MATRIXSYNTH: Wednesday, August 4, 2010


Wednesday, August 04, 2010

TipTop Boss

TipTop Boss from Chris Carter on Vimeo.


"This is basically just a TipTop Z8000 sequencer controlling a Z-DSP module, a Z2040 VCF & a Z5000 VCDSP module. The audio source is a Boss DR-220E Dr.Rhythm, which is also triggering the Z8000 sequencer from its programmable Trig output. Other modules used were a MFB Dual LFO- to change the direction of the sequencer and a Doepfer Dual VCA modulated by two Doepfer VCOs to add a little ring-mod'ish timbre."

Custom White Roland V-Synth Used on Madonna's 2004 Tour

via this auction
"Up for auction is one custom white Roland V-Synth, Version 2.0, used by keyboardist Marcus Brown on Madonna's 2004 "Re-Invention" Tour! The instrument was custom-painted white with beautiful, detailed panel graphics (rumored at a cost in excess of $1k alone) by the great Bruce Forat in Los Angeles, has the word "ANGELMUSE" and "Marcus Brown" stenciled under the touchscreen and is signed on the underside in silver pen, by Mr. Brown. The story of this instrument and its sisters that were specially prepared for this tour, is told on a special Roland web page"

Absynth patches

"A collection of my Absynth patches. All the patches are available for download on the Native Instruments website (Absynth user library)."

SoundCloud was bogging down the site. Click below for the samples.

Xewton Music Studio iPad Updated


YouTube via eguri89 | August 02, 2010

"Xewton Music Studioがついにユニバーサル化!

ブログもやってます。
http://tasyanikki.blog115.fc2.com/blo..."
Alexander
iPads on Ebay

Polyklinik - Bathroomproblem


YouTube via polyklinik87 | August 04, 2010

"dubstep song made with Elektron Machinedrum & TX81z."

Trevor Pinch playing his home-built synthesizer

flickr By exakta
(click for more)

"Trevor Pinch, a professor at Cornell University and the author of Analog Days, a documentation of the early days of electronic music, is shown here playing with an Ithaca, NY band on the Commons last may."

Be sure to see this post on Trevor Pinch's modular.

ether^ra ATEMATEM15


YouTube via potterpaint2000 | August 04, 2010

"an improv featurings a VTOL Corvax, a Serge Creature/Seq A combo, and a Doepfer Dark Energy with a number of fx. http://etherra.blogspot.com"

Brooklyn Bridge Tribute


YouTube via KidNepro | August 04, 2010

"Homage to the Brooklyn Bridge.

Music & Video Editing - Proton
Sounds programmed and performed on Korg M3 using Kid Nepro Killer Keyboard & Soundtrack Mix.

www.kidnepro.com"

Stan Brakhage - Burial Path (1978)


YouTube via bananimalistic | August 03, 2010
follow-up to this post
"1978 • Super 8 mm • Silent.
The music is Swastika Girls by Fripp & Eno, recorded in 1973.

*Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."

Anyone know what they might have been using at the time? Sticking the EMS and Moog labels on this one as Eno was known to use them early on.

Update via pumpkin_geek in the comments: "according to http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=7703

Line-up / Musicians

- Robert Fripp / Gibson Les Paul electric guitar
- Brian Eno / Tape delay system, VCS3 synthesizer, sequencer."

Non synth but interesting and from the same account:

John Whitney - Matrix (1971)

bananimalistic | August 04, 2010

In the early 1970s, John Whitney, Sr. completed the Matrix series and the Osaka series of computer graphic films. They were colored and edited by optical printer.

Neoprenbox Studios

flickr By Stefan Erhalder
(click for more)

touchAble - dedicated multitouch controller for Ableton Live & Ipad


YouTube via touchAbleapp | August 03, 2010

Coming soon on App Store

more info: http://www.touch-able.com

Le K ( http://www.myspace.com/soulsoleilk ) using touchAble to control ableton Live.


"Navigate around your live set with the touch of a finger, control mixer, instruments and fx with full automapping and unlimited tracks & parameters. Play your favourite synths with the unique double keyboard or record your rhythms with the 128 drum pads, both with 5 step velocity. Access most important transport and clip functions without losing focus on your set and tweak the same set with several iPads with the unique Multi-user-mode."
iPads on Ebay

flickr By TouchAbleapp
(click for more)

"touchAble, Dedicated multitouch controller for Ableton Live & Ipad.
Avaible in August 2010 on App store

www.touch-able.com"

Madrona Labs Aalto - beta testing #01


YouTube via jjuup | August 04, 2010

"Beta testing (ver 0.92) Madrona Labs great new upcoming synth called Aalto.

I'm loving it. It's very versatile and very fun and above all, it sounds great!

I am just a beta tester! - For more information, go to Madrona Labs"

Richard Devine and VTG signature sets released

"Recklinghausen, Germany. Access Music released two free signature sound sets for the Virus TI by Richard Devine and Chicago Electro Rockers VTG.

Richard Devine, known for his GlitchCore/TDM influenced sound wasn't short of effort to create some of the nastiest, noisiest and darkest patches available today. He made extensive use for the recently added Stomp Box Distortion algorithms and Frequency Shifter.

VTG's signature set features loads of Dub-Step and Elekro sounds. Here's what he has to say: "I really wanted a nasty sound bank for my Virus, some- thing that made the woofers shake, something that had LOTS of great modulation... So I set forth to create a dirty, Electro (somewhat Industrial) patch set for the Virus.. There’s dubstep-esque
basses, nasty little arps, raunchy electro leads and ghostly ambient pads included in the bank."

Virus TI users can download both sets of each 128 patches free of charge from http://www.virus.info
To get the latest news, follow the Virus TI on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/accessvirus"

Pat O'Neill - 7362 (1967)


YouTube via bananimalistic | August 03, 2010

"1965-67, USA, 16mm.

This Film started out to be about the motion and sound of the oil derricks that once lined the beach in Venice, California. The derricks, which had been built during the oil boom of the 1920's, were made of wood and rusted iron, and were largely open and unattended. I was attracted to these towers by their moaning sounds, their heady aromas, and the consolation of the endless rising and falling of the pump heads. Somehow it seemed like prayer. The film came to contain a human body, and then moving objects which I filmed in my studio: rotating and oscillating shapes whose outlines would merge with one another. But in a way the piece was really about re- photography - about making something out of ordinary parts using mechanical technology to reveal a glimpse of something uncanny.
Thirty-some years later, it seems to be about orgasms. Joseph Byrd, later of the United States of America (a band) made sounds on the fly from a primitive synthesizer. Burton Gershfield stopped by with a gallon each of yellow, cyan, and magenta developers from Technicolor, which were used to develop black and white, emulsion 7362.

-Pat O'Neill


*Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."

Beat creation on Loopseque


YouTube via loopseque | August 02, 2010

"Simple way of beat creation on Loopseque.
Loopseque. Easy key to music beats."
http://loopseque.com/
"Loopseque is an incredibly simple app for creating music. With Loopseque making music is like playing a game. Create beats, switch fast between patterns and arrange compositions. You can access your music instantly and everywhere."
Loopseque
iPads on Ebay

Analogue Solutions Station X and Station Y Minimodular Synthesizers

"KEY FEATURES OF STATION X

* Pure analogue voice circuitry
* Fully patchable
* Compact modular synth
* Available as a module (without case)
* Plenty of modulation possibilities
* Rugged steel construction.
* MIDI In for software sequencer / keyboard control.

Handle shown is OPTIONAL

Comprises;
MIDI to CV Converter (so you can play it from MIDI).
Voltage Controlled Oscillator with pulse width control input.
Low Pass 'Moog' style filter, 24dB/oct.
Voltage Controlled Amplifier (wired in series to the VCF).
Envelope Generator.
VC Low Frequency Oscillator. Four waveforms and CV controlled of frequency.
Noise Generator.
Sample and Hold.

Station X is a compact "mini-modular" synthesiser. It contains all the essential ingredients to form complete synth patches.

Think of it as a mini Red Square or Tereshkova (two other, larger modular synths we produce). In fact, a mini Red Square is a good analogy. If has the same filter and similar key features (though Red Square is 2 VCO).

Station X is ideal for beginners who want to dip their toes into the world of modular synths, the travelling producer who wants to take a true analogue modular synth around to different sessions, or home musician who perhaps is limited for space.

Station-X comes with 5 splitter leads, so you can feed a signal (source) to 2 destinations. This is like having 5 mini-multiple modules built in."

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~concuss/

The image for Station Y on the Analogue Solutions website appears to be the Station X at the time of this post. The following is the product description. It is presented as an "ideal partner for the Station X."

"2 x Voltage Controlled Oscillator with pulse width control input.
Envelope Generator.
Low Frequency Oscillator.
6 input unity gain Mixer / Inverter.
2x Multiples (Split).
Ring Modulator.

Station Y is a compact "mini-modular" synthesiser expander, ideal partner for the Station X.

The Station series of minimodulars are ideal for beginners who want to dip their toes into the world of modular synths, the travelling producer who wants to take a true analogue modular synth around to different sessions, or home musician who perhaps is limited for space.

Station-Y comes with 5 splitter leads, so you can feed a signal (source) to 2 destinations. This is like having 5 mini-multiple modules built in."

Nyle Steiner Synthasystem Updates


There have been updates on on the Steiner Synthasystem remake on Analogue Realities. Pictured here is the sequencer on Nyle's workbench from this post. The following quote is from this post on July 29th.

"This was great. I'm traveling and when I got off the plane, I saw I had some voice mail. I call in and I got this weird synthesizer sequence playing for about 30 seconds. I thought this is a weird prank call, and then it hit me. It was probably Nyle and he got the sequencer working. I hit "call caller" and sure enough, Nyle got the sequencer going already."

A Day in the Life of Alessandro Cortini


YouTube via thedeepelement | August 03, 2010

"http://trashaudio.com/?p=3583 Alessandro sent a couple gigs of video and had me make sense of it. We worked on the Sonoio teasers and this is what remained. Follow the link for the interview."
http://www.sonoio.org/

Club Of The Knobs C961S - A Quick Demo


YouTube via JohnLRice | August 04, 2010

"I made this demo to show why I feel the COTK C961S is an essential accessory/companion module for the Moog style 960 sequential controllers or any step sequencer that uses voltage triggers.

Besides the COTK C961S and Synthesizers.com Q960, other modules used in this video that are "off camera" were:
3 x MOTM-300 VCOs
1 x MOTM-440 VCF
2 x MOTM-800 EGs
1 x MOTM-190 VCA
1 x MOTM-320 LFO (master clock)
1 x MOTM-390 LFO (PWM)

More info at:
http://www.cluboftheknobs.com/
http://www.synthesizers.com/
http://www.synthtech.com/

Thanks for watching! :-)"

Keyboard Cat's NEW Song! - "A OK"


YouTube via chuckieart | August 03, 2010

"The debut of Keyboard Cat's new summer hit, "A OK"!

KC always knows how to kick out the jams!

htttp://www.charlieschmidt.com
http://www.playhimoffkeyboardcat.com
http://www.zazzle.com/charlieschmidt
http://www.keyboardcatchurch.com
http://www.keyboardcathasaposse.com"

bAD EXCLUSIVE: Korg iELECTRIBE Beat with iPAD


YouTube via bADproductions87 | August 03, 2010

"making a beat with the iELECTRIBE app for the iPAD. i added some instruments from the Yamaha Motif because its mostly a drum sequencer. Please SUBSCRIBE!"
KORG
iPads on Ebay

GAIA SH-01: Filter Examples


YouTube via DanKrisher | April 01, 2010

"The filters on the GAIA SH-01 shape the character of the raw waveforms making them sound fatter, thinner, brighter or more mellow."

Roland SH-01 GAIA: Unofficial box opening

Roland GAIAs on Ebay

Richard Devine Discusses The Roland Gaia SH-01


YouTube via DanKrisher | April 28, 2010

"Richard Devine discusses and demos the new Roland Gaia SH-01 Synth at the 4/24/10 Keyz'n'Beats event."

ARP Axxe

via this auction

TI LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR, VOICE SYNTH


via this auction

"USED BY THE TECHNO POP "GODS" KRAFTWERK ON "THE NUMBERS" AND "COMPUTER WORLD". RECALL ON THE SONG COMPUTER WORLD THE PHRASES, (MONEY, BUSSINESS, PEOPLE, COMMUNICATION), THESE PHRASES WERE CREATED WITH THE TI LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR. ALSO, ON THE NUMBERS, THE GERMAN VOICE RECITING 1 THROUGH 6 WERE CREATED USING THIS MACHINE. I SEARCHED FOR THIS UNIT PROBABLY SINCE 1989 WITH NO LUCK, (VERY VERY RARE), AND PURCHASED THIS UNIT APPROX. 1 YEAR AGO. I HATE TO SEE IT GO BUT I HAVE SAMPLED THE UNIT EXTENSIVELY.

DIFFERENT TRANSLATOR MODULES CAN BE LOADED INTO THE BACK OF THE UNIT. THE CURRENT MODULE IN THE UNIT TRANSLATES SPANISH, FRENCH, AND GERMAN TO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE WHICH IS THE SYNTH VOICE (ROBOT) YOU WILL HEAR. NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT A VOCODER BUT A SOLID STATE SPEECH SYNTH.

THE TI LANGUAGE TUTOR UTILIZES THE SAME SOLID STATE VOICE TECHNOLOGY AS THE SPEAK AND SPELL/SPEAK AND ADD. ALTHOUGH UTILIZING THE SAME VOICE SYNTH TECHNOLOGY THE LANGUAGE TUTOR FEATURES A MORE COMPLEX SYSTEM IN WHICH YOU CAN CREATE PHRASING AND OF COURSE TRANSLATE THE PHRASE.

REFER TO THIS WEB SITE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND ALSO A MP3 OF THE VOICE TRANSLATOR. YOU WON'T BE DISAPOINTED"

ADA HARMONY SYNTHESIZER

via this auction

"For 800 of these being made ever, it is quite rare, but even for that production number, these are incredibly difficult to find..."

inside an A/DA Harmony Synthesizer

pNORTNAOMI/Drunk Bunny+Harvester=/Colorflex, 2 X Vortex


YouTube via pNORTNAOMI | August 03, 2010

"A collapsing beat created with Twisted Tools Colorflex and Vortex.Colorflex creates great unpredictable nuances in pitch and timing that are hard to find in other sequencers. Custom sample map used."

pNORTNAOMI/3fuze/Colorflex, 2X Vortex

pNORTNAOMI | August 03, 2010

"A few presets created in Twisted Tools Colorflex and Vortex. Both work great together either for straight techno or the strange abstract type sounds. Vortex 1 has the Colorflex sample map loaded."

Glimpses of Inferno: Virgil


YouTube via FuckingSynthesizer | August 03, 2010

"Dante the pilgrim's introduction to Virgil at the base of the mountain."

Hexaphone Lesson 3 - Basic Chords


YouTube via hexaphonejam | August 03, 2010

"Hexaphone's simplified six-note keyboard makes it easy to play chords.

This video demonstrates the use of the Minor Chord scale (called "Minor 2" in v1.0) to play dance chords over a bassline.

In this scale, as well as the Major Chords scale (aka Major 2) and Trance scale, all the notes on the bottom row form one chord, and all the notes on the top row form a different chord.

Touching keys to the left or right will transpose these chords up or down.

There are other chords you can make by combining keys from the top and bottom rows - these will be demonstrated in a future advanced lesson."
Hexaphone

arturia demo #1


YouTube via ambienssi | August 04, 2010

"Arturia V-Collection 2 demo

+drums (Waldorf Attack)
+master reverb (TAL) & compressor (Audio Damage)"

arturia demo #2

Denkitribe Live at Apple Store Ginza


YouTube via Denkitribe | August 04, 2010

"Denkitribe performing his new app, "n-forcer" at Apple Store Ginza on July 31st, 2010. This app uses two iPhones simultaneously, and these movements are sent to Ableton Live running on a MacBook via Wi-Fi."

Wisine - Free VST synth


YouTube via vstplanet | August 04, 2010

"Wisine - Free VST synth http://www.vstplanet.com/News/10/Wisi...
Developer: Venuc"

coloringpad from one tone


YouTube via coloringpad | August 04, 2010

"all effects generated from a single tone from the airsynth (revealed at the end) please visit my site: www.coloringpad.blogspot.com"

techno modular


YouTube via pss50 | August 04, 2010

"Modular techno, the baseline is piston honda!!! Everyone needs a piston honda."

TouchOSC and Max Controller for the iPhone

Untitled from Jochen Bohnes on Vimeo.

Trifonic: Synthesis with NI's Massive

Trifonic: Synthesis with NI's Massive - Part 1 from Next Step Audio on Vimeo.


"Electronic music production tutorial by Brian Trifon of Trifonic for Next Step Audio."

Trifonic: Synthesis with NI's Massive - Part 2 from Next Step Audio on Vimeo.

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