MATRIXSYNTH

Let's Get Lofi 4 - DD10 + Pss-580 + DIY Distortion + DIY Mixer

YouTube via ChrisLody
"The Yamaha DD-10 has got to be one of the most Lofi programmable drum machine ever made. You can program 2 separate 2 bar patterns using 26 different drum sounds with 2 levels of velocity. I used a preset on this vid though as I was feeling a bit lazy. Amazingly it only cost me £2 from a carboot sale. Yeay.

I ran that through a distortion circuit based on Craig Andertons distortion circuit as forund in Handmade Electronic Music by Nicolas Collins. I added a touch point I found by accident which feeds the first inverter with the ouput of the second which sounds quite cool. It creates some great squealing and choppy sounds. Nice.

I programmed the Pss-580 with an editor with a nice bass sound.

I ran them both through a passive mixer which was also in Nicolas Collins book.

Yeay, great fun!"

Yamaha QY700 Sequencer/awm2 module

YouTube via hilltree
"Yamaha qy700 test
Music is a Edgar Froese -tangerine dream/stuntman midi impementation test.
Made and recorded at the Hilltree studio netherlands
More at www.groenewoudnet.nl"

Waldorf Blofeld Is Most Definitely Not A Salad

YouTube via gearwire
"For this demo, Bill Holland hooked up the "highly scientific" Waldorf Blofeld syhth to Ableton and let her rip. Its sleek German design puts all controls in their most logical locations, so you can reserve more brainpower for world domination."

Waldorf Blofeld Guises As Ableton Live Controller For Demo

"Bill Holland hooks up the Waldorf Blofeld to Ableton Live to get his old school hardware control on. What he comes up with sounds something like a circus of dolphin song and twittering mantids, which is just what you want on a hot club night. I mean, I do, anyway."

Mellotron for iPhone and iPod touch: Stairway to Heaven

YouTube via ManetronM400S
"Mellotron for iPhone and iPod touch in your pocket. Genuine sound sampled from Mellotron M400S (serial number 714) manufactured in the 70's."
You can find Manetron on iTunes here:

Vintage Roland System 100 102 synth synthesizer modular

via this auction

"Vintage Roland 102 expander for Roland's system 100 modular synth."

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One Knob To Rule Them All

flickr by Diego Stocco

"Diego Stocco The Conduit Shaping the Soundtrack LCO 3

I like to experiment with small electronic instruments, like the optical theremin. The pitch of this circuit responds to the intensity of external light, which makes it hard to play specific notes.
I wanted to find a better way to control not just the pitch but also the trigger of the sound in order to create rhythmic patterns. I used che chassis of an old device to host the circuit, connected a dimmer to control the intensity of a light bulb and a push-button switch to break the circuit, so I could control the note on/off. To fatten up the sound I connected it to a spring reverb, an hi-fi amp and two old speakers, recorded with a stereo microphone. The instrument needs to be be played in semi obscurity."

Update: some video via Diego:

Diego Stocco - LCO Light Controlled Oscillator from Diego Stocco on Vimeo.

"The LCO is an instrument I assembled when I was creating the score for "The Conduit". I used it as a starting point to create a variety of bass sounds, ambiences and strange noises.

The pitch of an optical theremin responds to the intensity of external light, which makes playing specific notes difficult. I wanted to find a better way to control not just the pitch but also the trigger of the sound in order to create rhythmic patterns. I used the chassis of an old device to host the circuit, connected a dimmer to control the intensity of a light bulb and a push-button switch to break the circuit, so I could control the note on/off. To fatten up the sound I connected it to a spring reverb, an hi-fi amp and two old speakers, recorded with a stereo microphone. The instrument needs to be be played in semi obscurity.

In this particular session I was also post-processing the sound of the LCO with modulated chains of comb-filtered delays and reverbs.

P.S. Careful with the volume, the sound gets pretty intense in the second half of the video."

SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS PRO-ONE ANALOG MONOSYNTH

YouTube via GCom67
"Short demo of the sound of the SCI Pro-One mono synth monster.
The only FX was Sonar 8's built in VST Lexicon reverb which is put across the whole finished track.
Seven mono tracks in all recorded in real time. I used the Pro-One's sequencer for the riff.
Thanks for listening.
The track is called 'Ambi-One'"

Tripper 1.1 iPhone app demo

YouTube via retsyx
"The Tripper 1.1 iPhone app introduces improved sound, graphics, performance and customizability. A limited functionality, lite version is also available to play with.."
Avialable on iTunes here:

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flickr by mesak
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Anyone know what this is?

Update: video via tm in the comments.

Moog filter clone from Huge Bass on Vimeo.

"hand made (from a diy kit?) moog filter clone from latvia.

cutoff pot crackling a bit. adsr functionality not quite correct.

when gate->adsr is switched off the gate input can be used as cv->cutoff amount.

waveform is dry sawtooth signal direct out from roland SH-7"