Hordijk Strata

Published on Jan 1, 2016 Todd Barton

"exploring a very simple patch which unfolds into a kaleidoscopic spectrum of timbres. better audio here:"

E950 Noise In My Head (there's lots of it...)

"First tests with my final production E950. Loads more options and sonic possibilities over the proto version. Love it!"

Complications by Jame Becker on the DSI Prophet 12

"Composed entirely with DSI Prophet 12 synthesizer, except drums. Processed with OTO BIM and Strymon Bigsky."

Beautiful track.

New MonoPolyism

"A backing track made with the KORG MonoPoly"

Update: better sound quality https://carrier.bandcamp.com/track/new-monopolyism

SH-101 Business & dyLAB + Acid Pattern Post Christmas Sale

via Dylan Davis: "I'm having a post christmas sale on my bandcamp sites

All my releases and all my sample packs 606, 707, 808, TB303, D110 & PC2 and all my albums all for less than $15.
https://dylab.bandcamp.com/

The big big big acid pattern sale
all 25 of the monthly acid pattern compilations for £7.57
https://acidpattern.bandcamp.com

these sales will run until 1st Jan 2016"

Schmidt synth custom programmed sounds by Subgroundtechnology

"Recorded on Fairlight Xynergi,no EQ, FX or any post processing except normalizing of the levels."

Winter Wonderland

Published on Dec 24, 2015 Acky Channel

"Play with KORG Gadget"

iTunes: KORG Gadget for iPad - KORG INC.

Kawai K5m Digital Synthesizer Demo

Published on Dec 21, 2015 Cloudwalk Music

"The Kawai K5 is a digital synthesizer that uses additive synthesis to create tones. The K5 was first released in 1987. Unfortunately, probably because of new ROMpler workstations like the Korg M1 and Roland D-50, the Kawai K5 was quickly forgotten.
In the demo, you'll see and hear the Kawai K5m, which is the rack mount module version.

The K5 creates tones via additive synthesis. Users can manipulate up to 128 individual harmonics. Programming it can seem complicated at first, but there are some shortcuts to working with it.

All of the original sound presets for the factory bank and the external card banks are still available from Kawai for free download.
For more information on the Kawai K5, this is a great resource:
www.kfuenf.org"

JX - 3P - Antarctica

"Inspired by John Carpenter's "The Thing".

Six tracks from a Roland JX-3P, delay from a BOSS BR-600, plus reverb (Klangfalter) in the DAW.

Image by Eli Duke, CC BY-SA 2.0, www.flickr.com/photos/elisfanclub/4543702831"

REDSquare.wave Mitosis

".... an accidental mistakenly recorded happening of a DSI Pro 2.

This has become a nightly occurance - this instrument is the definition of both a player's synth & an infinite resource of sound mutations with the ability to route any parameter to another,..... it's truly the greatest monosynth in existence."

Hordijk System Sonic Slalom

"So . . . I just got a beautiful used Rob Hordijk Modular Synth System a few days ago. It is amazingly responsive and turns on a dime! Hope you enjoy the ride. This is a live improvisation, no edits."

Chippie461 Christmas 2015

Published on Dec 19, 2015 chippie461

soundmachines DC1drumcomputer Demo

soundmachines DC1drumcomputer triggering tiptop drums, plus a couple of "melodic" module chains.

31 October Recordings (rough ideas) with the Tempest

"i've been tracking my material from the tempest so you can get a better idea where it can be taken"

Roland Boutique JP-08 Demo - Discovery One - By PolyEvolver

"Hi Folks, I made this track to demo the new Roland Boutique Jupiter JP-08 Synthesizer. All but the 1 Acoustic Guitar track (NI Strummed Acoustic), The Piano ( Roland FA06) and Drums (LPX Drummer), are sounds straight from eh JP-08 or That I made on it, nothing more. I felt this track required the extras like guitar and piano but what you get here is a diverse range of sounds and feel for the instrument. There's 14 tracks of Jupiter in there so plenty to pick out, enjoy."

System-1M coded glitch-out

Using Tidal to control the Roland System-1m

"All params on the Roland System-1M being automated simultaneously from Tidal, plus live-patching on its modular jacks."

Full details on Audio Cookbook including the source code used to control the System-1m here.

OTO Machines BAM Room Demo

"BAM has 7 reverb algorithms (Room, Hall, Plate, Ambient, Chorus, Gated and Primitive).
You can hear different settings of the Room algorithm."

Follow-up to OTO Machines BAM Ambient Demo

Quincas Moreira's Songs From Outer Space - Synth Album to Benefit Ray Wilson

"Synth DiY is a passion, and Ray Wilson's Music From Outer Space is more than a website, it is home sweet home to those of us who yearn for the music of the spheres. All the sounds in this album were made with the MFOS Soundlab MKii synthesizer, a truly inspiring instrument by Ray. All proceeds from sales of this album will be forwarded to Ray in order to help with his medical expenses for as long as his health requires it. [see this post for details]

released December 15, 2015

All sound design, composition, production, arranging, performance, recording, mixing and mastering by Quincas Moreira.

Album Art by Ted Stall

Soundlab MKii Synthesizer designed by Ray Wilson and built by Quincas Moreira."

the turning point

All Yamaha FS1r, 8 voices.

Update: track notes:

"Looking back at '15, I find it hard to believe that I've spent over 6mths analysing ONE 16-note arp!!!

It took me quite a while to understand the shape of the arp, by stretching it, compressing it, inverting it etc using only an event-list editor. Things started to click when I began to separate out the frequencies in the arp and assign them to different voices. The rhythms that already existed in the arp, became better defined.

I used the matrixsynth fs1r editor [here] to create some of the envelopes. There's no patch library feature on this app yet, so there was still a vast amount of buttonwork on the synths - yes, I used a pair of fsir modules and a QY700, nothing else whatsoever apart from the amp and monitors.

Being limited to 8 voices was a real challenge. We know that two oscillators produce a more complex sound than one, and I upped this massively by allowing 2 voices for the pad. The sub-bassline and the kick drum take up another 2, so that's one machine used up already, meaning that I only had 4 voices for everything else.

The levels of complexity needed in a sound, to make it interesting, should also not be underestimated, and required efficient use of fseq, lfo, and fx assignments. There's no cc happening, variation was produced using lfo to freq mod, amp mod, filter mod, and for the drum tracks, 32quantise against 16accent up, which are preset templates on the QY700."

ROLAND TR-77 Analog Rhythm Box 1973 | HD DEMO |

Published on Dec 13, 2015 AnalogAudio1

"(c) 2015 by AnalogAudio1

The Roland Rhythm 77 (exact model name: TR-77) is a non programmable analog rhythm box. It is the predecessor of the Roland CR series, some drum sounds are quite similar. All rhythms are mixable. Volume sliders for BASSDRUM, SNARE, GUIRO, MARACAS/HIHAT/CYMBAL allow more variety of the patterns. The TR-77 has that classic Roland analog sound. Roland choosed the flat design to fit on top of organs.

I played the TR-77 with a small amout of ambience from a Lexicon MPX-500. Beginning at 4:10 and in the intro I played the TR-77 through a Korg SDD-3000 delay."