LED Sculpture In Large Glass Jar- The Tree That Destroyed Me- Circuit Bent Diabo

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"LED Sculpture by James Gramling of Diabolical Devices titled: The Tree That Destroyed Me.

The tree is made if coper stranded wire mounted of brass. Contained in glass jar which is about 10" tall. Runs on standard 9 volt (tip positive) power supply."

I'm guessing the Diabo in the title is short for Diabolical Devices. Would love to see a video of this thing. Curious if the LEDs flicker.

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KORG DW-6000 Demo&Review

Published on May 1, 2014 musictrackjp·240 videos

DEMO by Katsunori UJIIE.
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G-STORM ELECTRO 16-Step MIDI Filter Sequencer w/ MS-20 Mini and Drumtraks

Published on May 1, 2014 gstormelectro·54 videos

"All audio/video content c.2014 g-storm electro
http://gstormelectronica.blogspot.com/

Following two months developing code and playing with breadboards I present this quick demo of the recently completed DIY digital 16-step control sequencer. This sequencer was designed for controlling filter steps on an MS-20 mini. The sequencer puts out variable step control voltages up to +5 volts and synchronizes to midi start/stop/clock messages. To achieve control over 16-steps with only 8 pots, I employed a toggle switch that can program steps 1-8 or steps 9-16 without reading changes until the pot positions are changed. All the control processing happens on the Arduino Mega. I have prototyped two circuit boards for this project. The first is a midi shield. The midi shield features one minijack control voltage output, one midi input with an opto-isolator, and one midi thru port. The second board I made is a panel control used for the pots and LEDs. The Arturia Beatstep is the master clock and is sending midi note data to the MS-20 at the same time the step-sequencer is controlling the filter with control voltages. The Sequential Drumtraks"

Created a new G-STORM ELECTRO channel label for these moving forward. A search on gstormelectro will bring up previous posts including some software synths by gstorm. I believe this is the first hardware design.

Ninja Gaiden - Act 1 (Nintendo Music) - Minimoog Model D (embedded in a case)

Published on May 1, 2014 MrCaliforniaD·45 videos

Mobile Templates Enabled on MATRIXSYNTH

Just a heads up. Reading MATRIXSYNTH on your smartphone should get a lot easier.

Industrial Radio Midi Bass Guitar

Beta testing of IR midi bass "imprint" technology

Published on Mar 31, 2014 MIM Men Imitating Machines·12 videos

The two videos in this post make you wonder what things might be like if the guitar was the very first interface for synthesizers in the early days, back when it all began with Moog & Buchla deciding what the interface should be.

"Jarman got to hang out with Steve Chick from Industrial Radio, makers of the midi bass and do some beta testing of the new firmware and midi break out box. This is a cut back version of hours of playing and discussion of all thing midi bass, life, love and the new firmware featuring 'IMPRINT' the next generation of midi bass."

Note Steve Chick is the man that designed the Peavey Paradox analog synth just posted here. There's actually one other post on Industrial Radio here on MATRIXSYNTH from back in 2009.

via Industrial Radio:

"Industrial Radio is the home of the Midi Bass, a bass guitar that combines classic bass design with unbeatable MIDI controller functionality. Each Midi Bass is a finely-crafted electric bass guitar fitted with Industrial Radio's unique FretSense™ midi system which provides incredibly low latency midi tracking on all notes. The Midi Bass is highly playable and allows you to combine your regular basss sound with synth sounds."


In the studio with some novation heritage samples.

Published on Mar 3, 2014

"A little bit of live skweee MiM are working on for the set for their 2014 European Tour. All sounds in the track were made with the classic Novation sample library. The guys use midi drums and midi bass to play electronica live using ableton live. The envelopes of the bass and live visuals are controlled by the kick and snare in real time........so much future."

Meng Qi Squishable Modular Synth Workstation

via Meng Qi

"Squishable Modular Synth Workstation is a self-contained modular synth instrument. It has 3 parts that are all essential to the playing and composing experience.

Sidrassi is a analog modular synthesizer with 7 independent voices, each voice has 6 CV patch points, thus you can modulate each voice with audio signal and gesture signal from other voices. Sidrassi is designed by Peter B (http://www.ciat-lonbarde.net) and SMSW uses Peter’s original PCB.

VM (Voltage Memory) is interally connected to control pitch of 4 voices / main pitch / timber of Sidrassi. It provides save/recall feature, and it offers a vast number of modularized recalling methods. Thanks to it, SMSW can save 84 sets of tuning, so you can play complex chords, melodies and tonal music pieces. As well as complex automated pitch changes controlled internally or externally .

2 of AM (Arcade Manifold) provide a very versatile realtime re-patching and mixing system. And the format jumber feature allows SMSW to be connected to external modular system with ease*. Thanks to them, SMSW allows composers and players to travel anywhere between angelic triangle choir and demolic modulated chaos in absolute realtime, as well as connecting your SMSW to your other modular systems.



Designed based on Meng Qi’s vast experience of Sidrassi building.

*for safety of SMSW, please keep the incoming CV in 0-9v range."

Doepfer A102 Diode Filter Part Three- Basic Filtering

Published on May 1, 2014 Raul's World of Synths·263 videos

"Next Segment in the Doepfer A102 Diode Filter series. This time we explore the sounds created with basic filtering with the Doepfer A102 Diode Filter. Sound and Video by Raul Pena."

All parts here.

Super Rare Peavey Paradox Analog Synthesizer

Some pics via Christopher Steller on Facebook

Note the engine is a 1U rackmount. The knob laden control panel is a break out box. Rumor has it only 4 of these made it to production.

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HardwareJam | NighttimeHardwareJam

Published on Apr 18, 2014 Ra Pha·7 videos

"EMX1sd,Monotribe,Volca Beats Keys Bass,Microbrute,MFB522 - fully improvised Hardware Set; no further editing, no computer used, no multitracking -
starts with equal patterns as in the nighttime jam session but its the morning after and the outcome is somehow quite different, again no concept was in mind, just having fun with the gear"


Published on Apr 18, 2014

"HWnighttimeSet; gear incl: microbrute emx1sd monotribe all 3 volcas mfb-522
Recorded me simply playing the boxes chaising the lights and listening to the sounds that come out, no DAW nor final mastering included, computer only used for recording"

via Raphael Beck on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge