MATRIXSYNTH

The Toa Mata Band - Tiny Robots Playing Tiny Synths

Toa Mata Band - A little tribute

Published on Apr 8, 2013 Opificio Sonico·4 videos

"This teaser is a personal tribute to the band who inspired my work from the 80's ...enjoy!

The toys robots band playing live some tiny synthetizer and each member is controlled by an Arduino Uno which is hooked up to an iPad running a MIDI sequencer app.

The instruments used in this video are: Gakken SX 150 and SX 150 MKII, Dubreq Stylophone, Amdek PCK 100, Nintendo DS with Korg DS10 cartridge.
Arduino also controls the RGB LED WALL in the back.
Concept & Video by Giuseppe Acito

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Toa Mata Band Episode1 Published on Mar 5, 2013

"This video is about an electronic band of toys-robot that play some tiny music instruments drived by Arduino Uno and Clavia Nordbeat, a MIDI sequencer app for iPad."

Toa Mata Band - Episode2

Published on May 19, 2013

"Toa Mata Band is back and for the first time they perform live!
In this video some various drum-synth and glockenspiel keys are played by each robot and I'm jam together them.The performance was recorded live in four takes in early May 2013, and after edited and mixed in studio."

Yamaha CS-50 Analog Synthesizer

Published on Jan 19, 2014 MrFirechild·39 videos

"All sounds from the 1976 Yamaha CS-50 !
The Yamaha CS-50 is the baby brother to the mighty CS-80. Actually it has almost exactly the same Voice cards as the CS-80. However the baby brother has only 4 Voice cards where the CS-80 has 16 ! Also the CS-50 is lacking the velocity polyphonic aftertouch keyboard so even though the core sound is similar the CS-80 has a more organic and dynamic sound because of the better keyboard. The Kenton MIDI gives the CS-50 the ability to play with MIDI velocity for example controlling the filter depth. Unfortunately you can´t assign MIDI aftertouch to the CS-50 Touch Response section but only to the modulation section."

Yamaha CS-80 Analog synthesizer Part II

Published on Jan 19, 2014

"All sounds coming from The mighty 1977 Yamaha CS-80 analog synthesizer.
The song is called Ode To The Holy Grail Part II composed by Firechild."

Intellijel RUBICON modulated by Mutable Instruments TIDES thru zero FM

Published on Jan 19, 2014 heodesalciphron·179 videos

"good friends ;)"

Frequency Central Trans Europa Now Available

via Frequency Central

"Trans Europa is a CV processor/generator module powered by Electric Druid code exclusive to Frequency Central, with a number of unique features:

• Octave switching over 9 octaves
• Voltage controlled octave switching, CV input is bipolar +/-5V
• Semitone transposition over 1 octave
• Voltage controlled semitone transposition, CV input is bipolar +/-5V
• 8 Modes (see below)
• Glide feature, which can be applied either manually or by external gate.
• CV thru, you can patch a 1V/oct voltage source in Trans Europa’s Input, it will be replicated at the Output, with the benefit that all Trans Europa’s features can be applied."

Feminine Prerogative-Based Control Voltage Generator

via Chez Doc

"The FPBCVG is really a just a big patch that has been integrated and optimized in one module. The basic premise is a sample and hold triggered by a very complex train of pulses. The triggering pulse train is produced by recursive stages of sample/hold, each of which are brought out on the panel. Thus , the outputs get more complex from left to right on the panel. The output waveform is designed to model [my] wife’s earring selection process in the last 10 minutes before leaving Mabuse Manor for a theoretical soiree’"

Click here for additional modules by Chez Doc.

Note this is the first Chez Doc post.

Gangnoise Style by freeform delusion

Published on Jan 19, 2014 freeform delusion·144 videos

freeform-delusion on eBay

"Gangnoise Style

I've removed the original circuit (it wouldn't bend) and added a 4093 circuit to make some serious noise! He also moves which is a lot of fun!

His mods are:
Mono mini jack output
Colour changing LED in his nose
4 Controls to shape the synth sound
Three way toggle switch for noise changes
On/Off Button on his head

.fd. online
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Twitter - https://twitter.com/freeformd
eBay - Search for - Circuit Bent
My older Circuit Bending channel - http://youtube.com/eecouk"

Roland FA-08 Workstation Demo

Published on Jan 19, 2014 Hunart©·36 videos

"I had a chance to check out Rolands new child for 2 days. That`s why the demo is short but I tried to put as much sounds in it as possible without a mess. Pretty functional instrument and it`s good to play on.

No external FX used, altough I put a small amount of limiting on the whole thing.

Enjoy!

Hunart©"

You'll find full details on the FA-08 and FA-08 here.

ROLAND MKS-80 Rev 5 Super Jupiter with M-64C Cartridge

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Yamaha SS-30 analog string synthesizer

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"If you want classic analog strings ,this is what the Yamaha SS-30 excels at.All this machine does is make superlative string sounds - there's no Brass or Organ settings here. If you won't take my word for it , just look at the following Youtube link of Ultravox's 1982 Monument tour where two Yamaha SS-30s were used by Billy Currie and Midge Ure. [video here] This synth is all over the first 3 post-Foxx albums - Vienna , Rage in Eden and Quartet.Opening chords on The Voice , Reap the Wild Wind, Vienna,Hymn Also used a lot by John Foxx on Metamatic

This synth totally blows away the Moog Opus 3 , Korg Delta , Roland RS-09 , RS-202 and it's only competitor is the Roland RS-505 Many people looking at this auction will also have Peter Forrest's excellent A to Z of analog synths book and i would urge you to read his review of the SS-30:- "played in a realistic manner,sounds very good.Even without the Orchestra modulation on,it sounds very good.And through a classy hall room reverb setting it sounds very,very good.It just goes to show that it's better to do one thing well,than three things to a so-so standard" i think this was a little dig at the Moog Opus and Korg Delta and some of Yamaha's own SK range. The real beauty of this machine is the phasey string sounds which come from Detuning the oscillators and swithching on the ensemble mode. The Decay is fully variable and the whole thing is built like a tank and weighs a ton.."