Superbooth 2017 - Grp Synthesizer Goes Eurorack

Published on Apr 28, 2017 DivKidVideo

"Grp Synthesizer had one hell of a system at Superbooth 2017 with 12 of what will be a 30 module release later this year. Lots of classic analogue sounds and potential signal paths across VCOs, Mixer, different filters, VCA, output stages and a fixed filter bank. Plus all the modulation."

Superbooth 2017 - Soulsby Synths Oscidrum Odytron & AT-ARP

Published on Apr 28, 2017 DivKidVideo

"Soulsby Synths have given the firmware a work over for the Oscitron with the new Oscidrum and Odytron and there's also the new AtArp arpeggiator module in 2HP. Come and check out that from the rather noisy show floor at Superbooth."

Superbooth 2017 - Alyseum MS Matrix & Stereo Recorder

Published on Apr 28, 2017 DivKidVideo

"Alyseum presented there MS Matrix and [Record] Stereo Recorder and playback device at Superbooth 2017. Using a Make Noise Pressure Points to shift matrix presets was a really powerful way to interact and manipulate the system."

See this post for details on the MS Matrix.

The 20 Synthesizer - Axel Hartmann's High-End

Published on Apr 27, 2017 Synthtopia

"Industrial designer Axel Hartmann and his company Designbox have handled the industrial design for dozens of synthesizers - including the Waldorf Wave, the Alesis Andromeda, the Moog Voyager XL, the Arturia Minibrute and the Schmidt synthesizer.

At Superbooth, Hartmann was showing a personal project, the '20' synthesizer - a high-end synthesizer created to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his company.

In this video, Hartmann explains the background of the project, some of the design ideas that he wanted to explore with the '20' and gives a demo of what it can do."

Superbooth 2017 - VPME Euclidean Circles & Synth Bag

Published on Apr 27, 2017 DivKidVideo

"Vladimir certainly caught our attention as we walked around Superbooth 2017 with his synth bag flashing away. VPME have the Euclidean Circles module and Vladimir had a Boss DR550, Euclidean Circles and some new unreleased eurorack modules all in his battery powered synth bag."

Superbooth 2017: Twisted Electrons - New Machines For 2017!

Published on Apr 27, 2017 sonicstate

therapsid mkii & Crazy 8 sequencer.

Superbooth 2017: Advanced Circuit Lab - High End Eurorack Modules

Published on Apr 27, 2017 sonicstate

Superbooth 2017 - Moog Music Inc & Moog Soundlab UK

Published on Apr 26, 2017 DivKidVideo

"Finlay from Future Sound Systems gave us a great run down of the Moog Modular and also talked us through the Moog Soundlab UK that he runs. HE IS MR MOOG UK. Feel free to comment about a synth calendar, he'll love it I'm sure ;-)"

Moon Modular At Superbooth 17

Published on Apr 26, 2017 Synthtopia

"At Superbooth 17, we talked with Gert Jalass of Moon Modular and got an update on his line of 5U modular synthesizers.

He gave us an introduction to his latest filter design, showed his new Moog-style Tolex cases and gave us a quick demo."

Superbooth 2017 - Eowave Quadrantid Swarm

Published on Apr 26, 2017 DivKidVideo

"Stu from Eowave gave us a run through the Quadrantid Swarm desktop unit. Spring reverb, drone, synth voice, sequencer, chord machine. All sorts of good stuff going on."

Superbooth 2017 TEENAGE ENGINEERING OP-Z Synthesizer and Audio Video Sequencer

Published on Apr 26, 2017 MusicStoreTV

"The ultimate all-in-one machine for your show to control audio, video, midi, dmx and create music and visuals."

Superbooth 2017 TEENAGE ENGINEERING PO-32 Pocket Operator Tonic

Published on Apr 26, 2017 MusicStoreTV

"Welcome the newest member of the Pocket Operator family."

Superbooth 2017: NonLinear Labs C15

Published on Apr 26, 2017 Ask.Audio

"The C15 is a synthesizer with a difference. Its focus is on pure musical performance. You won't MIDI or sequencers or arpeggiators here, just controls for real-time musical expression."

Superbooth 2017: Bastl Instruments THYME Digital Tape Machine

Published on Apr 25, 2017 SYNTH ANATOMY

Superbooth 2017 - Frap Tools Sapel & Fumana

Published on Apr 25, 2017 DivKidVideo

"Simone from Frap Tools gave us a great walk through the Sapel random generator. Lots of random, lots of control and lots of output. The new module is Fumana which sounds great but I thought it was another 16 band fixed filter bank. However, it's a 32 band filter bank as there's a second hidden layer you can input to which allows full 16 band vocoding. Nice!"

via Frap Tools

"fumana / ˈfuma:na / s.f. [dialect of Modena, from fūmus, ‘smoke’] – ‘fog’. Like spectres use to lie into the thick fog (which the Modenese countrisyde is pretty rich of), so many spectral capabilities and functions do within the thick bands of the ‘fumana’.
The FUMANA is an all analog dual filter bank with various control to access dynamically these bands. Each filter bank is composed of an array of 16 independent 48dB/oct bandpass filters. Having two identical filter arrays, allows you to use one of those for spectral analysis (of a modulator signal) and the other for spectral re-synthesis (of the main signal). Each array is sub-grouped in odd and even bands (numbering these increasingly from 1 to 16 from left to right). It is possible to apply different signal to odd and even bands, both for main and/or modulator arrays. This, together with the 16 envelope followers connected to each band of the modulator filterbank, and the 16 VCA connected to each band of the main filterbank, allows the FUMANA to perform a single 16 bands or a dual 8 bands analog spectral transfer.

While the upper section provide access to each main filter’s direct output, the lower section has 4 voltage controllable parameters to manage two independent functions for further spectral editing: tilt and scan.

The tilt, as the name suggest, tilts the spectrum, adding and subtracting amplitude to the 16 bands, emphasizing lower or high bands, and attenuating high or lower bands: this is managed only with the green potentiometer.

The scan, instead, works with three parameters: peak/notch, band selector and width. Like in a parametric equalizer, where is possible to set peak/notch gain, frequency and slope, the FUMANA uses three parameters to set which is the center band to perform this manipulation, then if that band should be emphasized or attenuated, and how this action is extended to nearby bands.

In addition to the 16 bandpass outputs, there are other 4 outputs provided: the all bands output, the all envelope followers output, the odd bands and the even bands output. These two have the options to be inverted in phase with two switches, in order to obtain even more combination when summed together, maybe/also with the “all bands output”, using, for example the 333 module.

Since a spectral transfer tool may be used as a “vocoder-like-effect”, the FUMANA provides an input for an external noise which may be used for unvoiced (fricative/sibilants) sounds as words containing or starting with s, f, z, ch and other fricative sounds ([s] [z] [ʃ] [tʃ] [dʒ] [ts] [ʂ] [f] [v] [ɸ] [θ] [ʒ] etc etc)."

Superbooth 2017 - Expert Sleepers FH 1 Disting & General CV

Published on Apr 25, 2017 DivKidVideo

Superbooth 2017 Round Tour

Published on Apr 25, 2017 AMAZONAmag

"Just follow us and get some impressions of the Superbooth 17 April 2017 in Berlin."

Superbooth 2017 SHERMAN Filterbank 2 Compact Portable Mini Model

Published on Apr 25, 2017 MusicStoreTV

"Mr. Herman has shrunk his Filterbox."

Superbooth 2017 - Ornament & Crime

Published on Apr 25, 2017 DivKidVideo

"Max one part of the trio behind the open source Ornament & Crime module gave us some history of the module and a quick introduction to the new chord sequencer."

Superbooth 2017 - Zetaohm FLXS1

Published on Apr 25, 2017 DivKidVideo

"Tenkai from Zetaohm gave us a great demo of the FLXS1 sequencer at Superbooth 2017. Arpeggios per step, multi channel, modulation outputs etc very powerful. The kickstart is here for those that want to support it and grab a cheaper early bird version - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/..."