The Make Noise Soundhack Plexiphon is a stereo, modeless spatial texturizer which allows for continuously morphing between reverberations and multi-tap echoes, the widest range of possible results being neither reverb nor echo, and all results highlighting and amplifying character previously hidden in the source material being processed.
The Plexus control simultaneously modulates the number of feedback paths in the algorithm, and their entanglement together. The Size of the paths determines the temporal relation between them, operating like a “delay time,” or a “room size,” at either extreme of Plexus.
Diffuse and Color offer softening/sharpening/darkening/brightening effects over time.
Couple and Skew are stereo operations: Couple determines to what degree the left and right sides are isolated or intermingled (from “dual mono” to fully interlaced stereo), while Skew offers simultaneous inverse or tandem control of the left and right paths on the Plexus, Size, and Color parameters.
The Send gate input (normalled high, or patchable) determines whether and when the input signal will be fed into the Plexus.
Playlist:
1. Bastl Kalimba: An Expressive Instrument for Intuitive Electronic Music Exploration
2. Bastl Kalimba - Demo Overview
3. Bastl Kalimba is such a fever dream - HAINBACH
4. WTF did they make? Bastl Kalimba! - ANDREW HUANG
Press release follows:
Bastl Instruments are very proud to announce the release of their new instrument - Bastl Kalimba, a unique desktop instrument that combines microphones, touch sensors, and an accelerometer, with a user interface inspired by the traditional kalimba and its main interaction element: the tines.
We believe that this combination of features and physical interface leads to intuitive creativity and easy musical expression.
Erica Synths new desktop Resonant Filterbank is set to ship on May 18th. Check with dealers on the right on price and availability.
Details via Erica Synths:
Desktop Resonant Filterbank is a performance and studio production-friendly FX unit - an analog stereo filterbank. It has a set of ten bandpass filters with hands-on control over each bands’ boost or cut and complex control configurations that can turn it into an unconventional multimode filter with an envelope follower and an instrument on its own when played with various resonance settings or even an experimental sound generator for no-input mixer-like setups.
You can use it with synthesizers, drum machines, modular setups and thanks to an analogue GAIN STAGE that boosts incoming signals up to +24dB, with guitars and pretty much any other instrument. This is a tool that can let you discover entirely new sounds from the instruments you thought you knew inside-out.
User snapshots (presets), MIDI control over all parameters and a sleek aluminium case to match our lineup of compact desktop units will make the Resonant Filterbank and integral part of many studio and live performance setups.
"Drums is an analog and digital drum machine built for immediacy, depth, and performance."
Features.
Analog voices. Four analog voices built on modern SSI chips create a dense, classic tone with modern flexibility. Each stacks dual analog VCOs, a dedicated noise source, and additional digital oscillator for hybrid layering or precise FM modulation. Each shaped through a multimode analog filter and VCA, giving you everything from tight percussion to evolving synth textures.
Instruments. Multiple analog and digital synthesis methods, sample-based instruments, and eight independent LFOs give you the core tools for creating and modulating drum sounds. With over forty instruments, each containing its own sub-mode mutations, you get hundreds of options to choose from.
Live performance. Drums is designed for real-time control. Use the X0Y fader to morph kits, trigger fills instantly, and switch between patterns or sound kits without stopping playback. Key parameters stay close, so changes can be made while the pattern is running.
Effects. Drums includes three dedicated effects groups. Send effects for shared processing. Insert effects for individual tracks. A master chain for the final mix. Inserts can be sequenced per track, so effects become part of the rhythm rather than something added at the end.
Power The device runs on a dual-core main CPU, with auxiliary processors handling peripherals and analog control. Internal audio processing is done in 32-bit floating point at 96kHz, with 24-bit/96 kHz DAC and ADC conversion for audio input and output.
Ins & Outs. 2 × 1/4” audio out jacks 8 × 1/4” individual track output jacks 1 × 1/4” stereo headphone jack 2 × 1/4” audio in jacks
1 x 1/8” MIDI In jack 1 x 1/8” MIDI Out jack 1 x 1/8” MIDI Thru jack
"Meet the Buchla Ziggy - a new instrument formed around the famous Buchla “complex oscillator.” With a new, “unpatched” instrument experience, Ziggy offers quick, gestural means of assigning modulation and composing music. Ziggy incorporates many of the Buchla innovations that have long been taken for granted: digital control over the analog audio, additive synthesis, unique and musical interactions, and the focus on making an “instrument” rather than a “synthesizer.”
All sounds in the video were made with the Ziggy!
Learn more and preorder yours now at Buchla.com, a Buchla dealer, or Kickstarter!"
The Buchla Ziggy is a new instrument formed around the famous Buchla “complex oscillator.” With a new, “unpatched” instrument experience, Ziggy offers quick, gestural means of assigning modulation and composing music. Ziggy incorporates many of the Buchla innovations that have long been taken for granted: digital control over the analog audio, additive synthesis, unique and musical interactions, and the focus on making an “instrument” rather than a “synthesizer.”
Ziggy modernizes and simplifies a familiar Buchla tradition: composing music in a style of synthesis often associated with the western coast of America. Like any musical instrument, it can be played on its own, crafting sequences and sounds from its unique arrangement of controls. It pairs very nicely with a portable keyboard like the Buchla LEM218, but It also plays with a large range of third-party devices and DAWs through MIDI, USB, and 1v/octave CV.
There are a number of unique ways to shape your sounds internally and externally. The Cycler is an original modulation source that acts like the combination of a clock, envelope generator, LFO and random generator. With it, you can modulate pitch and timbre and/or trigger the gate envelopes. Other modulation sources include an “extra” slow LFO and external MIDI control. Rather than using cumbersome patchcords, modulation is assigned with switch selection and dialed in with the encoder or its own associated sliders.The modulation oscillator acts as the primary modulation source at low frequency or audio rates to modulate the Complex Oscillator with AM or FM modulation, and is often blended as a second sound source. The Envelope for the Low Pass Gate (a combination amplifier/filter) can be shaped by selecting common envelopes and manipulated in time and amount, rather than attack, decay, sustain, release.
Creatively, it is easy to quickly make music and design sounds with Ziggy. Assigning modulation to different parameters is made with simple gestures of holding buttons and moving sliders. Surprise is certain, with a source of “uncertainty” available for the Cycler’s attributes. Sounds are easily saved with the simple preset system. Glowing LEDs indicate assignments and modulations. Its unique analog sounds are sure to delight and entertain. Special chaotic modulators can be accessed from the menus, driving the sounds in unusual ways. Scales and alternate tunings expand your musical universe while pitch sliders can be quantized to scales to make them melodically playable
Musically, Ziggy is versatile. With two analog oscillators, multiple modulators, a variety of tunings, envelopes, and wavefolding and shaping, there’s a variety of sounds to be made. While Buchla is often associated with the purely experimental, there’s strange strings, wonderful drums, exotic leads, plucky percussions, and deeply felt basses that can be synthesized from Ziggy.
Practically, Ziggy fits well in a small studio. The patchcord-free design, simple USB-C power, and comprehensive MIDI control makes it easy to add to your kit; its handsome, durable enclosure of oak and steel with classic Buchla style makes it belong. Configure the device through its simple menus or using a web browser and the web app.
"The ADDAC406 Clock Bender by ADDAC System, it turns simple rhythms, into complex syncopated patterns through unconventional clock divisions."
0:00 Intro
0:19 Overview
0:50 Clock input and BPM detection
1:17 A & B channels
1:43 BPM multiplier
2:09 Beats duration
2:26 B channel and white background
3:07 Resetting one or both channels
3:43 Curves duration and progress bar
3:53 Balance control
4:12 Left and right curves
4:37 One shot mode
5:21 Loop Mode
5:39 Fine: pause and bpm fine-tuning
6:03 Rest, hold and infinite rest/hold
7:51 Save settings
8:13 First patch
9:21 Second patch
Update:
Diving deep into Clock Bender, a novel trigger generator from ADDAC System
"In this video, we'll be diving deep into Clock Bender, a new Eurorack module from ADDAC System that generates constantly changing trigger patterns from an input clock signal."
"This module introduces a unique approach to rhythm, it can add complexity to any pattern by superimposing extremely odd divisions creating syncopation and rhythmic complexity. It provides extensive possibilities for rhythmic creation, transforming static rhythmic patterns into dynamic and complex rhythmic layering enhancing the rhythmic foundation set by the primary clock. It allows users to explore and generate rhythms in previously unattainable ways.
The module operates by taking an input clock signal and generating two new independent outputs that dynamically accelerates or decelerates the BPM toward a user-defined destination BPM over a specified number of beats. Meaning that the output generation is never constant, they will always be dynamically accelerating or decelerating, where no interval between two pulses is the same, the current interval will always be shorter or longer than the previous interval.
This principle will generate unique metrics that when played against the main clock will create extremely unique patterns, from simple swing /syncopation to beyond free-jazz completely unexpected while mathematically justified metrics.
Tech Specs:
8HP
4.5cm deep
110mA on +12V
20mA on -12v"
A voltage-controlled experimental instrument designed to play emotion as sound. The Mood Swinger merges FM drone synthesis with tactile performance controls, letting you sculpt evolving soundscapes that shift between love, pain, happiness, and anger.
At the center is a gamepad-inspired joystick interface, allowing expressive, real-time modulation of complex drone layers. A built-in light-sensitive sensor reacts to environmental changes, adding organic movement and unpredictability to the sound.
The system generates cross-modulated frequencies and evolving textures, blending harmonic warmth with harsh dissonance. Push the controls far enough, and the gate opens, unleashing intense, unstable sonic states.
Features:
* FM-based drone engine with deep modulation * Emotional state switching: Pain / Happy / Anger / Love * Joystick controller for expressive performance * Light sensor for reactive sound modulation * Full CV control (Eurorack compatible) * Works as both standalone instrument and modular system component * Integrates with sequencers, LFOs, and external CV sources
This isn’t just a synthesizer—it’s a performance instrument for emotional exploration, where tension and harmony continuously collide.
"LIQUID SKY d-vices SMUDGETIZER PRO 2 bit bitcrusher desktop multi FX at this year’s SynthFest France, the Liquid Sky artistcollective from Santana dada Serra, Portugal launches the first chapter of a new experimental desktop multi fx series built in the beloved zen delay format.
all units are handcrafted in Santana dada Serra and designed to connect worlds: cv / gate inputs meet midi clock–syncable modulations - engineered for maximum audio wreckage.
this is not about polite breadnbutter effects: our d-vices are sonic troublemakers for bad ass artists, noiseheads and experimental sound labs.
the series begins with the SMUDGETIZER PRO 2bit bitcrusher — a beautifully destructive stereo machine with integrated lfos, ready to bend, fkk up, break, and reassemble your sound into something floor-shakingly new and evil.
developed by Thilo Goldschmitz, it works with pretty much anything you throw at it: guitars, bass, drums and drum machines, synths, voices, worldreceivers and of course… noise.
a eurorack version is coming too: 40 hp wide. yes, we know that’s a lot of rack space. yes, it’s intentionally big. we love instruments you can actually play. no, we’re not making a smaller version. and yes, we’re friends… but you don’t have to remind us every five minutes that it’s a lot of rack space. <3 :)
the eurorack edition will be available in autumn.
price for the pedal: 299 eur plus vat plus shipping."
Pictured here is a Google image tranlated article on the EEH Zaunkoenig. You can find the original German sent in (and shared on Sequencer.de) via Swissdoc below.
Check with dealers on the right on pricing and availability.
"This is your official introduction to the Neutral Labs Luna - a new lunetta-style “groovebox” desktop & eurorack compatible synth. It’s patch programmable, letting you both create tones and rhythms from 5 oscillators (2 with step sequencers inside), logic and pattern generators, all at the same time. Three 'LPG's take the raw tones and let you gate and filter them. 13 effects in 2 blocks effect and shape sounds further.
Enormous thanks to Martin at Neutral Labs for commissioning me to make a vid of this. The world needs more shift registers. Note: I used my own red Tiptop Audio Stackcables in the video, but the desktop module comes with 12 braided patch cables."
Neutral Labs Luna – the first serious Lunetta synthesizer
"Join us for an exploration of what Lunetta Synthesizers are, what the new Luna from Neutral Labs is and why you should care.
The short answer is that it’s an interesting series of raw digital building blocks from a sonic sculptor (Stanley Lunetta) with lots of modern quality of life features that allow you to approach timbre as rhythm, rhythm as timbre then round that out with low pass gates and FX.
More info at https://neutral-labs.com"
*TIMING INDEX // CHAPTERS*
INTRO 00:00 Hello & previews 02:13 What is a Lunetta synthesizer? 02:54 What is Luna? 04:07 Luna feature run down 06:14 How this video is a bit different
PATCHES & SOUNDS 07:05 Comb filter drones for dark industrial soundtracks 07:55 Hypnotic drones & dual oscillator lead lines 11:20 Bouncing bass & low end swells 11:55 New rhythms from AND & XOR logic 16:05 Fireside crackles & sputtering motorbike engines 16:35 Characterful lo fi LPGs & FX for modular synth voices 19:04 Ambient gritty echoes for happy synth blips 19:29 Shift register rhythms - gate delayed musical canons for your rhythms 23:25 Metallic bass hits & interactive rhythms 23:56 Modulation ‘hooks’ from binary counter clock dividing 26:39 Experimental expressive noise wrangling 27:05 Binary counter sub octaves & external modulation of filter FX 29:12 Alien critters clashing into ambient space 29:48 Monstrous sounds from multiplexing 33:13 Metallic synthesis & bell like tones & swells 33:49 Metallic synthesis for cymbals + dynamic LPG modulation
"Logic, Unbound. Meet Luna. The first serious Lunetta synthesizer.
Look beyond clean waveforms and predictable polyphony. Luna will take you back to a time when digital didn’t mean perfect. It meant raw. Inspired by the subterranean DIY culture of the 70s and 80s, Luna is a love letter to the Lunetta machines of old: Living, breathing organisms built from CMOS logic chips. But where those machines were fragile experiments, Luna is a weaponized instrument of sonic confusion.
The Nervous System Exposed. True to the Neutral Labs philosophy, we don’t believe in hiding the magic behind an opaque face plate. Luna features exposed CMOS inputs and outputs right on the front panel. You're not just patching cables, you are rewiring the brain of the synthesizer itself. Combine signals, bend logic, and physically intervene in the computation to create sounds that shouldn't exist.
Rhythm is Timbre. Timbre is Rhythm. In the world of Luna, there is no difference between a sequencer and an oscillator. The same digital pulse that drives a bass line can be accelerated into a screeching lead or folded into a metallic drone.
5 oscillators provide the raw material. A chaotic array of logic blocks (XOR, NOT, AND, shift registers, counters, multiplexer) will chew up those signals and spit out complex, evolving mathematical noise.
Taming the Digital Mess. Raw logic can be harsh. To turn this binary chaos into music, Luna feeds its digital soul through 3 organic low-pass gates. These analog circuits impart a natural decay and percussive punch to the madness, transforming mathematical errors into bongos, plucks, and thumping basslines.
Drench it in Atmosphere. Once you’ve constructed your signal, destroy it again. Luna comes equipped with a suite of effects — distortion, delay, reverb, chorus, bitcrusher, phaser and more — to smear your logic into a wash of ambient bliss or gritty industrial texture.
5 oscillators logic gates (2 XOR, 2 NOT, 2 AND) 5 logic blocks (5-step ring counter,4-bit binary counter, 2 shift registers, 4-channel multiplexer) 3 touchpads that generate logic signals 3 channels for audio manipulation (low-pass gates with adjustable decay and switchable trigger mode, gain, tilt EQ) 13 audio effects that can be freely assigned to 2 effect slots running in series (drive, delay, reverb, 6 filter types, bitcrusher, phaser, chorus, comb filter) CV control for effects and 2 oscillators MIDI control over 2 oscillators, all 3 low-pass gates, and 3 logic outputs (MIDI TRS A socket) 2 sequencers with up to 64 steps, syncable to clock or MIDI audio output is headphone compatible available as a desktop synth or 42 HP Eurorack module (desktop version comes with a 12-pack of black/gold braided patch cables) See more videos and photos on Instagram.
Note: For sustainability reasons, the desktop version does not come with a USB power supply, just a USB-A to USB-C cable. You will need a 5V supply, such as a phone charger, power bank or laptop.
Note: The desktop version has a Eurorack power header and can be placed into a Eurorack. The desktop case however has 5V USB power and no Eurorack rails, you cannot use it as a 42 HP rack without modifications."
"Hi it's Jeremy from Red Means Recording. I'm auctioning off my Phase8 for charity.
This unit has been used in recording a video and then repackaged. Any wear or tear on the device is minimal. Handled with care.
100 percent of the proceeds for this auction will go to Freedom for Immigrants. They specifically focus on monitoring ICE detention centers, running a national detention hotline, and posting immigration bonds to free people.
The unit is current NOT signed, but I am happy to sign it for you if you want. I will throw in some fun random goodies.
"Hello, this time I am presenting my own sounds tweaked on my OB-6 modern analog synthesizer. This model has high-end sharp sounding oscillators and juicy filters which is a common feature of Oberheim synths."
1. Zinovieff featured on "Tomorrows World" (1968) - Clip from BBC Program
2. Zinovieff from BBC's "New Horizons" (1971)
3. Rise and Fall of EMS London - Zinovieff interview
4. EMS Studio London - Peter describes the challenges of the electronic studio
5. Peter and Robin at EMS Oxfordshire Studio
6. Malcolm Clarke demonstrates Synthi 100
7. VCS3 Waves and Harmonics
8. Liz Parker demonstrates Synthi 100 Radiophonic
And a massive playlist from Ektoplasmic Interzone featuring additional videos:
Electronic Music Studios (EMS) London Ltd Synthi
You can use the player controls to skip around. Click the drop down on the trop right of the player to scroll through titles.
This one was spotted and sent in via Ivan Trajkovic aka deejayiwan. Note the video is from 11 years ago so not AI. Could be a render for a soft synth or other though. Could be DIY, but note the touch panel or screen. According to the YouTube comments "Picture is only for cover. Not sure which synth it is. Will try to find out." There was no follow-up that I could find after that aside from mention the album itself mainly features Arturia. You can find a list of hardware synths and some harware synth spotting in this previous post featuring Dreamland. If you know what that blue synth above is, feel free to leave a comment at the bottom of this post, or send email to matrixsynth at gmail.com and I'll update the post with anything definitive. BTW, you can find additonal Mystery Synths via the Mystery Synths label here. There have only been 23 including this one, to date, since 2005. Update: answer in the comments of this post below. That was quick.
