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Quasimidi Sirius Synthesizer

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"There was only one proper commercial bank of additional presets released for it, and they are also installed. It has the last EPROM chip in it that was made - v2.05. (note the chip was made for USA market, but this synth is built in Germany - see the serial number tag) Serial 51564."

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Social Entropy Engine Multitrack Sequencer

Published on Jan 28, 2016 Synthtopia

"At the 2016 NAMM Show, we talked with designer John Kimble about his Social Entropy Engine Multitrack Sequencer."

Avalon Bassline Synthesizer

Published on Jan 28, 2016 Synthtopia

"Here's an overview and demo of the Avalon Baseline Synthesizer, an evolution of the Roland TB-303."

Endangered Audio Research AD4096 + Funk Box

Published on Jan 28, 2016 Bimini Road

Playlist:
Endangered Audio Research AD4096 + Funk Box TR77 Drum Machine
Endangered Audio Research AD4096 + Funkbox TR-808 Drum Machine
Endangered Audio Research AD4096 + Funkbox TR-909 Drum Machine
Endangered Audio Research AD4096 + Funkbox Rhythm Ace Drum Machine
Endangered Audio Research AD4096 + Korg iMS20

"This is a demo of the now legendary, long-out-of-circulation Endangered Audio Research AD4096, with the Funk Box TR77 running through it. Very few videos show what the AD4096's Infinity Mode is useful for, which is crazy to me, because I feel like that's the best, most unique part of this pedal. Infinity Mode can be tuned to creep on the edge of self-oscillation in a really organic way. New signal pushes old signal out - and in that way it's almost like a looper, or even a tape bleed emulator.

Although a guitar pedal, mixing artists contact us all the time to tell us how they use the AD4096 on drum busses - especially for dub music! I think the AD4096 is killer on drums. You can get a really loose spring-reverb-like tone from short delays.

The Momentary Expand switch shorts the Depth pot and sends it into self-oscillation - the faster the clock speed (the Time knob turned to the right - "backwards" of how most pedals work), the faster it will run wildly into speaker-blasting range. However, with Infinity Mode engaged, you don't get the ever-louder-and-louder signal - it's "limited" because the new incoming signal pushes out the old. Also, if the Depth is turned all the way down, it becomes a momentary off switch.

The Delay line is a more traditional dark, fat analog delay sound, whereas the Echo line has a elevated, rarefied glittery tone. It's almost like an LPF and an HPF line. It also arrives just barely later than the Delay line. It overdrives beautifully, and thanks to its FET transistors, it has an almost tube-like breakup. The combination of these characteristics, along with the totally unique Infinity Mode, makes this the most tonally flexible and musically useful analog delay pedal ever made.

We get almost daily emails about these pedals at Endangered Audio Research. This unit is going to be donated to Oberlin College's TIMARA program when I'm done making demo videos for it, so don't bother trying to buy it from me. We are going to add more delay time with an aftermarket mod that will be available to the public, but first, I'm making a bunch of videos with different sound sources to show what the original sounds like.

EAR is also making a new, updated version of this later this year with expanded functionality, but gotta love the original unit - named one of the best 30 guitar effects in the world by Premier Guitar Magazine.

I don't deal in unprocessed, "clean" demos, because I don't believe it shows you more about the effect you're using. Nothing exists in a vacuum, especially music.

Signal Chain:
iPad - AD4096 - Universal Audio Apollo 8 Duo - Neve 1073 Unison Preamp - Studer A800 - Ampex ATR-102 - A.O.M. Invisible Limiter

http://www.biminiroadelectronics.com/...
http://www.endangeredaudioresearch.com
http://www.timara.oberlin.edu/

Contact me at mark@endangeredaudioresearch.com to reserve a new version of the AD4096, or to inquire about the aftermarket added delay time modification.

By the way, if you're a hater who thinks $375 is too much for 300ms of delay, you should get a digital delay and run it through a LPF. This pedal is not about time - it's all tone, baby.

Here's a link to Funk Box - a total must-have iOS drum machine. It's a fully featured drum machine with a bunch of different sounds from all sorts of classic analog and digital drum machines. It's only $5, and you are fooling yourself if you think the "real thing" sounds better.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/funkb..."

Akai AX80 Vintage Analog Synth

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E-mu Morpheus rare zplane synth

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VERBOS Amplitude & Tone Controller // MAKENOISE René // HARD & SOFT

Published on Jan 28, 2016 LESINDES

"Further explorationsof the screaming LoPass Gate VERBOS AMPLITUDE & TONE CONTROLLER with MAKENOISE RENÈ and ENDORPHINES FURTHRRRR GENERATOR + MUTABLE CLOUDS."

Korg Minilogue - Synthesizer Review - MIDIVERSE - TV

Published on Jan 28, 2016 MIDI-VERSE TV

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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - EARS - Album Teaser

Published on Jan 26, 2016 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

https://soundcloud.com/western_vinyl/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith

"Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith will release EARS, her newest album of vibrant synthesizer explorations mixed with orchestral instruments and vocals, April 1st on Western Vinyl.

'In recording Ears, my intention is to take listeners on a sonic motion ride through a futuristic jungle. I am inspired by the works of Moebius and Miyazaki - in particular the film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind – and I wanted to play with visceral sounds that pull one between feelings of beauty and dissonance, chaos and order. My hope is that, on a straight through listen, in a darkened room, on a loud stereo, Ears will inspire a rich visual narrative in listeners' minds.'

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www.kaitlynaureliasmith.com

Video by : Eran Hilleli http://eranhill.tumblr.com/"

You might remember Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith from previous posts here on MATRIXSYNTH. According to Kaitlyn, "My primary instrument is the buchla music easel, I also used on that track - an arp 2600, synthi, OSCar."