filter, as I recall was a multimode and
had at least low-pass and bandpass modes.

hmmm, what else? Built-in spring reverb, built in amplifier, *and* a speaker
on the side of the unit. There are a couple of push bars right above the
keys- one of them shut off the LFO momentarily, if I recall. Three octave
square-front keyboard, more wood than most synths (in fact, essentially all
wood except for the keys and front panel, don't remember what the bottom is
made of). I think there's an external input, but I don't know whether it can
be routed through the filter/VCA or not.

Different architecture, and an interesting concept. I don't remember being
blown away by any particular characteristic of the sound though...

Frank"

There is also a little piece on the Syntha-Sound in this article.

I haven't found anything on the Tempo-Matic.