It's times like these I seriously wish my phone had a video camera on it

I have a really shitty bait and switch cellphone I got to replace my far superior one when its obsolete battery crapped out (what gives making a battery that doesn't last as long as the warrenty or the cellphone contract?) Anyway I've been running the vostok like a mad scientist and tomorrow I might be picking up an SH 101 to add an extra oscillator and all the rest of that old school Roland synth goodness. I can only continue to appologise for the lack of the goods on this blog. Like it's said on some synth forums I've been on "Pics or it never happened" well if that were the case nothing would ever happen over here. I've got to get my hands on a camera and a vimeo account so that you an get the modular goods from me.

A little of what I've been cooking up:

I've been really taken by this notion of signal attenuation. It all started after reading an interview with Peter Grenadier. I thought to myself... attenuation eh? I've got that! I've got two ancient microphone mixers that attenuate, shit that's all they do!

lucky for me Sony used to do a lot of stuff with 1/8 inch jacks back when my parents were my age because my two mic mixers fit seemlessly into the signal path. I've got one almost always mixing/attenuating audio signals and a second one doing Voltage. There's this really beautiful thing about the Vostok that I think must have been an incidental thing particular to it's design because when something is patched on the matrix board and then a cable is patched from the corresponding output jack and into a mixer the knobs will do very surprising things with the resulting cross-talk. I've been able to use these attenuators to control oscillator pitch, sequencer speed, randomness and reset, lfo rates and sample and hold, intensity, character and the master volume without it ever being wired directly to the VCA! This cross talk thing works even when the mixer isn't output back into the signal path. so one of these bad boys will control parameters without mixing any kind of output. There's a lot of bleed through though which makes things more interesting if less precise.

Yesterday I bought a third microphone mixer from Radio Shack it was on clearance and the dude had to get it from the back room of the store. it runs 1/4 inch so I plan on using it to mix the vostok, Evolver and SH 101 together before they go to the amp.

Also I wish every synth had a real spring reverb.

I've been using an Epiphone tube amp with a reverb spring to amplify my synth and seriously wish more things had reverb springs inside them. I have lots of digital effects which have reverb settings but nothing quite compares to the real thing.

Electro-accoustics, that's the ticket.

This is really exciting.

I've got to hand t to the folks at makenoise they know how to make videos for modules


Introducing...the QMMG from MAKE NOISE on Vimeo.

Suffice it to say that once I've got enough to start my expansion plans I'll want these to be in there.

Mastering Guitar

I loves me some good synth jam part 2

midi guitars...
...drool...

I love me some good synth jam

taking this from Matrixsynth



go to the original here

I think I'm going to buy a TR 707 that's what's making the beats in this clip. Every time I've heard one it's sounded good and playing the virtual one on hobnox has been very persuasive... maybe with Christmas coming?

By the way. Hobnox is a lot of fun and if you are into techno and don't have a lot of cash either for the gear or the softsynths they could be a handy resource.