MATRIXSYNTH: Thursday, December 31, 2009


Thursday, December 31, 2009

NOT NAMM: Mattson Mini Modular in New Modular Formats

Some shots via George Mattson's Facebook page. It looks like George will be making the MMM boards available for anyone that wants to build his modules in other formats. Via George on the MMM forum:

"For those of you with a DIY lust, I'm working on getting my cart set up to offer Assembled/tested PC board modules.

This will allow the DIY enthusiasts to get a working module, edge mount it on whatever panel they choose to make (or have made) and get creative on panel size, graphics, I/O placement and whichever style and type of jacks, pots or knobs they desire.

I am currently digging up resources for reference to give the DIY customer places to go for panels, materials, etc.

I'll have wire kits available to support the I/O connections from the board-to-panel components and a list of panel components that will be required for each module.

90% of my circuit boards have the option of either using the MTA 0.100" 6-pin power headers as used standard in my system and synthesizers.com systems or, the MTA 0.156" 4-pin Blacet-style power connectors. The boards can be ordered with either or both. With both, the module can be used as a converter from one power scheme to the other.

Most of my circuits seem to be perfectly happy using +/-15VDC or +/-12VDC. The circuits that can be affected by the voltage source will be listed as such. For those, I will need to know what power source you would be using in order to calibrate the board properly.

I have been receiving requests to do this for some time to support the community who has already invested resources into formats other than mine. I thought it was a great idea, time to implement it was my biggest reason for the delay.

I should have the web site and WIKI updated by next week."

BTW, thank you for my MMM George! My first modular system. :)






Richard Devine - Live 2009 NYE After-party

Richard Devine - Live 2009 NYE After-party from Richard Devine on Vimeo.


"Here is a short snippet of my live show in Miami at the Phish after party. Some proper robot alien funk=)

First show with Ableton 8/Max for Live, and Machine drum, I love driving the tempo up to 999 BPM's quite fun."

Happy New Year and a MATRIXSYNTH by Alex in the Ukraine

A KORG MS2000 in custom case and a MATRIXSYNTH BY via Alex Mariasch in the Ukraine!

"Happy New Year to all of the synth lovers community!"

A New Year's eve musician


Synth cat and a Nord Lead 2 via Marc-Henri in France who wishes you a Happy New Year!

A Happy New Year 2010 my first DS-10 play


YouTube via karenevil
"Never mind... anyway... A Happy New Year!,"

NAMM: moonmodular new Quad Quantizer M565v2 with the new M565e Expander


YouTube via moonmodular
"Gear in use: Trigger Sequencer M563v2, the new Quad Quantizer M565v2 with the expander M565e. Sound source Oberheim Xpander (5 voices unisono). Come to the next fullmoon party at the 2010 NAMM show, January 14 - 17. Hall A, Booth# S 6108. http://www.lunar-experience.com/565E...."

A Letter from the Board of Directors of the Bob Moog Foundation

"Celebrating great strides in 2009; building momentum in 2010
With your help we can continue to make an impact in science education and historical preservation.

Sincere best wishes to you for a happy, healthy and prosperous 2010 from all of us at The Bob Moog Foundation. While many folks are understandably glad putting the old year behind them, we proudly count 2009 as a good one for the foundation and Bob’s rich legacy. As a result, our New Year is less about making a fresh start as it is about building momentum. To that end, we need your support.

The Bob Moog Foundation exists to educate and inspire hearts and minds – young and old - around the intersection of music, science and innovation. The frontier of electronic music Bob Moog laid open to the world invites the brand of curiosity and creativity essential to generating answers for 21st-century challenges.

We have ambitious plans to nurture that kind of thinking and to celebrate the power and possibilities of electronic music. Thankfully, many others share those aspirations.

In 2009:

*The Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority gave $600,000 to help establish a Bob Moog Museum, or Moogseum, in Asheville. Costing more than $3-million, The Moogseum will serve as one of the world’s most innovative artistic and community development spaces.

*Hundreds turned out for the second Enter the Mind of Moog fundraiser and launch of a permanent MiniMoogseum at the Orange Peel in Asheville. Thousands more will interact with the display each month and explore its custom-built theremin.

*The GRAMMY Foundation gave $15,000 towards restoring precious reel-to-reel tapes from the Bob Moog archives.

*The Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, CA invited our support in staging Waves of Inspiration: The Legacy of Moog, which runs through April. Drawn largely from Bob's historical and extensive archives, this major exhibit is expected to garner national media attention and attract more than 15,000 visitors.

*Hundreds of individuals wrote checks, shared ideas and lent their muscle to generate a collective and critical mass that makes us more excited than ever about the possibilities and reach of what lies ahead.

We bow and thank those of you who have sown the seeds of success to date. We look forward to your continued faith and invite new supporters to join the Bob Moog Foundation community. Gifts of time, talent and treasure are all are needed, not only for future goals but to maintain current programs and services such as the Student Outreach Program, the Archive Preservation Initiative, planning for the Moogseum and our web interface, MoogFoundation.org.

The latter is a great window on the work of the foundation, where we’re headed and how we plan to get there. Please take a look and then act on the inspiration you find. It will be a sound investment in every sense.

If you have not done so already, we ask that you make a year-end, tax-deductible gift today that will allow us to nurture our programs and Bob's legacy in such a way that his impact will be felt by many generations to come.

Many thanks for your support and consideration.


Sincerely,

The Board of Directors of The Bob Moog Foundation

Ileana Grams-Moog (Chair)
Professor of Philosophy Emerita, UNC-Asheville

Mike Adams (Vice-chair)
President, Moog Music, Inc.

Erin Rafalowski (Secretary)
Manager, WriteMind Institute

Kathy Davis (Treasurer)
Certified Public Accountant

Ashley Capps,
Owner, AC Entertainment

Steven Heller
Owner, Upstream Productions

David Huskins
Director of Development, Brevard Music Center

Sean McDonald
Founder, Jute Networks

Bill Sautter
Chairman, Galaxy Venture Capital

Stu Zonder
Owner, Zonder Productions"

Happy New Year 2010


YouTube via discotechwreck. "From me and the MS-20!" MS-20 fireworks!

MIDI retrofit for CR-78 Part 1


YouTube via MusicMiK

"This is the documentation of retrofitting MIDI into a Roland CR-78 using my MIDItriggs project. The first 4 parts include the mechanical work, modifications to the CR-78 and installation of the board in a good detail level.

Next year (read as tomorrow or so :), i will add the hardware driver for the planned CR-78 features to the firmware and create a last video showing the features of this retrofit. With the last video, the project will be available again on my website, being completely open source, including schematics, documentation and board layout, so you can make your own kit.

One more thing to say - i had some bad experience because there are people in the world interpreting „open source as „he does your custom development for free. This is not the case. I dont sell kits, i dont adapt MIDItriggs for your beatbox and in general i stopped answering questions about all my DIY stuff, as this eats up so much time that i no longer have time for the DIY hobby.

So if you contact me, dont be angry if you dont get any response. I just dont have the time and motivation to work for others, i want to make my own DIY ideas come true, not yours.

If i get another beatbox (i dont have a CR-78, its from a friend, i just have the Hohner Automatic Rhythm Player, which was the start of the MIDItriggs project), i will add it to MIDItriggs. But i still will not make and sell kits. This is your job - using the material you soon can find on my website again.

I wish you all a good start into 2010, happy new year!"

APC 40 Techno Slam


YouTube via SuicideServer
"This is my entry for Akai´s European Video Contest. Due to some trouble with my neighbours (seems they dont like my new monitors ;) i had to mix this on my headphones.
Cheers"

Kegel - A Concern for Dust


YouTube via arthurpainter
"Another brief archive sequencer track that tickled my fancy enough to take out the mylar and shoot this video. Its sequence is provided courtesy my vintage Roland SH-101 synth, while a Machinedrum thumps away in martial mode. A Gristlelizer and a Korg Mini Kaoss Pad process the lot. A sample of a reversed Nord Lead line is in there somewhere. Many thanks to Andy Warhol for inspiration via his "Clouds" (1966)."

Última tocada Nortec en 2009! con Bostich+Fussible


YouTube via pepemogt. Check out the Future Retro Revolution in the custom case behind them at :38 on. I originally put this up on MATRIXSYNTH-C for the music, but thought I'd put it up here as well as it's a New Year's post and it's cool to see synths used in this context. I love it. Be sure to click here and scroll for more synth goodness by pepemogt.

"Feliz Año 2009!!!
Nortec Collective Presenta: Bostich+Fussible
26 de Diciembre 2009 en Teatro Voilá Acustique
México D.F.

Track: Borderland"

Deadstar Assembly - Send Me An Angel


YouTube via DarK27. synth spotting. via Mubotics

and the original:

Real Life - Send Me An Angel (1983)

YouTube via nzoz1983
"Music from Australia and New Zealand in the year 1983:

Real Life's promo-video for the hit single 'Send Me An Angel' taken from the 1983 album 'Heartland'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Lif..."

Buchla Model 266e Source of Uncertainty

via this auction
"The Buchla Model 266e Source of Uncertainty provides a noise source, random voltages, and can be configured to provide pure sample and hold. There are four sections to this module: noise source, smooth fluctuating voltages, quantized random voltages and store random voltages with voltage control of probability (really cool feature once you figure it out and this is how you can achieve pur sample and hold). The module is in excellent condition and is both physicially and electronically sound. The firmware memory card is included with this auction.. Other features include:

* Noise comes in three flavors. White noise is electrically flat, but acoustically balanced toward the high end of the spectrum (+3 db/octave). Integrated white noise has a low spectral bias (-3 db/octave). Musically flat noise has a flat spectrum (constant energy per octave) and is a particularly useful source for subsequent processing.
* Fluctuating Random Voltages are continuously variable, with voltage control of bandwidth over the range of .05 to 50 Hz, making possible changes that vary from barely perceptible movement to rapid fluctuation.
* Quantized Random Voltages change on receipt of pulses. Their number of states is voltage controllable from two to twenty-four, and their distribution can be varied both spatially and temporally.
* Stored Random Voltages have three parameters under voltage control. Degree varies the amount of randomness; chaos alters the distribution from just a little uncertain to total chaos; while skew biases the randomness toward one extreme or the other.
* All settings of the 266 may be stored and recalled under control of the model 225e or 206e preset manager."

Buchla Model 259e Complex Waveform Gen.

via this auction
"The Buchla Model 259e Complex Waveform Generator is the original incarnation of the 259e. The 259e is just that: complex. With 16 continuously modifiable AND blendable waveshapes, wavefolding, hard and soft sync, pitch tracking, linear FM, built-in LFO, cross-fade and full voltage control of all parameter, it is one of the most, if not most complex hardware oscillators ever built. The module is in excellent condition and is both physicially and electronically sound. The firmware memory card is included with this auction.. Other features include:

* voltage-controlled modulation of pitch, amplitude, and timbre, both hard and soft synchronization, and pitch tracking.
* in conjunction with the model 225e MIDI Manager, the 259e's pitches respond to internally routed MIDI messages. Up to four 259's can peacefully co-exist in a single system, each with its private MIDI channel.
* the settings of the 259e's pots and switches can be memorized as a part of a preset configuration. Provided you have a 225e or a 206e in your system."

Verbos Model 258v Dual Oscillator


via this auction

"The Mark Verbos Model 258v Dual Oscillator is designed to duplicate the sound and response of the highly regarded Buchla 258 and does so. The 258v is fully compatible with Buchla 200 and 200e systems. It connects to the same power supply, outputs the same signal levels, and responds to the same voltage control. You have never heard gurgling, burping, watery, klanging FM like that produced with the 258v. This module features two seperate VCO's, continuously tunable from 5 Hz to 20 kHz. Each VCO has two processing inputs and a frequency modulation input.l Waveshapes as well as frequency can be voltage controlled. Model 258v oscillators feature low sine wave harmonic content. There is no memory card with this module, it is fully analog and cannot store presets. Other features include:

* Processing inputs: Two processing control inputs permit multiple control of pitch without need of separate external processor.
* Processing controls: Used to set desired range of frequency control. Expansion, compression, and inversion of scales are accomplished here.
* Frequency modulation control: For adjusting vibrato depth or creating clangorous or bell-like tones, rich in non-harmonic partials.
* Output: Signal amplitude is +4 dB. Output impedance is 600 ohms.
* Oscillator frequency control: Spans the audio spectrum of 5 Hz to 20 kHz with no range switching. ( Applied control voltages can extend limits to .1 Hz and 30 kHz.) (this means that the modules also function as VCLFO's).
* Waveshape control input: Waveshapes can be varied from sine to saw (osc 1) and sine to square (osc 2). Voltage control of waveshape enables powerful dynamic control of timbre."

ROLAND S-50 Synth 9 SOUND BANK Disks Original

via this auction

For those interested in packaging, fonts, marketing design.



Evol Audio Fucifier

http://evolaudio.com/
"The Evol Fucifier is a distortion synthesizer & sound shaper, designed to give you many colors with which to create and shape your palette of sounds. Everything in the signal chain, from the Mic Pre, the Vintage Germanium Preamp, the Filter, and the inductors in the Equalizer to the output transformer, is designed to be overdriven, saturated, overloaded or distorted in a pleasing way. Mix & match the Vintage Germanium Preamp for a little warmth or overdrive, the Tape Saturation overdrive for a little compression and limiting or a bit of saturation, the Filter/Crossover (which in itself sounds great overdriven or even pushed into self oscillation with a sufficient amount of resonance), the Dual Band Distortion which allows you to mix many different kinds of distortion, and the vintage-style inductor based equalizer to shape the overall tone and color of the sound." More info and samples on site. via wire to the ear


Update:


Evol Fucifier Distortion Synthesizer | Vintage King Audio YouTube via vintagekingproaudio

"The Evol Fucifier is a distortion synthesizer & sound shaper, designed to give you many colors with which to create and shape your palette of sounds. Everything in the signal chain, from the discrete Mic Pre, the Vintage Germanium Preamp, the Analog Filter, and the inductors in the Equalizer to the output transformer, is designed to be overdriven, saturated, overloaded or distorted in a pleasing way. Mix & match the Vintage Germanium Preamp for a little warmth or overdrive, the Tape Saturation overdrive for a little compression and limiting or a bit of signal saturation, the Analog Filter/Crossover (which in itself sounds great over-driven, and can be driven into self oscillation), the Dual Band Distortion which allows you to mix many different types of distortion, and the vintage-style inductor based equalizer to shape the overall tone and color of the sound. http://vintageking.com/Evol-Fucifier"

Into Infinity Ear Loop Mix Routine


YouTube via yamamo2
"I played PICnome128 and mlr v2.27 and used EAR Artworks of into infinity."

Trigger Mouse


YouTube via ggijs. follow-up to this post
http://gieskes.nl/browserjockey/hardware/trigger-mouse/

Trigger Keypad

http://gieskes.nl/browserjockey/hardware/trigger-keypad/

Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger


YouTube via djgalactic. Roland MC-909
"Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger
DJ Galactic V1"

Aliens Project Toy of the Month 75 - Roland SH-5

images and samples at Aliens-Project

Hot Chip - One Life Stand (HD)


YouTube via parlophone. some synth spotting - casio CZ-101 and Doepfer modular.
"Official HD Promo Video for Hot Chip's fantastic new single One Life Stand, out Februrary 1st.

You can pre-order the brand new album of the same name right now and find out more information on the band over at their official website at http://www.hotchip.co.uk"
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