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Roland SE-02 Synthesizer teardown.

 

The ESC2 which seems to show up in pretty much everything from Roland these days

Oberheim Matrix 6R teardown and repair

My set up for Space Fighter // Roland JU-06 // AKAI Timbre Wolf // Boss Digital Delay DD-3

 

Oberheim Matrix 6R teardown and repair. I knocked over a pile of paper with my camera tripod just before posting this. Mess.

Lens: EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM

VSCO 4 Preset: Fuji Fortia SP - -

Godox tt685s ceiling bounce

My Home Office in May 2012

New toy: newschool is a synthesizer from the Animated Circuits set of software synthesizers from Native Instruments. It's based on the Life cellular automation game developed by John Conway.

www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=reaktoranimatedci...

 

darf use is perhaps like doing manuscript. or perhaps like pulling impressions of etchings.

 

very very manual, very lonely, many many steps, delicate, rewarding.

 

Oberheim Matrix 6R teardown and repair

Oberheim Matrix 6R teardown and repair

Battery powered amplifier using a LM386 IC. Speaker is recycled from a set of discarded computer speakers.

My Arduino Synthesizer. Inspired by an article on Make (hooray for make!). It has an interface built in Processing to control the frequency and waveform.

  

check out my blog post for more information, the source code, and some videos.

Oberheim Matrix 6R teardown and repair. Main processor board with processor, memory, MIDI jacks and my new battery holder (top right).

My girlfriend's sister created this synth cake for my birthday. Modeled loosely off the Yamaha DX7 (which I have but she didn't know that I had), and using marble cake batter, Kit Kats for the black keys, Jolly Ranchers, and some licorice decorations here and there. Visit her site for more cake stuff (she does awesome work): bake-thoven.squarespace.com/notes/2010/1/23/just-sit-at-h...

Sound Tuning Instrument

Pretty simple kit to build, but does require limited SMT soldering. I succeeded :-).

Analoger Sythesizer

Modular synth at the Colorado Modular Synth Festival

AIS office in Greenbelt, MD some years ago

My Home Office in May 2012

Oberheim Matrix 6R teardown and repair. The battery holder I used to replace the battery backup that was soldered on to the board. Even when plugged in, the Matrix didn't work until I replaced this. I even measured 3v off the one that was there, but it just wasn't working.

For years Synthesis Technology has made some of the finest large-format modular synth modules with their MOTM line. After a brief venture into the Frac Rack format ( www.analoguehaven.com/motm/ ) they now have plans to begin making Eurorack modules. We are very excited for their first one, the E340 Cloud Generator. We're looking at a price around $299 with a projected release date sometime in September. LINK: www.synthtech.com/ .

A work colleague has lent me his Roland JD-800 synthesiser to experiment with.

Oberheim Matrix 6R teardown and repair. Original voltage regulators. Even though they were putting out correct voltages as measured on a meter, they were faulty. Probably had some AC noise on the line.

Oberheim Matrix 6R teardown and repair. The battery holder I used to replace the battery backup that was soldered on to the board. Even when plugged in, the Matrix didn't work until I replaced this. I even measured 3v off the one that was there, but it just wasn't working.

On display at the University of Maryland.

Oberheim Matrix 6R teardown and repair

Cantos Keyboard and synthesizer museum. Calgary AB.

 

Update September 2010 - fixed, thanks to @rick403 (see comment below).

 

Not operational - February 2010.

In the course of Ars Electronica Home Delivery, visitors were invited to see how genarate sounds with a modular synthesizer.

 

Find out more about Ars Electronica Home Delivery:

ars.electronica.art/homedelivery/en/

 

Credit: Ars Electronica - Robert Bauernhansl

Making your own music is way more fun than listening to the radio!

A portion of my modular synthesizer

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