MATRIXSYNTH

Flame Talking Synth Sequence Demo

via mok's space
"Just got one of these bad boys and it is pretty deep. Speech synthesis chips controllable (barely) by a set of switches, knobs, and two joysticks. Seriously fun. This is a recorded internal sequence playing back while I'm adjusting different parameters to give a good idea of the range of this thing. There are two chips outputting hard left and right so it's 'stereo'."

Sayer's Studio Setup

File this under one of the great synth pron sites I knew about for years but apparently never put up a post on. I just ran across it on this post by Cross Modulate.

If you haven't been to Sayer's Studio Setup, it is well worth a visit. You'll find images of the studio grouped by year starting with 2002 (bottom) up to June of 2007 (top).

Be sure to check out the rest of the site as well.

A Rozzbox Arrives

via REwire

"I just got my Rozzbox from Roger at Big City Music this evening right after they arrived. No time to play it yet but I look forward to having a blast with it. I've been waiting 2 /12 years since Roger lent me the Mono Rozzbox V1 and now the circle is complete!"

Hank Venture's Umbrella Ride

Mankato Filter demo via STG

"here's another chune i worked up. the Mankato is used on every track. it's called 'Hank Venture's Umbrella Ride.'

i suppose it's a dance track, but a DJ i gave it to today described it as "shiftey" ... better for listening to not so good for dancing. this is probably a side effect of being 5 tracks of improvisation to tape, mixed live with the desk at mixdown. all the sequencing is the Trigger Mini-Store and the Voltage Mini-Store. i used the x0xb0x only to stripe the tape machine with din sync, and as a keyboard controller for the "lead" "melody" track.

the kick drum is the distorted sine from the 6 db output of the Mank, the hats use the Mank as a mixer for the 3 Q106s modulating each other as a metallic noise source (need to work a bit more on that sound), the bass is a couple Q106s filtered from the 24 db output of the Mankato, the chords are 3 Q106s (tuned to a chord, with 2 of the 3 oscillators modulated by the Voltage Mini-Store) through the 18db output (i think. i had intended to but i might have accidentally used another output), and the lead line uses the 6 db output with heavy regeneration.

download an mp3 at: link"

You can find more demos from STG at the The Sound Vault.

Voice of Saturn ~Modulator: VCA, Triangle Gen, AR Gen

YouTube via CuriousInventor
http://www.curiousinventor.com/kits/voice_of_saturn_modulator

Flame Echometer Prototype Part1

YouTube via flameampere
"Preview of the FLAME-"ECHOMETER"-Prototyp, the new MIDI-Sequencer/Looper. Session with Moogerfooger's FequBox/RingModulator and MAM "ADX1" (Analog-Drum-Soundmodul)"

Wires wires everywhere. An adventure in circuit bending.

flickr set by antakrt

"One fine autumn day, we got together to circuit bend a piece o' shit old Yamaha PSR6. This is our story."

Moog Realistic Concertmate MG-1: Killer Syth for Radio Shack

YouTube via gearwire
"Nowadays, Radio Shack has earned itself a rep for selling musical products that no serious musician would touch with a ten foot pole lest he or she be ridiculed beyond belief by his or her smarmy musician friends. Though Moog manufactured the Concertmate MG-1 for Radio Shack, it lives up to the Moog name, so anyone who ridicules you for it is committing blasphemy.

Dan Marshall from RedNails gives us a walkthru of the instrument, its capabilities, its quirks and its sound.

See more on Gearwire.com."

Virus C & Nord Modular, one of these creative nights!

YouTube via beckhusen. "Live session with Access Virus C and Clavia Nord Modular G2"

Technics SY-1010

via this auction

"Technics SY-1010 analog synthesizer vintage 1977 Japan rare smallest but fat analog synth with full sized keys SY-1010 is extremely rare cute monophonic analog synthesizer manufactured by Technics in 1977. cute! very small and light weight analog synthesizer it has full sized 32keys 1VCO, noise,VCF(resonance self-oscillating),ADSR,LFO,and each various controls VCO is free scale(not change by octave range)like modular synth simple architecture but very easy to use and can creates versatile sounds fat analog bass sound to warm leads,retro SFX sounds etc good synth for both recording and live performance(small and light weight and looks cute)"