MATRIXSYNTH: Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Tenori-on Meets Kyma

Tenori-on Meets Kyma from Nomad Cinema on Vimeo.
"In order to tap the real power of Yamaha's new Tenori-on, it helps to pair it with external equipment capable of producing more satisfying sounds than the somewhat lackluster soundset included with the Tenori-on itself. In this video, no internal Tenori-on sounds were used whatsoever. Tenori-on is functioning purely as a sequencer with external equipment, including advanced sound-shaping from Kyma and analog synthesis from Alesis Andromeda and Dave Smith's Prophet '08. Sequencer data coming from Tenori-on is processed in Ableton Live (utilizing midi scale and chord filters, as well as injecting some generative randomness) before reaching Kyma, Andromeda, and Prophet '08."

Acidlab Bassline 2 First Contact test

YouTube via F3D375, via nusonica
"Just arrived in my studio! This is a short demo of this acid machine. More video of complete songs will come..."

Resonant Improv - Modular Synth

YouTube via mooguphonic
"Drum machine patched thru a Synthesisers.com modular filter (Q107 State Variable filter) and swept by the keyboard envelope. The resonance is tuned so that it settles down to the same pitch as the keyboard patch, after being swept. The keyboard is patched thru 3 oscillators and the Q150 Ladder Filter. The tuned resonant drums make an interesting effect..."

To All The Nations II

YouTube via sosean. Oberheim TVS
"In The Studio with Nate Price, just messin' around."

Sequential Circuits Pro-One via Synthwood

Custom Prophet-5 knobs and backlit wheels. Click here for more images.

http://synthwood.com/

details on this particular mod

Acid tones Virus part2

YouTube via kenspocket. follow-up to this post.
"Korg Prophecy "ACIDTONES" System exclusive or SRC-512 Synth sounds programed by Kens pocket... For more info on these sounds and how to obtain them please email us or check out the websites below or see our Youtube channel and click buy !-) www.soundwavechildren.netfirms.com"

Roland MV8000 loves Korg R3

YouTube via Spokes013
"This track was build partially with the R3 as sound module, samples and again the MV for engineering the beat. It's not finished yet because it still needs some vocals. More soon :)"

glitchDS

YouTube via clone45a6
"Cellular automaton sequencer for the Nintendo DS and R4. Sorry for the quiet video. Download this at www.glitchDS.com."

glitchDS demo 2

x0xb0x #236 in White

flickr by Computer Controlled
(click for more)

Analog vs. Digital

Two flickr shots that came up, one right after the other. Funny how that happens. I thought this was an interesting contrast.

live modular 2008 via parasitk
(full size)

Yamaha TX016 via Neil Vance
(full size)

Which would you rather have? This is a bit of a trick question. :)

Cloned Again - Analogue Solutions SY02 (Korg MS-20 filter remake)

via Navs

"This one's been around for ages and I don't know why it's taken me so long to try it out, but I'm glad I now have.
Apparently a 1:1 clone of the original and much-loved Korg MS-20 High Pass/ Low Pass filter combo, it's a cracker! Have a quick listen here and here. And if that piques your interest you can download the zipped test here. The test unit was part of SchneidersBuero's JimiBox. More info here.

Cheers,
Navs"

VST TAL-U-No-62

"U-No-62 is an improved and completely refactored version of U-No-60. Improvements:
* More accurate filter sound.
* More overtones in the oscillators.
* Faster LFO rate (0.1-30HZ).
* A lot faster envelopes.
* Audio Unit available.
* Presets are not compatible with U-No-60 Presets."
[link]

kopykat

YouTube via ripe909
"Another acid twister, using the monomachine for a small vocal sample "acid". Drums are all machinedrum, bass is virus TI, V-Synth pads, revolution playing the part of 303!"

LZX Monolith Synthesizer Demo

YouTube via creatorlars.

via Nusonica.
"The LZX Industries Monolith is a performance monosynth based on the MFOS (Music From Outer Space) Soundlab Plus, featuring a 37 key 1V/Oct keyboard, as well as extensive modulation controls.

This video demonstrates control via an external sequencer. Our Midibox SEQ3 controls both oscillators and gates the envelope generator.

More information will be available soon. For now, find out more about the Soundlab at www.musicfromouterspace.com."