MATRIXSYNTH: Saturday, September 27, 2008

Saturday, September 27, 2008

281 Clone V3 Circuit Board

via topp in this electro-music.com thread.

"Famous Musicians" FIlmstrip featuring Morton Subotnick

via Peter Grenader of Plan B: "When I was in my last year in high school I worked in the school library. One day screwing around in the backroom I came upon a series of filmstrips which highlighted famous 20th century musicians and to my surprise, delight, whatnot found one from the series on Mort. I had just been accepted to CalArts and was looking forward to beginning my studies there so this was a big deal for me. Truth be told, the only image I had a visual memory of was a shot of his door bell. Years later I spoke to to Mort about this - if he remembered doing it, he did, but mentioned regrettably he no longer had a copy. I then set off to hunt one down. There were a few weeks there with only moderate progress but i finally tracked down the woman who made it; Jane Beethoven (that's actually her name). A few months later after returning from a trip to europe she graciously sent one and the stills from that presentation have been uploaded to his site.... including the infamous close-up of the door bell! This is a unique glimpse into the studio where some of the most influential west-coast music of the 20th century was created, including SIlver Apples, Wild Bull and Touch. Check it out, it's great.

Go to mortonsubotnick.com, select the archive gallery and scroll to the bottom of the page.

In the next few months the Library of Congress will be transferring the entire show replete with the audio track to modern technology and I'm confident Mort will be adding it as a quicktime presentation. Until then, enjoy..."

Improbable Meditation

YouTube via modularland
"No MIDI, no sequencers, mono, no edits, small amount of VST delay on one sound, the rest us unprocessed. Modcan, Blacet, Synthesizers.com, STG Soundlabs, Manley"

Oakley Equinoxe Voltage Controlled Phaser

YouTube via attorks
"This is a short demonstration of the Oakley Equinoxe Voltage Controlled Phaser. The ramp waveforms of two Q106 VCO's are fed into a Q112 mixer which knobs are on 10. Output of the Q112 mixer is fed into the AUDIO IN of the Equinoxe. The AUDIO OUT of the Equinoxe goes into the Q108 VCA. Halfway the video the output of th YuSynth AC/DC mixer is plugged in. First the Equinoxe is modulated by the Q109 ADSR. Seond by a sine waveform from the 2nd VCO and a LFO. The knobs of the Equinoxe from top to bottom: FREQUENCY, EMPHASIS, MODULATION DEPTH, LFO RATE. Left busses from top to bottom: AUDIO IN, CV IN. Right busses from top to bottom: AUDIO OUT, LFO OUT."

First Try-out on C1 and Sonic Cell

YouTube via captainkeys
"I just got my Clavia for a week, and today my sonic cell arrived. So i tried it out..."

Gakken SX-150

images via this auction

Herbie Hancock on the Minimoog and The Chemical Brothers from the included magazine.

Korg Electribe EA-1

via this auction

CD Manual

Moog Voyager Old School White Wash

via this auction

"Minimoog Voyager OS - Old School Synthesizer
Limited Edition in White Wash Finished Wood.
Features
• 44-key keyboard with velocity and afterpressure outputs
• Three wide-range, high stability VCO’s (Voltage Controlled Oscillators) with continuously-variable waveforms.
• Five-input mixer for combining the audio sources prior to filtering.
• Dual mode filter module includes dual lowpass and highpass-lowpass filtering.
• The Envelopes Module generates two wide-range ADSR (Attack Decay Sustain Release) envelopes.
• Low Frequency Oscillator generates triangular, square, Sample & Hold, and smoothed Sample & Hold waveforms for use as modulating signals.
• Classic Moog Thick & Warm Analog Sound"

Anyone know if the OS has multi-pole filtering like the original Voyager and if so, how do you set the different poles? If not, what other differences are there in regards to sound generation - not controls as that is obvious.

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Machinedrum and Kenton Pro-2000

see the full post on felix inferious. the following is just an excerpt:
"So, what I chose to do was simply sequence a few notes (patched from the "A" CV) and patched 4-6 of the Auxiliary CV outs to various other controls on the modular, like the filter cutoff, EG timebase, VCAs for LFOs and FM index. I was having a lot of fun, adding a step on the MD's sequencer and either manually setting a parameter lock, or just turning one of the knobs in real time, indirectly controlling the modular. It was a blast. The real fun came though when I remembered that you can set parameter locks in realtime record mode; just twist the knobs and your actions are recorded via param locks. I was know simply tweaking controls and they were automatically recorded. Sequencing filter cutoffs and FM indexes was extremely immediate and intuitive feeling. It was fantastic."

TZFM SAW VCO

via frijitz in this electro-music.com thread.
"This looks somewhat promising. It's a SAW VCO with thru-zero FM. So far just a proof of principle. But quite simple and cost effective. None of that doo-dah with rectifying the CV, separately reversing the core direction, etc. Just modulate the core's input current back and forth and carefully process what comes out..."

The Mophos Have Arrived

At Big City Music

via the Big City Music blog.

Stromeko: Downloads

Stromeko: Downloads
various resources including the following:

MIDI implementation and additional Documentation for Waldorf Synthesizers

Factory and User Soundsets and Singles for Waldorf Blofeld, Q, Q+, microQ and rackAttack

Wavetables for the Terratec KOMPLEXER

SoundDiver Adaptations
Waldorf Q, Q+, microQ, rackAttack and Blofeld

Using the AutoLink Feature of Logic with the Q Adaptation

Links to the latest SoundDiver manuals and updates

MIDI2SDS(X) WTF

YouTube via muffwiggler
"My new Elby Designs MIDI2SDS(X)
Excited anticpiation ends in frustration on arrival of new module.
argh why is it acting like this?"

Update via Muff in the comments:
"Laurie at Elby Designs AND Paul Maddox (the designer of the PCB) have both been VERY HELPFUL and GREAT to deal with.

It's confirmed that it's a bug with my unit. Laurie is shipping me a new microcontroller for it.

No foul here - been very impressed with how these guys handled it, great communication & great service. "

is von ready for the end of hoven?

YouTube via vonhaulshoven
"another stone age sequence with von haulshoven`s solo over it."

Roland [100M] M-121 VCF mod. for PROJECT SKYJAM

"[Replacing original M-121 cirquitry with MS20 + Polivoks VCF clones.]"

more info

via Svenn

Bernies Big Modular

via Aliens Project where you will find a link to more. There are some great shots in the set, so be sure to check these out. The link is under this image when you get there.

ondioline

via adrien

"it's interesting to notice that it's an old revision of ondioline, with not the usual shape of the speaker's hole .."

Studio Shot

via adrien

spot the synths

Yamaha CS80 Presets

via adrien

KORG DS-10 Performance Guide book

YouTube via jetdaisuke. Note this does not come with the DS-10. I hope this comes out in English as well.
"詳しい書評はこちらへ
http://webdog.be/archives/0...
DS-10をいじり倒すための参考書であり、貴重なインタビューやコラムなども楽しめる一冊"

SPEAR

"SPEAR is an application for audio analysis, editing and synthesis. The analysis procedure (which is based on the traditional McAulay-Quatieri technique) attempts to represent a sound with many individual sinusoidal tracks (partials), each corresponding to a single sinusoidal wave with time varying frequency and amplitude.

Something which closely resembles the original input sound (a resynthesis) can be generated by computing and adding all of the individual time varying sinusoidal waves together. In almost all cases the resynthesis will not be exactly identical to the original sound (although it is possible to get very close).

Aside from offering a very detailed analysis of the time varying frequency content of a sound, a sinusoidal model offers a great deal of flexibility for editing and manipulation. SPEAR supports flexible selection and immediate manipulation of analysis data, cut and paste, and unlimited undo/redo. Hundreds of simultaneous partials can be synthesized in real-time and documents may contain thousands of individual partials dispersed in time. SPEAR also supports a variety of standard file formats for the import and export of analysis data."

SPEAR homepage. via brian c.

Waldorf Blofeld Samples via SCD

via Boele on the Waldorf list:

"Just toying around with the Blofeld:

Recordings are bare Blofeld, no external FX or processing.

Sounds with nice reverb:
http://www.synthmusic.info/mpdries/relax2.wav
http://www.synthmusic.info/mpdries/reverb.wav

Sound with 6 oscillators per voice (3 osc, noise, 2 combfilters)
http://www.synthmusic.info/mpdries/6osc.mp3

:)

Boele

Something Completely Different
http://www.synthmusic.info"

Day 269#

flickr by TyeBoi

"25/09/08 - Got up quite late today and just chilled for most of it.

2 of my flat mates and I did some recording for a bit before we all got ready to go out into leicester for another Freshers night of madness."

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