Forest Pads

video upload by A Little Knight Music

"Relaxing Lo-fi ambient

Sequential Prophet Rev 2 - Eventide Blackhole - TAL-Chorus-LX"

Melbourne Instruments Backs Its Motorized Controls With a 10-year Warranty

Press release follows:

Melbourne Instruments Backs Its Motorized Controls With a 10-year Warranty

Guaranteed to feel the same in 10 years as it does on day one. Every motorized rotary control that Melbourne Instruments builds is now covered by a 10-year warranty.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - Melbourne Instruments today announced a 10-year warranty on the motorized rotary control components in every product it builds, covering NINA, DELIA and ROTO-CONTROL. The cover sits alongside the standard product warranty and is activated by registering the instrument.

A conventional knob uses a wiper dragging across a resistive track, and that contact is what wears, collects dust and eventually fails. Melbourne Instruments' controls remove contact from the assembly. Torque passes from the motor through a magnetic field rather than a gear train. Position is read optically, with nothing touching. There is no wear surface anywhere between the motor and the player's fingers.

That has benefits beyond durability. An endless encoder has no fixed position, so the knob sits wherever the last hand left it and the true value lives on a screen or LED. Its detents soften over time as the disc and wipers wear. Melbourne Instruments' knobs drive to the exact preset position, hold detents and switch positions under the hand, and change character on demand - stepped, smooth, or switch-like. No gears between the motor and your fingers. The knob moves the instant the sound does.

The motors have been tested 50 million times, far more than a lifetime of playing could reach. The 10-year warranty is not the limit of the mechanism. It is the point at which Melbourne Instruments stopped counting.

Customers who bought before 17 August 2026 have until 17 February 2027 to register at melbourneinstruments.com and activate their full 10 years, running from the original date of purchase. The terms and scope are the same as for a new purchase.

The warranty launches with a campaign called "A decade of play", running across Melbourne Instruments' channels and dealer partners from 17 August. The line appears on a 10-year motor warranty roundel supplied to retailers alongside product artwork and spec listings.

Claims in the first 2 years go through the customer's place of purchase, as they do today. From year 3 to year 10, claims come directly to Melbourne Instruments, with service points in Europe, the USA and Australia. Cover applies to the motorized rotary control components only and requires registration.

www.melbourneinstruments.com

Bitwig at Novation Creator Lab Set for LA This Saturday, August 22, 2026

via justin3am via Bitwig

"We're excited to partner with Novation at the upcoming Novation Creator Lab: Bitwig Edition in Los Angeles.

Join us Saturday, August 22, 2026, for a fun and educational afternoon of hands-on production, hybrid performances, live sets, and interactive workshops with Bitwig artists, producers, and Certified Trainers. The event will focus on integrating Bitwig Studio with Novation controllers to create flexible production and live performance setups.

Sessions include Hybrid Hardware Workflows (Peter Nyboer), Creative Mixing in Bitwig Studio (3am), Audio and Visual Performance (Dernovan), and more."

RSVP: https://bit.ly/NovCreatorLab

ESP32 D-50 Synthesizer - A Roland D50 CLONE with ESP32

video upload by László Róbert Kasza

"An ESP32-powered hardware synthesizer project based on the classic Roland D-50 architecture.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?..."

Polyphonic D50 sampler synthesizer with ESP32 in YAMAHA DX21 Hardwer :)
video upload by László Róbert Kasza

"Unfortunately, the motherboard of my dx21 synth is broken beyond repair. So she got new electronics. I have uploaded a code I wrote using Roland D50 sound samples.
So what everyone feared has come true. The Yamaha Roland DX-D50-21 :)

Abilities:
-4 d50samples
-TVA Envelope
Course, Fine, Keyfollow
-The sampling frequency is 48000Hz.
Signal on 16 bits or more
-The device is polyphonic up to 10 tones
2 LFO controlled 2 parametric EQ
-Upper Lower Choruse
-Reverb engine
-Roland D50sysex compatibility...
-hd44780 compatible LCD Display (Not implement more)
-https://data.dynareg.se/breadandbutte...
(If we are bored, we can listen to internet radio on it.)

https://github.com/kaszarobert1/ESP_D...
More FM firmware:
https://github.com/kaszarobert1/-ESP3...
Yamaha DX21 KeyMatrix Arduino Due Firmware:
https://github.com/kaszarobert1/yamah..."

Collarts Music Production at SynthTemple

video upload by Collarts and SynthTemple

"SynthTemple is home to some of the most sought-after synthesizers ever made: the System 700, the Oberheim Eight Voice, and the CS-80 Vangelis used on the Blade Runner soundtrack.

It's also where our Music Production students get to work first-hand, starting early in the degree through the Synthesizer and Sound Design subject, and later one-on-one during their self-directed projects.

Collarts has a partnership with SynthTemple, giving students access to gear and a space most producers only ever dream about.

If you're keen learn more about studying Music & Audio Production at Collarts, head to: https://www.collarts.edu.au/courses/m...

Music: "Journey to Venus" by ‪@brettlittle‬"

Synth Temple Walk Through

video upload by SynthTemple

"Welcome to SynthTemple in Kew, Melbourne, Australia. A labour of love for our team, heaven for synth enthusiasts and an inspiring haven to elevate the creativity of local, interstate and overseas artists, bands, writers and producers.

📹 with thanks to Ben Willis"

The Best String Synthesizer You Never Heard Of: Milton Gemichord 961

video upload by HAINBACH

"The Milton Gemichord 961 has kept me spellbound ever since I first played it at Museo Del Synth Marchigiano in 2021. It's a string/piano/brass/bass synth like many Italian keyboards of the time. But it sounds elegant and dramatic, also thanks to its "liturgic" section. It is utter unobtanium, with only three known to still exist. In this video, I want to see if its spell over me was induced more by its newness back then, or if its actually the paradise lost I remember it as.
Check out the sampled instrument and music here:
/ decent-sampler-2-166896316"

Additional Milton Gemichord 961 posts with demos

Add grit and glitch to drums w. Gotharman's Tuul

video upload by Meska (Meska)

"Quick demo of how to add glitch and grit to drums with Gothamran's Tuul

Thank you for watching. My name is Meska of the statik collective . I've been making mostly 'dark and expérimental' music for more than ten years now, i'v learn so much online, now it's time for me to share my knoledge, my exploration and this channel is a place to talk about the tools, sound design and techniques to make music with. You can stream my albums and EPs at https://statikwave.bandcamp.com/. If you'd like to support the channel​ consider buying music from bandcamp ;) Contact/booking: meskastatik@gmail.com"

HWJ - ONE SOUND - HYPERCHAOS - full jam

video upload by FL3SHB4CK

"Hardware Jam Challenge: ONE SOUND

The only one sound source is the Bean Jelly, modulations by Hyperchaos (modulated by Bean Jelly PWM) and Splish, crazy stereo thanks to diff-rect (BJ low pass into positive input, BJ high pass into negative input, outputs into Beads) , grainzzz coutesy of Beads!

NLC Hyperchaos Deluxe, NLC Splish, Bean Jelly, MI Beads, NLC diff-rect

Make some noise!"

10 Amazing Skins for JE-8086 You Need to See

video upload by Autodafe

Kind of interesting to think what the original JP-8080 might have looked like.

"Here are 10 of my favorite skins for JE-8086, the free Roland JP-8000/JP-8080 inspired synth by The Usual Suspects.

🎨 JE-8086 Skin Repository:
/ discord

A quick 90-second showcase of some of the coolest interfaces available for JE-8086 — from classic hardware-inspired looks to completely different designs.

🎵 The background track was made entirely with 4 instances of JE-8086 — no other synths used.

Which skin is your favorite?

#JE8086 #JP8000 #JP8080 #Synthesizer #VST"

Tendrils Patch Planner

via Tendrils Cables

"The Tendrils Patch Planner is a browser-based interactive tool created by Tendrils Cables that lets Eurorack modular synthesizer users virtually map out cable patches, calculate required cable lengths, and generate cable lists or a shopping cart directly from mock-ups of their racks, cases or other instruments.

Key Features
ModularGrid Integration: Upload a screenshot of your rack/s from ModularGrid or paste a direct rack link and the planner will fetch the image.

Scale Calibration: Set accurate dimensions by clicking two points across a module and inputting the size in centimeters so cable length estimations remain precise.

Smart Cable Drawing: Use a click-and-drag crosshair tool to sketch a route. The tool automatically curves and smooths out the line.

Multiple Cable Types: The standard right angled Tendrils, Stakkas stacking cables, Mutants (3.5mm to 1/4") and straight barrel cables are all available and can be switched out by pressing "c" (Colour Picker) and "t" (Type Picker) in edit mode.

Bezier Curve Editing: Click a cable head to select it, then adjust connector locations, re-shape the cable path or add additional handle points to bend wires neatly around crucial knobs, controls and displays.

Load Multiple racks: Load additonal racks into the workspace and patch between them to plan out full live performance setups! Images of any device (Drum Machines, Outboard Synths, Mixers, etc) can be added if you match the scale of the MG images.

Shopping Cart Sync: Once your virtual patch is finished, you can click a button to seamlessly add the exact lengths and styles of cables used directly into the web store cart, or export the cable list to text file for future reference or ordering from other retailers."