MATRIXSYNTH

Nord organs comparison (1st / 2nd gen)

YouTube via Nillerbabsen
"A little comparison for nitpickers - Nord Stage / Electro 2 organ engine vs. C1 / Electro 3 organ engine.
An 88888888 setting is used all the way through except during Drawbars and Percussion. The leslie is set to stop mode except during the Leslie comparison.

Recorded to a Zoom H2 through a Tapco Mix60 mixer.
I am confident that I forgot altering the Leslie speeds, so any difference in speed is due to different programming. The Electro 3 was set to "Clean" in the vintage settings mode.

I just got the beast (Electro 3) yesterday. It blows me away, - the organ is, by all means, far better than the previous one. I will, however, just have to adapt to the new keyboard... which you can probably tell :)"

FM8 Power Review Part 2/2 HQ

YouTube via thepluginguru. Part 1 here
"http://www.PlugInGuru.com

HIGH Quality image/sound (4,000kbits/s video and 256 kbits/s AAC audio) version of Part 2 of PlugInGuru's Power Review for Native Instruments FM8. This review is called "Programming Fun with Native Instruments FM8". I hope you enjoy ! There is also a medium quality image/audio version available for those with slower computers to still see/hear this in High Quality mode.

Skippy has created 12 FREE patches for FM8 that YOU can download right now at PlugInGuru.com plus there are 60 more inspiring patches you can purchase for $30 USD.

FEED YOUR PLUG-INS !"

Scanning Barcode Tattoos with Voice Synthesizer

YouTube via scottblake. via synthtopia
"Some believe barcode tattoos to be a sign of the apocalypse speculated about in the Christian Bible which states people will "receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark of the beast". I personally do not agree with the mythological connection, but imagined what the sinister mark might look like. I use Code 128 style encryption to make temporary bar codes tattoos that can be scanned.

See more art on website: http://www.barcodeart.com/barcode_tat..."

Drumcomputersystem Dynacord ADD-one/ADD-drive/BigBrain

via this auction via the forum

the description is in German, here is the Googlish translation:

"In this auction to offer you a complete Dynacord Sampling drumcomputer System consisting of one ADD-ADD-drive (including the sampling option), and the Big Brain Sequencer. Who wants to know how the system sounds, should the first edition of the Synthesizer-Magazin care.

Dynacord ADD-one
The Dynacord ADD-one has a hammer in terms of sound, handling and editing. The Samplingdrumcomputer ADD-one was from June 1985 to February 1986 from a Dynacord cooperation with the American team of designers Froward Fast Design (former Oberheim). For example, the spring comes the legendary Oberheim Marix-12 and Xpander.

In 1987, the ADD-drive, a RAM with the motherboard has been extradited. This is one of the ADD-an external analog to digital input jack or XLR and a 3.5 "floppy drive to the external sample storage. Without this board RAM is the ADD-one with up to three sample-ROM Paltinen upgradeable.

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KORG DS10 Announced One Year Ago

via the DS-10 blog

"On this day last year,at the same time,we have annouced “KORG DS-10″.

We’d like to say kind words to everyone who loves DS-10!!!!

A thousand thanks!!!!

And enjoy DS-10 more!!!"

Happy Anniversary to the KORG DS10 team! It is a great synth and I am enjoying mine. :)

Blindoldfreak at the Knitting Factory

Califaudio has pics up of the Blindoldfreak show at the Knitting Factory in LA.

both Buchlas (the original 200 and the new 200e), the MacBeth M5N, Roland TR-808, TB-303, Frostwave Resonater, a Moogerfooger and some other pedals.

The most modified SK-1 ever!

via GoodVillian on the forum.
More details on his MySpace page.

excerpt for the archives
(jump to the MySpace page for more):
"Here is a sneak peak at something I have been up to. Unfortunately all I have is this camera phone picture until tomorrow. This is a prototype of my sample smasher synth. I haven't came up with a formal name but sample smasher sums it all up.

The user can record or overlap samples and then change and glitch out the sound using the patch bay below the joysticks. You can also turn those samples into synth sounding basses, pads, leads, and effects as well with the proper tweaking. More importantly you can create sounds no commercial synth can produce.

Additionally you can run your cable connections through pots (the knobs) and fine tune your sound.

The 4 joysticks on the right allow you to play up to 32 notes. And trust me, playing with joysticks instead of keys is not only fun but it is just as easy if not easier to play the synth. The patch bay you see below the wires already jacked in allow you to program which note range the joysticks play so you can set them up to your liking."