MATRIXSYNTH: Saturday, January 20, 2007

Matrixsynth by b|c

Read the display. :D

Matrixsynth graffiti. This is the floor model at NAMM. Friggin' awesome! I wonder how long it sat there like that. : )

Title link takes you to more including a few other NAMM shots sent my way via b|c. You'll find the more shots of the green, blue, orange, and red Voyagers, the Arturia Origin, Access Virus TI Polar and some Pioneer DJ babes.

Thank you b|c!!!

New Waldorf MSRPs

Stromberg: $3999 with a target release date of July.

Blofeld: $799 with a target release date of April.

Zarenbourg: $3999 with a target release date of April.

MSRPs courtesy of Novamusik. Note the actual street price is usually much lower than MSRP. For example the Q Phoenix has an MSRP of $3149 with a street price of $2299.

Access Virus TI OS 2.0

And it's official.

"Version 2.0 for the Virus TI adds Graintable, Formant-based oscillators and enhanced Wavetable synthesis. The new operating system introduces Section Locking for the Virus Control plug-in, searchable patch categories, 25 additional Wavetables and 256 additional signature ROM sounds, an improved user interface, a patch complexity indicator as well as loads of other refinements."

via Harmony Central

PDF of OS2 previously posted here

Swedish Mystery Modular

Found this one on sequencer.de. It looks like it's up for auction on this Swedish site. Anyone able to translate or have more info?

Moduler......
-Dual LFO : sinus, triangel och puls. symmetri funktion och sammanlagt 9 utgångar.
-Oscillator : 1V/oktav input. PW, PWM.
-Filter : utgångar för lågpass, bandpass och högpass filter.
-Envelope generator : ADSR med positiva och inverterade utgångar.
-VCA : stort telejack för utsignalen.

-Modulerna patchas ihop med labkablar.
-På baksidan sitter stora standard telejack för CV och GATE input.
-Ljud ut är också stort telejack.

-Säljes med ett MIDI interface som inte är med på bilden.
-Passar alla MIDI keyboards eller alla vanliga cv/gate synthar
-som har cv utgång med moog/roland standarden 1V/oktav.

-Patchkablar och svensk bruksanvisning följer med.
-Bara att koppla in och börja laborera med.

Plan B Model 21 Milton Venti

In the flesh. Image via fdiskc.

One more time: if you haven't checked out fdiskc's NAMM coverage, do it now. Click on NAMM Shows, Winter and 2007 when you get there.

EAR-Group.NET

NAMM via Inside Home Recording

You'll have to weed a little for the synth content, but I'm sure some of you are interested in more that synths as well. Title link takes you to Inside Home Recording where you'll find images and audio of the show. Also... I see they are the source of this Flickr shot, which was the first shot of the Waldorf Stromberg in the flesh that I'm aware of. And hey, they got to hang out with Bert and Ernie.

Rhodes Mark VII Video on Gearwire

Title link takes you there.

The Clavia C3 is now the C1

Thought this was kind of interesting. I first hear of the new Clavia combo organ being referred to as the C3. The text in that post and the text in this Gearjunkies post is your standard press release text, meaning we didn't write it. When I read the title of the Gearjunkies post I thought they had a typo calling it the C1, well, take a look at the label on the image - C1. I head on over to Clavia, and sure enough, it's the C1 now. The PR verbiage has been updated to C1 as well.

Title link takes you to Clavia where you can hear some audio of the C1.

EMS SYNTHI Blog

Because every nun needs a synthi. Title link takes you to a new blog on everything EMS. I won't be posting everything that comes up there, as that would be wrong, so be sure to check back there, or just subscribe to it on your favorite RSS reader. Mine's Bloglines. I'm subbed.