MATRIXSYNTH

Sequential Switch Swing Clock (COTK C 962C)

Published on Oct 29, 2014 alternatingbitmusic

"Another use for the Club of the Knobs Sequential Switch is using it almost like a clock divider. Here I have two different pulse rates via an LFO, having a 3rd LFO sine wave determine the rate of channel switch, all pumping into the CLOCK IN on the SympleSEQ."

Volca Keys Acid 'Acidious Dorianski at the Volca River' KP3, Electribe + MT25d (Monotribe multimod)

Published on Oct 29, 2014 Arrayzable

"A little track that I have been been playing for a little while now.
On advice from 'Neon Horn' I have tried to vary the drums a little more than in my last couple of tracks.
On advice from 'The Phantoms Guest' I have tried exploiting this new modern thing called STEREO a bit more :D

Personally I enjoy playing this track very much - I hope you'll enjoy listening to it!

As always one take live session - No DAW.
This track was recorded on the miniKP2

Dedicated to my wife who puts up with my constant synth music playing and reading Jules Verne books!

Graphics and blinking colours on the television screen in the back ground is all by me and my awesome BASIC V2 programming skills on my Commodore 64 :D"

Audulus 2.9 Improves Contextual UI

Audulus 2.9 from Taylor Holliday on Vimeo.

"Audulus 2.9 adds the ability to hide the toolbar on iOS and operate the app via contextual menus. 'What you see is what you’ve built,' says developer Taylor Holliday. 'This is particularly useful on iPhone where screen space is limited.'

Audulus is a minimalist modular software synthesizer and effects processor. With Audulus, users can build synthesizers, design new sounds, or process audio. All with low latency real-time processing suitable for live performance.

Audulus 2.9 upgrades include:

- Non-Modal context menu on iPad. The menu won’t interfere with turning a knob.
- Reduced memory usage for making huge patches.
- Updated AudioBus
- Improved AudioUnit support on Mac
- By user request: add a Toggle option for the Trigger node.

Audulus for iOS is available on the App Store for $14.99. An iPhone 4s or iPad 2 is required.

Audulus for Mac is available on the Mac App Store for $29.99. Mid 2010 or later Mac is required.

Audulus for iOS can be used as a stand-alone instrument or in conjunction with Audulus for Mac, for a round-trip workflow between platforms. Users can begin a patch on one platform and finish it on another – iPad, iPhone or Mac – since Audulus syncs user patches via iCloud.

For more information, visit audulus.com."

iTunes: Audulus - Wilson Holliday
Mac Store: Audulus - Wilson Holliday

Ambient Progressive Jam (Moog Nord Prophet Tempest)

Published on Oct 29, 2014 Mitch Wiseman

"Nord released a new piano patch, mellow upright, so I thought I would try it out. Prophet and tempest provide string type pad sounds in the background. The moog is going through an MXR carbon copy, pretty much everything is going through valhalla reverb plugin."

1985 Doepfer Sound-Sampler German Ad

via synthmuseum.de

This is the ad for the Doepfer CV/Gate controlled modular sound sampler featured here. That one went up for auction back in 2007. You'll find some additional details in the post. The system was meant to be used with the Commodore 64 (C64).

Note this ad is from roughly 30 years ago. Doepfer's first ad was from the year before in 1984, also for the Sound-Sampling system, featured on synthemuseum.de here (previously posted here). I reached out to Dieter Doepfer asking him if this was the first eurorack module. He replied:

"Yes and no. The dimensions of the frontpanels of the Sound Sampler and the VMS (Voice Modular System) were already the same as what is now called eurorack. But the bus was different. Each pcb had a fixed dimension (100x160 mm) with a 64 pin edge connector. I realized that this standard would waste a lot of needless pcb space and the connectors were very expensive. Not to mention the costs for the bus board (about US$250-300 for each 84 HP bus board). So I developed another idea:

variable pcb space (i.e. only the required area of pcb space)
16 pin bus
variable length of the connection between module and bus by using a 16 pin ribbon cable (later also 10 pin if +5V, CV and Gate are not required)

The sound sampler was available also as a book published by ELEKTOR (with schematics, pcb and front panel layout, software for C64 and so on). ELEKTOR is the same publisher who published the FORMANT synthesizer."

Dieter Doepfer stated he still has a working version of the original Sound-Samplers.

For a timeline of Doepfer products, see here.