Machinedrum Plug-in Interpretation: MDSYN Presets – Not the ROM, the Other One

video upload by StigmaAudio

Also see:
Elektron Machinedrum & Monomachine Emulations Come to Software for the ROM versions/clones in software
Monomodule -1.0.1-Beta (Elektron Monomachine emulator) - for a non ROM clone software emulation

As for this video:

"It's not the ROM. It's the other one.

MDSYN is Stigma Audio's 16-track synthetic percussion sequencer: every sound is synthesized in real time. It is a reinterpretation, not an emulation — no firmware, no ROM, its own engine.

This video is a single live take: a run through twenty presets, pattern switching on the fly, a look at the FX, SYNTH and ROUT pages, track mutes, step pages, save and reload, and the delay and reverb sends. When the knobs move on their own, they are being played from an LPD8 controller over MIDI CC.

This plugin comes from my personal collection. Maybe I'll release it one day, but probably not in this design. It is a personal project, not affiliated with or endorsed by any hardware manufacturer; all trademarks belong to their respective owners.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:10 Presets and patterns
3:25 The FX page
5:33 Save, synth page and reload
6:32 Track mutes
9:32 Step pages
10:57 Knob edits
12:33 Routing, delay and reverb sends
13:08 More presets
14:46 Outro"

Waldorf Wave Emulation – NO TALKING Sound Demo

video upload by Autodafe

See the announcement post here.

"A quick NO TALKING sound demo of Wave Emulation by mo0kid, a new software emulation of the legendary Waldorf Wave.

This project recreates the Wave using the original Waldorf firmware, with the current release available for macOS as standalone, AU, VST3 and AAX.

In this video I’m simply browsing through a selection of sounds and presets — no talking, just the Waldorf Wave in action.

Wave Emulation:
https://github.com/mo0kid/wave/releas...

The emulator requires the original Waldorf Wave OS 1.700 firmware, which is not included with the software. The firmware can be obtained separately from Waldorf.

🎧 Headphones recommended."

Waldorf Wave - FREE WIN/MAC vst emulation !

video upload by Sergio Frias

"this great vst emulation is now also avaiable for windows."

UMWELT - Generative Ecosystem Synthesizer (VST / AU)

video upload by Laboratory 0

"UMWELT is a synthesizer made for listening. Press the capsule to generate an autonomous ecosystem with its own weather, tuning, four creature groups, and occasionally a language. Drag across the landscape to rotate the view. Active sounds light up and create ripples, revealing which group is active. The capsules along the top recall recent worlds.

Take your time with each world. Populations grow and decline, day turns to night, storms pass through, and the creatures copy each other's songs with small mistakes, so the same world sounds different ten minutes later.

Free Download: https://laboratory0.gumroad.com/"

How it works

A 64-bit seed sets every parameter of a world. The sound is made in four layers.

Substrate is one of four sustained generators:

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Norand Mono v3 from DenverSynthLabs

video upload by manmade madman

"Here's a quick demo of the new VST from DenverSynthLabs. Showing its wide capabilities as a dual oscillator bass synth, but also much much more. Using MOD notes-- single sounds-- you can even program drum tracks monophonically."

via DenverSynthLabs

"The Norand Mono mk1 and mk2 were left unfinished — firmware issues that never got solved, a company that went insolvent before it could fix them. MONOv³ finishes the job: updated firmware for your real hardware, plus a full digital twin with infinite patch storage, easier workflow, and near bit-perfect sound. Own a mk2? Load the firmware, run the hardware as a controller sending MIDI CC to the plugin, and pair it with the software for a NORAND DUAL."

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Day Project: Meet Nibbi - CHOMPI Goes Virtual

video upload by TemeculaDSP

"Don’t mean to throw you for a loop, but… meet NIBBI.

The folks at Chase Bliss and CHOMPI Club released CHOMPI’s firmware under the MIT license [see the announcement post], so I’ve adapted it to run in your DAW as a VST, Audio Unit, and AAX plugin for Pro Tools.

Record and sample sounds, play them across the keyboard, layer tape-style loops, and get weird with lo-fi saturation, wow and flutter, delay, reverb, and filters.

Big thanks to Chase Bliss and CHOMPI Club for opening this up!

Check it out: https://www.temeculadsp.com/nibbi"

Update:

Nibbi - How to start!
video upload by TemeculaDSP

Schmidt Vi Beta - Schmidt Synthesizer als Plug-in

video upload by Heiner Kruse - The Green Man(TGM) - sound.report

Follow-up to this post.

The Usual Suspects Blue Giant – Novation Supernova II Emulation

video upload by Autodafe

"A quick NO TALKING sound demo of Blue Giant by The Usual Suspects, the new simulator of the legendary Novation Supernova II.

Blue Giant recreates the original hardware using DSP56300-series DSP emulation and the original Novation ROM. Like the Supernova II, it offers an 8-part multitimbral architecture, up to 24 voices, three oscillators per voice, multimode filters, extensive modulation, arpeggiators and the original multi-effects system.

In this video I’m simply browsing through a selection of sounds and presets — no talking, just Blue Giant in action.

More info about Blue Giant / The Usual Suspects: https://theusualsuspects.io/

The Supernova II was one of the iconic virtual-analog synths of the early 2000s, and Blue Giant finally brings its distinctive sound into the DAW."

BLOT - Experimental Modal Synthesizer

video upload by Laboratory 0

"BLOT is an experimental modal synthesizer played by shaping matter instead of turning knobs: the geometry of a lump on screen is the patch.

Every piece of the lump is a modal resonator, eight damped oscillators tuned by its size. Smaller pieces ring higher, and sizes settle on just-intonation ratios of the MIDI root. How far apart the modes spread, how bright they are and how long they ring follow the piece's shape and heat. They are excited by a slow breathing noise, by strikes, by friction as you sweep over the matter, and, when it runs hot, by droplets: short tones above the ringing that rise as they burst.

Pull out a tendril and it becomes a plucked waveguide string, pitched by its length. Press in a dent and it becomes a formant filter, a mouth whose position sets the vowel. Cut a piece and its modes split into two pitches. Pieces that come close ring-modulate each other, and pieces that meet fuse back into one.

Rubbing heats the matter: the modes stretch and each piece's drive saturates. Pushed harder, a 4× oversampled multiband saturator with a feedback comb tuned to the root takes over from clipping. Memory, an eight-line feedback delay network, holds what the matter has played. MIDI notes move the root and strike every piece. Two engines play the same matter: default stays clean until the matter is rubbed or overloaded, while intense heats and drives it with every cut and strike, and makes hot pieces crackle. “Pause" freezes the matter in place while it keeps sounding.

VST+AU, macOS only
Free Download: https://laboratory0.gumroad.com/"

Map Audio: PAM

video upload by DATABROTH

"Read my full review here: https://www.databroth.com/blog/pam-re...

check out my wavetables and presets at https://gumroad.com/databroth
join my Patreon / databroth"

00:00 Initial Exploration
00:44 Further Exploration
01:16 Crystal Processor
02:07 Croissant
03:36 I'd M
04:42 Fugue State

Reflection 2.4: modular DAW records Metasurface gestures, adds chaos modulation

Reflection DAW Showcase - Videos created by our users

Tips and Tricks

video uploads by ReflectionDAW

"Reflection 2.4 is out. Reflection is an independent modular DAW and plugin host hand-coded in C++, for Windows, macOS and Linux.

THE METASURFACE, NOW WITH TAKES
Snapshot every parameter in the whole rig, place the snapshots on a 2D surface, and drag between them. The entire setup, plugins included, morphs in one gesture. New in 2.4, that gesture can be recorded as a take and played back in 16 slots: loop, reverse, palindrome, speed and follow actions, synced to the transport.

DIY LAB, NOW WITH CHAOS
Build your own modules from 60+ blocks and bake them into a single node. 2.4 adds a Strange Attractor with 11 shapes drawn live, a Chaos Oscillator, and Boids flocking as modulation you can wire to anything.

€100 perpetual, all 2.x updates included, no subscription, no telemetry. The free 45-day demo has every instrument and effect."

You can find additional details at https://reflection-daw.com

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Meet: Polyfold

video upload by Manifest Audio

"Polyfold is a multidimensional Max for Live sequencer, built for advanced polymetric MIDI sequencing and creative long-form electronic music production.

With 16 independent sequencer lanes and up to 1024 steps per lane, Polyfold enables large-scale step sequencing, generative pattern development, polyphonic output, and cross-lane interaction beyond the limitations of conventional step grids.

Available now for Ableton Live 12 and up at: https://manifest.audio/polyfold

Key Features:

• 16 independent parameter sequencers
• Up to 1024 steps per lane
• Dual rate-stage sequencing (Multiply + Divide)
• 4 polyphonic pitch lanes with per-note probability
• Internal pattern preset libraries with custom recall
• Long-form Transpose sequencer for extended progressions
• Global Chance, Velocity, Length, Hold, and Ratchet sequencing
• Modulation sequencers with OSC and MIDI CC output
• X-Relay routing for flexible MIDI distribution

Polyfold is designed for producers working with polymetric sequencing, generative composition, algorithmic sound design, and long-form musical installations."

Lo-Fi Electronica with Granular Piano & Soft Synths | Touch the moon 2026-09-30 by atnr

video upload by atnr

"An electronica piece where lo-fi piano textures overlap with quiet harmonies.

This piece was created with the OP-1 field, norns shield, volca fm2, and Omnisphere 2.

On the OP-1 field, a phrase is played using the ENDLESS sequencer and processed with reverb through the blueSky.

On the norns shield, a piano performance is recorded into graintopia and played back with granular processing. The output is connected to the Chase Bliss LOST+FOUND for delay and reverb.

The volca fm2 is processed through the Guyatone AE-5 for echo, followed by reverb through the MICROCOSM. The PHRASE LOOPER in the MICROCOSM is also used to capture and repeat phrases.

The remaining parts are built in Ableton Live using Omnisphere 2.

🎵 [Gear Used in This Video]

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Nord Modular G1 emulado (G1-Emu alpha 10) · Sound Demo 01

video upload by animatek

"Patreon - / animatek

Así suena G1-Emu alpha 10, el Nord Modular G1 emulado: el sistema operativo original corriendo sobre una CPU y cuatro DSP emulados, editado con Animatek NME. Sin hablar, solo sonido: una quincena de patches, de principio a fin.

⬇️ EN ESTE VÍDEO ⬇️

Una demo de sonido sin voz de G1-Emu alpha 10, el emulador del Nord Modular G1. Suenan pads, un órgano, drones, secuenciadores y un patch de cuatro slots con morphs, todos cargados desde Animatek NME. Se ve también el Patch Mutator de NME y el panel virtual del G1 con su pantalla, sus knobs y sus LEDs.

Si vienes del sintetizador modular virtual (VCV Rack, The Grid de Bitwig), esto es el modular de Clavia de finales de los 90, ahora en software. Es una alpha de la comunidad: el emulador no incluye ROM y necesitas tu propia copia de un Nord Modular rack con OS 3.03.

⬇️ ÍNDICE ⬇️

0:00 - Matriseq en el Nord Modular G1 emulado
0:50 - Fluid
1:30 - H-organ, un órgano modular
2:35 - Pads: Wide Pad y DreamPad
3:10 - Additive_PG, síntesis aditiva
4:50 - Stivves Seq, secuenciador con kick
5:30 - World of Seq III
6:30 - Butoh Drone y droon
7:50 - Clasico, con el Patch Mutator
9:15 - Auto-Eno1, música generativa
10:10 - PadSynt
11:30 - Luz Suspendida, cuatro slots
13:10 - Pulso Raíz, morphs y cuatro slots

⬇️ RECURSOS Y FORMACIÓN ⬇️

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AkSys: Akai's forgotten App for MPC4000, Z4, Z8, S5000 & S6000 Samplers!

video upload by TONELAB

This is the first post to feature AkSys.

"In this clip, I'll show you Akai's AkSys application designed to control and manage Programs inside your MPC4000, Z4, Z8, S5000 & S6000 Samplers while tethered via USB cable to your Mac or Windows computer.

'Download ready-made' Kits for SP1200, MPC & ASR.. https://store.tonelab.au

Book 1-on-1 consultations for Technical Support or Drum Machine Tuition: https://tonelab.au"

Pigments Play | Next-gen sounds for producers | ARTURIA

video uploads by Arturia

Follow-up to this post.

"Pigments Play distills the power of Pigments into a free, focused instrument for next-gen sound exploration. Explore 100 expertly curated presets, watch them respond as you play, and reshape them with clear, hands-on controls. Move through six forms of synthesis, 50+ filter modes and 20 effects, with sounds spanning luminous keys and liquid pads to heavyweight basses, animated sequences and razor-edged leads."

Pigments Play | How To Make a Track | ARTURIA
'Join Matt as he builds a full drum and bass track using Pigments Play, the power of Pigments distilled into a focused, playable instrument. See how rhythmic sequences, wobble subs, acid arpeggios, driven basses and atmospheric pads are layered and arranged into a tension-building intro, high-impact drop and dramatic half-time section.

_CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:38 Main Arp
00:58 Adding Bass
01:22 Adding Pads
01:52 Catchy Acid Lead
02:30 Kick Build-Up
02:55 Adding More Bass
03:25 One More Bass
03:30 Drums And Arrangement
04:21 All Together"

_DISCOVER Pigments Play → https://bit.ly/46Vksdk

KAZU - New Audio VST Plugin Out Now

video upload by Phase Fiasco

"KAZU is a creative multi-FX processor focused on making your sound move and evolve.
Its smart modulation algorithms animate your effects in a single click, creating shifting textures, unexpected rhythms, and happy accidents. Stack your effects, hit ANIMATE, and explore what happens.
Go from first idea to something unexpected in seconds.

Available now: https://www.phasefiasco.com/kazu"

Currents & Nostalgia - Patch making with the coming synth from Unusable Engineering & more presets

video upload by Unusable Engineering

"This is the second video showing about the coming software synthesizer from Unusable Engineering.

This time it is both preset making and showing off presets.

0:00 - 9:40 Patch Making and Workflow (talk and action)
9:40 - 19:58 Presets Playing

This video is going through the basic workflow in Currents & Nostalgia - using its two oscillators, the filter and the slot sequencers.

The idea is to give you a feel for how it is to work with the synth and how it sounds.

After making a new preset, which in no way was prepared, I play through quite a few of the other presets with a touch of reverb on the output. I use Geometry Reverb (which is free with any paid purchase from unusable.net). In the patch making section I also use a few other effects from Unusable Engineering on the very end. Ensemble Diffuser which is an analog style modulation plugin, Geometry Delay which is a multi-tap delay and Cavitation Fractures, which is a fluid simulator reacting to sound and affecting sound. (They are all available already).

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Using a filter as a distortion

video upload by DATABROTH

"check out my wavetables and presets at https://gumroad.com/databroth
join my Patreon / databroth"

Shoal sequencer overview and tutorial

video upload by Omri Cohen

"Here you can find the patches from this video - / early-access-170143183

Introduction - 00:00
Basic functionality - 00:14
Adding variation - 04:22
Expanders - 09:08
Polyphony - 12:56
Freeze - 16:29"

Also see Seeded Melodies, Evolving Drums — Gentle IDM Patch with Ormer Modular SHOAL (VCV Rack)

chipsynth OPMZ is here!

video upload by Plogue Art et Technologie, Inc.

"Video concept and production Mathew Valente (@tssf ) Music: Vectrax: Space Man / space-man"

Emulating the OPZ the HARD way

video upload by plgDavid

chipresearch episode 0x09 00:00 Intro 01:35 MSX Origins 03:05 Arcade Uses 08:02 OPM 21:32 OPP 25:38 OPZ 29:24 OPZ2 32:22 Outro rant

Once again, we've done it. We've meticulously recreated the original OPM (YM2151), OPP (YM2164), OPZ (YM2414) and OPZ2 (YM2424) sound chips in deep emulation from numerous digital captures, including the very many undocumented features. For instance, chipsynth OPMZ allows you to use the OPM's CSM mode in music. We also have a full recreation of the exact pattern and mechanics of its often neglected noise generator, and all the exact quirks of its LFO.

The OPZ chip used in the TX81Z was completely undocumented before the development of chipsynth OPMZ, and so we've done a full reverse engineering, discovering all the mysterious register overlays and previously unknown functionality such as internal volume ramping.

We've also done a deep dive on how exactly Yamaha themselves used the chips in the DX100, DX27, DX21, TX81Z and DX11 synthesizers, including their behaviour and analogue output stage and the DX21's chorus, making the whole package virtually identical.

Just as before, chipsynth OPMZ is based on human researched and programmed emulation code."

"Get chipsynth OPMZ here https://plogue.com/products/chipsynth...
Thank you!"