How "Kalimba of Doom" was made

video upload by HAINBACH

"I recently made a little 20 second clip showing the "Kalimba of Doom" patch I had setup on my TTSH and resonators. This gathered over 850000 views across platforms, and many questions came in about how I made this. So here is the sound design how to. Check out my Patreon for the sample pack: / hainbach"

00:00 Intro
01:48 History & Inside Look
04:18 Sample instrument
05:08 Function Overview
12:38 Chiptune Break
13:42 What makes it good?
17:15 The Future of TI?

Kalimba of Doom

video upload by HAINBACH

MetaModule Tutorials: The Voice of R2D2 Patch

video upload by 4ms Company

"Patch notes available here: https://forum.4ms.info/t/the-voice-of..."

Vintage ARP Odyssey Mk I White 2800 Analog Synthesizer Keyboard

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via this eBay listing

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ARP 2600/3620 Duophonic Keyboard. Semi-Modular Analog Synth

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via this eBay listing

"The ARP 2600/3620 Duophonic Keyboard is a vintage original semi-modular analog synth produced by ARP. With 49 keys and a semi-modular design, this synthesizer offers a unique blend of analog sound and modular functionality. It features input/output ports including CV out, trig in, CV in, gate out, gate in, and trig out, allowing for versatile connectivity with other musical equipment. The ARP 2600 also boasts pedal inputs, faders, built-in effects, and speakers, making it a versatile and powerful tool for creating a wide range of sounds and music compositions. Made in the United States, this classic synthesizer is still highly sought after by musicians and producers looking to add its distinctive sound to their work."

Pic of the inside below.

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The importance of MIDI timing. Akai MPC swing. Any why GridLock II rocks.

video upload by rozz3r

"Alternative title: Innerclock Systems GridLock II is the best MIDI interface on the planet. Here's why."

https://innerclocksystems.com/gridloc...

#innerclock #gridlockii #akai

ESK - ARP Odyssey and Qantec Reverb

video upload by Metunar

"Jam with a Korg ARP Odyssey FS synthesizer and a Qantec Yardstick 2402/F reverb effect.
Direct recording with soft mastering."

http://www.metunar.ch

2600: A 365 Day Synthesizer Patch Diary

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"Patch book for the Arp 2600 analog modular synthesizer. Use it to simply keep track of your favorite patches, or take the DIARY challenge and make a new patch everyday for a year! Track your synth programming progress with this handy digest sized book.

Works with modern clones by Korg and others. Korg additional features are included in grey with a (K). Also includes 3620 keyboard patch sheet."

Also see ODDY: A 365 Day Synthesizer Patch Diary

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🎹 🤿Arp 2500 - "Deep Dive" into the 1047 Multimode Filter/Resonator #synth #arp2500 #filter #music

video upload by Ian Nieman

"Contents :

00:00 Intro
00:35 Keyboard Percussion Overview
01:04 Sequencer Starts
06:08 Low Pass Filter
07:10 High Pass Filter
08:16 Notch Filter
09:05 Envelope Modulation
12:30 Filter Bypassed
12:410 Filter Engaged
14:40 Band Pass Filter
16:25 Different VCO Waveforms
16:56 Roland TB-303?
18:48 Outro

Hey Guys! We are back with a new DEEP DIVE into the Arp 2500 - 1047 Multimode Filter/Resonator created by Dennis Colin in 1971."

03.10.2026 Mos-lab 2500 - Short and simple

video upload by batchas

"2 short arpeggio sequences in parallel for a very short session with the 2500.
Coming back to the studio after a while."

ARP Odyssey 2813 - ORIGINAL - Made in the USA - Pro-Serviced w/Restoration

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Additional Analog U.S. Listings

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Arp Avatar Repair

video upload by Really Nice Audio

"You must check out Alex balls superb video demonstrating the true power of this Arp Avatar" [watch it here]

ODDY: A 365 Day Synthesizer Patch Diary

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via this eBay listing

"Patch book for the Arp Odyssey analog synthesizer. Use it to simply keep track of your favorite patches, or take the DIARY challenge and make a new patch everyday for a year! Track your synth programming progress with this handy digest sized book. Works with modern clones by Korg and others. Korg additional features are included in grey with a (K)."

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Mad Science Lab - Tom's Big O's

video upload by Mad Science Lab

"This Oberheim was custom built for Ronnie Montrose around 1980 and used by him until the early 1990's. This synthesizer has some great sounding Synthesizer Expander Modules. In this video, the two sequencers are driving all four SEM units. I am stepping through the sequencer steps with a foot switch plugged into the step input on the patch panel A. Recorded direct off mixer no effects, compression or eq.
#synthesizer #oberheim"

And one with the "The Wizard - E-Mu Systems Modular Synth":

Mad Science Lab - TechnoSaurus LIVES (2026 Live in Studio)

video upload by Mad Science Lab

"Two 1970's Synths and a Drum Machine in the Mad Science Lab Studio.
A E-Mu Systems Modular Analog Synthesizer is used to play 3 voices, and an Arp-2600 plays another voice along with an XBASE 999 Analog Drum Machine. Recorded direct off mixer into an iPad.

More Music Here - https://madsciencelab.com
INFO on this E-mu Modular Here - https://siliconbreakdown.com/wizard-s..."

Side note: the first post to feature Mad Science Lab was back in 2007 here.

06.10.2025 Mos-Lab 2500 [02]

video upload by batchas

Eliane Radigue Has Passed Away

Eliane Radigue - IMA Portrait documentary video upload by straypixel

Pictured: 1st image of Eliane Radigue on Discogs

Video description:

"Eliane Radigue

Her life journey has been remarkable. At the end of the fifties, she studied in Paris with musique concrète pioneers Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, whom she also assisted, notably for the premiere of L'Apocalypse de Jean. During the sixties she began composing with primitive electronics (feedback and asynchronous tape loops), but found little recognition for her research in France.

In New York in the early seventies, she found understanding and emulation, exploring emerging minimalism with James Tenney, Charlemagne Palestine, Phillip Glass, John Gibson, and Steve Reich. Her absolute allegiance to electronic sounds began during this period. Since then she has composed on the best synthesizers of the time: Buchla, Moog, Serge, and then ARP, which would become her fetish instrument. She collaborated with Robert Ashley, who sang on Les Chants de Milarepa. She has composed about two dozen works, which she has presented and continues to present at numerous prestigious venues and festivals in the United States and Europe.

In 2004, upon Kasper Toeplitz´s request, she started instrumental compositions for one or more performers, with whom she works in a close collaboration during the compositional process. This work gets quickly focused on pure acoustic sounds, in an incredibly delicate timbral way, which extends, without aesthetic rupture, her electronic work. Notably between 2004 and 2009, she completed a cycle in three parts 'Naldjorlak', for Charles Curtis on cello, Carol Robinson and Bruno Martinez on basset horns. She has now stopped her electronic work."

Emmanuel Holterbach (Translation Leslie Stuck)"


The following is a collection of some of her works:



Playlist:

1. Eliane Radigue | Feedback Works 1969-1970 [2012, Full Album]
2. Éliane Radigue - Opus 17 (1969) (Full Album)
3. Eliane Radigue – Vice - Versa, Etc (1970) (Drone / Experimental) [Full Album]
4. Eliane Radigue ‎– Chry-ptus (1971) (Drone / Experimental) [Full Album]
5. Eliane Radigue - Biogenesis, 1973
6. Eliane Radigue - Arthesis, 1973
7. Eliane Radigue - Songs Of Milarepa (1983) / Drone / [Tibetan Buddhist influence]
8. ELIANE RADIGUE : "Jetsun Mila" - 1986 [Tibetan Buddhist influence]
9. OCCAM DELTA XIII - Eliane Radigue

"In Buddhism, the number 9 signifies spiritual completion, ultimate enlightenment, and the highest level of consciousness (the ninth consciousness, or Buddha nature). It represents the culmination of the path to Nirvana, the 9 virtues of the Buddha, and is often associated with auspiciousness, progress, and the 9 states of delusion (nine worlds)."

Some history on Eliane Radigue via Wikipidia:

"Radigue was born in a modest family of merchants and raised in Paris at Les Halles.[5] She later married the French-born American artist Arman with whom she lived in Nice while raising their three children, before returning to Paris in 1967. She had studied piano and was already composing before hearing a broadcast by the founder of musique concrète Pierre Schaeffer. She soon met him, and in the early '50s became his student, working periodically at the Studio d'Essai during visits to Paris. In the early 1960s, she was assistant to Pierre Henry, creating some of the sounds which appeared in his works.[6] As her own work matured, Schaeffer and Henry felt that her use of microphone feedback and long tape loops (as heard in Vice-Versa and Feedback Works 1969-1970) was moving away from their ideals, though her practice was still related to their methods.

Radigue's death was announced on February 24, 2026. Her cause of death was not stated.[7][8]

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ArpoLoop at the Peppo Lab #4 - Extended Textures #arpoloop

video upload by LepLoop

"Day 4 of 7: Extended Textures
Some videos to test the Arpoloop sonic territories. No external effects, audio straight from the synth—just raw analog synthesis and internal sequencing. Exploring patches, modulation, and rhythmic shifts.

https://www.leploop.org/2024/05/14/th...
#dawless #analogsynth #peppolab"

RetroSound Studio Tour: Analog Polyphonic Synthesizers

video upload by RetroSound

"RetroSound Studio Tour
Classic Analog Polyphonic Synthesizers from the 1970s and 1980s

In this episode of RetroSound Studio Tour, I explore the sound, design, and history of legendary analog polyphonic synthesizers from the golden era of electronic music. These vintage poly synths defined the lush pads, warm brass sounds, and cinematic textures heard in synth-pop, progressive rock, disco, film scores, and early electronic music.

This studio tour focuses on true analog polyphonic instruments featuring multiple voices, voltage-controlled oscillators , classic analog filters , and rich modulation systems. Unlike monophonic synths, polyphonic synthesizers allow full chords and layered harmonic textures — making them essential in 1970s and 1980s music production.

In this RetroSound Studio tour, you’ll discover:
0:07 Roland Jupiter-4
5:54 Roland Juno-60
9:49 Roland Juno-106
14:10 Roland Alpha Juno 2
15:42 Roland JX-3P
18:21 Roland JX-8P
21:28 Korg Polysix
24:48 Korg Mono/Poly
26:59 Oberheim OB-X
32:32 Oberheim OB-Xa
35:35 ARP Quadra
37:11 Sequential Prophet-600
39:48 Tiracon 6V
41:56 Oberheim Matrix-1000

Full Studio Tour playlist:"

2/15/26 ARP 1613 + Roland System 100m + Alesis MIDIVERB II + CXM 1978

video upload by Cfpp0

"We recently traded an ARP 1623 for a freshly serviced 1613 and this video was a first test. ARP 1613 Quantized output A controls one Roland 110 VCO and quantized output B controls another. Gate Bus 1 controls a 140 envelope, which controls both 110 VCAs. The ARP 1613 also modulates the 110 VCFs, as do two LFOs. Anyways, I like the look of the ARP 1623 much better, but the Roland System 100m won the post-Pandemic format wars here and the 1613 looks most excellent with the 100m. Plus the big wooden end cheeks on the 1613 allow you to position the 1613 vertically (if you’re careful). Last year we got a great deal on a 182 sequencer for the 100m, with another 191j and another 150, so now we have six 191j cabinets (actually, one is by e-licktronic). They’ve been stacked in two sets of three and are topped with two ARP 1613 sequencers. It’s pretty luxurious. Or, as YLF says, Imperial.

We also moved the Blueberry 5200 (two clones of the ARP 2600 Blue Marvin by Behringer) and two DeltaLab Effectron II BBD delays next to the System 100m and 1613s, creating another angle in the octagon. A Mazzatron Eurorack patch bay interfaces the Effectron II delays and connects the wing to the Addac x911 bays."

Arp 2500 - Overview

video upload by Ian Nieman

Self Playing Patches by BENGE

video upload by Memetune Studio

"This series of studies explores an idea that Benge has been working on over the past year or so, namely that of Cybersynthesis. This involves programming self-contained patches on various modular systems which, once set in motion, will produce dynamic, evolving soundscapes, sometimes purely abstract in nature, at other times veering towards the more melodious

Many different methods were deployed in the patches, depending on the system being used, but normally multiple sequencer and switching devices were combined to give varying degrees of control over long time periods, often without repetition

Other things like random control signals and semi-random events were combined with the sequencers and switching units to bring variation to the performances the machines were making

The key idea at the heart of Cybernetics is the concept of bringing control to chaotic processes. To do this, some kind of feedback loop would ideally be established that can monitor and limit events that might otherwise spin out of control. The Serge and Modcan systems featured here each have various comparator circuits that can, to a certain extent, achieve this highly advanced synthesis feature

In the absence of such sensor paths, it is sometimes possible to use audio or voltage mixers and feedback chains to set various parameters to be on the very edge of chaotic behaviour, an approach used in many of the patches on display here

Other techniques such as the quantisation of voltages and the forcing of notes to play within certain predetermined musical scales were also employed in some of the pieces, which is another way of taming chaotic elements into into a more musical realm

Overall, a wholly experimental approach was applied to the various setups, with the intention of providing an insight into how these machines can behave. Of course, each system has an almost limitless depth to the complexity of patches available, and each track on the album provides just a single snapshot of each instrument used. But hopefully it provides an interesting glimpse into the wonders that these self-playing systems can achieve

Tracklist:

01 - Buchla 100 and EMS VCS3
02 - Serge Paperface
03 - Modcan A-Series
04 - ARP 2500
05 - Buchla 200 and DK Synergy
06 - Serge and LW Comparator
07 - Moog Modular 3C
08 - Roland Discrete System
09 - Buchla 200

MORE INFO HERE:
https://modular-station.com/modulisme...



Synthesiser programming and recording, design and concept: Benge (B D Edwards)

Made at Memetune Studios, England

(c)+(p) 2025 Memetune Recordings

Special thanks to Philippe Petit at Modulisme (modular-station.com/modulisme) for his continued support"