MATRIXSYNTH: Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Tiptop Audio Z-DSP Manual

The manual is now online here.

Check out page 2. :)

You can find all posts featuring the Z-DSP here.

http://tiptopaudio.com

Elektron Monomachine Tutorials

Elektron Monomachine Tutorial, Part 1 from Elektron Music Machines on Vimeo.
"A basic overview of the Monomachine"

Elektron Monomachine Tutorial, Part 2 from Elektron Music Machines on Vimeo.
"An in depth look at the Monomachine sequencer"

Elektron Monomachine Tutorial, Part 3 from Elektron Music Machines on Vimeo.
"The FX Machines in a live performance context"

via Mr. Array of Ocean Orbit

Elektron Machinedrum Tutorials

Elektron Machinedrum Tutorial, Part 1 from Elektron Music Machines on Vimeo.
"A basic overview of the Machinedrum"

Elektron Machinedrum Tutorial, Part 2 from Elektron Music Machines on Vimeo.
"An in depth look at the Machinedrum sequencer"

Elektron Machinedrum Tutorial, Part 3 from Elektron Music Machines on Vimeo.
"A demonstration of the real time sampling feature"

via Mr. Array of Ocean Orbit

Vintage Univox Mini Korg Analog Synthesizer

via this auction

Bent Musini - Crazy 16bit Stereo Soundscapes

via this auction
"The Musini is a musical toy that little kids put on the ground. It plays music in time with the vibrations of their kid feet dancing around. Lights flash and the 16bit 44.1khz sound chip pumps out LOUD stereo music through the built in speakers. It is powered by batteries or wallwart (not included). It also has a headphone jack. Pretty damn cool and built very solid.

I don't get excited about most circuit bent stuff becaue it all kind of sounds the same to me. This bent Musini does NOT sound like a bent Casio! CD quality, stereo sounds with reverb, chorus, and other effects all stream out of this Musini. It's a rare beast because Musini's are still popular for their intended purpose thus tough to find and also because it's an easy machine to fry while looking for bend points.

From right to left, the mods are:

* Glitch Button: Press this button to start the fun, keep pressing to descend into more chaos.

* Power Starve Knob: Rotate this clockwise to simulate the batteries failing. Using this and the glitch button at the same time will keep you busy for years.

* Pitch Knob: Turn this knob counter-clockwise to lower the pitch of whatever noise is spewing out.

* Reset Button: If the Musini seems to be stuck and responding to the Glitch button, press Reset; it's the same as turning it off then on again but easier than finding the power switch on the underside.

* Hold Switch: The Musini is motion activated. If you get tired of making motions, flip the Hold switch and it will usually hold at the tempo it's currently at, but sometimes it just goes to a tempo of about 60bpm.

Using the different controls in combination with each other and the stock Musini controls yields widely-varied results. Even adjusting the volume or using the headphone jack instead of the built in speakers makes the Musini emit all kinds of different weirdness. The controls interact with each other in strange but magnificent ways."

Augmented Reality Music controller

YouTube via rishabhrajan
"Augmented Reality in Quartz Composer used to generate OSC messages to manipulate parameters of Buffer Override as an insernt in an audio track."

Serge Synthesizer + MPS + Fender Frontman 15G

YouTube via JargMarbin

"Serge Analog Modular Synthesizer and a homemade Thomas Henry Mega Percussive Synthesizer through a Fender Frontman 15G guitar amp, with a view of downtown Austin Texas. I can fit that amp in my backpack and it's loud enough to hear over other musicians, but easily overdriven. I recorded the audio from the amp through the mic on the camera and added reverb to it. The evil laughter is from me laughing at the ridiculous sound of the tempo change. Download the audio here: http://soundcloud.com/jargmarbin/it-m..."

DIY Digital Audio Processor/Synthesizer Demo #3 - The Synthesizer

YouTube via TheMason76
"Shows the demo of the Synthesizer itself. The Notes are played from the internal Sequencer (curently only one line). The demo shows 2 of the 3 oscillators, the filter, the modulation and the effect-section. Sound may be not always in synch to video."

Novation Launchpad: Radar Sequencer

YouTube via littlescale
"Novation Launchpad: Radar Sequencer http://little-scale.blogspo..."

drumKAT v2.0 as Analog Trigger To MIDI Converter Synth

YouTube via DrZEEworkshop. follow-up to this post
"Dr ZEE Workshop modified drumKAT v2.0 as Analog Trigger To MIDI Converter demonstration. For detailed info of this project visit: http://www.mzentertainment.com/studio... .
In this video drumKAT acts as analog trigger sequencer to MIDI converter, so analog sequencer "drives" midi synthesizer (Roland JV-1080)."

Update:

RAW-BEAT-QUAD Analog Drum Rythm Synthesizer and ASC-1 Sequencer

"General Demonstration in-action video of Dr ZEE WORKSHOP RAW-BEAT-QUAD 4x4
Analog Drum / Rhythm Synthesizer (see project details here: http://www.mzentertainment.com/studio... ),
ANALOG SEQUENTIAL CONTROLLER ASC-1 Plus 8x4x8x8 / Trigger, Gate, Vc and Rs Sequencer (see project details here: http://www.mzentertainment.com/studio... ) and Analog Sequential Controller Satellite SC-S Monitor / Test Meter / Rs to Vc Converter Unit (see project details here: http://www.mzentertainment.com/studio... ) ."

Super GrooveAxe

Super GrooveAxe from Gadget Gangster on Vimeo.

"The Super GrooveAxe is a mini drum machine / sequencer. 4 sounds are available, and the playback speed of the pattern can be controlled. It's available as a kit on Gadget Gangster - gadgetgangster.com/241"
You can find more pics and instructions on instructables

via Nick: "I've just finished and put up the Super GrooveAxe, it's a mini drum-machine. I'm pretty proud of the project, I did the pcb design and grandtippler did the software to run it. Your readers might find it interesting - there's more info on instructables - http://www.instructables.com/id/Super-GrooveAxe-Mini-Drum-Machine/"

Yamaha CS6r Synthesizer Demo

YouTube via AndreVatke

Yamaha CS1x Control Synthesizer

YouTube via AndreVatke
"Doodle on the Yamaha CS1x showing FILTER CUTOFF and RESONANCE changes using knobs as well as switching between patch "scenes" using the mod wheel."

Roland SH-32 Virtual Analog Synthesizer

YouTube via AndreVatke
"A demo of the Roland SH-32 Synthesizer - desktop module"

Waldorf Micro-Q Virtual Analog Synthesizer Demo

YouTube via AndreVatke

KORG KEIO MINIPOPS 7 rhythm machine JARRE OXYGENE 4

YouTube via AnalogAudio1
"Demo of the Mini Pops 7 - shows the Minipops 7 in action... This is the drumbox heard on JEAN-MICHEL JARRE's album OXYGENE.

The Minipops model 7 is the most complex and the best machine of the Korg's Minipops Series. It has 16 different drum sounds and 20 preset patterns. You can combine all patterns, you have freedom to combine everything! Some combinations sound great - the OXYGENE 4 groove is a good example."

GATING THE STRING PAD.mov

YouTube via ShermanFilters. "Serman Rodec Restyler D&B"

Nova Musik Winter Sale and Giveaway

Nova Musik will be giving away $13,000 worth of studio gear. The drawing will be on January 11. Entering is simple. Just send them an email via the link on the Nova Musik website. While there, also check out everything they currently have on sale.

ETI 4600 Modular Synthesizer 1975 Analog synth

via this auction

"Extremely rare modular synthesizer. This was the predecessor to the Maplin 5600S and was available from 1973 (just after the EMS VCS3 became available) as a kit in the UK

The synthesizer has the following features:

4 VCO voltage controlled oscillators (each with sin, tri, saw, inverted saw and square wave with pulse width
All oscillators can be switched to Low range and have 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1 and 1/2' settings for pitch!
2 VCF voltage controlled filters (multimode lpf/bpf/hpf)
2 Amplifiers or Ring Modulators
3 envelope generators in the form of 1 Envelope Generator and 2 Transient Genrators
5 Mixers (3 x 5 input and 2 x 2 input)
1 Noise generator (pink & white)
1 Equalizer
1 Spring reverb
1 keyboard controller for glide and pitch modulation

1 joystick controller
1 four octave CV-Gate keyboard
1 Pitch Matrix patching system. Instead of patch cords, the system is patched this way

There are approx 15 pins for patching included"

via:
Web: http://www.davidmorley.com
Twitter: twitter.com/dlmorley

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Caja de Ritmos ON! TR-505 Roland

YouTube via ONhardwarehacking

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Omnichord Modified On!

YouTube via ONhardwarehacking
"On! Hardware Hacking & Circuit Bending Inc.
Omnichord www.mercadolibre.com.mx"

ZynAddSubFX with BOSS DD7 Looper Synthesizer Noise Ambient Jam

YouTube via sung00ku
"ZynAddSubFX is a open source software synthesizer capable of making a countless number of instruments, from some common heard from expensive hardware to interesting sounds that you'll boost to an amazing universe of sounds.

The project was started in March 2002 by Nasca Octavian Paul. He began to write ZynAddSubFX in order to create a synthesizer which could produce beautiful sounds, while being freely available to anybody who needs it.

The output of the computer goes into the BOSS DD7 Looper and then into my hifi-system.
Just a spontaneous jam! Enjoy
PS: recorded with my cellphone, sry"

http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net/

"Features of ZynAddSubFX:

* Realtime synth
* Polyphonic synth (allows playing more than one note at once)
* Mutlitimbral synth (allows playing more than one instrument at once)
* Microtonal capabilities with any scale, up to 128 notes per octave, and key mapping
* Three synthesizer engines:
1. "ADsynth" or "ADnote" is a complex engine which makes sounds by adding a number of voices. Each one has filters, envelopes, LFOs, morphing, modulation (Ring Modulation, Phase Modulation... the modulators can have any shape), resonance, etc. Each voice includes a very powerful waveform generator with up to 128 sine/non-sine harmonics. You can use Fourier synthesis or if you don't like it you can wave-shaping/filtering of functions. This engine includes anti-aliasing.
2. "SUBsynth" or "SUBnote" is a simple engine which makes sounds through subtraction of harmonics from white noise
3. "PADsynth" or "PADnote" is engine that makes very beautiful pads and other instruments. (these instruments can be exported for use with other programs too)
* Legato, Poly, and Mono modes
* Instruments can be organized in kits, which allows you to make drum kits or layered(mixed) instruments; this makes possible to use more than one instrument for a single part. It is possible to choose what items from the kit should be processed by the Part's effects.
* Effects:
o Reverb, Echo, Chorus/Flange, Phaser, AlienWah (it's a kind of vocal morpher), Distortion(Wave-shaping), EQ, DynamicFilter
o The effects can behave as System Effects or as Insertion Effects; this allows to use many effects at the same time. You can put any insertion effect on any part(or more insertion effects to same parts, if you like so) or you can put the insertion effect to Master output (very useful if you use the EQ effect). Also, you can have instrument's effect (which save with the instrument).
* Filters up to 60dB/octave (or more..); filters can be analogic (LPF,HPF, BPF,etc.), formant(advanced formant filters) and state variable (SVF)
* Envelopes can have ADSR (or ASR, etc..) modes or can be free modes (with any shape)
* Many settings have a "randomness" option, which you can make instruments that every time produces a subtle different sound; this produces a very pleasant effect (like analogue synths or natural instruments that can't produces exactly same sound twice). Because of this, even if it is digital synthesis, it sounds "warm". Listen the ogg vorbis demos from this page to hear this effect.
* The specifications can be easily changed, so (for example) if you want to change the number of voices or parts to a higher value or to allow a higher number of effects at the same time, there is necessary to change only a single value from the source file (globals.h) and to recompile the program
* Intuitive and easy to use User Interface with Clipboard and many objects has user presets
* Midi support (supports many controllers) and (if you want) JACK support
* A built-in Virtual Keyboard which let you to use it even if you don't have a real midi keyboard
* The graphical user interface can be completely disabled if the user need so
* It is a free program, licensed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License
* LASH support
* DSSI audio output
* Over 300 high quality instruments included
* Many other features... It is is impossible to describe all this program's features in just a page"

electric druid Tap Tempo LFO

"This simple Tap Tempo LFO is based on the PIC 16F684. You can set the LFO frequency by tapping a tempo on a button connected to the chip, or by changing the Tempo CV. With this chip you can build tap tempo effects units or stompboxes, tap tempo controlled drum machines or tap tempo sequencer clocks. All of these are described in the datasheet below." details at electric druid

Uppsala Analogue Synthesizer Symphonic Orchestra (UASSO) live at Volt Festival, part 1 of 2

YouTube via raidersofthelostarp

"More info:

http://last.fm/music/Uppsala+Analogsy...
http://myspace.com/uasso

Abbreviated as UASSO, this unique orchestra emerged sometime during winter/spring 2009. The idea was to gather analogue syntheseizer enthusiasts under the same roof, to practice for a live performance as the opening act of the new and exciting electronic music festival VOLT (www.voltfestivalen.se).

The arrangement and music was written by Erik Möller, Kristofer Ulfves and Mario Pierro.

The VOLT festival took place at 6th of June 2009 in the city of Uppsala, Sweden. For information of the line up, here is the last.fm event: last.fm/event/935709+Volt

Members of UASSO and their other music projects:

Unai - myspace.com/unaimusik
0-Visionen - myspace.com/0visionen
Raiders of the Lost Arp - myspace.com/raidersofthelostarp
Jollymusic - myspace.com/431395926
Maja - myspace.com/majasongs
Håkan Lidbo - hakanlidbo.com
Andreas Tilliander - myspace.com/andreastilliander
Mokira - myspace.com/mokirafan
Differnet - myspace.com/internationalbyzantinemachin es
Le Singe Monotone - myspace.com/lesingemonotone
Signal - myspace.com/fullkornig
Glejs - last.fm/music/Glejs
Glenn Liljestrand - last.fm/music/Glenn+Liljestrand
Marcus Mohall - myspace.com/theflickeringlightmusic
Daniel Araya - myspace.com/danielaraya
Pan Am - myspace.com/panamericanunderground
Cahnopy - myspace.com/cahnopy
Liminals - friendlynoise.se/label/liminals/
The Human Comparator - thehumancomparator.net/
Kallback~ - trig.com/kallback"

via /kroffe: "Featured synths in the video is among others EMS Synthi, ARP Odyssey, Jupiter-6, Polysix, SH-101, Prodigy, Rogue and many more..."

ANimALOGICA 2 Bologna Synth Meeting slideshow.m4v

YouTube via ASnoctivagus
"ANimALOGICA 2 Bologna Synth Meeting slideshow
31/10 & 01/11 - 2009

Workshop by Corso di Musica Elettronica Conservatorio di Musica di Bologna
Live by Nò, Plaster, Delia
Synth Meeting with GRP Synthesizer, Newgroove.it

www.noctivagamusica.altervista.org"

Clara Rockmore - Vocalise

YouTube via OptirocCX44
"Clara Rockmore beautifully plays Vocalise by Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff. The quintessential theremin performance."

Korg Mono-Poly + Logan String Melody 2 + Arp Odyssey + Korg ms20 + System 100.avi

YouTube via djessay101. "just for fun:-)"

New Features in NI Kontakt 4 Sampler, Part 1 of 2 - Sweetwater

YouTube via SweetwaterSound
"Check out the new features in Kontakt 4 sampler in this 2-part video with Native Instruments' Josh Fielstra. In this first video, you'll get an in-depth look at the new Performance View."

New Features in NI Kontakt 4 Sampler, Part 2 of 2 - Sweetwater

electribe esx nanntonaku bossa

YouTube via SunamachiSoundSystem "esx to karamatta headphone"

Ableton Live 8 Tutorial : Slicing With Warp Markers

YouTube via 0illuminatedsounds0 www.illuminatedsounds.com

Sync-Lock TR-808 MPC-60.mp4

YouTube via innerclock2004
"In this video we initially hear a recorded TR-808 audio loop playing from Ableton Live 8. As before, Live is driving the Sync-Lock via the Sync-Gen Plugin which is in turn driving a genuine TR-808 via Din Sync and an Akai MPC-60 MKI via Midi Clock. I first mute and then un-mute the TR-808 audio loop in Live so you know what it sounds like in isolation. Next I move to the real TR-808 and turn up the master output. I then turn to the MPC-60 and turn up the master output also. On the MPC-60 I hold the [Note Repeat] button and improvise on the Snare and Hi-Hat in quantized 16ths so you can hear the tight sync with both the real TR-808 and the Live audio loops as well. I turn down the real TR-808 for a few bars so you can hear just the MPC-60 and Live playing in sync and then bring the real TR-808 back up again in the mix. Finally, I take out the audio loop playing in Live laving just the TR-808 and the MPC-60 playing until the fade."

E-Mu SoundEngine MIDI Sound Module

via this auction

"This half-rack piece is, essentially, a two preset bank GM Rack module that features the ability to function in a 'Proteus Clone' mode, (with the exception of the sample ROM ), and features 32-voice polyphony, 16-part multitimbrality, 384 programmable presets, two digital effects processors, and a Mac computer interface. It was one of the first offerings of a General MIDI device, and certainly unique and collectible."

Monome Lego Cases

details on FXYDESIGN

"So what is monome? According to wiki, ' …is an eight-by-eight grid of backlit buttons which connects to a computer using aUSB cable and the Open Sound Control (OSC) protocol. Originally developed as an open ended performance interface for electronic music…'"

Tiptop Audio Z-DSP: assembly

flickr by Analogue Haven

"Photo of the first batch of Tiptop Audio Z-DSP modules being assembled at the factory. They are being put through a process called wave soldering (LINK). More photos via the following thread. LINK"

http://analoguehaven.com/

http://tiptopaudio.com/

Ready for Battle

flickr by Analogue Haven

"Berfmurret's beautiful Eurorack rig as originally posted at the Muff Wiggler forum. The system includes modules from various manufacturers as well as a DIY module and utility strips, all of which are assembled into a Halliburton case. A pedal section at the bottom integrates nicely via the The Harvestman Stilton Adaptor. LINK"

http://analoguehaven.com/

flickr by recompas
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