MATRIXSYNTH: Friday, August 6, 2010


Friday, August 06, 2010

BugBrand Weevil08 Weevil Noise Synth

via this auction
"Finally! After 5 years in the dark dungeon that has been the BugBrand Workshop I am just about to move to a better place! Over that time I have picked up quite a stack of bits'n'pieces and it is really time to have a serious clear-out -> to clear space, to pass on unused items and to generate some funds for setting up the new workshop. So! Over the next few weeks I will be running several Ebay auctions...
BugBrand Weevil08
This was the final Weevil08 I produced and I decided to keep it for myself, but think it should go now to a new loving home!
You can see the original description here.
There's an MP3 demo there too.
This one is painted black and has pretty bright white LED indicators. It is used and in good condition though there are a few scratches - these don't show up too much though due to the black plastic case that was used (see pictures below).
Comes with a fresh 9v battery and I should be able to print out the instruction sheet that I included with Weevil08 sales.
Shipping Weight: 0.50kg"


Roland - Westfield Photos

Follow-up to this post. Aud1073cH went to the event and sent the following in.

"These are from the Roland demo at Westfield Mall in Palm Desert, CA. The three kiosks had nearly the same set of instruments, except for the keytar synths. One had a white Lucina, one black Lucina, and one Ax-Synth. One kiosk had instruments mounted lower on the wall."

Took in another stray. The keyboard, not the cat.


flickr by betteroffted

Muppet Show Dr. Teeth



via this auction


"Dr Teeth with hat:
6½ inches
Synthesizer w/stand:
3 inches"

3 inches after the previous post...
miniature...
hmm...

keep posting...

Circuit Bending

via dj ivan

Anyone ID the keyboard?

I do prefer my snakeskin.

Can you shred on Moog Taurus 3 Bass Pedals?


YouTube via hamsterdunce | August 06, 2010

"More music on umop.com/parallax.htm

Keyboard Magazine video review (my full print review shall be available in the October, 2010 edition) of the amazing Moog Taurus 3 Bass Pedals. True to historical form laid out by the '70s-era Taurus I, this is a wide-bottomed 100% analog synthesizer. I got to spend some time with one of the 1,000 units made, plaster my feet all over it and figure out if it actually possible to shred on this 13-pedal, 1-octave beast."

Teenage Engineering - OP-1 - Live demo


YouTube via possan2 | August 02, 2010

Teenage engineering - OP-1 - Tape tricks

possan2 | August 02, 2010

Loopfools beta synth toying


YouTube via possan2 | August 04, 2010

"ipad synth - work in progress, dont mind the colours or graphics, it's just placeholders...

four tracks, each with a softsynths/drummachine, two fx-busses, multiple filters on each track, each bus and on the master..."

Black and Silver CustomSynth Roland JX-3P with Built In PG-200


via CustomSynth

Del Dettmar - Out There Somewhere - EMS VCS3


YouTube via JephraimToe | July 29, 2010

"From Synthesis (1980). Improvised live, with no overdubs, at the Soft Rock Cafe, Vancouver.

Del Dettmar - guitar, EMS VCS3 with pitch to voltage converter
Gerald Toon - additional synthesizer

Del Dettmar was formally the Hawkwind sound engineer, providing additional synth and effects to the Space Ritual soundscape. He emigrated to Canada in july 1974."

Brains and PP wogglebug Maths make a patch


YouTube via DrOctave1 | August 06, 2010

"Here is the brains PP maths Wogglebug and qmmg in a nice little patch"

SuONOIO - Citizen Mori and Big Black Delta

SuONOIO - Citizen Mori clip from Alessandro Cortini on Vimeo.


"Citizen Mori stopped by Scott's place to take a few shots and play around with the SuONOIO prototype...here's what he came up with.

sonoio.org

citizenmori.com"

Jon from Big Black Delta and the SuONOIO prototype from Alessandro Cortini on Vimeo.



"Jon from Big Black Delta and the SuONOIO prototype

sonoio.org/suonoio

bigblackdelta.com"

Oberheim OB-X + SCI Pro-One


YouTube via retrosound72 | August 05, 2010

"vintage synth demo by RetroSound

analog pad and sync sounds: Oberheim OB-X 8-Voice Analog Synthesizer
(I recreate these legendary pad sound. He is very similar to 'Love Like Blood' from Killing Joke. I ever love this sound)
bass: SCI Pro-One
drums: Roland TR-707"

Flight of harmony newsletter – August 2010

"Greetings to all once again!

We’ve been pretty busy lately; mostly with re-structuring the business and a lot of work on the website, but also with two new eurorack modules: V’Amp and POWER.

The V’Amp (8 h.p., US$125.00) is a combination voltage-controlled amplifier (VCA) and ring modulator in one device, with the ability to smoothly change from VCA, to ring mod, then to inverting VCA, with one knob.
V’Amp page
V’Amp Barebones Pack (VBP): US$70.00. PCB dimensions: 78mm x 39mm/3” x 1.5”

POWER (US$85.00) is a ±12V 1A power supply in a 10hp eurorack format, is 40mm deep, and is intended mainly for shallow or portable systems, but works just fine for permanent setups. The POWER module includes a 12VAC output wall adapter – keeping the transformer outside of the case helps to keep down hum and magnetically coupled noise – but can be purchased without the adapter for US$75.00. A ±15V 1A option will also be available upon request.

POWER Barebones Pack (PWBP): US$55.00, US$45.00 without adapter The POWER Barebones Pack was designed for easy installation into any project: the AC input, power switch, and LEDs can all be remotely located, and all components and headers are on one side. PCB dimensions: 104mm x 89mm/4.10” x 1.93”
POWER page
POWER images

And it is also fundraising time: Now accepting orders for pre-release V’Amp and POWER modules. The delivery time is 1-3 weeks. In this case, “pre-release” means I just haven’t had time to work on the manuals or packaging yet. Manuals will be available for download from the respective product page once they are completed.

As for the website, Sonja has been doing a lot of work making it more useful and we now have PayPal buttons for in-stock products. There are more changes to come – as soon as we find a good back-end structure that works well – including forums, embedded Soundcloud clips, and other goodies.

We are now accepting orders directly, both U.S.A. and International.

Oh yeah: Stickers. You keep asking for ‘em, so we’re looking into getting some made. If you have an idea for an f(h) sticker that just HAS to be done, let us know!

Contact:
~flight: flight at flightofharmony.com
Sonja: sonja at flightofharmony.com
Website: http://www.flightofharmony.com"

DRONE RING FX SYNTH


via this auction

"The Drone Ring FX Synthesizer features two squarewave oscillators and a ring modulator. The pitch can be adjust by potentiometers. One of the oscillators can be used as a a vco. It has a preamp before the vco input so you can directly plug e-guitars and microphones into the input of the synthesizer. You can make nice droning and noisy, glitch sounds. The aluminium enclosure is very solid. It is powered by one 9V battery."

Audio: http://diysynth.blogsport.de...

A Message from Metasonix

via Brian

":D hehe I wonder how that got on there? ;p

Picture taken by Suburban Bather(http://soundcloud.com/suburban-bather) from this thread:
http://muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19886"

Metasonix R-51 NIN

Inside a Nord Wave

flickr set by AndyFord69
(click for more)

"By having two oscillators capable of producing a vast array of sounds from classic analog waveforms (with sync), via FM-synthesis, wavetables, sampled waves (single cycle waveforms with attack) as well as noise and other miscellaneous waveforms to - playback of sampled waveforms, the Nord Wave has an unprecedented pallet of sounds.

Need a rich and full string quartet? No problem - just bring up the samples. A highly resonant screaming lead? Sure - virtual analog is there, but why not combine them - not just mix them together - but create an analog sound with the harmonic content of the sampled string quartet!

With oscillator modulation you can transfer the character of one sound to the other - for instance a sampled string to a analog square - and by controlling the amount of modulation the effect can range from very subtle to heavily aggressive were the original sound is no longer recognized."

VTOL CRAMOLA

via etherra.blogspot.com

1st page of the manual

"in russian CRAMOLA means - sedition, something bad, mostly something anti-religion - sinful"

1981 Roland Jupiter-8 Two Page Ad

via Retro Synth Ads where you'll find the write-up.

Encore Electronics Frequency Shifter Review


on Sequence 15

snip:
"A Frequency Shifter is Not the Same as a Pitch Shifter

So what's a frequency shifter? Well, I had a bunch of material that I wrote to address all that, but I've decided to save it for a follow-up post. To keep it short, a frequency shifter is sort of like a pitch shifter, but it does not maintain the harmonic or musical relationships between the various tones and sounds that make the input. What's that good for? Well, for one thing, it's great for bell and chime sounds, and it behaves a lot more predictably than a ring modulator in doing that job. It can do flanging-like effects that range from subtle to startling. It can do creation of sounds that play in unusual intervals and scales. But if you want to completely brutalize a sound, rip it apart and then glue the pieces back together like a ransom note, a frequency shifter is what you want."

Meow

flickr by goto10

E-MU Command Station XL7 Monster

flickr by Hotelsinus

Alien

Roland SH1000

via this auction

"Here's a piece of synth history. Its a Roland SH1000 manufactured in Japan in the early 70s. The SH1000 was the first synth produced by Roland and some sources credit it as the first commercially available Japanese synth. The synth has some interesting features including white/pink noise, random note generator, ADSR, portamento, filter growl and wah, plus hold function and lots of prestets that are all mixable!"

Modded Roland SH-101 with Black and Grey Reverse Keys

via this auction

Curious if this is this one.

Analogue Solutions Leipzig Rack Mono-Synthesizer

via Noisebug on Ebay
"KEY FEATURES OF LEIPZIG
* Pure analogue voice circuitry.
* Fat Moog style filter.
* 2 VCOs with Glide and Sub-VCOs.
* Plenty of modulation routing possibilities.
* Extra tone controls and circuits for more sound variety e.g. LFO, CrossMod.
* Rugged steel construction and 'vintage' wood design.
* 'Real' printed front panel. Quality silk screen printing. We do not use big stickers like M**g.
* MIDI In for software sequencer control.

Sounds:
Demo 1
Demo 2
Demo 3"

BugBrand BugCrusher Micro Sample Rate Reducer Pedal

via this auction

"BugBrand BugCrusherMicro Pedal
The diminutive uCrusher for compact sample-rate-reduction. Read the original description here. There are also some sound examples given there. I kept this one at the end of the production run of these Crushers and it is used, but in good condition. It runs off an internal 9v battery (new one supplied inside - you must remove the base to change!) or standard 2.1mm centre-negative power (boss-style) Shipping Weight: 0.50kg"


BugBrand BugCrusher Sample Rate Reducer Pedal 2006

via this auction
"BugBrand BugCrusher - Sample-rate-reduction pedal. This is one of the original production BugCrushers, built around the end of 2006. It is in very good condition as these were built in plain metal cases without any labeling (see archive link for exact knob descriptions).

Basically this is a BugCrusher with modulation from an internal LowFreqOscillator and an input for a volume pedal style control pedal (not included). The pedal input can also be used with external Control Voltages as long as the ring connection is left unconnected (ie use a stereo jack with floating ring connection)

There is a full description of this pedal on the BugBrand Archive site.

Sound samples and a diagram of controls can also be found there.

Notes:
* This pedal comes supplied with an AC power adaptor - this is AC output not the usual DC output! The pictures below show the UK power pack, but I have stock of EU and US supplies too so will ship with one relevant to your location.
* The linked archive pictures show pedals with a little circuit board label attached to the front of the pedal -- this one does NOT have one of these labels.

Shipping Weight: 1.25kg"

BugBrand Drone Machine

via this auction
"BugBrand DroneMachine - Portable Modular Synth
At the end of 2006 I built 5 DroneMachines (no easy task!), keeping one for my own use. Now that I've launched the BugModular range I don't use this portable system so much and feel that it could be better loved by going to a new home. Do note that there are a few smudges and dings on the outside case, and that the main panel has a few marks (see pictures below).

There's a description with three YouTube videos on my BugBrand Archive site here.

It may also be worth having a check of my current Modular System Details as the colour schemes for banana sockets are the same.

The main features include: Audio Input section, Ring Modulator, Voltage Invertors, 3 x Thomas Henry XR-VCO, Voltage Controlled Filter, Digital Delay, Output Mixer.

The system uses 4mm banana cables and comes supplied with a selection of 24 cables of various lengths and colours (not shown in the pictures).

The main input and output sockets are located on the back panel (an etched PCB) and these are standard mono 1/4".

The DroneMachine runs off an external 12V AC wallwart (not the more common DC supply!) - I will supply a suitable AC Wallwart dependent on the winning bidder's location as I have stocks of UK, Euro and US supplies.

Note that the lid is NOT removable from the case. And I don't now have any keys to lock it either!

Shipping Weight: 3kg"

BugBrand Weevil06

via this auction
"Finally! After 5 years in the dark dungeon that has been the BugBrand Workshop I am just about to move to a better place! Over that time I have picked up quite a stack of bits'n'pieces and it is really time to have a serious clear-out -> to clear space, to pass on unused items and to generate some funds for setting up the new workshop. So! Over the next few weeks I will be running several Ebay auctions... BugBrand Weevil06 - my personal prototype

This is an early Weevil from 2006 painted in Brown with an insect touchplate (which was a standard design for the Weevil06) in good condition other than a few little scratches here and there (see pictures). The main difference from regular production ones is that there is a switch on the underside to switch the internal mini-amp-speaker on and off -> in the production versions I changed it so that inserting a jack plug would automatically disconnect the internal speaker.


For more details & sounds see the BugBrand Archive listing here.
There is also a PDF instruction sheet here.

Supplied with a fresh PP3 9v battery.
Shipping Weight: 1.00kg"

See BugBrand's other listings. I'll be posting the BugBrand items.

Roland SH-101 with Original Bag and Mod Grip

via this auction

Sold For: US $699 via selectivepressure in the comments.

Roland TB-303 Bassline

via this auction

LEGO NXT and iPhone talk over Bluetooth


YouTube via retsyx | August 05, 2010

"Short demo showing an iPhone controlling a LEGO NXT brick using Bluetooth for direct communication.

Follow on Twitter @xysternet"

MIDI Converter Prototype 3 Channel Test


YouTube via shiftedphase | August 05, 2010

"Here is a test of the MIDI to CV converter I'm working on playing a Bach 3-part invention. Two MIDI converters drive 3 voices."

New Modular Case - Monorocket Lexington..


YouTube via BiggaBMusic | August 05, 2010

"Just showing off my new case.. its the Lexington from Monorocket.. Pretty sweet eh?"

Radias Sequence3 Riverfell


YouTube via Rothgar777 | August 05, 2010

minimal jam


YouTube via RobbieNerve | August 05, 2010

"playing a bit with MPC, fizmo [super rare rack version], monomachine and hooking up the korg 707. No hurry or something - Captured Live on Ustream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/robbien..."

juno60 demo


YouTube via squeakyfromme69 | August 06, 2010

"yeah, these things sound really good! sorry for the crackling noises. it's a project synth. reverb is the ableton reverb plugin"

KORG ELECTRIBE・MX / PATTERN PREVIEW - DUBSTEP -


YouTube via KORGINC | August 05, 2010

"SDカードに対応し、新たに発売となったELECTRIBE・MXの最新プリセット・パターンをご紹介。ダブステップ編。"
KORG EMXs on Ebay

Roland V-Synth XT - Working with a Touchscreen


YouTube via DrSqu | August 06, 2010

"For some days i've got a Roland V-Synth XT V2 in deepsonic. It's really a big synthesizer with a good sound. A lot of parameters for any kind of sounds. But in this demo i more like to show the good user interface: The touchscreen of the synthesizer. First time i want to say that you don't need a external editor for editing the sounds. Good machine with a easy interface. ... i'm sorry for my poor english knowledge ;-)"

Expert Sleepers Silent Way in Cubase 5.5


YouTube via expertsleepers | August 06, 2010

"Setup and calibration tutorial for Expert Sleepers Silent Way Voice Controller in Cubase 5.5."

Ben Liebrand studio 1991, FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE


YouTube via karelpostthuis | August 06, 2010

"I re-editted the documentary about Ben Liebrand in the studio.
There was another rap artist featured also, but i cut those peaces out because i wanted to contribute to the youtube videobase about Ben, and i couldn't find this one by any other uploader."

MOV02158


YouTube via scaffbeat | August 06, 2010

Update:

Brains+Funk

scaffbeat | August 06, 2010
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