MATRIXSYNTH: Tuesday, August 7, 2007


Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Yamaha CS80 Vids

cs-80 history


"a small history video about the old yamaha cs-80 synth, made by arturia upon the releaso of the cs-80v vst synth"

Synths in TV and Film Added to Sticky Posts Section

Just a heads up that I added the Synths in TV and Film post to the Sticky Posts section on the right.

MicroKorg

flickr by Jim on the Wall.

click here for the full size shot.

Steiner Synthacon VCF


Peng recently posted a Steiner Synthacon VCF for sale on AH. I asked him if he wanted me to put up a post and if so how long the images and samples would remain on the page. He gave me the go ahead to back everything up and put up a post, so here it is. You can find his contact info if you are interested in picking it up on his page. If the page is gone it's probably sold. Images saved here.

Stiener / Synthacon VCF
Built using a CGS35 pcb and a pcb designed and etched by me. This extra pcb adds an AP input with Wet / Dry control,
Bipolar FM input, and normal / inverting LP, BP, and HP input attenuators
Front Panel Express MOTM size and layout panel
Bourns and Spectrol pots
Sheilded cable for audio inputs

This VCF has a lot of charactor and many faces
Responses range from sweet coloring to extreme distortion
Using the AP input and Dry/Wet knob it can produce phaser-like sounds
Price: $250.00

Controls
FREQ - manual cutoff frequency
RES - Resonance control (sometimes called Emphasis). Turned fully clockwise the filter will oscillate
AP MIX - This control mixes between the Dry signal presented at the AP IN jack and the filtered signal. At the right settings you get phasing sounds.
HP IN, BP IN, and LP IN - controls the level and polarity of the input signal(s).
FM1 - bipolar (level and polarity) control for FM1 signal,
FM2 - level control for FM2 signal.

Inputs and Output
The four audio IN jacks (LP,BP,HP,and AP) can be used simultaneously. A spectral mixer. That is one of a handful of things that make this filter special.
AP IN - the signal presented here is routed to four places after it is buffered: The Dry side of the AP MIX pot, and the normalled lug of the LP, BP, and HP IN jacks.
Plugging into any of these jacks will disconnect the AP IN signal from getting to that input. A huge variety of sounds can be produced by plugging different VCOs into the seperate filter input stages.
LP IN - audio input for LP stage of filter.
BP IN - audio input for BP stage of filter.
HP IN - audio input for HP stage of filter.
1V/OCT - CV input for control of cutoff frequency. Commonly used for keyboard tracking. This is not exactly 1V/OCT! the filter will oscillate with the RES cranked but will not acurately track the keyboard. See the sound sample below.
FM1 IN - CV input for control of cutoff frequency.
FM2 IN - CV input for control of cutoff frequency.
OUT - Final output.

Important Notes
I could have ironed out some more of this filter's quirks, but I find that these quirks contribute a lot to the VCF's charactor.
I wanted to keep it as pure to the original design as possible.
Be forewarned, this design behaves very different than most VCFs you may be familiar with.
There's nothing else like it.

The output signal range is huge. Cranking up the input attenuators and RES level results in a large signal (I measured a little over +/-10V!). At certain mixes of the AP MIX pot and phase reversed input levels, the signal is well below +/-5V (assuming +/-5V input signals are used). You'll have to whip or tame this beast with an external mixer. Most times this is a nonissue since a VCA and/or mixer will commonly follow a VCF in the signal chain.

In the original design, turning the RES control would result in audible scratchiness. Once set the scatchiness disappears but using it a performance control was a no go. This has been improved greatly by adding a cap across the RES pot. Now it can be used while playing but the scatchiness is not completely gone. It is lessened by maybe 90% from how it used to be but, in some cases, can still be detected. This is not from a bad pot (I tried a half dozen different types)! It is a product of the circuit itself. It's nearly a nonissue but still, you should know.

High settings of inputs and RES will lead to unusual and downright unpredictable behavior. Not a bad thing IMO.

Youscope (oscilloscope demo)


video upload by tejeez

"a demo using an oscilloscope to display something. It was third in assembly 2007 shortfilm compo, and won altparty's most original demo prize. The oscilloscope is connected to PC soundcard and is in X/Y-mode, with right channel connected to X and left to Y input."
Title link takes you to more info. Via HarriL "There's a link to a youtube video in that page.
The video was made by a 16-year Finnish boy (tejeez), for a demoparty called 'Assembly' (www.assembly.org). It's basically an audiofile(available for download from the koodaa.mine.nu-page) being played from the computer into the oscilloscope. the soundtrack was obviously added later."

MDCB60 Midi kit for JUNO60

Remember the Dtronics MDM60? It looks like it is now available.

"This unit fits inside your JUNO60 and replaces the DCB plug with a MIDI-in and MIDI-out plug.
Installation is simple:
Open the Juno, disconnect the DCB plug, connect the MDCB60 plug
Replace the DCB-plug with the MDCB-bracket and your done!!

So, What does it do?

It converts the Juno DCB signal to a midi signal, So you can use the Juno midi-out to control other midi devices.
It only sends out midi-on and midi-off messages.

It also converts midi to DCB, now you can use the Juno as a sound module and play the Juno with your sequencer.
It only converts midi-on and midi-off messages, no other things as control messages or program-change and pitch control.

You can select the midi channel (IN and OUT) with a simple dip-switch.

We designed this internal interface as a simple and cheap midi-dcb converter.
If you need more features than only playing notes than you should find another (more expensive) midi-dcb converter.
For more information, please visit this products webpage."

via Dennis.

DSC01484

flickr by dj_metronome.

click here for the full size shot.

KORG MS20 minus keys

Hispasonic Nebula Reverb (and More) - Free


"Nebula is a wonderful "FX gear emulator" VST plugin for Windows from Acustica Audio, based on Volterra Kernels Series. It emulates different types of vintage gear: equalisers, filters, microphones, preamps, compressors, reverb and generic time-variant processors (chorus, flangers, phasers).

Nebula HS Reverb (Hispasonic Edition) is a free version of Nebula with 18 exclusive reverb presets made by Jorge Ruiz, commemorating the new look of Hispasonic.com, the biggest website and community around musical creation & production in spanish. Here you can download it for free!

We have also published a quick tutorial in spanish for Nebula HS Reverb. Here you have the Google-translated version."

Title link takes you there. via CDM.

Suzanne Ciani on YouTube

Looks like Suzanne Ciani has a YouTube account. The following are some vids she posted. Note some of the equipment (notably the rack with vocoder) is the same as what she had in this Letterman appearance. Click here for all Suzanne Ciani posts on Matrixsynth. The following are a bit long. If you do not make it through them, do check out the last two videos, one of her recording a bit for a GE commercial and a more recent video of what she is doing now.

Fifth Wave Recording Session Part 1 of 3


Fifth Wave Recording Session Part 2 of 3


Fifth Wave Recording Session Part 3 of 3


"My recording session of the fifth wave song called, Water Lullaby. It appeared on my first album, Seven Waves. You can buy my first album at link"

GE Dishwasher Production Session


"This video was filmed by Julio Cintron as a documentary about the GE "2800 Dishwasher" at my small studio in 1984."

VH1 - A Summer's Day


YouTubes via SuzanneCiani. "This was from my Neverland album"
via U.S.O. Project via AudioLemon.

Korg Kaoss Pad KP3

flickr by fischek.

Click here
for the full size shot.

my other child

flickr by mtritter.

click here for the full size shot.

Doepfer in stroller

Analog Solutions TB-X





via A.

Nyle Steiner on IMDB and Philip Dodds of ARP

Peter Grenader of Plan B sent this one into AH. Title link takes you to Nyle Steiner's (of Steiner Parker fame) IMDB page. The following is the list of credits. Click here for previous posts on Steiner Parker.

Miscellaneous Crew:
* 1990s
1. Merry Christmas, George Bailey (1997) (TV) (musician: E.V.I.)
* 1980s
2. Mississippi Masala (1991) (musician: ewi)
* 1970s
3. No Way Out (1987) (musician) (as Nyle A. Steiner)
4. The Mosquito Coast (1986) (musician: synthesizers)
5. Enemy Mine (1985) (musician: electronic ensemble)
6. Apocalypse Now (1979) (musician: synthesizer)
... aka Apocalypse Now Redux (International: English title: longer version)

Self:
1. One Voice (1986) (TV) .... Synthesizer

For fun I checked on Philip Dodds of ARP. He has a page as well.

Filmography
Actor:
1. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) .... Jean Claude
... aka CE3K (USA: informal short title)
... aka Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Special Edition (USA: reissue title)

Additional Details
Genres:
Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi
STARmeter: ?
^ 4% since last week why?

ARP Pro/DGX

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

Roland SH-101

Title link takes you to shots via this auction. Be sure to click on the All Sizes link for the full size shot. There is a short video at the auction while it's up.

Roland RS-202

Title link takes you to shots via this auction.

"This synth is a rare beauty, the fatter version of the roland RS-09. capable of the most warm strings you will ever here." Anyone confirm this?

E-Mu Drumulator

Title link takes you to shots via this auction. Anyone know what the mod on the side is?

Casio DM-100


Click here for shots via this auction.

"The Casio DM-100 is basically a Casio SK-5 and a MT series keyboard in one housing. I believe it was the only mini-keyed keyboard to have dual keyboards on it.

Strangely though, not all of the SK-5 features are present (or at least brought to the control surface). Absent is the ever-useful lions roar, laser gun, dog, and surf sounds, but it features a few others instead. It does keep up to four samples and retains the useful sample tune, reverse, loop, and amp envelopes. The samples are stored in the memory after power off as long as batteries or AC adapter are present. I never cracked it open to see, but I imagine that some of the other SK-5 features are still there on the circuit board and accessible to hardware hackers and circuit benders. It has a built-in microphone as well as a 1/8" line-in jack for the sampler. The larger speakers on the DM-100 make it sound better than any SK-5 ever did.

The bottom keyboard has a PCM sampled soundset with the ability to layer any two of the 20 sounds together for a total of 210 possible combinations.

It also has rhythm accompaniment as well as Casio's auto chord accompaniment feature. It has a mixer section to balance the sound output of the top and bottom keyboards with the accompaniment and a 1/4" headphone jack on the front. On the back are RCA outputs, a 9V DC-in (AC adaptor not included) and individual tuning knobs for each of the keyboards so you can get detuned chorus-style effects out of this thing if you play both boards at once."

via devetron

Update via Alex in the comments: "Hate to break it to you, but the sampler is not based on the SK-5. I've owned two of these and had a good, long look inside them. The sampler is basically a stripped down SK-8 with the same instrument set and sampling capabilities.

So, you won't find any lion's roar or laser gun in this keyboard, I'm afraid. Neither will you find the oriental features or even any of the ROM related features."
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