Bastl SoftPop 2 - Pop or Pixel?!

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00:00 Intro
01:13 Basic architecture
04:19 The "Sequencer"
05:47 Weirder sound features
07:49 It's a jam machine w/ Elektron AR MkII
11:17 More jam and more patching
13:03 More on the cycling envelope
15:01 Trying toi make softer sounds
17:20 It's also a CV controled "FX pedal"
20:39 FX + synth at the same time
22:40 It can also bubble on it's own!
23:32 End talk

SOFTPOP SPII Tutorial - Triggered Pitch

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"This feature is definitely one of the most overlooked features of the new digital FW we released some time ago!"

Eurorack setup is close to final form #5

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"Lonely hight note: Softpop2 to WMD orion (phaser) to typhoon
Arp : plinky
low: Grendel Drone commander 2
voice: 2hploop to Warp vocodeur
drum&sample&glitch :LD3
mixing/compresion: eurorack & LD3
all in htis to OTO bim and bam

Thank you for watching.
My name is Meska of the statik collective . I've been making mostly 'dark and expérimental' music for more than ten years now, i'v learn so much online, now it's time for me to share my knoledge, my exploration and this channel is a place to talk about the tools, sound design and techniques to make music with.

You can stream my albums and EPs at https://statikwave.bandcamp.com/

If you'd like to support the channel​ consider buying music from bandcamp ;)"

SOFTPOP SPII - Playmodes Tutorial

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"Play modes are one of the most underrated features on any sequencer but it can be super handy to mess with them. Have a look what you can do with them on your SOFTPOP SPII"

Catching up with BASTL (Basil Bestie Aikido) Superbooth 2023

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Superbooth 2023: Bastl Basil

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"Bastl launch their new Basil stereo delay.

Basil is a compact, yet flexible, digital stereo delay module built on the Bastl Pizza platform. It offers clean delay, as well as lo-fi flavors, and its Space section opens the doors to exploration far beyond simple delay territory. The Basil delay buffer modulates really well, allowing to recreate most classic time-based effects, such as chorus, flanger, vibrato, pitch shifter, reverb, and stereo widener, among others, and navigate between them with just a few performative gestures."

Superbooth 2023: Bastl - BASIL

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"At Superbooth 2023, we caught up with Vaclav from Bastl Instruments, who was showcasing the company's new delay module BASIL. BASIL is a compact, modulatable 8HP stereo delay with stereo input and output. Modulation can achieve chorus and flanger effects and also modulates well with ramps for pitch shifting, reversing and more. It has a dry/wet fader, feedback which is bipolar, and when modulated with bipolar CVs, it can get narrow or wide feedback. It also has a time knob with a button that allows users to flip stereo detune between left and right channel. Additionally, BASIL has a space section with various features including blur for diffusion, filter, and multi-taps. The space section also has a compressor in the feedback path, so it never gets out of control when feedback is cranked. BASIL is available now for €267 without tax, and Bastl Instruments is shipping in three weeks from early June.

BASIL Available to pre order now, shipping Early June 2023.

Price: €267 plus VAT

https://bastl-instruments.com/"

Meet Bastl's BASIL - Unique Yet Flexible Stereo Space Delay

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"Basil is a compact, yet flexible, digital stereo delay module built on the Bastl Pizza platform. It offers clean delay, as well as lo-fi flavors, and its Space section opens the doors to exploration far beyond simple delay territory. The Basil delay buffer modulates really well, allowing to recreate most classic time-based effects, such as chorus, flanger, vibrato, pitch shifter, reverb, and stereo widener, among others, and navigate between them with just a few performative gestures."

How to Install Basil FW to PIZZA

"This video will show you how to install an alternative FW to your PIZZA.
This way you can demo our new Basil Flexible Stereo Delay."



We are thrilled to showcase our latest innovation, Basil, at Superbooth 2023 (booth 0400). Basil is a flexible delay module that offers endless possibilities for creative exploration. Additionally, we will be displaying our new 4-channel dynamic VCA mixer, Aikido, and 5-channel desktop stereo mixer, Bestie, both of which were released earlier this year. We will be also featuring the new facelift of our best-seller granular sampler, Microgranny Monolith. If you wish to reserve a slot at our booth for filming/interview/chat, please put your name in this table.

Basil is a compact, yet flexible, digital stereo delay module built on the Bastl Pizza HW platform. It offers clean delay, as well as lo-fi flavors, and its Space section opens the doors for exploration far beyond simple delay territory. The Basil delay buffer modulates really well, allowing to recreate most classic time-based effects, such as chorus, flanger, vibrato, pitch shifter, reverb, and stereo widener, among others, and navigate between them with just a few performative gestures. Basil is ideal for clean effects, ambient washes, glitchy sound design, or distorted drones. With its V/Oct input, fine delay tuning, and filter in the feedback path, it can also be effectively used as part of a Karplus-Strong synthesis voice. Even the feedback amount is compensated with the shortest delay times to maintain constant decay characteristics when changing pitch.

To enhance your experience with the product release, we have produced a mesmerizing short film that dives into the themes of time, transformation, feedback and states of consciousness altered via time-based effects. The animation for this film was crafted by Pipe & Pallet, with an accompanying soundtrack by Oliver Torr.

Since Basil is based on the same 8HP HW platform as the Pizza oscillator, owners of either module can easily interchange their firmware using the simple firmware update procedure. We will not be selling extra faceplates, but we will open-source the production and vector files for all the modules based on the Bastl Pizza platform. After some refinement, we plan to open-source both the code and the schematics of the module so that users can hack their own Pizzas.

Basil is available to order now via our B-Shop or our dealer network. Shipping early-mid June 2023

Priced at 267 Eur excl. VAT

More on Basil

Basil delay time features stereo spread and fine-tune components, and can be synchronized to the clock via the Sync jack. The feedback knob has two sides - simple feedback and ping pong mode, where the Left and Right channels cross-feedback.

The Space section brings a variety of flavors to the table! The Blur function provides two ways to diffuse the delay – either directly or in the feedback path, tilting the Basil delay towards the realm of experimental reverb machines. The feedback Filter offers low-pass and high-pass modes that can make the sound brighter or darker. Taps are multi-taps with either odd or even spacing, adding density to your delays and reverbs.

The assignable CTRL knob and CV allow you to modulate any of the many parameters (time, stereo, fine, dry/wet, feedback, speed, freeze, lo-fi, blur, filter, and taps) and tailor the Basil delay to your preferred use.

The Speed section allows for longer delay times by running the buffer at half speed or – in the extended range – at quarter and eighth speeds. This approach creates octave jumps, ensuring the delays remain in tune with your material. It is also great for creating drone layers. Because the sample rate goes very low at lower speeds, Basil brings in a low-pass anti-aliasing filter that removes high frequencies. However, you can also turn the filter off with the LO-FI setting and enjoy some downsampled goodness at lower speeds.

The Freeze function treats the delay buffer as a read-only sample loop that can be layered with the incoming signal. You can sync it and use all the other modifications with it as well.

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Soft pop 2 hack point exploration

video upload by Meska

"If you allready open the Soft pop 2 for using the digital oscilator, you came across the soft pop2 hackpoint on the PCB

you can disable some normalisation if needed, or make some new one, but more important you can use the 4 mult for new input and output , have FUN

Thank you fwor watching.
My name is Meska of the statik collective . I've been making mostly 'dark and expérimental' music for more than ten years now, i'v learn so much online, now it's time for me to share my knoledge, my exploration and this channel is a place to talk about the tools, sound design and techniques to make music with.
i'm tattooist at day jobs and you can found my work here : www.meska.fr

You can stream my albums and EPs at https://statikwave.bandcamp.com/

If you'd like to support the channel​ consider buying music from bandcamp ;)"

Orange BASTL Instruments MicroGranny 2 Monophonic Granular Sampler w/ Clear Davies Knobs

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"Excellent condition, upgraded with clear Davies knobs added for better playability. The randomization feature makes this little box from the Czech Republic an amazingly playable device."

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A few jams with the Bastl Bestie - no talk

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"More infos & affiliate links in the description // Support on Patreon to get samples from this session: https://www.patreon.com/join/stazma

I decided to compile the noisy jams I made in my demo video of the Bastl Bestie, for people who just want to hear things going through it, with no talking.

Have fun!"

Stereo Distortion in The Hands of Professional

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"You can go far with just a simple setup like this one."

10 Minutes of PATCH TIPS goodness with SOFTPOP SPII

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"Our fan-favorite Vaclav will take you on a journey through everything he knows (and he knows everything! He co-invented the bloody thing!) about how to patch Softpop SPII.

After you will watch this video you will be much better at patching your Softpop, you will be happier, you will make better music just because of your mental well-being, you will be smiling more, and you will find the lover of your life and you will move to countryside live your quiet life with hens and a dog named Pišťula"

Eurorack setup is close to final form #4

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"Arp : Softpop2 to WMD orion (phaser)
Chord : plinky to typhoon for spectral chord
low: Grendel Drone commander 2
drum&sample&glitch :LD3
mixing/compresion: eurorack & LD3
all in htis to OTO bim and bam

Thank you for watching.
My name is Meska of the statik collective . I've been making mostly "dark and expérimental" music for more than ten years now, i'v learn so much online, now it's time for me to share my knoledge, my exploration and this channel is a place to talk about the tools, sound design and techniques to make music with.

You can stream my albums and EPs at https://statikwave.bandcamp.com/

If you'd like to support the channel​ consider buying music from bandcamp ;)"

Make SPII Sound Totally Different

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"In this one Vaclav will show you one of his favorite patches you can make on Softpop SPII."

BASTL Introduces the Bestie Stereo Mixer

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Follow-up to Bastl Discontinues the Dude

"We are excited to announce our new portable 5-channel stereo mixer Bestie. It is a re-imagination of our popular mixer Dude (released in May 2017), but this time for flexible stereo connectivity and with portable USB-powered setups in mind. But it comes with a twist! We are not new to mixer feedback and distortion so channel 3 on the Bestie is pre-routed as a feedback channel for that extra dirt and distortion. Without the feedback, Bestie is a very clean mixer with a clean boost with up to +20dB per channel and well-crafted saturation characteristics."

Playlist:
Bestie The Stereo Mixer
Bestie in Battery Powered Ambient Setup
Bestie in The Wide Mix
Colour Your Cold Digital Synths With Bestie

Baslt Bestie - A mixer that make noises / no input mixing made easier

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00:00 Intro
01:28 How does a 808 beat sound through it w/ System80 880
02:40 A first look at feedback
04:28 It's stereo!
06:52 How to Feedback / "No Input Mixing"
09:15 Mixing a few instruments w/ Softpop 2
11:53 More mixing and more feedback / Moog MuRF
16:17 The Drone Show!
19:00 The Harsh Noise Show!
20:39 End talk
21:00 Drone meditation jam



Bastl brings us the Bestie, a spiritual successor to their Dude mixer, but this time with a built-in feedback loop and, surely to the delight of many, five channels of stereo operation. Housed in a metal casing, the Bestie is ready for touring, live performance, and with the option to be battery powered, this is one of the best options for recording your outdoor sessions. With the same saturated sound that made the Dude beloved, the Bestie can drive your signal hard and to take that one step further, leave the third channel open and your entire mix will feedback into itself for wild noisy sounds.

In fact, you don't even need to plug any input into the Bestie: create multiple feedback loops with external effects and use the third channel level control to bring in self-oscillating sounds. While it's easy to get over-saturated sounds, the Bestie is also equipped with low-noise preamps letting you use this as a wonderful standard mixer with ease. Each channel can use stereo inputs with channels 1 and 5 having two mono 3.5mm TS inputs and the other using 3.5mm TRS inputs. Along with that, a dedicated headphone output with a pre/post mute option lets you use this as a great live mixer with a cue output if desired. Bastl's Bestie might become your next bestie with its compact size, great size, and creative options.

BESTIE FEATURES

5-channel stereo mixer
Built-in feedback path via channel 3 for no input mixing
Low-noise preamps with overdrive characteristics when pushed
Mute switches for each channel
Headphone output with pre/post mute switch
Up to 20dB of boost per channel
Metal casing
USB-C and AA battery powered

Edit Scales Like a Pro on Softpop SPII

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"Are you ready to unleash your inner rockstar? Our SPII's editing scales feature will have you shredding like a pro in no time! Say goodbye to boring, repetitive chords and hello to beautiful, awe-inspiring progressions. Get ready to get your hands dirty as you master the art of music creation. Who knows, with the SPII, you might just become the next Mozart (or at least the next Weird Al Yankovic)!"

Bastl Drum Kastle - Eurorack version(s)

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"Bastl created the Drum Kastle as an offshoot of the Kastle portable sound maker. It's now available in Eurorack by a couple makers who've adapted it for the 3U format, with appropriate cv controls.

I was curious to see if there was much sound difference between the two, given they're working from the same basic circuit design. There are a few differences, but do they radically change the experience? Inquiring minds want to know.

No other modules involved. Just Kastles.

00:00 Intro
00:20 Drum Kastle
12:48 Rythm Lab"

Sequencing Made Differently -SOFTPOP SPII // TUTORIAL

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"Václav will show you the deeper meaning of the SPII sequencer in all its glory. Why it is a songwriter's synths and why is there anything like it on the market."

Bastl Instruments SPII Digital Waveforms - Guided Tour

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"SOFTPOP SPII is a powerful synthesizer in a compact form factor. With our latest firmware upgrade, we've revolutionized how waveforms are created and what you can do with them. Our lead developer, who came up with the concept for SOFTPOP SPII, will guide you through the intricacies of the eight different waveforms that we've included in this impressive instrument."