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IDOW & MATRIXSYNTH Modular Pic of the Week - Week 2 Contest Winner!

"Our second winner of the Modular Pic of the Week contest goes to Ben Edwards for his 'Buchla and Friends.'

Ben Edwards runs an electronic music studio in London which houses a large collection of vintage synths and recording equipment. He composes and records music as Benge, and has released 10 albums on his own Expanding Records label. He also writes and produces with other artists, the latest project being with John Foxx under the name The Maths.

Studio blog: http://myblogitsfullofstars.blogspot.com

We'd like to give a big thanks and congratulations to Ben Edwards for his submission! This is the 2nd week of a 30-week contest, and we are looking forward to many more modular photo submissions, so please keep 'em coming! For details on how to submit and what you can win, see this post.

For more info on the upcoming 'I Dream of Wires' documentary, be sure to see the trailer and IndieGoGo fund raising campaign here."

See the IDOW label for all posts pertaining to the film including the weekly contest winners.

Korg M3R demo parte 1 by S4K

YouTube Uploaded by Space4Keys on Nov 6, 2011

Uploaded by Space4Keys on Nov 6, 2011

"Korg M3R demo parte 2 by S4K ( synth workstation expander)

performed by Covy

http://www.space4keys.com
http://www.keyboardsolo.com"

Octatrack + Sylenth1 = Minimal Sunday

YouTube Uploaded by n3bsvid on Nov 6, 2011

"A little minimal techno jam with the octatrack sequencing sylenth1. All synth sounds are from sylenth1. Drum sounds are from the octatrack.

Hardware:
Elektron Octatrack

Software:
Lennar Digital Sylenth1"

Follow-up to:
Octatrack + Sylenth1 + Collision + Revolution = Minimal Saturday

Ipad, Iphone Music App Scribble Synth

YouTube Uploaded by musicgearvideos909 on Nov 6, 2011

"Demo of the Scribble Synth by Brady, Brady, & Brady. A great little app for children to doodle around making sounds as they draw on the screen. As you can see I got my 2 year old to test the app out. I recorded the demo using the Ipad but the Iphone version is just as great. I also tested out the low light capabilities of the Iphone 4S to film the demo. The audio is recorded live into the Iphone microphone."

Scribble Synth - Brady, Brady, & Brady
iPads on eBay
iPod Touch on eBay

"Introducing My First Studio Scribble Synth.

Teach your kids the joy of noodling around on a synth by doodling around on a synth.

Created in conjunction with Music Vs Physics, this waveform synthesizer is controlled by scribbling and converts your child's drawn line to a synth line in real-time.

Each colour represents a different waveform and they can select from six different arpeggiated scales."

Saving a Novation UltraNova

YouTube Uploaded by PhilipClevberger on Nov 4, 2011

"This UltraNova was almost thrown out. It was taped inside a broken midi controller case, and everyone thought it was just a midi controller in a very poor state."

Inside a Novation UltraNova.

Battered Novation UltraNova, X0XB0X, MFB 522

Uploaded by PhilipClevberger on Nov 4, 2011

"Down at the London Hack Space, resurrecting a neglected Novation UltraNova striped down to the circuit board. Jamming along with X0XBox and MFB 522"

Ambitron

"Ambitron is an experimental electronic synthesizer that employs granular synthesis in two separate and programmable layers each with extensive FX and Modulation Matrix modules which provide the user with maximum control over unique sound creation.

Ambitron comes with scores of samples built in but can also support the import of user samples in .wav format for sound creation that can be customized to user preferences and musical styles. As an experimental synthesizer it radically departs from standard "bread and butter" type instruments and is meant to be used as a laboratory for the exploration of new sonic and timbral creations that would be difficult to achieve any other way.

The nature of Ambitron is that it allows for sonic evolution over time and with the use of the various granular controls allows the user to create sounds that have a life of their own and do not repeat in any kind of expected or predictable manner. It is ideal for ambient soundscapes or virtually any type of experimental genres. When used with a midi controller or host these various controls can be manipulated in real time thus further enhancing the sonic possibilities.

Ambitron is meant to be played with and as the user becomes more familiar with its various controls and parameters the possibilities for sounds that are surprising and unexpected are greatly enhanced.

The sonic permutations possible with Ambitron are limited only to the user's imagination and creativity."

Two demos via brian comnes:

via brian comnes: "The second shorter MP3 has the same sample played against itself. It's a dry verbal sample but it gives you a feel for what the instrument does. If you plug in nicer audio samples, well you get even better results. It ships with 212 presets so you can go all week and never get bored."

Sequencing Animoog with Fruity Loops over Wifi

iPad app Animoog as a MIDI output device from a PC over WIFI using Fruity Loops

YouTube Uploaded by HarfordHackerspace on Nov 5, 2011

"A video showing Animoog on the iPad running as a midi output device in fruity loops studio so that it can be sequenced" Details here.

iPads on eBay
Animoog - Moog Music Inc.

Mutable Instruments Shruthi 1 Synthesizer

via this auction

via the seller:
"I professionally built this myself and it has a rare and nice looking black on white display. It does not include a case, but I never used one with it. Has never been gigged, only played a couple times. It has the SMR4 filter installed, which sounds a lot like the SSM2044 (korg polysix etc). Real smooth and sweet with a good amount of resonance!"

Full specs:
Digital/analog hybrid monosynth.
2 digital oscillators

band-limited sawtooth with adjustable phase
band-limited square wave with adjustable pulse-width
band-limited triangle wave with adjustable waveshaping
phase-distortion emulation of a low-pass filtered sawtooth (casio CZ-101)
phase-distortion emulation of a low-pass filtered sawtooth with high resonance (casio CZ-101)
phase-distortion emulation of a low-pass filtered sawtooth in the Rocker Launcher’s world in which sine waves are turned into triangles (casio CZ-101)
mysterious phase-distortion thing (could have been in the CZ-101 if the engineers at casio dared…)
phase-distortion emulation of a Jew’s harp / Morsing (could have been in the casio CZ-101)
stack of 4 detuned sawtooth waves (with aliasing)
simplistic FM (1>2 configuration), with adjustable modulation index and frequency ratio
wavetables, wavetables, wavetables!
sweepable table of basic waveforms
tampura transwave
PPG harsh creature
single cycle waveforms taken from D50 patches
cello transwave
slap bass transwave
organ/drawbars single cycle waveforms
male voice
user wavetable, can be edited by SysEx messages
harsh, aliasing-full waveforms obtained by bit-toggling
sine wave with variable amount of bitcrushing
poor man’s square with pulse-width modulation (plenty of aliasing but fat for basses)
colored noise (sweep from low-pass filtered white noise -> white noise -> high-pass filtered white noise)
lo-fi vowel synthesis (think “speak and spell”) with vowel morphing

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