MATRIXSYNTH

MOTM-101 Sample & Hold

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"Nice featred Sample and Hold with adjustable slew limiting on the output. Innternal or external clock. CV Hold or 'Track' feature. White, Pink, and Slow noise sources with individual outs. Plus a bonus interesting vibrato trigger."

Siel Orchestra

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"Great old string machine with additional piano, brass & woodwind sounds. EXACTLY THE SAME MACHINE AS THE ARP QUARTET (which were made by Siel for Arp from memory?). The synth. dates back to the late seventies but is in great working order and very nice condition considering it’s age.

The strings and piano are the best sounds. Strings are reminiscent of the Solina with the divide down circuitry adding to it’s great character. The piano reminds me of the old Crumar Roadrunner."

Yamaha CS10

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Ensoniq ESQ-1

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"The Ensoniq ESQ-1 is an 8-voice polyphonic synthesiser with 3 digitally sampled oscillators per voice but couples them with a real analogue filter. It features 3 LFOs, which can be freely assigned to a variety of parameters and 4 digital envelope generators, which can also be assigned to many parameters. Although it isn't bristling with knobs, navigation of the ESQ-1 quickly becomes intuitive as each parameter is never more than two or three button presses away, thanks to the generous LED display and surrounding buttons.

It boasts a velocity-sensitive keyboard, to allow a modicum of expression to your sounds. It's great for analogue sounds, but is also capable of biting digital sounds - bells and DX7-type sounds are possible.

A handy built-in sequencer allows for patterns and songs to be recorded, making it an ideal tool for sketching out ideas."

Me playing Visage "Fade to Grey"

Uploaded on Mar 5, 2008 DX5

"# Some mistakes specially with the DX7. It was just a test.
Above: Roland JX8P
Mid: Roland D10
Below: Yamaha DX7 II FD
# Tags Visage Fade to Grey Roland D10 JX8P JX-8P Yamaha DX7"

Me playing Depeche Mode Black Celebratio...

via DX5 on Sonicstate TV
"Tags Black Celebration Emu Emax"

Me playing Depeche Mode Enjoy The Silenc...

This was on Sonicstate.TV which is no more. You can now find the video here.

"# Me playing Enjoy the Silence. The choir sound was directly sampled from an Emulator II. It sounds very similar to original (sorry, but I can't share the choir sample; the friend who sampled it, warned me for not sharing it. Sorry once again).

Played over a backtape running on Pro Tools.
Synths:
Above: Roland JX-8P
Mid: Roland D10 (triggering emulator sample)
Below: Roland JP8000
# Tags Depeche Mode Enjoy Silence Roland D10 JX8P JX-8P JP8000 "

Beatesthesia Custom Visulizer

Beatesthesia Custom Visulizer from olly gore on Vimeo.
"Beatesthesia is a highly customizable WYSIWYG music visualizer. Inspired in motive and design by synesthesia.

Synesthesia has inspired many works of art. Art that is meant to evoke synesthetic associations in a non-synesthetic audience has been dubbed synesthetic. Most artists synced sound and light in their performances to achieve this goal. Their efforts were deemed arbitrary because the all relied upon one set schema for an entire audience. If it is at all possible to evoke synesthetic reactions each experience should be fine tuned to a single person.

Beatesthesia allows the user to design their own music visualization. The WYSIWYG editor allows you to easily add audio reactive graphics to either Kick Snare or Hat beats. When a beat is detected the graphical event programmed is then fired.

The interface its self is audio reactive. This increases the speed of the feedback loop. You know exactly what beat you are adding to because you can see it flashing. Beatesthesia allows anyone to create their own music visualization. There is no prior knowledge of audio manipulation or video software needed. Beatesthesia is equally capable of competing with live visual software, the VJ version features a dual display set up for live performance. You can share you creations with others, using the copy paste code system.

DESIGN, EXPERIENCE, SHARE
Beatesthesia was built entirely using Processing.
Thanks to Minim and ControlP5.
yllo.net

Download full source code here:
thesoundportal.com/beat/download.htm"