MATRIXSYNTH: Thursday, October 9, 2008


Thursday, October 09, 2008

Roland System 101

images via this auction
"The Synthesizer 101 section is a fully self-contained analog mono-synth. It features a 37-note keyboard (with no performance controls, velocity or aftertouch), and lots of sliders to tweak. Its design is similar to the SH-series analog synths. Controls for the VCO, LFO, VCF lowpass/highpass filters, VCA with ADSR, Noise, and Portamento/Glide effects are all within hands reach. There's also a handy A-440Hz tuning oscillator, like on the Minimoog."

MOTM uVCA



via this auction

" From: http://www.synthtech.com/motm190.html

The MOTM-190 is a dual VCA in a compact 1U format. VCA #1 can also be used as a Ring Modulator.

Voltage Controlled Amplifier #1 - Ring Mod
The top knob (marked BLEND) and switch (marked V and R) control VCA #1. If the switch is in the 'V' position, the circuit is a linear VCA. The BLEND control acts as an Initial Gain control, normalized to unity. If BLEND is all the way to the left (the IN position), the gain is unity ('1') and there is no modulation (the output equals the input). As the BLEND knob is turned clockwise, more and more of the CV modulates the signal. Fully clockwise (the RM position), the CV changes the gain from 0 to 1. This is 'standard' VCA operation.

If the switch is in the 'R' position, the circuit is a Ring Modulator. The BLEND control acts the same way as a Yamaha CS-80: all the way to the left, the output = the input. As BLEND is turned to the 'RM' position, the depth of the Ring Mod effect increases.

Voltage Controlled Amplifier #2
The second VCA is switchable between Linear and Exponential responses. The GAIN control sets the initial gain from 0 to 1. The CV MOD control ajusts the depth of AM for the VCA (in normal operation, the GAIN is set to '0' and the CV MOD is set to '10').
Although 'micro' in size, the MOTM-190 is a low-noise, low distortion, high dynamic range (better than 100dB) dual VCA. The Ring Modulator BLEND control is not found on any other modular.

Audio Demos using the uVCA"

Diabolical Modified TR707


Diabolical Modified TR707 from Meadows Ling on Vimeo.
"Circuit bent Roland TR707 drum machine with pitch controls, modified by Diabolical Devices/Class A Electronics." images via this auction.

Oslo Synth Event Pics

follow up to this video. You can find pics of the event here.

Threshold - Lainhart Performance in New York City October 16

via Richard Lianhart:
"Friends: on Thursday, October 16, at Judson Church in New York City, I'll be performing the premiere of my EMF-commissioned piece "Threshold", for electric guitar and Kyma, as part of the Ear To The Earth 2008 New York Soundscape festival.

Here are the details, and an excerpt
More about New York Soundscape

"Threshold" creates its soundscape through a process called cross-filtering, which runs on the Kyma system. In cross-filtering, the tonal characteristics of one sound, called the impulse response, are imposed on another, called the source, so that the end result is a sound that contains only the characteristics common to both. In this case, ambiences recorded in and around New York provide the source, and my guitar playing provides the impulse response. You hear neither directly, but only the result of the interaction between me and my environment.

Recording sources and locations: street traffic during a cab ride from 53rd Street to 89th Street; the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art, and a floor buffer in a side gallery; the lobby and galleries of the Guggenheim Museum; a trash compacter in the mid-50s; an air-conditioning compressor in the mid-50s; an industrial document shredder in the mid-80s; Olafur Elliason's New York Waterfall #4 at Pier 35; traffic on the FDR Drive at South Street; nocturnal insects and thunderstorms in Rockland County.

In addition, I'll be showing my short film LUX while performing a new live soundtrack consisting of the same NY sound sources used in Threshold, but this time processed with realtime spectral transformations to create a unique new ambience.

Those interested may download my original environmental sound source mix here, to do with as you wish:

http://www.otownmedia.com/ThresholdSource.mp3


Thanks, and I hope to see you there."

Noisecollective - The Voice of Saturn in Italy

On Noisecollective in Italian.
Googlish here.

via the Voice of Saturn blog.

Yet More CZ3000 Patches!


YouTube via benanderson88. "More from this underrated Casio synthesizer."

electro moog


YouTube via ladorade84860. Moog Prodigy. I'm guessing that's a Novation V-Station keyboard in the beginning. Note the purpose of posting these videos is to get a sense of the sound character of the synth however large or small that may be. It's never about the performance, although sometimes they can be entertaining. ;) Squint those ears!

Roland VP330 Vocoder Plus + Juno-60 + Moog Taurus


YouTube via retrosound72

Roland VP-330 Vocoder + Moog Taurus jam

"vintage synth demo by RetroSound

bassline: Roland Juno-60 arpeggiator (hold mode) triggered by the TR-606
analog strings and human voice sounds: Roland VP330 Vocoder Plus Mk2
deep bass: Moog Taurus Mk1 bass pedals
drums: Roland TR-606

no overdubbing, no sequencer software used"

Q119


YouTube via invalidbuffalo. "A demo of the Q119 sequencer."

【DEMO】ACCESS VIRUS TI SNOW


YouTube via musictrackjp
"http://musictrack.jp/index.php?pid=re..."
Googlish

genoQs Machines: Oktoberfest - Launching OS v1.60

via the genoQs newsletter:

"Dear all,
many months of hard work were needed to bring you the latest and greatest OS to your machines.. And now, here it is: we proudly present OS v1.60 for Octopus and Nemo!

The new OS is a significant leap forward and it includes numerous new features, and workflow improvements. Too many to list here really, but all minutiously captured in the latest release notes document. Our main page links to all that information and more: www.genoqs.net

Remarkable about OS v1.60 are the significant contributions provided by our users, which include those in a "source code" way! Without those, the machines simply would not be, what they are now. Or, as soon as you update yours..

Happy Oktober everyone!
Marcel and Gabriel
---------------------------
www.genoqs.net"

Bloom, iPhone ambient app by Brian Eno


YouTube via koyamatsuo. "generating ripple-like sound by tapping iPhone."
You can get Bloom here:
Bloom

Highly Liquid VL-1-MIDI


"Features

* Adds a standard MIDI IN port to your Casio VL-1 "VL-Tone"
* Control VL-1 keyboard with MIDI notes 55-83
* Notes triggered with MIDI are functionally identical to local keypress
* Does not interfere with "stock" functionality of keyboard
* Power and activity LEDs
* User-selected MIDI channel

Kit Contents
* Printed circuit board
* All required components
* Standard MIDI jack
* Hook-up wire
* LED panel bezels" http://highlyliquid.com/kits/vl-1-midi/

Pepepe at the "Reactable"


YouTube via mannauseisen
"Lautstark (Star TV) war in Barcelona an der Red Bull Music Academy. Und in einem der Studios stand der unglaubliche "Reactable" (welchen übrigens auch Björk auf ihrem letzten Album -Volta- verwendet hat) ...
Pepepe war der einzige, der den Tisch so richtig im Griff hatte, was er uns hier mal schnell demonstriert."

REACTABLE IBIZA 2008

YouTube via SeductorDJ. via synthtopia.

Substance - New Proppellerheads Blog

You can find it here

Slakrz Tangitable

flickr by SHIFTLOCK

"One of two (known) tangitables. This one controls a modular synth, while the other controls a beat-sequencer using pennies and fiducials."

Okita_layout

flickr by synthmonger

"This is a slightly slimmed down Okita Vocoder. I built it from an old school kit. Much time went into this! I had to etch the boards and drill every hole. I built it per schematic and there were a few errors in the original design that have been removed or corrected. After having fun with it for a couple months I've decided to get rid of it and build one that is completely me design and does exactly what I want it to do.

If you're interested in this I will be selling it for a fair amount. mshaner84@gmail.com for details."

Drawdio - a Pencil that draws sounds


YouTube via wakeupsilver. via ladyada's ranting where you'll find one more info including one more video.

Synthmonger "mini"-guitar synth

via synthmonger on this electro-music.com thread.

"I've been working on a guitar synth the past few days. I'm building a mini and mega version. Basically the mega version has more sub-octaves, pwm, and a vca for A/D controls.

I'm stuck on the layout. I just can't decide how I want things laid out. Ideally, I want each section (mixer/pwm/EF, etc) together but trying to lay them out symmetrically has been difficult for me. The posistion of the knobs must follow to the layout in order to fit in the case properly. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!


Just to let you know I'm not using 1v/oct frequency converter to control the vco's and it tracks pretty darn well. I'm sync'ing 40106 vco's that are based around my design. It's a fairly simple circuit that is a helluva lot of fun to play with!

The layout doesn't have the stompswitch or led indicator on there yet, but it'll go in the middle towards the bottom. The back will have vc inputs for each pwm, vco freq, and vcf." See the thread for updates.

Roland SP-555

via Aliens Project where you will find two more shots.

The First NEW Optigan Disc since 1974!


YouTube via peahix. Be sure to check out optigan.com blogtigan! for more.
"Over the years, I've had lots of folks propose various schemes for making new Optigan discs using computer software. Finally, someone has come through with a workable system! Robert Becker is the engineering wizard that made this technological advance possible! And what kind of sounds do I give him to make the first test disc with? Crappy-ass cheesy 80s synth pop!!

OK, this is just a quickie demo, and actually the sound quality on this video isn't that great but trust me, the disc sounds fantastically lo-fi and sounds just like an Optigan disc except with brand new sounds!

We screwed up a few of the chord button assignments, but that's an easy fix. The drum sounds are from an Oberheim DMX. The chord patterns are sounds from Native Instruments Reaktor, sequenced in Cubase. And the scale tones are also from Reaktor.

We're working on developing a scheme for making more discs and making them available. All I can say right now is that generating a master is very expensive, and additional copies are also quite expensive. So unfortunately we won't be able to just do whatever the hell we want. But soon I'll post a survey of some sort at optigan.com so y'all can weigh in on what kinds of discs you'd put down some cash for!

Oh, and yes- we'll be able to make new Orchestron discs too! (In theory we could make new Talentmaker discs, but the demand for those probably would not justify the expense.)"
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