Lite2Sound HD Stereo photodiode field recording - Eugene, OR

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"The location is Skinner Butte in Eugene, Oregon, and this video is demonstration of an experimental field recording device called Lite2Sound HD Stereo 62mm. The waveforms in the audio soundtrack are being emitted by the lights in the scene. Lite2Sound uses photodiodes as sensors to convert fluctuations in light intensity directly to audio. The device I used for this video has sensors 200 times larger than our basic model, Lite2Sound PX. That gives it much greater sensitivity, so its possible to hear many lights blending together, even from miles away.

Every city sounds different..? A serious videographer could do awesome things with this. I have built four Lite2Sound HD Stereo devices, and they are available, please inquire. I can be contacted through rarewaves.net.

I noticed in this video there is an invisible infrared light somewhere in downtown Eugene that emits strong pulses at 1-second intervals. It sounds like a ticking clock, but since you can't see any corresponding blinking in the video, it must be infrared. I assume it is providing flash illumination for some sort of slow-frame night surveillance camera. These are more common in urban areas now, who's watching who?

Thanks for watching!
Eric Archer"

Mystery synth prototype with generative oscillators from Rare Waves

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"Rare Waves demonstrates a synth prototype in 2024. This tabletop synth with black panel and mahogany sides contains a pair of identical euro modules that EA developed in 2021. The modules each contain a voltage-controlled generative oscillator and a 4-pole filter. The generative oscillators have wide frequency range and several outputs, so they can be used as sequencers, tone generators or noise sources. The generative oscillators can be linked by clock in / clock out and have built-in switchable clock dividers. The 4-pole filter has well-behaved high-Q self oscillation and can do damped sine wave percussion and sine wave VCO, with choice of either LPF or all pass phase shifter mode. All together, the tabletop unit in the video demo contains 2x generative oscillators and 2x 4-pole VCFs, which makes many possibilities for cross modulation. I’m not sure how many waveforms are possible, but it’s a lot! All analog, not a CPU-based synth. Rare Waves LLC / Grendel 2024 (rarewaves.net)

Part 1 (0:00) Damped sine wave percussion sequence with sine bass
Part 2 (2:29) V/oct melodic control from external sequencer (Grendel 2TAC)
Part 3 (6:27) White noise and complex timbres
Part 4 (11:02) Freeform sound and noise synthesis"

Lite2Sound HD Stereo photodiode - Lake Charles, LA Calcasieu River Bridge

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"This video demonstrates audio field recording with an experimental photodiode sensor device, Lite2Sound HD Stereo. It lets you hear light. It is plugged into the camcorder's Mic Input. This scene is the shoreline of Lake Charles, Louisiana beneath the Calcasieu River Bridge. I will build a custom Lite2Sound device for you- Contact me through rarewaves.net"

You can find addtional Lite2Sound posts here.

Eurorack TB-303: Three all-in-one modules compared

video upload by John Schussler

"More 303 comparisons. I've looked at the Hydronium and the Bassline before, but have only recently acquired an x0x Heart. Up to this point my favorite 303 emulation has been the Hydronium, but it's much larger than it needs to be, and I'm always on the lookout for something that sounds just as good but is smaller.

No, I don't have an Acidlab M303. I should probably get one. It seems to be the only other module that's an entire 303 behind one small panel.

Sequencer is Next Tuesday, which has slide and accent outs, a critical component when evaluating a 303 style module.

00:00 Intro
00:20 Hydronium
06:47 x0x Heart
12:35 Bassline"

Eurorack acid - TB 303 style modules

video upload by John Schussler

"If you listen to techno, you listen to the Roland TB-303. It's the sound of acid, and is such a unique sound that everybody wants and uses it.

Although several makers are selling clones in the original 303 design (with the sequencer and original layout), you may just want to get one in Eurorack without all the fuss of learning the 303 sequencer interface (it's not intuitive).

Here are a bunch of 303 modules that either include all the parts (VCF, VCA, envelope, accent, glide...the works) or just one part (the VCF, which is the most critical bit).

There are others as well, these are just the ones I happen to have...."

00:00 Intro
00:20 Hydronium
07:28 TB-EFA
13:56 Acid Source
24:14 Pico Acid
30:00 Doepfer A-103/120
46:16 Vult Freak

Rare Waves Grendel Grenadier RA-9

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"“In the spirit of sonic exploration and musical evolution we bring you the Grendel RA-99 Grenadier, an all-analog synthesizer with an original and unique tone palette. It implements parallel formant synthesis with a bank of three voltage controlled filters to generate tones inspired by the human voice, without being limited by the conventional boundaries of speech modeling. Twenty patch points give you extensive self-patching options plus creative compatibility with analog modulars, sequencers and keyboard controllers.“

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Midi Narrator: A DIY midi controller Speech Synthesizer

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"I actually did film the construction of the device, but there were problems with the camera and the editing, so I decided to not publish the footage.

Here you can see the result of using the device 'stand alone', I did not manage to get it working reliably using the midi port, but I may have fudge a couple solders, I'll have to revisit that later.

The device was bought from https://rarewaves.net/products/midi-n..."

Lite2Sound in Dallas – Stereo photodiode field recording

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"What if the city was secretly composing its own musical soundtrack and only you could hear it? The year is 2023, location is Dallas, and this video was recorded downtown at night. All of the sounds are coming from fluctuations in the intensity of light emitted by the scene. We used a large aperture stereo photodiode amplifier developed by Eric Archer of Rare Waves LLC to capture these field recordings. The audio output from the photodiode amplifier was plugged in to the camcorder’s mic input, and by listening with headphones while recording, the videographer/sound hunter goes to a parallel universe of droning harmonic sounds and electronic frequencies. Lite2Sound photodiode amplifiers are available from rarewaves.net and in the Rare Waves reverb.com store."

Roland TB-03 vs Rare Waves Hydronium vs Donner B-1 Syn Bass // Live Elektron Music Production

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"On the table today we have the Roland TB-03, Rare Waves Hydronium, and the incredibly budget friendly Donner SB-1. 303 shoot out with a side of live music production with the best Elektron setup on this side of the gamma quadrant.

Get an even cheaper acid box than Behringer's without having to feel guilty about it. Donner SB-1: https://amzn.to/3YSedAr use code 'EZBOT' for 12% off all things Donner :)

Get the Octatrack Performance Template with regular updates: https://patreon.com/ezbot for folks who like to get in and out, there's Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/s/4f3a692375

Sign up with DistroKid and get 7% off with this link: http://distrokid.com/vip/ezbot (definitely do this)

Get Performance Template 2.2 in it's current state at Ko-Fi: https://bit.ly/ococtatrack_performanc... Step up your game with 1 on 1 lessons: https://www.ezbot.live/
Get my Octatrack Performance Template with regular updates (among other rewards) by joining my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ezbot"

Grendel 2TAC analog sequencer with RA-99 Grenadier

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"Rare Waves demonstrates the Grendel 2TAC 2-track analog controller with the Grendel RA-99 Grenadier analog synthesizer. The Grendel 2TAC has two tracks of CV-Gate output (1v/oct). For synchronization, it has an internal tempo generator, analog pulse-per-step Clock In/Out, and Reset pulse In/Out. This video tutorial shows some of its pattern editing features, time stretching, creating pattern chains, altering the tuning, mashing several patterns together simultaneously, and generating random patterns. We will be offering a limited issue of the 2TAC as pictured in the video with black aluminum case, walnut sides, and red or yellow LEDs. For easy reference this version comes with the key commands printed as a graphic on the underside of the case. 2TACs are available soon direct from rarewaves.net."

You can find additional posts featuring the Grendel 2TAC here.

Lite2Sound listening to the highway lights

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"There are hidden layers of reality for example the sounds of modulated light. We're on the highway listening with a Lite2Sound photodiode amplifier. A few decades ago you wouldn't be hearing so many types of interesting tones and frequencies. But now almost every light is modulated and it all blends together like a free ambient soundtrack. On the highway there is also the sound of air turbulence, you hear it whenever a light shines towards the sensor while passing through turbulent air in the wake of a vehicle. I'm disappointed though, this was supposed to be a stereo recording, but by accident the camera only recorded in mono. Location: San Antonio (2022). Rarewaves.net / Lite2sound.com"

Lite2Sound QB Stereo - raindrops are oscillating

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"We have made a field recording of a common but rarely heard side of nature - the oscillations of falling rain drops. Shine a flashlight up into the rain and its light bounces back off the surface of the falling drops, to be received by our stereo photodiode amplifier. We are using the Lite2Sound QB Stereo from Rare Waves LLC (rarewaves.net, lite2sound.com)"

Grendel drone commander quick review/demo [DCE-2]

video upload by Meska

"Simple monophonic synth, complex sound"

Thank you fwor watching.
My name is Meska of the statik collective . I've been making mostly 'dark and expérimental' music for more than ten years now, i'v learn so much online, now it's time for me to share my knoledge, my exploration and this channel is a place to talk about the tools, sound design and techniques to make music with.
i'm tattooist at day jobs and you can found my work here : www.meska.fr

You can stream my albums and EPs at https://statikwave.bandcamp.com/

If you'd like to support the channel​ consider buying music from bandcamp ;)"

Rave Waves Hydronium 2021 Hydride Blue TB-303 Style Tabletop Analog Synth w/ Original Box

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You can find demos in previous posts here.

"Unit has official Rave Waves mods:

1. MIDI Pitch bend: range +/- 2 semitones, range, fine adjustable with a trim pot that is accessed by removing 4 screws from back of unit.

2. MIDI Mod wheel input is assigned to filter cutoff (summed with Filter knob)."

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Surf and Drone - Grendel DC-2, Grendel Formant Filter, RA-99 Grenadier

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"This synth demonstration from Rare Waves uses the Grendel DC-2 as a tone source. Grendel Formant Filter provides vowel filtering, and Grendel RA-99 Grenadier is performing the LFO duties. Rare Waves Hydronium is used as a MIDI-CV converter to set the pitch of the DC-2's oscillators. In the picture you also see a prototype Polyphonic Strobe Tuner, which provides a real-time pitch analysis. Also heard in the mix are prototypes of a Surf Sound Synthesizer and Spring Reverb. Rare Waves is an American synth manufacturer, our website is rarewaves.net, check out what we're making now!"

Ra-99 Rare Waves Grendel Grenadier

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You can find demos in previous posts here.

Rare Waves LITE2SOUND PX quick review/demo

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"product page with interesting sound demo: http://rarewaves.net/products/lite2so...​

Thank you for watching.
My name is Meska of the statik collective . I've been making mostly "dark and expérimental" music for more than ten years now, i'v learn so much online, now it's time for me to share my knoledge, my exploration and this channel is a place to talk about the tools, sound design and techniques to make music with. i'm tattooist at day jobs and you can found my work here : www.meska.fr

You can stream my albums and EPs at https://statikwave.bandcamp.com/"

Additional LITE2SOUND posts

Grendel DC-2 Drone Commander 2 demo

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"Grendel DC-2 is new for 2021, we've fused the DC-2e main module and expander into a 35 HP single module. Now comes in both silver and black brushed anodized aluminum. This is an all analog synth voice module with 2 VCOs, multiple LFOs, two VCFs, low pass gate envelope, CV-gate control, and lots of patchable functions."

Rare Waves Grendel RA-99 Grenadier w/ Original Box

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Turning a press anvil, to build homes for Electronic Music Instruments. Courtesy of Rare Waves

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