This one’s a little late, I had a sick son Sunday and Monday. He’s much better and better late then never. Here’s Ken showing off his latest synth. It’s also a neat video cause Ken is a real nice guy and I don’t think I’ve seen a video with him before.
Via SonicState & this thread @ HC KSS
Photos via Ken MacBeth on Facebook
“Here we have a demo of the Macbeth Mk1 VORTEX Desktop Analogue Synthesizer Module. For those who know the format- this is a 5U, 6 Space compact flat unit! It started out as the ‘micromac’- an ambitious idea. This is a a complete **starter** modular synthesizer in a very small area. Anyway, well it’s done. Here is a video of this thing. Personally I’m pleased- this small unit can provide the user with the sound of a big modular system- it’s an entry point fot those wondering. The video content itself meanderders and only the die-hard will watch to the end! Some synth manufacturers give tiny examples of the sound of their gear- I tend to long drawn out stuff to give the potential user the feel of the instrument being used in a permance way. I’m rock and roll myself, so please excuse the personal feel to this thing! Please enjoy the 15 minutes of this one…………Ken M” http://macbethstudiosystems.com/
Via MatrixSynth
“Finally I got together what will be the format of the ‘micromac’……….but I’m leaning to the the name Mk1 VORTEX. This is a 6 space 5U module that will fit well with synthesizers.com gear, moon modular and others, as well as my own MacBeth Mk1 Modular System. There is no front panel here- that’s tommorow- also, the essential jack fiels board is to be added- but I couldn’t resist making a couple of sounds! Proper stuff next vid!
Ken M”
Via Matrixsynth
Ken’s definitely got something in the works! This seems to be a first ever form factor for him and man is this thing packed, even with onboard MIDI!
…as well as the 5U stuff that I’m working on…..I play with the idea of designing some very small (42HP in 3U) midi driven analogue! Whay just have one oscillator and one envelope generator when you could have three oscs and two independant envelopes?!
