MATRIXSYNTH

Sunset Drive

Published on Jan 29, 2017 davidryle

"SUNSET DRIVE by Tangerine Dream. From the movie "Wavelength".

An exercise in simplicity of motion. The beautiful ideas expressed by TD were well defined in this piece with six basic elements.

1. The Bass line is made by a combination of two trigger patterns mixed into a row of 901 Moog style (Moslab) oscillators, which are run through the quintessential low pass Moog ladder filter - 904B (Moslab).

2. The wandering, hollow sequence below is a synthesizers.com Q119 into four vco's and another ladder filter - Q150 in -12dB two pole.

3. There are a pair of intertwined ratchet chuff percussive sounds which I took upon myself to imagine. In reality Chris Franke probably used a more common single voice to interplay against the wandering sequence but I found the rapid hocketting sound to fit well in the 1980's era TD style. These lines were generated by an STG Soundlabs voltage mini store sequencer and a Switch module into a pair of Q106 vco's in soft sync.

The bass line and ratchet sounds are both sent through a 73B Dual Delay from Modcan.

4. The stab chord is a unison double-octave G from the Roland JX-8P. The patch is "Whitewidow" and is modified quite a bit. I am not so certain this was the synth used by TD for this particular song, but it seemned to work well.

5. The flute sound is a sample from Sampletron of the Mellotron Mark V 'Mltron Fultes'. I used a bit of delay in Sampletron and a little Valhalla reverb to thicken it.

6. The middle portion glassy sound is again the Roland JX-8P with the 'Waveaura' patch. This patch is all over TD's 80's music and particularly prevalent on"Wavelength". I used the patch as-is and another duplicate track with some modifications. Quite a bit of Lexicon reverb and delay was added.

All clock timings were generated using midi and sync24 from Cubase. The main clock base in the modular was the Suit & Tie Guy Time Divider and Integer Divider modules. The Moon Modular 563 Trigger Sequencer was used to generate the main lower bass line timing and the STG Soundlabs TMS was used for the upper bass line. A Q960 was employed to fine tune the levels between the two bass line elements. A Yusynth AC/DC mixer was used to mix the envelopes and control voltages to the filter and vca.

I am a long time fan of Tangerine Dream and particularly fond of their sequential modular work over the last forty years. The music can be purchased from http://www.tangerinedream.org/."

Plant Music #4 – (MIDI Sprout + Metasonix)

Published on Jan 30, 2017 Smokey Quartz

"In this experiment, the MIDI Sprout is a 'one-plant band', playing the drums and synthesizer. The MIDI signal coming from the Sprout are being sent to both the Metasonix D-1000 drum machine and the S-1000 Wretch Machine. With some MIDI tools in Ableton, I’m restricting the signal to 4 notes to play the D-1000. The Polygamist is also shown being manipulated but it is only sending control voltages to the S-1000, it is not heard in this video. Reverb is coming from the Metasonix R-56 Spring Reverb module just outta sight about the D-1000. I don’t start touching the succulent, a Crassula falcatta, until about 1:20."

All parts here.

DEEPMIND 12 SEQUENCER TUTORIAL

Published on Jan 30, 2017 once upon a synth

"Behringer Deepmind 12 sequencer tutorial. In this video I go over how to use the control sequencer which is a modulation sequencer that you can assign to any parameter in the mod matrix. I like to think of it as a fancy LFO. In fact you can replicate some common LFO shapes with it and use it as a 3rd LFO as well."

Klangwerkstatt Bingen – "Hard Egg" (Techno Improvisation)

Published on Jan 30, 2017 Punkfurt

"Synthesizer Improvisation with:

- electron analogfour
- electron octatrack
- modular (Doepfer, Mutable, etc.)
- nord lead 2 rack
- moog mother32
- akai rhythm wolf
- korg kaosspad 3
- arturia beatstap (pro)
- strymon bigsky"

Roland Promars MRS2 Synthesiser

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"Overall, the synth is in superb working condition. The front panel is very clean, with hardly a mark to be seen, just small blemishes. The wooden side panels are really tidy with only minor marks. The back panel is very good with only minor marks to the paintwork.

All knobs, sliders and switches are present, original and function correctly.

The unit has been fully tested and the oscillator tuning and scaling confirmed. A new memory battery has been installed. "

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Roland System 100 101

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"Overall, the synth is in outstanding working condition. The front panel is very clean, with hardly a mark to be seen, just small blemishes. The side panels have minor marks only. The back panel is very clean with only a couple of blemishes to the paintwork.

All knobs, sliders and switches are present, original and function correctly.

The unit has been fully tested and the oscillator tuning and scaling confirmed."

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MOOG MEMORYMOOG PLUS

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Realistic Concertmate MG-1 Synthesizer by Moog Music SN 7021

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"The MG-1 was built by Moog for Realistic (sold by Radio Shack). Very good way to get some Moog sounds... It is is an analog synth, Designed by Moog with a genuine Moog filter. It can produce sawtooth, square and pulse waveforms, and the oscillators are detunable and syncable. An envelope called contour can be applied to both the amp and the filter. Another section provides triangle or square wave patterns as well. A slider on the far right side of the keyboard controls the volume of polyphonic organ sound. There are RCA inputs and outputs but no external speakers. Works great and it's in immaculate shape for a 35-plus year -old synth."

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