Rare Folktek Micro Garden - Electro Acoustic Drone Synthesis

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via this eBay listing

You can find demos in previous posts here.

"For sale is one of the rarest and most sought after in the Folktek Garden Series, The Micro Garden. It is signed by the developer and artist Arius Blaze. It is in very good cosmetic, and 100% operational condition, with no noisy pots, etc. The Micro Garden will ship to include the Power Supply. Insured shipping is $ 40 within the Continental U.S., and all sales are final. Listed below is some information provided by Folktek.

The Garden is a conceptual sound art work and a phenomenal instrument for extending micro sounds into waves or generating odd sounds based on an acoustic source. The sound very much reflects the aesthetic - an electric garden with waves growing from the sound field they're created from. The sound board and spouts of wire extending from it are picked up with high sensitivity and run through a digital delay with a very warm sound. This delay can be as tight as possible or extend to about one and a half seconds. Every sprig of string has a unique sound and the Garden can be played as a percussion piece or soundscape generator. The feedback can be adjusted to generate long extensions of micro sounds to become waves then captured in long format if desired. There is as much musical potential as there is a potential for strange sounds - bits of waves can be stretched in real time and become distant-relative abstractions of themselves."

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"Timeless Discrepancies" ✨⏳✨ Meng Qi Wing Pinger & Folktek Aether

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"New piece composed around an improvisation recorded with the Folktek Aether and Meng Qi Wing Pinger synths👌🏽

Folktek Aether's audio signals going through Meng Qi's Wing Pinger, and Aether's touch CV outputs controlling Q and Cut Off on the Wing Pinger, both instruments feature banana jacks.

Performance and recording by Stephano Gavilanes© Copyright 2024. All Rights Reserved."

"Bagpipe Free Jazz" - Resonant Garden w/ Synesthesia CV

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"Settings shown at the end. The pdf settings sheet for this is available @ https://folktek.com/products/resonant..."

Folktek Resonant Garden :: How to, with settings 1-2-7. Infinite Looping Reverb w/ Glitch

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"This is how to set up the Resonant Garden for an infinite looping effect, and variations on that theme.

The PDF settings diagram for this example can be found on our website @ https://folktek.com/products/resonant..."

Folktek Alter 1 Effects Processor, Effect 2: Notated Granular Delay + Sawtooth Wave

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"An exploration into what is possible when combining a sawtooth wave with the Folktek Alter 1 Effects Processor, Effect 2: Notated Granular Delay"

Folktek Alter 1, Effect 5: Distortion Multi-Filter

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"Playing around with an arpeggiated sequence through the Alter 1, Effect 5: Distortion Multi-Filter."

Folktek Alter 1 Effects Processor, Effect 1: Long Delay + Sawtooth Wave

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"An exploration into what is possible when combining a sawtooth wave with the Folktek Alter 1 Effects Processor, Effect 1: Long Delay"

Folktek - Resonant Garden :: How-To Example Settings #1 - Shimmering Choir

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"This video explains how to set up the Resonant Garden from scratch to achieve a shimmering choir sound. The PDF settings diagram for this example can be found on our website @ https://folktek.com/products/resonant..."

NAMM 2024: Folktek Resonant Garden

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"At NAMM 2024, Sonic State had the opportunity to explore Folktek's latest creation, the Resonant Garden. Jeff demonstrated the electro-acoustic resonating instrument which boasts an intuitive design that encourages tactile interaction. Users can tap anywhere on the instrument to generate sound, and the Resonant Garden sends it through three effects processors. Each processor features seven distinct effects, providing a diverse sonic palette. The effects can be seamlessly changed by tapping on the hexagon interface, allowing for real-time experimentation.

Jeff talked to us about Folktek's recent developments, with the revelation that the company has undergone some company changes, and Resonant Garden represents a flagship product in Folktek's reintroduction to the market under new management. The instrument promises not only the revival of some classic designs but also the introduction of newer models that were previously unreleased.

Resonant Garden Price: 959 GBP"

Folktek Mescaline eurorack modular synthesizer and sequencer

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Folktek :: Alter 1 - Effect 1 - Long Delay

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"Folktek :: Alter 1 Effect 1 - Long Delay
A Brief exploration.

https://folktek.com

Input :: Arturia Keystep -- Moog Mother-32 -- Alter"

September 3, 2023

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"@folktek Dual Resonant Gardens are quite the combo! 👽"

Coming Soon - the New Noisebug Showroom

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"9/13/2023 - noisebug showroom and magic theatre will be open. Stay tuned for more info"

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Folktek Resonant Garden [jam sesh]

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"The Folktek Resonant Garden is an electro-acoustic instrument capable of producing an incredible range of sounds, from highly delicate drone/ambient moods, to full-throttle walls of glitchy, distorted, yet delicious noise. It can be used stand-alone, as shown here, or in collaboration with standard Eurorack gear. Now available at https://Folktek.com"

Folktek ALTER X & Y Now Available

Available via Noisebug

You can find demos and additional pics in previous posts here.

Alter Y is the pedal version of Alter 2 eurorack module featuring four 1/4" jacks in addition to 1/8" as well as buffered switching that allows for trails.

Though it functions the same as other pedals, this pedal is a little different. Most pedals are made for guitars and then artists may choose to use them in different ways. We made this pedal to work with either standard ¼” jacks (for both input and output) or 1/8” (3.5mm) jacks for use with anything else. For those who like to use CV (control voltage) for any eurorack format, cv keyboard, or pedals which output cv (eg. expression or sequencing), all four of the main knobs have cv inputs (mix, x, y, filter) so you can control your knobs without touching if the desire strikes you.

These pedals accept guitar, line or eurorack levels.

The enclosure is very thick, gold plated PCB (it’s very, very tough).

Included power is standard for most pedals (2.1mm, -tip)

We wanted a broad array of effects in each X and Y pedal so each is a mashup of effects which we thought complimented one another when used together. Running X into Y or vis versa creates some powerful changes.

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FolkTek Alter X & Alter Y Effect Pedals - All the patches

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00:00 Intro

Part one
A quick run through all the algorithms the FolkTek Alter X & y
01:00 Alter X Algorithms
03:03 Alter Y Algorithms

Part Two
Long take of each algorithm with knob tweaking (without prior preparation)
04:55 Alter X 1 - long delay
11:42 Alter X 2 - tight, notated granular delay
15:00 Alter X 3 - huge plate reverb
20:03 Alter X 4 - shimmering reverb
24:14 Alter X 5 - distortion and multi-filter
27:39 Alter X 6 - pitch delay
33:15 Alter X 7 - stutter glitch

36:12 Alter Y 1 - analog delay
39:46 Alter Y 2 - reverb with infinite capture and LP + HP filters
43:13 Alter Y 3 - choral reverb
35:57 Alter Y 4 - palindrome reverse delay - backward/forward repeat
48:23 Alter Y 5 - time stretch
50:21 Alter Y 6 - pitch shift (notated semi-tones)
53:18 Alter Y 7 - time stretch glitch

55:40 outro

"This is a quick edit from an hour-long session of me going through all the presets/Algorithms of the FolkTek Alte X & Y one by one and tweaking their knobs. I made it primarily for me to be able to easily find an Algorithm. Each Algorithm/Patch is identified by the position of the light and up to this point I was counting the presses from preset 1.
Used my trusty Korg Monotribe with a simple pattern that does not change throughout the video. Had to change its output volume on one of the patches.
I am sure I will have more videos with these pedals that show more of what they can do and make use of their CV inputs. Hope you find it useful and if you have a FolkTek Alte X & Y would love to hear how you are getting on and any tips quirks to watch out for."

Folktek Alter X & Y meets the Korg Monotribe - Techno Jam

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"Recorded some videos covering all the alter X and Y algorithms and than had a couple of quick jams with both This was a quick post. Will edit one soon covering all the effects soon but initial impressions are that this are amazing sounding and creative boxes although the Folktek Alters build feels a little cheap.l but hopefully not an issue for a desktop effect"

FolkTek Alter X & Alter Y first go with FolkTek Mescaline

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"I backed the Folktek Alter Guitar pedals & desktop effects XY Indiegogo campaign more than two years ago and just received it. It was a long wait but I did not mind. I had this picture in my head of pairing it with the FolkTek Mescaline for the two years I have waited but as soon as I started playing I realised this is probably not the best approach as the Mescaline has a full and rich sound that lives less room for the Alters to express themselves. I can do with something more basic to get to experience the Alters's capabilities. I had fun just messing about it and will soon have more sensible paring that will allow me to explore it better. In this video, the Folktek Mescaline goes into the Folktek Alter Y in mono and the Y goes into the Alter X in stereo. No additional processing.

For more details on the pedals checkout the original campaign https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fo... and the https://folktek.com site."

Folktek RESONANT GARDEN

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"If you're checking this out you probably know a little about it, if not here's some info from the site https://folktek.com/products/resonant-garden

These became really popular after this video of Trent Reznor using a similar instrument by Folktek [posted here] I'd say you can get the same sort of results from the Resonant Garden as Trent is getting in this video.

Disclaimer: I have used this instrument and while I thought it was very cool I didn't really understand it. From what I can tell, it works as intended, but it basically makes strange and unpredictable sounds so I can't say if it is working 'right'. I doubt it's very complex internally so if there was a problem it wouldnt take much to tweak it. I don't think there is anything wrong with it, its just that since it's basically a chaos device I can't vouch for what it's supposed to do."

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Trent Reznor with Folktek's Luminist Garden

Gone Girl OST behind the scenes-Trent making a beat.

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"Instrument in use:

http://folktek.com/instruments/electr..."