Tech Time with Analog Industries

Published on Jul 23, 2016 Analog Industries

Playlist:
Tape-Looping With A Nagra: Tech Time No. 001
Ableton Push 2 And Eurorack Modular: Tech Time No. 002
4-Track As Instrument: Tech_Time 003
Ableton Push 2 Simpler Workflow: Tech Time 004
Flying With Musical Instruments: Tech Time 005

Audio Damage Discord 3 and Eos available at http://www.audiodamage.com
Analog Industries blog: http://www.analogindustries.com
CR on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/chris.randall/
CR on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Chris_Randall"

Phaedra Sequencer for iPad

via Analog Industries, run by Chris Randall of Audio Damage.

"In my ludicrously ample free time, I've been working on this bad boy, Phaedra. It is an "analog" style four-channel MIDI sequencer for the iPad. Click the picture for the full-rez screenshot. In the interests of full disclosure, I borrowed heavily from the Moon Modular 568 Quad Sequential Trigger Source, which you can read all about up in here.

I still have a long way to go, but it is coming along nicely. Each step has note, velocity, gate time, and a pair of MIDI CCs of your choosing. I haven't yet coded in the chaining feature, but it'll be able to do 4 x 32, 2 x 64, and 1 x 128 modes. The steps can be 32nd note, 16th note, 8th trips, and 8th note, and each "bus" can run in arbitrary lengths. The "Live Control" knobs on the left can be used to modify one of the four destinations..."

Additional info and links on Analog Industries here.

iPads on eBay

Update:

Phaedra driving NLog Pro

Uploaded by Cranda11 on Nov 25, 2011

"Phaedra clocking NLog Pro's arpeggiator using background MIDI on an iPad."

Analog Industries Taking Feedback for Next Product

Just in case you missed it, title link takes you to a post on Analog Industries where Chris Randall is taking feedback on their next product. Here's your chance to ask for what you want. On my list? An uber analog style multitrack sequencer that'l let me control my hardware synths via a tablet PC. Think the Sequentix P3 and MiniMusic BeatPad on steroids. Imagine a virutal that you can map to your midi controller of choice or just use your tablet.

The Manta on Analog Industries

Analog Industries has a good write-up on the Snyderphonics Manta if you were ever curious about the controller.

"It is functionally similar to the monome, inasmuch as it is (at its base level) a bunch of buttons and a bunch of LEDs. However, the thing that makes this a vast improvement over the monome is that it has several different levels of control in addition to the single on/off state of the monome."

MonoMachine and MachineDrum

flickr by Chris Randall of Analog Industries.

full size

Update: The images where captured with a LensBaby 3G. The same lens used in the Charles Cohen Buchla Music Easel video. You can find more info including another shot of the MOOG Source on Analog Industries.

NAMM: Day One Pics via Chris Randall of Analog Industries

Two pics via Chris Randall's Analog Industries where you will find more.

"The best thing I saw today was the Schmidt Polysynth. While it is somewhat comical when you're sitting on your couch reading about it (and I laughed when I saw the Messe announcement, just like the rest of you) in real life it is as close to a work of art as a synthesizer can be in this day and age. Completely over the top? Sure. But you get a lot for your synthesizer dollar. Good thing, because it's a lot of dollars. Absolutely beautiful synth, though."

Chris is also one half of
Audio Damage.

Plankton iPhone App via Analog Industries / Audio Damage

via Analog Industries
"The whole concept is based upon an idea I had to generate odd rhythms a while ago, and which I've now ported to the iPhone/Touch. Basically, you give the little plankton a shove, and it bounces about. When it hits a wall or runs over one of the smaller planktons it makes a noise.

There is also a background loop running, and you can choose from four sample sets for the walls and interceptions, and three different background loops. It also sends OSC messages for the wall hits, interceptions, and the X/Y position of the plankton. (That, of course, is the real usefulness of the app, as a mod and note generator, but it is kind of fun as a noise maker too, in my opinion.)"

Audio Damage Replicant Update

For those of you that have Audio Damage's Replicant and have not been following Christopher Randall's Analog Industries, title link takes you to some info on an important update. BTW, Chris dropped development on their new product to take care of Replicant. He also gave progress updates on Analog Industries as he moved forward. How many synth manufacturers can you name have done this? Cheers to Chris Randall and Audio Damage.

Elektron SPS-1 on Analog Industries

Title link takes you to a mini review on Analog Industries.

Update: more thoughts.

Pierre Schaeffer T-Shirt

available at Analog Industries
image description via Wikipedia:
"Pierre Schaeffer working in his studio with an electronic instrument known as the phonogene; circa 1948."

See this Wikipedia article for more info on Pierre Schaeffer.
"Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (Pierre Schaeffer {{{2}}} (help·info); August 14, 1910 – August 19, 1995) was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, and engineer most widely recognized as the chief pioneer of musique concrète,[1] a unique form of experimental music that began in Europe during the mid-1900s."

Bottom image is of Delia Derbyshire, Analog Industries' previous T-Shirt run. You can find more info on Delia Derbyshire here on Wikipedia where you'll find the source of the image for the T. "Delia Derbyshire at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop" Of course be sure to see these previous posts including video.

Blip...

Funny thing is I almost put this shot up when I saw it on flickr a few minutes ago. Something told me to hold off and sure enough a post went up on Analog Industries. It turns out this is a side project of Chris Randall's (Chris of Analog Industries and Audio Damage).

"One of the roughly 8,000 projects I'm currently working on is a small synthesizer built almost entirely on an Arduino. The only external chips are the DAC and the opto-isolator for the MIDI input. It remains to be seen whether the Arduino will be fast enough to pull this off. I would like to make it a normal 1-osc subtractive synth, but Adam (who has far more experience with microcontrollers than I) says that the Atmega 16 (the Arduino's brain) isn't fast enough to do the real-time math necessary for a resonant filter." You can read about the project here.

Analog Industries Full of Techno T

Details on Analog Industries

Novation ReMOTE ZeRO SL Impressions on Analog Industries

Title link takes you to the post on Analog Industries.

Get Your Smut Here

So I just heard about slut-o-meter. You enter a query term and it calculates the difference between the number of pages that come up for the term vs. the number that comes up under Google SafeSearch. Matrixsynth scores a whopping 15.9%. Hmm... Must be all that synth p*rn.

I ran my blogroll (right pane) and got the following for my blogging buddies (guys, get your smut up)! : ) I was actually expecting Analog Industries to come up on top, with all the expletives, but surprisingly it didn't. What's up with that? Anywho... Mildly entertaining for about ten minutes, so have fun. : ) Synth content? Rate your favorite synths and synth sites, of course! Hmm.. I wonder what's the smuttiest synth out there...

Blogroll in smut order:
SparkleTrain - 20.39%
Matrixsynth - 15.9%
Retro Thing - 13.09%
Synthwire - 12.9%
Analog Industries - 9.38%
GetLoFi - 7.23%
Machinesound - 5.26%
Synthosium - 5.06%
Music Thing - 2.73%
Create Digital Music - 1.19%

Update: Looks like I'm smuttier than a Roland TB-303 (6.43%). Ok, this is embarrassing; I'm not finding any synth site with a higher smut rating than mine. If anyone finds one, let me know. Not sure if this is something to be proud of.

Carbon111 on Analog Industries Gear P*rn Friday

Title link takes you to Analog Industries post. Cool to see Carbon111 featured.

Hardcore Gear Porn Friday at Analog Industries

Analog Industries just announced Harcore Gear Porn Friday. Very cool.

Audio Damage Introduces New BOOMTSCHAK, DUB JR MK2, & Stomp Boxes

via Analog Industries. The following covers the new products. Click through for some additional thoughts from Audio Damage's Chris Randall on NAMM itself.

"Day One of NAMM is in the books, and we've unveiled our four new hardware products. First up is ADM14 BoomTschak (or 'BT,' as we call it. We're hip to brevity at AD.) This is our first 100% analog product. Not a single line of code. Our motivation was to create a quality high-end analog drum voice, and I think we hit this one out of the park. Accent and choke inputs, a stonking self-resonant multi-mode filter of our own design, three envelopes with curve controls, and a waveshaper give this thing a wide palette. It is a real bruiser, and since it will join Sequencer 1 at the top of our ecosystem, you'll be seeing a lot of it here and in my Instagram feed. We haven't got all the quotes in yet, so we're not 100% on what it's going to cost, but we feel like $450 is attainable, despite the ludicrous parts count. (It has 16 knobs on it, for the love of all that is holy.) We should be shipping these in about 6-8 weeks.

This little fella is DubJr Mk2. It's basically DubJr, at a much higher build quality, and with all the features that people have asked for since the original was released. (Was it 4 years ago? Wow.) Tap tempo, clock input, selectable "free" or "jump" times, and a feedback loop cover all your clocked delay needs, in a 6HP package. Like all of our 6HP effects, this will be $289, and will be shipping in about 3 weeks.

Aaaaand ADP01 Fluid and ADP02 Freqshift. These are stereo guitar pedals. They have true analog bypass, assignable expression pedal destination, and custom laser-cut steel chassis. Having done my time on stage, I know what a bullet-proof pedal needs to be able to take, and these are as tough as they come. ADP01 Fluid is a direct descendant of our super thick 6-delay chorus in our Fluid plugin, with the alterations present in the ADM11 Dimensions Eurorack module. (There already is a Dimensions pedal, so we just named it what it is, Fluid.)

ADP02 Freqshift is a derivation of our original Freqshift module, with alterations for the stereo guitar pedal context. I have never personally really bothered with frequency shifting as an effect in my music, so I was unprepared for what this thing can do. Adam did a hell of a job with the DSP on this one, and it is a super useful and unique effect that can go from the widest, deepest stereo phaser you've ever heard on up to insane screeching and pure industrial craziness. Every guitar player that came to our booth yesterday went "holy shit..." when I kicked that bitch on.

These will be shipping in about 5 weeks, theoretically, but as this is our first foray in to pedal manufacturing, we're approaching it with some caution. I'd rather they took a little more time and we got them absolutely right. So we'll see how that plays out. These will be $290 each."


Published on Jan 22, 2016 Analogue Zone Showroom / Synths and Studio

"NAMM2016 Introducing the New Audio Damage DubJr MK2 and Boomtschak Eurorack Module

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

NAMM 2016: Audio Damage - Boom Tschak and Dub Jr MK2

Published on Jan 22, 2016 sonicstate

Vintage Synth Lab demo Eurorack modular analog synth VCO-81 VCF-74 D-ENV

video by Vintage Synthlab

"Analog modular eurorack synthesizer demonstrating the fast envelope action of the D-ENV (Delayed Envelope Generator), with the VCF-74 Mk2 (analog diode-ring filter module based on the 1970s mini-Korg 700 700s), and our VCO-81 (CEM3340 precision, high-quality analog VCO - unreleased). Our N-STH (Noise + Sample/Track & Hold) is used to provide white noise for extra snare sound, S&H routed to the HP filter of the VCF-74, and Track & Hold from another N-STH is used to slew the pitch of the CV controlling the VCO-81 (pitch) 1v/octave.

The result is a warm, analog, singing mono-synth voice, full of endless possibilities of character to dial in whether live, recording, or used as a tool for deep sound design in the pro and commercial audio industries."

gen one (Cycling '74 M driving Korg OASYS PCI on OS9 G4 Mac)

video upload by Analog Industries

"Tuning my OS 9 music machine; playing with Cycling '74's excellent (and first, I think?) generative music application, M, driving the Korg OASYS PCI card. The card is running two virtual analog synths and a 2 OP FM synth, along with a hall reverb and Dan Phillips' excellent SD3000 emulation. The audio is recorded directly from the analog output of the card."

chris randall - sempathy

Published on Jul 2, 2013 Cranda11·48 videos

"Got the SEM back from the shop, with all its janky bits fixed, and hooked it to the Analog Four for a quick late-night jam-a-thon. All sequencing done with the Analog Four. SEM does bass, Euro modular does those little beep-boop sounds, everything else from the A4. No plug-ins, no DAW."

Chris Randall is the man behind Analog Industries and Audio Damage.