Friday, April 17, 2015
Vintage Korg MS-20 Synthesizer W/Flight Case & SQ-10 Sequencer with Original Box
Vermona PerFourMer
Roland JD-Xi Digital Osc Sounds (Part 1)
Published on Apr 17, 2015 perfectcircuitaudio
"This video demonstrates the sounds of the JD-Xi's digital oscillator section. This is Part 1 of 2.
Buy a Roland JD-Xi here: http://goo.gl/PhzoWO
Audio Recorded with: PrismSound Lyra"
Update:
Roland JD-Xi Digital Osc Sounds (Part 2)
Published on May 1, 2015 perfectcircuitaudio
"This video demonstrates the sounds of the JD-Xi's digital oscillator section. This is Part 2 of 2."
Klangcollage Musikmesse Frankfurt 2015 - Noise Canyon
Published on Apr 17, 2015 Schellnsau
"Halle 5.1"
Elektron Overbridge Demo Musikmesse 2015 - CUCKOO
Published on Apr 17, 2015 cuckoomusic .
"Elektron is gearing up for a releasing their much talked about VSTi OVERBRIDGE as a public beta in May -15. Followed closely by a release in the summer. OVERBRIDGE is a software to control and sync their Analog series, such as Analog Four, Analog Keys and the Analog Rytm through a DAW such as Ableton Live etc.
More on Elektron Overbridge: http://eu.elektron.se
Support CUCKOO: https://www.patreon.com/cuckoomusic"
CLAVIA NORD MODULAR // presets // ENSONIQ DP/PRO // reverbs
Published on Apr 17, 2015 LESINDES
"Clavia's first and most compact modular synthesizer + the state of the art multi FX unit of the same era ENSONIQ DP/PRO excelling in its reverb algorithms."
Roland TR-8, TB-3, and Korg ESX acid house jam
Published on Apr 17, 2015 anode8
"www.anoderecords.net
Here's a little acid house jam on my new TR-8, accompanied by the TB-3 and the Korg ESX. this is by no means a full demo or indication of the capabiities of these machines, just me having a little fun in the home studio with some old school flair."
Raspberry Pi Wavetable Synth Complete
via the Raspberry PI Synthesizer blog:
"Time to call it a day and say yes, this thing is feature complete.
Feature set :
Single EG per note, 2 LFOs per polysynth
LFOs have sin, saw, square, tri and S/H modes
LFOs may optionally be synced to sequencer clock - the one feature not *quite* implemented yet
One LFO is always on, the other is ramped up by the Mod wheel
2 layers of wavetable trajectories ('oscillators') per note
Each wavetable trajectory consists of up to 8 wavetables, traversed in
- linear time
- quadratic time t*t
- inverse quadratic time 1-(1-t)*(1-t)
- exponential time - half-life a go-go
There isn't an EG to drive trajectory, just a dTrajectory/dt parameter. Trajectory resolution is always normalized to 1.0 irrespective of how many tables are in the trajectory, so a dTraj/dt of 0.5 will take 2s to pass through all the tables, unlss the linearity parameter is set to exponential, in which case the 0.5 is interpreted as a half-life, so after 0.5s you will be half way through the trajectory list, after 1s at 0.75 etc. Exponential is nice as you always have some movement going on, no matter how long you hold a note, but obviously you are getting asymptotic to 1.0 after a while.
The trajectory traversal may also be modified with both the LFO and MOD LFO, with programmable sensitivities. This gives really great slow movement for ever, even on non-exponential settings
Pitch of oscillators may be modified by both LFOs with programmable sensitivities - great slow movement plus crazy MOD wiggling
Oscillator B may be manually detuned / uptuned by +- 12 semitones, with exponential control for fine detune
Oscillators are MIP-map antialiased, the octaves generated by FFT / de-FFT, and there's a secret sauce trick that can be manually enabled to preserve the phase of certain harmonics whilst retaining my 'must have' / non-negotiable feature of a positive-moving zero transition at table location 0 for all octaves.
There is a back-end LPF, which is a truly brainless 1st order thing but it does go truly transparent at half Nyquist. This is just one filter per polysynth, effectively a very coarse tone control to tune out the psychotic edge of the more extreme waves and bring in some 'mellow', if mellow is what you fancy. This is nice on lush ensemble stringy sounds to push them more background but leave their tones prominent to reinforce a melody.
There are some 21 built-in wavetables - I need to count, there may be just 17 - there are more than 16, I broke the nice power of 2 limit because I had some I couldn't bear to leave out. These include 3 Caitlin vowels, sampled piano, brass, alto sax, viola, and also analytical waves like saw, sin, square, tri.
The Cray XMP / SIMD programming system is included, to support user construction of rich new wavetables from combinations of existing tables, be they built in or user-programmed.
Nice feature set, eh?
A first generation Raspberry Pi seems to be able to generate about 20 notes of polyphony from this synth, which is a lot of synthesis. So a completely reasonable thing is to create 4 PIANA Virtual Analog monosynths, 3 PIANATRON sampled synths and a pair of 4 note polyphonic PICYCLE wavetable synths, and let them go play.
Obviously on a Raspberry Pi 2 you can do all this and find a cure for the common cold in parallel using neat protein folding tricks. Or just fire up another dozen synths and go really crazy.
This thing sounds even cooler than I imagined, and to be honest I always expected it to sound cool. But it is BRILLIANT. Seriously.
Video to follow.
p.s fave trick to date - the Gordon Reid 'strings' trick with a Slightly Phase Distorted pair of different stacked sawtooths, one FMd by a 3Hz 0.08 semitone amplitude S/H LFO. Lush ..."
"Time to call it a day and say yes, this thing is feature complete.
Feature set :
Single EG per note, 2 LFOs per polysynth
LFOs have sin, saw, square, tri and S/H modes
LFOs may optionally be synced to sequencer clock - the one feature not *quite* implemented yet
One LFO is always on, the other is ramped up by the Mod wheel
2 layers of wavetable trajectories ('oscillators') per note
Each wavetable trajectory consists of up to 8 wavetables, traversed in
- linear time
- quadratic time t*t
- inverse quadratic time 1-(1-t)*(1-t)
- exponential time - half-life a go-go
There isn't an EG to drive trajectory, just a dTrajectory/dt parameter. Trajectory resolution is always normalized to 1.0 irrespective of how many tables are in the trajectory, so a dTraj/dt of 0.5 will take 2s to pass through all the tables, unlss the linearity parameter is set to exponential, in which case the 0.5 is interpreted as a half-life, so after 0.5s you will be half way through the trajectory list, after 1s at 0.75 etc. Exponential is nice as you always have some movement going on, no matter how long you hold a note, but obviously you are getting asymptotic to 1.0 after a while.
The trajectory traversal may also be modified with both the LFO and MOD LFO, with programmable sensitivities. This gives really great slow movement for ever, even on non-exponential settings
Pitch of oscillators may be modified by both LFOs with programmable sensitivities - great slow movement plus crazy MOD wiggling
Oscillator B may be manually detuned / uptuned by +- 12 semitones, with exponential control for fine detune
Oscillators are MIP-map antialiased, the octaves generated by FFT / de-FFT, and there's a secret sauce trick that can be manually enabled to preserve the phase of certain harmonics whilst retaining my 'must have' / non-negotiable feature of a positive-moving zero transition at table location 0 for all octaves.
There is a back-end LPF, which is a truly brainless 1st order thing but it does go truly transparent at half Nyquist. This is just one filter per polysynth, effectively a very coarse tone control to tune out the psychotic edge of the more extreme waves and bring in some 'mellow', if mellow is what you fancy. This is nice on lush ensemble stringy sounds to push them more background but leave their tones prominent to reinforce a melody.
There are some 21 built-in wavetables - I need to count, there may be just 17 - there are more than 16, I broke the nice power of 2 limit because I had some I couldn't bear to leave out. These include 3 Caitlin vowels, sampled piano, brass, alto sax, viola, and also analytical waves like saw, sin, square, tri.
The Cray XMP / SIMD programming system is included, to support user construction of rich new wavetables from combinations of existing tables, be they built in or user-programmed.
Nice feature set, eh?
A first generation Raspberry Pi seems to be able to generate about 20 notes of polyphony from this synth, which is a lot of synthesis. So a completely reasonable thing is to create 4 PIANA Virtual Analog monosynths, 3 PIANATRON sampled synths and a pair of 4 note polyphonic PICYCLE wavetable synths, and let them go play.
Obviously on a Raspberry Pi 2 you can do all this and find a cure for the common cold in parallel using neat protein folding tricks. Or just fire up another dozen synths and go really crazy.
This thing sounds even cooler than I imagined, and to be honest I always expected it to sound cool. But it is BRILLIANT. Seriously.
Video to follow.
p.s fave trick to date - the Gordon Reid 'strings' trick with a Slightly Phase Distorted pair of different stacked sawtooths, one FMd by a 3Hz 0.08 semitone amplitude S/H LFO. Lush ..."
MESSE 2015: Malekko Modules for 2015
Published on Apr 17, 2015 sonicstate
"MESSE 2015: Malekko Modules for 2015 Something that is not from Roland..."
http://malekkoheavyindustry.com
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