Make more music with Novation

video upload by Novation

"When you play more, you make more. That’s why every Novation controller is packed with creative tools and features designed both to inspire quick creativity and reward deeper exploration. Plus, each controller includes an inspiring software collection to keep you creating — from instrument and effect plugins to complete digital audio workstations.

This holiday season, you’ll find a rotating selection of deep discounts across the full range. See something you like? Don’t miss out, each deal will only be available for a limited time - https://novationmusic.com/articles/ma..."

What's the best MIDI controller for you and your setup?

video upload by Novation

"Let us help you find the best MIDI controller for your workflow. We’ll walk you through our range of Novation MIDI controllers, showing you what each one does and offers so you can make the right choice for your needs.

When you play more, you make more. That’s why every Novation controller is packed with creative tools and features designed both to inspire quick creativity and reward deeper exploration.

Plus, each controller includes an inspiring software collection to keep you creating — from instrument and effect plugins to complete digital audio workstations.

This holiday season, you’ll find a rotating selection of deep discounts across the full range. See something you like? Don’t miss out, each deal will only be available for a limited time - https://novationmusic.com/articles/ma..."

5 Steps to Take Your Pads From Beginner to Pro

video upload by kleemannbeats

"🎁 Free Patches & Lessons: https://synthskool.com/yt-free

0:13 – Step 1: Oscillators + Pulse Width Modulation
1:09 – Step 2: The Volume Shape (ADSR Explained)
2:50 – Step 3: Filter Envelope + Resonance
5:45 – Step 4: Stereo Movement (Panning LFO + Filter LFO)
6:59 – Step 5: Effects (Chorus + Bright Reverb)"

SDS7 2262 RAMP & PULSE

video uploads by The Simmons Guy

1. Quick demo of Waveform Select Switches set to Ramp waveform
2. Quick demo of Waveform Select Switches set to Pulse Waveform

First Look at OBNE Iota

video upload by Duskmos

"Today I'm pumped to share in the launch day festivities for the Old Blood Noise Endeavors Iota - a pedal shaped synth with big sound and bigger features. Hang out while I go through the controls and then do a play through and exploration!"

00:00 Intro
02:04 Controls
10:49 Sound Demos
23:50 Thoughts

"Iota is a tone generator, which is to say, a synth for your pedalboard. It is designed to make playing easy: regardless of your skill level or familiarity with synthesizers, you’ll quickly be making fun sounds, and running them through all your favorite effects. Pick the character of your sound, some notes, and some parameters for how Iota moves through those notes, then set it in motion. Music theory? Sound design? Fret not, just have some fun!

Iota has:

Presets

Expression control over every knob

MIDI control over everything in the pedal, including tempo via MIDI clock and root note via MIDI notes

Mono or stereo output

Aux footswitch for manual triggering of notes, tap tempo, or preset switching

Controls include:

A bank of 12 pushbuttons to set your root note, scale intervals, or one of 12 onboard presets

Osc, Noise, Octave and Volume to shape the core sound

Rate, Range, and Direction to control the speed, range, and direction Iota moves through its sequence of notes

Skip and Hold to create random or patterned skips within the sequence

Bend, Glide and Swing to add a bit more interest to the way the notes move

Env Length, Shape, and Mix to set the way each note swells in or out

Scramble to shuffle the notes around"

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CROWN — DIY Generative Synth made with Teensy

video upload by PhilStudio

"A 16-minute exploration with CROWN, my homemade Teensy-based generative synthesizer, accompanied by visuals from PHOSPHOR.

🔗 Discover the Crown project: https://philstudio.blog/phil-studio-v...

No talking, no tutorial—just sound, evolving patterns, and a few turns of the knobs.

I built Crown out of a dream to create a musical companion for my guitar jams: something that could suggest ideas, explore different styles, and surprise me with just a handful of controls. Its five Crowns shape different aspects of the music, turning a few simple choices into a wide range of possibilities.

An Arduino Nano handles the knobs, displays, and controls, while a Teensy handles the sequencing, musical logic, and generation of notes and drums. The instrument is still a working prototype, evolving with each experiment.

The visuals come from PHOSPHOR, an audio-reactive app I created specifically for this purpose.

🌐 Explore more inventions, music, and experiments:
https://philstudio.blog"


Crown Synth

An experimental generative synthesizer that creates melodies, rhythms and textures for spontaneous musical exploration.

Overview

I created Crown out of a dream to build a musical companion for my guitar jams—something I could switch on, explore, and play along with. I wanted to make creating music feel intuitive, with just a few controls to shape the sound and discover different musical styles without getting lost in menus or endless settings. That idea became the five Crowns: five distinct musical personalities, each offering a different starting point for improvisation. Crown brings fresh ideas and unexpected turns to a jam, leaving me free to pick up my guitar and follow wherever the music leads.

The Build

Crown is built around two microcontrollers: an Arduino Nano handles the user interface—knobs, displays, controls, and parameter selection—while a Teensy handles the sequencing, musical logic, and generation of notes and drums. This lets the Teensy focus on making music while the Nano keeps everything hands-on and accessible. A future Sampler Extension, based on the Tsunami Super WAV Trigger, will expand Crown’s sound palette with sampled instruments, atmospheric layers, and other recorded sounds.

The Philosophy and why Crown?

I think of the five Crowns as the guiding forces behind the music. Each one is an abstract control that shapes a whole set of musical decisions, letting me explore different styles and moods with just a few gestures. The name comes from that idea of influence: each Crown rules over part of the musical world, and together they give it its character. My goal was to make something I could play by feel, letting a few meaningful choices open the door to unexpected music.

Whispers From The Dark | Dark Ambient Soundscape

video upload by The Pedalboard Orchestra

"Whispers From The Dark

A dark ambient soundscape built around the Synthux Academy Touch 2 (Bass Firmware).

A latched arpeggio from Touch 2 is looped in Pattern Keeper and slowed down and pitched down, creating a dark, mysterious drone underneath. The same arpeggio continues at regular speed, shaped in real time with the filter and modulators of Touch 2, creating an undulating melody of ever-changing rhythmic synth sounds.

The stereo signal then passes through Kinotone Ribbons, Chase Bliss Lossy, Alexander Pedals Forget Me Not and Eventide Space.

🎥 All sounds and visuals by The Pedalboard Orchestra
🔊 Recording & mastering by The Pedalboard Orchestra
🎛️ Created entirely with physical instruments and equipment — no AI
⚠️ This is not a sponsored video — all equipment was personally purchased

🎧 Listen to my music on Bandcamp:
👉 https://thepedalboardorchestra.bandca...

Get newest updates for my music on Instagram:
👉 / the_pedalboard_orchestra"

Rob Papen QUAD-2: Phase Distortion, Waveshaping, Filters, Oh my!

video upload by CatSynth TV

"We present QUAD-2, a powerful software synthesizer from Rob Papen. The heart of QUAD-2 is its oscillators, each of which have a variety of waveforms and versatile phase-direction and waveshaping functions, as well as a variety of cross-modulation options. Along with dual filters with a several different signal configurations and filter modes, and myriad modulation options, it has an almost bewildering number of degrees of freedom. But we break it all down for you in this detailed tutorial to help you understand its features and how to use them in your own sound design.

To find out more, please visit https://www.robpapen.com/Quad-2.html

Please consider supporting this channel to help us bring you more synthesizer tutorials and other content.


Merch: https://shop.catsynth.com
Patreon: / catsynth
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/catsynth

00:00 Introduction
00:20 Overview
01:33 A few factory presets
02:52 Oscillator 1
13:06 Using both oscillators
18:49 The filter section
27:15 The amplifier section
28:34 Effects
32:53 Arpeggiator and sequencer
35:42 More factory presets
41:03 Conclusion"

Tiny Setup, MASSIVE Sound: Jungle with Koala Sampler + Monotron Delay

video upload by Pocket Trax

"Can this tiny setup deliver proper jungle? I guess we’ll find out.

👉 Pocket Jungle Toolkit 2 available on Patreon:
/ pocket-jungle-2-168395255

Koala Sampler meets Monotron Delay! It was about time these two got together for a jungle duet.

I have to say, I’m pretty impressed with Koala. So intuitive, powerful, and most importantly, fun to use. And of course, the Monotron Delay is doing all the heavy lifting, delivering that rawness and epic saturation.

I’m also using breaks from my latest Pocket Jungle Toolkit 2 in this track. The toolkit is available on my Patreon.

Music:
Pocket Trax – 'Excited'

Follow me:
/ pockettrax

#koalasampler #monotron #jungle #junglemusic #electronicmusic"

Plinky 12 Chords: 8 bit Chiptune

video upload by Making Sound Machines

"Channeling her love for chiptune music and 90ies Gameboy soundtracks, Enrica from Making Sound Machines plays a piece reminiscent of a retro 8-bit track on Plink 12 Chords.

The internal sequencer advances through an acidjazz chord progression with programmed harmonic inversions, before Enrica switches to a Piano House-style polyphonic arpeggio.

With her right hand, she plays an expressive melody on the polyphonic play surface. The notes in this view are arranged in a tetrachord layout.

The polyphonic play surface reads both play position and pressure of the touch. It enables bends and glides on the horizontal axis, while allowing for discrete arps in the vertical direction.

All sounds are produced with Plinky 12's internal synth engine.

Plinky 12 is a family of expressive polyphonic synthesizers. The three instruments are built around a shared polyphonic synth engine. Designed by mmalex, it evokes the unmistakable melancholic sounds of the original Plinky.

Each instrument is designed in collaboration with a different synth maker, lending each panel a distinct playability and unique character.

Plinky 12 Chords is a harmonic inspiration machine. It lets you improvise melodies and chords, with expressive control over voicings, progressions, and immediate musical play. Created by Making Sound Machines, Chords is the panel for finding beautiful harmonic movement quickly.

Plinky 12 Toadstep is a 4-track step sequencer built for super funky riffs, experimental self-generative melodies, and good ol' Acid. Created by Toadstool Tech, the designer behind the Ectocore Eurorack module, Toadstep is fun, immediate and easy to jam with!

Plinky 12 Blocks is an open panel built for experimentation, with monome-grid compatibility, Plinky style touch synthesis, and a browser-based coding environment just a click away. While it comes with a fully playable design out of the gate, creator mmalex invites you to build your own adventure with this panel. If you can imagine it, you can make it!"

Assemble an Etches In 10 Minutes - Instruction Video

video upload by Puremagnetik

"In this video, we walk through the complete assembly of a Puremagnetik Etches Kit in about 10 minutes.

We'll cover what's included in the kit, how to attach the components to the circuit boards, how to fasten the boards together, and the final steps to complete your instrument."