MATRIXSYNTH

The Bass Is Back!

"If you're serious about bass (and who isn't), you won't want to miss this unique opportunity to own New Moog Taurus Bass Pedals.

These pedals will faithfully reproduce the original Taurus I bass sound. There will only be one run of 1000 of these pedals produced.

This offer ends February 15, 2009.

We are only producing 1000 of these pedals. And the first 250 customers will receive a discounted purchase price of $1695 with an initial deposit of $500.

Regardless of quantity ordered, this offer ends February 15, 2009. All Taurus pedals ordered after the first 250 will sell for $1995. "

You can find more info including audio on the Moog Music website.

Preliminary Specifications
The most important aspect of the design is to reproduce the original TAURUS I sound-engine as faithfully as possible.

• 100% Analog Sound Engine based entirely on original TAURUS I circuits
• "Taurus I" style (one and half octaves on the floor)
• 2 VCO Oscillators, ADS Contour Generator, 1 VCF Filter, Output VCA
• PRESETS: 16 Banks x 4 presets = 48 Total Programmable Bass Sounds
• BANK 0 will contains the Original Taurus I Presets: VAR, TAURUS, TUBA, BASS
• MIDI: DIN and USB, Merging and Routing
• ARPEGGIATOR: MIDI Sync, TAP TEMPO, Internal
• CV Inputs: VOLUME, FILTER, PITCH, GATE"

Sound on Sound Buchla 200e Review Online

you can find the review here.

"Despite the success of Hollywood, some icons never cross the Atlantic successfully from West to East. Say 'Babe Ruth' to the average Brit, and you'll conjure an image of a small girl too young to play ball games. Likewise, say 'Don Buchla' in the UK, and you'll probably be asked whether he was a character in The Godfather. Strangely, that description is not as far from the truth as you might imagine. In the USA, there are three 'godfathers' of synthesis: Alan Pearlman, Bob Moog, and — largely unknown in the Auld Country — Donald Buchla.

Buchla was a contemporary of Moog, and like Dr Robert, he produced his first synthesizers in the 1960s. He continued to do so throughout the '70s and '80s (see the box on the history of Buchla & Associates overleaf), but the commercial acclaim and recognition afforded to Moog eluded Buchla, and he concentrated on controllers in the '90s. By the early years of this century, he had slipped into the backwaters of the music industry, but in 2002, he decided to reinvent his most successful synthesizer, the Series 200 from the early '70s, bringing it up to date while retaining as much backwards compatibility as possible. Three years later, the result has arrived. It's a feature-packed synthesizer with a staggeringly huge price tag (see the final page of this article). It's the Buchla 200e." Note the printed review was from 2005.

Update via Wavedform in the comments: "The SOS review seems like Gordon Reid really wanted to review a different system, and not the system as it was.

The Keyboard review was a little more even-handed, I thought."

MusoTalk 211 - Studiolegenden - Moog Modular

YouTube via musotalk

Clavia nord rack 2x.avi

YouTube via audiokeys

Appendage, Klee, GM Voice

YouTube via timsynth
"This is a feeble attempt to "Play" the Scott Stites Appendage Touch Ribbon Controller, along with the KLEE Sequencer(the bass pattern), and Thomas Henry GM Voice(the drums). It's my first attempt and marginally musical :-0 The circuit is DIY snd is built on perfboard inside the box. See electro-music.com for upcoming PCBs and technical details.

Regards,
Tim"

KKP SleepDrone 5 outputs

YouTube via bigcitymusic

"We're just having some fun using the King Capitol Punishment Sleepdrone 5's separate outputs for each oscillator. One's running to the WMD Geiger Counter, one to the Catalinbread Teaser Stallion, one to the Catalinbread Valcoder, and one to the Zvex Vexter Fuzz Factory."

Saxxy Voice-Controlled Synth

via this auction

"Saxxy is a voice-controlled synthesizer shaped like a mini sax, I guess.
You sing/hum/scream into the mic at one end and Saxxy spits out tuba, clarinet, or sax sounds that track the pitch of your voice. You can also shift any of the sounds 2 octaves up or down.

This is a surprisingly fun little device that can actually sound quite cool, and it's great as a non-keyboard approach to sound generation. The tuba sound pitched down an octave does some cool bass too.

Takes 4 AA batteries and has a 1/8" headphone output."

Roland Juno-6

images at this auction

Experimenting with Electronic Music

via this auction

"Within its pages is an overview of the history of electronic music, from RCA's tube-based Mark I to modern solid-state synthesizers, with photos of the Minimoog and the Moog Sonic Six, as well as the Tonus ARP 2500, 2600, and Soloist consoles. For you tinkerers out there, the book also contains numerous construction projects, including two (2) separate transistorized theremins complete with detailed alignment instructions. All projects come ready-to-build with full schematics and parts lists.

Contents include:
* Musical Electronics
History - Mechanical Tone Generation - Electronic Tone Generation - The Music Synthesizer

* Sound and the Electronic Signal
Sound - Harmonic Motion - The Sine Wave - Additive Synthesis - Square Wave - Sawtooth Wave - Beat Notes - The Envelope - White Sound - Using the Complex Wave

* The Instruments
Mechanical Tone Generators (string, wind, and percussive) - Experimenting

* Microphone and Pickup Applications
Principles - Ceramic and Crystal Applications - Homemade Ceramic - Homemade Percussion - Dynamic Microphones - Magnetic Pickups - Homemade Magnetic Pickup - Condenser - Impedance

* Building a Small Electric Organ
Tone Generation - General Construction - Tremolo Modulator - Mixer - Homemade Keyboards - Combining the Stages

* The Electronic Modifiers
Tremolo Circuit - Envelope Control Circuit - Trigger Circuit - Attack Envelope Generator Circuit - Photoelectric Modulator - Reverberation - Chime Device - "Fuzz" Circuit - Sustain Circuit

* Electronic Tone Generators
Multi-waveform Generator - Pink Noise Circuit - Two Theremin Projects - Automatic Percussion Circuit - The Almost Nightingale - Mini-Organ

* Odds and Ends
Two-Channel Mixer - Three-Channel Mixer - Voice Selector - Variable Bandpass Amplifier - Active High-Pass Filter - Resonant Filter - Tube Filter - Tape and Echo"