Time machine: Oberheim Matrix-1000 Analog Synthesizer (1987)
Vintage synthesizer single sound demo by RetroSound
Oberheim Matrix-1000 Analog Synthesizer from the year 1987
The small Oberheim with the big sound! Very underrated analog synthesizer module from Oberheim with six voices, two DCOs per voice, 24 dB low pass filder and matrix modulation like the big brother Matrix-12 and Xpander.
the demo shows self-programmed and factory sounds.
more info: http://www.retrosound.de
About the synth:
The analog Matrix 1000 is essentially 1,000 Matrix 6 patches in a single-space compact rackmount MIDI module. It has the same synth architecture as the Matrix 6. Each of its 6 voices have two DCO’s (digitally controlled analog oscillator), a low pass filter, 2 VCA’s, 3 envelope gens, 2 LFO’s, and 2 ramp gens. The sounds are plentiful and good enough, however sounds can only be edited via MIDI, so you’ll need an external MIDI editor (such as MOTU’s Unisyn) or Access’ Matrix Programmer to edit parameters. You can also load sounds from the Matrix 6 via SysEx or software.
The Matrix 1000 provides an excellent source of pads, textures and ambient sounds. It has 195 “keyboard” sounds, 118 “strings”, 130 “woodwinds & perc”, 239 “synthesizer”, 119 “bass”, 74 “lead” and 125 “effects”. For the price, there is no better way to find genuine analog Oberheim Matrix sounds in a compact and very in-expensive rack module that is loaded with more sounds than you’ll ever need! The older versions of the Matrix 1000 have a black front-panel. The newer models in the ’90’s have a cream colored face-plate.
New from SoundCells: Greenhouse v3 – Synplant Flavour For The Reason Rack!
Greenhouse v3 Contents:
• 174 combinator patches:
• 151 NNXT patches containing the basic patches.
• 21 rex loops and 37 drum samples coming from the MicroTonic drum syntheszer.
• 990+ Synplant samples in 44Khz / 24 bit, 1030 mb uncompressed.
Christoffer Berg – programming the Delta Machine
Release Music Magazine has an interview out with the programmer behind Depeche Mode’s latest album:
Swedish musician, producer, mixer and programmer Christoffer Berg, 31, had already made a name for himself on the electronic music scene because of his involvement with The Knife and Fever Ray. The rumour about his skills finally reached the Depeche Mode management and, all of a sudden, Daniel Miller was on the phone… Peter Marchione talked to Mr Berg in Gothenburg – his and Release’s hometown – and Fredrik “Schlatta” Svensson took some photos in Svenska Grammofonstudion.
Coast to coast
During the past year Christoffer Berg was hired full time to manage the programming on the latest Depeche Mode full length release “Delta Machine”. A massive production that took place in two different cities, one on each coast in the US where Martin Gore and David Gahan reside these days: Santa Barbara and New York.
When searching for information regarding Berg’s background you may find him rather anonymous. Apart from his own projects, Hird, and the Dreijer connection there is not a lot to find. So, how did this all start; did he just pop up out of nowhere?
– My parents were both professional musicians. My mother was a member of a female musical collective and my father was a producer with his own label, releasing children´s music among other things. He also recorded radio children’s programs for Swedish national radio.
So, music was a part of your life from the very beginning?
– It sure was. When I grew up I got to hang around with lots of different musicians and I myself started playing the drums at the age of 6. I then played in different big bands and later on, during high school, I had a lot of own bands. During this period I also worked semi-professionally as an assistant for other engineers and producers. What I learned most from was assisting at mobile recording sessions of classical music. I used to set up microphones at large events around the Gothenburg area.
This is pretty far from electronic music. How did synths, sequencers etc. become your thing?
– I was into electronic music already during my high school days. My father bought me one of the first Macs that were able to record multitrack audio and we also had a PC with a soundcard that allowed onboard RAM sampling. I could then use the computer pretty much like a sampler and started programming songs. Later on I got a Kurzweil K2500 sampler. Back in those days the standard kit was an Atari computer, a sync box, a couple of hardware synths and a mixer… and some rack effect unit, if you were lucky. However, soon after I got the Kurzweil sampler, Swedish software developers Propellerhead released their first version of their Reason software. I then understood that things were going to change and that software synths were the future.
Read the full interview here >>
Cabaret Voltaire – Landslide (from Red Mecca)
Sheffield post-punk/avant-funk unit Cabaret Voltaire have been given the reissue treatment for their third album Red Mecca, on limited edition vinyl and digital download formats. It’s out this week via Mute, remastered by none other than Stefan Betke, aka Pole. To coincide with the re-release Mute have re-uploaded the original video for the album’s ‘Landslide’; for more on the reissue and to buy it, click here to head across to the Mute website.
Red Mecca and other Cabaret Voltaire releases available from:
http://shop.cabaret-voltaire.net
Cabaret Voltaire albums available digitally at a special price for a limited time only:
amazon: http://smarturl.it/cabs
itunes: http://bit.ly/129xBoR
Cabaret Voltaire – Red Mecca
Limited edition vinyl re-release.
Remastered for vinyl by Stefan Betke.
http://boomkat.com/vinyl/734520-cabar…
http://www.facebook.com/CabaretVoltai…
Red Mecca was the Cabs’ final album before the departure of founder member Chris Watson, who is now renowned for his long-running career as a sound recordist of the natural world. “Red Mecca was produced at Western Works, Sheffield, and, although rioting at this time hadn’t reached Cabaret Voltaire’s hometown, it was a particularly incendiary time across Britain and the tension was explicit through the news media,” reads the text accompanying the album’s re-release. “Explains Richard H Kirk, ‘that insurrection on the streets found its way into the music’ and the album was seen by many as the alternative soundtrack to the unrest on the streets.”
Electro-Harmonix 8 Step Program Demo
Demo of the 8 Step Program Analog Expression/CV Sequencer
The 8 Step Program plugs into the expression pedal or CV input of other effects pedals and synthesizers delivering rhythmic sequencer control. It can turn an ordinary auto-wah into a step filter, a tremolo into a syncopated pulse effect and a pitch-shifter into an arpeggiator. Here JJ shows what it can do with the Stereo Talking Machine Vocal Formant Filter and the Ring Thing Single Sideband Modulator.
Massive Metal Synths – soundset for the NI Massive
Audiority has introduced Massive Metal Synths, a soundset for the Massive software synthesizer by Native Instruments.
Designed for the most demanding metal keyboardists, Massive Metal Synths brings you the essential must have presets for rock/metal shredders.
50 Massive presets including snarling basses, lush pads, sharp synth stacks and an amazing collection of 25 stunning leads for your best shredding solos.
Massive Metal Synths features
- 50 presets for NI Massive
- 25 Leads.
- 4 Bass.
- 7 Keyboards.
- 6 Pads.
- 5 Organs.
- 3 Strings.
- Requires Native Instruments Massive 1.3+ full version.
The soundset costs 12 EUR. It is available for the introductory price of 10 EUR until July 31st, 2013.
Chiptune Synth Jam (Nord Lead, Moog Slim Phatty, MPC 500, Tenori-On, Kaosspad)
“Created a chiptune-typical arpeggio lead sound on the Nord Rack and played around with it.”
Gear used in this video:
– Clavia Nord Rack 2X (chiptune arpeggio lead)
– Moog Slim Phatty (bass)
– Kurzweil Micropiano (piano)
– MAM mb33 mkII (bitcrushed 303 acid bass)
– Vermonad DRM1 mkIII (analog drums)
– Akai MPC 500 (sequencing)
– Korg Kaosspad Mini (decimator effect on mb33)
– Yamaha Tenori-On (sequencing mb33)
– Yamaha AW1600 (recording, mixing & mastering)
Moog’s Video Channel
Background video description:
Moog Music is the leading producer of analog synthesizers in the world. The company and its customers carry on the legacy of its founder, electronic musical instrument pioneer, Dr. Bob Moog. The company hosts Moogfest, a three-day festival celebrating the intersection of music and technology in honor of Moog’s innovative spirit. All of Moog’s instruments are hand built in its factory on the edge of downtown Asheville, NC.
Learn more about Moog at:
http://www.moogmusic.com/
HALion 5: Introducing the new features
The latest version of Steinberg’s HALion VST sampler adds new features that extend the boundaries of virtual sampling and sound design software. New instruments and sound sources, new effects, and much more combine to form a powerfully inspirational instrument that forms the heart of modern sound creation or production environments.
For more information please visit www.steinberg.net/halion
HALion Sonic 2 is a unique software workstation that breaks new ground in terms of instrument quality, versatility and ease of use. Comprising 2,500 first-class instruments in almost every conceivable style, this multi-faceted instrument has the power to captivate and inspire you, and become the heart of your creative process.
Checking out the KORG DS-8 Digital Synthesizer
Playing the Korg DS-8 without any additional effects or eq. All you hear is coming straight out of the Korg DS-8.
“The Korg DS-8 employs 4 operator FM synthesis from Yamaha – but on the DS-8 you have sliders to tweak a sounds a bit. A pity, that it’s not possible to save the sounds you have edited with the sliders. You have to edit the sounds in the normal edit mode.
On the DS-8 you have to deal with terminology from analog synths, not with “operators”. It also has an useful effect processor with great delay and modulation effects. The little brother of the DS-8, the Korg 707 does not have this effect processor, which is a big minus.
In the video I show you the kind of sounds, which are the best on the Korg DS-8 in my opinion – mostly beautiful, relaxing pads. A lot of other sounds are also possible, but many of them are quite ugly, so I let them out…. :-)”
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