MATRIXSYNTH

synsonics synced with juno-60 + more

synsonics synced with juno-60 + more from Alex Inglizian on Vimeo.
"tests with syncing the juno-60 arpeggiator to the synsonics drum machine. (w/ omnichord, cs-5, & diy synth)
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Charles Cohen and Christian Mirande - Buchla Live

"Lopass Mates @ Rotunda Wed ...all Buchla, all the time Wednesday, March 4, 2009 The Rotunda 4014 Walnut St. Philadelphia 8 PM

Lopass Mates:
Charles Cohen, Buchla Music Easel
Christian Mirande, Buchla 200 Modular Analog Synthesizer

The Buchla 200 is the Mother Ship of the Music Easel. It only appears around here once a decade.

For this improvisational performance it will be piloted by Mr Mirande, an aficionado of Sharks, Coral, Century Series Fighter Planes, and Electro-Acoustic Music.

presented by Bowerbird.org

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also playing:
THE INTERNATIONAL NOTHING (Berlin)
Kai Fagaschinski - clarinet, composition
Michael Thieke - clarinet, composition

KO KOED
Alban Bailly - accordion
Dustin Hurt - accordion"

Update: according to Christian in the comments, this show is free.

Here's a video of Charles Cohen previously posted here. Be sure to see these posts as well.

CHARLES COHEN AT THE BUCHLA MUSIC EASEL from Alex on Vimeo.
"/ / / / / Viewing with headphones or a stereo source is highly recommended / / / / /

This colorful video features sound artist Charles Cohen improvising on a 1970's Buchla Music Easel. This extremely rare instrument is one of Don Buchla's 200 series. Buchla (a pioneer of audio synthesis) only manufactured 14 of these units. The entire film was edited from an hour-long set of free improvisation, with audio was taken directly from Charles' mixing board.

All of the photography and editing was produced by Alex Tyson, a sound and video artist from Pennsylvania. The film was shot in 16:9 720p High Definition format, using a 35mm LensBaby 3GPL.

This film is free to distribute, share, blog, vlog, etc. When re-posting, please copy and paste this text to inform anyone about the film.

At this time the film is only available online. While you can stream it in HD, it is best viewed on DVD.
Please contact the filmmaker for hard copies if interested.

Charles can be reached at ccohen (at) voicenet.com.

Thanks to LensBabies for making this awesome lens!"

Cakewalk Releases Free Updates for SONAR 8 and SONAR V-Studio 700 Customers

"— Updates add Classic Sounds, New Features, and Improved Performance —

Boston, MA (March 3rd, 2009) — Cakewalk, the world's leading developer of powerful and easy to use products for music creation and recording, today announces availability of free updates for SONAR 8 Producer, SONAR 8 Studio, and SONAR V-Studio 700. The updates are now available as free downloads for registered SONAR 8 and SONAR V-Studio 700 customers at www.cakewalk.com/SONAR83 and www.cakewalk.com/VS700_11, respectively.

The SONAR 8.3 update adds classic Roland sample content for Dimension Pro and Dimension LE, drum kits for Session Drummer 2, along with new usability enhancements and engine optimizations. The SONAR 8.3 update also addresses performance issues reported by customers after the initial release of SONAR 8. Additionally, since the initial Winter NAMM update announcement, numerous enhancements are now included in a version 1.1 software update for SONAR V-Studio 700 and a firmware update for its onboard Fantom VS hardware synthesizer."

Introducing the Yamaha SY 1

YouTube via RothHandle
"This last Friday I picked up a Yamaha SY-1 , apparently Yamahas first synth from 1974. I am currently working together with Matti Bye with music for a norwegian film.

This little mobile film was shot at Roth Händle studios in Stockholm. If you are curious to find out more about the studio please visit www.roth-handle.nu"

Stereopsis - No Pressure

YouTube via krazydrumr47
"This is the second song I wrote. Using MicroKorg, KP3, and Roland Handsonic 10. I sampled all of my beats onto KP3, and added twists of my own, Enjoy. Let's try the sun, for solar energy. Let's breakdown greenhouse gases, and pollution. There is 'No Pressure; No Fresh Water'."

MOOG MINIMOOG DEMO - classic monophonic synthesizer - played with reverb and delay

YouTube via AnalogAudio1
"This video shows the Mini Moog in action. The Minimoog is a monophonic analog synthesizer with an outstanding, excellent sound - the "Moog sound". The modules inside the Minimoog are of the same high quality like those in Moog modulars. I played the Mini with Yamaha ProR3 reverb and Roland DEP-5 for delays."

MeggySeq Loops and Noises

flickr by solipsistnation. follow-up to this post.
"MeggySeq, Meggy, and the Waveshield with a different set of files. The Waveshield plays files straight off an SD card, so I believe they can be arbitrarily long (up to the size of the SD card the Waveshield supports-- 2GB).

It's monophonic, though, so if something is playing and you start a second file, the first stops playing. This isn't a bad thing, depending on what you're trying to do. It does give you some fun glitchy possibilities. (The loops and samples are from www.rhythm-lab.com.)"

How to make your Microkorg sound REALLY retro!!

YouTube via mik300z
"I've been asked by a few people to share the parameters on this Roland vp-330 like strings patch, so here it is. After inputting these settings exactly you'll have this lovely warm vintage string sound as is heard in the little track I made for the video (inspired by Vangelis' Bounty soundtrack).
I have about 6 variations of it, if you use the phaser on mod fx instead of ensemble it gives a really nice Jarre-like sound too....enjoy!"

MIDI LED Lights

flickr set by armatronix
(click for more including video)

"Eight lights upstage with paper surrounds, plus four downstage doing uplighting and strobes, all controlled by MIDI.

Just-in-time delivery, with lights programmed in Live using a MAX/MSP-based simulator to see what it would look like.

music by FLESHTONE www.myspace.com/fleshtonemusic
video by Minh Tran www.minhternet.com
lights by armatronix"