MATRIXSYNTH: Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Hampshire Jam 7 Videos and Photos

via Gordon:
"I attended Hampshire Jam 7 last weekend (traveled there from Boston!) and have uploaded some short videos to YouTube and a number of photos to Flickr:

Redshift at Hampshire Jam 7

Free System Projekt at Hampshire Jam 7

YouTube via aquakarn

Keller, Schoenwalder & Broekhuis at Hampshire Jam 7

Photo set

Regards,
Gordon"

Shine on you crazy diamond on Kurzweil K2600X by S4K

YouTube via Space4Keys
"Demostration
Keyboard: Kurzweil K2600x
Patch: Shine on you crazy diamond intro
Performed by Keywiz83
www.space4keys.com'

The First Day Drawdio Ever Existed

YouTube via wakeupsilver
"This video shows how the children at Drishya and PICO Crickets both influenced the way Drawdio evolved"

Korg DS-10: The Descent from Rigel

YouTube via btsoldier
"I was trying to get the biggest, most textured sound out of a single DS running the DS-10. I'm not a musician so I apologize for the ridiculous "melody" in the middle."
KORG DS-10 on Ebay
KORG DS-10 on Amazon

Moog Little Phatty Vs Clavia Nord Lead 3, testing by S4K

YouTube via Space4Keys

OSC OSCAR

images at this auction
"OSC OSCAR analog monophonic synth with MIDI. Rel. M2 which, I think, is the last version ever distributed.

The synth works perfectly and still looks like new. Few small and minor signs, but overall pretty fresh and clean.

It is just been fully refurbished by X-Tended Lab, Berlin. Every switch and pot cleaned, the keyboard contacts replaced and the whole power supply recapped, which is a sick point of this actual synth. A total of nearly 400 Euros have been spent for the restauration. The result is a synth which plays and sounds like new.
The original X-Tended receipt, showing the full list of works done will be included in the sale.

In addition, the original bank of OSC Factory Sound Patches have been uploaded into the memory, for the ultimate originality.

The OSCar is a particular and deeply interesting synth. Less than 250 of M2 version have been manufactured"

Roland Jupiter-6

images at this auction

ANALOG SYNTH RUSSIAN VCF FILTER

images at this auction

Note this is the same filter as the one in this post (see specs there), only with an orange faceplate.

Robot Factory Pedal Co. Pulse Synth

via this auction

"A Lo-Fi Sytnh effect producing a variable duty square wave under the control of an LFO being swept by an envelope follower. Instructions included."

Visual Synthesis 2

Visual Synthesis 2 from GM on Vimeo.
Topics: Hetrodyning, Amplitude Modulation. Be sure to see part 1 as well. via TipTopAudio.com:
"It also showing in our theater:
http://www.tiptopaudio.com/VisualSynthesis2.php

Again, Popcorn is free, but you need to try our Hot dogs.

btw. Do you remember Pink's hot dogs on La Brea? It is unbelievable what is going on over there, every day all day long there is a long long line of people, it almost looks like they get paid for eating there."

I do remember pinks. Good stuff.

Blacet MIDI Converter

Compact, accurate MIDI to CV Gate and Sequencer control converter. Compact but very useful and priced very reasonably. Hook up to a good controller keyboard and have another great experience with your Blacet Modules.

Coming very soon!

http://www.blacet.com/

Virus TI LED Modification

YouTube via xDIGITONIUMx
"Tired of the red LEDs, I gave the Virus TI a personalized "Polar" look with blue and white LEDs.

The background music is a quick Virus TI sequence of ATB - Ecstasy using Sonar. All of the sounds are preset except for the main melody at the beginning. It was created using a Hypersaw oscillator tweaked to emulate ATB's sound. "

Missy vs. Virus TI

YouTube via xDIGITONIUMx. via fischek

"Using the Virus TI, I used a single waveform oscillator and an sine-type LFO to create a siren sound. If I set the LFO speed to a slow enough speed, Missy starts to howl. :-)"

Synthesizer mini-compositions

via sigma:
"We have started a mini-composition series on our gear pages. One composition is made with only one synthesizer (and some effects) in time to demonstrate the sound capabilities of that synthesizer. Compositions are made fast using improvisation and multitracking. There are allready compositions for Korg MS10, Korg PS3100, Roland SH-101, Roland S100M, Prophet Pro-1, Crumar Performer and more is coming.

There is also a free music-sample (Colossus Jam) from our Live gig in Colossus Club 8.12.2007"

DSMI - MIDI for the Nintendo DS

"So what is DSMI exactly?
DSMI consists of
* libdsmi
An open source library for DS homebrew development that makes it easy to write DS software that acts as a MIDI controller or MIDI client.

* DSMIDIWiFi Server
An application that runs on the computer and forwards the MIDI messages received via Wifi to MIDI applications.

* DS MIDI Keyboard acts as a MIDI keyboard, including pitch wheel / MIDI control adjustment by sliding the stylus vertically/horizonally.
o Kaos DS is an XY controller similar to the Kaoss pad. You can use the stylus or your fingers to adjust MIDI controls.
o Pulse DS turns the DS into a MIDI synthesizer that uses the DS's PSG (programmable sound generator) to produce Game-Boy-like sounds.

What do I need? In short, you need:
* A computer of some sort (OSX, Linux, Windows will do just fine)
* Either A wireless access point of some sort and a game that uses the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection (needed only once)
* Or A DSerial
* A Nintendo DS, obviously
* DS homebrew hardware of some sort"

DSMI Website
Nintendo DS on Ebay
Nintendo DS on Amazon

Update via BirdFLU in the comments: "Just to clarify, the DSMI stuff won't work in tandem with the DS-10."

[Noodle]Mono-Poly - U-Boat Huntdown

via mono-poly's modular blog

"No hands noodle/drone i did with:
Wiard Sequantizer, Classic VCO, Waveform City, Borg 1 Filters, 2x NoiseRing
Klee Sequencer
Plan B Model 13 LPG
Serge Phaser, Voltage Controlled Stereo Mixer
Blippoo Box" Note I'm not putting everything up so be sure to see mono-poly's blog for more.

POLIVOKS SELF REZ

YouTube via bluelantern320. On Ebay

POLIVOKS VCF Line Level Pass

"I had a Korg ER-1 Beat play through the filter."

Korg Lambda and Prophet 08

YouTube via kennykeyboard
"The same rhythmic tune is played on both instruments pretty much to demonstrate contrast between a 1979 poly ensemble and a modern analog synth. My neighbors in the early 80's had a reggae band, so I came up with this riff which may or may not be stylistically correct."

Korg Lambda strings organ sounds

"Auditioning of various sounds on this 1979 offering from Korg. The strings had variable attack. The organ was pretty much as you get it. Ensemble, shelving filter, and tone tabs help define the variations possible. It works best for pads and some soloing in this mode."
KORG Lambda on Ebay
Prophet'08 on Ebay

Drawdio Paint Brush

YouTube via wakeupsilver
"See [link] for a full Drawdio demo. This video just shows a few more clips of the paintbrush."

R.A MINIMOOG

YouTube via sonil23
"Just wanted to upload a vid of my very early R.A minimoog synthesizer as there doesnt seem to be many demos of this version on the net. Hope u enjoy!"
Minimoog on Ebay

Bon Harris - Nitzer Ebb & Reason

YouTube via PropellerheadSW
"Bon Harris is mostly known as a founding member of legendary UK electronic act Nitzer Ebb, but he has also worked with artists such as Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, his own band Maven and many more. We met with Bon to talk production, Reason and fat bass sounds."
Reason on Amazon
Reason on Ebay