MATRIXSYNTH: Wednesday, May 27, 2009

AKAI ME20A Manual

You can find the pdf here.

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Akai ME20A MIDI Sequence Arpeggiator

200e song

YouTube via hyperguy61
"nothing serious .... just a catchy little groove , buchla style :) sorry about the little tv noise in the beginning"

MacBeth M5N

via this auction
Serial # AH-0001
Date of Manufacture: 9/16/2007

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ARP Odyssey II Model 2813 Synthesizer

via this auction

ELEKTRONIKA EM-25

via this auction

"This is Soviet legendary synth Elektronika EM-25. It was made in 1987. Please see its specification here."

Roland Jupiter-8 with Kenton MIDI

via this auction

"Vintage Roland Jupiter 8 with RETRO-FITTED (KENTON) Midi input/output/thru. The Jupiter-8 is an 8-voice polyphonic analog synthesizer. Each voice features two VCOs with cross-modulation and sync, pulse-width modulation, a non-resonant high-pass filter, a resonant Low-pass filter with 2-pole (12 dB/octave) and 4-pole (24 dB/octave) settings, an LFO with variable waveforms and routings, and two envelope generators (one invertible). Noteworthy performance features include adjustable portamento, a hold function for making sound design easier, a versatile arpeggiator with DIN-sync and external analog clock input connectivity, assignable pitch-bender, instrument layer and split modes, robust load and save functionality for its 64-patch memory, built-in XLR outputs, and—in addition to legato and polyphonic modes—the Jupiter-8 includes a powerful unison mode. A Z80 CPU was used for managing storage of patches, scanning the keyboard, display, and buttons, port handling, and taking care of the auto-tune function among other things. The VCOs were discrete. The VCF was based on the Roland IR3109 IC (also used in the Jupiter 6, MKS-80 rev 4, Juno 6/60, JX-3p respective filter circuits). The VCA was the BA662. The envelopes were hardware generated by the Roland IR3R01 chip (also in the Juno 6/60), and are much faster than software generated ones in the subsequently introduced Jupiter-6 and MKS-80 'Super Jupiter'."

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Triadex Muse Vintage Music Synthesizer

via this auction

"Model Muse-1
SPECS:
AC115-125V
60 CPS, 40W
Serial #: 00499-11"

See the Triadex (Muse) label for more info on this rare digital synth.

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Das reacBall

YouTube via pepezabala
"Institut FATIMA uses a Fussball as (des-)controller for triggering drumsamples. The camera detects the symbols on the ball, kicks numbers into the sequencer, the sequencer matches goals. The goal is always music. Software used is reactivision and ableton live. Do it at home."

Ran Kirlian - Jovian Arps

YouTube via RanKirlian
"Improvisation on Roland Jupiter 4: arpeggio and VCF Mod controlled by internal trigged while playing the VCF and VCA on the bend/mod wheel"

Lewellen: Frog Guitar iPhone App

YouTube via smortage
"Smort Co-founder Lewellen shares his perspectives on technology and shows the Frog Guitar.

Git yerself one of dem from the iTunes Store:

Smort homepage:
http://www.smort.com/"

via Lewellen:
"I was getting a little tired of all of those tree-hugging musical apps for the iPhone like Pocket Guitar and Ocarina. Plus, who isn't tired of Tap-Tap-Tapping? Come on! I figured it was time for someone to step up and create something truly awesome- so I built a guitar out of Frogs.

It's very simple to use:
• pluck, strike, or strum the frogs
• stretch the frogs with the rope and pegs to change pitch
• ignore the flies -- they are just for decorations
- and be careful how you treat those frogs or things might get messy

You can actually play chords and stuff with multi-touch although the fingerings are inverted from a standard bass guitar. My home-made video shows you a basic song."

KORG X-911 Analog Synthesizer

via this auction

"The X-911 crams a lot of cool features into a small box. It is impressive as an effects processor, a pitch to voltage converter, a guitar synth, or a CV-controlled expander that can be sequenced or played from another synth. You can mix footages and waveforms for some pretty complex timbres. It tracks better than a lot of other guitar synths from the era, but one still has to play the guitar very deliberately and clearly to make it work best.

Here is a video, sequencing an X-911 from Korg's SQ-10 and triggering it with the audio from the KR-55 drummachine. The video shows the X-911's envelope filtering capabilities on the drum machine; it also demonstrates the X-911 as a stand-alone synth module."

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Gotharmusic

http://www.gotharman.dk/

Pictured:
Gotharman's deMOON
"Affordable 4 note polyphonic filterbank synthesizer with build-in granulator and distortion effects, step-sequencer and note randomizer. Small and compact in size with a great sound. The headphone output and the step-sequencer makes it ideal to express your musical ideas everywhere, and store them in 128 memory locations."

Gotharman's Deformer
"It's a granular effects processor. It's a polyphonic filterbank synthesizer. It's a MIDI note randomizer. It's an analogue style 2-track MIDI sequencer. It's the first machine in the world (I think), that can do REALTIME TIMESTRETCH ON A LIVE INPUT AUDIO SIGNAL. Add to this a granulator that cut's the input audio signal up in fragments, and lets you move these fragments around with the 16 step pots to rearrange beats and others in realtime. Use the two fully programmable filterbanks to tweak the sound further. Or create complete synth-patches by combining the internal polyphonic oscillator section with one or both of the filterbanks. Create two note and controller sequences and run them thru the note randomizer to create enddless non-mechanical variations. Store your arrangement in one of the 512 program locations for instant recall. That's the Deformer!"

The Gothar V
"Analogue synth with 3 VCO's, 2 filters, 2 LFO's, 2 envelopes and GotharMusic distortion."

GotharNorth MIDI keyboards
"A GotharMusic special custom design for the danish band Carpark North"

Be sure to see http://www.gotharman.dk/ for more.

via sequencer.de

MFB 522 drum machine first test

YouTube via pac209
"with a bit of X0xb0x and delay later on...this little thing rocks :-D"

Update via pac in the comments:
"here's a mp3 of a session right after this (same setup), with shuffle turned on
http://www.sendspace.com/file/0zsyx5"

The 500 Synthesizer by Peter Smith

YouTube via SmithComposition. follow-up to this post.
"A pulse wave demonstration of the free VSTi software synthesizer designed by Peter Smith. Download it for free from http://www.smithcomposition.com
This synthesizer features an LFO, filter, plus pseudo granular synthesis and a special 'destroy' mode which chews up the signal. Intended for experimentation, great for generating new rhythms.

This is the first piece of software completed by Peter Smith, so it will certainly be subject to fixes and modification in the future.

http://www.smithcomposition.com
http://www.myspace.com/smithcomposition"

via Critical Terrain where you'll find a full post on Morton Subotnick. The images are from mortonsubotnick.com.

"These great stills from an educational filmstrip show a mod Morton Subotnick in his Bleecker Street studio, most likely in the early 1970s. The analog synth apparatus here is the Buchla Modular Electronic Music System 100 series, which Don Buchla constructed from a spec by Subotnick and Ramon Sender."