MATRIXSYNTH

WITH MIDI

YouTube via bluelantern320. via this auction
"THIS IS DEMONSTRATING A SALAMANDER PROTOTYPE SYNTH WITH A NEWT 10 STEPPER, AND POLIVOKS VCF."

ALONE SELF REZ

"Demonstration of Polivoks VCF with a 10-step Sequencer (NEWT) based on CD4017 counter chip."

Gate Switch Demo

previously posted

Live improv

"Blippoo Box, Buchla 158 + Serge WaveX + Wiard Borg 1, Wiard Noiserig, DIY Wogglebug, Metalbox Gated Comporator, Wiard vca from Waveformcity."

via http://mono-poly.blogspot.com/ where you will find more.

Les Synthetiseurs Une Nouvelle Lutherie - Claude Gendre and the Hohner 8D

via ELECTRAUMATISME
"One Sunday, my girlfriend went to the 2nd hand market just behind my flat and had the chance to find a book completely unknown to me :
Les Synthétiseurs, une nouvelle lutherie (for less than 2 Euros !!)...what luck when you check this link. It's a pleasant book covering all the synthesis basics, including analog and the golden age of Digital black box synths like DX7, Poly800, and Casio CZ line.

The book also details a few patches for each synth and includes sections for Keyboard amplifiers, Stands and so on...

Within these chapters, there is a special one dedicated to the Hohner brand who in 1985 planned to build a synthesizer called the Hohner 8D based on a proprietary technique for generating waveforms : the Multiple Event Generator.

Basically, it was about sampling existing material and regenerating them in multiples of the frequency being played in order to avoid any aliasing, and to faithfully reproduce any basic tone throughout the range of the Keyboard.

The beast would mainly have multiple waveform generators (kind of like DCO's) spread all over the keyboard scale, with noise generator, VCA, distortion stage, resonant LPF, enveloppe generator for VCA/VCF and an LFO... all for 8 voice polyphony, and with a very intuitive user interface.

It seems the prototype never saw the light of day (it should have been on Musikmesse 1985) and there is no picture available of this synth.

It should have been conceived in Saumur en Auxois in France (near where I spent my childhood) so, if anyone has any information about that synth, I'd be glad to spread it. [Feel free to comment or send me, matrix, an email and I'll let ELECTRAUMATISME know as well as update the post]

Here is the webpage of Claude Gendre who wrote this book (I'll try to contact him):
http://claude.gendre.9online.fr/index.htm

Sorry for my awful English"

No problem! Fascinating story. If anyone has more info on the Hohner please do comment and/or let me know via email - you can find the contact info on the bottom right of the site.

Serge Stone

flickr by cray5656
(click for more)

"Ken Stone created Serge Buchla cabinet"

Ken Stone of Catgirl Synth/CGS

acidlab miami chained tap-write and AB Test

YouTube via glumc
"editing two chained patterns (32 steps) in the tap-write-mode"

And the AB Test WAV file here. One channel is the Acidlab Miami and the other is the Roland TR-808. See if you can tell which is the 808.

[HD] Radiohead - Idioteque (Live @ Saitama Super Arena - Oct 5, 08 - Tokyo, Japan)

YouTube via thelilbearbeeny. via BB
Analog Systems modular, Roland TR-909 and they usually have the French Connection Ondes Martenot type controller as well. You can see the Sorceror Keyboard System. There's also a Roland Space Echo. Not sure what the digital synth is. If you spot anything else feel free to comment.
"Playlist of concert: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list...
Full concert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KwNyr..."