chirp

via Conor

"African love bird chilling on my Arp 2600..."

Intua BeatMaker: Bang Your Beats On Justin Long-Style

YouTube via gearwire
"In this video, Jason Donnelly takes a look at the functions on this app, which give you pads, a step sequencer and a ton of samples to play with.

Bono is contractually obligated to record the next U2 album entirely on an iPhone. I just thought I'd throw that out there."

Anyone confirm this last statement?

You can get BeatMaker here:

MOON Trigger Sequencer M563

YouTube via moonmodular
"Audio only. One 960 and one 563 is used for this track. (plus polyphonic chords)"

KORG DS-10 GATTOBUS DEMO

YouTube via gattobus
"Little demo of this truly incredible piece of software for Nintendo DS. It sounds amazing! So at last I can play a synth also when I go to the toilet..."

Yamaha MOTIF XS: General Features

YouTube via mikefox1974. Interesting view of the interface and graphics.

afro-kun-minimoog

flickr by stifles planet

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"afro-kun is tuning my minimoog tunes."

Livewire Meets The Matrix

No not MATRIXSYNTH, the movie. Click on the second shot below and read the message. There are a couple of other references as well. You can find them along with some notes and audio on the AFG on this noisesource post.

For those that don't know, matrix and MATRIXSYNTH come from Matrix-6, my first synth, not the movie. I launched the old MATRIXSYNTH.COM back in October of '97 before the movies. The original site was actually much the same in concept as this site - a place to gather links to everything synth.

Update: a few more AFG easter eggs are up on noisesource.

Yamaha CS60 box

via this auction

"a box made from a CS60 synthesizer. Cherry wood- very nicely made by Jeff @ CustomSynth here in the UK."

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MATRIXSYNTH Visits Thighpaulsandra's Aeriel Studios

Click here for images of my recent visit to Thighpaulsandra's Aeriel Studios.

I want to thank both Thighpaulsandra and Peter Forrest for the great company. You can find more info on Thighpaulsandra on his official website (check out his discography) as well as his MySpace page. He recently performed in Analog Live! Peter Forrest is the author of the A-Z of Analog Synthesizers as well as the man behind the auction site Vemia (Spheremusic.co.uk). You might remember Vemia from these posts.
Over the next few days I will be putting up some videos of the visit. Mostly synth talk of us or rather Peter and Thighpaulsandra noodling around while I taped. Nothing too elaborate, but it should bring you into the visit. I created an Ariel Studios label below for this set of posts so once they are all up you can go back and review them all at once if you like.

On the synth front we have:
Two Synton Fenix Modulars
Two ARP 2600s
Two Oberheim SEMs with patch points
A Red Synton Syrinx
EMS Synthi and Putney
Two Serge Modulars (one old and one new)
Plan B, Cynthia, Doepfer Modular
Moog Voyager
Roland SH-5
Sequential Circuits Prophet-10 and Prophet-5
and more...

click here and scroll for all posts featuring Thighpaulsandra.

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Korg MS-20 Patching Clinic Party Club

flickr by zonkout
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YouTube via ZonkOut
"Five MS-20's passing the SQ-10's trigger signal, but delaying it slightly each time (using EG1)."