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eubOberheim's Matrix-6r (a digitally-controlled analog polysynth from the mid-80s) is a synth that will always have a place in my heart. It's not "route anything anywhere" like an analog modular, but the audio path includes osc sync and filter FM, there's three-and-a-half envs and two LFOs and a five-point interpolated modulation look-up table(!), and modulation is "route anything anywhere".
Reading a discussion on the music-dsp list of hard-synced and otherwise-synced oscillators prompted me to fill in a gap in a seven-year-old set of web pages (note reference to the Pro Audio Spectrum 16 soundcard). I'd done some analysis of the Matrix-6's output, giving the programmer a quantitative understanding and making for hacks like patching it to do 19-tone equal temperament. I'd also left a plea: "Do you know precisely what the three sync modes are? I don't have an oscilloscope, and would love to know what's going on here."
I still don't have a decent piece of oscilloscope software, but I futzed around with a sound editor for, yikes, a couple of hours, and managed to answer that old question. (almost)
When I go back from music-dsp to my inbox, I have mail about another seven-year-old web page. I had tried, and mostly failed, to write down the lyrics to Love Spirals Downwards's Ardour. This fellow reports he's spent a dozen hours listening to track 4 with headphones and EQ, and gives me his fragmentary transcript.
Ha.
I will update my pages. Perhaps tomorrow.
(And nowadays maybe I should go over all of them and make them use HTML tables. We're not running Mosaic on a pmax_ul43a anymore.)
Reading a discussion on the music-dsp list of hard-synced and otherwise-synced oscillators prompted me to fill in a gap in a seven-year-old set of web pages (note reference to the Pro Audio Spectrum 16 soundcard). I'd done some analysis of the Matrix-6's output, giving the programmer a quantitative understanding and making for hacks like patching it to do 19-tone equal temperament. I'd also left a plea: "Do you know precisely what the three sync modes are? I don't have an oscilloscope, and would love to know what's going on here."
I still don't have a decent piece of oscilloscope software, but I futzed around with a sound editor for, yikes, a couple of hours, and managed to answer that old question. (almost)
When I go back from music-dsp to my inbox, I have mail about another seven-year-old web page. I had tried, and mostly failed, to write down the lyrics to Love Spirals Downwards's Ardour. This fellow reports he's spent a dozen hours listening to track 4 with headphones and EQ, and gives me his fragmentary transcript.
Ha.
I will update my pages. Perhaps tomorrow.
(And nowadays maybe I should go over all of them and make them use HTML tables. We're not running Mosaic on a pmax_ul43a anymore.)
