MATRIXSYNTH

Tempest Bass Incinerated By Industrialectric

Published on May 21, 2018 Perfect Circuit Audio

"In this video you are hearing the drums from the Dave Smith Tempest Direct and the bass sound through the Industrialectric Incinerator. The Incinerator is a dual distortion/fuzz with different modes, power starve, and self oscillation.

Incinerator available here: https://www.perfectcircuitaudio.com/c..."

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New Old Stock TB-303 Main/Switch Board Assembly

Here's an interesting piece of synth history. A TB-303 replacement board original from Roland tech support. It's available at LA Synth Co for $4000. Here is the description captured for the archives:

"Never used, never separated TB303 Main + Switch boards. Works perfectly, only powered up twice for functional testing. Less than 15 minutes operational use time under our watch.

Switch board and CPU are joined and were never cracked apart. This is how they were manufactured and this step was done upon final assembly.

In great condition. Has a slightly misaligned ENV MOD pot which is likely why it never made it into a completed 303. It was probably meant to be reworked and never was. The pot works and there is no damage or irregularity, It just wasn't fully seated on assembly. This could be rectified easily by a competent tech. Due to the rarity of the piece, we decided to leave it alone, but we can fix it for you if you want upon purchase at no additional cost. Also for full disclosure, it has a very small amount of dust on it in the corners and crevices because it was found in an unsealed antistatic bag. Very minor stuff.

Has been carefully stored in a sealed antistatic bag in box inside a box inside a safe for the last 10 years .

This is a real collectors / museum piece. Very few if any 303's still exist in this condition."

Musica Automata - Music for Computer Controlled Robots

More acoustic than synth, but you can't help but think of the creation of sound coming full circle. We've come from real world acoustic instruments to synthesis, to the automation of synthesis, and now, the automation of real world instruments. If you'd like to fund this project you can do so on Kickstarter here. This one was sent in via Piero of TipTop Audio and Station 252 on Vimeo.

From the Kicstarter campaign:

"Musica Automata is a name of an upcoming album by Leonardo Barbadoro, an Italian electronic music producer and electroacoustic music composer from Florence known also under the alias Koolmorf Widesen. The album will include music for robots controlled from a laptop computer.

These robots are more than 50 acoustic instruments (piano, organs, wind instruments, percussions etc) which are part of the Logos Foundation in Gent (Belgium). They receive digital MIDI messages that contain precise informations for their performance.

Musica Automata is a multi-sensorial experience where the listener can hear and view where the sounds come from; one can observe the robots and find a precise correlation between the movement of the instrumenst and the sound perceived.

The robot music performance, due to its extreme precision, can often surpass the ability of a human performer and, therefore, introduce completely new expressive possibilities. However next to the precise digital controls, the real performance and acoustic sound of instruments playing in a real acoustic space is preserved. Despite this particular instrumentation in fact, it’s the music that leads the instruments and not the opposite; the emotional impact of the music is still there due to the versatility of the robots, which are not limited to mere artificial reproduction.

It’s a performance that comes from a human idea, however devoid of direct human contact with the instrument. This means that the conceived musical idea, once processed and translated into MIDI language, is executed by robots without losing its artistic value in any way."

Moog Grandmother sound test and popup factory tour

Published on May 21, 2018 loopop

"In this video we get to know the people and process behind building Moog's new Grandmother synth, as well as get a taste of what it sounds like.

Like Moog's Mother-32, Grandmother is a semimodular analog synthesizer. But Grandmother has a few new tricks up her sleeve: a classic spring reverb (we get to see the spring in this video!), two oscillators, faithful reproductions of Moog's vintage modular components, hard sync, a keyboard and more.

In this video I test the sounds of a few of these new components, as well as get a factory tour for an inside look on how Grandmother is built. Moog relocated Grandmother's production line from Ashville to Durham for Moogfest."

Sensory Percussion w/ DFAM live at Moogfest 2018

Published on May 21, 2018 Mason Self

"I've been really excited about using Sensory Percussion to control / play / interact with a modular set up. Stoked to have the opportunity to demonstrate some of my ideas alongside Sunhouse at Moogfest this year.

This is a short piece I performed to demo some possibilities. My goal was not just to play some synths on the side while using SP, but to really blend the craft of drumming and synthesis. I'm using MIDI from Sensory Percussion, translating it to CV, and using that to play the DFAM.

Translated to CV, the Controls from Sensory Percussion (timbre, velocity, speed) become modulation sources. I'm using those modulators to control VCO EG, VCF EG, VCA EG, and VCO pitch on the Moog DFAM.

I'm also using modulation from Sensory Percussion to navigate the Make Noise Rene. The quantized pitch out from Rene is getting summed with different Midi Note values from the rim tip and rim shoulder of the snare via Make Noise Maths, allowing me to flexibly modulate the sequence every time I go to a new chord."

Mellotron Mini Through A Strymon Magneto - The Basics

Published on May 21, 2018 John L Rice

"Mellotron Mini keyboard into a Strymon Magneto eurorack module into a Mackie 402-VLZ3 mixer into a Canon C100 video camera into an Atomos Ninja Blade recorder.

Thanks for watching!"

"Bandas in my suitcase" Korg Volca Bass Frenzy

Published on May 21, 2018 Ludwig Kopp

"Sequence synth jam with (2 voices) from Volca Bass with midi out mod as the main sequencer.

Erebus plays the third voice with saw & pwm.
The heavy fx comes all from the Erebus patch itself.

There's no added FX or post processing."

New Oakley ADR30 DIY Analogue Delay Line and Chorus Module

via Oakley Sound, where you'll find full details and build instructions. A snip for the archives:

"The Oakley Sound Systems ADR30 is an analogue delay module that processes audio signals to create echo and chorus effects. It uses two Xvive MN3005 bucket brigade delay (BBD) integrated circuits to produce a very distinct 'vintage' sound. Classic companding noise reduction circuitry further adds to the sonic characteristics.

Delay time is controlled by a single control on the front panel as well as a built in low frequency modulation oscillator and/or an external control voltage. With short delay times using the modulation oscillator can create both subtle and deep chorus effects. A front panel switch controls whether the signal runs through one or both MN3005 devices. Anti-aliasing filtering is achieved by two 6-pole discrete switched capacitor low pass filters that track the delay time, giving the maximum audio bandwidth for the specific delay time. Thus short delays remain reasonably bright sounding while longer delays become increasingly dark. Delay time can be varied continuously from 15ms to 300ms in short mode, and 30ms to 600ms in long mode.

The unit is mono but features separate outputs for the wet/dry signal and the delayed signal. The audio input and outputs are balanced but are compatible with non balanced connections. A two LED level meter helps you keep signal levels at optimum ensuring a respectable signal to noise ratio without clipping. The unit will not be damaged by driving the unit into overdrive and interesting sounds can be obtained by deliberately doing so, either by turning up the input level or by allowing the feedback to build up to self oscillation. Although the unit does feature noise reduction circuitry the delay line devices are inherently noisy and have a very restricted bandwidth. The signal will deteriorate in an interesting manner as the delay time is increased and/or feedback is heavily applied."

Frequency Central - Where? (Rotary Switcher / Signal Router)

Published on May 21, 2018 DivKidVideo

"Here's a passive, mega useful, super simple, 4 to 1 or 1 to 4 switch! It's a two channel device with a nice clunky rotary switch (feels good) that takes 4 inputs and routes that to 1 output , or takes 1 input and routes that to 4 different outputs for manual and performance led switching and signal routing on the fly. The Frequency Central Where? does a good job to save pulling cables mid patch, which is always a winner in my book."