MATRIXSYNTH

Monday, August 17, 2009

Yamaha DX200 Loop Factory Desktop FM Synthesizer

via this auction

The stripes remind me of the Oberheim OB series. Click on the images for a better look...

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dubby bubbly - electronics & beats

YouTube via AMOKIAN

via this auction

OBERHEIM vintage TVS-1

via this auction

"THIS PARTICULAR UNIT HAS HAD SOME EXTRA OUTPUTS INSTALLED ON THE SYNTH FROM WAY BACK... THERE IS ALSO AN INPUT FOR AN EXTERNAL DEVICE SO IT CAN BE PASSED THROUGH THE FILTER. HAS TWO SEM'S AND IT HAS THAT WONDERFUL VOLTAGE CONTROLLED SEQUENCER......ONE OF TOM'S MOST EARLY BRILLIANT CREATIONS"

Gramercy Riffs - Oh Linda!

via stereofect

"It's from the Globe & Mail Travel section about Newfoundland (St John's to be exact) and the scene there. The print edition, where I spotted this, has another shot that shows the Yamaha DX27 (I think that's what it is) better than the one in the web version."

Gramercy Riffs - Oh Linda!
YouTube via thisisordinary
"Gramercy Riffs live at the Ship Friday August 07 2009. St. John's, Newfoundland"

Matti playing the Yamaha GS 2 with tabla drummachine

YouTube via RothHandle

"Me and Matti Bye have recently emabarked on a new project together...We are working on music for a production of Bröderna lejonhjärta at Stadsteatern in Stockholm. As always it is a pleasure to work with Matti and we have had three incredibly intense days and we have so far recorded five pieces for the show.

This little snippet was recorded with my cellphone at roth händle studios in stockholm.
If you are curious to find out more about the studio please visit www.roth-handle.nu for blogs, news and information."

Matti playing the Walton jami

"This film shows Matti recording a new piece on the finnish organ...the walton Jami. I picked this one up in Helsinki at a fleamarket."

Messing with a new module, the Bi-n-tic filter

YouTube via RothHandle
"O.K...So I am back after a long summer in the swedish country side. Before I start posting new films I thought I might just clean out my cellphone and post some films from may. This is me messing with a new filter.

This little mobile film was shot at Roth Händle studios in Stockholm. If you are curious about the studio or the instruments that reside there, please visit www.roth-handle.nu

Thanks for watching,

Mattias"

Treating Horns through the MOTM 440 filter

"A slightly old film of me treating some of the Horns from Antkowiaks upcoming album through my moduklar system using the motm-440 filter."

MXR-185 Drum Computer

YouTube via rolandsh1000

" Demo of my modified MXR-185 EPROM-based drum machine. A lot like the LinnDrum (I think it even weighs as much), but a bit kludgier: you can't change patterns on the fly, it seems to lock up when pattern data isn't defined as blank, et al. Still, I don't have the manual and I haven't dug too deep into the programming, so it might be much cooler (or much buggier?) than I'm aware.

The internal architecture is similar to the LInnDrum LM-2, in that it uses multiplexed clocks and also multiplexes the drum samples. The drum samples are mostly stored on 2732 eproms and seem to be linear (not companded though, like on the Linn). One lame thing is that the sounds are stored on the EPROMs in a scrambled fashion, such that the addressing is not linear. This is a problem because you have to know the scrambling order to make your own EPROMs (though I think the Oberheim PROMMER can burn them). The toms and the open hat have VCA enveloping (using CA3280s). The shuffle is really stiff, though - the microprocessor cyclically drives the control voltage of a master 555 clock and it doesn't sound great at all.

I modified this one with the same tuning circuits I used for the LinnDrum LM-2. The only one I couldn't get to work was the crash cymbal. I also added pots that modify the control currents that go to the OTA's that VCA the toms and open hat, so that allows you to change the decay of those samples.

Overall, the sounds are pretty punchy, though, and I think sonically it could compete with other similar EPROM based machines."