MATRIXSYNTH: Saturday, December 29, 2007

Roland Juno-6 Hand Painted

images via this auction

It almost looks shellacked. Decent BIN on this one considering.

From the description:
"I added the heart sticker awhile ago but I, ahem, didn't have the heart to take it off."

Merry Christmas From Goldfrapp

YouTube via GoldfrappChannel. Electro-Harmonix Mini Synth. via tara busch of AnalogSuicide in the comments of this post. Note: if you like Goldfrapp, check out AnalogSuicide for one more video of them with some groovy outfits.

"Seasonal greetings to one and all.

Before we scamper off to our Christmas hidey hole to prepare for the release of Seventh Tree we are pleased to say that Alison and Will have prepared this very special Christmas message for you all, filmed in the back streets of N1 in London on Wednesday.

Frappy Christmas everyone and we hope that you have a wonderful new year.

The Deer

xx

http://www.myspace.com/goldfrapp
http://www.goldfrapp.com"

Pure Magnetik Clap Box

SIMMONS Clap Trap samples via Pure Magnetik.

via hadjek in the comments of this post.

Admin: And I messed up my template

Old one coming back soon.
Update: it should be all back to normal now. Let me know if I missed anything.

Ghostland Observatory - Sad, Sad City ~ Live From Austin, TX

YouTube via LiveFromAustinTexas. Sent my way via Jared.
"Ghostland Observatory Live From Austin, Texas"
Any synth player with a cape gets an automatic post.
Anyone ID the gear?

Chris Pirillo Shows His Tenori-On

YouTube via lockergnome.
A non synth geek perspective. Chris Pirillo is this "geek", founder of Gnomedex and Lockergnome.
"http://live.pirillo.com - I have no musical ability or talent at all. It's not for lack of trying, I assure you. I love music, and I love creating music. Thanks to the person from the community who recommended this great new toy, I can do this easily! And... special thanks to Ponzi for getting me this for Christmas!"

BTW, I updated this post with the YouTube version of this video. You can find more of Chris Pirillo's videos via the lockergnome link. Same goes for all YouTube vids I put up.

Maxim Synthesizer Drums - MDS-500

via André Vézina

"Specifications: 5 trig in, 5 output, one for each sound, Bass drum, Snare drum ,High tom, Low tom, Bass tom. There's a white noise for each sound.

Control: Trigger, noise, tone, bend, decay, balance, pan and level.

The potientiometers seems to be a good quality. I trig it with the audio output of my hr-16b, and it works perfectly. "

As always, click the image for the full size shot.

Yamaha CS01-II Synthesizer Demo

YouTube via peahix.

peahix on MySpace

"All the sounds (drums too) are from my old monophonic Yamaha CS01-II, which I had retrofitted with CV/Gate jacks and plugged into a Kenton Pro Solo midi/cv box. I bounced each part from midi to audio one by one in Cubase, mixed with some effects. Maybe I'll develop this into a complete song someday, for now it was just a quick experiment to see what a full arrangement using the CS01-II would sound like.

You can download a Kontakt program of a bass sound I made with this synth here: http://www.twango.com/media/peahix.pu..."

Electro-Harmonix Mini-Synthesizer Analog Synth

YouTube via peahix.

peahix on MySpace

"i haven't seen any demos of the eh mini synth on youtube, so i thought it high time to put one up here. this thing is kind of like the edp wasp, though not quite as versatile. obviously i'm just noodling around, but this will give you a basic idea of some of the sounds this thing makes. pretty limited, but what it does do, it does quite well. also, you can get an idea of how the velocity sensitivity works on this thing.

as a bonus, you can download a very detailed kontakt program of a big bass patch that i made with this synth by going here: http://www.twango.com/media/peahix.pu...

for those interested, the controls are:

top row sliders l-r:
-pitch bend
-sub octave
-phase rate
-sweep start freq
-sweep stop freq
-sweep rate
-master volume

bottom row switches:
-octave
-tune (recessed trim pot)
-phase
-sens.
-2x filt.
-q
-power

btw, the "phase rate" slider acts as a pwm lfo rate when the "phase" switch is in the up position, and acts as a continuously variable pulse waveform when the "phase" switch is in the down position."

Never enough...

via Henrik Zelizi on the Matrixsynth Facebook photo album.

Spot the synths.

TIK Studio 1.0

via Krivoi Rog on the Matrixsynth Facebook photo album.

electro harmonix small stone phase shifter - jarre phaser

YouTube via retrosound72

sent my way via fischek.

"short test with different settings of my new ehx small stone phase shifter from the 70` years

Jean-Michel Jarre used the small stone phase shifter in "Oxygene" and "Equinoxe".

strings: Logan String Melody 2
drums: Korg MiniPops Junior"

Richard Lainhart Streaming Live New Year's Eve

"Friends: Short notice, I know, but this Monday, December 31, at 9:30 PM EST, I'll be among the artists taking part in electro-music.com's live New Year's Eve Streaming Party. Tune in here:

http://radio.electro-music.com

starting at 2:30 PM for hours of live streaming electronic music. Here's the link for the calendar showing your local times and the current artist list:

http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=159942

I'll be performing a continuous half-hour set (9:30-10 PM EST, 2:30-3 AM GMT) of realtime electronic music for Buchla 200e and Haken Continuum. You can find more about my system here:

http://www.otownmedia.com/he/buchla.htm

During my set, I'll also be streaming webcam images from my studio here:

http://www.otownmedia.com/birdcam/birdcam.html

See you then, and a Happy New Year to all.

Richard Lainhart
http://www.otownmedia.com"

Update: see the comments for the full schedule.

clox-1

flickr by janvanvolt (click for more)

full size

Anyware-Instruments Clok Box

Aliens Project and the Tenori-On

click here for a few more shots. I believe the modular is a Club of The Knobs modular (COTK). If anyone knows otherwise, feel free to comment.

Update via swissdoc in the comments:
"Bernie calls his Modular "Walhalla" (see link) and it is a bit of everything: Moog, PPG, Roland, Synthesizers.com, COTK. Details here"