(iPhone / iPod touch app) GravSynth Tutorial 1 - 7

YouTube via KayacInc
"Tutorial 1 : Setting the Tempo
1) You can adjust the BPM with "TAP" Button and Slider."

"Tutorial 2 : Setting the Oscillators
1) GravSynth has 2 Oscillators. You can mix 2 sounds with volume.
2) There are 4 types of waveform and can change the octave.
3) GLIDE RATE controls the smoothness of the changes in pitch."

"Tutorial 3 : Setting the OSC2 FREQ FINE TUNE
"1) You can adjust tuning of the Oscillator2. SEMIS adjusts the
chromatic. CENTS adjusts the fine tuning.
2) A little cents makes a modulated sound.
3) To activate setting. Turn on the 1-2 SYNC."

"Tutorial 4 : Setting the LFO
1) You can modulate the filter or pitch or wave.
2) Setting with LFO RATE (speed), amount, waveform."

"Tutorial 5 : Setting the Volume Envelope
1) Volume Envelope Generator makes the volume form.
2) Form such as organ.
3) Form such as strings."

"Tutorial 6 : Setting the FILTER
1) Decreasing the CUTOFF makes sound darker.
2) Resonance gave the accents to the sounds.
3) Sound such as Radio sound."

"Tutorial 7 : Setting the FILTER ENVELOPE GENERATOR
1) Filter Envelope Generator makes the filter form.
2) Combination with FILTER Setting. You can create many different
sounds as many as you can!"

GravSynth is available on iTunes here:

16bit Chainsaw Calligraphy live jam/remix

YouTube via timexile
"A live mashup of this amazing 16bit tune using a patch I made in Reaktor using the Maschine controller from NI. FX on the pads and twisters, bar progress on the top 8 buttons, track section on the 8 buttons to the left of the pads."

Gristleizer Up for Auction

via this auction

Note this is the one from this previous post with an audio demo.

auction details:
"Up for sale is a fully licensed and authorized Gristleizer built by Smashing Guitars/ Endangered Audio out of Asheville, North Carolina, which was available in limited amounts at select dates during the 2009 Throbbing Gristle tour. This particular unit was purchased the first night they were made available at the first Chicago show last month at the Logan Square Auditorium, and was one of 7someodd made available for sale. I purchased this, along with a snazzy tee shirt, upon arriving at the venue. I cradled and babied it throughout the performance of In The Shadow Of The Sun. In between sets, i took it through the meet and greet/signing line, and Chris, Peter, Gen, & Cosey were all kind enough to sign it as well. I even asked Gen to sign around the AC adapter input, because the jack is kind of male and kind of female :) It went straight into the car for the remainder of the evening's festivities, and upon arriving home, directly into my non-smoking home/studio, where it has been kept in pristine condition, seeing little use except to post an audio demo for the Muff Wiggler synthesizer (and cat) forum (Hi guys!) and http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/

Why am i selling it? After some long hard thought, i've decided i need to expand my modular synth more than i need a Gristleizer. Additionally, i'm handy with a soldering iron, so i guess i can always build one later and mount it in the modular. Still, the decision to sell this has not come lightly, and i ask whoever buys it, please give it a good home.

Now, about the Gristleizer itself: It's a device that mangles audio. It features a VCA and a VCF (toggle switch between the two modes) with an LFO for modulation. You have knobs for the LFO's Speed, Depth, and 4 different waveforms to select from (Rising Saw, Falling Saw, Triangle, and Square) and a Bias control that...well...i havent really figured out what it does, fully. It certainly overdrives the everliving shit out of whatever you run into it, anyway. It also has a level knob, and 2 switches...one for VCF/VCA, and one for Bypass. The back panel is very simple...one 1/4" in, one 1/4" out, and the AC adapter input. However, when speaking to Charles from Smashing Guitars the night i bought it, the PCB has pads for Control Voltage, so you can modify it to use with your analog synths, and the back panel has plenty of room for mods. I believe it also has adjustable trimpots inside as well, although i have not opened it to poke around...i'll leave that to you. Additionally, you can run this off of batteries as well, HOWEVER, you must NOT plug the AC in with batteries in as well. Get it? Let me repeat. Use EITHER batteries OR AC, NOT BOTH! The AC adapter is included.

And one thing i noticed that is perfectly normal is the LFO's LED stays lit for a moment after you power down."

Synthi and Blippoo

via mono-poly's modular blog where you'll find two self playing patches.

hack2009052204

YouTube via yaxu
"Possibly better quality here: http://yaxu.org/haskell-hack/"

Oberheim Stretch-DX

via this auction
"The DX Programmable Digital Drum Machine from Oberheim fills the professional musician's need for an afford able. easy to use, state- of- the- art drum computer. Based upon the modular Oberheim DMX Drum Machine, the DX offers the sound and features of the DMX in a less expensive, more integrated package . The DX is not a drum synthesizer; it is a complex microcomputer system programmed with digital studio recordings of real drums. It doesn't sound like a rhythm box. it sounds like a drummer. Not only does the DX sound like a drummer, it can play like a real drum mer; with rolls, flams, odd time signatures, uneven phrases, changing tempos, or even off the beat. Up to 2200 notes can be stored in the DX, recorded in any of 100 Sequences of any length or time signature. Drum sequences can be recorded in real time or one note at a time. Any of the 18 individual drums (including crash cymbal) or individual notes can be recorded, erased, and then re-recorded until the drum beat is exactly right. The sequences can be combined to form up to 50 songs. Each song can contain up to 255 sequences, arranged in any order, to form a complete composition. Tempo and Time Signature are programmable for each sequence, and with the DX's extensive editing capability, a song's structure can be changed quickly and easily. The DX has several Quantize modes, which correct your rhythm to any beat between l/4 notes and 1/32 note triplets, or turn the Quantize off for the human feel. In addition, there is a Swing mode which will give rhythms the uneven feel that is used so often in jazz and other music.

There are individual tuning controls for each voice on the rear panel and each of the six DX voices has its own output. so you can record them on separate tracks. or EQ them separately. There is also a 7 input stereo mixer to allow you to mix all of the drums into the stereo and mono outputs. The DX can run in synchronization with the Oberheim DSX Digital Polyphonic Sequencer and the other components of the Oberheim Music System as well as other sequencers. There is a programmable external trigger, so you can control the DX with sequencers, synthesizers. or even a drum kit. A battery maintains power to the memory when the DX is turned off. so that you don t lose your sequences when you turn off power. A cassette interface is provided which enables quick changes of all of the sequences and permanent data storage. original list price $1395.00

STRETCH expander for Oberheim DX drum machines. The Stretch adds the two things DX owners want most of all: more sounds and more features for older model DX drum machines. For those DX machines, features are added like variable clock, auto start, cue tempo, midi clock out & more. Each Stretch voice has its own buttons, tuning, output jack and level control for the mixed output of the DX. Zif sockets are included to make it easier to add new sounds, containing chip locations for 4 more rows. original list price $495.00"

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Make: Tokyo Meeting 03

YouTube via MMTAKEDA55. synths come in at 1:19.
"2009/5/23-24
Make: Tokyo Meeting 03
beatnic.jp ブースにて"
You might recognize the devices used with the Gakken SX-150 from some of these videos.

Mystery - Bloc Bloc Bloc (OMD cover)

YouTube via mysteritmo
"A cover of OMD's Bloc Bloc Bloc. Inspired by Depeche Mode's first album "Speak & Spell" I gave myself the challenge to play only monophonically (no chords) - so the chord changes in the song are given by creating single melodic lines on top of each other. Instruments used: Novation K-Station; MicroKorg, Electribe ER-1 and Electribe ES-1. Songwriters: OMD (from the album Crush, 1986). Make sure to watch this video in HD."

Getting ready to take it out for a ride..

flickr by rue_the_whirl

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"I travel with this thing under my arm on busses for hours only to go round friends houses and make beats hahah I think I need something smaller like a MPC-500.. computers are just not the same
One day just one day I may also get a hair cut hahah I don't think I bothered since October hahh "

Akai MPC-2000XL

flickr by rue_the_whirl
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