via Elhardt on AH: "Preliminary pictures of a one-of-a-kind stand alone Polymoog 3 Band Resonator. Just one more thing my defunct Polymoog synth produced as I don't believe in wasting any part of a Polymoog. It makes a great external processing unit. After I get the finishing parts from Mouser, it will also have a red/green bypass/enable LED on the front panel and will probably go up for sale or auction if I can manage to part with it.
-Elhardt
Bahn Audio Systems Custom Design Division"
YouTube via fathermckenzie1. EMS Synthi in "On The Run." I'm curious if this will take off like Dark Side of OZ. This one does have it's moments. If you've seen Logan's Run, the foreboding music for "On The Run" definitely captures what that scene is about. Ick... Creeps me out.
Description: "Recently I discovered this sync: Logan's Run and Dark Side of the Moon.
Logan's Run mainly deals with themes of getting old, death, running from death, isolation, and violence, so I naturally thought of Dark Side. It actually syncs up amazingly, imo. Here's how it breaks down: * Start the album at the MGM lion :D 1. "Speak to Me" and the beginning of "Breathe" play as the camera is flying over the futuristic city. The lyrics to "Breathe" start almost exactly as the scene cuts to the newborn baby's hand with the crystal on it. The lyrics sync up amazingly with the scene, as if the singer is telling the baby about life and the world he's been born into. 2. "On The Run" starts just as Logan and Francis get off the tunnel car or whatever it is, and enter the city. It almost looks like they're in an airport, so the sound effects work pretty good. "Live for today, gone tomorrow, that's me!": I guess that could be the slogan of the entire city. 3. In "Time", the clocks all ring right as the Carousel starts, signaling that their time/lives are up. The ominous mood during the rototom section goes on while the people in Carousel fly upwards toward their death. "No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun": right when this lyric is sung, Logan points his gun, and then the runner appears around the corner. Then the guitar solo starts as he dashes away. This might be the best lyrical sync in the entire movie! The theme of dying and time slipping away is obviously palpable in both the movie and song. "Breathe (reprise)" plays as Logan returns home, too! ("Home, home again...") 4. "Great Gig" doesn't really sync too well, unfortunately. The main "violent, cymbal-crashing" section ends right as Jessica starts to walk away, though. The last note on the piano hits exactly as the movie cuts to a scene outside of a building. 5. In "Money", Francis puts all his personal belongings, what looks like a wallet and some coins(?) down on a thing that makes them instantly disappear. 6. The entire theme of "Us and Them" matches the film perfectly. The song starts just as Logan's life clock starts flashing, meaning he has just become one of "them", and no longer one of "us". "Short, sharp, shock": people in this movie are killed through what looks like electrocution. 7. "Any Colour you like" begins as Logan and Jessica get on the tunnel car thing. 8. In "Brain Damage", Logan and Jessica are surrounded by the savages: the "loonies"? "You raise the blade...": Billy, the main savage, wields a large knife, and puts it against Logan's throat a bit before this lyric. After the main section of the song ends, and the synthesizer/Lunatic's voice comes in, the runner appears looking very crazy and frightened. 9. "Eclipse": As the final lyric "sun is eclipsed by the moon" is sung, Logan and Jessica are being filmed at a unique angle, through two circular openings, making them look like their two heads are actually "the sun" and "the moon". (I dunno: Logan has light blonde hair, so he's the sun, and Jessica has dark brown hair, so her face is the light part facing the sun, and her darker hair is the reverse, dark side of the moon)."
images at this auction via thegoodbutcher in the comments of this post. "Many Fantastic mods. * MIDI on the monophonic voice * Envelope Generator LED * LFO Range switch - SLOW REG FAST * Poly octave drop * Polyphonic pitch Modulation from either the Envelope Generator or the LFO with attenuator * Tone Source 1 Pulse Width Control * Tone Source 1 Pulse width modulation from EG or LFO * Tone Source 1 Suboctave * Tone Source 2 Pulse Width control * Tone Source 2 Detune modulation from either EG or LFO with attenuator (great when synced) * Bell (Ring Modulator) input selector. Either TS2 (stock) or Poly * External input to the VCF with attenuator. * Individual outs * Output jacks changed to 1/4" This little monster can make lots of crazy sounds. Much much fatter than a Rogue. Some of the mods require retuning with the front panel controls. I never had a problem."
It turns out bdu aka Brandon Daniel started a new blog called bleepology.
The Hello World posted on Nov 6: "You needed another synth-blog, didn’t you? Of course you did.
I’ve been a content-generator [fdiskc.com] for these things since before any of the synth-blogs existed, so I figured it’s time to stop tossing my stuff their way to be posted with very little context, and post it here instead (where it will then be picked up and read by the majority of it’s consumers elsewhere). But, with luck, there will be a bit more context available.
I don’t have a whole lot of spare time, so if you see a post here, it’s probably something I made/photographed/recorded myself and felt like sharing, rather than something I dug up elsewhere.
I’m writing this, but I know it’s unlikely anyone will read it for awhile, but it felt right to make a “first post!” sort of thing. Booga booga!"
I think you'll get a few reads out of this post. :) Go check it out people.
As for some fun with dates. fdiskc.com started in 2001. MATRIXSYNTH.COM? 1997. :)
A quick note on MATRIXSYNTH the blog for anyone interested. I started it in 2005 as a more efficient way of tracking everything synth. The original site was becoming a bit too difficult to manage and it didn't account for the type of things I wanted to link to. A blog by it's original definition was a site that only linked to others, but has meshed into various things over the years and has more commonly become a place to share your thoughts. I try to stay true to the original meaning and I try to keep my thoughts out of it. Why? MATRIXSYNTH isn't about me, it's about what's out there in the world of synths just as the original site was. I also want people to experience what's out there free from my influence or opinion, hence why I rarely interject my comments. Why am I doing it in this post? I thought it was a good opportunity to give some insight into what this site is about vs others in light of bdu's hello world, and because it could be easy to misread. Please note I do not take offense to bdu's comments, far from it. I don't see it as offensive but rather an observation of what that site will be, and I'm looking forward to what will go up over time just as I look forward to all of the other sites I visit. Also its worth nothing that Brandon has given me permission to post things many times. I always do my best to link to the source sites for more info and/or credit.
YouTube via ZKad "Quick overview of my new MicroKorg from Korg. Covers the very, very basics as I've yet to fit in time to play with it properly but should prove interesting to anyone thinking of buying it. Personally I love it - great sound."
YouTube via bigcitymusic "Warning: This will not sound right on your laptop! Try some real speakers.
Here are some kick drum sounds using just the resonance of the MoPho's four pole low pass filter. There are no oscillators turned on. In a few of them you can hear some frequency modulation. You can use a ramp up LFO wave, turn on key sync and have a ramped kick. High frequency LFO modulation can yield some interesting kicks too."
