MATRIXSYNTH

new (Optional) Serge Knob Colour Scheme for new shop Panels and M-odules

via Bakis:

"hello,

from now on, Serge can offer their shop panels and M-class series M-odules with a more colourful knob scheme.

as Rex says:

"The colour coded knobs are an option for newly ordered M-class m-odules and Shop series panels and are provided to our STS clients at no additional charge.

Retrofits to systems already in the field will be handled by payment &
exchange arrangements between STS clients and myself addressed on per case
basis."

look at the photos section of the SMOG yahoo group (in the m-class series folder) for my CV processor and Wave Processor m-odules that follow this knob colour scheme.

in detail:
Black knobs are for offsets and audio (AC) attenuators, and Blue Knobs are for cv (DC) attenuators.
(the Red knobs are just added to my m-odule for fun, they are not included in the new knob colour scheme.)

thanks,
Bakis."

Happy Halloween!!!

YouTube via Legiaking16.

"The theme song from the movie "Halloween" by John Carpenter." The film was released in 1978. John not only wrote and directed the film but he composed the music for it. The following is an image of John Carpenter in the studio from this earlier post.

Be sure to see these posts on John Carpenter. Note that this image is most likely from the Halloween III session. From the earlier post, "the music for the original Halloween movie was recorded at Sound Arts, Los Angeles and featured Moog modular programming by Dan Wyman." Update: A non synth related interesting side note: I was taking a look at John Carpenter's IMDB page and noticed that the full movie The Thing appears to be available for streaming. The Thing was another classic horror film from John Carpenter from 1982. Have a great Halloween folks!

CASIO MT-40 by S-CAT

YouTube via PHONICPOTION. S-CAT/PHONICPOTION on Ebay
"CIRCUIT BENT WITH 17 MODIFICATIONS, NOW ITS A CASIO MT-NAUGHTY!"

Korg DSS-1

YouTube via Hossinfeffa. "Bet you didn't know it could do that."

Siel DK70 keytar Demo

YouTube via sounddoctorin

"Bob Weigel of http://www.sounddoctorin.com plays the DK70 to a background loop done with just a K1200 Kurzweil bass sound and Alesis D4 drums. This unit is fairly rare. Only a few thousand made. It has one SSM2045 VCF and one generator chip that is driven by the SSM2031 HF vco chip. And a TDA1022 BBD for chorus as I recall. Digital envelopes. The DK80 is basically twice the synthesizer except they only use 6 voices on each voice chip! THe DK70 is 8 voice. Not sure why they did that but anyway both units have basically the same sound engine, the DK80 is just bigger and is 'Bi-timbral' so it can layer the two sounds etc. The keytar necks are hard to come by. If anyone has one lying around let me know. I have two more of these I'd like to rig up for somebody. Of course you can play them without the neck just using the pitch wheel instead of the bender and the vibrato button that is on the machine..but you sacrifice the octave shifter and the hold button."

Inside the DSI Prophet 08

You can find more images with descriptions on The Mountain Fold

Playing J. S. Bach on Roland Jupiter 6 & Juno 106

YouTube via cdal02. via fischek
"Playing the first part of Musical Offering (1. Ricercar a 3)on Roland Jupiter 6 and Roland Juno 106 (connected with MIDI)."

A Slow Rip live at Megaphon Studios

YouTube via EndgameRecordLabel. via a slow rip where you will find more.
"A Slow Rip - Rob Laurie, Ian Miles, Phil Turnbull at Megaphon Studios on Sept 6 2008 as part of '1/4 inch'"
"Alesis Ion, Moog Opus 3 and Yamaha sk-20 + guitar, percussion, effects, etc."