MATRIXSYNTH: Tuesday, January 8, 2008

WTF Chicken!?

YouTube via deadmau5.

via Dj Aero.

"In the Studio with Tommy Lee , DeadMau5 and Steve Duda. Chicken is the name of the track which will be released soon."

via an anonymous reader:
"That's at Tommy Lee's studio...with Doepfer, Harvestman and other Eurorack modular gear. More tracks at http://www.myspace.com/wtfisthisstuff"

Metasonix Puzzle

Sighup has been taking the daily Metasonix teaser images going up on umop and piecing them together. Click here to see the full image so far.

Bloog: The RSS Mod-Synth

via Andrew Haarsager (click through for more info and some examples):

"Here is the finished project of what I wrote about here - a machine that scrambles the words and sentences of real-time blog posts, based on the look of a 1960’s Moog synthesizer. It pulls in any RSS feed (for demonstration I used Technorati to create one that fetches all new net-wide blog posts about ‘music,’ har har). The knobs and sliders scroll through the text and add or subtract words from the screen, creating new ideas from the existing sentences."

B2007.004.28

flickr by okto

full size

Alesis Micron

Click the tattoo link below for more.

BTW if you have or know of a synth tattoo that I have not posted, feel free to send it in.

Jean Michel Jarre - In Oxygene estudio

YouTube via cosmicsound. JMJ is playing the Yamaha CS80.

Monowave

images via this auction

"This is a TRULY UNIQUE synth in keyboard history... perhaps THE only rackmounted version of the famous PPG Wave 2.2, only 50 of these were made by Paul Maddox, one of the leading experts on PPG in the UK. Feel free to read more here. This synth was a limited custom (built to order) and only 50 were ever made, this is #16."
Update: you can find more info on the monowave on the Elby-Designs Monowave page as well as via the Monowave label below.

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Workshop Analoge Klangsynthese mit Alesis Andromeda

Workshop Analoge Klangsynthese mit Alesis Andromeda 1/2

Workshop Analoge Klangsynthese mit Alesis Andromeda 2/2

YouTube via mag4musicians. Sent my way via Mr. Array.

"Workshop Analoge Klangsynthese mit Alesis A6 Andromeda. Armin Küster zeigt im ersten Teil des Workshops, welche klanglichen Möglichkeiten schon in der Oszillatorsektion stecken. Überabreitete Version"

Encoding an image to sound

"Encoding the Image
The first pass of my program disregarded the color data and only produced a frequency for the Y axis if the color intensity was less that half the sum of all colors. Below is an example. Note: I converted the WAV to an MP3 to conserve bandwidth, at 320kbps not much data is lost.

Audio File: ohmpie.mp3

I was really shocked to fist see the image! The only tweaking I needed to do was to use a linear scale for the frequency. Also if I selected too high an amplitude for the sin wave, clipping occurred in areas with too much black. For image above I used an amplitude of about 1000 on a scale of 0 to 32768."

You can find the full article including more examples and the code here. via Mr. Array.

I'll help! (Roland JP-8080)

via catsynth.com.

Commodore 64 with built in Cynthcart!

YouTube via human202. via C64Music!

"Modified Commodore 64 with Cynthcart built in"

"Here is a list of all the mods:
- Custom black paint
- New decals
- Filter knob (changes values on the SID audio chip filter)
- RCA audio/video jacks on the back for easy connectivity
- Audio out (dual mono)
- Audio in (process external sources)
- Video out (easily connects to any modern T.V.)
- 14 segment LED screen ( displays greeting message and filter values)
- Relocated and replaced power light with blue l.e.d.
- Built in Cynthcart(internal mod)
- Choose between Cynthcart or normal boot up with a toggle switch
- Cynthcart,Basic prompt indicators"

roland jupiter 4 and CR8000 jam.!

YouTube via mopipi2.
"roland jupiter 4 and roland cr8000 jam.!"

Access Virus TI

images via this auction

Ludwig Phase II Guitar Synthesizer

images via this auction

serial #1239

Kind Words on MATRIXSYNTH

"-the best synth site on the web,always updated,always interesting"
-Tom (The Chemical Brothers)

"You do a great job maintaining that blog. It has become essential daily viewing for myself and lots of other people I know. Your efforts are greatly appreciated."
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"Isnt Matrixsynth better than a big cuppa cocoa & a Christmas cookie on a cold cold Southern California morning?"
Tara Busch & Analog Suicide

"I think that the matrixsynth blog is great and keeps people well in touch with everything synth- I visit everyday to see what's going on!"
Ken MacBeth

"I know I said it before... but good job with the blog... I don't know how you do it! always something new & interesting to be seen there... but I have to stop myself from looking sometimes... because I'd never get any work done! ;)"
Mike Brown of Livewire

""I just wanted to let you know that I love your blog, and read it throughout the day. There is always something new and interesting to read about. Its also very informative, and provides a wonderful community for all synthesizer lovers like myself." =)"
Richard Devine of Devsnd

"a huge thanks to Matrix of MatrixSynth (matrixsynth.blogspot.com) for all his years of ongoing support to the synth community. This one's for you...from Bacon and I."
Shagghie

"Matrixsynth really helps to showcase all the wonderful little synth & sound setups operating today -- your blog is a large part in helping such things thrive. Absolutely - hats off!"
Tom Bugs of BugBrand

"Thanks again for a great site Matrix,

- Laurie Spiegel"

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The Packrat by Dave

MATRIXSYNTH Swag & Hall of Fame

MATRIXSYNTH THANKS from 2007.

Yamaha CS15

images via this auction

"So cool to use two filters at once and having dual oscillators makes it so much better than the CS-5 and CS-10. What is so cool is the bandpass/hipass/lowpass filters. It can be played duophonically with another CV controller.

Roland Jupiter-4 and CSQ-100 Sequencer

images via this auction

KORG Lambda ES-50

images via this auction

"- It has "Percussive" and "Ensemble" sections, with individual volume sliders. If the "Chorus Phase" butons for both are off, the go out the left and right channels separately. Putting on Chorus Phase "stereoizes" the sound, each can be set separately. There is also a mono mix out and a stereo headphone out.

- There are 2 tuneable oscillators, each can be tuned separately over quite a wide range so you can get nice phasing happening there, from subtle to pretty intense. Total tune varies both at the same time up or down.

- The accent section is straight forward, you can add key-click to the electric piano sound, and the brass "fC" is like variable treble filter to the brass sound. The tone section is simple brightness adjustments for the Ensemble and Percussive sections.

- There is also an octave switch, self-explanatory. I will also mention the joystick, left-and right are a spring-loaded pitch-bend control, and up and down mess with the chorus phase width.

- The Percussive section has a sustain switch, and toggles for Electric Piano, Clavi, Piano, and Harmonics (additional tonal sound many octaves higher). All sounds can be played individually or combined for thick, rich layering. The decay dial affects the 4 sounds, while the tremolo dial works on the sounds when the Tremolo switch is also on.

- The Ensemble section has Brass and Organ sounds, and Chorus (a little like a vocal choir), Strings 1, Strings 2 (an octave higher), and an Attack/Release switch and knobs, which affect the Chorus and Strings sounds only. All sounds layerable. For example if you play the Brass and Chorus with A/R set, the brass will have its usual A/R envelope while the Chorus one will be different, as you set it so it sounds like two keyboards.

Has some kind of natural sounding reverb after you let up the keys, not sure how they did that but it sounds good. Gets turned off when the Attack/Release toggle is on.

I tried putting all 9 sounds on at once, it's really wild, rich, deep and stereo. Lots of possibilities! The last thing I did with it was a 30 minute long jam to try out everything, glad I recorded it

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Here's a guy who really likes his Lambda ES50 synth, has nice description, pics and audio mp3 samples.

SonicState has a good overview, and the user reviews are mostly 5 out of 5"

Workspace and Environment: Richard Lainhart

click here for the full post on trash_audio.

"Favorite Hardware
Right now, it's the Buchla 200e, although I'd really have to include the Haken Continuum as a part of the whole system. The 200e is an extraordinary instrument in its own right, but I think it's the addition of the Continuum that really takes it to an entirely new level of expression and control. So I'd have to say both are my current favorites, in equal parts."