“IOLabs Flux 27 - electronic and jazzy” by Friendly Noise

video upload by Friendly Noise

"Modules:
IO Labs Flux, Roland System 500, Strymon Magneto, Noise Engineering Basimilus Iteritas Alter, Native Instruments Plaits, SSF Vortices, ALM Akemie’s Taiko, North Coast Synthesis MKS 007 Leapfrog filter, Mutable Instruments Branches, Intellijel Plonk, WMD Crucible.

Patch notes included in the video. 

Flux is an incredible tool for the creation and manipulation of rhythms. It is made by IO Labs and uses a new method of control named TMS (Temporal Modulation Synthesis)."

“Flux meets Jupiter-4 12 - More LFO” by Friendly Noise

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Flux meets Jupiter-4 episodes

"This is number 12 of a video series combining the best of vintage sound and the best of the modern sequencer technology in eurorack: Roland Jupiter 4 and IO Labs Flux. There will be a new short video every week.

The Jupiter 4 is always recorded in mono, which makes the internal chorus very subtle. Reverb is added in Cubase to make the sound wider. There is no clipping in the recording chain. If you hear anything close to distortion, it’s all in the sound coming out of the Jupiter 4.

The Roland Jupiter 4 has been rediscovered and established as the most full of character among the Roland polyphonic synths. Although limited in number of voices and straight forward sound architecture, it shines with an unique sonic print which no other synth can emulate. There are lots of great video demos and information on the web, so that no detailed description will be provided here. But it’s important to mention some unique features which will be showed extensively in this video series:

- The Jupiter 4 filter goes into self oscillation. Big guys like Yamaha CS-80, Jupiter 8 or Oberheim OBX-a can’t.
- The LFO is fast enough to get into audio range.
- There is a very noticeable internal saturation when the VCA slider is raised.

Don’t expect nice bass sounds and classic analog leads. The Jupiter 4 is perfect for that, but this has already been done before in many records and internet demos. What you are about to hear is the extreme side of the sound. Be prepared for drones, massive low frequencies, cracking saturation, ultra fast notes and unusual scales. Many sounds will remind you of modular synthesizers, but they were all created by direct recording of the Jupiter 4. :-)

In fact, the VCO is switched off and you will be hearing only the self oscillating filter in almost 80% of the video series. Only in the last videos you will hear the VCO. That means that 80% of the sounds you will hear couldn’t be made with other classic polyphonic synths, unless the filter self oscillates.

Luckily this Jupiter 4 was modded with CV and gate inputs and outputs per voice (and then some). Using this level of control per voice you can use the Jupiter 4 as a vintage monophonic synth, or drive individual voices differently. For example, applying vibrato or slide per voice. In this video series, only three voices were used.

The amazing sound of this Jupiter 4 can break the traditional boundaries specially when driven by the Temporal Modulation Synthesis sequencer Flux, made by IOLabs: https://www.tmsynthesis.com/
Flux is the most advanced tool for rhythm creation ever made. Ever. Trying to explain Flux is few words is not possible. Please look for information on the web."

“IOLabs Flux 28 - Ambient” by Friendly Noise

video by Friendly Noise

"IO Labs Flux, Roland System 500, Strymon Magneto, Noise Engineering Basimilus Iteritas Alter, Native Instruments Plaits, SSF Vortices, ALM Akemie’s Taiko, North Coast Synthesis MKS 007 Leapfrog filter, Mutable Instruments Branches, Intellijel Plonk, WMD Crucible."

Final 24 Hours to Support Flux on Kickstarter

via TM Synthesis

"During the course of the Kickstarter campaign the Flux hardware and firmware designs have expanded significantly. Details of the confirmed expansions can be found in the summary list below:

Hardware Expansion
4 analog outputs (1 per channel capable of synchronised envelopes/LFOs/stepped voltages for dynamics and timbre shaping in patches)
4 additional inputs (Flux now has 4 gate and 4 CV inputs)
4 additional transportation pushbuttons
Micro SD card support for unlimited preset storage


Firmware Expansion
Phase shifting per channel (full 360 degree control of curve starting point)
Modulation Buses (3 buses allowing each step to be modulated from unique buses)

KICKSTARTER LINK HERE!

The final Kickstarter campaign reward tier is priced at £349. There will be a limited number of pre-order slots available after the campaign ends for anyone who misses out on Kickstarter. The pre-order price will be £395 and will ship with Kickstarter rewards in August and the estimated eventual retail price will be around £450 when modules are available around November/December this year.

Pre-orders will be available a few days after the Kickstarter campaign concludes on the Flux website:

FLUX WEBSITE LINK HERE!

FLUX Update: Envelope Outputs & Micro SD Stretch Goals

via TM Synnthesis/In Orbit Laboratories:

"Thanks to our backers Flux is now 330% funded on Kickstarter! Since launch, we have added Phase Shifting, additional IO (now 4 trigger in, 4 CV in), additional interface controls, brass thumb screws, optional matte black panel & now we have 2 exciting final stretch goals!

Click here for Flux on Kickstarter!

Final Stretch Goals

4 Variable Voltage Outputs
This stretch goal converts 1 aux output per channel to a synchronised and programmable envelope generator (link this variable voltage output to trigger density for example to automatically generate an envelope directly related to your rhythm)!

Micro SD Card Slot
This stretch goal will add a micro SD card slot for unlimited preset storage, easy sharing of patches online and settings backups!

You can see the fully expanded interface layout below!" [left]

TM Synthesis FLUX - Temporal Modulation Rhythm Sequencer For Eurorack Launches on Kickstarter

Follow-up to this post. You can find the Kickstarter here.

"Flux is a Temporal Modulation Synthesis™ Complex Rhythm Sequencer for Eurorack.

With Flux, I aimed to create a rhythm sequencer that went beyond quantized rhythms. I wanted the ability to compose true polyrhythms, Euclidean rhythms, realistic and complex rhythms easily. Developing Flux with these goals in mind resulted in the Temporal Modulation Synthesis algorithm. I believe that with Flux I have now arrived at the perfect set of parameters to interact with the TM Synthesis algorithm easily. The ARM Cortex-M7 provides the processing power to execute the module with 64-bit double floating point precision, calculating rhythms with an extremely high degree of accuracy.

This next section has a lot of info about Temporal Modulation Synthesis, if you don't care about the details, prefer to experiment or just want to make exciting rhythms, skip to the Humanize section!

WHAT IS TEMPORAL MODULATION SYNTHESIS?

Temporal Modulation Synthesis applies a curvature to time, creating rhythms by modulating the linearity of trigger distribution within a step (each step can output a density of between 1-64 triggers). This video shows the density of a single step sweeping from 1 to 64:"

You can find the video and more at the Kickstarter campaign here.

TM Synthesis FLUX - Temporal Modulation Rhythm Sequencer to Launch on Kickstarter

FLUX Kickstarter Trailer from FLUX on Vimeo.

Visit www.TMsynthesis.com for more info!

via https://www.tmsynthesis.com

"Flux is a Temporal Modulation Synthesis Complex Rhythm Sequencer for Eurorack.

Temporal Modulation Synthesis applies a curvature to time, creating rhythms by modulating the linearity of trigger distribution within a step (each step can output a density of between 1-64 triggers). Trigger distribution can be modulated with a choice of 15 TM curves, the curvature of which ranges from -10 to +10 in 0.01 increments (2000 possible curvatures). Positive curvature values produce logarithmic responses, negative values produce exponential responses and a curvature of 0 results in linear spacing. 16 TM steps can be sequenced per channel, each with unique length, density, curve and curvature parameters. FLUX uses 64-bit double-precision floating point math internally to calculate rhythms with an extremely high degree of precision.

True Euclidean rhythms, polyrhythms & complex rhythmic patterns are extremely easy to generate and wide ranging in scope.

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