MATRIXSYNTH: Saturday, November 7, 2009

Saturday, November 07, 2009

KORG MS-10 Synthesizer Demo Song

YouTube via wwwPepeMusicDE
"A demo song, that completely consists of KORG MS-10 sounds with the use of just three effects pedals.

The drums have been arranged at the computer, everything else was played by hand and recorded in realtime. Not one single melody line has been repeated - "Copy & Paste"-music making displeases me!

And NO! It was not ME who painted the MS-10 white, that was the previous owner!

By the way, my MS-10 is now offered at eBay, because the synthesizer does not really fit in my regular music styles."

single-handed home acid

YouTube via quadratschulz
"The Band:
Drums: Roland TR-808, Roland TR-606, Simmons SDS-V with MFB SEQ-01
Bass: Roland TB-303
Lead: Roland SH-101 via KORG SQ-10 plus QUADRATSCHULZ SQ10 EXT
Groupies: Boss RE-20. KORG KaosPad KP3, KORG KMS-20, MungoSync plus AKAI MPC2000 (Sync master)"

Moog Music Minimoog Voyager Walkthru, Part Two

YouTube via gearwire. Part Three here. Part One not yet up.
"Bill Holland wakes up on the wrong side of the Voyager in this amazing display of ghost piano. Where's the sound coming from if nobody's pressing the keys? The secret lies within this video. Don't look at the Moog Minimoog Voyager, look through it!"

Vangelis - Chariots Of Fire [Live] stereo

YouTube via NorskTorsk. Anyone know what the units are on top of the piano?

Update via Siebe in the comments: "The boxes on top of the piano are probably Zyklus sequencers. There's almost no info on the internet." See the Zyklus label below. The ones previously posted do look a bit different. Maybe a different model or custom made for Vangelis?

Update: riddle solved

Treating Buddha Boxes through the Modular system

YouTube via RothHandle
"Rough day today in the studio. Matti is in New York having a great time. I am in the studio sorting things out...well well you win some you lose some the ace of spades. A lot of detective work trying to find the right mixes and right edits for Bröderna Lejonhjärta. The premiere is in one week more or less so I need to deliver al the stuff on Monday. They have already been rehearsing with the old files but want to use the top shelf stuff...straight from the studio. So a lot of work...fun but very exhausting.

This short film shows me mumbling around with two buddha boxes and a Modular system.

This film was shot at the Roth Händle studio in Stockholm. For more scattered info on ramblings please visit www.roth-handle.nu"

Treating a poorly recorded drum kit through the frostwave Funk a duck

Treating a atrociously recorded drumkit through the Moogerfooger lowpass filter

Yamaha DX5

YouTube via Gtechture
"This seems to be the first video of a DX5 on YouTube. All patches are original."

Roland MC-202

via this auction

Roland SH-101 with Original Box

via this auction

MAESTRO VINTAGE GUITAR SYNTH EFFECT PEDAL

via this auction
"vintage Maestro Universal Synthesizer System USS-1 manufactured by Oberheim Electronics, serial # 1938. This vintage multi-effect features several of the best Oberheim Maestro effects in one amazing unit. The USS-1 features several effect sections, including: Waveform (fuzz, texture), Filter (envelope), Sample/Hold (the famous random arpeggiator), Phase, Envelope (an additional envelope filter), and Subharmonic."

inside a Maestro

My wife wants a house, but I just want to ROCK.

My wife wants a house, but I just want to ROCK. from Fiche!!! eBay on Vimeo.

via this auction

The sound of decline in a post-Juno society. from Fiche!!! eBay on Vimeo.

The eBay took my Juno away. from Fiche!!! eBay on Vimeo.

via this auction

Moog Custom Engineering modules

via this VEMIA auction
"A very nice little Moog modular set-up, with modules made recently, but 'proper Moog' - made by Moog CE aka Modusonics, the company Mike Bucki, the Moog Custom Engineering person in the old days, set up after Moog's original demise - so you can be sure they are the genuine article. The system includes (with US prices from a year or two ago): Moog 904a classic low-pass VCF ($835) Moog 921 improved stability full-featured VCO ($1285) Moog 902 VCA ($485) Moog 911 Envelope Generator ($425) Moog C3PO discrete Mixer ($435) Moog 995 Attenuators ($220) Without allowing for any price rise, that is $3685. With shipping and import duty/tax to England, that is $4765, which is £2883 at today's rate. They are in a case, fully working with power supply. The case is a home made job so a little heath robinson! It has a QS1 dot com power supply enough to power around 40 modules. The power supply is about a year old and rock solid reliable. The case will fit any 5u Moog-size modules in top row and 3u eurorack size below. There is a custom Moog Custom Engineering harness that runs directly off the dot com power supply, with edge connectors for up to 9 Moog modules. Dot com or any other plus and minus 15V modules will run directly off of the power supply so the Moog can mix with dot com, Oakley, MOTM etc.. (VEMIA note: We certainly expect this to be bid on in the main auction at this price - with the additional dotcom power supply, and Moog CE harness with nine connectors, it's worth well over £3000 even ignoring the useful case, and you by-pass the scarily long Modusonics waiting list. But if not, all modules will be re-entered in second chance sunday as individual lots.)"

Digilog 2x16 Analog Sequencer Din Sync

via this VEMIA auction

"Digilog AS 2x16 Step analog sequencer. CV 1 CV 2 Gate invert Trig in Run in Din Sync in. With PSU. Built from the same Pro shop which built the EMS Vocoder 4000. Very good"

EMS VOCODER 4000

via this VEMIA auction

"EMS VOCODER 4000 ! I CALLED IT 4000 BECAUSE IT HAD MORE FEATURES THEN THE 3000 AND LESS FEATURES THEN THE 5000. Each of the 16 Filters has Level, Offset, CV out, CV-in. Very good condition. Fully working. The Vocoder 2000 was built by EMS. The 2HE Filter Section was built by a Pro Shop in Leibzig(Germany) in 2007. Very good Condition. Fully working."

EMS Synthi 100

via this VEMIA auction
"This wonderful Synthi 100, serial number 3007, was owned originally by Bruno Spoerri. He used it for many years. At some stage he decided he wanted some more variety within this massive system, and changed some of the modules' circuitry to more modern analogue designs. Because of the modular nature of the beast (all the important boards are contained within card-frames for simple removal and work) it would be easy to return these to their original design - all parts are still readily available. But our feeling is that it would be good to start with Bruno's mods intact, and only change back if they proved not to the new owner's taste. After Bruno Spoerri, it was owned by Felix Visser of Synton, who bought it as one of the centrepieces of a massive museum planned for the Netherlands. The museum never happened, and so he sold it 18 months ago. The new owner unfortunately has hit a crisis which involved having to move out of his current studio and home, and so the Synthi is up for sale again. It is in very good cosmetic condition. There is some marking where damage to one of the massive pin matrices has been repaired - see the photo - and a small amount of corrosion on the right of the serial number panel. Apart from that, and the odd scuffs and marks consistent with its 35 years' life, it is really lovely. The 'producer desk' in between the two matrices has been repaired and re-tolexed and looks great. All knobs are beautiful; all keys on the twin-manual keyboard are excellent. It needs some servicing: Output channel 1: full on, slider not effective. Some other mixer sliders feel a bit rough, but sound smooth enough; Output channel 5: not working; panel lights: not working; meter 4 light: not working; sequencer: not tested fully but the counter and reset work fine. Oscillator 5: not working; oscillator 12 (LFO): not working; frequency counter: probably not working properly - counts OK, but doesn't seem to respond to frequencies. Filter bank: not tested. Ring mod: not tested. EQ1: not working; EQ2: working in every respect except not triggering from keyboard or button; EQ3: triggering, working as envelope, but internal VCA not working. Input amp XLR socket missing its locking thing. VCF6: not working; VCF7 and 8: not working (inverted, strange behaviour). Top keyboard: 1 note iffy; bottom keyboard: pitch drifting. There are some aspects of the mods that need exploring more fully, so would also count as not tested. That still leaves perhaps 90% of this amazing machine working well. We have asked EMS experts Lucidsounds to estimate the cost of a full service, and their estimate is £2000. Please look at the photo carefully. It's difficult for space reasons to take a proper picture of the whole machine; please note that the back picture was taken when some of the heaviest modules had been removed for safe transport - hence the dangling connector, etc.. This comes with the stand for the keyboards, the back panels, a generous number of matrix pins (including some for the sequencer) - well into three figures, we think - and the original manuals, massive tomes like old bibles. This is the eighth out of less than 30 of these incredible machines, and one of very few (just 3 or 4?) to go to a private studio, so much less likely to be abused during its life by a succession of careless students or employees."

Ray Kurzweil - Futurist

YouTube via ComputerHistory
"[Recorded July 13 2009] Ray Kurzweil is a 21st century polymath. He is a scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, author, visionary and futurist. As a scientist and inventor he has pioneered work in optical character recognition (OCR), speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. As an entrepreneur, Kurzweil has founded businesses in the fields of OCR, music synthesis, speech recognition, reading technology, virtual reality and financial investment. He is the author of numerous books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), the technological singularity and futurism. The Kurzweilian version of the future is the inevitable merger of humans and intelligent machines.

In this discussion with Computer History Museum Senior Curator Dag Spicer, Kurzweil shares his vision of how technology will re-shape the human body (and culture generally) into one that incorporates advanced technologies into a new type of post-human organism. Kurzweil sees this transformation occurring over the next 20 to 50 years and beginning with the integration of electronic-based systems into the human body. Some decades after that, a further transformation occurs--one based on nanotechnology—which incorporates the manipulation and construction of interfaces and complex systems based on atomic-level structures that merge with and control specific bodily functions and attack its problems (i.e. cancer). Some of the philosophical implications of Kurzweils vision are also discussed."

Reactable meets Barcelona Bakalao - part1

YouTube via tikovbcn. via owen in the comments of this post.
"Techno live jam of Barcelona Bakalao and Reactable at Reactable office."

DarkEnergy + Revolution 2: 2009 Slightly Delayed (Raw Cut)

YouTube via OculoRapido
"Test drive of a Doepfer Dark Energy with a Moog MF-104Z analog delay (right channel), with MIDI sequencing by a Future Retro Revolution (left channel). Ambient dronespace and mixdown provided by Blacet/Metalbox/Wiard/Cynthia modular synthesizer system. The Dark Energy uses the Start Up synth parameter setup described in the Doepfer manual (page 31). Available light video shot with a Sanyo Xacti HD1010. Thanks to Shawn Cleary and Analogue Haven for blazing gear! Produced by Doktor Bob at Rapid Eye Soundlabs. Copyright 2009 Robert B. Trelease. Aarrrgggh: Tha' POPZ are back!"

Moon Modular M553 MIDI2Clock Sync Test

YouTube via JohnLRice
"Just testing my new M553 MIDI2Clock module by taking a nice Gabrielesque preset patch off of my Yamaha RM1X MIDI sequencer and sync'ing up the Q960 and M569CV sequencers.

I was about to tear this patch down and try something else and I decided to video it first just in case someone else might enjoy it too. :-)"

Waldorf Q - BRAND NEW in box unused

via this auction

nice scan of the cover of the user's manual

spotted by Mr. Array

Rhodes Chroma Apple II Interface Card

via Chris Ryan on the Rhodes Chroma list:

"I've posted Hardware Description and Specification, which is Appendix O from the Sequencer Manual. This details the Chroma/Computer Interface PC board for the Apple II, and includes the schematic and component layout drawing in PDF format, which were missing from the scan of the manual available at the site."

Circuit-Bent/Modified Korg DDD-1 MIDI Drum Machine

via this auction

"It has been professionally modified by Class A Electronics, LLC/Diabolical Devices. We have added a 13 point bending patch bay which will generate a wide variety of affects from ring-mods to computer glitch noises. We have also installed bright blue LEDs in place of the original red ones. The play and record LEDs are now 10mm blue. Comes with patch cables. I will post video soon." Check the auction as it wasn't up at the time of this post.

Also see the sellers other items.