Backlit Lounge SF Episode #12-July 16th, 2007

YouTube via onyxashanti. Sent my way via astronaut.
"Documentation of the continuing saga of man abusing machine for his own personal sick aural pleasures...once a month."

Roland SH-7

Title link takes you to shots via this auction. Not the largest shots, but you don't see these often.

Guess the beer bottle.

Novation K Station with Black Sides

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

Synthesizers.com Modules

It looks like the Q106 in this post is up for auction, along with the Q107 filter (featured here), and the Q150 Ladder Filter (featured here). Title link takes you to the shots including one of the inside.

Keyboards & Boomboxes

flickr by ilikeittootoo.

Title link takes you to the set.

syntezatory.prv.pl - Quasimidi Sirius (1 of 2)

YouTube via Jexus.

"1998 Quasimidi Sirius. Brought to you by WC Olo Garb. The sounds have been programmed by WC Olo Garb./// Syntezatory.prv.pl Videos: showing you not what a synthesizer can do, but what a man can do with a synthesizer"

Tim and Eric Awesome show: Sports!

YouTube via Waxbeetle. Keith Emmerson and Robert Smith rock out.
Some synth babe keytar action for you. You can thank Mr. Array for this one. Apologies for the ending. If you have a delicate stomach you might want to have a barf bag ready for this one.
Made you look. :)

Matrixsynth Google Translated

You might noticed a bunch of little flags were just added to the top right of the site. These are Google translator links. If you click on a flag, it will take you to a Google translated version of the site.

Two Years of MATRIXSYNTH

I just realized I missed my two year anniversary. Matrixsynth went live on July 20th of 2005. You can see some of the early posts on the right side of the site under Blog Archive. Note that the current month is always expanded by default. Under each month you can see the titles for every single post. If you click on one it will take you to the post. If you click on one of the triangles to the left it will either close or expand the section based on it's current state. Thanks everyone. I hope you are all enjoying the site. This year I thought it would be interesting to see some stats for the last year. What surprised me were the number of unique visitors over the year. I thought there were fewer of us out there.

From July 20, 2006 - July 20, 2007:
1,912,361 Page Views, (2,630,413 all time so far)
306,646 Absolute Unique Visitors
00:08:43 Average Time on Site
29.05% New visits
463,196 (44.52%) Via Search Engines
295,687 (28.42%) Via Referring Sites
281,536 (27.06%) Via Direct Visits
27 (> 0.00%) Via Other (hmm... what would that be?)

Top 10 visits by location:
United States 484,381
United Kingdom 92,121
Canada 74,827
Germany 48,289
France 45,530
Sweden 30,351
Italy 27,093
Japan 25,020
Netherlands 23,020
Australia 22,399

Number of countries/territories that visited the site: 180
Crazy. BTW, I just added a Google Translation page on the top right. Let me know how it works.

Yamaha SY22 Resource Page

Title link takes you wolzow's Yamaha SY22 page where you will find a sysex viewer, a link to the operating manual, links to other resources and some notes on the synth.
"The sounds (voices, as Yamaha calls them) are normally combined of 4 different waveforms (2 samples, two FM) and this process is controllable with a cute joystick (this is the 'dynamic vector synthesis' part). The manual has a table exposing the ingredients of the factory sounds. I was curious about how the rest of the sounds (found on the net, that can be loaded via sysex dumps) are made up, so I examined the sysex spec and wrote a small utility to create similar table with details for any sysex file." The Yamaha TG33 was the table top version of the SY22.