MATRIXSYNTH

Money, power and ... synths? - what synthesizers can tell us about geopolitics

video upload by Floyd Steinberg

Missed in South America: GS Music - Argentina, EMW - Brazil, and AtomoSynth - Peru. AnalogFX in Netherlands. Meng Qi is worth a DIY stand out mention for China as well as Aforack in Uganda, Africa. There's no way to list every manufacturer, but if he missed a country/region feel free to comment (feel free to comment regardless of course). It's an interesting video and a useful reminder of where manufacturers are based.

"If a country can support one or even more synthesizer manufacturers, that tells us a lot about its place in the world. I have some numbers to back this up, look at some of those synthesizer-producing countries and then make some predictions on their future trajectory.

Table of contents:

00:00 introduction
00:50 the idea (explained with the UK)
02:43 the synthesizer world map walkthrough (west to east)
03:01 United States of America
04:21 France
04:56 United Kingdom
06:27 Germany
07:50 Italy
09:08 Scandinavia (i.e. Sweden)
10:07 Eastern Europe
11:18 Ukraine
12:18 Russia
13:19 China
15:11 Australia and New Zealand
16:37 Japan
18:40 The DIY scene
19:34 conclusion - where are the countries headed to?
20:32 my personal thoughts
21:29 bye - please subscribe (and if you like this style of video, please tell me in the comments)

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Why Does This Synth Have Only One Oscillator? | Superbooth 2026

video upload by Music Journey with Paul

https://www.gsmusic.com/synth-store

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:59 Matt Johnson performing on Bree6
01:20 Bree6 - is one oscillator enough?
04:50 e7 presentation - the flagship synth
10:47 From hobby to family business
12:03 The only polysynths from Lating America
12:24 Finding a gap in the market
13:02 From idea to first customer
14:11 Argentina gave us Lionel Messi & GS Music

"GS Music is one of the most interesting boutique synthesizer companies I discovered at Superbooth 2026.

I spoke with Guido Salaya, the founder and lead engineer of GS Music, about how a small family business from Argentina grew into a company designing and manufacturing analog polyphonic synthesizers.

Their main instruments include the 7-voice GS Music e7 and the 6-voice Bree6, available as a desktop and keyboard version. At Superbooth 2026, GS Music also showed the new Bree6 Four Octave Edition - a 49-key, 4-octave version of their analog polysynth.

Featuring fantastic performance of ‪@MattJohnsonskeyspace‬ to show capabilities of Bree6.

In this interview we discuss:
why he built a synth with only one oscillator,
the philosophy behind keeping instruments simple,
how GS Music started as a hobby,
why they chose to build analog polyphonic synthesizers,
how product ideas become finished synthesizers,
the challenges of manufacturing hardware in Argentina,
what makes GS Music different from larger synth manufacturers.

If you enjoy boutique synthesizers and hearing the stories behind the people who build them, I think you’ll enjoy this conversation."

Precision Analogue Filter vs. Valve Timbre Sculpting // Swell from Bartola Instruments

video upload by DivKid and Bartola Instruments

"Here we have Swell the new filter and valve (tube for those in the US) sculpting Eurorack module from Bartola Instruments. This is the first commercially released Eurorack module from Bartola and follows many years of valve hi fi work and hundreds of Eurorack prototypes made in super small runs for musicians and friends. Swell offers masses of customisable sound sculpting marrying its precision low pass filtering with high flexible valve control. Whether it's cleaner, yet warm and gently compressed waves or all out untamed chaos there's a lot to explore as you'll see in the patches."

Bartola interview // https://divkidvideo.com/20-questions-...

*TIMING INDEX // CHAPTERS*

INTRO
00:00 Hello & previews
01:13 What is Swell?
02:01 Feature run down
04:45 Raw filter sweeps & valve behaviour

PATCHES
07:05 Absolutely MAD acid sounds
10:48 Tape like blown out feedback loops - AMAZING!
14:53 Sine wave meet your maker! - Overblown wind & rasping reed sounds
18:42 Clean(er) monosynth style patching
21:43 Pings, kick drums & warm wooly bass hits
25:03 Delicate clean filter ping FM melodies
27:10 Swell as an oscillator
30:50 Audiorate modulation
34:57 Smashing complex synth voices through Swell

"*THIS VIDEO IS SPONSORED BY BARTOLA INSTRUMENTS* they have funded the creation of this demo video. Any questions, as always, just ask!"

Ableton Push 3 Standalone, Eurorack & NI Z1 MKII set up - Making of Prolepsis & custom Push set up

video upload by Abre Ojos

See Prolepsis here.

"A long one where I talk about the latest set up using the Ableton Push 3 Standalone, Eurorack modular and integrating the ‪@NativeInstruments‬ Z1 Mk II to add a new layer of live performance options to this set up. Systematically going through the the idea, developing the prototype, building one knob effect chains, MIDI mapping, channel groups, CV Instruments, External Audio Effects, routing audio via ADAT into Push and a whole heap more!

00:00 Intro ramble - The Idea!
02:08 The set up - Push Standalone & the modular
04:30 Finding the missing performance part
06:15 Finding the Traktor Z1 MkII
09:06 How the Push template is set up - Groups FTW!
12:44 Channel group effects set up for the Z1
14:10 The EQ dilemma - save me someone!
17:08 DJ Filter hack
22:02 One knob effects
22:45 Summary of Z1 mapping and set up
24:29 Push CPU meter device
22:45 Summary of Z1 mapping and set up
24:29 Push CPU meter device
27:32 The drums on Push & a rumble
36:44 Drum Sampler stretch is really a granular effect!
43:09 Over into Modular Land - routing and Push inputs
45:30 Sting 2 controlling Manis Iteritas
52:10 Plaits into QPAS into Atom
56:19 Bean Jelly (Benjolin) and Scanned into Iroi
57:10 Altogether now!"