Two Wasps and a Spider

shots via this auction.

Tiny Little Synths

Title link takes you to a bunch of tiny little synth pictures. via this VSE post. Apologies for this one. I just like tiny little synths.

Yamaha DX100 Only Track on Shepitology

Title link takes you to 4 tracks of Yamaha DX100 via Shepitology.

Doepfer Sale at Analogue Haven

If you are on the look out for doepfer.

"hello,

We (Analogue Haven) are having our summer Doepfer sale again. All new Doepfer gear purchased up until midnight on Saturday, August the 12th will be discounted by 10%.

This sale applies to all new gear that Doepfer manufactures: a-100 modules, systems and patch cables, midi controllers, sequencers, oem/diy products etc. Please see our front page "news" section for details: link.

About 98% of Doepfer gear is in-stock and our web carts are updated so we should be able to fill most orders quickly. : ) That includes all 7 types of the new BBD module:picture, and the new Universal Vactrol module: picture.

Also lots of other new gear has been released the past 2 months, some modular and some not. I don't want to cross the line into spamming too much so check our front page for details (most of it is there) or email us at the general account. :)

Thank you,

Shawn Cleary
www.analoguehaven.com"

via AH.

Matrixsynth by stepwriterun

Marion MSR-2

Evererything in it's right place (paris live 2001) on YouTube

Great example of the Korg Kaoss Pad used for sampling tweaks.
Title link takes you to more videos on Music Thing.

Prototype CV Sampler by Bruce Duncan of Modcan

Via Paul Sop:

"Bruce Duncan of Modcan completed a prototype of a CV sampler (vs. audio sampler). MP3's and discussions are in the Modcan Yahoo Group. He hopes to release it before the end of the year. He's been inundated with feature requests, CV delay, granulation, looping, etc... not withstanding, so if you have any specific needs for CV delay control, post to the Modcan Yahoo group so he knows your interest and can plan for it.

link"

Update from Paul Sop:
"Here is a URL to a pic I took from the file area of the group:

http://www.paulsop.com/gear/modcan/cv_recorder.jpg

Here are 2 good mp3's (some examples are not so good):

cv_recorder_chained1.mp3
cv_recorder_Drumloop.mp3

The second one uses low-freq sampling of a drum loop. Bruce's CV sampler is not for audio (he's making one of those too), but it can be used for some really nice crunchy trance like low-freq effects too.

He also has examples using it as an LFO:
cv_recorder_LFO.mp3
cv_recorder_LFO2.mp3

The neat thing is, if you slow down the play back rate, the CV-Sampler becomes a sequencer. You could feed its output into a quantizer, and well, there you go!"

Awesome. Thanks Paul!

Tweak That Knob... By Frederic

Tweak that knob, this one too
Knew that sound, this one's new
Play a chord, E minor
Play some notes, then some more

Go, go, sequencers, go
Let me drift on your flow
Journey starts up the sky
Spread my wings, have to fly

Activate my fingers
Modulate my filters
VCO my hero
And nothing on zero

Night is light with music
Round and round synthetic
Journey starts up the sky
Spread my wings, have to fly

Bravo Frederic. I love synth poems. We need more of them.

Update to Matrixsynth RSS Feed

Update: I heard back from synthwise. I caught them midflight, so this was somewhat of a misunderstanding. They have added links to my posts and credit. I will remove the comments regarding the site from my posts. My feeds however will remain partial. If you feel strongly about this, feel free to comment.

Original Post:
I have unfortunately discovered that another site is plagiarizing my posts word for word and are not giving me credit or links back to this site. I'm guessing that they are scrubbing my RSS feed along with a bunch of other sites and the whole process is automated. Because of this I will be updating my feed to a partial feed. What does this mean? For people subbed to this site with RSS or blog readers, you will only get a portion of the post. To get the full post you will need to click through to the main site. For people that come directly to the main site, this will have zero impact on you. I have also started adding "This post plagiarized on Synthwise. Find the original post on Matrixsynth" to each of my posts for the time being. Synthwise is the site ripping me and others off. I will not link to them. I set the message to black font so it does not show up on this site, but if you have an RSS reader you will see these messages. Please just ignore them.

BTW, it is unacceptable to copy any of my posts without written permission from me. Putting up Your own post with a courtesy link back to my post and site is fine as it let's your readers know about my site and where you got the topic of your post from. I do it and all the other bloggers do it.

cheers,
matrix

Free Moog event in LA Friday, 8/4

Via AH:

"from LA Weekly:

FRIDAY, August 4

Can't get enough Moog in your life? Today is for you. Downtown's Grand Performances kicks off at noon with Moog Mania, a concert featuring 'Moog magician' Arlan Schierbaum, dream-funk percussionist Marcus Joseph and their Mojo Triage, who bring more varieties of the synthesizer than Eskimos have words for 'snow' Later in the evening, everyone returns from the postconcert Moog study groups for a film on the Moogster himself, Robert Moog. Dress as your favorite member of Yes. California Plaza, 300 S. Grand Ave., downtown; Fri., Aug. 4, noon (concert) & 8 p.m. (film); free. (213) 687-2159."

No title link.