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Monday, February 26, 2024

Baby Audio ATOMS -Unusual Physical Modelling Synth - Sonic LAB Review


video upload by sonicstate

"We take a look at the brand new Baby Audio ATOMS - a physical modeling synth based on the Mass-Spring concept.
At a basic level: The specific physical model has been turned into an instrument by Silvin Willemsen and Baby Audio. There are masses (usually balls) connected by springs (virtually of course). These are excited by a bowing action and so the masses move and the springs react.

In its simplest form these are sine waves, but with additional parameters thrown in the algorithm they become more complex.

Weird, yes and sonically pretty pleasing when process by the rest of the ATOMS voice architecture - namely, a filter and a reverberator.

What you'll find are atmospheric, organic and certainly unusual sounds that share a common ground. Its an early release, with a couple of missing things - MIDI mapping for instance, but these we suspect will soon be added.

Available now priced at $59 intro offer from https://babyaud.io/atoms"

Sound Examples - Atoms - Baby Audio

video upload by Baby Audio

"Atoms is a physical modeling synthesizer plugin by Baby Audio. In this video you'll hear sound examples of some of the plugin's 250 factory presets.

Get Atoms – Free Trial available: https://babyaud.io/atoms

00:00 Plucks
01:34 Keys
03:37 Pads
06:34 Pulsing
08:13 Leads
09:31 Bass
10:53 Atmospheres"



"Synthesis from the other side
Atoms is a new kind of synth plugin that uses cutting edge physical modeling to generate an endless variety of organic and otherworldly sounds. Use it to build rich and alive textures the world hasn’t heard before.

COMPLEX PHYSICS IN A SIMPLE PACKAGE
Physical modeling simulates the behavior of real life instruments. But Atoms takes you beyond what’s possible in the natural world. Its features are deep enough to explore the outer bounds of sound design, yet so simple that you can easily mangle, shape and create.

Atoms is powered by a simulation of interconnected masses and springs with tweakable properties and dimensions. The model is triggered by a virtual bowing action that excites the system and makes it vibrate to generate sound.

A LIVING ORGANISM
Nothing in the natural world is ever truly static. Physical modeling mimics this by generating sounds with the same organic fluctuations as acoustic instruments.

Atoms takes it even further. Its six main parameters can be automated with a selection of powerful motion options to add extra life. This lets you create soundscapes that are constantly shifting and re-generating, like a natural organism.

If you’re used to working with sample libraries, Atoms will bring a new level of otherworldly realism into your tracks.

PROGRAM NEW PATCHES WITH A CLICK
Atoms comes equipped with a powerful randomization engine. It’s a musically calibrated algorithm that selectively adjusts each parameter based on its relationship to the others, giving you usable patches with every roll of the dice.

You can narrow the algorithm further by limiting the random ranges for any knob or locking parameters from changing.

Finally, the Recycle button is a second randomizer that will create new patches similar to the current patch. Once you have a sound you like, click recycle to explore related options.

PHYSICALLY MODELED EFFECTS
The bottom panel gives you a range of creative effects to further sculpt your sound. You can also choose between four sonic profiles, each offering a different structure of the mass-spring network simulation.

With the exception of Space (reverb), all effects in the bottom panel are created inside the physical model itself. This gives you a range of unique modulation effects that are an inherent part of the physical model and sound more natural than any separate FX chain ever would."

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Exquis + MPE Plugins Bundle


video uploads by Intuitive Instruments

Press release follows:

Exquis + MPE Plugins Bundle at a Reduced Price

Intuitive Instruments announces an extraordinary partnership with renowned developers of plugins optimized for the Exquis keyboard.

Exquis, winner of the 2023 MIDI Innovation Awards

Named «Best Hardware of the Year 2023» by a distinguished jury including Jean-Michel Jarre and Roger Linn, Exquis is an expressive and intuitive MPE controller. Each key provides independent gestural control over four dimensions: velocity, pressure, horizontal tilt, and vertical tilt.

Thanks to its MPE compatibility, Exquis enables seamless and natural interaction with virtual synthesizers, delivering pre-cise and dynamic gestural control. It becomes a direct extension of the artist’s creativity, allowing full exploitation of the plugins’ sonic potential with unprecedented freedom and spontaneity.

Renowned MPE Plugins Designed for Expressiveness

Intuitive Instruments offers an exclusive bundle of plugins, carefully selected for their synergy with Exquis’s expressive ca-pabilities:

Atoms (BABY Audio) : A synthesizer based on physical modeling, Atoms creates organic and unique sounds. Per-fect for crafting original soundscapes, it excels in productions requiring realistic and atmospheric textures. Baby Audio is especially known for its collaboration with YouTuber Andrew Huang. Demo: Exquis+Atoms

RANDOM (BEATSURFING) : Leveraging a neural network, RANDOM delivers unique sound design pos-sibilities. It includes various controls for navigating through distinctive sounds using synthesis and resonance systems, ideal for creating unpredictable sonic textures. RANDOM was ranked #2 in Andrew Huang’s Top 10 Plugins of 2023.

Abyss (Dawesome) : Abyss is an MPE synthesizer perfect for crafting evolving and immersive sounds. Ideal for composing rich textures, cinematic pads, and deep drones, it evolves under your fingertips on Exquis’s keys.

SOUNDBOX (Audiomodern) : A fully customizable MPE sampler, SOUNDBOX features a complete audio
editor, a vector engine, and effects. The bundle includes three exclusive sound packs: Voxmotive, Kromium, and Cosmo.

Formats and Compatibility

The plugins are available in standard formats (standalone, VST, VST3, AU, AAX), ensuring seamless compatibility with leading digital audio workstations (DAWs) on macOS and Windows.

Pricing and Availability
Intuitive Instruments offers two bundles including Exquis and one option without the keyboard:

Exquis Pure + 2 plug-ins of your choice: 359€ / $359

Exquis Deluxe + 2 plug-ins of your choice: 399€ / $399

2 plug-ins of your choice: 99€ / $99

These offers are available exclusively on the dualo.com website in limited quantities until December 31, 2024.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Space Baby Modulated Digital Delay demo


YouTube via WoosterAudio — "February 14, 2010 — Space Baby is a digital delay which will debut at Handmade Music Austin #5 on February 28, 2010 (along with the Bleep Labs PicoPaso). It has dedicated controls for wet/dry mix, delay, and feedback. A rotary encoder is used to adjust delay modulation speed/amplitude, clock source, and ring modulation.

The same simple 8 beat synth line plays throughout the demo. The demo begins with the dry synth sound, and then I start tweaking the delay and feedback controls. Later in the video I enable the ring mod / distortion. The ring mod multiplies the original signal by the delayed signal for unusual clangorous sounds.

The delay modulation and infrared beat sync features are not used in the demo.

http://woosteraudio.com
http://handmademusic.noisepages.com/a..."

MIDI-IR and Space Baby Demo

"WoosterAudio — June 10, 2010 — This is an extended demo of MIDI-IR and the Space Baby digital delay. MIDI-IR is syncing to an instance of the Audio Damage Tattoo drum synth running on a laptop. It is generating an infrared clock to wirelessly drive the Space Baby and Autonomous Base Generator (ABG). The audio output from the ABG synthesizer is fed into the Space Baby.

MIDI-IR and Space Baby are available in both kit and preassembled form at http://woosteraudio.com

Compatible Andromeda Space Rocker devices are available at:
http://4mspedals.com (ABG)
http://ericarcher.net
http://bleeplabs.com
http://mickeydelp.com"

MIDI-IR and Space Baby Demo Outtake

"WoosterAudio — June 17, 2010 — The missing psychedelic second half of the midi-ir / space baby demo, saved from destruction.

More info at http://woosteraudio.com"

Thursday, January 28, 2016

Endangered Audio Research AD4096 + Funk Box


Published on Jan 28, 2016 Bimini Road

Playlist:
Endangered Audio Research AD4096 + Funk Box TR77 Drum Machine
Endangered Audio Research AD4096 + Funkbox TR-808 Drum Machine
Endangered Audio Research AD4096 + Funkbox TR-909 Drum Machine
Endangered Audio Research AD4096 + Funkbox Rhythm Ace Drum Machine
Endangered Audio Research AD4096 + Korg iMS20

"This is a demo of the now legendary, long-out-of-circulation Endangered Audio Research AD4096, with the Funk Box TR77 running through it. Very few videos show what the AD4096's Infinity Mode is useful for, which is crazy to me, because I feel like that's the best, most unique part of this pedal. Infinity Mode can be tuned to creep on the edge of self-oscillation in a really organic way. New signal pushes old signal out - and in that way it's almost like a looper, or even a tape bleed emulator.

Although a guitar pedal, mixing artists contact us all the time to tell us how they use the AD4096 on drum busses - especially for dub music! I think the AD4096 is killer on drums. You can get a really loose spring-reverb-like tone from short delays.

The Momentary Expand switch shorts the Depth pot and sends it into self-oscillation - the faster the clock speed (the Time knob turned to the right - "backwards" of how most pedals work), the faster it will run wildly into speaker-blasting range. However, with Infinity Mode engaged, you don't get the ever-louder-and-louder signal - it's "limited" because the new incoming signal pushes out the old. Also, if the Depth is turned all the way down, it becomes a momentary off switch.

The Delay line is a more traditional dark, fat analog delay sound, whereas the Echo line has a elevated, rarefied glittery tone. It's almost like an LPF and an HPF line. It also arrives just barely later than the Delay line. It overdrives beautifully, and thanks to its FET transistors, it has an almost tube-like breakup. The combination of these characteristics, along with the totally unique Infinity Mode, makes this the most tonally flexible and musically useful analog delay pedal ever made.

We get almost daily emails about these pedals at Endangered Audio Research. This unit is going to be donated to Oberlin College's TIMARA program when I'm done making demo videos for it, so don't bother trying to buy it from me. We are going to add more delay time with an aftermarket mod that will be available to the public, but first, I'm making a bunch of videos with different sound sources to show what the original sounds like.

EAR is also making a new, updated version of this later this year with expanded functionality, but gotta love the original unit - named one of the best 30 guitar effects in the world by Premier Guitar Magazine.

I don't deal in unprocessed, "clean" demos, because I don't believe it shows you more about the effect you're using. Nothing exists in a vacuum, especially music.

Signal Chain:
iPad - AD4096 - Universal Audio Apollo 8 Duo - Neve 1073 Unison Preamp - Studer A800 - Ampex ATR-102 - A.O.M. Invisible Limiter

http://www.biminiroadelectronics.com/...
http://www.endangeredaudioresearch.com
http://www.timara.oberlin.edu/

Contact me at mark@endangeredaudioresearch.com to reserve a new version of the AD4096, or to inquire about the aftermarket added delay time modification.

By the way, if you're a hater who thinks $375 is too much for 300ms of delay, you should get a digital delay and run it through a LPF. This pedal is not about time - it's all tone, baby.

Here's a link to Funk Box - a total must-have iOS drum machine. It's a fully featured drum machine with a bunch of different sounds from all sorts of classic analog and digital drum machines. It's only $5, and you are fooling yourself if you think the "real thing" sounds better.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/funkb..."

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

PPG's Wolfgang Palm to Retire - Brainworx Audio GmbH to Take Over Product Line


via http://www.wolfgangpalm.com

Important announcement

Dear Customer,

after 50 years of creative work in the field of sound synthesis I decided to stop doing business. I've been thinking about this step for some time now, especially since I've turned 70 this year. Therefore, I am very happy to have found a competent company in Brainworx Audio GmbH that will take over and continue my products and ideas.

I would like to thank you for the support I've received over the last six years. PPG VST plug-ins and iOS apps are no longer available for purchase. We will continue to provide downloads of your previous plugin purchases until end of 2020.

However, we do not recommend updating the hosts or the operating systems, as we cannot guarantee that our products will still run perfectly.

Customers of PPG plugins will receive a mail from SendOwl, which gives more infos on how to connect to Brainworx.

The future of the iOS apps has not been decided yet.

Thank you again for your support.
March 2020, Wolfgang Palm"

Update: and the official press release:


"Plugin Alliance announces acquisition of Wolfgang Palm’s prestigious PPG synthesizer brand by Brainworx Audio


“I am very glad to have found Brainworx and Plugin Alliance, who appreciate my work from the past and want to continue my legacy.”
- Wolfgang Palm, originator of wavetable synthesis and founder/owner of PPG, 2020


SANTA CRUZ, CA, USA: Plugin Alliance, supporting all major plugin formats and uniting some of the best- known international audio companies under one virtual roof, is proud to announce founding partner Brainworx Audio’s acquisition of the assets of Wolfgang Palm’s prestigious PPG synthesizer brand. The trailblazing Hamburg-based company founded by Wolfgang Palm first found fame and fortune in its initial incarnation throughout the Eighties and beyond by bringing the distinctive sound of wavetable synthesis to the musical masses and also impacting the MI industry with its innovative PPG Wave hybrid digital/ analogue synthesizer series and associated advances. These included the unique (unreleased) Realizer — quite possibly the world’s first virtual instrument (in 1986), albeit as a proprietary hardware hybrid! Software seriously came calling from 2012 onwards when Wolfgang Palm returned to prominence, producing new PPG products.

What a legacy. PPG synthesizers have musically made their mark onstage and in the studio with an array of notable artists such as a-Ha, Alphaville, David Bowie, Depeche Mode, Thomas Dolby, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Jean-Michel Jarre, Mike & The Mechanics, Gary Numan, Pet Shop Boys, Rush, Talk Talk, Tangerine Dream, Tears For Fears, Ultravox, Stevie Wonder, and many more. Thanks to Brainworx Audio’s acquisition of the assets of Wolfgang Palm’s prestigious PPG synthesizer brand, that legacy is all set to thrive.

Plans are already afoot by Brainworx Audio to update Wolfgang Palm’s PPG products in close collaboration with the man himself, universally recognized as the originator of wavetable synthesis! Together they will take the PPG brand and advance its digital products into the future, following Wolfgang Palm’s planned retirement at the end of March 2020 — after 50 years in the creative field of sound synthesis! Signing an agreement with Plugin Alliance and Brainworx Audio owner Dirk Ulrich ultimately lets Wolfgang Palm put his (well- deserved) retirement plan into action, happy in the knowledge that his ‘baby’ will be in good hands.

Wolfgang Palm puts it this way: “I am very glad to have found Brainworx and Plugin Alliance, who appreciate my work from the past and want to continue my legacy. They have a great team of competent developers, product specialists, marketing, and all that is needed to make a company successful. I support their work to make the transition as smooth as possible, and it will be exciting to see how this evolves. Also, I think that this collaboration will result in a much wider audience than before.”

Indeed, it is a great honor for Brainworx Audio to be joining forces with Wolfgang Palm — truly a legend in his own right, and continue to break boundaries in the world of virtual instruments. “We are proud that Wolfgang Palm put his brand and product into our hands,” declares Dirk Ulrich, ending on a high note: “We will make sure to carry on his legacy with the respect it deserves and we are looking forward to evolving the brand and products for years to come.”


For more in-depth information about the trailblazing work of Wolfgang Palm and the prestigious PPG’s past, present, and future, feel free to check out Plugin Alliance’s interview with the man himself here."

Monday, July 21, 2014

Dr. Blankenstein's ILLUMIRINGER Kit For Any Audio Instrument

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via this auction
Dr. Blankenstein on eBay

"'ILLUMIRINGER' Motion Controlled Ring Modulator Pre-Built Kit Add THEREMIN style controlled FX craziness to ANY AUDIO DEVICE!"

"FINALLY! For the first time ever... I am able to offer the ILLUMIRINGER - Motion Controlled Ring Modulator to everyone at an affordable price (I still haven't been able to work out the costs of the pedal).

What is an ILLUMIRINGER you ask? Check out THIS LINK for more information on how this circuit got started. This auction might even be cooler, why? This modification kit can be built into ANY DEVICE THAT PRODUCES AUDIO. Doesn't matter if it has an output jack (guitar, bass, keyboard) or if it has a speaker (iPod dock, guitar amplifier, baby toy etc) this sucker can be installed with only 6 SOLDER POINTS!

I have come up with a simple to follow diagram (shown below) to help illustrate how completely easy it is to install this thing.

To sum it up quickly (which isn't hard)...
STEP 1: You remove the two output wires of your device from the speaker or jack, you solder the output wires of the ILLUMIRINGER mod in their place.

STEP 2: You take the devices output wires you just removed and solder them to the input wires of the ILLUMIRINGER mod kit. We are almost done!

STEP 3: Next we drill holes in the device to mount the LED bezel, 3 selector switches, control knob and LDR Light Sensor and screw them into place.

STEP 4: Next we solder the last two remaining wires to the two leads of the LDR Light Sensor. DONE! Installed!

A Motion / Light controlled Theremin style instrument modification in less than an hours work. And btw... this thing is BEYOND COOL... nothing else like it out on the market.. and at this price you will want to install it into EVERY device in your studio you play out with.

FEATURES:
- 1st of it's kind modification kit!
- Adds a THEREMIN style MOTION CONTROLLED effect to ANY AUDIO DEVICE!
- Super SMALL circuit board (about 1.5" x 1.5") so it is easy to fit into ANY device
- Switch 1 Turns the Effects Circuit On / Off (this is done to save battery when not in use)
- Switch 2 is a Wet / Dry selector. Wet activates the Effect, Dry is the clean audio signal
- Switch 3 allows you select either Motion / Light control over the effect or Knob Control
- HUGE 12mm LDR Light Sensor to get MAXIMUM motion control
- Red professionally Bezel Mounted Power Indicator LED
- SIMPLE to install into ANY AUDIO DEVICE with a speaker or mono output jack!
- Device will work & sound EXACTLY as it did before the mod when FX are off (True Bypass)
- Minimal / Basic Soldering Skills needed (entire install can take less than an hour)
- 9V Battery Powered (EXTREMELY long battery life, circuit will run with less than 3V!)
- Professionally designed, built and tested before arriving to you
- ADDICTIVE TO PLAY WITH! Brings a completely new life to audio gear your are bored of!
- Adds ENDLESS now tone and performance possibilities to ANY AUDIO DEVICE!
- MEGA AFFORDABLE!!!!!!!!!!"

Monday, April 24, 2023

Baby Audio Introduces BA-1 Soft Synth Based on a Poylphonic Yamaha CS01


video upload by BABY Audio

"BA-1 is a modern re-imagination of a cultish 1982 analog synth that looked like a toy but sounded like a beast. It brings you pure and authentic lo-fi textures that are fast to program and dripping with color."




"BA-1 is based on a portable 1980s synth with a toylike appearance and a gritty sound. Despite its small size, it left a big mark on music history, while still flying somewhat under the hype radar. The original has been used as a secret weapon for bubbly synth textures by some of Sweden’s most successful pop producers of the past two decades. It was also a staple of 1990s digital dancehall and beloved by the indietronica scene for its raw lo-fi quality. The ‘CS01’ - as the original is called - has never been properly captured in software form. So for our first ever synth, we started there.

In keeping with our motto 'it’s an evolution, not an emulation', we modeled the hardware with the greatest possible accuracy, before carefully upgrading it with new and useful features. A second analog-modeled oscillator, FM, polyphony, and more, help to vastly expand the sonic palette of the original. All while keeping its signature sound unspoiled.

Additionally, BA-1 lets you drain the battery, bend the circuits, and use the built-in speaker – for an authentic lo-fi aesthetic that you could normally only get with hardware.

If you know our company, you’ll know that effects are our specialty. So we’ve treated BA-1 with an FX section worthy of its own plugin. The effects chain is inspired by budget 1980s rack hardware and captures the lo-fi charm of the home studio scene of the era. The overdrive is modeled after a guitar pedal, while the delay, reverb and chorus effects are based on cheap, but amazing, digital rack units.

In BA-1, the effects are not an afterthought but an ingrained part of the sonic signature. So tweak, use, and abuse them.

BA-1 is simple, but surprisingly tweakable. We’ve put great effort into tuning all parameters to be in the perfect sweet spot. This results in a rewarding programming workflow where tweaking BA-1 is a lot of fun and you’ll create new patches on repeat.

And if a simple interface is not fast enough, you can always use the smart ‘Re-Gen’ feature. Hit Re-Gen and BA-1 will automatically create new and musically tuned patches with every click."

Friday, May 24, 2024

Baby Audio Transit - TranceFormation V1


video upload by NatLife Sounds

"Product Page: https://natlifesounds.com/product/tra...

TranceFormation V1 - A set of 50 perfectly calibrated Presets for Baby Audio TRANSIT.

This patches made with a maximum precision for maximal ease of use.

To apply, just turn the Transition Control knob and voila!

The set is great for both individual instruments (Waldorf Blofeld is used in the demo video), for the Drum Section (Roland TR-6s is used in the video) and of course for the overall mix/composition as seen in the same demo video where Blofeld and TR-6s are combined in one music scene.

Naturally, it’s easier to use these presets inside DAW and VST.

It have no music style specification, but as you hear in the demo it's Progressive Trance, so it will work good in Melodic Techno, Progressive House, Dubstep, Chillstep, Trance, Techno or any type of music including Pop, Rock or Live Performance."

Thursday, June 01, 2023

Creating synth presets from scratch with BA-1


video upload by BABY Audio

"Watch Taylor Boy create synth presets from scratch with Baby Audio's BA-1 synthesizer plugin. Part of the attraction of BA-1 is it rarely sounds bad + it's lightning fast to program. So go have fun! Free trial available.
https://babyaud.io/ba-1"

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Modular Synthesizer jam


YouTube via J0hannesVw

" String sound: OB-12 in slow arpeggio mode
Bass sound 1: Sine VCO sequenced by Baby 10 sequencer and squared up by MFOS ringmod and filtered by MFOS 24dB/Oct LPF
Bass sound 2: Same sine VCO as Bass sound 1 but overdriven by MFOS VCA
Drums: Tr-606
Delay: Reel-to-reel taperecorder
Lead: Two MFOS VCO (saw waveforms) to the MFOS 12dB/Oct SVF in Lowpass mode (Highpass output inversed and fed back to the input) controlled by the MFOS dual AR generator in different modes.

Don't mind the sloppy "solo"."

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

M-Audio Venom Review and Interview with Product Manager Taiho Yamada


A quick note: This review is long. You can jump to sections that interest you vs. reading it straight through if you prefer. This review focuses primarily on the synth engine for one single patch on the Venom. The Venom supports Multi mode with up to four multitimbral parts. Not only can you layer sound programs but you can set global parameters for the set. Be sure to see the Multi mode section of "Tips and Tricks via Taiho Yamada" at the end of this post. Taiho is the Lead Project Manager of the Venom and served as my contact during the review. I want to thank Taiho for his help and enthusiastic generosity. He is a true synthesist and the Venom is his baby.

Synth connections: Taiho previously worked at Alesis on the Andromeda A6. The DSP developer of the Venom worked on Radikal Technologies' Spectralis and the Accelerator. People that contributed to the presets via sound design include Richard Devine, Francis Preve, Mark Ovenden (Avid's AIR Instruments, ProTools VIs), Joerg Huettner (Waldorf, Access, Alesis), and of course Taiho Yamada.

*Don't miss the "Q&A with Taiho" section towards the end of the review. Also keep an eye out for "Taiho's Tips and Tricks" throughout the review in grey. You can find the consolidated list below the Q&A section.

Friday, March 31, 2017

New Audio Damage Ensō Audio Buffer Eurorack Module


via Analog Industries

"That right there is a mockup of our new baby, Ensō, which is an audio buffer module in 22hp, with 50 seconds of stereo 48/24 audio memory, and various ways for looping/triggering/etc that buffer. We're done with the hardware design, and are working on the software now.

You can come see it (and the new Eos module) in person if you're in the LA area. I will be doing an Audio Damage clinic/Q&A at Perfect Circuit in Burbank this Wednesday, April 5th, at 7PM. Facebook event page with all the deets is here. Derrick Baseck will be doing a performance, and I'm given to understand there will be pizza and beer, two of the three major food groups. We will be giving away a couple modules, and buttons and stickers and the other usual shit, and I may extemporaneously perform for 15 minutes myself.

In other news, the first articles for the hardware version of Eos will be on the way to me today. So just a beta-testing round and then that will be shipping. Figure two weeks to stores at this point.

And finally, we will be attending Superbooth in Berlin again this year. I'm flying in to Prague on April 15, and then driving up to Berlin a couple days later. If you are in town and want to hook up, get at me in the usual methods."

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Use Audio Plugiator Tabletop Desktop Synthesizer with Original Box

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via this auction

"This auction is for a Use Audio Plugiator. For those of you who do not know what this is, basically you have 8 different synthesizers in one box. Each one of those synths has 100 presets built in. Each one of those presets can be changed using the plugiator software. New sopunds can be downloaded from the plugiator mcommunity forum and installed instead of the the standard presets. Basically you can have every sound you have ever loved from classic analogue synths in one small box. It is made of metal / steel and built to last.

Installed on the plugiator are all 8 plug ins. These are all activated and all work fine. The four extra plug ins (Prodyssey, Pro-12, Fmagia and Drums 'n 'Bass) were all purchased at approx £39 each. The activation keys for all the plugins are written into the section at the back of the manual. If you ever have to reinstall them, the activation keys are all there. The Plugiator is registered to me as are the plug ins, but I will provide you with my log on details to the server so you can change the details to you and download new sounds etc.

Monday, May 09, 2011

Shake N' Bake Baby Oscillator


YouTube Uploaded by centerofmind on Apr 17, 2011

"This instrument was made by me for the local Winnipeg band DRugs. I really like this one. Glitchy, noisy, and fun. The craziness increases ten fold if you plug it into effects. This video was recorded with no effects, just the straight signal from Baby. The "Deprive" knob really helps sculpt the sound. There are three audio rate oscillators and one clock rate that controls the "Shake" feature. It was a complicated task to get everything inside the baby head. It is now sealed shut, so if anything goes wrong.......surgery. My next baby will have a CV in, babies like that. I did not realize there are others who use baby heads for projects........cool."

Wednesday, September 04, 2013

SPUTNIK DUAL DEFECT PROCESSOR MODEL 289


Published on Sep 4, 2013 romanfilippov·10 videos

This one in via Roman Filippov.

Playlist (use the controls on the bottom of the player to forward through videos - 4th video on shows module):
SPUTNIK DUAL DEFECT PROCESSOR MODEL 289 - SAW CORE OSCILLATOR
SPUTNIK DUAL DEFECT PROCESSOR MODEL 289 - SINE CORE OSCILLATOR
SPUTNIK DUAL DEFECT PROCESSOR MODEL 289 - DUAL FM OSCILLATOR SCOPE
SPUTNIK DUAL DEFECT PROCESSOR MODEL 289 - DUAL FM OSCILLATOR DEMO
SPUTNIK DUAL DEFECT PROCESSOR MODEL 289 - HARMONIZER / PITCH SHIFTER
SPUTNIK DUAL DEFECT PROCESSOR MODEL 289 - BITCRUSHER / SONIC DECIMATOR
SPUTNIK DUAL DEFECT PROCESSOR MODEL 289 - KARMINUS-WEAK SYNTHESIZER
SPUTNIK DUAL DEFECT PROCESSOR MODEL 289 - PLATE REVERBERATOR
SPUTNIK DUAL DEFECT PROCESSOR MODEL 289 - HALL REVERBERATOR
SPUTNIK DUAL DEFECT PROCESSOR MODEL 289 - TALKER

Some details via Roman on Muff's:

"we (Roman Filippov and Alex Pleninger) are glad to introduce the result of almost a year of development, coding, electronic tests and just complex work in general - Sputnik Defect Processor Model 289.

this device is crafted to precisely comply the modular standards of Buchla Electric Music Box better known as Buchla 200 and Buchla 200e.

the core of the 289 is a Digital Signal Processor which takes all the computations in sound transforming and generating. around it one may observe some controllable analogue parameters such as Balance and Regeneration, they are independent for each audio channel. both DSP cores have 8 independent Programs or Algorithms per core and each such algorithm has three voltage controllable parameters, varying from program to program. each core can be expanded via another 8 programs on external EEPROM chip. one of the most exciting feature is the variable Timebase which affects a lot of nuances in every algorithm's behavior.

apart from conventional stuff like reverbs, delays and various modulations the Model 289 offers quite unique solutions such as fm-synthesis, wide sonic range generators, human throat modelling, simple spectrum transfer facility, pitch-to-cv conversion, pitch shifting, audio looping, several sound destructors, pitch class generator, karplus-strong synthesis and many others, including some auxiliary programs. and the program list is ever-growing, new programs are always on the way.

we hope this module will take its place in every Buchla system whether it is a baby 4U boat or two 18U cabinets mighty electronic workbench.

ALGORITHMS

OSCILLATORS

we offer two oscillator programs, both of them work in audio range from 25 to approximately 3000 hz.

the controls are the following:
x - pitch.
y - wavemorphing.
z - wavefolding.

audio inputs 1 and 2 support amplitude and frequency modulations respectively.
on the output 1 you'll get final waveform morphed and folded, if any.
the second output provides the sub-oscillator one octave below the main one.
as for y and z controls, the first one continuously morphs the osc core (saw or triangle, depending on chosen program) from saw through triangle to half-inverted saw or from triangle through sine to square. in the case the wavemorphing is set to square, the wavefolding performs as pwm controller. in any other situations z-pot folds the wave in a manner of mathematical reflection at the given threshold. all these are pretty straight-forward, even if sounds a bit messy. you may observe the oscillators behavior in the attached [above] video footages.

Monday, May 14, 2012

EML POLY-BOX KEYBOARD REMOTE CONTROLLER

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"This is an excellent working condition EML POLY-BOX. This is remote control keyboard. Super clean unit with that has very little use. This unit was tested and works perfectly. Devo was well known for using one of these.This was owned by a musician who is having financial problems, he is forced to sell this rare gem. It has just 2 tiny nicks near the front left(See photo 17), rest is virtually flawless. It looks like it is 1 year old not over 30. Only 130 of these were ever produced, trying to fnd one is this condition, nearly impossible.

Back in the day, most synthesizers were monophonic - that is they could play only 1 note at a time. EML realized this limitation and came up with the Polybox. This rare little box has built in oscillators which track the pitch of an incoming audio signal really well - even following vibrato and portamento successfully. Take any monophonic synthesizer audio output, patch it into this synth and play the Polybox's keys along with the mono melody to convert it to chords. Or lock the chord memory so it follows your melody automatically with a set chord that's transposed along with the melody's pitch. Or play its internal oscillators as their own instrument. This is a very cool, unique and extremely useful tool!

ONLY LISTING ON EBAY OR THE ENTIRE NET

Specifications Polyphony - 26 voices (13 per bank) Oscillators - n/a
LFO - n/a
Filter - n/a
VCA - n/a
Keyboard - 13 keys
Memory - 26 patches
Control - CV/Gate
Date Produced - 1977-84

This is info gathered from one of EML's founders, Jeff Murray. This is reprinted from Vintage Synthesizers. [on Amazon]

The Poly-Box.
On the heels of introducing some fairly straightforward synth equipment, EML did an about-face and came out with one of the strangest accessories ever designed for mono- and duophonic synths: the Poly-Box, which had only a one-octave keyboard (C to C ). If you sent one or more notes into the Poly-Box’s audio input and played a chord on its keyboard, the Poly-Box would output a chord based on the incoming note (the root) and the notes depressed on the Poly-Box keyboard. Each key was programmable within a four-octave range, and memory could store up to 26 notes for automated pitch-following of a synthesizer. “The Poly-Box was kind of a cool instrument,” says Murray. “A lot of early synthesizers were just one- or two-note devices, but with the Poly-Box you could play chords. It had phase-lock-loop circuitry so that it could follow the frequency of an incoming audio signal. Then you could hit a chord on the Poly-Box and it would synthesize all the other frequencies of the chord.” EML made around 130 Poly-Boxes between 1977 and 1984. It originally listed for $475.

'It's more for those old mono's you can't get to be poly. sure there's poly synths falling out of trees these days, but there's no polyphonic version of vintage synths falling out of trees and that's where this baby fills the gap!'

'This is a very rare and unusual keyboard that acts as a unique accessory for any monophonic synthesizer or sound source. Plug a mono source into the input of the Poly Box and it will take the input waveform and allow you to play chords with it, effectively turning a mono source into a polyphonic output. It also has its own internal oscillators, so it can generate polyphonic sound all by itself. You can lock a chord on the Poly Box and then vary the pitch of the mono input, thereby changing the root pitch of the output chord. Additional controls allow you to add an additional tone either one or two octaves below the input, and to transpose everything down an octave, as well as adjust brilliance and add phasing. This unit takes your mono synth into a whole new world of polyphony.'

'I blame DEVO for my lust of the EML.'"

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Exquis v2.1 Update Now Optimised for Ableton Live

🇬🇧 Exquis - Ableton Live 12 Suite Remote Script
video upload by Intuitive Instruments

0:00 - Intro and installation
1:13 - Note Mode
1:36 - Settings (1)
2:13 - Settings (2) and favorite presets
2:34 - Devices and Tracks
3:17 - Session Mode
5:00 - Outro

🇬🇧 Exquis - Tutorials


Press release follows:

Exquis: expressive, MPE, intuitive, affordable, now optimised for Ableton Live

[Superbooth25] Intuitive Instruments, the French company behind the award‑winning Exquis ex‑pressive MPE keyboard, unveils a triple update that turns its flagship instrument into the ultimate, lightweight and compact creative hub for Ableton Live users

Unlike pad‑centric grid controllers optimised for finger‑drumming and loop triggering, Exquis responds like a real acoustic instrument: its 61 soft silicone keys, each with independent five‑dimension MPE control, provide the nuanced touch and emotional depth needed for flowing melodies and harmonically rich chords.

Exquis Remote‑Control Script for Ableton Live

The brand‑new Python‑based Remote Script integrates Exquis seamlessly into Live’s native controller family, delivering Launchpad‑style Session control and an instrument‑grade expressive touch—courtesy of its MPE twist—that makes playing melodies and chords feel effortlessly natural:

• Session view – create, launch and delete clips or scenes without touching the mouse.

• Track mastery – arm, select, mute and solo any track, and get immediate access to volume, pan and aux sends

• Expressive performance – chords, melodies and drum racks flow through all 61 soft silicone keys with independant and
polyphonic 5 dimensions controls.

• Hands‑on transport & harmony – set Live’s tempo, root note and scale directly from Exquis.

• Per‑track note layouts – recall any of the keyboard’s eight onboard layouts (or your own customs) automatically when you change tracks — instantly reconfiguring Exquis into a specific instrument for every track, be it a bass, a percussive grid, or a soaring solo lead.

• One‑touch Favourites – call up Live racks or plugin presets in a heartbeat via Exquis’ exclusive favourites system.

• Device & mix control – tweak any parameter on any device and any track with using four push encoders and ten action buttons.

The script installs like any official Ableton controller template and requires Live 12.

Firmware v2.1 — Poly‑Hold Sustain & Developer Mode

In keeping with Intuitive Instruments’ drive for constant refinement, firmware v2.1 delivers two
headline additions:

• Poly‑Hold Sustain – let chords ring out indefinitely while the onboard arpeggiator conti‑ nues to evolve.

• Developer Mode – an open MIDI API that exposes every hardware element—keys, en‑ coders, action buttons, RGB LEDs and even onboard memory—so developers can remap behaviours, write custom DAW scripts or integrate Exquis into bespoke performance setups.

The update also packs an array of stability improvements for an even smoother playing expe‑rience.

Exquis App v2 — New factory preset list and 1 500 Curated Presets

The companion software for macOS/Windows receives new factory preset list featuring hand‑picked, layout‑optimised patches for Surge XT, Vital and Decent Samplerand a vast sound‑library expansion bringing 1 250 new sounds tuned for Surge XT, Vital, Decent Sampler, Baby Audio Atom, Beatsurfing Random, Dawesome Abyss, Zyklus, Audiomodern Soun‑ dbox and Newfangled Audio Pendulate — now 1 500 presets in total.

Superbooth 2025 and Embodme.

Intuitive Instruments will attend the Superbooth 2025: booth O134, in the mezzanine of the main hall, side to Expressivee and Embodme.

Sunday, August 25, 2024

WHAT A CUTE BABY SYNTH! | NOVATION MININOVA | "B-008 BreakdownArp" Arpeggiator Patch


video upload by Microflat

"Listen to this inspiring "B-008 BreakdownArp" arpeggiator patch delivered by baby synthesizer Novation Mininova. The keyboard comes in a nice blue color with 3 octaves and mini keys. Wow! Great sound engine. When playing it, I came to think of WHAM's "Everything She Wants" smash hit. You can (almost) hum along if you have an avantgarde imagination. :o)

Video clips were recorded in 4K (60 fps) on a Panasonic Lumix GH5 and were edited in Adobe Premiere Pro running on a HP Zbook 15 G6. Audio was recorded in mostly 96 KHz 32 bit directly into the Solid State Logic SSL 2+ USB-C audio interface via an Apple iPad Pro running Cubasis 3. All audio output has been processed in Adobe Audition for optimal broadcasting."

Friday, September 20, 2024

WORSHIP MUSIC MEDICINE? | NOVATION MININOVA | A-122 StringTheory/A-108 CoolBatguano Combo


video upload by Microflat

"Listen to this healing patch combo suitable for worship, meditation or anything that assists the healing of your mind, body and soul. The 'A-108 StringTheory' floating patch in combination with the 'A-108 CoolBatguano' arpeggiator patch is delivered by baby synthesizer Novation Mininova. My my my, I love it! The keyboard comes in a nice blue color with 3 octaves and mini keys. Wow! Great sound engine. The chords played here represent my personal take on potential worship/meditation music chord progression. :o)

Video clips were recorded in 4K (60 fps) on a Panasonic Lumix GH5 and were edited in Adobe Premiere Pro running on a HP Zbook 15 G6. Audio was recorded in 96 KHz 32 bit directly into the Solid State Logic SSL 2+ USB-C audio interface via an Apple iPad Pro running Cubasis 3. All audio output has been processed in Adobe Audition for optimal broadcasting."

Sunday, October 20, 2024

DO YOU WANT 30 EXPRESSIVE VOCODER SOUNDS? | NOVATION MININOVA | Demo of Vocoder Presets


video upload by Microflat

"This video will demo the absolutely amazing Novation MiniNova synthesizer's vocoder section that contains more than 30 presets. Many of the presets are expressive-aggressive base sounds highly suitable as really cool sound effects in movies - but also for rhythmic effects or experimental support of vocals and choirs in songs. Consequently, gently dosed compression and a little bit of reverb needed to be added in post production. That's all. The rest of the effects are straight out of the MiniNova. This versatile baby synthesizer comes in a nice blue color with 3 octaves and mini keys. Wow! Great sound engine.

Video clips were recorded in 4K (60 fps) on a Panasonic Lumix GH5 and were edited in Adobe Premiere Pro running on a HP Zbook 15 G6. Audio was recorded in 96 KHz 32 bit directly into the Solid State Logic SSL 2+ USB-C audio interface via an Apple iPad Pro running Cubasis 3. All audio output has been processed in Adobe Audition for optimal broadcasting."
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