MATRIXSYNTH: Wednesday, July 5, 2006


Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Conny Plank's Studio For Sale


Synths include: ARP Sequencer model 1611, Roland JD800, Emulator II, Yamaha DX7-II, Oberheim OBX-a, ARP Odyssey, OSCar, and Korg VC10 vocoder as well as a Fender Rhodes Mark I and Leslie 760 solid state.

Via Music Thing (via this auction). Pics saved below for posterity.

More on Conny Plank on Wikipedia. I first heard of Conny Plank via Ultravox. Some excerpts:

"During the 1970s Conny Plank produced and/or engineered many of the most important recordings by significant German progressive/experimental music acts (given the derogratory label krautrock by the UK music press at the time), including Kraftwerk (Kraftwerk, Kraftwerk 2, Ralf und Florian, Autobahn, and the precursor album Tone Float), Neu! (all their recordings), Cluster, Harmonia, Ash Ra Tempel, Holger Czukay (Can), and Guru Guru. His long association with Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius of Cluster began in 1970 and endured until his death."

"Plank, via Bowie and especially Eno, in turn had a strong influence on many acts of the New Wave period in the late 1970s and 1980s. Neu!'s Hero is said to have been a major influence on John Lydon's work with his post-Sex Pistols group Public Image Limited. Eno produced an album for DEVO (another overseas act strongly influenced by Plank's work) and enjoyed a fruitful collaboration with Talking Heads and David Byrne, followed by an even longer and more successful partnership with Irish band U2. The earlier work of Australian band Hunters & Collectors also showed unmistakeable signs of familiarity with Plank's production techniques, and they were one of many international acts who recorded with him.

Plank's other production credits include Echo and the Bunnymen, Les Rita Mitsouko, Einstürzende Neubauten, Annie Lennox, Astor Piazolla, The Damned, Miranda Sex Garden, DAF (including the classic single Der Mussolini) and Nina Hagen."

"In the eighties Plank remained in high demand with the new generation of electronic pop and New Wave artists, including DEVO, Ultravox! (Systems of Romance, Vienna and Rage in Eden), Freur and The Tourists (Luminous Basement)/Eurythmics (In the Garden). He also worked on pop and rock productions with artists such as The Scorpions, Clannad, Killing Joke, Play Dead, and Gianna Nannini (Latin Lover, Sogno Di Una Notte d'Estate, Tutto Live and others, also credited for music)."

Roland Offers Zero Down for a Year Program

"Los Angeles, CA, June 23, 2006—Roland Contemporary Keyboards is proud to announce the Keyboard Acceptance Program, the latest consumer financing program offered by Roland U.S. With this new zero-down, zero-APR-for-one-year offering, Roland breaks new ground in the digital keyboard marketplace."

Title link takes you to the press release. Just be sure to pay it off before that year is up. : )

Novation XioSynth


Compact MIDI contoller with built in synth and step sequencer. Title link takes you to more on CDM.

roland system 100m - New Flickr Shots



flickr by hinotori mortal. Title link takes you to more shots of Five-G in Japan. Five-G is a vintage synth shop. You might recognize Five-G from the poster in this SMS 2000 shot.

life - New Flickr Shot

flickr by devowski.

more synth graffiti.

Fun Modular Noodle on YouTube



via Brandon Daniel.
"This is my Sh101 controlling/playing with the doepfer and planB portion of my modular synth. Some Analogue Systems stuff is used (EGs, mults, VCAs, Mixers), but nothing that contributes a whole lot to the basic sound. More ASys modules are used in the effects that are heard, but more on that in a bit.

So what's happening? Initially I play the keys of the 101 by hand to give an idea of the timbre, but eventually the SH101 is playing back a sequence I tapped in earlier, it's CV is controlling the base pitch of a PlanB osc, which is running into a couple doepfer Lowpass Gates (one in filter mode, one in VCA mode). The audio out of the 101 is also FMing the frequency of the LPG in filter mode. The filter LPG has it's resonance up high, this is a good example of what vactrol filter resonance/clipping sounds like. The gate out of the sh101 is clocking my doepfer sequencer, initially in forward mode, later in random mode. The trigger outs of the sequencer are firing off EGs that control both LPGs. The step outs of one row of the seq are also controlling the filter cutoff.

When the doepfer seq is put into random mode, the end result is that while the pitch pattern is static, the notes being accentuated are somewhat random. A nice effect.

That signal is also run into my Analogue Systems midi delay module, the bitrate of the delay is set low, and the bitrate & feedback are being modulated by a midi synced LFO (from the ASYS midi interface), and the delay output is run into a bandpass filter courtesy of an ASys multimode. The frequency of that filter is modulated by yet a different LFO.

The OScope you see at the end is the dry signal from the LPG set to VCA mode, before it is run into the delay.

There are a few other things going on in the base patch, but I've already given the most important details."

My midi tama ts306 on YouTube



"This is an old tama ts306 drum synth brain. Originally intended for use with a set of electronic drum triggers, it had no midi, only trigger inputs. Thanks to the wonder of modern DIY electronic kits (thanks Paul Maddox and Laurie Biddulph!) I have installed a midi conversion kit. This is me playing it from my Korg electribe ER1. Also, some extra squawks from a bird we were birdsitting at the time."

via Brandon Daniel.

monogrex - casio mt-400v track


Via jon: "The song mongorex was made using nothing but a casio mt-400v to satiaite cravings for one-synth tracks."

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