SYNTAKT & ANALOGRYTM & BLOFELD & AS1 - SiMusicWorks

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"ELEKTRON + WALDORF + PIONEERDJ GEAR..
♪: DuNE / REC : JULY 2024.. / SiMusicWorks.."

Note the Toraiz was a joint Dave Smith Instruments & Pioneer Dj design.

DSI Prophet 08 soundscape - Move into the vacancy of tomorrow

video upload by MIDERA

"Well - As much as I loved the Prophet 08, I have sold it. I was planning to buy the Sequentix Cirklon and sold a bunch of stuff (however, no one from Sequentix or Rubadub, who sells it to folks in the US, will reply to my messages, and I find that a really tough pill to swallow to spend $2800 and have no replies - so I'm not sure I will buy one).

Anyway, I find it fascinating that I didn't like the Prophet 10 at first, but now I love it. I loved the Prophet 08 at first, but now... I decided to sell it. Like - I think it was great and all, but I feel like the P10 has it beat, just always so majestic. So... it doesn't really seem to fit in my studio anymore.

Strymon Volante for delay
Eventide Blackhole VST for reverb

#dsi #Prophet08 #strymon

Recorded June 17th, 2024"

VGM #216: The Port Town of Brisk // Sea of Stars ((Piano/Synth Rock Cover)

video upload by Amie Waters

"Thank you to my patrons for voting on this track for me to cover! I adored my time with Sea of Stars and I was so happy to finally get to cover something from it! What a wonderful indie RPG game with a delightful soundtrack.

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Amie Waters uses synthesizers and vibes to create emotive and moving covers from your favorite movies, tv shows and video games. Some of her most well known work was made under her old name, Ace Waters, which includes Covers from Undertale, Zelda, and more. Her music covers a wide range of styles, from ambient mood pieces to progressive synth rock and everything in between."

Parapolyparty - Retro Jam with DSI Pro-2 in paraphonic mode and Eurorack VCOs

video upload by thesrabbit

"Follow-up to my demo/tutorial video on setting up a paraphonic patch on the DSI Pro-2, supplementing each of its four digital oscillators with Eurorack VCOs.

I had to do something fun with it besides a basic demo, and the 2 oscillators per note/voice gave the "Filter 1" patch from the previous video some serious 80's analog poly vibes. I shortened the decay and release envelope times to make it punchier. This jam is the natural result of dialing in that sound. I bleed the 80's, haha.

Instruments:
Dave Smith Instruments Pro-2 (main synth)
Oberheim OB-X8 (octave down bass)
Roland JX-3P (sprinkles of majesty)
G-Force Software Oberheim DMX (drums)
Alesis Midiverb II (Gated reverb on snare, bloom reverb on toms)

Modules: Roland System-500 512 VCOs, 530 VCAs, 540 Envelopes, Wavefonix Dual CEM 3340, Doeper dual envelopes, Arcus Audio dual VCA, Pittsburgh Modular Giraffe, Doepfer VCA, Happy Nerding FX Aid Pro (for additional majestic reverb for the majesty)

Patch demo with on-screen tutorial:" [posted here]

Augmented Poly-Paraphony: DSI Pro-2 paired with 4 analog Eurorack VCOs in paraphonic mode

video upload by thesrabbit

"The Pro-2 has been around a long time. I recently re-acquired one locally from a friend at a great price. The first time I had it I don't think I ever tried anything like this, but it makes total sense so it was time to give it a shot.

Simply put, I wanted to beef up the Pro 2's sound by supplementing its 4 digital oscillators with 4 meaty analog Eurorack VCOs. There are videos out there of this sort of thing, but only in monophonic mode, which is simple and straightforward to achieve. I wanted to give the Pro-2 two oscillators per note in paraphonic mode, for analog polysynth-esque chords.

The key to doing this is to recreate the Pro-2's per note articulation that it emulates by internally controlling the level of each oscillator's output at the DSP level, with a digital envelope per note that is the same shape as the one used for the actual VCA. The Pro-2 sort of behaves as if it has 4 VCAs, one for each note.

The best way to emulate that in Eurorack is to simply use real VCAs and envelopes for each note. So start with one VCO, run it into a VCA, and then control that VCA with an envelope, making sure that envelope's shape resembles the shape of the amp envelope on the Pro-2. Repeat the process 4 times, one for each VCO that will be paired with a Pro-2 oscillator. I used all analog modules for this. Roland System-500 oscillators, VCAs, and envelopes, Wavefonix CEM 3340 VCOs, Arcus Audio Dual VCAs, and a Doepfer dual envelope module. The output of each VCA is then mixed in a 4-to-1 mixer module, paying special attention to the levels of each oscillator, and then fed into a final VCA used specifically to attenuate the signal before passing it off to the external audio input of the Pro-2. It's of course difficult to match the shape of all 4 envelopes exactly, but there's no need to be too precise. I suppose I could have made things a little easier by using the Disting Ex's quad envelope. Then I could have dialed them all in exactly the same. All good though.

The NiftyKeyz is a paraphonic/polyphonic ready eurorack case/keyboard that has 4 CV/Gate outputs. Each subsequent key held down simply goes out the next CV/Gate output in sequence. So you can play for note chords, provided you have all the modules to do that. It also has MIDI I/O, so here the Pro-2 is being controlled via MIDI, despite it being the "main synth", whereas the Eurorack modules are supplementary. I would have preferred using the Pro-2's keyboard for this, but the NiftyKeyz has a puzzling limitation in the MIDI department. Essentially you cannot play it polyphonically from another keyboard without doing some sort of crazy MIDI channel mapping in between. I get why they do the 1 note per channel thing and it's indeed useful at times, but give us the option to use just one channel and behave as if we were simply playing its own keys. End side rant.

Waveshape is sawtooth for all oscillators. There's a little additional modulation going both to and from the Pro-2 and the rack with delayed LFOs, along with small amounts of "slop", so the digital oscillators aren't completely stiff.

Anyway, there it is, 2 oscillator per voice I mean note poly-paraphony on the Pro-2.

Oh, forgot to mention the Pro-2's headphone output is running into the Happy Nerding FX Aid Pro for that amazing lush reverb that's blended in. Other than that there's no other effects or processing."

Dave Smith Instruments Poly Evolver PE SN 01486

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Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 12 Desktop

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Dave Smith Instruments - Pro 2 SN 02044

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Moog Matriarch and DSI Pro-2 | A meaningless endeavor

video upload by MIDERA

"I had this grand vision. I've got two cool paraphonic synths with CV and all sorts of cool ways to manipulate them. The brain was the Pro-2, it has gate out and 4 CV outputs and you can sequence with it in so many ways. These two were destined to be... but, not really in my hands, because I spent way too long trying to get the Pro-2 to trigger the sequencer of the Matriarch and it just wasn't happening. Ever. I never got it to trigger the sequencer to advance. Sometimes it would sort of half-trigger it, but then self-trigger anyway as well, so it didn't work. Anyway, I never figured it out, hooked up MIDI, recorded whatever the hell all of this is, and walked away. I don't know enough about CV. I don't know enough about modular stuff. You know, someone mentioned on a forum how you can do this and that - but they only half explained it so I couldn't actually figure out how to achieve what they were doing (apparently something about the noise inverting the signal and you can feed it into something and get some cool effects).

Anyway, here this is. A meaningless endeavor. The two synths shall be dismantled soon."

DSI Prophet 12 soundscape III - What is there to feel

video upload by MIDERA

"I had a few moments to write something. I came up with this patch and then made the soundscape to go with it. Maybe these should be called synthscapes. I don't know. Well, I feel like maybe I'm starting to understand how to make this sound the way I want it to sound.

Eventide Blackhole VST used for reverb."

Roger Linn tries out a new Akai MPC

video upload by Roger Linn

"Roger Linn, designer of the original Akai MPC, tries out a new Akai MPC to see how good it is."

Dave Smith Instruments Mopho Desktop Monophonic Synthesizer SN 06434

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Dave Smith Instruments Pro-2 soundscape - What is upon us

video upload by MIDERA

"It's sort of a response to the Moog Matriarch soundscape I posted yesterday. They're fairly similar synths - and I have a lot of things to say about that, but I'll save it for another time."

Update: MIDERA initially reported an issue with the cutoff knob: "After playing around with the Pro-2 more, I discovered that Filter 2 wouldn't close properly (it actually went down then back up again as I went counterclockwise, and I know it shouldn't do that in LP mode). I contacted Sequential and they just said to send it in."

The video has been updated with: "I had an issue with my Pro-2. Sequential reached out and it was resolved."

Dave Smith Instruments Prophet Rev 2 Desktop 8-Voice w/ Desktop Stand

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DSI Prophet 12 Patch creation walkthrough (with new and improved video orientation)

video upload by MIDERA

"Note: This is a repost of a video I made the other day. People didn't like the video orientation, so I switch it. Kept the other video up because why not).

Alright I didn’t even know what to call this video. I guess it’s just sort of a bumbling mess of walking through making a patch and some of my thoughts as I went along. I actually don’t like anything I made either! Oh well, I spent 50 minutes making it and guess I feel like sharing it in the event that someone likes it or finds it interesting.

Let me know what you think.

No external FX used."

DSI Prophet 12 Patch creation walkthrough

video upload by MIDERA

"Alright I didn’t even know what to call this video. I guess it’s just sort of a bumbling mess of walking through making a patch and some of my thoughts as I went along. I actually don’t like anything I made either! Oh well, I spent 50 minutes making it and guess I feel like sharing it in the event that someone likes it or finds it interesting.

Let me know what you think.

No external FX used."

Dave Smith Instruments Pro-2 first impression and walkthrough

video upload by MIDERA

"NOTE: Ugh, well, as you can see the video quality is horrible. I just figured out why - OBS had used a very small resolution. I guess this will just have to do because this was my first impression. Sorry!

I hope you enjoy the video anyway.

No external FX were used."

u-he CVilization Mode I: Musical demo (no talking)

video upload by u-he

"Here's a jam featuring our CVilization module in Mode I (4 x 4 Matrix Mixer). We're exploring the musical possibilities of the mysterious Matrix Rotation [posted here]. 4 different oscillator signals are routed through CVilization's matrix and distributed to various other modules. CVilization now rotates its inputs and outputs, creating ever-changing mixes of these oscillator signals. CVilization's sidekick Wiretap also joins the game with two of its outputs hooked up, creating some funky alternating envelopes.

modules in this patch:
u-he CVilization
u-he Wiretap
u-he Prototype Cascade Filter
ALM Pamela's Workout
Mutable Instruments Links
Mutable Instruments Plaids
Mutable Instruments Shades
Happy Nerding FX Aid
Happy Nerding MMM VCF
Intellijel µScale
Intellijel Dubmix
AJH Synths Next Phase
Dave Smith Instruments Curtis Filter
Xaoc Instruments Batumi
Xaoc Instruments Tallinn
Tiptop Audio Z8000
Instruo tòna
Make Noise Mimeophon

00:00 - Patch overview
02:44 - Jam"

UDO Super 6 Strymon Bigsky Mx

video upload by the nightwater

"Been making presets with the new Strymon Bigsky Mx. This one is the Nonlinear and Bloom modes running in parallel. Testing it out with the UDO Super 6. Drums are the Dave Smith Tempest."

DSI Prophet 12 soundscape II - We go on because there is no other way

video upload by MIDERA

"Another take at the Prophet 12. Had to reupload because I found that the video/audio were off. Whoops -_-

Eventide Blackhole VST used for reverb."