BAF 2025: Sound Workshop Quord Drone Synth

video upload by sonicstate

"At BAF 2025, we caught up with Chris from Sound Workshop, who introduced the Quord drone synth. Chris explained that the Chord is a departure from his previous work with the expressive mono synth, Wiggler*. He described the *Quord as a drone synth that instantly produces sound upon activation, differentiating itself by being capable of playing chords with its four-note setup. The synth uses long sliders to tune four sawtooth waves and short sliders for mixing, with knobs for sound shaping.

Quord includes an analog filter, adapted from the PosiCell Eurorack module, designed by Carson from DecaPod Devices. The Quord also incorporates an LFO that modifies the filter, along with a distortion effect. Chris emphasized fun features like the resonance button and showcased a bass drum effect created by the LFO within the audio mix, simulating a side-chain effect. Pre-orders for the Chord began, with an April shipping target and priced at $399.

More Info:

https://soundwork.shop/"

See this post for an additional demo.

Quord Patch of the Week: Bell

video upload by Sound Workshop

"How to make a ringing bell sound on Quord."

Wiggler Trumpet Patch

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"Wiggler is an immediate fun, standalone, expressive monosynth. You can wiggle for vibrato and push for tremolo.

I just started beta testing, and gave the first unit to LA musician Nick Leng. Here’s a quick video I made for him showing how to set up the baseline patch.

We’re developing this to sell no earlier than late 2024."

Calm Synth Drone on Quord

video upload by Sound Workshop

"A little jam to show what #quord can do. It’s four sawtooth oscillators, a mixer, a filter, and a distortion. For half of the video I’m using the filter resonance as a fifth voice. The pitches it latches onto usually compliment the drone.

Still finalizing the design but I have parts on the way.

Circuit design by Decapod Devices"

Repairdown: Wiggler Time Slider

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"Let’s fix a broken slider and see insider Wiggler v3.

To purchase a beta Wiggler, please e-mail fundraising (at) soundwork.shop"

SUPERBOOTH 2024: Sound Workshop - Wiggler Expressive Mono Synth

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"At Superbooth 2024, we met up with Chris at Sound Workshop who revealed his unique *Wiggler*, a digital monosynth with a single morphing oscillator that you can blend with white noise, and a keybed that can wiggle up and down as well as left to right. Chris describes it as a MiniMoog for expressive synth nerds, with pressure giving loudness expression and wiggling for vibrato. The small keybed gives you one octave of a selectable scale, and was inspired, Chris tells us, by old flutes. There is also an attack decay envelope called Strike which adds a little harmonic thwack to the start of the sound.

Wiggler has MIDI and 5 CV outputs for each of the expressive parameters so you can wiggle away on any synth you like.

Wiggler available: end of 2024. Price: around 850 USD"

Quord: Harmony Exploration Machine Overview

video upload by Sound Workshop

"Quord is a harmony exploration machine with 4 sawtooth waves on long pitch sliders that flow into a mixer, filter, and distortion. This video discusses some interesting behaviors that emerged from it.

Circuit by Decapod Devices."

Quord: Harmony Exploration Machine

video upload by Sound Workshop

"Music to wake up to

Quord is a droning harmony synthesizer. It has four sawtooth oscillators followed by a mixer, filter, and distortion.

Circuit by Decapod Devices. Layout by Sound Workshop. Work in progress."

Wiggler and TX-6 synth jam

video upload by Fluent Instruments

"Wiggler and TX-6 Jam

My #synthdiy Wiggler is a simple expressive monosynth, like a minimoog crossed with a wooden flute.

I discovered it plays really well with distortion. I only tried this because I found the distortion on the TX-6. The TX-6 also lets me pipe the audio into my phone and monitor it while recording!

The patch is a sawtooth wave with wiggle modulation thru a low pass filter with press modulation. There’s also a decay envelope to whack the filter.

#synthesizer #mpe #osmose"

See this post for another demo and overview. Note the YouTube name has switched from Sound Werkshop to Fluent Instruments.

Wiggler Expressive Monosynth, noodling over “Artemis” by AURORA

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Wiggler Demo at Hardware Meetup


"Just another short demo, I love showing wiggler to people. Wait for the applause halfway through. I have a version 2 wiggler with real circuit boards and a metal case, I'll make a more detailed video to show it to you up close."

You can see a prior incarnation here.

Wiggler - Expressive Synth using Daisy Seed and Flexure #synthdiy

video upload by Sound Werkshop

"In this video I describe an expressive synthesizer I'm working on called the Wiggler. Here's what we cover:

0:00 - Intro Jam
0:26 - What are Expressive Synthesizers?
1:02 - Wiggler Overview
2:07 - Daisy Seed
2:25 - Flexure enables motion
3:09 - Hall Effect Sensor measures motion
4:00 - Build Process
5:15 - Synth Patch Breakdown
8:55 - Outro Jam

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SoundWerkshop"