MATRIXSYNTH

Saturday, February 25, 2006

Moog Party Time - New Flickr Shot

Pikachu Possessed

Alright, this one would freak out my daughter. Via GetLoFi.

Roland SH-5 Modular - New Flickr Set

Title link takes you to more by unrest including Fenix and Serge modulars.

Willy D. Synth - New Flickr Shot

I think he has synth on his mind... Title link takes you to more.

Unisynth Electronic Guitar

No title link. Some shots I pulled from this post on Craigslist. More on the Unisynth Electronic guitar here.

Friday, February 24, 2006

Synth Buddha Says...

"Every human being is the LFO modulating his own health or disease."

I think mine is set to random. Title link takes you to more shots by The Genie Photos.

Dance Buddha Dance!

Ok, had to put up another. I just picture this little Buddha rocking out.

Make sure to read the captions when you get there.

You are looking at three decades of Buchla in one gorgeous Buchla modular consisting of modules from the 100, 200 and new 200e series (who said you couldn't mix the 200e with older Buchla modules?). Title link takes you to a larger shot and one additional shot. Absolutly breathtaking. Note there is one non Buchla module in the system, a Milton Sequencer by Peter Grenader. Thanks Reed!

Update: Notes from Reed: "I decided it was time to put the greatest hits of all my Buchla systems into one easy-to-use configuration. It is basically all my personal favorites of the 100, 200 and 200e world, culled from systems that have come in & out of my hands over the past 12 years.

After I figured out the module configuration, I had the guy who did the metal ducting in my studio fabricate 7 "boats," in Buchla parlance, out of galvanized steel. Then my business partner Phil & I bought a router & some maple: plywood for the sides & solid pieces for the front. Learning how to use the router to cut curvy pieces of wood was fun. Phil did nearly all of the routing while I did nearly all of the sawdust-sweeping. We both did a lot of sawing. In the meantime, my long time technical guru Takeshi Kawana of Kawanatron built a beautiful power supply which weighs in at 46 pounds & sits separately from the maple cabinet. All 3 of us ran the various power wires & terminals throughout the boats, and I spent many nights installing the modules, replacing their power wires & terminals, and overcoming my 20-year fear of soldering.

I will not sell this. Most of the modules (except the 200e and some of the late-70's 200 stuff) have been an integral part of my music-making life for years, and ever since we first threw the power switch the instrument has been used every day in our television music business and almost every night after work when I stay & get wrapped up in the banana cords."

New Gear from EAR

"Electro-Acoustic Research is pleased to formally announce four
Livewire modules premiered at the Winter Namm show:

The Sub-Divider

A modern day re-issue of Nyle Steiner's classic Synthasystem
Frequency Divider. The Sub Divider is everything The S-P
Frequency Divider was...and a little more.

The Chaos Computer Series

The Chaos Computer, Random Gates and Analogue
Computation modules are the first three in a series of modular
analog computing functions which will be coming in the next few
months.

For details, images and descriptions of these and other Livewire
products, click on the link below and hit the Livewire tab for the
product summary menu.

http://www.ear-group.com/"