MATRIXSYNTH: Saturday, July 12, 2008


Saturday, July 12, 2008

Synth DIY UK 2008

click here for more images of this year's event. There are some inside shots of the Maplin in the set.

SDIY UK 2008



Roland System 700 Demos

You can the demos by HEXAGON on this Synthforum.nl thread. Note the demos are 100% System 700 - no effects and no other synths.




Robot drummer


Robot drummer from Michael Una on Vimeo.
"An implementation of the HighlyLiquid MSA-R MIDI control kit, triggering solenoid and dc motor-based kinetic drum strikers."

BTW, you can catch Michael Una, Peter Kirn of CDM and more at We Are Hacks: Music and Visual Performance at HOPE, NYC.

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/07/12/we-are-hacks-music-and-visual-performance-at-hope-nyc-preview/#more-3638
"Friday night, a live audiovisual lineup from the worlds of createdigitalmusic.com / createdigitalmotion.com invades the HOPE conference, aka Hackers on Planet Earth, the three day-long convergence of tech hacking. $10, open to all, 11-2a Friday July 12 at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York. It’s a live digital, technological variety show in a doomed NYC landmark hotel with an audience of famous and infamous hackers. (Think Kevin Mitnick and MythBusters’ Adam Savage and Steven Levy, all in one place.)"

music : guitar + the harvestman suitcase modular synth


YouTube via devievervlog
"http://www.deviever.com/music/

Suitcase Modular Synth thanks to...
http://www.theharvestman.org/

I decided to fuck around in the new studio. The lighting is non-existent and the sound is recorded via the camera mic, but whatever.

- The guitar set up -
Fender Strat (w/ kill switch)
Electro Harmonix Little Big Muff Pi
Crybaby Wah (fasel mod)
Boss MT-2 Metal Zone
Boss DD-3 Digital Delay
Digitech PDS 20/20 Digital Delay
Fender Studio 85 amp

- Synth setup -
Custom built suitcase modularby The Harvestman :
malgorithm bit crusher (unused here)
polivoks vcf
zorlon cannon
tyme sefari delay
... some other stuff
-into fender studio 85 line-in

I'm still figuring out the modular, so bear with me. Should hopefully have better lighting in the studio in a few weeks and will take pictures / more video."

mod ula


YouTube via cray56. "serge modular"

Adrian Utley's Theremin

via this auction
"A theremin custom-made for Adrian Utley of Portishead, by No. 1 Electronics of London.

The sparkle finish made some of the labels difficult to stick on, so it's not totally clear what everything does. But it clearly works, and pretty well too - although as Adrian himself once famously said, learning to play the theremin is a job for life.

You can tell this is a custom item by looking at the serial number: AU02. It has extra sockets to output CV and gate - so it should be possible to use it to control all sorts of other stuff. Works on 9V battery (included) but also seems to have a 9V PSU input socket.

Will come with provenance from Adrian."

walkathon's Projects

click here for some videos on various finds by walkathon.

walkathon, if you see this post, my email replies to you bounced.

Vintage Synth: the Minimoog Model D

flickr by dlumenta
(click for more)

full size

"'Modifiers', 'Frequency cutoff, 'emphasis' 'envelope', - a whole new vocabulary for musicians in 1970.

Designed by Robert Moog in 1970, the Minimoog Model D synthesizer is still regarded as the Rolls Royce equivalent of analog keyboard-based synthesizers. Specifically designed for touring musicians, the minimoog exported electronic music experiments from university labs out to the masses - and her deep farting bass-sounds (think of Kraftwerk's Autobahn), lead and space bleeps and sweeps have become HUGELY popular over the last 38 years.

There were originally 13,000 minimoogs produced between 1970 and 1981. After a brief hiatus during the digital-synth craze in the 1980s, the minimoog enjoyed a resurgence of interest among musicians since the 1990s...and yes, it's becoming harder to get a hold on one.

I obtained this Mini from a studio garage sale back in 1989 for US$ 150 (in prime condition - save the crackling external input knob). After lying dormant for 7 years now, it's time to bring life back into this 1973 model D mini. Tropical humidity heavily damaged the furnishing. It needs re-tuning of the oscillators, cleaning of the electronic board, new switches for filter modulation, and thinking about a new base panel."

Dual Frac Rac Zeroscillators & Saws

http://www.cyndustries.com/

Frequency Dance No.5


YouTube via nero54ad
"This was shot while laying down the basic track for the latest in my Frequency Dance series."

Drum n bass with various gear


YouTube via filtersweeperVCO
"Just a bassline sequenced by the MPC 1000, triggering the Moog Voyager, and then running the signal through a Sherman Filterbank. The MPC has the drums running from the assignable outs on the back and into the Kaoss pad."

Synthesizers.com Q127 fixed filter bank demo


YouTube via birbabirbabirba
"Simple sequence filtered by a Synthesizers.com Q150 24db filter and the Synthesizers.com Q127 fixed filter bank (a modern reissue of the Moog 914 fixed filter bank)."

Techno Booyaaaa


YouTube via waveshaper. spot the modulars
"Techno Booyaaaa Techno Booyaaaa Techno Booyaaaa Techno Booyaaaa Techno Booyaaaa Techno BooyaaaaTechno Booyaaaa"
Update: you can find a link to the mp3 in the comments of this post.

Yamaha SK20


images via this auction

Crumar DS2 Digital Synthesizer


via this auction

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