MATRIXSYNTH: Tuesday, January 5, 2010


Tuesday, January 05, 2010

NOT NAMM: DIYcisions DIYcisions - MMM Circuit Boards!

Mattson Mini Modular for the DIY crowd. You can find full details here.

snip:
"Assembled, tested circuit boards are now available for those customers who have the desire to create their own panels, graphics, layout and use that collection of parts that have been accumulating in a drawer for years.

All available modules have both 6-pin 0.100" MTA and 4-pin 0.156" MTA power connectors mounted on-board. Most modules will perform equally well using +/- 15VDC or +/- 12VDC power supplies. The modules that are affected by the lower power supply will be noted. For those, the shopping cart will ask you to select the power scheme that will be used.

All components used in the module boards are certified RoHS compliant according to the EU directives.

The module circuit boards with the green solder mask and silkscreen are manufactured RoHS compliant. The non-solder mask boards are short run boards and are not RoHS compliant."

The first set of boards available:
# Voltage Controlled Filter Board
# Voltage Controlled Amplifier Board
# Dual Low Frequency Oscillator Board
# Sample and Hold Board
# Envelope Generator Board
# Glide Board
# Noise Board
# 4x 1x2 Buffer Board
# 4x Mixer Board
# Amplitude Follower Board
# 4x Gate Delay Board
# Utility 1 Board
# Voltage Controlled Mixer Board

Euro MFB Dual LFO Converted to Frac with Banana Jacks

via Luigi aka epinasty elektronix who brought us the TI Touch and Tell:

"I've been re-doing/converting frac style modules to banana jacks. The latest one I just finished... is a Euro MFB Dual LFO crammed into a rack ear of a blacet rack."

Also on Muff's

Baldwin Tempo-matic

via this auction

Sold For: check back

Access Virus TI Polar Synthesizer

via this auction

Sold For: $1,495.00

OBERHEIM OB-Xa

via this auction

"voice, 120 program model, later serial #823913"

Sold For: check back





Roland PR-800 Digital Piano Recorder


via this auction

No details in the auction, but you can find some in the comments of this previous post.

Korg Prophecy mono synthesizer

via this auction

Sold For: $375.00

100 Greatest 'Rock' Keyboard Players

The top 10:
1. Keith Emerson (ELP, Nice)
2. Rick Wakeman (Yes, Strawbs, David Bowie)
3. Jon Lord (Deep Purple)
4. Ray Manzarek (The Doors)
5. Richard Wright (Pink Floyd)
6. Tony Banks (Genesis)
7. Billy Preston
8. Ian Underwood (The Mothers Of Invention)
9. Steve Winwood (Traffic)
10. Nicky Hopkins (Rolling Stones, Jeff Beck)
See the full list on the Phil Brodie Band website
Pictured: GREGG GIUFFRIA " American keyboardist Gregg Giuffria was an early member of the glam rock / heavy metal band from Washington, D.C., Angel, formed in 1975."

This one in via mark

Using Tattoo's Randomization Features


YouTube via AudioDamage001 more
"This tutorial shows how the various randomization features in Tattoo (and there are a lot of them) interact. It may seem complex at first, but a little experimentation goes a long ways in this regard.

Tattoo is available at http://www.audiodamage.com"

Video to sound

Video to sound from Matthijs van Henten on Vimeo.


"This video shows my first steps towards a real-time video-to-sound conversion.

The color-tracker was created using Python and OpenCV, using a basic contour tracker on a thresholded HSV channeled image. For each blob, a histogram is calculated.

The most prominent Hue value is then taken as input for the base tone. Information about the size of the contour and it's position is used to manipulate amplitude.

Future steps may include the use of Saturation values to influence the type of sound and an improved audio synthesis.

The sound was made using a simple Pure-data patch.

Source available at
code.google.com/p/mvh-source/source/browse/trunk/python-opencv/contourTrack.py"
via twitter.com/Psicoff

Toppobrillo SPORT MODULATOR

via Toppobrillo:

"each section can be:

either:
a VC lag that can be made to hold-state on command. also can be put into cycle mode as well, giving a wide-range VC linear triangle LFO that ranges from around 500-600 Hz to 30 seconds or so per cycle.

or:

a sample and hold with controllable input slew [or sample 'correlation' ] the control input is the same. ['s/h' in the drawing].

when cycle is selected in Hold mode, the section will generate complex staircase waveforms that are synced to input pulses.. [BTW the input signal doesn't have to be a pulse, but just about any rising slope, this was done to allow for even more inter-compatibility between the 2 sections.]

finally, the unlabeled jack in the middle is a gate output that compares the top section's output with the bottom. this was heavily inspired by the serge 'smooth/ stepped generator' but expands on it by offering dual mode operation , much wider control range and improved functionality."

via http://twitter.com/AdelaideDeep

SHIFT LATCH SLOPE


YouTube via wonkythomas
"Psuedo Random bit from the CGS Digital Noise sets a latch & triggers the Voltage Controlled Slope which resets the latch. 808 bass clone booms into the Bi-N-Tic switched capacitors & is smashed to pieces by the Wave Multiplier. 2 VCOs are modulated & modulate.

This noodle started off testing a little cct. I pieced together to give me End Of Cycle pulses from my fixed Attack, Decay generators... it works really well! & also produces a nice offset & inverted version of the envelope! 2 FOR 1!! I love a bargain me!

The rapid fire pitch modulations, or, 'big stoopid gabba-ish kick drums' were created by feeding my CMOS Binary Multiplier Pattern Generator (the one with the green LED & red/blue capped switches) into a Frequency Divider via the Blacet Binary Zone clock input / output. The BZ senses tiny fluctuations in the input signal & amplifies the crap out of them which in turn get chopped up by the /1.5 & /3 outputs of the Divider. Note; the pattern changing the pitch (slowly) is the same pulse signal creating the (super fast) pitch modulation 'kick drums'

More 2 for 1!!!!!"

Analog Synth Noodle - Klee Sequencer in Random Mode w/External load.


YouTube via bchris1776

"This is my DIY Analog Synth 'noodling' - that is, playing on its own in real time. This is a simple patch - despite what it may look like from the cords. I'm only using a very small part of the modular for this one.. and I still have patch cords left. I usually keep plugging things together til I'm out of cords - or plugs. :p
I have the Electro-Music Klee sequencer in random mode and it's using the External Load - That's the 'lead' part you hear. The sequencer on the 'bench' is a version of the Baby 10 I've been putting together. A sample and hold (using a noise source) is changing the resonance on the filter for the lead part. Drums are Ken Stones (CGS) design - ringing oscillators, The CGS Pulse Divider clocked by the CGS Gate Sequencer is creating the beat. I'm using VCA's to mix things in and out every now and then - including the 'sliding' notes from the Klee, and some doubling of the lead part.
Modulars are just fun."

The Harvestman Hertz Donut Firmware Update

via navs.modular.lab where you'll find more details.

http://www.theharvestman.org/

HertzDonut_Fretbuzzkilla by navs

Tiptop Audio Stackable Cables

image via navs.modular.lab

http://www.tiptopaudio.com/

Moogerpyoober

flickr by xgsjx

"HDR pic of my Moogerfoogers."

Yamaha CS-50

Yamaha CS-50 for sale on Ebay #230418035258 from Alex Natsis on Vimeo.


"Just a quick video of my Yamaha CS-50 showing some of the features of the synth. Thanks for watching :-)" On Ebay

Baby8 VCP Sequencer (proto)

flickr by fonitronik

"here is the finished module using a proto PCB. works quite fine!
it basically is a 4017 based step sequencer providing CV out, Trigger out, and Gate out. the tricky part is the voltage control of the possible patterns: an incoming CV gets manually scaled to 0-5V (LEDs will help to do that), and then gets processed by a 8-bit ADC. the parallel out gets converted to grey code and switches the steps/stages of the sequencer on or off. they can be controlled manually too, by using the toggle switches that overwrite the ADC data...
www.fonitronik.com"

NAMM: Mellodrama at NAMM


via the BIG City Music blog, and mentioned in this previous post. Note the event will start with Amin Bhatia and documentary filmmaker Dianna Dilworth discussing the impact and evolution of vintage keybards. Michelle Moog-Kouss will join for a Q&A. You might remember the name Amin Bhatia from this previous post.




MELLODRAMA: Mellotron/Chamberlin Documentary Trailer
YouTube via MellotronMovie

"From a California garage to Royal Albert Hall, Mellodrama is a documentary film by Dianna Dilworth that explores how the haunting sound of an ingenious contraption called the Mellotron changed the production and texture of popular music, from the Beatles to Kanye West.

The film will be released on DVD at the end of 2009.

http://www.mellodramadvd.com
http://www.mellotronmovie.com
http://twitter.com/MellotronMovie
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mellodr...
http://www.myspace.com/mellotrondocum...

http://bigsky.bside.com/2009/films/me...
http://www.bafici.gov.ar/home09/en/fi...
http://www.documentamadrid.com/ficha....
http://www.revolvefestival.com/schedu..."

DIY Digital Analog Modular Audio

see the update in this post

Richard Lainhart @ Issue Project Room January 14; And A Download

via Richard Lainhart:

"Friends: on January 14, 2009, I'll be performing realtime electronic works for Buchla 200e and Haken Continuum at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, NY, along with composer/performers Kyle Bobby Dunn, Sarah Lipstate (Noveller), Michael Waller, and Cammisa Forrest. For more information, directions, and tickets, go here.

This concert has been curated by Kyle Bobby Dunn.

And, for those who missed it, here's a downloadable 256kb MP3 of my complete hour-long realtime Buchla 200e/Haken Continuum performance from electro-music.com's New Year's Eve 2010 live 24-hour streaming concert event:

Richard Lainhart Electro-Music NYE 2009 by rlainhart

http://soundcloud.com/rlainhart/richard-lainhart-electro-music-nye-2009

Thanks, and I hope to see you in Brooklyn."

Link-O-Logic iMoog

via Link-O-Logic: "I sampled some Moog Voyager sounds and made a free Kontakt instrument. All samples are made with analog outboard gear like API A2D, 5500, 2500, SMC 2b or Hammer EQ. For now you can download the first two demo packs: "Big Boy" and "I saw U". More sound packs will come."

iMoog Big Boy - Saw - Demo - 01 by ajondo

Mister Clean

Mister Clean from Huba&Silica on Vimeo.


via Ernesto: "All synth sounds were made with the Voyager, and the voice glitching manually cut with an MPC1000; the track was sequenced in Ableton Live 6." "And here we have some 'making of...' pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kapitals/sets/72157623020177725/"

Googlish video translation from Spanish:
"Mister Clean - Huba & Silica feat. Angie Cruickshank
jazzrobot.com

Direction, camera and animation - Carlos Saborio zavorio.com/
Production and editing - Manuel Al-Ghassani cargocollective.com/manuelxx
Photography - Paul Murillo pablomurillo.com
Co-production - ConejoPanda conejopanda.wordpress.com/

Special thanks to Daniela Vesco for letting us do the shoot in his studio Fish Tank, production would not have been possible without your help fishtankstudio.com/

MisterClean is produced by Huba & Silica, co-produced by Dynamostar, with the special participation of Angie Cruickshank (vocals) and DZ-J (MPC1000).

Mastered by Simon Davey @ The Exchange, UK.
Distributed: Moonchild Records

For more music Huba & Silica
hubasilica.bandcamp.com/"

Limit Cycle - Max4Live EP

"These four tracks are in a sense experiments: They are all made using possibilities open up by Max4Live, the extension to Ableton's Live sequencing software, which allows for easier control over things such as algorithmic composition. And this EP is filled of just that. Variations on the concept spawned by Per Nørgaard's Infinity Series are restrained by mutating scale quantizers while psuedo-random pattern and weighted random generators create constantly moving rythmic material. These numbers comes to life via synthesizers in which all sound parameters are slightly, slowly moving, creating an organic texture of sounds. These tracks could have been created before Max4Live of course, but I can only imagine having to spend at least 6 months on every track, working out these tremendously complex mathematical relations between the notes by hand, in a traditional sequencing enviroment."
You can find the download and more details on Veqtor's Corner.

seiko ds-250 additive synthesizer


YouTube via spunkytoofers
"pardon my lack of keyboard skills to demonstrate, this is just a short one for matrix since there wasn't much in the way of the seiko keyboards.

this was a craigslist find, hoping to resell but i might want to hold onto it for a little while. it does retro pads nicely. it reminds me of old organs i've used like the conn electric band sans spring reverb or the moog organ sans filter except the seiko is bi-timbral. it has some basic preset sounds selectable for each timbre which define timbre and attack while there are simple controls on each voice for volume, decay, modulation slider with a on/off switch for a delay into the lfo cycle. you can detune the voices up to 14 percent and you can assign each note of polyphony a few selectable intervals. a chorus reminescent of the old junos except this one is on a continous slider from 1-2 chorus in stereo. single voice mode, bitimbral mode or split point voices. key transposable, volume controls, pitch wheel, on/off buttons and a nice layout with simple but nice led displays.

no memory but it's simple to setup. midi in/out. midi seems primitive as i could really only get note on/off to respond although there is a way to recieve each voice over midi by a 16 way rotary switch by each voice 1/ voice 2 output on 1/4" also on the side panel is alternate summed mono output, headphone jack, pitch fine tune, stereo rca outputs. input to footswitch sustain (although mine wasn't working on a regular 1/4" footswitch) input for trs expresion pedal for volume. looks like there is room for modular expansion but i don't have any of the modular components to this keyboard. i could see how easy it would be to approach additive like this with really simple controls and some of the expanders but as you might imagine controls are limitied.makes for a nice retro pad machine. even though it's simple i like it because it's not trying to be anything else but itself."

synthex elka for sale on ebay


YouTube via cores303. Synthex on Ebay
"improvisation preset 41"

MAM ADX1 DEMO 1.1


YouTube via popitem

"Here is another demo of the ADX, still midied via korg es1 and now with better audio, camera runs out of battery at 3min so image freeze."

absynth test.m4v


YouTube via raulsworldofsynths
"just a little test using absynth 5 and assigning midi controllers to effect pitch modulation and effects. visuals via a popular music visualizer"

ELEKTRON MACHINEDRUM MAQSUUM IMPLEMENTATION


YouTube via kostistlac
"... for more details go to my blog MY DIARY OF RHYTHM at:
http://my-rhythm-diary.nextsummerreco...

... for FREE DOWNLOAD go to:
http://labelnsr.nextsummerrecords.com

This is tutorial track how to implement the maqsuum rhythm structure to the four to the floor rhythm.

ENJOY IT"

Thesys Tutorial

Thesys Tutorial Part 1
YouTube via SugarBytes "Some useful hints to get the best out Thesys, the VST/AU Midi Step Sequencer Plugin from Sugar Bytes" Thesys Tutorial Part 2 Thesys Tutorial Part 3

MC-303(20100106) snow


YouTube via morimadoka
"my favorite MC-303!
this pattern's name is SNOW.
I got photos at morgueFile free photo archive website."

Demo Alesis Fusion 8 HD : Making of 'Army Dreamers' - Kate Bush, by Thierry Lebon


YouTube via tlnet37

Waldorf Largo V1.5.0 Update

This actually came out on Dec 23. I thought I posted it, but I'm not finding it, so here it is. via Waldorf:

"New Sounds

Largo V1.5 comes with almost 500 new sounds. Together with the sounds shipping with earlier versions of Largo, this sums up to a total of more than 700 sounds (we have counted 733 so far). A lot of these new sounds take use of the new features of Largo. So, take a day off and carefully listen to the great library we ship with this update.
Browse

The most prominent feature of Largo V1.5 is its powerful Browse page. It is divided in two parts. On the left is a File Browser showing the files and folders of your sound libraries on your hard disk, on the right is a table showing the content of the currently loaded bank.

You can drag and drop sounds between the File Browser and the Program Manager for loading and saving, rearrange sounds on disk or in the current bank, copy and paste, and much more.

You can also drag and drop sounds from the file manager of your operating system (Windows Explorer or Macintosh Finder), or copy and paste selected sounds as a plain text list to a text editor for administrative work.

Search for sounds in the File Browser or Program Manager by typing in part of the name or category and let Largo find the stuff for you. In the File Browser, the search result is presented as a list while in the Program Manager the matching sound are highlighted and the non-matching ones are darkened.

Oscillator Section
By popular demand, we have added three additional parameters per Oscillator to allow finer control over their behaviour:

Startphase controls, as the name suggests, the phase with which the Oscillator starts. Set it to around 90° for a sharp attack, set all Oscillators to the same value to have them start in sync, or let the Oscillators run freely as they do in real analog synthesizers.

Brilliance controls different aspects depending on the Oscillator model used. On the Pulse and the Sawtooth waveform, it controls the mix of the discharge impulse of the capacitor, effectively resulting in a waveform with stronger high harmonics. With Wavetables, it controls their interpolation smoothness from perfect interpolation to steps. Those steps create additional harmonics especially in the lower keyboard ranges as they happened in the good old PPG Wave and the Waldorf Microwave and Wave.

Last but not least, the Limit parameter controls if the "analog" waveforms found at the end of most Wavetables are included into Wave Modulations or if they are left out. This helps creating wavetable scans without always keeping an eye of not hitting those accidentally.

Arpeggiator
The Arpeggiator now has the same power as the one found in Largos famous ancestors, the Waldorf Q, Micro Q and Blofeld. It offers various step types per step including fancy ones like Chord and Random. This means that you are not limited to either have an arpeggio or a chord repeater, you can have both depending on the step the arpeggiator is currently playing. And it now offers a separate Glide per step for your classic Bassline simulations.

Just look at the picture and you see that this pattern plays eight steps with different accents and lengths, and that in the bottommost row you see different symbols. Filled circles denote normally played steps, downward arrows tell the Arpeggiator to play the first note in its list, and the two-note-symbol results in a chord consisting of all currently held notes.

Chorus
Largos new Chorus comes in three flavours. The one with two stages you already know from earlier versions, and now also with four and six stages to create lush pads and strings. Spread controls the behaviour of the four additional stages, when set to zero, all six stages run in sync with a fix offset creating the ensemble effect of old string machines. When set higher, the modulation is increasingly decorrelated to make the Chorus thicker and wider. But we didn't stop here. We've also added Feedback to make the Chorus effect even thicker. And together with the quite long delay time, you can now abuse the Chorus as an additional Comb filter (as if the Largo hadn't enough of them already).

What else is new?
Besides fixing a number of bugs we have now tested Largo with the FXpansion VST2RTAS Wrapper in ProTools, added text input for almost all controls by double-clicking them, added scroll-wheel support for almost all controls, implemented system-wide copy and paste (not only between different Largo instances but even to other applications like a text editor) and, last but really not least, provide clock menus for all parameters that can be set to sync to incoming clock information. This menu contains the most often used entries so you can get your 16th Arpeggiator or dotted-8th Delay really quick.
We are not stopping here. Also by popular demand, we added the selection of Delay and Reverb to the first effect slot. So, you can now create sounds with a Delay and Reverb at once. Or use two Reverbs, one set to a small room and the other to a large hall."



NAMM: Bob Moog Foundation Highlights Legacy and Synthesizer History in Three Events at Winter NAMM 2010

"The Bob Moog Foundation will be co-sponsoring three events at winter NAMM 2010, which takes place in Anaheim, CA on January 14-17, 2009 at the Anaheim Convention Center.

Main Showcase on NAMM Floor Highlights Items From Moog Exhibit – From January 14-17, the Bob Moog Foundation, in collaboration with the NAMM Museum of Making Music, will feature dozens of items taken from their exhibit Waves of Inspiration:The Legacy of Moog in the main showcase on the floor of the convention center. Of particular note, an extremely rare Eaton-Moog Multi-Touch Sensitive keyboard will be on public display for the first time. Numerous vintage instruments, photographs, articles and project notes will also be on display. The full exhibit runs at the Museum through April 30, 2010.

An Evening Celebrating The Legacy of Vintage Keyboards Through Documentary Film - On Friday night, January 15th, from 6-8pm in the Avila Room at the Anaheim Hilton, neo-symphonic synthesist Amin Bhatia and documentary filmmaker Dianna Dilworth headline an evening exploring the evolution and impact of vintage keyboards. Amin Bhatia will be joined by Michelle Moog-Koussa, Executive Director of the Bob Moog Foundation for a question and answer session followed by a screening of a short documentary on the making of his innovative realization of Bolero Electronica, for which he used over 70 synthesizers covering 75 years of evolution in synthesis in music. The documentary features rock legends Steve Porcaro and Patrick Moraz and Roland Founder Ikutaro Kakehashi.

Following Bhatia, Dianna Dilworth and Markus Resch of the Mellotron Archive will screen Mellodrama: The Mellotron Movie which explores the rising and falling fortunes of the Mellotron – the first musical keyboard to “sample” the sounds of other instruments – from its birth in a California garage in the 1950s, through its dominance on concert stages in the 1970s, through its almost religious cult of followers in the 2000s. From the Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields” to Black Sabbath to Kanye West, Mellodrama traces a 50-year odyssey of musical invention, revolution, betrayal, and rediscovery.

Panel Discussion To Explore the Impact of Bob Moog's Work on the Music Industry Past, Present and Future as Interpreted though Museum Exhibit
- On Sunday January 17th from 3-4pm in the Idea Center at NAMM, The Bob Moog Foundation and the NAMM Museum of Making Music will present a panel discussion in celebration of the premiere exhibition Waves of Inspiration: The Legacy of Moog. The discussion will involve industry and musical luminaries in an exploration of the impact of Bob Moog's work on the music industry as it relates to the exhibition at the NAMM Museum of Making Music public display through April 30, 2010.

The discussion will be moderated by Museum Curator Tatiana Sizonenko.

Panelists include:
* Dominic Milano (former Editor: Keyboard Magazine)
* Craig Anderton (Senior Editor: Harmony-Central.com, Senior Editor: EQ Magazine, Contributing Editor: Keyboard Magazine)
* Herb Deutsch (collaborator on first Moog synthesizer)
* Larry Fast (Synergy, Peter Gabriel)
* Brian Kehew (Moog Cookbook, The Who, Exhibit Advisor)
* Michelle Moog-Koussa (Executive Director, the Bob Moog Foundation)

Links:
www.moogfoundation.org
www.museumofmakingmusic.org
www.aminbhatia.com
www.diannadilworth.com"
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