New Instruments Walk-Thru and Jam Live Stream w/ Cre8audio Boom Chick & Assembler

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"With Richard Nicol"

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Cre8audio Introduces Boom Chick Analog Drum Machine

Cre8audio Introduces Assembler Vintage Inspired Analog Mixer

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Hypnotic Techno Live Jam

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Modular Synthesis 101 | Part 5 | Modulators

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"Audio + Video by G-Storm Electro c. 2025

Continuing my introductory series of videos on Modular Synthesis 101. Today we'll look at some classic modulator utility modules in Modular synthesis with some simple examples. You already know about 2 modulators: Envelopes and LFOs. Along the way we'll be changing any Lowpass filter to a Highpass. From the last video we also know that a VCA can be used as a Modulator. So it probably won't surprise you there is a special Modulator can behave similar a VCA.

0:00 | Intro
0:20 | Modulator Recap - Mind Your Ins and Outs
0:54 | Glide
1:21 | Sample & Hold
3:14 | Inverter Circuit
3:51 | Inverting Filter Types + Multiples
5:33 | Ring Mod - somewhere between Modulator and Effect
6:32 | The Function Generator

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Rarest Digital VCO? The Double Helix Wavetable Processor

video upload by Magical Synth Adventure

"Here's a deep dive into one of the rarest Eurorack modules of all time (only 5 or 6 prototypes were made before cancellation!) - a very special sounding 9-bit wavetable oscillator, with many unique sounding "processors' - FM, wavefolding, sync, delay, you name it!

A million thanks to Richard Nicol from Pittsburgh Modular:
https://pittsburghmodular.com

Richard's original video here:" [below] 00:00 Intro Demo
01:58 Hello Adventurers!
02:26 The DNA Symbiotic Waves
03:26 The Double Helix Wavetable Processor
06:18 Wavetable Exploration
11:40 Processors
21:10 Self-Patching Fun!
22:08 Closing Thoughts, a Lost Classic?

Pittsburgh Modular Digital Oscillator Lab???

Pittsburgh Modular Digital Oscillator Lab???

video upload by Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizers - Apr 16, 2020

"Experimental eurorack patch laboratory with Richard."

Pittsburgh Modular Taiga Desktop Paraphonic Synthesizer

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Artist Picks: Best Music Gear of 2024 (Part 1)

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Check out the accompanying article on our blog, Signal

"2024 is soon drawing to a close—so, we're taking a look back at the year, and taking account of all of the weird and wonderful instruments that gave us some inspiration this year. Synthesizers, drum machines, and Eurorack modules to samplers and effects, this year had no shortage of inspiring instruments.

So, we reached out to some of our friends and content creators to fill us in on their year, asking one simple question: what was the coolest piece of gear YOU got this year? For some, that meant brand-new releases, but for others, it meant sitting down and digging into classic instruments.

In this video, we hear from:
0:05 Andrew Huang on the Elektron Digitakt II
1:36 Starsky Carr on the Pittsburgh Voltage Lab 2
6:30 Molten Music Tech on the Gamechanger Plasma Voice
11:36 Cyberattack on the Vongon Replay
13:48 The Unperson on the Melbourne Delia
Mark Johnston on the UA Apollo x8p Gen 2

Check out the accompanying article on our blog, Signal"

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Richard Nicol - Together Ever Since Film From The Album Structured Waves

video upload by Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizers

"Together Ever Since Music and Film by Richard Nicol. The song is taken from the 2024 album Structured Waves. Structured Waves is available on Richard's Bandcamp.
https://richardnicol.bandcamp.com

Richard Nicol is an electronic musician and founder of Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizers. The Voltage Lab 2, Taiga Keyboard, Cre8audio East Beast, and an unannounced drum machine were used in the recording of this track."

Microvolt 3900

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Pittsburgh Modular Snakes Dual Gate Sequencer Patch Lab

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"Deep dive into the Snakes dual gate sequencer with Richard Nicol."

New Voltage Lab 2 Overview Videos with Starsky Carr

Parts 6 through 10 have been added to this post.
You can use the player controls there to skip to "6. Voltage Lab 2 Laboratory Controls Manual with Starsky Carr".

Pittsburgh Modular Taiga Keyboard v1.1 Firmware Update

video upload by Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizers

Taiga Keyboard firmware 1.1 is now available for download at https://pittsburghmodular.com/taiga.

Firmware Version 1.1 Changelog:
• USB MIDI Added
• Corrected USB device name to "Taiga_Keyboard"
• Added some slight slew limiting to Aftertouch control to make it more expressively usable/
eliminate some signal noise.
• Rescaled keybed velocity to make use of the full output range.
• Fixed the pitch bend wheel so that it only sends Midi data when outside the center pitch,
and also it always returns to zero.
• Pitchbend in Paraphonic Mode Fixed
• Fixed MIDI clock subdivision; was previously not subdividing the MIDI clock.
• Added random wave mode to the oscillators
• Added random filter mode to the filter section
• Edit button now adds an arp note when running the arpeggiator in hold mode.
• Clock properly handles MIDI clock microstepping so that the ARP will deterministically
trigger on midi pulse 0 (out of 6) after receiving a MIDI clock start command.
• MIDI mod-wheel CC command is scaled to the value of the mod controller output rather
than just outputting the position of the mod wheel, giving access to the mod controller functionality to outboard midi gear when using taiga keys as a midi controller.
• Rewrote the mod wheel functionality to make full use of all 13 scalings for each mod mode, and added more behaviors to the mod modes that are selected with the octave buttons:
• 0-5v Mode
• Added 4 Sub-Modes
• 0-5-0v center low, edges high
• 5-0-5v center high, edges low
• 5-0v Inverted
• 0-5v
• LFO Mode
• Increased the range of the LFO, and fixed the phase relationship, also made the
LFO update after changing rate rather than after finishing a full cycle to make it more responsive at low frequencies. Also, added 4 Sub-Modes
• Sine Wave
• Triangle Wave
• Saw Wave
• Square Wave with PWM control rather than gain control
• Envelope Mode
• Fixed envelope length so that the mod mode value changes the length of the
envelope, rescaled the envelope lengths for all 13 values. Also, added 4 Sub- Modes
• Percussive Envelope
• Swell-y Triangle Envelope
• Reversed Percussion Envelope
• Sustain-y Envelope
• Random Mode
• Increased the number of different randomness timings, and increased the range of
these timings, and made them be more useful values that scale the randomness in a more naturally musical way. Also, added 4 Sub-Modes
• Soft Random Expression Generator
• Triangular Random Expression Generator
• Sawed Random Expression Generator
• Sample and Hold Generator

Man what a messy room

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Pittsburgh Modular Voltage Lab 2 Overview Videos

Walkthrough Series video uploads by Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizers

Playlist:
Voltage Lab 2 Laboratory Oscillator 1 Manual with Starsky Carr
Voltage Lab 2 Laboratory Oscillator 2 Manual with Starsky Carr
Voltage Lab 2 Laboratory Function Generators Manual with Starsky Carr
Voltage Lab 2 Laboratory Dynamics Controllers Manual with Starsky Carr
Voltage Lab 2 Laboratory Florist and Echos Manual with Starsky Carr
Voltage Lab 2 Laboratory Controls Manual with Starsky Carr
Voltage Lab 2 Laboratory Utilities Manual with Starsky Carr
Voltage Lab 2 Laboratory Touch Controller pt.1 with Starsky Carr
Voltage Lab 2 Laboratory Touch Controller pt.2 Manual with Starsky Carr
Voltage Lab 2 Laboratory Touch Controller pt.3 Manual with Starsky Carr

How to Update Taiga Desktop Firmware

video upload by Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizers

"Firmware download, instructions, and change log are available at https://pittsburghmodular.com/taiga"

Things to Do with the Voltage Lab 2 // Tips Tricks Ideas and Tracks

video upload by Starsky Carr

"It's definitely a lab because experimentation is key. The Voltage Lab 2 encourages you to dig a little deeper every time. Pittsburgh Modular have got this one bang on... the results are stunning.

The oscillators can sounds as grungy as you want. Those harmonics just keep on coming until you're faced with a sonic wall of jagged spikes. The temptation is to go over the top, whereas with most it's hard to get 20% there.

In this I demo some of the more hidden functions and give some ideas to get the most out of it. Like patching the ocillators into each other, or using the function generators to control the LPG essentially giving us a 'standard' VCF. Then there's some hidden stuff in the touch controller, like per step parameter locking using the blue CV channel, or per step chance by setting the chance to 100% and patching chance into the blue channel... now the blue CV is per step chance.

Cool stuff."

You've never heard oscillators do this before // Warp & Reflect *NEW* Wavefolding VCOs

video upload by Starsky Carr

0:00 Whats is all about?
1:58 Oscillator 1
9:26 Focus and AGC
14:52 Oscillator 2

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Is it witchcraft, fairy dust, magic, sonic alchemy or science? Whatever it is its pretty amazing. The Pittsburgh Modular Voltage Lab 2 has 2 wavefolding oscillators - but they have beed designed from the ground up to do things differently.

Firstly, the 2 oscillators aren't the same.

VCO1 has their proprietary centre and newly developed centre clipping circuit that splits the positive and negative portions of the signal so you can attenuate them independently.

VCO2 works in a different way. It has the reflection parameter that gradually folds the negative up into the positive

Add all this together and it took over 20 minutes of tweaking a drone to demo what they could do... and here it is.

Roll a fat one and enjoy the sonic bath. Imagine staring at the stars as this reverberates around the canons in the sea of tranquility - and I know you can't hear anything in space, but f**K it, go with the flow :)"

Voltage Lab 2 by Pittsburgh Modular: Overview + Experiments

video upload by Sarah Belle Reid

"A demo and walkthrough of the new analog modular synthesizer Voltage Lab 2, by Pittsburgh Modular. The Voltage Lab 2 is a conceptual extension of Pittsburgh Modular’s 2019 instrument, the Voltage Research Laboratory—adding in new sound generation capabilities along with expanded sequencing and hands-on interaction control.

In this video I’ll go over what Voltage Lab 2 is, share a tour of the instrument, and jump into a bunch of demos showcasing some melodic, rhythmic, noisy, and experimental sounds."

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Introduction
00:41 What's the Voltage Lab 2?
02:51 Tour of Voltage Lab 2
15:43 Waveshaping & Feedback Experiments
20:11 Ring Mod, Crush, & Sync
26:47 Touch Controller Experiments
33:05 More Patch Demos

"Sarah Belle Reid is a Canadian performer-composer, active in the fields of electroacoustic trumpet performance, intermedia arts, music technology, and improvisation.

www.sarahbellereid.com"

Cre8audio West Pest Semi-Modular Analog Synthesizer

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SUPERBOOTH24: Pittsburgh Modular Voltage Lab 2

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"The Voltage Lab 2 from Pittsburgh Modular is a self-contained modular instrument that boasts an all-analogue design but introduces some interesting new waveshaping techniques."

Pittsburgh Modular Voltage Lab 2 Sounds and Patching with Q&A

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