MATRIXSYNTH

Snow & synths in the Siena's countryside

via Obsil

"It's located in the Siena's countryside (Italy) and it's the place where I composed and recorded my new album Distances (CD on Disasters by Choice)."

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Clavia Nord Modular
Waldorf XT
Yamaha TG33

Grateful Dead Oberheim OBMX Synthesizer

via this auction

"Oberheim OBMX synthesizer with 10 voices installed. Grateful Dead logo and American flag courtesy of the previous owner. On boot up, the display indicates version 2.00, 11/27/95. The previous owner has indicated that the motherboard and all voice cards have the very last software/firmware updates."

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NAMM: Clavia Nord Piano

"The Nord Piano is designed with the performing musician in mind and is very lightweight at approx. 18 kg (39.6 lbs).

The Nord Piano comes equipped with several acoustic and electric pianos and harpsichords. Other pianos are available as free downloads from the Nordkeyboards.com website.

The sounds are stored in a Flash memory with a 512 MB capacity. This allows you to replace every piano if you wish and the sounds are kept intact in the memory even when the unit is turned off, no loading time is necessary. The sounds are available for free and easily exchanged by using the Nord Sound Manager application, which runs on Mac OSX, Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 computers. The Nord Sound Manager allows you to quickly organize your programs according to your needs and allows you to create backups of the entire content in your Nord Piano.

String Resonance
One of the Nord missions is to deliver more, in every aspect. Using the Nord Resonance Ready pianos (e.g. the R-labeled Grand’s and Upright’s), you can activate the Resonance feature on the panel, which will add this acoustic phenomenon to the Nord sound. The Nord crew has gone to great lengths to ensure an accurate reproduction of the acoustic resonance, using the actual sound of the source instrument in an extremely realistic way.

Nord Piano Pedal with extended functionality
The Nord Piano can use the new Nord Piano pedal, providing the functionality of all the three pedals found on an acoustic grand piano. The Nord Piano pedal functionality have been closely modeled to allow you to “play the pedal” in the same fashion as on an acoustic grand.

The soft pedal (also known as the una corda) makes the sound significantly softer. The sostenuto pedal in the middle provides the latching sustain functionality that sustains only held notes, when activated. When you activate the sustain pedal, you can hear pedal noise and the dampers being lifted from the strings. The force with which you operate the pedal will influence the levels of the components and you can even add percussive sounds from the mechanism by just striking the pedal itself. With the Nord Piano pedal (or a continuous sustain pedal from another manufacturer) you can also use half-pedaling and other techniques like “catching” released keys with the pedal, a unique feature on the Nord Piano.

Effects, EQ and Amps
Dial in your preferred sound with the effects and the powerful three-band equalizer with sweep-able mid, and save the settings with a quick double tap on the Store button. The effects in the Nord Piano are just as detailed as the piano sounds them selves. The tremolo adds that perfect vibe, the pan sweeps across the stereo panorama, and the auto-wah brings out the funk in you, like never before.

Whenever you want to spice up a sound with a beautiful phaser, a screaming flanger, a lush chorus, these are readily available. These modulation effects are modeled from a couple of highly desirable vintage effects.

The Nord Piano Speaker models faithfully reproduces the overdrive response of different amplifier/cabinet combinations, lending your sound that authentic feel. Select the desired speaker model – Small, JC or Twin – and use the Drive knob to add powerful tube amplifier distortion to your piano sound. Even the slightest amount will make a big difference to the sonic character."

Vember Audio Surge Demo #1

YouTube via BrontoScorpioMusic
"Dieser kleine Track ist ausschließlich mit dem Vember Audio Surge entstanden. Kein externen Effekte, EQs etc. wurden verwendet."

"This little track is created exclusively with the Vember Audio Surge. No external effects, EQs, etc. were used."

http://www.vemberaudio.se/surge.php

"Binary is beautiful

A digital recording is just a sequence of numbers. Easily quantifiable as ones and zeros, stored on physical media, combined together into larger numbers to form a continuous stream of data.

Until you listen to it. Then it becomes real.

Surge is an instrument capable of generating truly beautiful sequences of numbers. Your ears will agree with us.

More than the sum of its parts

Architecturally speaking, Surge is a rather complex synthesizer. But because of how it's put together it's still easy to learn. Once you do, you will turn the sounds in your head to audio faster than ever.

The effortless workflow, attention to detail and the sound quality can't really be appreciated without trying it yourself. We suggest you try the demo!"

Reaktor Fun

YouTube via BrontoScorpioMusic
"Eine kleine Session mit einem schnell gebastelten Reaktor Ensemble.

Es werden 2 Loops temposynchron abgespielt, mit dem Crossfader kann man zwischen den Loops hin und her faden.
Mit den Pads kann man zu verschiedenen Positionen der Loops springen (16tel).
Außerdem gibt es noch einen Bitcrusher den man aktivieren, und in seiner Intensität regeln, kann
Der erste Regler pitcht die Loops und der 2te schreibt das Signal in einen Buffer sobald er die 0-Position verlässt. Dieser Buffer wird wiedergegeben und durch den Regler verlängert.
Außerdem gibt es noch Fader für die Lautstärke der beiden Loops und einen Gesamtlautstärkeregler.

Das Ensemble ist absoluter Unsinn und wirklich nur zum Spaß gedacht ;)

MFG
Dennis"

Googlish:
"A short session with a fast reactor improvised ensemble.

It will be played 2 loops synced with the crossfader you can move between the loops and insipid ago.
The pads can be at different positions of the loops (16 step jump).
There's also activate a Bitcrusher the man, and settle in its intensity, can
The first regulator pitcht the loops and the 2nd writes the signal into a buffer as soon as he leaves the 0-position. This buffer is reproduced and extended by the regulator.
There are also slider for the volume of the two loops and an overall volume control.

The ensemble is absolute nonsense, and really only meant for fun;)"

FM222 Promo Feat: Simian Mobile Disco

FM222 Promo Feat: Simian Mobile Disco from will seelig on Vimeo.

Remokon demo by Craftwife

YouTube via tn800 In the Kraftwerk style.
"This is a demo for iPhone App "Remokon" by Japanese techno-pop girls group Craftwife, playing music with SuperCollider which is a free but powerful sound synthesis programming environment. You can download the code on www.craftwife.com : Daten"
On iTunes here:

Craftwife + KURONOZ （変身予告編）

For Craftwife + KURONOZ performance
on 5th Dec. 2009 at Aichi Art Center.

Red shirts, black tie.
What's my identity?

( and where's my Katalog?)

http://supercollider.jp/blo..."

Craftwife + Kaseo 03.11.2009