Bratigel Sequencer Part 7

YouTube via heidibeerbel. previous vids here. scroll when you get there.

"Bratigel analog Step +Trigger Sequencer in 6HE 19" AluRack controls my Modularsystem and Moog"

Roland System100M

via this auction

- 1 module 110 VCO/VCF/VCA
- 1 module 140 Dual ADSR / VCLFO
- 1 module 150 Ring Mod. / S&H / Noise / VCLFO
- 1 cabinet 190
- 5 DIN cables and a few patch cables.

White MacBeth M5N Synthesizer

via this auction
"Synthesizer Specifications:
* Voltage Controlled Oscillators - they go Low Frequency too!
* Featuring Saw/Square (PW/PWM)/Triangular and Sine waveforms.
* Frequency control of the Oscillators is by Octave Switching (5 Octaves) a Course Frequency Control slider and by a Fine Frequency Control slider and by +-1V/Octave, ie positive or negative polarity so that you can 'play the keyboard backwards' should you want to.
* There is a four input CV mixer as well as a Voltage Controlled Pulse width input.
* Prepatched into the oscillators are the two LFO's, as is Oscillator 2 to Oscillators 1 and 3. (Most of this synth is pre-patched in a very similar way to the 2600 synth. There is Oscillator Synch between Oscillators 1 and 2, Oscillator 3 features a 'Stability' potentiometer to cause drift inherant of older analogue synths, circa 1970, this control is very subtle, but fattens the sounds up greatly!)
* 2 LFOs with separate Rate controls as well as a Master Rate control, the Dual VC LFO's also include Sample and Hold and Lag/Slew Processors.
* 2 Voltage Controlled Filters - The main filter is of the 24dB/Octave
Self-Oscillating Transistor Ladder type and the second, 'Utility' Filter is a 12dB/Octave State Variable type that features Low pass, High Pass, Band Pass and Notch responses.
* The 24db/Octave Voltage Controlled Filter/Oscillator features a five input Audio Mixer and a five input CV mixer!

Again many sources are pre-patched for both Audio and CV. As with the Oscillators, Filter Control can be both positive and negative in it's polarity! The Filter features Both Course and Fine tuning sliders as well as a logarythmic Resonance slider that brings the Filter to oscillating a pure Sine wave!"

Rare Early Seeburg Rhythm Prince Synthesizer Drum Synth

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via this auction

"This really an electrical and mechanical wonder. First, it has a motor which moves across a field of contacts at a speed set by the tempo control. there are a few dozen neon lamps which trigger to (I guess) give that percussive sound. This is quite a light show - It might be fun to mod this to make these visible during use."

some inside shots

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YAMAHA Tone Generator TQ5 FM Synth MIDI Workstation

via this auction
"Yamaha Tone Generator TQ5 FM MIDI Sequencer Workstation.

Details:
* Maker: Yamaha
* Model: TQ5
* Type: MIDI Sequencer
* 8-Voice Polyphonic
* 4 Operator FM Synth Sounds
* Built-In Effects Processor
* MIDI In/Out/Thru Inputs
* Stereo 1/4" Output
* Heapdhone 1/4" Output
* Includes: Power Adapter"

Update via Loscha in the comments: "One of the finest, most innovative things Yamaha ever made.
It's a Tx81z with a basic effects unit, a sequencer, and a clock. Effects have a great gated reverse reverb. Think the "Silent Shout" album by The Knife (a few tracks have a horn-type sound that fades in with rev reverb, you can get that sound down pat easily).

The sound editing on it is intuitive, but, not complete. You can't edit everything, but, it's got a lot of useful Easy Edit parameters. Most useful for quick editing and tone optimization is the ability to change the waveforms of the 4 operators from the panel.

The sequencer has a metronome mode which is quite loud and pervasive. It is added to the mix post volume control. This can be routed to a jack on the side very easily, so that when you put something in the jack it mutes it, or you can route it to another channel. Timing is pretty good the sequencer.

The effects chip has a digital stream in and out, and is thus glitchable, although, I've only done this to mine once or twice. It's too precious to lose to a circuit bending disaster.

I have service manual if anyone needs any questions asker. Although, I should take some internal photos and include instructions on clock out for y'all one day!

Did I mention it has a clock and a calender on it?

-Loscha @ gmail dot com"

also see this post

CASIO CZ-101 Midi Controller Keyboard

via this auction

"serial Y133609"

Ensoniq MIRAGE DSK1 SAMPLER SYNTH

via this auction
"# Type: Synth/ Sampler
# Analog filters
# Keys - 61
# MIDI - Can send on simultaneous MIDI channels
# Five-stage envelopes for the VCA and VCF
# LFO and a low-pass VCF filter
# Sampling-rate of 32kHz
# 8-bit resolution
# Multi-timbral (number of parts): 8
# Memory : 16 internal patches, 128 kb sampler memory
# Sequencer - 333 Note capacity
# Sampler - 8-bit, 32kHz (up to 6.5 seconds sample-time at 10kHz)
# Dimensions : 40 1/2" X 13 1/2" X 3 1/2"
# Weight: 28 lbs."

patch sheets and disks

Yamaha CS-10

via this auction

original box

Korg X-911 synth - MS-20 style audio processing

via this auction
"this is a bit of a rare and strange one. For a start, it has no keyboard, because it's designed to be controlled by other sounds - it's known as a pitch-voltage synth.

What this means is you plug in your signal source (a guitar would be your standard thing this was designed for - but you can plug in anything you want - drum machines, a microphone, the latest britney single) and the X-911 tracks the pitch of what you are playing into it, and then plays that pitch with its built in synth.

which brings us to the other weird part of the X-911 - the synth part.. you have 2 separate sections. one is a basic subtractive synthesiser, and the other half is a bunch of presets. the really nuts thing is, all these presets can be stacked up, and mixed with the synth, to create a massive wall of noise. If you get into the guts of this thing there's some serious electronics packed into it - according to this site this is all the synth bits and pieces contained in this tiny little MS-20 era box

* 1 pre-amp, dist unit, P-V converter and envelope follower/trig detector
* 1 multi-waveform, multi-octave output MS-20-style VCO with both lin and log CV
* 1 MS-20-style VCF
* 3 MS-10-style VCF:s (discrete KORG35) used by the Bass, Tuba and Trumpet presets.
* 8 VCA:s
* 9 simple EG:s


of course, if all this is a bit much for you, the X-911 has CV and trigger jacks in and out, so you can control it from a midi-cv converter, or use it to control a synth with a more vanilla architecture."

Arp 2600 Vintage Analog Synth

via this auction

"Model 3620 S/N 3620 0030"

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2synth

flickr by Niqla

full size

KORG MicroKORG

"Photography & Editing by Niqla Polis
Subject: Anonyme
Place: Lab Synthèse, Montréal, Québec, Canada"

Tongue Drum for iPhone (Rubber Ball Mallet)

YouTube via earsmack http://earsmack.com/tonguedrum
" (earsmack music) presents Tongue Drum for iPhone.

Tongue Drum is an iPhone native application modeled after a real tongue drum.

The original tongue drum was hand-crafted by Steve Roberts at TongueDrum.com. It was meticulously sampled and turned into a convenient iPhone application by (earsmack music) to allow the tongue drum enthusiast to have the sound of the tongue drum with them at all times.

The application contains rubber ball, waxed cork and waxed dowel mallets along with an added bonus analog synthesized mallet thanks to the Moog Voyager synthesizer.

Even beginners can easily create pleasant music on the tongue drum thanks to the E Pentatonic Major tuning. Other tunings are also available in the app for your enjoyment. Pick any tuning and any mallet then tap away to create wonderful polyphonic music on your very own tongue drum.

Love it and need the real deal? Contact steve@tonguedrum.com for information on ordering your very own Tongue Drum and exotic mallet set.

Visit http://earsmack.com/tonguedrum for more information"

Curtis Roads Update

A couple of updates and good comments coming in on this prior post.

Some Old Audiovisualizers and new synthesizer sounds

YouTube via VironCybernet
"Late 1980's LYTE audiovisualizer, large VU meter, and small LED VU meter all responding to some new synthesizer sounds I made. Except I didn't make the LYTE.

If you like the sounds, you can download an mp3 of them at:
http://www.onanother.net/ViRandom_Syn..."

It's just a phase

YouTube via mysteritmo
"This piece of music was created during the first test of my new phaser; The Big Brick Stage Edition. The phaser was built by Michael Kukat inspired by the Electro-Harmonix Small Stone Phaser. Make sure to watch all his You Tube videos building the phaser from start to finish."
That would be these videos.

abanondoned sat calls home

YouTube via 909techno
"Nord Lead 1 with 2.0 expansion. headphone out to laptop input."

Spring Chicken and the Vostok

YouTube via bigcitymusic
"Here's a dirty little sequence from the Analogue Solutions Vostok suitcase synth. We're running it through the new Malekko Heavy Industry Spring Chicken reverb pedal. The Spring Chicken sounds awesome and the controls are pretty easy. You've got one knob. If you want more spring reverb, turn it up! This is the super slick red version of the Vostok. We decided to skip the pin matrix (not Matrixsynth!) and use patch cables this time. The Vostok is pretty gnarly and it's definitely unique." :)

Arduino & Processing Synthesizer

Arduino & Processing Synthesizer from anthony mattox on Vimeo.

Audio comes in at :40
"Synthesizer built with Arduino board with an interface scripted in Processing.
view more information in my blog at anthonymattox.com/blog"

Announcing MATRIXSYNTH-C

I just created MATRIXSYNTH-C. What is it? In short it will be a blog for "Bands That Play Synths" and support MATRIXSYNTH. The focus will be on the music. It's my way of saying thank you to anyone that supports the site. I'm going to limit posts to vids that are directly sent in by you, the readers. To keep any one person from overtaking the site, please chose what you send in carefully. Showcase your best. The only rule is the music has to feature synths, BUT, it doesn't have to be specifically about the synths like here on MATRIXSYNTH.

MATRIXSYNTH is all about the gear first
MATRIXSYNTH-C is all about the music first
MATRIXSYNTH-B is all about gear for sale first

My contact info is on the bottom right of this site.

Thanks goes to Chris Randall for the orange. I've been meaning to start this site for some time but wasn't sure what color to go with until he commented on orange being next year's green in response to Peter Kirn's comment in this post. Maybe he's right. :)

My Intern David recording Double Tremeloed Omnichord

YouTube via RothHandle
"Yesterday we kept on working on the Victorias Moralez track piecing together rhythms and ambient stuff to create layers to be used behind the song. My intern David was a complete trouper helping me out. My initial idea was to have a Autoharp chord at the beginning of the "big " middle section but it didnt really turn out too great. So we moved on to the Jery JOnes sitar and tuned the resonator strings....still didnt do the track. So...finally we ended up recording the OMnichord using two tyremeloes to give it a wide random fluttery effect. This was of course dubbed to enhance the effect.

If you are curious about the studio please visit www.roth-handle.nu for more information, booking and blogs.

Thank for watching !

// Mattias"

YAMAHA PSS-480 by S-CAT

YouTube via PHONICPOTION. picks up at :56. S-CAT/PHONICPOTION on Ebay
"CIRCUIT BENT WITH 7 MODIFICATIONS"

BONTEMPI MINSTRAL by S-CAT PT.1

"CIRCUIT BENT WITH 25 MODIFICATIONS"

BONTEMPI MINSTRAL by S-CAT PT.2

A Vintage 16K Music Demo (William Tell Overture)

YouTube via VironCybernet. Music starts at 3:05
"This was made by Garry and Linda Howard in 1982. There was a 32K version... but... The code was published in a magazine and the terms of use were to type it in and save it on a tape and then run it as is, which is what I did, having to push either 30000 or 60000 keys, I only had 16K so I typed in that version. The longer version had the less interesting part of this melody.

Before it plays you can hear what the program data sounds like on the tape as it reads almost 16K of data from the tape at about 1200 baud.

It's not a copyright violation to run it and show it to people as it is, because that is what it is for.

I can describe the USUAL musical sounds from this machine as sounding very much like the buzzer on a game show when someone gives a wrong answer. This program probably made the best sounding music ever with the TRS-80, and I show it to you because it's on an 8-bit 16K machine with usually crappy sound, like my 1985 synthesizer disk for the Apple II, and it's a historic demo that was famous with people who had TRS-80's but is almost forgotten now.

And also it is either evidence or proof of concept of getting a lot of high quality sound or music without much memory, certainly much less than an MP3 of it would need."

lets get lofi 2 - Yamaha PS-55 String Ensemble

YouTube via ChrisLody
"Mmmm this keyboard has a nice string sound. Another carboot bargin at £7. I filmed this in my nice tidy studio...err ..not so tidy actually. I used the string ensemble preset from the 'orchestra' mixed with a bit of violin from the monophonic 'solo' section. The phat sounding strings are mostly down to a very nice built in chorus, but you'll probably have to use HQ mode to hear its full effect."

Leaf Trombone Lite & Free

"Today, Smule releases Leaf Trombone Lite & Free, a simplified version of Leaf Trombone World Stage that gives users the ability to play the instrument and experience the game’s features before purchasing the full version. Available now for the iPhone and iPod touch, this new version of the massively multi-player musical game enables users to try the Leaf Trombone, learn a new song, and observe the happenings on the World Stage.

Leaf Trombone Lite & Free can be found at Apple's AppStore™ at:


Following up on the hugely popular Ocarina, Smule takes the “iPhone-as-instrument” concept to a whole new level with the Leaf Trombone, one of the broadest, deepest games now available on the iPhone platform. Using Leaf Trombone World Stage, users can learn an instrument, perform it for people around the world, judge their fellow players, and compose and publish their own work. This, new, free edition is designed for users who are interested in getting to know the Leaf Trombone before purchasing the product.

Leaf Trombone Lite & Free features include:

FREE PLAY: Play the leaf trombone, either by blowing air into your microphone or just sliding the leaf (our Touch mode).

PLAY GAME: Test out the game by practicing on the default track (that’s right, only one default track because this is the free version). Just follow the floating leaves on the screen.

OBSERVE: Witness judging of actual performances by a live panel of judges by using the observe feature. If a Leaf Trombonist has Tweeted a performance update, Twitter followers can download the app and search on the performance ID to see how their friend did."

When the Saints Go Marching In (with Leaf Trombone)


You can get Leaf Trombone Lite & Free here:


and the full version here:

acidlab Miami Manual

The manual is up on acidlab.de

New Aliens Project Studio Pics

more pics here

ProjectStella

flickr set by JoeLMutantE
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"Stella is an analog step sequencer based on an old P3 sequencer kit. It has been made trying to make some different to the standard 16 step linear sequencing of those TR-style sequencers.
It has two rounds of 16 knobs each one, and designed on an orbital/elllipse line. I have tried to randomize to the maximum the fact to add musical notes. When you see one linear step sequencer, automatically divides on a grid of four steps, and this one makes the music creation to sound very rigid. Avoiding that "griding" effect, the results is that the music is more natural and so different."

trance portable: pattern MC 808 v synth gt handsonic hpd15

YouTube via mokuchley
"this is a test of one sound of v-synth i like, at the root of the track : one sound of v-synth gt and modulate along of piece : but we didn't heard all the dynamics..Style trance house . pictures:my instruments & annie et gérard . Music: mokuchley. Lead: v synth gt. Percussion indienne: handsonic hpd15. Rythme:mc808 ( pattern )"

More KORG Demo Tape

see the update in this post.

APC40 in action

YouTube via AkaiProVideo
"Akai Professional's own Stephan Vankov puts the APC40 through its paces in this demonstration that puts the performance in the Ableton Performance Controller."

MOBY - GO! - Performed on casio sk5

YouTube via drbenway. "THE SECRET POWER OF CASIO SK5"

dms-20 proof of concept

YouTube via mustakl. This is a KORG Legacy Collection MS20 USB controller with an eee pc 701 netbook tucked in the case. Note the pic below. The result? You can play the MS20 stand alone. You can find more details on the project by Marc Nostromo on noise pages.