MATRIXSYNTH

Aries Modular and Eventide PitchFactor

YouTube via bigcitymusic
"Here's an Aries modular synth we've had in mothballs for a while so we thought we'd see if it was still running. It is!

We just got in the Eventide PitchFactor pedals in. These pedals are pretty revolutionary, giving you a high quality bank of effects that were previously unavailable in a pedal.
Here are a couple settings we were messing with. Keep in mind our sound source is a pretty simple drone. The harmony and delay effects in the PitchFactor sound really really, REALLY good. Get that? We'll do another video soon of something that's not a drone!

Thanks for watching!"

WMD Geiger Counter / Ciat-Lonbarde Namastitar

YouTue via opsysbug
"WMD Geiger Counter Digital Crushed Ciat-lonbarde made synth/guitar. NASTY AND LOUD.
I never touched the the thing-was afraid to actually ! If I hit a string it might BLOW UP. Ooooo this pedal is awesome !"

Shunyata -Improv 10/08

"Shunyata (Brian Moran-Electronics, Matt Hannafin-Percussion) Live recording in backyard in Brooklyn
NY. Part of a series we have called "Avant-Yard" !
Buy our CDs at http://www.sachimayrecords.com/interventioncatalogue.htm.

Yea...we call THAT music !"

Zack Wiesinger testing out his buddy Nick Dynice's Roland SH-101

YouTube via ZackWiesinger. via http://twitter.com/nsputnik
http://twitter.com/zacknest "playing a vintage Roland SH-101 synth keyboard at work"

OBERHEIM DX vintage MIDI drum machine

via this auction
"Manufacturing date is February 13 1985

The Dx has a great heavy and crisp sound that is still used today in electronic music, most recently by innovators Justice as much as it was used back when it came out (see Blue Monday by New Order).

This is a Dx with factory MIDI sp it can be used as a MIDI master clock or can be synced to an external MIDI source like a computer.
It can also be used as a module when the internal voices are triggered by another sequencer. Because it has midi it can sync other older drum machines with its tape sync output like the Linndrum and other 24/48/96 ppqn drum machines.

The auction includes the drum machine itself and these extras :
-Two presets cassette tapes date 1983 and 1984
-Two zif sockets that can be installed on the eprom slots for quicker eprom swapping
-1 dual sound eprom for the "perc" slot, this is a DMX cowbell/clave eprom I had made but Oberheim specialist Electrongate.
-Original manual and othe original documents

All sound can be detuned and chips can be changed to alternate sounds burned onto eproms.

All voices have their own external outputs and fader and there's also a mixed output."

Jen SX1000

via this auction

Good shot with and without the patch overlay.

"This is a cracking little Italian-made synth from 1978 (so I believe). DIY-mods abound for this machine, including external controller options, MIDI input and chip upgrades.

A few SX1000 user reviews available here: Sonic State

Specifications:
Polyphony - Monophonic Oscillators - One DCO (sawtooth, square, pulse-width modulation); 4-octave range (32', 16', 8', 4'); white and pink noise generators LFO - 1 LFO; Vibrato Filter - 1 Low-pass filter, 12dB/octave, with ADSR VCA - 1 ADSR Keyboard - 37 keys Memory - None Control - None (Kenton Midi Retrofits available) Date Produced - 1978 - 1982"

AELITA SOVIET ANALOG 3 OSC SYNTH

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"Synth looks very industrial amd military, like the soviet secret weapon.

Aelita has three oscillators with square, pulse and saw waveforms.There is LFO with triangle,square,saw and ramp waveforms.Every oscillator can be independently detuned in one octave range. We have possibilities in any chord playing here. You can switch oscillators from 32' to 2' registers.Every oscillator has it's own level slider in mixer section.Oscillator's pitch can be modulated by LFO and first oscillator can be modulated by third oscillator.Than we have moog type 24db lowpass filter with screaming resonanse.Filter has it's own ADS envelope, keyboard tracking and can be modulated by LFO.VCA has ADS envelope with release switch. There is unussual unison mode when you can get signal of all oscillators in 4 registers in one time. Aelita is fat sounding synth with quite unique sound due to original soviet analog circuitry and electronic components."

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FORMANTA EMS-01 SOVIET ANALOG MONSTER SYNTH

via this auction Audio demos at the auction while up. Details:
"Formanta ems-01. This synth was developed in USSR in 80-s years on the same military radio plant in Kachkanar where well known Polivoks synth was produced.

Perhaps, Formanta ems-01 is most unusual sounding synth among the soviet made synthesizers. Its modulation possibilities are infinite, raw analog sound is absolutely unique, and it looks like peace of rock.

Let’s see overal architecture of the instrument. Instrument has two sections. The first section is analog mono-synth with two oscillators. It is the wild heart of the beast. Synth has 3-octave keyboard based on electromagnetic elements. It means that contacts of the keys will last forever. Every oscillator has triangle, saw and square waveforms. You can change square’s pulse width by knob or modulate it by LFO. Audio diapason of the every oscillator changes from 16’ to 2’. Mixer section has 5 knobs for control of amount audio from: 1 osc., 2 osc., external input, noise source, ring modulator. Then there is flexible LFO with controllable delay onboard. LFO has 6 waveforms: noise, sample-and-hold, two types of saw, square and sine. You can route LFO to modulate: every oscillator pitch, filter’s cutoff, VCA. Then you can switch LFO to trigger VCA and VCF envelopes, and you can modulate speed of LFO from keytracking. There is a ring modulator. You can switch input signals for ring modulator as 1osc. and 2osc., or as 1osc. and LFO. Then we have unique analog filter based on the same circuitry which used in Polivoks synth. You can control filter’s resonanse and cutoff by knobs, amount of modulation from LFO to cutoff, amount of modulation from dedicated AR envelope. Filter can be switched in low-pass mode or in band-pass mode. Filter’s envelope can be switched to positive or negative direction. Also we have VCA with dedicated ADSR envelope with autotrigger possibility. There is a portamento. You can adjust its time and switch off portamento from second oscillator and to get very special effect, this feature also borrowed from Polivoks synth. There are also: memory for last pushed key, slide knob which change overal tune in about 3 octaves, interval knob for detuning oscillators in about 1 octave, detune knob for detuning oscillators in about 1 ton range. Synth section has factory installed CV-in in Hz/Volt scale, but for its own gate trigger signals standard. Then there is second section of instrument. It is analog organ with 5 octave keyboard also on electromagnetic contacts. Organ has 6 preset sounds. For organ you can control: tune, amount of pitch modulation from dedicated triangle lfo, frequency of pitch modulation, delay of pitch modulation. Some organ’s preset sounds feed to rich analog 3-stage chorus effect. Then you can independently route synthesizer and organ to exellent analog stereo-phaser effect. Stereo-phaser has control of resonanse. On the back of the instrument there are outs for phones, audio mono sum, audio stereo outs, and input for pedal controller. Also there are CV-in, CV-out and external audio in."

ROLAND RS-09

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"The Rs-09 is really cool, it was Roland last string synth. This was offered on the market when the only other options for polyphonic analog synths were the expensive beast such as the Jupiter 8.
This small synth is still a serious contender for analog strings. Its chorus ensemble makes it sound lush, rich, heavenly! The chorus is available to the organ and string section as well as to the external input!!!

The Rs-09 was used by many artist in the 80s like The Cure and Cybotron.

The organ section has 4 drawbars and to combinable organ type, it also has its own seperate output.
The synth section (available simultaneously) has two combinable string sounds at 8' and 16'.

Both parts can be modified by the tone control and vibrato (with delay) can be added to add emotion to the sounds, this little vibrato feature makes for a very expressive isntrument.

The Rs-09 sounds great, looks great and is very portable, it's from the same family of isntruments as the Tr-808 and Sh-09 and shares the same sides and a similar design."

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