MATRIXSYNTH: Monday, January 7, 2008

Monday, January 07, 2008

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Fighting P3 - Live sequencing in studio

"all the sequences modifications were done on the fly). Everything was recorded directly into Live 7 in MIDI format."

# Oberheim Xpander - lead
# Oberheim Xpander - bass 1
# Waldorf MicroWave XT - bass 2
# EXS24 samples - pads
# EXS24 samples - drums

via and more info on Hielo Patagonia Sounds

bizzy

"DSI Evolver, Korg ER1, Kjaerhus Spectra softsynth , OB3 , sequenced in Live 7"
via Baghead

Tube Noise Generator

images via this auction via wattson.

"This is a tube noise generator, radio frequency, mute, audio frequency, LF, and ASA is some sort of other noise that im not sure what it is, you cn make some really cool hats and crashes with this thing, the VU meter tells you how many volts you are sending out and you can control that by output knob. the rear of the unit has a 1/4 line level out and a rca line level out. i took detailed pics of the inside, the way the noise is generated there is a tube placed between two magnets its a really neat circuit."
More of a bit of test equipment, but interesting nonetheless.

More info on these here.

"A device that produces electrical noise for use in electrical measurements. Electrical noise generators are commonly employed to measure the noise figure or noise temperature of radio receivers. They are also used in various other tests in radar and communications systems. Celestial noise sources are used to calibrate large antennas."

Update: here's a video of the unit by Shagghie previously posted here.

SunSyn meets Magneto-Tube Random Noise Gen!

Sonic State: Inside Synthesis 003 - Modular Basics

Inside Synthesis 003 - Modular Basics
Introduction to Modular Synthesis
via Sonic State where you can find more info on this video.
This video features the prototype Mattson Mini Modular.

Till Kopper's Workspace

Get ready to drool. The following is a set of images sent my way via Till Kopper. Absolutely impressive. You might remember Till Kopper from these previous posts. Be sure to scroll as the link is a search on "Kopper" and will bring up this post.

You can listen to and see more of what Till does with this gear on his website. Be sure to click the images or the full size shots. Also I think I got all the synth labels. : ) If I missed any post a comment.

Overview from the staircase.
The wooden rack right of the WAVE contains:
Moog Prodigy (my first real synth)
Access MicroWave controller
ART Multi FX unit
Waldorf waveSlave
Waldorf microWave
Waldorf waveSlave (another one)
Waldorf microQ keyboard
Behringer mixer
Ibanez DM2000 delay
Waldorf Midibay-15
(see the other pictures for the rest of the gear shown here)

foreground: Moog Voyager
left keyboard stand:
Jen Sx1000
Waldorf XTk30 (lent away, therefor not shown here)
Manikin Electronics Memotron

between the keyboard stands:
Korg Micro Preset 500
Korg Poly Ensemble PE-1000
Korg Poly Ensemble S PE-2000
Monikin Electronics Schrittmacher
Behringer sub-mixer
3 Modulus MonoWaves (2 beta units)
Waldorf rackAttack
right keyboardstand
Minimoog (with Lintronic Midi and beechwood cabinet) Waldorf WAVE +16
Q32 with
Prototype Waldorf Blofeld atop

The wall of string keyboards (left column from top to bottom):
Wersi Voice FX atop
Farfisa Syntorchestra
Hohner String Vox atop
Logan String Melody
ARP Quartet
ELKA Rhapsody 610
(right column from top to bottom)
Crumar Performer

Vermona PianoStrings (from former East German) Hohner String Performer Crumar Multiman S Wersi Stage Performer Mk1 SII (additiv synth with a single SSM filter and Wersi Voice FX build in) Spot the Waldorf Pulse, Waldorf 4Pole, Waldorf EQ-27. AceTone (= early Roland) Rhythm Ace 2L and Tascam HD recorder

ELKA Solist 505 atop
ELKA X705 organ (with bass foot keys and pedal

Notshown on these pictures:
Eminent 310 unique
broken Hohner ADAM
Schimmel piano
Boss DR-220E
Keio (= early Korg) MiniPops 3
Casio VL-1
Dübreq Stylophone
EEH DS500 (does not boot anymore, need new battery?)
2 ELKA Rhapsodies 610 as spare parts
Waldorf WAVE (the spare WAVE) lent away to a friend

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Oberheim OB-Xa

images via this auction via Matt.

Be sure to check them out full size; they are fantastic shots.

via the auction:
"Personally, I think the OB-Xa holds more 80s nostalgia in its tone than any other synth of its era.. It has the most joyous and rich, vibrant signature. Aside from being most famous for "Jump" it can be heard on countless numbers of 80s pop records, as well as 90s club and electro/house/pop/italo recordings up to the present day.

This one has a quite rare Real World Interfaces Midi upgrade, built and installed by Robin Whittle, best known for his Devilfish modifications to the 303. The strip along the top of the keys is a guide for the midi features, and the switch and black button is to toggle midi mode. The manual for the midi upgrade is included. Its a clean professional modification, and anyone who knows Robin's work will tell you he is the best."

EMSA -- Electronic Music Studios of America

via David:

"Peter Forrest's post to AH about EMSA led me to do a little digging. I lived in Amherst, MA, years after EMSA but still love the area. Anyway, Everett Hafner's (owner of EMSA) daughter put up a page about him, including a seriously photo-laden picture of EMSA stuff"

Update: Be sure to check out the EMSA link below for all posts featuring EMSA - there are only a few including this one, however there is some fascinating history including the Ionic Performer.

Stribe 0.4a w/ 0.4g Max patch + DSI monosynth

YouTube via soundwidgets
"A mini-demo of the very basic Max patch I wrote for the Stribe. It's essentially a 'virtual stribe' that sends display messages to the Stribe, and receives sensor data from the touchstrips and displays that in rslider controls. You can actually play with the virtual stribe without a real Stribe, but it's just not the same."

Analog Synthesizers アナログシンセサイザー

video upload by kiewmission

"TOKYO GEIJUTSU DAIGAKU THE 120TH ANNIVERSARY
Buchla, MoogIII, ARP2500, Roland System 700 & 100M.
東京藝術大学　創立120周年企画
音響研究室アナログシンセサイザー展示"

Roland TR-606 "Drumatix" Analogue Drum Machine

YouTube via retrosound72

"short demo of the Roland TR-606 drum machine by RetroSound

The little sister of the Roland TR-808 drumcomputer. The TR-606 has analogue TR-808 like sounds and the typical LED step programming."

How to Repair a Poly-61

Click here for a website on how to repair the Korg Poly-61 via Michael.

"Welcome to my documentation of the odyssey repairing some Poly-61s, as i recently bought 3 of them with the intention to get at least 2 of them working perfectly. If you want to repair a Poly-61, i have to warn you - it is quite a lot of work to get it perfectly working again, if it has the full repertoire of usual problems of this synthesizer. First of all, if you don't want to do a full restoration, you should know a bit about the inner workings of the Poly-61. This is where i want to start. So let's have a look at the anatomy of the Korg Poly-61."

Update: unfortunately the link above is gone. I found the following from Really Nice Audio:

POLY61 RepairS video upload by Really Nice Audio

"By changing the switches and cleaning the keyboard contacts you can bring a synth back to its former glory."

Continuous Signal Processing: The Fourier Series

via AH regarding the following question:

"Does anyone know the formula for calculating the resulting harmonics the formula for calculating the resulting harmonics of a pulse wave when the pulse width is varied? In other words, a square wave (or pulse wave with 50% duty cycle) has only the odd-numbered harmonics present; how do you determine the harmonics present when the duty cycle is 25%, or any other value?"

Dave Manley followed up with a link to this site.
"This brings us to the last member of the Fourier transform family: the Fourier series. The time domain signal used in the Fourier series is periodic and continuous. Figure 13-10 shows several examples of continuous waveforms that repeat themselves from negative to positive infinity."

Update: also see this Synth Secrets article on Sound on Sound.

ARP Omni and Omni 2 Repair Page

On marksmart.net:
* Common failures on the ARP Omni and Omni 2
* 4075 Filter modification
* Power supply modification
* Imitating ARP string sounds
* ARP slider caps

Roland Ace Tone Top-1 Udpate

I missed the auction link in this post. It's up. Sorry about that...

Waldorf Pulse Pluse Demo

Pulse-Demo

via Noiseprofessor

Synthex Workshop

Synthex_workshop.mp3

Nord Wave Manager

"The Nord Wave Manager is now availabe in the Nord Wave download area. This is the application that allows you to edit, create and load collections of samples to and from the Flash memory area of the Nord Wave synthesizer. The Manager will also act as a librarian utility for the Program memory area." link

KikAXXE software synthesizer from Way Out Ware.

YouTube via wiretotheear
"The KikAXXE is a virtual synthesizer, drum machine and analog sequencer. It's great fun. After you watch this video be sure to try the fully working 30 day demo from www.wayoutware.com. For more videos, tutorials and pro-audio articles visit www.wiretotheear.com."

Update via Oliver Chesler in the comments:
"You can also see this in a higher resolution here"

yamaha cs-10 song

YouTube via maxmonomusic. Follow up to this post.
"All synthsounds except drums in this song comes from a yamaha cs 10 monophonic analog synthesizer. for more cs10 go to www.myspace.com/maxmonomusic"

Yamaha CS 30 analogue synthesizer

YouTube via ultragrid

"Yamaha CS 30 Vintage Synthesizer demo - No Music or Tracks - just 8 min of what you can do with the beast...analogue compact mono synth ;-)"

82 - notice of delinquent parking violation (Korg electribe)

YouTube via atishmeh

On the Workbench -- Juno-106

Sequence 15 has a post up on the dreaded faulty voice problem of the Roland Juno-106. It's worth a look if you have or are considering a Juno-106, or if you are just curious about the problem. You'll find more shots of the inside of the Juno-106.

Pictured:
"The long green board on the left is the module board, which is where all of the sound generation circuitry is. (The smaller green board in the center is the CPU board, and the yellow board on the right is the power supply.)"

ASMO : Tiny Touch Pulse Machine [ circuit bent ]

YouTube via eddie23a
"circuit bent Vtech Little Smart Tiny Touch Phone. more details to follow"

Technicians - NAMM Diaries Day 3

YouTube via museumoftechno. Note this is last year's Winter Namm just put up. Day 1 and 2 here.
"Back in January we went to California, USA, to attend and report on the NAMM 2007 music trade show, in association with our sponsors, Novation.
We're going to put them on Youtube now: have at you!"

Roland System 100 Fun!

YouTube via tardis454
"Here's a short Bass sequencer I put together for a track I'm working on."

Alesis Andromeda Analogue Synthesizer

YouTube via GCom67
"'Mist' I composed on the Alesis Andromeda and features a bunch of stills from nature. Very soothing :)
Hope you enjoy!
For a better stereo listen goto my myspace page and play from there;
www.myspace.com/gcommusic
Thankyou."

TimeCode Technological Anthem

YouTube via Travistalktoyou. "Technological Anthem Mix Extend..."
Elektron Machinedrum and Monomachine.

Roland PG-1000

via this auction

"I used it with my v-synth w/ vc-1 (D-50) card. So, it is not limited to the original D-50 and D-550 rackmount."

Interesting that it works with the V-Synth.

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images via this auction

Roland TR-909

images via this auction

"The Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer is a partially analog, partially sample-based drum machine built by the Japanese Roland Corporation in 1984. It features a 16-step music sequencer and a drum kit that, at that time, aimed for realism and cost-effectiveness. It is fully-programmable, and like its predecessor, the TR-808, can store entire songs with multiple sections, as opposed to simply storing patterns. Only around 10,000 units were produced.

The drum machine is in perfect operating condition, all knobs work and buttons properly trigger drum sounds. Some drum sound knob pots are scratchy which is common with a synth of this age but can easily be cleaned or have knob pots replaced. Once you set the drum sound you want, and stop moving the knob, the sound output is loud and clean."

Sears Talkatron

images via this auction

Sears Talkatron Speak and Spell

Boss Percussion Synthezizer PS-2

images via this auction

"Left to right top is Sensitivity, Decay, Rate...Below is Pitch, Sweep, and Depth with lettering that threatens: LFO MOD...WHAT?!...Anyway, the front has two jacks: Output / Power On, and something called an EXT Input, which must mean there's something even more evil that goes with this, this...Next, there's a switch that I have no idea about, and lastly, a power supply jack that commands all ye who enter, to use Boss PSA adaptor ONLY!...Diabolical."

ARP Pro Soloist