MATRIXSYNTH

Tuesday, February 01, 2011

JEN SX1000 vintage keyboard analogue synhesizer

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"The Jen was/is a simple one oscillator synth with lots of options for creating interesting sounds. No midi, no programmes just rich analog loveliness!"

Powertran Transcendent 2000 Synthesiser Demo

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"It is an unusual single-oscillator fully analogue monosynth produced in kit form by Powertran, UK in the late 1970s. It was used by legendary producer Martin "Zero" Hannett on Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures" album - mostobviously on the track "Insight" where it can be heard wibbling away over Peter Hook's bassline.

As befitting a synthesiser designed by Tim Orr, the man behind the extraordinary EMS Synthi, the Transcendent 2000 has a couple of little surprises up its sleeve, namely:
1. The ADSR envelope generator can be set to repeat mode, turning the envelopes into a second (low-range) LFO
2. The ADSR envelope generator can be bypassed, allowing the oscillator to sound indefinitely, perfect for drones, wind noises etc
3. The oscillator has 2 waveforms, a variable square and a triangle. Somewhat unusually, the later's shape is adjustable from a ramp to a sawtooth allowing some rather subtle, delicate timbres to be created.
4. There is also VCF input that takes the supplied expression pedal, allowing the filter's cutoff to be played like a wah-wah. Talking of which, the filter can self-resonate with the best of them and can be switched between bp and lp modes.

Sound-wise, this synth excels at abstract drones and soundscapes, random machine noises, flowing leads and rather haunting solo violin type sounds. It's certainly no Synthi but it capable of far more sonic goodness than its simple architecture might suggest!"

Powertran Transcendent 2000 Demo by The Purple People Strings
"All sounds (including drums and percussion) generated by my Transcendent 2000. Recorded in Reaper with a little delay and reverb added afterwards.

The Transcendent 2000 was an English single oscillator monosynth produced in kit form in the late 1970s. Designed by Tim Orr of EMS, the synth was used by Joy Division on their debut album "Unknown Pleasures". Examples are now extremely rare."

Linndrum w/ xtra sound set

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"This unit includes the original manual (not photocopy), power cord, plus the original sound demo tape, the original sound presets tape, and four extra sound chips as shipped from Linn and in their original packaging. The 4 additional factory sound chips included are:

Bass 14
Snare 11
Rim 2
Tom 8"

E-MU DRUMULATOR WITH MIDI

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VINTAGE ANALOG SYNARE DRUM SEQUENCER SYNTH

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1970s whippany electronics rythm master RM-20 beat machine

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"117v 60hz preset (push button) beats for: rock 1, rock 2, mambo, cha cha, bossanova, rhumba, polka, western, foxtrot, waltz. has on/off level control & adjustable tempo/start control. weighs 3 1/2lbs. measures 12" x 7" x 2 1/4'"

MAXON (ibanez) AD-100 Vintage Analog Delay

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BOSS RRV-10 Digital Reverb Micro-rack series

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"Nine reverb modes create appropriate sounds for everything from large halls and small rooms, to gated and reverse reverb. Pre-equalizer plus Input Cancellation system turns off the effect without abrupt cut-off of the reverb sound. New noise reduction circuitry minimizes noise."

Roland System-100 model 101

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ROLAND TR-330 Vintage analog drum machine

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"Rare early Roland drum machine (early -mid 70's). This is on eif the amplified versions with the option of playing through its own speaker out by line out. Fat analog sounds and includes a tempo marked metronome.
As was often included on early japanese manufactured items is a changeable voltage switch. Covers all voltage types from 100v - 240v."

YAMAHA SK20 SYMPHONIC ENSEMBLE POLY-SYNTH

YouTube via kenbarr80 | January 26, 2011

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Waldorf Micro Q Phoenix Limited Edition Synth

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"ONLY 500 OF THESE BABIES EVER MADE IN THE WORLD... THATS VERY RARE AND EVEN RARER IS THE FACT OF IT GLORIOUS CONDITION...."

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Roland CSQ-100 Sequencer

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1974 Experimenting with Electronic Music, 1st ed.

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"Published the very same year electro-industrial pioneers Kraftwerk released their breakthrough album "Autobahn," here's a wonderful, rare book covering virtually everything you ever wanted to know about music synthesis and reproduction. Within its pages is an overview of the history of electronic music, from RCA's tube-based Mark I to modern solid-state synthesizers, with photos of the Minimoog and the Moog Sonic Six, as well as the Tonus ARP 2500, 2600, and Soloist consoles. For you tinkerers out there, the book also contains numerous construction projects, including two (2) separate transistorized theremins complete with detailed alignment instructions. All projects come ready-to-build with full schematics and parts lists.

Contents include:

* Musical Electronics

History - Mechanical Tone Generation - Electronic Tone Generation - The Music Synthesizer

* Sound and the Electronic Signal

Sound - Harmonic Motion - The Sine Wave - Additive Synthesis - Square Wave - Sawtooth Wave - Beat Notes - The Envelope - White Sound - Using the Complex Wave

* The Instruments

Mechanical Tone Generators (string, wind, and percussive) - Experimenting

* Microphone and Pickup Applications

Principles - Ceramic and Crystal Applications - Homemade Ceramic - Homemade Percussion - Dynamic Microphones - Magnetic Pickups - Homemade Magnetic Pickup - Condenser - Impedance

* Building a Small Electric Organ

Tone Generation - General Construction - Tremolo Modulator - Mixer - Homemade Keyboards - Combining the Stages

* The Electronic Modifiers

Tremolo Circuit - Envelope Control Circuit - Trigger Circuit - Attack Envelope Generator Circuit - Photoelectric Modulator - Reverberation - Chime Device - "Fuzz" Circuit - Sustain Circuit

* Electronic Tone Generators

Multi-waveform Generator - Pink Noise Circuit - Two Theremin Projects - Automatic Percussion Circuit - The Almost Nightingale - Mini-Organ

* Odds and Ends

Two-Channel Mixer - Three-Channel Mixer - Voice Selector - Variable Bandpass Amplifier - Active High-Pass Filter - Resonant Filter - Tube Filter - Tape and Echo

Apart from a little cover wear, the book is in very good condition. 180 pages. First edition, copyright 1974. This item ships WORLDWIDE."

Pencil Synth

Pencil Synth from Wake Me For Coffee on Vimeo.

"555timer, few components and a pencil for drawing the musical interface and pitch bending."

la belle indifference: "Best friends"

la belle indifference: "Best friends" from Wake Me For Coffee on Vimeo.

"This is our new song we made while performing in China at the Notch09 festival

'you are my best friend - I am your best friend!'

great fun with the talk box"

DIY Synth Building Course at Harvestworks in NYC

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"I'm teaching a 5-day long intensive course in synth building using CMOS chips. It's designed for entry level students with little or no electronics experience. It's hands-on and starts with a structured introduction to electronics theory, oscillators, and electronic sound, then moves quickly into a self-guided projects completed in class.

More in formation on the course can be found here:
http://shar.es/XPwN4

Sign up ends this Friday, Feb 4th! Class begins on Feb 7th. If you know someone in New York who would be interested in this class, please let them know about it.

The official short description:

This 5-day intensive course is designed to be friendly to those who are just getting started in electronics and have a curiosity in making their own electronic musical instruments. Students will review the basics of electricity, identify components, learn how to read and write schematics, design and build their own custom modular synthesizers from the 4000 series of CMOS logic integrated circuits.

A student of mine from the last class held in September of 2010 put together this really amazing video"

cigar synth & spring reverb from Wake Me For Coffee on Vimeo.

"Thanks to Phil Stearns for intruducing me to the CMOS technology. Also thanks to the people at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center for their patience and support."

::vol:: Manual Jam with buttonboards

::vol:: Manual Jam with buttonboards from ::vtol:: on Vimeo.

"Volfram on solo

Corvax on bass

Sonora as rhythm machine

::vtol:: - buttonboard 1

Alex Pleninger - buttonboard 2

more info - vtol.tk"

Untitled

Untitled from joseph raglani on Vimeo.

iMKS-50

YouTube via iControlMIDI | January 31, 2011 |

"iControlMIDI.
Plug & Play iPad Editors for Vintage & Software synths.
iMKS-50 for Roland MKS-50 / Juno-1 / Juno-2.
Site: http://www.icontrolmididesign.com"

iPad prices on eBay

Note you can build your own with TouchOSC or S1MidiTrigger. See this post for an example.

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene IV - Live

YouTube via Nimanty | February 01, 2011 |
ARP 2500
"Jean Michel Jarre at young age, performing his Oxygene IV in the Dutch television show 'TopPop'.
Notice his random play on the keyboards, an obvious playback performance, much more common back in 1978.
At the time, his performance with all the synthesizers alone gave the audience a huge enough impression. Many even wondered how he could perform the song all by himself.

Images enhanced in colour, sharpness and contrast and soundtrack remastered for better clearity and stereo imaging.

Enjoy! - Nimanty -"

Kinect Drawable Synthesizer

YouTube via roboczar | January 25, 2011 |

"You draw buttons, and they become key you can play. See the impromptu sound board video for a demonstration of drawing buttons."

Impromptu Sound Board

roboczar | January 23, 2011 |

"Using the Kinect, I can create buttons by just drawing enclosed shapes on a piece of paper! The kinect identifies those regions as buttons that can be activated when I press them with my finger. This program uses ROS, the openni kinect drivers, and software I wrote here at MIT. You can find the code in the mit-ros-pkg repository."

TH_PhaseShifter_01

flickr By fonitronik

"I finally finished the build of this module... it was hidden in the drawer for 2 years, since it did not work. but yesterday i traced all problems down and got it right..."

9-17-10 good hair

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Brainwave controlled monotron

YouTube via bitmat23 | August 23, 2010 |

"This is a brainwave controlled synth i made for a mate for his birthday. The frequency of brainwaves is sent from the sensor digitally to the base station, all I have done is mod the monotron to have a cv/gate input and added a few components to the force trainer to output a voltage determined by the brain activity sensed."

Shruti synth rgb cv controller ball

YouTube via bitmat23 | January 31, 2011 |

"this is an accelerometer chip in a ball that controls an rgb led and also outputs control voltages to a fantastic little synth called the shruti-1 (available as a kit).
I've also added a softpot which is controlling the mix between vco1 and vco2."

The Electric Golem CD Release & Performance

via The Electric Golem on Facebook

"Saturday, February 5 · 5:00pm - 7:00pm
State Of The Art Gallery
120 W. State Street
Announcing the CD and Digital release of The Electric Golem's debut album. The Electric Golem are: Trevor Pinch & James Spitznagel. Come join us for a mini-concert of electronic/ improvised/ experimental music featuring The Electric Golem (of course) and Laika and the Luddite Machine. We are hosting this event at the fabulous State of the Art Gallery in downtown Ithaca."
See the Trevor Pinch label below.