MATRIXSYNTH

Sid

via g.

"Here is my late Cat, Sid... he loved hanging out with me when I worked on the synth, and also patch cables were one of his good games ;)

I thought it would be cool to put on your blog!

Sid-Charlot:
Mar 1996-
Sep 2008"

Definitely cool, and definitely gets a post. Cats and pets in general are the few things in life that unconditionally have your back, through the good and the bad times. Cheers to Sid.

Situation Gaz

YouTube via Gazdatronik. via fischek.
"I put together Yazoo's Situation. I like this idoitic little song. I play Micromoog, Macintosh plays everything else. Been meaning to do this since I was ten."
"Tags:
Situation Yaz Yazoo Vince Clarke Alison Moyet Moog Micromoog Roalnd JX-3p JX3p Korg dw-8000 Oberheim matrix 80's dance 1983 move out Gazdatronik"

Circuit Bent Yamaha RX-21 Drum Machine #6

YouTube via anode8. watch your ears/speakers on this one.
"Yet another of my wooden paneled Yamaha RX Drum Machines. Two feedback filters, two distortion/glitch switches, and 2 5-way rotary switches."

Analogue Systems rs290 Crushes Your Bits Too

YouTube via bigcitymusic
"Man. There's not much this module doesn't do. Besides an incredible sounding high-quality stereo digital delay with built LFO and a hard to beat voltage controlled sampler mode, the rs290 can crush your sounds too. This great little trick doesn't even require the unit to be engaged. Just select sample size, reduce, and abuse.

Our sound source is the Elektron SFX-60 Mk II MonoMachine."

Wiard meets morbius

Custom Future Retro Morbius faceplate via CustomSynth

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The Audiotool Experiment

HOBNOX Contest

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Curiousity 1

flickr by eliza_brown

Anyone know what synth that is?

Alesis ION per DustySchematics in the comments.

And maybe not. Update via EmptySet int he comments: "I thought at first that was an Ion too… it's color, the red knob on the right, jacks look similar.

However, I have an Ion and just looked at it and the position of all the outputs and inputs looks all wrong in the photo. For example, the MIDI ports on my Ion would appear where the CURIOSITY label is."

Update: I'm pretty sure it's a Micron. I actually have one and took a look. The angle in the images makes it look a bit shorter than it actually is.

BigSeq2 Screenshot

via Analog Industries where you'll find the full post.

"There is one major change to the architecture, as well. Previously, we had only one modulation target per effect. Essentially, you could only use the modulation sequencer of each effect for one parameter. Now, if you note, there is a small slider under each knob, where you can select positive or negative modulation against the current value. This creates a lot more possibilities, we think. The few of you that own Ronin will be familiar with this way of doing things. We also used this method for the LFO in Discord 2."

Pixel Studio

flickr by robo_lasers

"I needed better icons for the Audio/MIDI tool in OS X (the included ones are too generic) so I made pixel versions of my equipment. Not everything is to scale and there are a few omissions but I'm happy with the end result."

"I figured some other readers of matrixsynth would be interested or would like to use them."

x0xb0x vs TR-606

YouTube via phono1337
"A quick jam with the x0xb0x (a full kit form reproduction of the Roland TB-303) along with its cousin the Roland TR-606. Visit http://www.myspace.com/2cvacid to hear more of them in action."

Roland TR-606