Raymond Scott Clavivox Cake

Clavivox cake by Sarah Albu, Montreal via the Raymond Scott blog. Also check out the Official Raymond Scott site for the 100th Centennial of Raymond Scott. There are some great quotes from various musicians and synthheads including Bob Moog.

"Raymond Scott was definitely in the forefront of developing electronic music technology, and in the forefront of using it commercially as a-musician." - Bob Moog, inventor of Moog synthesizers

Ruby Coast

flickr by Qinn

Just because everyone needs a little Donald Duck now and then.

Anyone know the synth?

slighly larger shot

Admin: Added Followers to the Right

I logged in this morning to see "4 followers" of the site. I wondered what this was and made a mental note to check it out later. Well, it turns out that Blogger added a module that let's people "follow" the site. I thought I'd add the module for now and see what it was like. You can find it at the bottom right of the site just above the contact info. Feel free to add yourself. It appears to act like a blog reader. Of course if you have a blog reader of your own, you can just sub to http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com directly. Bloglines is my reader of choice.

Alessandro Cortini and the Buchla 200e, Part 1

YouTube via plugtpd

"Alessandro Cortini discusses the Buchla 200e synthesizer and his contributions to the Nine Inch Nails album, Ghosts I-IV. Part one of two."

MIDI LFO's -Moog MP-201 Controlling the DSI Prophet 08

YouTube via bigcitymusic. Available now at http://bigcitymusic.com
"The MP-201 has finally arrived and you can control whatever you freaking feel like with it! The MP-201 has four control voltage outputs which can individually be assigned to send and expression pedal smooth voltage, LFO with your choice of any classic waveform, or a gate signal. This patch, you can save presets, has Channel 1 on the MP-201 contolling oscillator 1 pitch and channel 2 controlling oscillator 2 pitch. Whammy style. The third channel is an actual control voltage triangle wave LFO running into the DSI's filter CV input. The fourth channel is a triangle wave LFO sent via MIDI (Yes!) to the wave shape of oscillator 1. Holy cow, the possibilities are ridiculous. Wait, what do all four sound like at the same time?"

Bend Matrix trigger jack and MIDI output

YouTube via 4mspedals
"From 4mspedals.com. Demo of Bend Matrix triggered by a guitar to step the sequencer forward. Also has Step-back and Play/Pause trigger jacks. BM's MIDI output is going to a MIDI synth which generates the piano sounds"

CGS35 Steiner Voltage Controlled HP, LP & BP Filter

YouTube via attorks
"Demonstration of Ken Stone's CGS35 Steiner Voltage Controlled HP, LP & BP Filter. Two Q106 ramp waveforms are fed into a Q112 mixer which dials are on 10. Output of Q112 is fed into LP IN, BP IN and HP IN of CGS35 Steiner Filter. Output of CGS35 goes to Q108 VCA. CGS35 is modulated by Q109 ADSR and 1V/Oct. VCA is modulated by Q109 ADSR. Knobs CGS35 from top to bottom: FREQUENCY, RESONANCE, FM1 (Q109). Left busses from top to bottom: HP IN, BP IN, LP IN. Right busses from top to bottom: FM1, FM2, OUT."

Oberheim OB-Mx

via this auction

"this 2-voice stereo analogue synthesizer is fully programmable and is controllable via MIDI. 2 VCO's.2 VCF's (Moog aswell as Oberheim), 3 LFO's. 4 Envelopes. expandable up to 12 voices."

Note the individual outs.

Jen SX 2000

images via this auction

Not the best shots again, but you definitely don't see these often. For larger shots of the Jen SX 2000, see this post.

Funny side note that nobody but myself will probably appreciate: Check out the image in the other post and note the similarity of the tiled floor and the angle of the shot. I recently noticed certain synths seem to be more photographed on certain backgrounds than others - hardwood floors, carpet, and so on. This is the second time I really noticed it. Like I said, probably only something I can appreciate... I think I've seen one too many...

Korg EXB-MOSS Z1 Synth Board for Triton

via this auction

"Korg EXB-MOSS Z1-Based Synth Board for Triton! The Triton Series can be expanded by the installation of the ultimate DSP tone generator - the 13 oscillator 6-voice MOSS (Multi-Oscillator Synthesis System) tone generator featured on the Z1. This lets you use all synthesis methods -- PCM, analog, VPM (variable phase modulation), and physical modeling ? on a single instrument. When the MOSS tone generator is installed, 128 MOSS programs are added. You can create combination programs that use multiple MOSS timbres together with HI sounds.

The MOSS sound generator consists of Voice, EG, and LFO sections. The voice section contains 2 powerful oscillator blocks OSC1/OSC2 which let you combine up to 2 of 13 types of oscillator algorithm (resonance, organ model, electric piano model, standard, ring modulation, VPM, brass model, reed model, and more), a sub oscillator, and a noise generator. The voice section also contains a filter block featuring 2 multi-mode filters that cover the range from analog synth sounds to complex sounds such as the body resonance of violin or guitar, or even human voice. To this are added 5 EG units and 4 LFO units, providing a rich variety of tonal and pitch changes for each voice.

Features
# Sound Source: 6 voices, 2 oscillators (max.) + sub oscillator + noise generator
# Oscillator Types: 13 (Standard, Ring Modulation, Cross Modulation, Oscillator Sync, VPM (Variable Phase Modulation), Comb filter oscillator, Resonance oscillator, Organ model, Electric piano model, Brass model, Reed model, Plucked string model, Bowed string model)
# Programs: 128 "