Interviews with Dan Green: 4ms Company Origins

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"Dan Green, founder of 4ms Company, speaks about his origins.
This is Part 1 in a series of interviews, stay tuned for the rest!"

Interviews with Dan Green: 3ms to 4ms

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"Dan Green, founder of 4ms Company, speaks about the early days of designing pedals and how 3ms became 4ms."

Interviews with Dan Green: Life in St. Louis, Missouri

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"Dan Green, founder of 4ms Company, talks about life in St. Louis, Missouri."

$17,500 Analog Modular System - Symphonic Distortion System II

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Spectral Multiband Resonator (SMR) Tutorial #1 -- 1V/Octave outputs in firmware v5

Published on Dec 14, 2016 4mspedals

"Tutorial Video #1 in a series for the SMR from 4ms Company.

This covers the 1V/octave output mode, which is a new feature in firmware v5. Six VCOs are being controlled by the SMR, using the Spectral's built-in scales and tunings. This shows how the SMR can be used as an sequencer, arpeggiator, and chord machine using up to 6 VCOs, which adds 6 analog or digital voices to the system, tracked to the system.

Hold down ROTATE while you flip the Env switch to "Fast" to enable the Env Outs jacks to output 1V/octave CV on these jacks. Then patch the Env Out jacks into the 1V/OCT jack of your VCOs (up to 6 VCOs). Use each VCO's Frequency knob to tune it to the associated SMR channel. You can then run the VCOs into a mixer, or through effects etc if you like. All VCOs will track perfectly with your SMR!"

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Dual Looping Delay from 4ms Company

Dual Looping Delay from 4ms Company -- Resonant delay play

Published on Jan 20, 2016 4mspedals

"Playing with resonant delays by using very short delay times (audio rate, 250Hz to 4kHz) and feedback nearing 100%. The DLD allows for quantized or continuous control of delay time relative to the input clock. In this patch, the input clock is a square wave from an audio VCO.

The sound source was a pop song trending on soundcloud, fed directly into channel A of the DLD. The output of channel A is fed into channel B, which is set to an echo-type delay, giving the reverberation. The output of channel B was recorded directly (the Send from channel B was sent to a Spectral Resonator, but this was turned down in the mix). No effects were added."

Dual Looping Delay from 4ms Company -- Resonant delay play (mashup)

NAMM2016 Introducing the New 4ms Company Dual Looping Delay Eurorack Module

Published on Jan 21, 2016 Analogue Zone Showroom / Synths and Studio

"NAMM2016 Introducing the New 4ms Company Dual Looping Delay Eurorack Module

Available soon from
http://www.analoguezone.com/"

4ms Dual looping Delay eurorack Modular NAMM 2016

Published on Jan 22, 2016 Flux302 of Fluxwithit.com

NAMM 2015: 4ms Dual Looping Delay

Published on Jan 22, 2016 sonicstate

Interviews with Dan Green: Moving to Portland, OR & The Spectral Multiband Resonator

video upload by 4ms Company

"Dan Green, founder of 4ms Company, talks about the move to Portland, Oregon and development of the Spectral Multiband Resonator.

Part 5 in our 4ms Origins series of interviews."

4ms MetaModule firmware version 2.0 is here! New XOX Drums

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"Visit MetaModule.info to download the new firmware"

MetaModule New XOX Drums

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"New drum library available in the firmware update!"

New 4ms Ensemble Oscillator Euroack Module

Published on Jan 13, 2020 4ms Company

"The Ensemble Oscillator from 4ms Company and Matthias Puech is a unified polyphonic voice of sixteen complex oscillators combining additive, FM, phase-distortion and wavefolding synthesis techniques in new unorthodox ways. By quantizing the oscillators to scales or series of harmonics, the Ensemble Oscillator allows you to explore the sonic boundary between musical chords and rich evolving textures. Easily create a wide variety of sounds ranging from aggregates of pure sine waves to pulsar synthesis or pristine harmonic tones and lush wide chords to rich dirty drones and rumbling glitches. Custom scales can quickly be “learned” and saved using a CV keyboard or by manually entering notes with the controls."

Interviews with Dan Green: Life in Austin

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Dan Green, founder of 4ms Company, talks about life in Austin, Texas
Part 4 in the 4ms Origins series

Modular Minutes: Qu-Bit Chords Resonated by 4ms Company - SMR

Published on Dec 8, 2016 Analogue Zone Showroom / Synths and Studio

"The Qu-bit Chord sounds fantastic in itself, but it even sounds sweeter with the 4ms Company - Spectral Multiband Resonator... Or even better with some reverb from the Erica Synths Black Hole DSP... We were having a lush and cinematic afternoon in the Analogue Zone showroom. Clocking and modulation is done by the 4ms PEG (PIngable Envelope Generator) and the Harvestman - Polivoks Modulator."

http://www.analoguezone.com/

Interviews with Dan Green: Dual Looping Delay

video upload by 4ms Company

"Dan Green, founder of 4ms Company, talks about the development of the Dual Looping Delay.

Part 6 in our 4ms Origins series of interviews."

The MetaModule from 4ms Company

You might remember the MetaModule from this previous post.

Press release follows:

The MetaModule puts real knobs and jacks on virtual software modules. It lets you step back from the computer and make music with hardware, while keeping all the benefits and flexibility of software plugins.

Ships with 165 Modules
The MetaModule is a eurorack module with over 160 built-in modules from 4ms Company, Befaco, HetrickCV, Nonlinearcircuits, and Eightfold, plus clones of popular classics such as the Mutable Instruments modules, fun physical modeling algorithms, and lots of handy utilities.
All of the included modules are also available on the computer using the free program VCV Rack. Whether you make patches on VCV Rack and transfer them to the MetaModule, or if you just create patches directly on the MetaModule, there are plenty of creative modules to inspire new ways to make music.

MetaModule Plugins
If the built-in module aren’t enough, you can load more modules as plugins. Already there are over 200 modules in third-party plugins from Bogaudio, Valley, ChowDSP, NANO Modular, and the list is growing.
We have an SDK available to make it easy for VCV Rack plugin developers to convert their plugin to a MetaModule plugin. Our licensing terms are non-restrictive: developers are welcome to distribute their plugin in any way they wish, commercially or not.

Mapping Knobs and Jacks
The MetaModule has 12 knobs that can be mapped to virtual knobs. Each knob can be mapped to up eight virtual knobs, and each mapping can have a different range and offset. You also can save a group of mappings as a Knob Set and switch between Knob Sets with the encoder. You also can map the 8 inputs and 8 outputs to virtual module jacks.
Also, the MetaModule is a USB MIDI host, so you also can map MIDI CC, note, gate, and other parameters to knobs and jacks.

Expanders
There are lots of ways to customize your MetaModule. A Wifi expander allows you to wirelessly transfer patches from your computer. Add eight more knobs with the Knob expander, or buttons with the Button expander. A CV/Audio expander adds more high-resolution inputs and outputs, and the Gate In/Out expander adds not only gate jacks but also TRS MIDI and I2C.

Under the Hood
There are six CV/Audio inputs, two gate inputs, and six CV/Audio outputs. The CV/Audio jacks are all 24-bit, 48kHz DC-coupled, -10V to +10V. A USB-C jack accepts MIDI devices and thumb drives. Patches and plugins can be loaded via a USB drive or SD Card, and internal flash memory lets you save patches you always want to come back to.

The processor is more advanced than anything 4ms has used yet, and is among the most powerful processors found in Eurorack. It uses a dual-core Cortex-A7 running at 800Mhz, with a Cortex-M4 co-processor. There is 512MB of fast DDR3 RAM. It runs bare-metal without an OS, so startup time and latency are blazingly fast.

Retail availability: August 27, 2024
Price: $649 (USD)

4ms Employee Interviews: Thomas Fang

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"If you’ve visited our table at a trade show, you’ve probably met Thomas Fang! Ross sat down with Thomas to talk about circuit bent furbies, noise music and his work with Synth Library Portland.
Are you curious about who actually works at 4ms Company? Over the next month we will be sharing interviews with our small team of employees, so stay tuned!"

You can find additional posts featuring Thomas Fang here.

4ms - Dan Green @ SUPERBOOTH 19

Published on May 12, 2019 Superbooth Official

"Explore the rich sonic possibilities of the Spherical Wavetable Navigator, a new six-voice playable instrument from 4ms Company. Starting with chords, melodies and drones, and working up to recording new wavetables from your own audio sources, Dan Green from 4ms Company showcases beginning and advanced techniques in a live performance that clearly demonstrates the principles at work."

4ms SMR DIY Workshop Saturday November 3rd 2018 at Patch Point Berlin

This one is in via Todd Barton.

via Patch Point:

"4ms SMR DIY Workshop. Saturday November 3rd 2018
from 100.42
€119.50 incl. 19% VAT
We are happy to host a special DIY workshop with our portland buddies 4MS.

THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR ALL SKILL LEVELS, and shouldn’t take more than 1.5 hours to finish!

Allissa from 4MS and founder of the Synth Library Portland will guide the workshop.

Limited to 20 spaces, You can sign up and either pay 50% deposit (119) and the rest in cash 120 at the workshop, or pay 100% in full up front. The choice is yours.

Please select the time you will come and start. Patch Point is a relatively small space, so we are staggering the start times! Please be on time!

'The Spectral Multiband Resonator from 4ms Company is an innovative resonant filter which can process audio like a classic filter bank, ring like a marimba when plucked/struck, vocode, re-mix tracks, harmonize, output spectral data, quantize audio to scales, and much more..."

NAMM2017: Introducing 4ms Company Stereo Triggered Sampler and Tapgraphic Delay

Published on Jan 18, 2017 Analogue Zone Showroom / Synths and Studio

"Introducing 4ms Company Stereo Triggered Sampler and Tapgraphic Delay"

http://www.analoguezone.com/

Interviews with Dan Green: Life in St. Louis, Missouri

video upload by 4ms Company

"Dan Green, founder of 4ms Company, talks about life in St. Louis, Missouri."

Additional parts here

4MS company Modules @Tokyo Festival of Modular 2017

Published on Nov 20, 2017 cuckoomusic

"4MS Company showed me some of their beautiful modules during Tokyo Festival of Modular. A great sampler, tap delay and an extraordinarily beautiful resonator, all in stereo."

PATCH.CV - Dan Green - 4ms Company - “Pretty Things”

PATCH.CV - Dan Green - 4ms Company - "Pretty Things" from Patch: Controlling Voltage on Vimeo.

See this post for all videos in the PATCH.CV series.

Spherical Wavetable Navigator (SWN) - SphereEdit

Published on May 7, 2019 4ms Company

"SphereEdit is software for Mac, Windows, and Linux for creating, editing, and exporting wavetables to be used with the Spherical Wavetable Navigator (SWN) Eurorack module from 4ms Company. The SWN can store up to 108 user-created Spherical Wavetables, and SphereEdit is a powerful tool for designing Spheres and loading them into the SWN (scope shots are from a modified Vectrex).

SphereEdit is fork of the Synthesis Technology WaveEdit project developed by Andrew Belt. Both SphereEdit and WaveEdit are open-source under the GNU GPLv3 license.

Download links:
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Mac: https://4mscompany.com/SWN/SphereEdit...
Windows: https://4mscompany.com/SWN/SphereEdit...
Linux: https://4mscompany.com/SWN/SphereEdit..."