Happy New Year from MATRIXSYNTH! A Quick Look Back at 2017

Happy New Year everyone!

We have to keep this one short as the festivities are about to begin of course.

I just wanted to wish everyone a happy 2018! Keep strong and remember you are never alone. At least not as long as MATRIXSYNTH is around! :) I hope this site provides an escape for everyone. Remember to take time out to play your gear!

As for gear... In 2017 we saw a total of 764 new products featured on the site along with 119 new makers on the scene. We also saw 29 vintage products never featured on the site before. The following is the break down (you can click on each to bring up the posts in reverse order. Note only 20 posts per page will load so don't worry about overwhelming your browser):

14 New Cases
28 New Controllers
106 New DIY projects
119 New Makers
63 New Mobile Apps
343 New Modules
80 New Soft Synths
40 New Sound Machines
9 New Sound Packs
32 New Synth Effects
106 New Synths
47 New Tools
29 New Old Products

Update: 1/8/2017: I forgot to mention the stand out posts of 2017! You can find them here. There were 62 this year. These are essentially the rare and oddball synths you may not have known existed or you rarely ever see.

No New Years post is complete without a look back at who we lost in the synth community. This year we lost five:

William Onyeabor - Nigerian Electronic Funk Pioneer as well as Nigeria's 1st Moog Dealer
Ikutaro Kakehashi, Founder of Roland
Mika Vainio of Pan Sonic
David Alan Luce - Former President of Moog Music & Creator of the Polymoog
Pierre Henry

I hate ending on a sad note, but we can't forget who we lost.

I wish everyone a great 2018. Make the best of it!

Thank you for taking the time out of your busy days to visit the site. Thank you to all who take the time out to create the videos showcasing the gear we love, and of course the makers who make the gear that inspire us. And finally, thank you to all the supporting members of MATRIXSYNTH, and of course the sponsors you see via the banners on the site!

See you on the other side! :)

Analogue Solutions TREADSTONE synthesizer - Audio Demo #1 SYNTHBLOCK

Published on Dec 31, 2017 rezfilter

"Take it up a notch!

Here's an audio demo of the Analogue Solutions Treadstone SynthBlock synthesizer -- basically, this video features a variety of sound types using no external processing. All FX you hear in the video are from the Treadstone.

In this lengthy video, MIDI and/or CV was used to trigger the synth, and all examples were live tweaking captured to DAW.

More to come!"

Vintage Synth Lab : D-ENV

Published on Dec 31, 2017 Vintage SynthLab

"The D-ENV is two modules in one. A utility and effect, for both module functions. A standard exponential analog envelope generator (AR/ADSR), plus a Delayed Gate / Trigger & Gate-Hold with independent access to all both module functions, yet linkable via the push of a front panel switch--in order to route either a Delayed Gate or Delayed Trigger to the inertial AR/ADSR as initial EG triggering or additional "re-trigger" of the AR/ADSR function."

Update:

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Buchla Music Easel - Sound Sketch #21 (BME and KASTLE V1.5)

Published on Dec 31, 2017 ozashikiTECHNO

"Buchla Music Easel and BASTL INSTRUMENTS KASTLE V1.5 CV Test
Effector: El Capistan
Recorder: Fostex MR-8mkII"

Goodbye 2017

Published on Dec 31, 2017 Joe Miller

"A final jam for the weirdest year in recent memory. Recently studying the Octatrack and this came from that.

Patch concept: Lock clocks from Octatrack to modular and use some sampled and sliced beats along with Modular improv.... and OT delay freeze FX trigs.

Patch Notes:
Mostly sequencing everything from Stillson Hammer mkii. Telharmonic makes some weird FM plucks on Ch 1. Mysteron on Ch2 provides the waveguide hits with modulation to the decay cv input. Telharmonic N output makes a high freq hi hat style pattern on Ch3. STO makes a kick drum on Ch4. Rings is on Ch5 with the output being gated from Batumi (square output on a clock divided sequence). Clouds processes a sample on Ch7. Everything hits the DLD which returns on Ch8.

Octatrack hosts a drum sample on Ch1 and HH sample on Ch5. Modular is Thru on Ch7. Master as Ch8. Various freeze delay on each channel."

NEW YEARS EVE 2018 BASH Korg Minilogue Roland fa 06 tr8 jdxi jdxa ,mc 808 cyclone tt78

Published on Dec 31, 2017 PLUCKA,S SHED

"A qiuck put together of something to bring in the new year"

Melting Point - Need for Storms [[Eurorack Ambient]]

Published on Dec 30, 2017 Need For Storms

Theme for 2017 - Moog System 55, Ben Crook, Peak, Modular

Published on Dec 30, 2017 Ehsan Gelsi

http://eeeeee.bandcamp.com/

Follow-up to this post.

Third Eye Insight (Ambient Sub Phatty) - by POB

Published on Dec 31, 2017 Patrick OBrien

"This track is a one-take live performance with the Moog Sub Phatty (and the Eventide H9).

...along with some trippy visuals."

Stare at the red dot in the center, relax and let yourself space out on the visuals. Then look around the room. :)

Rydeen Cover on the Juno 60

Published on Dec 31, 2017 Praxis Axis

"My cover of Rydeen by Yellow Magic Orchestra was made exclusively with sounds sourced from the famous 1981 Juno 60 synthesizer.

I made the percussion samples with noise and self oscillating resonance, and sampled them all to the relatively recent MPC Live. Apart from recording on the DAW, that's all the gear.

And dogs."