MATRIXSYNTH

Moog DFAM & Mother 32 - In Depth Review

Published on Jun 22, 2018 Andertons Music Tech Dept.

"Jack and Alex try out Moog's latest modular tools to see what crazy rhythms and melodies can be created with the Mother 32 and DFAM."

Rakit Metal Synth (Working Name)

Published on Jun 23, 2018 Rakit

"A new 'metal' synth prototype, it makes a variety of metallic (and sci-fi) sounds using shaped noise."

via Rakits.co.uk where you can find more pics and a newsletter sign-up.

"A new prototype percussion synth has been in the works for some time now and it has finally emerged.

The prototype features:

White noise, ‘metal’ and external sound sources
A Polivoks style filter with switchable bandpass/lowpass modes
Sweep for subtle to sci-fi sounds
Adjustable decay and tails contour generator
CV controllable filter cutoff & Gate Input

The Prototype
Initially we went through a few filter circuits before we settled on a polivoks style filter (think abusing op amps). The unit is able to create classic synthesised metallic sounds, hi-hats, cymbals and even an approximation to a snare.Just like our drum synth, you can coax interesting and useful sounds out of the unit, but as you dial it up you get all sorts of crazy. As an added bonus the filter works as a third voice for sci-fi laser sounds.

The white noise and ‘metal’ sound sources are produced by an 8 pin attiny. The VCA is a long tail BJT pair, which on the final unit will contain a matched NPN transistors pair soldered on by us. We thought about matching pairs by hand but we don’t have the time and its unfair to make the customer do this themselves.

A lot of mods have been made to get the unit working so another prototype run will be made before a product can be launched. But I’m hopeful it will only take one more board spin.

Currently we are pretty pleased with the sound palette and fitting any more components would be near to impossible, but any feedback will be considered.

MOOG DFAM RARE Silver Moogfest Model SN 0004

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"This is #4 of the first DFAM units.

All functions & patch points have been tested. Sounds Great !!!

Look at the picture of the patch bay because some of the inputs are different than the current production models.

There are 2 mounting screws missing & the front right corner has a dent in the wood."

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Studiologic Sledge 2.0 Polyphonic Synthesizer

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61 key polyphonic synthesizer with Aftertouch

Enhanced polyphony, up to 24 voices

Split or Layer mode, play two sounds at the same time

Load up to 60MB of sound samples in the internal Flash memory

Up to 999 programmable Sounds

Fast and efficient sound selection via numeric keypad

Enable Pitch and the Hold separately for the Lower and Upper sounds

Enhanced Reverb and Delay effects with blend control

USB compatibility, design sounds on the computer and load into Sledge 2.0

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Vintage Roland JX-8P Analog Synthesizer w/ Original Box

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Winter NAMM '12 - Misa Digital Kitara Digital Guitar
Digital Guitar cover of Skrillex / Benassi - Cinema

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"The Misa Kitara is a digital MIDI controller and musical instrument developed in 2011 and discontinued in 2013. It allows for a guitar player to produce a synthesized sound using techniques and motions referential to guitar playing.

The Kitara was the first digital musical instrument to combine the use of touch buttons for strings and frets with an 8 inch multi-touch screen. The player controls sound effects and parameters through this display, as opposed to strumming strings like on a traditional guitar. The display allows for comprehensive control as well as a wide-variety of noise and effect production. The produced sound changes based on the position, number, and movement of fingers on this display.

The Kitara uses an internal wavetable synthesizer with effects to generate sounds by itself. The Kitara is powered by an open-sourced Linux based CPU, making it possible to reprogram the Kitara, modify existing sounds, and program new ones.

Watch the videos in this link to get a up close look at how it works."

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