Second Sound Unisyn

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Second Sound UniSyn: The Ultimate Pitch Tracker

video by mootbooxle

"Hey I'm alive!
Remember that raw circuit board looking thing that I was demoing a while back? It's now a commercial product and it's incredible. This little video barely even scratches the surface.

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"Greetings Second Sound Fans, Demo Artists, Current and Future Customers!

I am happy to report that I have finalized the re-design of my DACO160EVK with a more ergonomic layout, extra features, and — best of all — in a sturdy aluminum enclosure! This will be a consumer product which I have tentatively named the UniSyn, short for Universal Audio to Synth Interface.

The UniSyn employs the same pitch and envelope tracking technology of its prototype predecessor, converting audio from any monophonic source to CV and MIDI. The UniSyn also creates a dedicated sine wave as well as filtered square or sawtooth waves which can be optionally pitch-shifted over a +/-2 octave range with semitone resolution.

The new features include:

24v Phantom Power
Firmware upgrades/modifications available via SD card
Automatic Gain Control (AGC) for the input preamp
A new analog 3:1 input compression mode that works together with the AGC to make the synth dynamics really “pop”
1/4″ jack sustain pedal interface
And, of course, what turned out to be my most requested feature while I was selling the DACO160EVK units — a high-quality aluminum enclosure
I am still in the process of establishing the MSRP for the UniSyn. In the meantime, I will be offering a 20% discount on the remaining DACO160EVK units until they are all sold.

Thank you all for your valuable feedback and help evaluating the earlier prototypes. I’ve tried to accommodate all of the great suggestions I received and believe, and hope you agree, that as a result we’ve made a great product together!"

Pulse Eternal | CoCo-Musik | Ear Has Not Heard

Published on Aug 19, 2019 SynthTweaks.com

Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer / CoCo Sequencer

"'Ear Has Not Heard,' is the first track written and recorded for the upcoming Pulse Eternal album, "CoCo-Musik."

Visit www.PulseEternal.com for more Pulse Eternal music.

This album features the Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer 1 (AKA the CoCo) playing the Second Sound ACO160 pitch to CV/gate/emvelope & MIDI converter evaluation kit. The ACO160 then controls the Roland System 8 synthesizer via MIDI and www.Synthesizers.com modular Moog Unit synthesizer via analog control voltage and gate signals.
More information on the Second Sound ACO160 can be found at www.SecondSound.com"

Playing Minimoog From Guitar | Second Sound Audio-To-Synth

Published on Feb 25, 2019 mootbooxle

"The Second Sound ACO160 Audio-To-Synth System is a new development that I’m very excited about. They’ve been nice enough to let me borrow their prototype unit to demonstrate...Here it is being used to play the Minimoog from my guitar!

This is a Pitch to CV/Gate and MIDI convertor that is very early in development but is already promising to be the best pitch tracking device yet created! This is reaaaaaally just scratching the surface. Any audio source can be used to play any CV or MIDI instrument! More to come."

NAMM 2019: Second Sound: Pitch to Synth

Published on Jan 26, 2019 Future Music Magazine

Note this is the first post to feature Second Sound. Their ACO100 audio-controlled oscillator is used by Sonicsmith in their audio-controlled synthesizer products, the ConVertor and the Squaver P1.

via: https://secondsound.com:

The Story Behind Second Sound

We consider Second Sound to represent a “new revolution in synthesized sound” quite simply because we are redefining the way sound synthesis is done. Rather than generating sound waveforms electronically “from nothing” as both traditional analog and digital synthesizers do, our synthesizer transforms existing sounds based on fundamental characteristics of the sounds played by musicians on real instruments, such as their frequency and amplitude.

The human voice, a note played on a violin, piano, trumpet, or any of a wide class of musical instruments, all can be used as the source signal for our music synthesis technology, which converts these sounds into either Control Voltage (CV) for controlling analog synthesizers or MIDI for controlling digital synths.

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