Sounds from Superbooth 2025: Meng Qi + Whimsical Raps Horizon⁠

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"We're on the ground in Berlin at the year's biggest synth event. Stay up to date with all the latest gear news, announcements, and preorder info on our Superbooth coverage hub."

Sounds from Superbooth 2025: Meng Qi Skies prototype — a complex CV router/controller⁠

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Meng Qi Wing Pinger Semi-Modular Analog Synthesizer (Minijack)

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Introducing Lore - FM oscillator pair by Crows Electromusic

Press release via Crows Electromusic:


March 26, 2025 - Crows Electromusic, a small synth company from Vancouver, Canada, is thrilled to introduce Lore, a standalone all-analog tool for exploratory sound synthesis, ambient, drone, and noise music. With individual controls for each function, Lore gives direct control of two independent triangle-core oscillators and can be switched to an FM synthesis mode to unlock a wide range of complex tones. The instrument’s unique un-quantized interface is perfect for exploring pure tones, drones, and FM sound textures.

Features:

• 100% analog circuitry
• Two triangle-core oscillators
• Crossfade between triangle and square waves
• One-control-per-function interface
• Fully standalone, just add headphones
• Transparent bioplastic enclosure
• USB powered
• Handmade in Canada

Lore is our second release, building on what we’ve learned making our first product OVUM analog sound explorer. We had two goals in mind during development: first we wanted to make something that could create a harsher and more aggressive sound, and second, we wanted to see how small a synth we could make. On both fronts we think Lore is a success - it measures under 3 x 3 inches, and the FM mode gives you access to a whole range of shimmering, grinding, and metallic sounds. Just like with OVUM, we prioritized immediate control and ease of exploration. No understanding of oscillators, wave shapes, or FM synthesis is required to pick it up and start creating interesting and inspiring sound. We think people of all ages, musical abilities, and experience levels are going to love this instrument.

Lore is available now for $79 CAD / $59 USD.

Crows Electromusic is a small synth company based in Vancouver, Canada. Started by Cory Alder in 2022. Crows’ goal is to develop new hardware instruments that challenge the established ways we interact with sound and music creation. Their first product, OVUM was released in 2023, and their second product Lore is available now.

For more information, please visit Crows’ website at https://crowselectromusic.com or follow us on social media (Instagram, Bluesky) at @crowselectromusic.

Links:

Lore fm oscillator pair

Our interactive introduction to FM synthesis

OVUM analog sound explorer

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Timeless Garden Horizon: An enigmatic instrument for sonic exploration

video upload by CatSynth TV

"Trent of Whimsical Raps gives us a tour of the Horizon, a collaboration between Whimsical Raps and Meng Qi. It has an intriguing interface and contains a wide variety of features including arpeggiators, pinged filters, resonant filter banks, and delays."

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Lorre Mill Double Knots + Multicassa + Meng Qi Wingie: 🎧 test jamming 🎧

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"had some bizarre syncing issues out in the field between the DKs and Multicassa. i got my rig home and no problems. there’s always the possibility that it was a stress induced mistake, but i’ve don’t think anything differently. do i need a power conditioner?

anyway, here’s my test jam :)

🎧 for bass & stereo field 🎧 "

WING PINGER MEETS I'M GIBBER V3

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"This video is just a little taste of what these two awesome instruments can do together.

The Wing Pinger is a cool new analog music instrument that lets you blend melody and noise in perfect harmony.

The original Gibber device was created by Rob Hordijk and Biyi Amez in 2020, when the usual activities at Hordijk Mansions in The Hague were put on hold because of the pandemic lockdown. Biyi, Rob's friend, assistant, and protégé, found a rare and outdated computer voice chip and had the idea to turn it into a synthesizer. Rob was intrigued, and in the following weeks, The Gibber was born.

The 'I'm Gibber' is a generative/self-playing device that can also be somewhat controlled by the user. It's based on Rob's "Rungler," a digital shift register that feeds back into itself. This setup makes the voice chip continuously produce a stream of phonemes, vowels, plosives, and syllables from the English language, but they’re all jumbled together in a stream that never quite forms recognizable language or meaning.

If you're interested in buying an 'I'm Gibber V3,' just shoot an email to biyiblip@gmail.com. Limited units available, so grab one before it's gone forever!

Check out and download the I’m Gibber V3 manual here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A8jC..."

See the Biji Amez label below for additional posts.

一年后，玉刻有了新琴（我也）

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"Meng Qi on timelessgarden Horizon / Yukes on Soma Flux"

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New Horizon Synth Analog Ecosystem for Sound and Gesture

SUPERBOOTH 2024: Timeless Garden - Horizon Experimental Synth

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"Horizon celebrates a world of ambiguous dualities~~ harmony/chaos, smooth/stepped, intuitive/practiced, manual/automatic. Built around an invertible heirarchy of pinged-filter cores, and a resonant garden of delays and filters. A rapid and responsive playing surface, smoothly blurring between textures or precisely sculpting a spectral landscape. Honed musicians and freeform experimentalists alike will find their own personal expressions within.

At centre, two Mountains of pinged filters, cross-coupled with smooth and stepped frequency modulation. These pings flow into a resonant filterbank and stereo delays, guided and recirculated by Tide sliders. The filterbank follows the path of 5 Bird sliders, collecting resonances from a playful just-intoned scale generator. Between these worlds flow Currents controlled by the touch surface, capable of wrangling chaos into pure tones or latching into sequences for otherwise busy hands. As the Tides ebb and flow, sequence & delay times are modulated in rhythmic/harmonic steps transforming relationships and shifting priorities.

Sitting proudly at the centre of a performance, or nestled into a larger setup with Eurorack CV i/o. Process external sounds, or use global feedback for an added layer of unpredictability."

"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."

Meng Qi Wing Pinger

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In Beijing's golden autumn, an impromptu of refreshing natural(synthetic) sounds 🍂 🎛️

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"A jam session with the traveling artist Passepartout Duo.

孟奇 Meng Qi: Horizon Prototype
Nicoletta Favari: Digital Chromaplane Prototype
Christopher Salvito: Analog Chromaplane

㊗️ Congratulations to my good partner Annqi on her wedding
㊗️ Happy birthday to Trent
㊗️ Happy National Day"


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You can find additional KOMA Elektronik Chromaplane posts here.

Meng Qi Wing Pinger + Eventide H90 // Shadows and Lights

video upload by Dexba

"The Wing Pinger is not easy to process: it sports two outputs which are... double mono?
Not really, and I will show you why soon in the upcoming tutorial (long in the making, I know).
But that's also why I decided to keep one pedal, and that pedal is the H90, which allows for extensive customization of the inputs, and it's modular in its own way.
I created this new preset for the Eventide H90, called Noise Glue, which is a combination of a 4-head delay + tape saturation to keep everything cohesive, and I think it complements beautifully the sound echoing war chants and drums on the battlefield, juxtaposed to the few plucks of melodic rain here and there.
It is always very hard to share a recording of the Wing Pinger, because the lengthy drones and ear-massaging FM sounds do not translate well as a format on YouTube or as a recording: it really is an instrument to be touched and felt."

小羽二代 Wingie2 的一百零一种玩法（第二集）

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"小羽玩家是一个热衷于分享演奏和交流玩法的群体，但我们疏于整理，上一次做小羽玩家的集锦还是2年前。这一次终于又做啦，以后也欢迎大家投稿，让合少的平台变成大家的舞台，让我们的声音都被听见！"

Googlish:

"Xiaoyu players are a group that is keen on sharing their performances and exchanging gameplay, but we have neglected to organize them. The last time we made a collection of Xiaoyu players was 2 years ago. This time we finally did it again. In the future, we welcome everyone to contribute, so that Heshao's platform can become everyone's stage and let our voices be heard!"

SUPERBOOTH 2024: Timeless Garden - Horizon Experimental Synth

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"At Superbooth 2024, Sonic State got a sneak peek at the Horizon*, a new collaborative instrument by *Trent from Timeless Garden *and the developer of the Wing Pinger. The Horizon* features a resonator system built around the Wing Pinger device, with delays, a filter bank, and a touch sequencer/play surface to tie it all together. The unique design of the Horizon allows for exploration and inspiration, offering both melodic and experimental sound possibilities.

Trent demonstrated the capabilities of the Horizon, showcasing its ability to create strange and interesting sounds through feedback, FM modulation, and stepped modulation effects. The touch sequencer enables users to create melodies with variable step lengths and pitch quantization controlled by sliders. With analog signal processing and rich bucket brigade delay sound, the Horizon offers a unique sonic experience for musicians looking to push the boundaries of traditional synthesis. Stay tuned for the release of the Horizon in 2024, with an estimated price range between one and two thousand US dollars. For more information on the Horizon visit the link below:

https://timeless.garden/" Note the bottom of the page notes Meng Qi + Whimsical Raps.

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"Horizon celebrates a world of ambiguous dualities~~ harmony/chaos, smooth/stepped, intuitive/practiced, manual/automatic. Built around an invertible heirarchy of pinged-filter cores, and a resonant garden of delays and filters. A rapid and responsive playing surface, smoothly blurring between textures or precisely sculpting a spectral landscape. Honed musicians and freeform experimentalists alike will find their own personal expressions within.

At centre, two Mountains of pinged filters, cross-coupled with smooth and stepped frequency modulation. These pings flow into a resonant filterbank and stereo delays, guided and recirculated by Tide sliders. The filterbank follows the path of 5 Bird sliders, collecting resonances from a playful just-intoned scale generator. Between these worlds flow Currents controlled by the touch surface, capable of wrangling chaos into pure tones or latching into sequences for otherwise busy hands. As the Tides ebb and flow, sequence & delay times are modulated in rhythmic/harmonic steps transforming relationships and shifting priorities.

Sitting proudly at the centre of a performance, or nestled into a larger setup with Eurorack CV i/o. Process external sounds, or use global feedback for an added layer of unpredictability."

New Horizon Synth Analog Ecosystem for Sound and Gesture

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Meng Qi Wingie 2 & Synthstrom Deluge // The process IS the performance!

video upload by Dexba

"The Wingie 2 by @MengQiMusic changed my musical approach (for good).
It made me embrace the environmental noise, it made me start thinking a bit outside of the "synthesizers are for synthwave" box, and its portability, its cuteness, made me more willing to open up and breathe a bit more.
It's hard to explain, but after getting a Wingie I started to reconsider microphones, I got an Arbhar, I got a Befaco i4, I repaired my OP1 Field mic, I even sang into my modular (and you've seen that video already), all things I would have found sacrilegious in the recent past.
The fun part is that all those other instruments cost more than the Wingie, and yet the Wingie is still the tool that forces me to plan more a recording, while also requiring me less effort in doing so.
Love it.
Here it is being controlled by the Deluge by Synthstrom, in the new OLED version, which finally gave me the appeal and strength to study it better, and put it to good use. And I've owned a Deluge since 2018 😄
I hope you'll enjoy this little moment of calmness, my musical way to cope with the incredibly noisy neighbour I have, through resonation."

quad optomix strikes

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4ms QCD with Expander.
Intellijel 3x Planar 2
Make Noise 2x Optomix, 2x Mimeophone.
MengQiMusic DPLPG.
Jouranalogue Filter 8
Tunefish Modular 4x µ Braids with Renaissance alternate firmware,
2x µ Peaks, 2x µVeil,Kings, Sheep (Tides V1)
2x Ornament and Crime , #2 with Teensy 4.0! Dorian Scale.
Mutable Instruments Shades, 4x Ripples.
Verbos Scan and Pan.
Shakmat Aeolus Seeds.
16n AtoVproject Faderbank
2x Strymon Cloudburst ~ Midi CC by 16n Faderbank!
6.04.2024
video # 2361

Meng Qi Wing Pinger & Chase Bliss Mood mk2 // Meditation through pings, an intimate process

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"Playing with the Wing Pinger by @MengQiMusic is a meditative practice. 🪷
While it looks simple (and beautiful) on the outside, the balance required to achieve something to be proud of is considerable.
That’s the reason why, even though I play frequently with this instrument, I rarely record with it, because it feels like being naked and vulnerable.
The right output (the lower note) is going back into the left input, in order to get a mono output that can go into the Mood mk2, since the pedal didn't handle well the double mono nature of the Wing Pinger.
I hope you'll enjoy the meditative nature of this video with me!"

2024, The First Ambient Performance: Life like a "Reverse Journey"

video upload by Meng Qi

"The previous year-end performance was recorded, and this time, the performance was particularly enjoyable. When I listened to the music again, it reminded me of the name 'Reverse Journey.' It originally referred to inns and hotels. 'Heaven and earth are the temporary lodgings of all things, and time is the passing guest of a hundred generations." It means that heaven and earth are the temporary lodgings of all things, and time is the passing guest of a hundred generations.

The synthesizer's arpeggio sets the background, like a young boy setting off on a journey of learning. The melodious Kalimba melody represents the consistent and brief joy in the early part of the story.

However, my friends, we are all familiar with the story of the "hero's journey,' aren't we? It's about the call, the test, friends, enemies, caves, hardships, the return, and resurrection. This is the story told in the later part of the music."

The Great Hapax Experiment Vol. 1 - Squarp Hapax sequencing loads of stuff and Cocoquantus improvs

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"Sat with this one quite a bit for quite a bit.... kept it unlisted for over a year but after some revisits thought maybe its time to put it out there. Still stand by what I initially thought, its a "Curate's egg... Good in parts". Squarp and Coco were still newish at the time of this jam so still finding the feels.

This is what I thought of it back then:

I got a new brain!

Here's a full 45 minute noodle with the incredible Squarp Hapax front and centre. To say this is the most powerful hardware sequencer I have ever got my hands on is a total understatement.

WARNING This pretty experimental jam is not for the faint hearted in certain sections. Focussing on Hapax and the CocoQuantus it gets noisy and out there but that's what I love these days.

It was improvised and live-sequenced over a couple of initially formed sequences.
There are good bits but also some really bad sections in the middle too. I considered cutting these out but that would be a hard edit and they eventually do settle down.
I'd say the worst bits are:
20:30 - 21:26 (shitty idea to try and record a kick bass line without tuning the kick!)
28:39 - 29:42 (combo of not realising that the 1010 Blue box was turned down and having a few moments of forgetting how the CocoQuantus worked... oh and a pesky Buchla sequence I forgot to stop!)

Hapax is firing off and controlling a ton of stuff in the room:
Circuit Rhythm
Ciat Lonbarde CocoQuantus (clocking the loopers)
Nord Drum 3p
Rossum Electro Assimil8or (through CV.OCD)
Meng Qi Wingie 2
Novation Summit - also acting as a controller keyboard for everything in the set-up
Buchla 208C
Norns (running Plonky Script for multisamples)
Just Friends in polysynth mode
Vongon Polyphrase
Vongon Ultrasheer
Mutable Instruments Beads
and some dodgy singing
All connected via Hapax's MIDI Outs and a Conductive Labs MRCC"