Roland D-50: The Definitive Sound Design Synthesis Demo

Published on Sep 18, 2017 Cro w

"Had to be done... couldn't stand having this sonic wonder be represented by the plethora of mostly atrocious demos on YouTube.

So... here's an hour of cosmic euphoria from the stellar D-50.

To be ABSOLUTELY CLEAR - this is ONE patch at a time. NO OVERDUBS/MULTI-TRACKS WHATSOEVER. This is all from the STOCK PCM ROM. I did not "burn" a special ROM or whatever, nor am I aware that's a possibility - if it is, I'd sure like to know about it!!! This is the potential lurking within the D50. The factory presets and "signature" sounds that shame the real truth of the D50 are completely repulsive in my opinion.... seriously, fuck Fantasia.... and Native Dance?!?!? Yikes.
99.9999% of the transient waves in the D50's ROM are absolutely useless, and not one is used in my patches. The otherworldly sound of the D50 come from the aspects I have never been able to come remotely close in replicating; they are 1) the manner in which the pitch envelopes warp and sonically tear the PCM waves.... the artifacts and Nyquist frequencies that appear like audio phantasms from a terrifying heaven. 2) The experimental synthesis concept that wouldn't appear again for years after the D-50, and it revolutionized everything to this day - the first time Virtual Analog was implemented in a poly synth. The D-50 generates square and saw waves. These get combined, layered, etc. with the PCM waves in the partials of the patch. Thats's it... just 2 waveforms compose the oscillator section of the VA part. And very primitively. But the metaphysical witchcraft of the D50's "pulse width modulation" is magic; I don't mean that allegorically - I'm convinced there's like eye-of-newt or some shit in this thing. 3) The filters... come on... alien technology for sure. Nothing is as weird and awesome as those. I personally feel that there is NOTHING about the D-50 that sounds remotely "analog." And that's another excellent attribute of it, because it sounds all its own and still is huge, spacious and completely warm. The distortion in the signal path is the perfect level of saturation. Things just blend and smear absolutely right. 4)The EFFECTS. Not at all because they sound anywhere near what they claim to be, or are excellent in accuracy, because they are not. It's because they are essentially spatial, wave and frequency modifiers that wouldn't be seen in synth context until many years down the road as "imaging, spatial exciters, air, metalizer, etc." The reverbs are not typical of what you would expect from something called 'reverb.' They are the space in which dark matter lays.... so get a Roland Boutique D-50 the minute that are available, and Roland - you can forward royalties to my PayPal account. Thanks."

The NDLR - a PAD demo with easy to see and hear notes

Published on Sep 21, 2017 Conductive Labs

"Here's a demo of the PAD feature showing how the notes get played. We are using Arturia's 'Piano V' soft instrument running on Win10. The NDLR is connected to the PC directly.

Typically I like to use strings, pads, & FXs for the PAD voices, but in this video we used easy to hear notes and a 'live' piano keyboard so you can hear and see exactly which notes are being played."

See the Conductive Labs label below for more.

Randomized polyrhythmic beats with Stochastic Groovesizer

Published on Sep 21, 2017 rudeog

"Customized firmware on the Groovesizer that allows multiple simultaneous time signatures and randomized beats to play on any midi equipped drum machine (in this case the Korg EMX). This firmware was developed along the same lines as a VST plugin I developed called Stochas which is for currently available via audiovitamins.com"

Audulus Eurorack Expert Sleepers ES-8 Demo

Published on Sep 21, 2017 audulus

"In this clip, Audulus is sending both audio and control voltages out through the Expert Sleepers ES-8 from an iPad. The patch is sequencing a bass and lead sound as well as a drum kit. The pad is filtered by the Doepfer SEM VCF and the bass is distorted and mangled by the STG Soundlabs .mix, the Erica Synths Fusion Tube Mixer, the Pulp Logic Spring Reverb 1U tile, and the Rossum Electromusic Evolution VCF.

For more info go to http://www.audulus.com and http//forum.audulus.com"

Bach Prelude on DIY Eurorack Modular

Published on Sep 21, 2017 Richard Moore

"First recording from my Mutable Instruments clone eurorack modular synthesizer.

Still have some power supply noise to sort out..."

eurorack ambient #1 | nonorder

Published on Sep 18, 2017 nonorder

"Ambient track for eurorack.

Sequence:
Make Noise Maths
Mutable Instruments Shades
Penrose Quantizer

Modulations:
Make Noise Wogglebug
Mutable Instruments Peaks
Soundmachines LS1

Sources:
Mutable Instruments Rings
Music Thing Radio Music

Mixer, Filter and Vca:
Future Sound System MX1
Pittsburgh Filter
Intellijel uVca II

Effects:
Ladik Timbre
Mutable Instruments Clouds
Digitech Obscura Altered Delay
Boss RV-5

*Video: iPhone SE, Audio: RME Fireface UFX"

FUZZ - Drum loop into the Occult Fuzz.

Published on Sep 20, 2017 darkpoem9

"Occult Fuzz: electronic design and 'acid' etching artwork made by hand by Atheus...with the help of Satan." Drums are Elektron Analog Rytm.

https://atheus.bandcamp.com

The SQK-01 - Arduino digital/analog FM synthesizer

Published on Sep 21, 2017 DrummingEvil

Playlist:

1. the SQK-01 - Arduino digital/analog FM synthesizer - Part 1

"A bit of a basic video to show the progress I've made on my synthesizer build so far! Part 2 will be more of an actual video, probably will make that when I've added the filter and such."

2. the SQK-01 - Arduino digital/analog FM synthesizer - Part 2

"Now that the digital and analog sections of the synthesizer are complete I show off some of the things it can do.

CrazyRhythm: http://evilturtle.nl/store/plugins/crazyrhythm.html

I forgot to re-tune the thing before recording (it was still using the old samplerate tuning words) so it is not tuned to A = 440Hz, but otherwise it is of course IN tune so no difference there :P"

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Korg Kronos demo song 14.9.2017 Ceremony for a King & Soundtrack Strings

Published on Sep 14, 2017 Veli-Matti Rautio

"It was time to made music with my Kronos. This orchestral song was originally composed with Korg Trinity 5.12.1997 in Haapajärvi. Now I arranged it again with Kronos. In this song I used combi sound bank INT-C 090: Ceremony for a King. Karma on, latch on, drum track on, scenes 1 - 5, tempo 66. Nikon D3200 videorecorder. Composed, played live and arranged by me in Studio Tupos: ) Vanhan, lähes 20-vuotiaan biisin kimpussa livenä uudella sovituksella Kronoksen toimiessa äänilähteenä yhden combi soundin voimalla: )"

Korg Kronos song 16.9.2017 Soundtrack strings

Published on Sep 16, 2017 Veli-Matti Rautio

"This orchestral song finished today. I made it about an week and today it was ready to publish: ) Somekind familiarity with Hans Zimmer's soundtracks? Making it with one combi sound I-B 126 Slow Grand Strings. Karma engine on, latch on, drum track on and chord trigger buttons in synth's display active. Scenes 1 - 5 and tempo was 110. This was my first time to made youtube song with Kronos chord trigger buttons: ) Composed, played live and arranged by me in Studio Tupos, videorecorded with Nikon D3200.
Jo toinen orkestraalinen biisi Kronoksella lyhyen ajan sisällä. Toki biisiä oli valmisteltu jo tovi jos toinenkin, mutta tänään se valmistui: ) Taas leffamusaa ilman leffaa, Hans Zimmermäisillä soundeilla oltiin liikkeellä; )"