MATRIXSYNTH

New Expert Sleepers Disting MK4 Firmware v4.8 Update

Published on Sep 19, 2018 Expert Sleepers

New in firmware v4.8.

disting mk4 - Quantizer 2
disting mk4 - Audio Playback with Crossfade
disting mk4 - Sample triggering and polyphony via MIDI

Bach Goldberg Variations Aria with Synthesizers

Published on Sep 19, 2018 once upon a synth

"Playing Bach's Goldberg Variations Aria with two synthesizers (Moog Grandmother and Korg Mono/Poly). This is, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written. I cannot do it justice with my playing, but I love it enough that I decided to try. To get a true sense of the piece I urge you to listen to Glenn Gould's 1981 recordings."

Virus Ti2 - AE Private Collection - 128 ambient patches (2018)

Published on Sep 19, 2018 Alba Ecstasy

"Presenting a short track using 4 patches from the new #AmbientPatches for #VirusTi2 I created for my personal use, for the last couple of years.
Patches can be purchased from here: https://www.albaecstasy.ro/virus-ti-p..."

Posts You Don't Want to Miss

I've added thumbnail icons on the top of the site, right under the Sequential banner. Clicking on them will take you to the corresponding posts. They will feature what I consider to be the biggest news featured on the site. Remember to regularly check the New Gear and Popular Posts links on the top right of the site as well.

Update: It turns out the thumbnail icons were good in idea but not so good in practice. I've opted to bring back the Featured posts label and go with a new menu bar up top.

Here's why the thumbnails were a bad idea:

1. Once they drop off the front page they get lost. I created a "roll off" page to host the thumbnails, but over time that page would likely get too large to load. It makes more sense to just give them the FEATURED label.

2. The thumbnails were all set for the same height (100 pixels). As the width of images vary so does the overall width of the section. One too many and the last thumbnail wraps to a new line. One short and it just throws the formatting off.

3. Upkeep of the thumbnails and the "roll off" page was clearly going to be too much maintenance.

4. And finally, I am prone to error. I found a couple of the thumbnail links had typos in them or were incorrect. Not good. Going back to the FEATURED label should eliminate that problem entirely.

Secret music of the Spectrum

Published on Sep 19, 2018 Jason Hotchkiss

"Long before I could afford a sequencer or a DAW I thought this was awesome :) This was recorded on the wonderful Fuse emulator but I do still have a speccy!"

MIDIfied Tesla Coils

Published on Sep 19, 2018 Jason Hotchkiss

"Just about ready with 'Tesla Organ' for Fort Process sound art festival this weekend in Newhaven, UK https://fortprocess.co.uk/

This is a quick test with a MIDI file of Bach's Toccata & Fugue in Dm

Two solid state coils based on Steve Wards design with connected secondaries, floating ground and independant feedback antennae. Running at c.100VAC.

MIDI file played from a PC into a PIC microcontroller which generates 2 voices of square wave audio, optically linked to the SSTC drivers"

Tesla coils controlled by Stylophone!

Published on Sep 19, 2018 Jason Hotchkiss

"My MIDI controlled Tesla coils controlled by my Stylophone MIDI controller... it had to happen!

All sound is from the coil and it does sound more musical IRL (excluding my playing) but the crackling of the arcing does drown out the notes when recorded on my camera"

KORG MAXI-KORG 800DV Analog Synthesizer (1975) The sound of Human League, Soft Cell, Vangelis...

Published on Sep 18, 2018 RetroSound

"(c) 2018 vintage synthesizer demo by RetroSound

KORG MAXI-KORG 800DV Dual-Channel Analog Synthesizer
Made in Japan 1975

2 separate Mini-Korg 700S
inside one keyboard with all controls one vco per voice + sub-osc., ring-modulator, 2 envelopes, lfo, traveler filter....

Used by The Human League, Vangelis, Kitaro, Soft Cell and more."