How To Destroy Angels - A Drowning YouTube via MickVon666 — May 04, 2010 — "Here it is, Trent Reznor's first musical offering since the end of Nine Inch Nails: How to Destroy Angels' seven-minute downtempo slither "A Drowning". EP is out this summer!"
If you own an Andromeda, give this a try. Via this gearslutz thread where you'll find additional details, via mister bunty on AH:
"For those that asked, here's the thread on gearslutz that explains the waveshaping that happens above level 30.
I know it sounds crazy, but if you keep the levels pre-mix below 30 total (yes, total!) and then the filter/ringmod/postmix levels around 70 at sum, you'll hear a whole new definition.
I tried it on a crappy set of headphones and was amazed. Then, I listened through my bluesky monitors and a set of NS-10s, and couldn't believe the detail I had been missing.
For me, at least, the juice and "vintage-ness" of the Andy was discovered."
"Very powerful way to sequence MS-10 or MS-20. Create unique textures and beats with this. This one requires a 220V. Adapters are cheaply available from Radio Shack or Walmart."
YouTube via DrOctave1 — May 04, 2010 — "a patch i was going back to noodle on that when i powered up with out the oberkorn as the master clock this drone apeared so lovely i had to share. just the modular all alone nothing else enjoy as i did"
"Tags: bubblesound make noise doepfer tiptop audio oberkorn"
Note, this is the first one listed as in stock on the bay. This one is via gearorphanage.
"Mopho Keyboard Monophonic Analog Synthesizer
The Mopho Keyboard is an affordable, full-featured mono synth with a 100% analog audio path. Mopho features 32 full-sized, semi-weighted keys with velocity and aftertouch in a package about the same size as most 25-note controller keyboards. Choose from 384 preset sounds or craft your own with 25 soft-touch knobs and 20 switches.
Mopho features 2 oscillators, 2 sub-octave generators, a classic Curtis low-pass filter (2- or 4-pole), 3 5-stage envelope generators (ADSR plus delay), 4 LFOs, and real analog VCAs. Other features include an arpeggiator, a gated 16 x 4 step sequencer (1 sequence per program), feedback, the ability to process external audio, and an extensive modulation matrix. Tap tempo to beat match or sync the arpeggiator, sequencer, and LFOs to MIDI clock.
Integrate and automate the Mopho Keyboard with your computer and other hardware via standard MIDI jacks or with a direct USB connection. For a ridiculously compact analog poly synth, use the Poly Chain output along with a DSI Tetra to expand Mopho's polyphony.
The Mopho Keyboard delivers the renowned DSI sound in an ultra-portable, feature-rich performance synth.
Features:
· Excellent "bang for the buck": full-featured analog synth at a great price
· Real analog sound
· Immediate, hands-on control of all aspects of the sound and performance
· Extremely compact, but with full-sized keys and wheels
· Couple with DSI Tetra for expanded polyphony
Specs:
Dimensions/Weight-Box: 7.875” x 25.5” x 15.375/13” – 13 lbs (Product inside box)
Dimensions/Weight-Keyboard: 3.35” x 18.65” x 11.1/10” 10 lbs (Product only)"
YouTube via potterpaint2000 — May 04, 2010 — "an improv featuring the VTOL Volfram processed through an Alesi Ineko and Korg MiniKaossPad. Thanks Dima!"
YouTube via GruithuisenCityMan — May 04, 2010 — "Hello ! My name is Frederic Gerchambeau. I have made this movie and this music. The music has been made with Plogue Bidule sequencing a Behringer Bass Synthesizer BSY600. Another Behringer Bass Synthesizer BSY600 is played by hand. The sounds of these 2 Behringer Bass Synthesizer BSY600 has been reintroducted into Plogue Bidule in order to permit to a long delay to be added. The all thing has been made in one take and has been a bit edited with Audacity (compression, short stereo delay and pitch downshifting added). Enjoy !"
"The innovative and flexible architecture of the Nord Modular allows for extensive sound sculpturing. How about a 5-oscillator-per-note synthesizer with 5 LFO’s, two resonant 24 dB/oct low-pass filters with separate envelopes or maybe a fat string sound with 14 oscillators – in stereo. Move your body to a mega fat bass sequence built up with 4 oscillators and a distorted classic analog lowpass filter in combination with a note sequencer module. Or, why not a classic 6 operator FM patch for that “electric” piano sound or a 24 sine wave oscillator patch for additive synthesis.
After you've created a patch using the software you can load it into one of 99 memories within the controller. It can then be used live or in a MIDI studio as a synth module. The simplified controller has a volume knob and 3 other knobs that can be assigned editable parameters. Limited as this might appear, you still get one of the biggest and most powerful modular synthesizer emulator programs in the world. The Micro Modular System is a fraction the cost of the Nord Modular and would be a powerful complement to any serious musicians arsenal.
All your patches can be stored in the Nord Modular synthesizer and recalled later on – also without a computer connected! Stereo analog inputs open up for extensive sound processing possibilities. 16-band vocoding, anyone? Nord Modular has it all. Your imagination is only the beginning... Running Software 3.0, works perfect but there are some small minor scratches to the synth - purely cosmetic."
Two videos in the auction. Both previously posted, but worth posting again.
nordcore #3
YouTube via torxTV — April 24, 2009 — nord micro modular housey jam clavia
Nord Micro Modular
YouTube via Denkitribe — January 08, 2007 — "Nord Micro Modular + Behringer DD100 (Digital Delay)
The Nord Micro Modular is "a somewhat stripped down version of the massive Nord Modular system" (from Vintage Synth Explorer). Clavia has discontinued this product several years ago, and never released a similar product. Thus this red small box has been a very unique product so far.
I love this synth too, but there is only one complaint -- Give me more knobs!!
A simple Demonstration of : Signals OSCs| 32.16.8.4.2 2 OSCs 32.16.8.4.2 and variations 3 OSCs 32.16.8.4.2 and variations Tremolo Signals A lil bit of Detuned OSCs And a lil bit of Unison with tremolo | vibrato - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - In Part 2 i will demonstrate complex sounds combined with Delay,Phaser,Pitch,Chorus Effects. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Description : Electric musical synthesizer Aelita (Murom plant RIP). This monophonic synthesizer with 3 oscillators is a modern musical instrument. If a player uses different musical effects (for example three-part unison, timbral glissando, frequency vibrato, timbre tremolo, decay, attack, strings.) a composition would sound in a new fashion. Sounding may be changed during the playing as well as timbre: special controls are provided for it. There is a possibility to record sounding on a tape during playing composition. This instrument can be successfully used in a variety ensembles. The elegent package made out of aluminium alloy and is covered with artificial leather. It is well protected by the light and firm case.
Аэлита (AELITA) The Queen of Soviet Synths Demo (Part 2)
"Part 2 :
Demonstration of : De-tuned OSCs with chorus A Heart Beat - (hahaha) Delayed 2 OSCs Tremolo Signals with phaser And a lil bit of Unison with tremolo | vibrato (phase - chorus) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - In Part 3 i will demonstrate more complex sounds combined with Delay,Phaser,Pitch,Chorus Effects plus Unison and more Detuned sounds - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Description : Electric musical synthesizer Aelita (Murom plant RIP). This monophonic synthesizer with 3 oscillators is a modern musical instrument. If a player uses different musical effects (for example three-part unison, timbral glissando, frequency vibrato, timbre tremolo, decay, attack, strings.) a composition would sound in a new fashion. Sounding may be changed during the playing as well as timbre: special controls are provided for it. There is a possibility to record sounding on a tape during playing composition. This instrument can be successfully used in a variety ensembles. The elegent package made out of aluminium alloy and is covered with artificial leather. It is well protected by the light and firm case."
via this auction
"This is no MicroWave, no Blofeld, this is THE REAL THING.
All keys, switches, lights and knobs work for 16 voices of lush analog polyphony. Sold with original paper manual, floppy disk of OS 1.700 and 1.680, filters fully re-calibrated before shipping and battery replaced 1 month ago . Only the suspension of the front panel that is not holding the panel anymore, like most of all Waves today, but you can buy one new. Once a known collector said : the WAVE is "The solution to get a DX-7 + a Prophet VS + a Jupiter 8 + a PPG in the same box !" I would say he probably forgot a few others... This is THE ultimate analog polysynth.
"A down tempo patch same as the last i uploaded just slower and more relaxed and recorded better . all modular except the oberkorn as the lead clock and sequencer. i will explain a patch not in full detail but here goes.
oberkorn cva to wallkko anti osc tri out going to 2nd anti osc tri out going to the bubblesound sem/20 filter comeing out the bp to lpg on qmmg then to doepfer 125 pshifter then into delay on the tiptop z5k. bass is doepfer 154/155 going into 141 vcadsr then split to the cv1 of doepfer a110 and to the cutoff on vca on qmmg. snare is a118 doepfer to qmmg vca and a trigger hitting a 141 vcadsr to vary the snare a slight bit with the woggle bug from make noise adding retrigger to the 141. and all the last bit the bass is into the cwejman sph2 and snare into another tiptop z5k. thanks some bubblesound ulfo in there adding odulations here and there"
"Tags: bubblesound doepfer make noise tiptop audio oberkorn analog modular synth noise electronic"
YouTube via rubymatt — May 03, 2010 — "Now optimised to handle up to 64 particles at 50Hz. With 8 voices collisions can trigger one of two samples."
Audio not so good in the previous two vis:
Orbiter: collisions play sampler #2
"rubymatt — April 27, 2010 — Particles now have an "energy level" that is randomly assigned at initialisation time. Brighter particles have more energy. When particles collide they trigger a slice of the sample to play (the sample is divided into a number slices equal to the number of particles) based on their particle numbers. Pitch is related to Y position, Granularity to X, Speed & amplitude to the collision energy. It's all still captain random and, maybe, will never amount to much but it's been interesting getting this far and nice to hear *something* for my (quite disproportionate) efforts!"
Orbiter: collisions driving sampler
"rubymatt — April 26, 2010 — When two particles collide it now triggers the sampler. The collision parameters (and particle data) determine the resynthesis parameters. Lots of work to do here. Spectular: YouTube have stripped the audio channel from my video again leaving only the mic audio. Useless."
Update:
TMA-2: Energy to velocity
rubymatt — May 04, 2010 — "This thing doesn't get any less silly.
In the latest version particle energy now determines particle speed (brighter particles have more energy and move faster). At this point the only thing left to fix in the basic model is the result of collisions. At the moment only one particle is redirected.
It's not apparent from the video but I also spent quite some time doing further CPU optimisations to make 64 particles feasible. In the previous version I was still getting audio overloads. Even then though I have had to drop the update frequency to 25Hz.
Once the base model is complete the next thing to add is a gravity well that you can place in the vessel to deform the trajectory of particles. Since the X,Y co-ordinates of a collision determine the pitch and granularity of the sample playback this will offer a means to 'shape' the sound without directly controlling it.
A future version of the Reaktor ensemble (tentatively called TMA-2 at this point) will drive an additive oscillator bank instead of a sampler. That might prove more musical. Or not..."