Evening Synths Challenge #2 - Modal Skulpt, VXXY DCM8, Teenage Engineering PO-16 factory

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"This session was quite challenging. A VA synth, a rare digital chiptune drum machine and a small bare bone synth. Overall, I'm very happy with the result. The most fun part was playing the melody line live with the PO-16. Although you really have to concentrate to play everything correctly with the very small buttons.

The Setup was:
Synths: Modal Skulpt, VXXY DCM8, Teenage Engineering PO-16 factory
Effects: Oto Machines BOUM, Beetronics FX Seabee, Pigtronix Echolution 2 Deluxe, Beetronics FX Swarm
Freely selectable effects: GFI Systems Specular Reverb 2

Recordings:
Drums: VXXY DCM8 - Beetronics FX Seabee - Oto Machines BOUM
Pads: Modal Skulpt - Pigtronix Echolution 2 Deluxe - GFI Systems Specular Reverb 2
Melody: Engineering PO-16 factory - Beetronics FX Swarm - Pigtronix Echolution 2 Deluxe, GFI Systems Specular Reverb 2

The Reason:
How do you deal with having too much gear (like me)? It can hamper creativity, but for me there is also a way to use it to boost creativity. Challenge yourself with it!

Here is my challenge:
1. Random selection of three sound generators to use (plus drums can be added with the EZdrummer and a rhythm sample)
2. Random selection of four effect devices to use (plus another two freely selectable effects can be used)
3. Everything has to be finished in one evening (after work until bedtime).

The signal went through a Presonus StudioLive 16.0.2 into the PC via USB for recording. To create the complete song I recorded consecutively several stereo tracks. On some tracks Compressor and EQ where added in Cubase. The final song was then mastered using iZotope Ozone."

VXXY Dcm8 CHIPTUNE 8-bit Drum Synth

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"Highly sought after long discontinued and out of business, VXXY DCM8 CHIPTUNE 8-BIT DIGITAL DRUM SYNTHESIZER"

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VXXY DCM8 Digital Chiptune Drum Machine : PATTERN EDIT & PLAY

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VXXY DCM8 Digital Chiptune Drum Machine Synth

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VXXY DCM8 DIGITAL CHIPTUNE DRUM MACHINE SYNTH

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vxxy dcm8 chiptune drum machine synthesizer

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"the power is in the DAC bit crush and the 2 track sequencer... sounds very c64, mssiah and gameboy lsdj."

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ALEX4 with Andreas Schneider: the lightning tour Messe '14

Published on Mar 19, 2014 cdmtv·27 videos

"The legendary Andreas Schneider of ALEX4 (and Schneidersladen) gives us a rapid-fire tour of the latest and greatest goodies in his Messe booth. Like a tradeshow in a tradeshow, this is some of the best new stuff happening in boutique musical instruments right now."

Bastl Instruments mentioned at 1:38.

Musikmesse 2014 - Alex 4 Distribution

Published on Mar 17, 2014 musotalk·993 videos

"weitere Videos:http://www.musotalk.de - Alex 4 ist die Vertriebsfirma vom umtriebigen Mr. Schneider aus dem Berliner Büro."

Anyone ID the midi clock piece to the left of the vxxy DCM8 at 2:29?

Update via Siebe Pol in the comments:

"It's the ACME-4 Advanced Clock Management Engine

Check http://www.s-n-d.com/acme4e_a.html"

Looks like I've posted it a few times in the past as well. See the SND channel below for more.

synth at musikmesse 2014, walking around

Published on Mar 16, 2014 heodesalciphron·198 videos

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TT303 DCM8 Tweak

Published on Feb 26, 2014 mCKENIC·17 videos

"Short evening tweak of the TT303 Bass & DCM-8 Drum Machine.
(as always apologies for the mono camera audio - its the best I have!)"

via Dave O Mahony on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

VXXY

Published on Oct 10, 2013 electronicani·17 videos

"if you want a VXXY DCM8 and can't find one or afford $600 to get one.
i sampled mine. enjoy!"

VXXY DCM8 Looping & Stuttering

Published on Jul 14, 2013 AudioCentralMagazine·159 videos

"The VXXY DCM8 Drum Machine offers a wealth of chiptune sounds ready to program and use for rhythm pattern & song. Still, during playback, you can loop 4 steps (shift+3), loop 2 steps (shift+4), hold beat (shift+5) or sidechaining audio output with stutter at playback speed with pattern env profile (shift 6). Nice!!!"

Vxxy dcm8

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"Dcm8 features:

* 64 Patterns in 8 banks of 8.
* Selectable 8, 16 or 32 steps per pattern with half, normal and double speed timing scales.
* Adjustable instrument volume, decay and pitch on per step basis.
* Dual channel architecture with wide range of retro and unique preset sounds generated by a scripted synthesis engine.
* 255 digitally synthesized chip sounds, consisting of 223 presets and 32 user generated patches.
* 8 Levels of live undo on each pattern.
* 8 Songs with 128 pattern selections.
* Clear, Copy and Paste 8, 16 or 32 steps between patterns.
* EEPROM based storage of all patterns and user data, with SYSEX backup.
* MIDI input and output.

For more info and demos, check out the vxxy website: http://vxxy.net/index.php

This specific unit, like many Dcm8s has a very sensitive scrolling knob. If you turn it too fast, it skips over sound banks. If you turn it slowly, it scrolls one at a time."

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VXXY DCM8 SchneidersBuero @ RoughTrade London

Published on Apr 21, 2013 SchneidersBuero·20 videos

VXXY DCM8

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VXXY DCM8

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"Nothing sounds like it: it already sounds circuit bent. It can emulate a C64, gameboy, nano loop, lsdj, circuit bent casio & Texas Instruments items. It also has a dac masking, allowing for lofi 2bit sounding beats. 2 channel sequencer..."

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VXXY DCM8 First impressions

VXXY DCM8 First impressions from Equinoxoz music solutions on Vimeo.

VXXY DCM8 First impressions from Equinoxoz music solutions on Vimeo.

"The VXXY Chip Tune Drum machine or DCM8 as its creators dubbed it is a very fun little groove box. I haven't seen too many videos floating around for it so I figured I would do one starting with just a blank slot and fill it up "on the fly"

You can create TONS of grooves with this thing and the sounds are all very arcadey and retro which makes it inspiring to work with. It has a few performance options in it and the way it is programmed is akin to some of the classic XOX style TR Drum machines.

I merely scratched the surface in this video and I will do more video's on it with other gear to give an idea what it sounds like 'in the mix'."

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VXXY DCM8 Chiptune Drum Machine Synth

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"This auction is for a VXXY DCM8 Chiptune drum machine that is used, but basically like new. It's a really underrated piece that produces amazing punchy sounds and surprisingly gnarly bass synths."

You can find some demos in previous posts here. They don't come up often.

MMTA Summer SYNTHFEST 2012 Pics by Guy Taylor

A few pics via Guy Taylor

Pictured:
The EMP with Space Needle in the background.
vxxy DCM8
Synthwerks & Eurorack system
SuONOIO

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MMTA SYNTHFEST - Lorne Hammond and His Sound Makers

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YouTube Published on Jun 3, 2012 by matrixsynth

Lorne Hammond showing his myriad of sound makers at the MMTA Summer SYNTHFEST.

Featured: Roland MC-202, Teenage Engineering OP-1, Brian Castro modded x0xio x0xb0x, Allessandro Cortini & The Harvestman's SuONOIO, the vxxy chiptune synth, original Sequentix P3 sequencer, Paul Maddox aka Vacoloco's Gorf sequencer, original STEIM cracklebox, Tom Bugs' aka Bugbrand Board Weevil, and various Mutable Instruments Shruthis. Note each Shruthi is different. Lorne picked up the larger red Shruthi featuring three different Shruthi's from a DJ on a farm in South Africa.

Also worth noting: MATRIXSYNTH T-Shirt!

Update via Lorne: "The P3 Sequentrix was made in the uk by Colin Fraser who is producing the cirkilon now and I bought of ebay from a south African dj on a farm.

The shruthi-xt is a design by Frank [mailto:daniels@daniels-cards.de] aka on forums and flickr as fcd72. He runs a card company in Germany.

Frank designed the programmer knob system and did the case layout as a kit. He has done dozens of wild kits in various colours and designs.

The shruthi’s pcb designs and code and many different filter designs are the work of Olivier Gillet in Paris.

Frank’s shruthi-xt box holds 3 filters, I controller and a power regulator. The ver .96 code allows them to cascade in series or parallel.

Olivier took mutable into a small but fully registered company and took the big plunge. He has 800+ kits out there working.

He’s a friend of Todd Bailey (WTPA) and also wrote the code for the Dr Otto biscuit to turn it into a synth."