MATRIXSYNTH

Electroplankton

YouTube via salzmanufaktur
"Playin' around with Electroplankton. It's developed by Toshio Iwai. In collaboration with Yamaha he created the Tenori-On."

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flickr by Sidereal

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"Free beer if you can identify both. K and I broke out all the keyboards today for some reason."

CGS Wave Multiplier

flickr by stickjones
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Second Sequential Improvisation!!! Synthesizers.com DOTCOM

YouTube via angelometz. follow-up to this post.
"This thing rocks. Very powerful and intuitive. This is a 2 voice patch."

YouTube via henrig17
"Here is some sounds from my Yamaha DX11 Keyboard. It has always been over shadowed my its big brother the DX7 but should not be under estimated! (more waveforms, 8 part Mulitimberal...) "

LDB

YouTube via larsby
"LDB is a drumediting java midlet. That is you can run it on your phone (if your phone can run midlets). Most of LDB's features are easily recognized from other similar programs and hardware drum machines.

This is a walkthrough of the features and at the end there is a live demonstration.

It can be downloaded for free form http://www.shuriken.se"

Korg Synthesizers History by Vanderson

YouTube via grooveproject
"simple slideshow with some favourite Korg synth models. Music track by Vanderson www.myspace.com/vanderson_pl"

Circuit Bent Speak & Read DRAGON

via this auction
"FREAKENSPEAK DRAGON

Up for auction is a circuit bent Texas Instruments Speak and Spell, His name is FREAKENSPEAK, and he lives up to that name. This unit is similar to the Speak and Math, or the Speak and Spell units.

This unit is a FREAKENSPEAK DRAGON with moveable wings,arms,legs and tail.

Here is a list of the circuit bent features:
- Moveable wings,arms,legs and tail.
- 2 Super bright green LED's on the sides of the unit, great for live performance.
- 2 bend/glitch switches that bend and twist the words in different ways depending on what mode you are in and how many of the switches you have on. You can get endless bent sounds and words with these 2 switches. When you turn on a bend switch and you are in the right mode,you can get the unit to ramble on endlessly.
- 1 tone switch that puts out a steady tone that you can change to a lower tone by pressing the keypad. There are 3 or more different tones that you can get using this switch. You can use any of the pitch controls to "play" the pitch of the tone.
- 2 loop switches that will "catch" or "Freeze" a bent or normal sound and repeat it so you can play the pitch of the loop with any of the pitch controls.To advance to the next loop, just flip the loop switches off/on. No need for an extra "Loop advance" button. You can use both loop switches at the same time to create amazing combination loops.
- 1 Pitch change photo sensor that you can wave your hand over without touching it to change the pitch of the sound or loop, just like playing a theremin. This is one of the best feature of the FREAKENSPEAK. You can also use a lazer pointer or flashlight on the photo sensor for a cool effect.This is a great feature for live performance.
- 1 high/low pitch range switch, you can go from the highest pitch to the lowest pitch with the flip of a switch and control the pitch by using the pitch range pot.

- 1 pitch change ball for body contact, the pitch of the sound goes down depending on how much of your hand is touching it. The large pitch ball gives way more control of the sound than 2 little contacts.You can also touch the holographic front label to lower the pitch even more.
- 1 pitch change pot with ball knob to vary the pitch of the sound up or down. The ball knob is easy to grip and turn and adds to the cool look of the FREAKENSPEAK.
- 1 pitch change front panel lowers the pitch more when touching the pitch change ball. One of the coolest features is the added pitch control that touching the holographic front label gives, you won't find this feature on any other bent unit, or as many ways to control the pitch and loops. It is gold color, not green like in the picture.
- 1 Audio output 1/8" plug to send the signal to an amp or effects or to your computer line input.
- 1 Power adaptor input plug. Power adaptor not included (6 volt , 200 mA, center pin positive)but it will work with 4 "C" cell batteries too.
- 1 Reset switch to turn the unit on/off or to reset it if the unit crashes.
- 2 Cool holographic eyes that give the FREAKENSPEAK it's unique look. You can still see the display clearly thru the holographic eyes.
- 1 FREAKENSPEAK users manual describing how to use the circuit bent controls."

Creamware Minimax

via this auction

"The Minimax ASB (“Authentic Sound Box”) is a tone module — no physical keyboard — whose layout mimics the Minimoog, albeit on a slightly smaller scale. It isn’t just a controller, as all the sound electronics are built-in as hardware; the Remote software included with the package (more on this later) is for editing only. After the knobs and switches, the next thing you notice is the wood side panels. Yes, wood, as in “comes from trees.” Just below the front panel is where it becomes less traditional: There’s a 3-digit/7-segment LED display, and 14 old-school switches (with LEDs that indicate status, just like an old Prophet or Oberheim) for selecting presets, setting up MIDI, editing effects, and the like. I thought that the slightly smaller size might be a problem, but in practice, there’s more than enough room between switches that you don’t have to be ultra-careful when you move them — you’re not going to bump into something else. The Minimax’s architecture is the same as the Minimoog’s, which means it’s the same as 4,759 other synths, hard and soft. Three oscillators (#3 capable of serving as an LFO) feed a mixer, which also accepts an external signal input and white noise. A Minimax ASB “bonus feature” feedback switch connects the synth out back to the external in, so if you turn up the input control, you can get some highly resonant and unusual sounds. The mixed sound goes to a 24dB/octave lowpass filter and amp, both controlled by ADSR (attack-decay-sustain-release) four-stage envelopes — although the release is keyed to the decay time, and enabled only if the “Decay On” switch is activated in the Controllers section. ................Specifications Hardware synthesizer Virtual analog Circuit Modelling Number of Voices 12 44.1 kHz (internal oversampling) 32 bit 32 bit Audio Paths Analog Inputs: 2 x 1/4 inch (6,3mm) unbalanced Analog Outputs: 2 x 1/4 inch (6,3mm) unbalanced MIDI: In, Out, Thru USB: Full Speed USB rev 1.1 Power Input: 12V AC/DC"