MATRIXSYNTH

Roland HS60 Synth Plus 60

Note: Auction links are affiliate links for which the site may be compensated.

Answers To Questions 2: Juno-106 Panel Board Installation Secrets

Published on Jul 18, 2014 Syntegrator

"I was asked via private message to demonstrate how I install the Juno-106 module board to ensure all the buttons, faders and LEDs line up properly. Whether it's a Kiwi-106, an original metal panel or one with a SynthGraphics overlay, the tricks and techniques remain the same. This video details my approach in and covers all the relevant bases as I demonstrate the process."

Swinth Commodore 64 compilation in HD - C64 SID chip

Published on Jul 18, 2014 MrCaliforniaD

"Played on a REAL Commodore 64 with the 6581 SID chip.

I did not compose this and can't find out who did it. Sorry!

Songs:
- Theme from Stationnary Ark
- Saturdays in Silesia
- Excerpt from Vangelis's 'Spiral'
- Mike Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells'
- Theme song from Magic Shadows
- ???
- Oxygene II
- Pachelbel's Canon in D minor
- ???

From the program 'Swinth'."

Update via yeryry in the comments:

"Probably by Georg Feil:

COMMENT: All comments for this file are by Georg Feil himself and are denoted
by (GF).
"I wrote it around '84 or '85 as a demo for my music editor called
'Synth'. I was going to University of Waterloo at the time and just
gave it to a friend of mine... didn't even bother to put my name on
the thing. Anyway it soon started cropping up all over the place.
I never made any sequels with music, although there was something with
annoying sound effects done in the same style as Synth Sample that I
posted in the beginning of 1994. So any music you see that looks like
a sequel or has graphics added was done by someone else.
Anyway the computer bust of 85/86(?) hit and Synth was never marketed.
I had been negotiating with a software company but they went out of
business. By that time I was working on a new version of Synth that
was a sequencer program for Midi instruments (called MSS), and had
joined my first band. I've been in a couple other bands since then,
the last one was called SugarPush and we came close to getting signed
(but then broke up [...]). So I guess you can credit that little
program with launching my musical career..." (GF)
(#1)
TITLE: Stationary Ark
ARTIST: John Mills-Cockell
COMMENT: "Theme from Stationary Ark, a nature show on PBS. [...] It appears on
Synth Sample as interpreted by a friend of mine. I didn't know what it
was myself until I happened to see Stationary Ark one time. This song
does not play properly on some C-64's where the SID chip filter is
calibrated differently." (GF)
(#2)
TITLE: Saturdays in Silezia
ARTIST: Rational Youth
COMMENT: "A fluffy pop song I taped off the radio. Seemed simple enough to
render on the C-64." (GF)
Also used in the game Shocker.
(#3)
TITLE: Spiral [from Spiral]
ARTIST: Vangelis
(#4)
TITLE: Tubular Bells, Part 1 [from Tubular Bells]
ARTIST: Mike Oldfield
COMMENT: A little free-hand adaptation.
"I just thought this was ultra cool. Used as the music to The
Exorcist, unfortunately." (GF)
(#5)
TITLE: Magic Shadows, closing theme
ARTIST: Harry Forbes
COMMENT: "Magic Shadows was a half-hour movie show on TV Ontario, sort of the
Canadian equivalent of PBS. They'd show old movies in half-hour
installments. I have no idea if there's an album. I taped it off the
TV." (GF)
(#6)
TITLE: Funeral Music for Queen Mary
ARTIST: Henry Purcell
(#7)
TITLE: Oxygene 2 [from Oxygene]
ARTIST: Jean Michel Jarre
(#8)
TITLE: Canon in D major
ARTIST: Johann Pachelbel
COMMENT: "This is a very popular classical hit. I transcribed the notes from a
Transactor or Compute! article (this is the only Synth Sample piece
not transcribed by ear)." (GF)
(#9)
TITLE: Enola Gay [from Organisation]
ARTIST: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD)"

Building synth shelves and some gear pr0n

Published on Jul 18, 2014 Don Solaris

"Finally built myself a synth wall. Still under construction, these are just some of the shots from the progress."

Plogue chipspeech teaser

Published on Jul 18, 2014 The Plogue Channel

"We are proud to announce the third member in Plogue's 'chip' series, Plogue chipspeech.
A faithful software emulation of all major classic speech synthesis chips of the early 1980s, and a few surprises.

Its a synthesizer, not a Vocoder.
This video contains only a fraction of the hardware created/dissected for the creation of this instrument.

Coming soon..."

DSI Pro 2 - Taiho Yamada Demo

"This is a small selection of sounds from a bank that I just completed for the Dave Smith Instruments Pro 2. At the time of this writing, the Pro 2 has not yet been released. I hope my sound submissions eventually make it into the factory preset banks. Thanks to everyone at DSI for allowing me to contribute!"

Taiho Yamada worked on the Alesis Andromeda A6 and was the man behind the M-Audio Venom (click through for a review, interview and tips & tricks on the Venom).

Buchla jam: "Le sang d'un poète"

Published on Jul 18, 2014 batchas

"Excerpts taken from 'Le sang d'un poète' by Jean Cocteau (1930) .
Music = Buchla patch from July 15, 2014"

EurekaSound/Evaton MKAdapter at Summer NAMM

via Evaton Technologies

"The MKAdapter™ is on display at the EurekaSound booth (Exhibit Hall A, Booth 634) at Summer NAMM.

Just spotted this tweet from Keyboard Magazine, who stopped by the booth and snapped a photo"

Pic of the packaging with instructions.

Let's Play with iMPC Pro

Published on Jul 18, 2014 Tim Webb

"iMPC Pro is a major upgrade from the previous iMPC. In this video I try to condense some good workflow tips into 20 minutes. This Let's Play was suggested and voted on by Patrons! To support this series please consider sponsoring them on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/user?u=107612

Be sure to visit http://discchord.com for this and other music app news!"

iTunes: iMPC Pro - Akai Professional

DSM01 Curtis Filter Demo (RRich)

"A prototype of the first analog synth module offered by Dave Smith Instruments, a Low Pass Filter with additional VCA, based on the Curtis chip used in the Prophet08, Prophet12 and other DSI synths. It features VC Resonance, a switch for 12/24dB/Octave and a switch for Boost to drive the filter harder.

This demo is just a simple arpeggio, going through various knob positions with and without some echo, just to show a range of sounds."