MATRIXSYNTH

Moog Filtered Ale in the Wild

flickr by brotherloco

Two shots.

Top: "Moog (Humidity) Filtered Ale"
"No digital nonsense here, just a fogged lens from the humidity."

Bottom:
"Sweating in the Carolina humidity. Happy Summer Solstice!"

Moving

YouTube via willrobinsonensoniq — June 21, 2010 —

"While working on an 80's ballad, this song came into fruition. With a little inspiration from my fellow You Tuber's.
See TheSynthFreq http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXpmj1... [on MATRIXSYNTH]
mootbooxle http://www.youtube.com/user/mootbooxl... [on MATRIXSYNTH]
mik300z http://www.youtube.com/user/mik300z#p... [on MATRIXSYNTH]
And you will understand.
I use the basic "four on the floor" bass drum to get the show started with the TS 12's Patch-Cord siren sound. Add some high-hat and delayed snare with a bass line and we are off to the late 70's early 80's.

The usual influences are there; Go West, Vibraphonic, Duran Duran, and The Rippingtons to name a few.
Let's all have a fun Summer. Ballad to follow later on..."

"Tags: Ensoniq TS 12 VFX SD Korg M3r Roland 20"

Pittsburgh Modular VILFO Synthesizer Module Influence Control Voltage Test

YouTube via amphonic — June 21, 2010 — "Here is a quick video showing the Voltage Influence in action. The VILFO on the left is sent to the volt/octave input of a dot com oscillator playing a triangle wave. A second VILFO (on the right) is routed to the "Influence Control Voltage" input of the VILFO on the left. Only the VILFO on the left is controlling the oscillator.

Sorry if that sounds confusing."

MFB-Kult DrumMachine Demo

YouTube via Cokabit — June 21, 2010 — MFB Kult Demo

SX-150

flickr by Easy Skywalker

"Now with resonance pot! SCREEAAMM!!"

Quasimid Rave-o-Lution 309 and x0xb0x with Gakken SX-150

Dreamsong 1983

YouTube via JeffreyPlaide — June 21, 2010 — "Dreamsong 1983 was my very first use of creating experimental music with the use of a multi-track recorder way back in 1983. Essentially it was an unsuccessful attempt at creating an interesting pop tune with a synthesizer, but I was young, and inexperienced in the structuring of musical compositions. This was the first composition to use multi-track facilities, and it was great to use the magic of over-dubbing, sound-on-sound effects and tape echo. This was a revelation for me in 1983. The track was produced using a very primitive setup only - just an open-reel tape recorder and a stereo cassette deck for mastering. The Realistic Concertmate MG-1 portable synthesizer was used. The bassline consists of a filtered and detuned sawtooth waveform. The melody and rhythm (short noise pulse reversed and played manually) were also created by the MG-1. The vocals were pitch-altered and tape-echo applied. The voice sounds female, but is in fact a male voice pitch-modified. No digital effects were used, and no equalisation applied. No rhythm units used and no sequencing. There weren't even any mixing facilities - only the use of a small mono mixdown box. The TEAC A-3400 4-track open reel recorder created the magic behind the composition. This classic analogue mutli-track model from TEAC came with sync-function and 7.5 and 15 inches per second tape speeds. There was also a pitch control and independent inputs and outputs for each channel. This machine was an affordable means to capture musical ideas by the solo musician in an era when cassette-based portastudios were a relatively new invention. Later on, experiments with tape loops and tape-splicing provided even greater means to create sound collages and special effects. In 2010 I re-mastered the work from metal audio cassette processed with dbx noise-reduction. The mono composition was given pseudo stereo by delaying left and right tracks very slightly and hard panning left and right and equalised to increase the bass. Dreamsong 1983 is important for me, in that it is the first real original experimental composition produced by any means."

CR-68 MIDI Input

YouTube via shiftedphase — February 03, 2010 — "A quick overview of the MIDI input circuit I built for the Roland CR-68 drum machine."

Elmood Modular Synth 1.0

YouTube via shiftedphase — February 14, 2010 — "My self-designed and self-made modular synthesizer as of Feb. 2010. Each of the current modules are demonstrated and explained."

My Lab

shiftedphase — October 27, 2009 — A short tour of my lab.

K4815 Pattern Generator Prototype - Elmood

YouTube via shiftedphase — April 21, 2010 — "A quick introduction to the K4815 modular synth pattern generator by Andrew Kilpatrick. Soon to be released in a Eurorack format. This is an early beta showing some of the basic functionality. More to come..."

K4815 Pattern Generator Prototype - Demo 2

"shiftedphase — April 30, 2010 — A quick demo testing the MIDI clock function of the K4815 Pattern Generator prototype. Here you can listen to some of the different clock divisions, patterns and see just how fast this thing can go. The synthesizer playing is a Roland Juno-2."