MATRIXSYNTH

THE WHOLE SYNTHESIZER CATALOGUE

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Edited by Tom Darter
Product Details
* Paperback: 158 pages
* Publisher: Hal Leonard Corp (1985)
* Language: English

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I added this one to the Synth Books section as well.

Moog Memorymoog +

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"This is the + version so there's a MIDI interface."

Mankato Filter

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"The Mankato Filter is a four-pole lowpass filter with positive and negative outputs at every pole, giving you slopes of 6 dB/oct, 12 dB/oct, 18 dB/oct, and 24 dB/oct simultaneously. the negative slope outputs allow you to use the Mankato as a quadrature sine oscillator with 8 available phases. the Mankato will self-resonate from subaudio to superaudio, and responds to one volt per octave through its unattenuated control inputs. the signal inputs are DC coupled, which allows you to use the Mankato as a voltage-controlled slew limiter.

An audio demonstration of the filter can be found here. it is a 5-track composition using the Mankato for something on every track, and it is the only filter used in the piece.

it is powered from Synthesizers.com power supplies and fits into Synthesizers.com rack frames and cabinets. it also physically fits into Moog modular cabinets but a Synthesizers.com power supply will be needed."

THE JOHN BOWEN CHRONICLES

on SONIC CORE
"Starting later this month, we will run the John Bowen Chronicles on our Website, with new installments every few weeks, leading up to the release of the SOLARIS synthesizer. We hope you find it a fun and fascinating look into the synthesizer design process, and perhaps inspire some of you to take your own adventure exploring and creating with the SCOPE design software."

The History of Uncertainty

via Reed:
"A panoply of not-quite-randomness from 1970 to the present. On the left is the Model 265 with its mesmerizing lamps and undisputibly the best sounding noise generator of the series. At center is the pinnacle of late-1970's Buchla, the model 266, a 6-in-one box of wholesome goodness with some extra not-so-uncertain features as a duophonic sample & hold and a voltage-controlled integrator (glide). On the right is the 266e from 2004. Although it looks a lot like its predecessor, the e-series uncertainty module is really its own animal. It does equal divisions of the voltage sweep in the "quantized" section. The original 266 does some sort of wacky binary equation that yields irregular but western-friendly relationships. For example, if you set an oscillator's mod range to an octave, setting the range to 4 steps will give you a major second, perfect fifth, dominant 7th and octave. If you do the same setting from the 266e "quantized" section, you'll get a diminished arpeggio (4 equal divisions). And then there are the stored random voltages....the original 266 has a "time correlation" control, which is kind of a hat-tip to the last-note "correlation" control on the 265. The 266e gives you vc skew, which sort of lets you approximate a s&h sometimes if you've had enough scotch. And by that time it's a good idea just to call it a night."

MFB-Synth Lite - jas_review001

YouTube via unklekarma
"MFB-Synth Lite
(JAS_review001)
A review video from justastudio
The MFB-Synth Lite was tracked through Joe Meek ThreeQ, recorded using TC konnekt8 and edited in Cubase (a bit distorted peak on purpose).
Three beats were added:

1. Housy beat with a bit of distortion
2. Lo-fi beat with 1/1 stereo chop
3. Filter beat using Kjaerhus auto filter

Some minor EQ and compression were added to the MFB-Synth Lite in the mixing process.

Please keep in mind that this track was entirely done for showing some of the possibilities of the MFB-Synth Lite.

Please visit www.justastudio.net

Video recorded with Panasonic NV-GS50
Thanks to Martin Craggs for video camera support
www.craggs.dk"