MATRIXSYNTH

Apeldoorn by night

YouTube via attorks | October 29, 2010

"Today my friend Anne and I returned from a short holiday in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. I had a fantastic time with her but that is not to difficult because she is a very sweet, lovely and beautiful woman. This afternoon I had some time to improvise with the Modulars and make some music. And behold the result.

The first sequence is an 8-step sequence from the Doepfer MAQ16/3 driving the self-built Modular. After that a 7-step sequence from the MAQ16/3 driving the Ian Fritz Teezer Through Zero VCO and MiniWave is activated. I transpose the sequences manual with a MIDI keyboard underneath the Modulars but you can't see that in this video. The Mellotron string/choir sound comes from the Roland XP-80. After that the 6-step sequence from the Synthesizers.com Q960 sequencer is introduced; at first single notes and later on the whole sequence driving the Synthesizers.com Modular doing the bass voice. Solo's and chords are played on the Clavia Nord Lead 1 and Waldorf Q Keyboard. I apologies for the occasional wrong note but hey, it's live and totally improvised. Also at the end the sustain pedal for the Roland XP-80 gave some problems resulting in some hanging notes.

The whole piece is some 33 minutes long and I will upload the video and music to my website soon."

USB-Octomod Demonstration

YouTube via surgesg | October 29, 2010
follow-up to this post.
"http://www.gregsurges.com/circuitry/u...
The USB-Octomod is a USB device which allows generation of computer-controlled analog synthesizer control voltages in the range of approximately +/- 5V. Using a small open-source and cross-platform host application, the user is able to control the 8 output channels of the Octomod through a simple OSC interface. The OSC interface allows composers, musicians, etc. to control the Octomod from their software environment of choice. PCBs, DIY Kits, and Fully Assembled Boards available at http://www.gregsurges.com/"

Octave Kitten vintage analog synthezier

via this auction

Drumfire adjustable preset dual channel drum synth

via this auction

"A versatile complement to Tama and Simmons gear."

360 SYSTEMS SLAVEDRIVER SYNTHESIZER

via this auction

"THIS IS THE 360 SYSTEMS SLAVEDRIVER. IT IS AN INTERFACE FOR BASS GUITAR THAT ALLOWS YOU TO CONNECT THE BASS GUITAR TO AN ANALOG SYNTH. THIS WILL WORK WITH ANALOG SYNTHS CAPABLE OF ACCEPTING CV SIGNALS VOLTS/OCT STANDARD."

Clavia Nord Rack 3

via this auction

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DIY Polivoks filter

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[diy] CHAOS DIVIDER SYNTH ,

via this auction

"The Chaos Divider Synth is a handmade Synthesizer from Weird Devices. It features three squarewave oscillators and a effect-unit. It produces very chaotic and rhythmic patterns. Imagine Nintendo Jazz! It is powered by one 9V Battery.

You can find some samples from the synth at diysynth.blogsport.de."

Jammer's Voyage

YouTube via JLMoriart | October 29, 2010

"I'm using the "Axis Tweaker" application which, besides converting your axis-49's to jammers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jammer_keyboard), also remaps your QWERTY keyboard to that same isomorphic note layout. (Isomorphic = same fingering in every key.)

I send midi out from the Tweaker to GarageBand where I play along with a backing track I made with a chord progression similar to (the same as?) "Maiden Voyage" by Herbie Hancock.

Ken Rushton (aka MusicScienceGuy), the guy who wrote the Tweaker, is a leader in making the playing of jammers possible:
http://musicscienceguy.typepad.com/blog/

More about wicki/hayden note layout:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicki-Ha..."