MATRIXSYNTH

Buchla 200e: 266e Sample and Hold Sequence

YouTube Uploaded by djangosfire on Jan 6, 2012

"Experimenting with the 266e Source of Uncertainty's "Stored Random Voltage " lower section. A 261e is used to clock the "sequence". The 266e grabs "notes" from a 281e falling transient (that is pulsed by the 261e). SO - as the tempo/frequency of the 261e changes . . so do the "notes" created.

The 258v VCO's are the target of the sequence. Using a 255 Control Voltage Processor to attenuate the 281e transient into the 266e - allows for sequence note modifications on the fly . . . the 261e clock is passed through the 255, and is used to balance the stereo imaging.

Lot's of manual knob twiddling - more experimenting - fun stuff!!!"

customScales1 - Cellular.m4v

YouTube Uploaded by rrr00bb on Jan 6, 2012

"Initial user interface for custom scales. Using 53ET based Pythagorean scales, with low quartertone put temporarily in just to show how it works. Legato and polyphony behavior are controllable now. This is ThumbJam being controlled, but SampleWiz does this correctly, and Arctic may have this working reasonably well in private beta builds as well."

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The NAMM Sleeper Synth?

See the update in this post. DO NOT MISS THIS.

Early Moog Modular Filter Bank Identified

See the top red update from Brian Kehew dated 1/6/12 in this post.

Mystery Arp Module Identified

See the update here.

GRAHAM MASSEY on Synths & the 808 State Sound

YouTube Uploaded by TerryFuckwitt on Jun 16, 2008

"808 State is an English electronic music outfit formed in 1988 in Manchester, taking their name from the Roland TR-808 drum machine and the "state of mind" shared by the members. They were formed by Graham Massey, Martin Price and Gerald Simpson.
This is their music video Cubik from 1990"

via A Guy Called Gerald, article via DJMag

"At some point the Roland 101, 202, 303, 808 and 909 machines became a set of kit that would all connect together happily and became affordable due to all the new midi/digital technology, making analogue a dirty word....

The sampler opened up a huge sound world to us and would be the key instrument in terms of giving a track an identity. For instance, the chords on 'Pacific State' were created by sampling a chord from a Juno 106 keyboard layered with a d50 string sound with a bit of filtering in the Casio FZ1 sampler. The bird sound on that record was an Akai sample demonstration disc of the Canadian Loon. "'Cubik' was again a multi sample stacked up with sounds from a Waldorf microwave and a Chase Bit 99 digital keyboard played by a Casio Midi guitar, which we had just got that day."

Click through for more.

New York School of Synthesis - Intro to Synthesis

Intro to Synthesis Part 1 - The Building Blocks of Sound & Synthesis

YouTube Uploaded by matrixsynth on Jan 4, 2012
Videos for parts 2 and 3 further below.

Update2: Dean also wrote The Complete Guide to Synthesizers, Sequencers & Drum Machines (on Amazon here).

Update: Details on how to get your own New York School of Synthesis T-shirt here!

Also see: The Yamaha DX7 II FD D Video Manual by The N.Y. School of Synthesis

Dean Friedman of New York School of Synthesis back in the day. This is a great intro to sound synthesis. Currently Dean is an indie recording artist with a slew of international chart hits and critically acclaimed albums to his credit. You can see what he's currently up to on his website www.deanfriedman.com and his YouTube channel www.youtube.com/deanfriedman.

I want to thank Dean Friedman for giving me the permission to put these up and swissdoc for sending them.

Dean Friedman on Wikipedia - be sure to see his full bio for his musical accomplishments. The following is just a portion pertaining to his book on synthesis, the "New York School of Synthesis", and this video:

"In 1985, Friedman produced a seminal work on the newly emerging synthesizer industry called Complete Guide to Synthesizers, Sequencers, and Drum Machines. Whilst dated, this tome is still of use in evaluating devices that crop up on the second-hand market. Friedman also set up the "New York School of Synthesis" and provided a series of videos entitled Intro to Synthesis'. Friedman presents the rudiments of this topic in an audio-visual format, whilst incorporating a unique sense of humor." Note the videos must be from 1988 or later as they reference the Korg M1. Thanks goes to Caixa in the comments for catching this.

You can find Dean's website here: http://www.deanfriedman.com/

Synth Trivia: At the end of the video the credits mention the synths were provided by The Music Connection in Happinger Falls, N.Y. I did a quick search on them and nothing came up.

Note: I added a link to this post in both the Synth Books and Synth Movies sections. There's actually two copies of Complete Guide to Synthesizers, Sequencers, and Drum Machines on Amazon [link] at the time of this post.

Intro to Synthesis Part 2 - Types of Synthesis & Programming Examples

Intro to Synthesis Part 3 - Additional Synth Features, Performance Controls & Wrap Up

Cybernetic (Studio Wormbone)

"'Cybernetic' from Studio Wormbone gives you a taste of what tomorrow will sound like. Intricately fluid transformative machine motions, robot vocalizations, megatron impacts and droid melodrama, this is pure metal-on-metal warfare!"

Pictured: Arp Oddy and an Evila Modular used in the creation of the soundpack.

Wolfgang Palm on the PPG Realizer

See the updates in this post.

Original 1978 Muson Synthesizer

via this auction

"This is an original Muson Synthesizer, a mini organ with a built in sequencer, created in 1978 by Mego Corp. I am the original and only owner. It is fully functional, but requires 4 D batteries (not included)."