MATRIXSYNTH: Sunday, July 22, 2007

Carvin NS1 Nylon Synth Access Guitar

Title link takes you to videos of the Carvin NS1 Nylong Synth Access Guitar.

MATRIXSYNTH THANKS!!!

The following people have been supportive of the site in one way or another and deserve a special mention.

Remember the blue Elektron SidStation in this post? Title link takes you to more pics. via jesper of electronic-obsession:

"The guy I traded with was the original owner and he had ordered his Sid directly from Elektron in Gothenburg since he lived nearby. Who went over to pick it up and pay and when in their small office he saw an empty blue "shell" on a shelf he asked about it and wondered if he could have that instead. He could... :) Almost the entire batch of Sid's are silver metallic. The exception being ten or so being made for the crew themselves and these are red metallic. (Yes, I've seen one once for sale on a swedish auction site. Not too expensive but not very good looking either. Red was never my colour... anyway...) The other big exception is certainly the batch of 50 (?) of the limited edition series Sid Station Ninja's being black (metallic I think?). It was when these were planned that Elektron asked the maker of the shells
to come up with a few examples of alternative colouring that the blue Sid was born. (Maybe because of the swedish origin?) Since these alternative shells were shelved I've seen another Sid being blue and that was also for sale here in Sweden. I don't know where it ended up... I've talked to Elektron about this and they confirmed the above story with the words; -there sure can't be many blue ones around... Need I say I consider this blue Sid the best I've seen? ;)

electronically yours, jesper"

FM3 Buddha box

YouTube via dosle.
"messing with the FM3, releasing audio ghosts"

Update via Matt: FM3 Buddha Machine website.
"I bought mine off Turntablelab.com a few months ago. It's a fun ambient machine to get creative juice going. It gets me doing some abstract beats playing it and noodling with the MPC ;)."

Casio CZ-1 Samples for the Alesis Fusion.

Title link takes you to the links on Failed Muso. Not sure what format they are and if they can be used with other samplers.

drumfire demo 2001

via uucuu in the comments of this Drumfire auction post:

"i love the drum fire, very unique and crunchy sound, and lots of fun to chain the channels together on the DF-500. The 2-channel rack DF-2000 is a bit more flexible with a noise filter and waveshape control. I just dug up a demo I did from 2001 and put it up temporarily on virb.com: the only encoding I found of it was a 160kbps, which isn't great but here it is anyway. I think this was only the Drumfire and Metasonix Hellfire just live tweaking."

Casiotone CT-410V Part.2

YouTube via jopachelbel.

Part 1 here.

Beatmaking on ReBirth RB-338 (in 3 min)

YouTube via Denkitribe.
"Who said "Everybody needs a 303"? Now ReBirth is free, so everyone can have two 303s. Let's make an acid music (in only three minutes)."

GypsiMIDI

Remember the GypsiMIDI? The following are some words from someone that has actually used one. Note that it is for sale. Contact info below.

Via Matt:
"General info: It's the right arm. I have all of the software and manuals that came with it (these things can also be downloaded from the sonalog webpage). I purchased it about 4 months ago and have used it about 10 times. The project that I was getting together to use it with ended up falling apart and now I have this really cool motion to midi controller that I never use. As for what it does, it translates your right arm's entire range of motion into midi CC's which can then be used to manipulate synthesizers and the like. I was using it with a davesmith mono-evolver and getting amazing results out of it. I was able to play the keyboard with my left hand and manipulate the synth with my right arm in real-time. Because there is so much information being recorded from your arm's movement you can really control alot more parameters than you can with just simple knob tweaking alone. Furthermore, this technology has the potential to revolutionize electronic music (and music in general) if placed in capable hands. Imagine dance music being created live and in realtime by dancers. I think the best way to understand how it works is just to watch the demonstration video's provided on Sonalog's website. I am asking $900 for it. I paid $1300 for it including S/H when I purchased it. Please direct emails to this email address paisleyartmachine AT gmail.com"

Title link takes you to a couple more shots.

Roland GR-300

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

"Classic Roland resonant filter, compression, vibrato, pitch-shifting and awesome hex-distortion. You can plug in a CV pedal (not included) for hands-free controlled filter sweeps. LIghtning-fast, responsive analog synth circuitry with no lag-time! Requires a Roland G-808, G-505, G-303, G-202 guitar controller and cable (original G-500 guitar may work also, not sure). This unit is not designed to work with the later Roland GK MIDI pickups, it uses a 24 pin cable which is NOT included.

You can download the manual in PDF format here:
http://www.joness.com/gr300/GR-300_OM.pdf

For more info on this unit visit these links:
http://www.helpwantedproductions.com/guitsyn.htm
http://www.joness.com/gr300/patent.htm
http://www.hillmanweb.com/guitsyn.html
http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Effects/product/Roland/GR-300/10/1
http://mixonline.com/recording/interviews/audio_polices_every_breath/index.html"

Roland GR-100

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

"Early 1980's Roland GR-100 polyphonic guitar synthesizer unit, excellent condition, all functions work as they should. Sounds great!! Classic Roland filter, vibrato, chorus, and features an even more sophisticated hex-distortion circuit than the GR-300 model. The hex-fuzz offers incredible clarity for each string, you can acheive that 'clear distortion' reminiscent of Brian May or Robert Fripp. And there is also a separate VCF circuit for each string! You can plug in a CV pedal (not included) for hands-free controlled filter sweeps. Very inspiring to play and harder to find than the GR300. LIghtning-fast, responsive analog synth circuitry with no lag-time! Requires a Roland G-808, G-505, G-303, G-202 guitar controller and cable.
Please note: this unit will not work with the later Roland GK-series MIDI pickups, it uses a 24 pin cable which is NOT included.

You can download the manual in PDF format here:
http://www.joness.com/gr300/GR-100_OM.pdf

For more info on this unit visit these links:
http://www.joness.com/gr300/GR-100.htm
http://www.helpwantedproductions.com/guitsyn.htm
http://www.hillmanweb.com/guitsyn.html
http://www.synthony.com/vintage/GR100.html
http://mixonline.com/recording/interviews/audio_polices_every_breath/index.html

http://www.joness.com/gr300/patent.htm"