"In an earlier post I detailed how to set up Live as a hub for handling MIDI communication to/from your Disting EX. But now I deliver the coup de grâce: a package of Live sets that includes MIDI clips for all parameters for every Disting EX Single Mode and Dual Mode algorithm!"
"A piece with flower field by error instruments, amplified with listen i/o then runs through pitch from 2 hp and as a filter the night rider from ryk.
Alan from after later audio controls the bass drum of mosaic. Pique from after later audio runs as a touring machine and plays the chainsaw from acid rain, a low pass gate from disting mk4, then through the filter from noise engineering roucha legio the yester versio is used as an effect."
"We may all know how an envelope follower works, but pitch followers seem to be rare. Disting MK4 and EX have one. Let's find out if it's worth the exploration!"
"Exploring the wonderful world of hocketing, using Disting EX's 'Chord Engine'. Recorded "live", adding only EQ + compression in Logic Pro.
Patch is described in the video. Just one clarification: as the sequencer spits out a new note every 2 bars, and the voices take it in turns to be the recipient of that new note, each voice changes note every 8 bars. As there are 7 notes in the sequence, this piece effectively repeats itself every 56 bars.
The piece excerpted in the first few seconds is “In saeculum breve,” a motet by an anonymous French composer, from the 13th-century manuscript, the Bamberg Codex. To avoid incurring the wrath of the copyright gods, I made my own version, inputting midi into Logic Pro and using brass instrument instead of voices, and adding convolution reverb with an impulse file recorded in a large church.
"Exploring the feature-packed granulator algorithm on the Disting EX, controlled via i2C by Tesseract Modular’s Sweet Sixteen faderbank. Thanks to Ed for supplying the Rachmaninoff piano sample. Detailed patch notes in the video.
"'Aloysius' is an envelope with an unusual AHDW (attack/hold/decay/wait) confguration, sometimes referred to as a trapezoid generator. CV control of all envelope times is provided. The envelope can be set to auto-trigger, turning it into a complex voltage-controlled LFO.
The shape of the attack and decay sections can be independently and continuously adjusted from exponential, through linear, to logarithmic.
The module is constructed entirely from analogue parts and discrete logic. There is no microcontroller or digital-to-analogue conversion involved and therefore no quantization of voltage levels or of the response time."
"Analog synths used in the motion picture Talent Keyhole. Available now on Amazon.
Filmmaker Michael Lauter details the analog synthesizers utilized in the Talent Keyhole movie soundtrack. In addition to his own original music scoring, he licensed and commissioned tracks from other notable electronic musicians. Among them, Testube, Night Club, and Dreamstalk which are 100% in-the-box artists. Lauter and S Y Z Y G Y Z, however, use hybrid studio workflows, incorporating analog hardware synths with Digital Audio Workstations. (DAWs) S Y Z Y G Y Z further created an exclusive track just for the feature film.
"Control your Disting EX via a TouchOSC control surface running on your phone or tablet, and see those changes reflected in real-time on another TouchOSC instance running on your studio computer. Grab for a knob on your MIDI controller because you like its tactile feeling for a particular parameter, and see those changes reflected on the Disting EX and in the TouchOSC instances as well. Meanwhile, Live is recording all of the parameter changes, regardless of their origin.
Read up on how this all works, and download a pre-built Live set that you can customize for your own MIDI hardware layout."
"Just playing about with the range of analogue modules from Expert Sleepers, with particular attention paid to the new 'Amelia' envelope generator. [see this post for additional details]
The audio is direct from what you see - nothing added elsewhere.
Patch notes (left to right):
- the FH-2's arpeggiator is driving everything.
- Amelia envelope, patched to VCF and VCA.
- 2x Lorelei VCO, tuned in octaves.
- Ivo VCF.
- Persephone VCA.
- Beatrix phaser.
- The DATA is showing the envelope shape.
- disting EX on the right for final delay, reverb, and granulation, controlled via MIDI from the Faderfox UC4."
"In firmware v1.19 we've added basic MPE support to the disting EX. Here we show how to set up the Poly Wavetable algorithm to use MPE, including per-note pitch bend, aftertouch, and expression CC."
disting EX - Macro Oscillator 2
"New in firmware v1.19, an implementation of Plaits.
"'Amelia' is an envelope/function generator with an unusual ADBR (attack/decay/break/release) configuration. CV control of all envelope times and of the break level is provided. The envelope can be set to auto-trigger, turning it into a complex voltage-controlled LFO.
The shape of the attack and decay/release sections can be independently and continuously adjusted from exponential, through linear, to logarithmic.
Amelia was developed with use with sequencers particularly in mind, where often you only have a trigger output, not a gate of adjustable length. It allows you to create complex and flexible envelope shapes from that simple trigger signal that can be fully modulated under voltage control.
The module is constructed entirely from analogue parts and discrete logic. There is no microcontroller or digital-to-analogue conversion involved and therefore no quantization of voltage levels or of the response time."
"The 'Arp Reset' setting on the FH-2 arpeggiator tells it to reset the pattern to the first step after a certain number of quarter notes. This can be used for example to force patterns to loop nicely after a number of bars, locking them into the groove."
