"Since 2012, the Bedroom Cassette Masters series has released eight volumes of eclectic vintage electronica, most of which was recorded in bedrooms around the world between 1980-89.
Each download from bandcamp includes an extensive 100 page pdf with artist features, gear information & vintage ephemera PLUS a printable j-card for compact cassette."
"Gecho is a collaborative species. First of his friends featured here is the amazing tek.waves from Minijam Studio which I've discovered through Kickstarter.
Haven't learned all of its possibilities yet, so for starters, pre-programmed pattern is playing. More effects/settings are accessible through buttons combinations - for example, in addition to normal and alternate function of the knobs, you can access 4 more banks of things to tweak.
Tek.waves can surely do a lot more than this - the same is true for Gecho."
"Growing up, I used to listen to a radio show called Uncle Jamm's Army on KDAY back when it was on AM radio. The reception wasn't too good where I lived, but it never stopped me from tuning in each weekend. One of my favorite songs from that show was Twilight 22 - Electric Kingdom. There's a ton of samples in this song so this is my own rendition using synths that I programmed from scratch. Of course, the Roland Boutique TR-08 is used for the beat. Hope you enjoy it!
Drums - Roland Boutique TR-08
Lead Synths - Roland Boutique JX-03/JP-08
Bass - Roland Boutique SE-02
Timpani - Bismark bs-16i soundfont (iOS)
Vocoder - VirSyn VoxSyn (iOS)
Mixer - AUM (iOS)
Reverb - Audio Damage eos2 (iOS)
"Just a simple quick beat with the Dave Smith Tempest drum machine. All drum tracks recording onto one track for the purpose of the video. Other Synths are a Moog Mother 32, Moog Prodigy and Elektron Analog keys all going through a strymon reverb. Bass with a Roland Juno 60. Vocal Samples with Teenage Engineering Op1."
Three spooky drones by osixoonesevenone featuring a eurorack module and Ensoniq ESQm controlled by a Linnstrument.
3D render by Metin Sevin. Note the knobs go from birth to death.
Video below.
"Gear used : 4 x 84 HP and a minicase of Eurorack, Ensoniq ESQ1 m, Linnstrument 128, Eventide Space, a smal Mackie mixer.
The ESQm is controlled by the Linnstrument.
On the eurorack there is a drone and some sound effects, these are vertormixed with an Intellijel Planar, and manipulated with de Horstronic joystick.
Here is a pic an my Instagram off the minicase with the joysticks.
The noise source is from a Hexinverter Mutant Claps and makes the wind sound on track II, like in this video.
The ESQ1m is played with one padsound in 8 voice polyphony . The ESQ1 sounds ussed i made for playing with a Linnstrument. Using pressure and vertical movement these sounds change dramatically.
Tracks I and II start with the ESQ1, track III starts with a growling Eurorack sounds. Reverb = Eventide Space pedal."
Published on Nov 23, 2017 osixoone sevenone
"Eurorack modular and Ensoniq ESQ 1m played with LInnstrument."
"simple patch with verbos harmonic oscillator controlled by xaoc batumi into mutable instruments clouds
pads by make noise morphagene (orthogonal devices er-301 only for mixing both morphagenes together)
recorded live with tascam dr 100. no audio processing. for the best listening experience listen to the video with headphones or good speakers."
Noise Engineering Thanksgiving jam with Integra Solum
Published on Nov 23, 2017 Noise Engineering
"Jamming with the upcoming Integra Solum. I use it as the trigger for two BIA and a Manis Iteritas, and also as a CV input for all of these plus a Loquelic Iteritas. No other triggers or CV are used except a pitch sequence for Manis."
Thanksgiving Manis Iteritas jam
Published on Nov 23, 2017 Noise Engineering
"Manis Iteritas and Loquelic Iteritas Percido making crazy sounds with the Mimetic Sequent and Malekko's Voltage Block and Varigate 8+. Horologic Solum as the one master clock to rule them all."
"first try out theme: Moog meets acoustic
sorry for the noise, have to buy a better mic for the piano
I am trying the combination between analogue and acoustic
maybe it is well"
"Say hello to Tetrapad! This video provides a quick introduction to Tetrapad with an overview of its features and behaviours.
Tetrapad is a versatile, multi-dimensional, touch-sensitive control surface for Eurorack. Each of its four pads use force sensing resistors to respond to both the vertical position of your finger and its pressure. Four push encoders and a shift function give you even more tactile control over your modular system.
Tetrapad operates in numerous modes — each of which configures the module to perform a specific control task. Through these modes, Tetrapad can emulate a bank of faders; a voltage storage device; a finger drumming surface; a chord generator; an 8-key keyboard; four independent LFOs; or an 8-switch panel. The chosen mode determines what type of signal (CV, note, trigger, gate, etc.) is sent from each of Tetrapad’s eight independent outputs, while its multitude of multi-colored LEDs keep you informed of exactly what’s happening within each mode.
Tetrapad automatically remembers how you’ve configured each of its modes, and retains these settings when powered off. By default, Tetrapad automatically saves these settings every minute, or whenever you change modes. This makes Tetrapad ideal for live performance, since you know it will always power up with your configurations intact."
The very rare trigger sequencer features 6 channels incl. accent, (level switchable between 5V and 15V) and can be synced via DIN-Sync (24ppq, as master or slave).
There are 8 banks with 4 patterns each. Each patterns can be from 12 up to 64 steps long.
Inspired by the classic Roland TR drum machines, the unit was conceived as a control unit for Tama's TS-305 and TS-306 drum brains and works with other gear too. (Simmons, Syncussion, Vermona....)"
"The synth is triggered by a piezo disc which is sensitive to how hard you tap the top panel giving subtle differences in the envelope. The sounds are generated by a VCO optionally modulated by a frequency sweep, LFO, Pitch CV or all three. There is a simple envelope generator with a fixed fast attack for punchy percussive envelopes and variable decay for super short to really long decays (5 seconds+).
The sounds produced by the synth are not limited to what you would expect to associate with drum sounds and can vary from big bass drums to tapping on glass to UFO space drum-wobbly things! Not only does this Drum Synth do sonic justice to the original but we have also put our own spin on it with extra modifications including:
* Attack on/off
* VCO & LFO wave shape selection
* Pitch CV input"
"As always, synthesized live on a Raspberry Pi Zero, featuring 10 simultaneous synths, 3 different synthesis models, audio and graphics captured real-time running on a £4 computer.
It's nice that the software still works - mine has a dreadful tendency to code rot if I look away for a few months. The visualisation is somewhat different since the last time I posted this - the texture that drives the colours is now computed rather than loaded, and as a result it's easier to tweak the visuals, so it all looks cooler and more electro-neon than it did before. The software now runs client/server. Synthesis is within a separate server application, the client is in charge of pushing MIDI into the server, and - unusually - pulling audio back. So the server knows nothing whatsoever about platform MIDI or audio capabilities. Visualisation is also done client-side. So the server does nothing except pull in commands and push out short blocks of synthesized audio."
80s inspired synth-pop Italo Disco LIVE in the studio
Everything is played by hand and/or sequenced live. Nothing pre-recorded.
The Emax II bass in the verse and the underlying drum-loop in the verses are lifted/sampled from my own released version of this track. The track can be heard on my website:
https://www.espenkraft.com
Gear used:
Drums: E-MU ESI4000, Akai S1000, Roland TR-626 (sequenced for the most parts, some live playing in the bridge)
Bass: Roland S-10 (sequenced) and Emax II (live playing)
Synths: Roland D-550, Roland JX-8P, Roland Alpha Juno 2, Yamaha TX802. (all sequenced)
Emax & Korg DW-8000 (live playing)
Strymon BlueSky & TC flashback delay effects
Sequencer: Roland MC50 sequencer drives everything through a Opcode 128X MIDI patchbay
Drums, Bass, Synths are recorded through a Yamaha 01V digital mixer and piped optically into Audient ID4 and into Nuendo. From there I have 2 separated stereo tracks + two mono bass tracks ending up in Nuendo for further processing/mixing.
This gives me a much better chance of balancing the mix instead of having just a stereo track of everything without the possibility to adjust the separate “stems”.
My tracks pay homage to all synth-pop acts of the 80'ies like Howard Jones, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Thompson Twins, Tears for Fears, Ultravox, OMD, Euryhmics, Duran Duran, Giorgio Moroder, Jean Michel Jarre, Jan Hammer, Alphaville, A-ha and many more.
A use mostly old gear in my music and among them Roland Juno 6, Alpha Juno 2, D550 and JX-8P.
Korg DW-8000, Elka EK22, Yamaha DX7 and TX802 and drum machines Yamaha RX11 and Roland TR-626.
Effects are usually handled by Strymon and TC electronics.
Sampling is done on my E-MU ESI-4000, Akai S1000, Roland S-10, Emax II."
"Volca Sample, FM, Keys (doing Bass) and Bass (doing chords). Circuit is sequencing the Bass's chords.
Recorded in AudioShare via a Behringer Xenyx mixer and mastered in Final Touch."
'Up for auction is an ultra rare Roland 100m RYK M185 analogue sequencer.
This is an unused NOS module from the limited 2009 manufacture run of 20 units.
Serial number is 185015.
It has the latest, updated V3.1 firmware, which allows for a new split sequence
mode.
This is the original sequencer that Intellijel Metropolis and other clones are based upon.
It's layout and design are very similar to the Roland 182 sequencer, but with much
more added features.
- The knobs control the CV/pitch.
- The big swithces control step length in clock pulses, and
- The smaller switches select different gate modes [mute, single, repeated, legato].
Extra functions are accessed by holding the reset button for a few seconds:
- Programable per-step portamento
- New split sequence mode where the sequence can be split in two with different loop lengths for each section.
Module is tested and complete with original instruction leaflet, mounting screws & washers, and cable."
"In this fourth video we show make a sampled CS-80 patch using HALion 6's sample recorder, with MusicRadar.com's Simon Arblaster and Editor of Computer Music magazine, Joe Rossitter.
Get your FREE trial of Steinberg HALion 6 here: https://www.steinberg.net/en/products...
Get the instrument featured in this video here: http://bit.ly/SSScssynth"
"Super Metroid has one of the best soundtracks of any videogame out there, so I decided it would be cool to recreate it in high fidelity using hardware synthesizers. Think of this as a sequel to the one I recreated last year. It's been a fun project and I hope you enjoy it!
When I started this project it was with the aim to license it legitimately
with Nintendo to sell the album on Bandcamp and other similar sites. Unfortunately at the last minute they blocked my licensing request, which means I'm not allowed to sell it. Unfortunate for me, because this project has taken literally hundreds of hours, but it's a plus for you because now you can get it for free! Download links will be at the bottom of this info.
There's one little setback - I originally planned to recreate the WHOLE soundtrack (notice the album title says Vol I) but at the moment unfortunately it looks like that will be pretty difficult. Time = money and I need to be able to afford to eat and stuff. Of course if people love these then I'll keep making them, it might just take longer :)
Weirdly, this licensing issue hasn't affected my original Metroid: Resynthesized project from last year, (I have no idea either, go figure) so if you'd like to support me please buy that one on itunes or google play, or grab my original music on Bandcamp :-)
-Super Metroid: Resynthesized - Vol I (free): http://www.mediafire.com/file/xsh759k...
-First Metroid: Resynthesized on itunes: https://goo.gl/ZgUpfa
-My original music on Bandcamp: https://luministmusic.bandcamp.com
Published on Nov 22, 2017 analog therapy TV pirate
"this is my last patch made with chimera, veils, varigate8+, voltage block, future retro transient, pico drums, cloud, A149-1/2 and hikari attenmixer. hope you enjoy ! ;)
"My first video with a new modular I just built. I wanted to build a system that was desktop synth sized and was designed around a specific sound design goal. I wanted something with additive synthesis and that was excellent for drones, textures, and ambiences. The result is a 4U, 42HP system with Mutable Instruments Ears and Clouds, Make Noise Telharmonic as the voice, LXD for filtering and Low Pass Gate enveloping, 2HP VCA for vca duties, and some Pulp Logic tiles for LFOs, Envelops, Attenuation/Offset, and Mixing. The case is from Pulp Logic as well.
The patch in this video has the TB-03 running into the mixer on the modular, and the output of the mixer runs into the input on clouds. The Telharmonic noise out is going into the top LPG on the LXD, and it is being enveloped by the output signal of Ears, then the LXD output is sent to the mixer (thats how i get the snare drum sounds when i tap the case), the P output of the Telharmonic is sent to the other LPG on the LXD and the gate out on the TB-03 sends a gate to the Strike Input of the LXD. That output is then sent into the VCA to be scaled down to the volume level of the TB-03 and then sent into the mixer. The Telharmonic is in the Shift Register Mode, with the TB-03 gate being sent to the D-Gate, and the Degree is being swept by an LFO. There is also an LFO being sent to the Size on the Clouds to prevent Clouds from becoming too resonant. Output goes directly from Clouds stereo out to a Zoom H4N field Recorder. Only limiting was applied in post."
