MATRIXSYNTH

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Moog Liberation Pin

via this auction
"This is a tie pin. Read the description carefully as people bid on these pins thinking they are real instruments which they are not!" :)

"These are high quality metal tie pin reproductions of the original equipment - not cheap plastic toys repros!

The dimensions are 1 1/4" long by 1/4" high."

Oberheim OB-X pin here

Blacet Filthy Filtre

via this auction

"details from BLACET.COM:
Start with the highly useful, open sounding classic State Variable Filter Design.
Low Pass, Band Pass, High Pass, Notch and All Pass (phase shift) responses all simultaneously available.
Add very agressive Voltage Controlled Q with two "Filthy" settings.
Add Voltage Controlled Mode selection with "switching" or "morphing" transitions.
Add a handy bipolar Modulation Attenuator with switchable destination.
Finish the design with our high quality, low noise OTAs providing exponential frequency control and linear Q control.
The result is the perfect "must have" compliment to our "Final Filtre".

# 12 dB State Variable design
# Voltage control of frequency and Q
# Two position Q switch: "Filthy: X10, X100"
# +/- CV mod attenuator with switchable destination: Freq or Q
# VC mode select: switch or morph (LP, BP, HP, All Pass)!
# Plus separate mode outs: LP, BP, HP, Notch"

Monday, July 28, 2008

Shy Child & Stella McCartney @ Fashion Rocks 2007

YouTube via tumblefoot. via this auction for a red Roland AX-1.

images and details via the auction:

"These were made in small numbers early 90's. This is the Roland AX-1 keytar master midi controller made in Italy.
#Can send on simultaneous MIDI channels
#Responds to : velocity
#Sounds can be split by : keyboard

That means this master controller keyboard can send information to several different sound modules and be controlled from split ends of the keyboard. This straps right on like a guitar, and has functions for your left hand to do like the expression bar(really cool!!), or remote sequencer activator/octave/sound exchange. This runs off of a AA battery pack, and connects to your equipment with a single midi cable. Check out this rad synth rock band called Shy Child that uses a similar Roland keytar." video above

Messing with KORG DS-10 Synthesiser

YouTube via aMacTV. DS-10 on Ebay
"OK, nothing complex here at all because making music is not my thing. This is messing around with the Lionball theme music, which is a map from an old shareware game called Avara on the Mac."

Early Synthmonger VCO tests

YouTube via synthmonger
"I'm too tired to work on it right now but not tired enough to make a quick video demo of my vco.

Ideally, I am going for a vco with a huge range, temperature compensation, to work as a great audio and control source while maintaining a low cost.

Due to the amount of options the main portion will be on 42HP eurorack. Later I will add other panels that will act as adapters to get even more out of this -they can also be used by external sources so they won't be proprietary.

I'm coming close to finishing and hopefully it will be completed this week! ;D"