Running the Landscape HC-TT through the Roland VT-4

Published on Apr 1, 2020 Patchwerks Seattle

"In this video Matthew Piecora (aka EZBOT) processes the Landscape HC-TT (human controlled tape transport) with the Roland VT-4 (voice transoformer). The results are a vocalized robot dreamscape.

From Landscape:
The HC-TT is a compact cassette manipulation device which allows you to manually play a cassette with your hands. The resulting sound can be incredibly similar to scratching a vinyl record. Sound will only be produced while your hands are turning either of the large playback knobs. By turning these knobs you are directly rotating the cassette spindles which moves the tape across the internal tape head. The knobs “play” a regular cassette forwards and backwards. There is no motor in this device, so direction and speed is left to the performer. The illuminated touch switch is a momentary mute for both the mono audio output as well as the CV/Gate outputs. The Arches and Moons touch plates allow for feedback and other strange interactions. This device does not record audio but only outputs pre-recorded audio from any cassette tape.

Order Landscape HC-TT here:
https://bit.ly/landscape_hctt

From Roland:
The VT-4 is an effect processor for the instrument inside us all—the human voice. And like the human voice, the VT-4 is easy to use, yet devastatingly effective. Whether you’re a solo electronic artist, DJ, or singer in a band, the VT-4 lets you craft and shape your own unique vocal sounds, from subtle augmentation to radical transformation. Everything is hands on, with no menu diving or programming to get in the way. Jaw-dropping effects like harmonizing, vocoding, pitch shifting, hard tuning, and more are just a push, slide, or turn away. And with its compact size and five-hour battery life, you can use the VT-4 anywhere.

Order Roland VT-4 here:
https://bit.ly/roland_vt4

https://patchwerks.com/
Demo by: Matthew Piecora
https://www.youtube.com/EZBOTMUSIC"

Landscape AllFlesh: build and test and learn

Aidan Burns-Fulkerson
Published on Sep 1, 2017

"This video is all about the Landscape AllFlesh. These little things are going to change the way I interact with my synths. Stay tuned for some weird new sounds coming soon!

1:20 the learning begins

From the Landscape website: 'You will be in a sort of collaboration with the instrument as sometimes you will be reacting to what it is doing and other times you will be attempting to control and shape what it is doing but most of the times you will be doing both simultaneously.'

"... I think it's important to record your first interactions with any new instrument as these moments of inexperience and the uninformed patches which come of that are only available once."

http://www.landscape.fm/allflesh/"

With the Make Noise 0-Coast.

Expressive E Introduces Imagine - Physical Modeling Software Synth with Multidimensional Acoustic Tones

video upload by Expressive E

"Meet Imagine a playful world of unknown acoustic sounds

Imagine digs deep inside the body of real-life instruments, modifies, and combines their acoustic characteristics to create an imaginary acoustics landscape.
Thanks to a playful multidimensional approach, Imagine offers texture manipulations, mysterious unknown sound dimensions that still sound familiar.

multidimensional acoustic tones

Imagine digs deep inside the body of real life instruments, modifies and combines their acoustic characteristics to create an imaginary acoustics landscape.

Thanks to a playful multidimensional approach, Imagine offers texture manipulations, mysterious unknown sound dimensions that still sound familiar.
multi-stage envelope generators

For further expressive possibilities, Imagine contains MSEGs that pack a huge collection of modulations for your sounds.

intelligent modulation system

Behind the scenes, everything is optimized to provide you the best expressive experience possible: no dead zones; sensitivity curves and ranges are continuously scaled.

optimized macros

Significant optimization work has been carried out to allow you to modulate the sound of your instruments in real time, resulting in a unique expressive perspective."

🔥🔥🔥 special introductory price - 40%OFF - limited offer -⏳
https://bit.ly/3tyHNND

Update: the press release, just in, follows with additional details and some spectacular renders of a conceptual hardware version. Before you get to excited, Imagine is software only:

Expressive E and AAS Team Up on the Imagine Software Instrument: A Playful New World of Unknown Acoustic Sounds.

Imagine lets you easily play with a new variety of sounds—acoustic, organic, and alive from the resonant bodies of real-life instruments. 

Paris, France, September 9, 2021 — Expressive E’s new Imagine plug-in instrument captures the qualities of different real-life instrument bodies and modifies and combines their acoustic characteristics to create an imaginary acoustics landscape.

Thanks to a playful, multidimensional approach, Imagine allows you to have evolving textures, including several dimensions to explore for each preset. This unique approach produces mysterious, inspiring, unknown sound dimensions from familiar-sounding elements.

Imagine results from an exciting collaboration between Applied Acoustics Systems (AAS)—the foremost pioneer of acoustic physical modeling software instruments — who provides the sound engine — and Expressive E, a company grounded in the mission of improving the way musicians interact with sounds by creating a much more intuitive and powerful music-making experience.

“At the forefront of a new generation of controllers that provide multidimensional expression, Expressive E’s expertise proved to be a perfect match for our physical modeling technology,” says Marc-Pierre Verge, CEO of Applied Acoustics Systems. “They created a flexible and playful interface based around real-time manipulations that allow one to morph between layers of resonating objects. This inspired their sound design team to create a brilliant library of rich organic soundscapes to explore.” 

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MIDERA: The landscape of war

Published on Feb 2, 2020 MIDERA

"I traded a delay pedal for this Landscape Stereo Field device... I'm not sure about it yet. My apologies as I test it out for a while. Unfortunately I've stolen the drums from another one of my tracks to do this one. Oh well.

Landscape FM Stereo Field
Elektron Analog Keys (pads)
Elektron Machinedrum (routed to the Stereo field)
Elektron Monomachine (keys)
Eventide Blackhole vst"

04-The Landscape Stereo Field- Part 4: Sound Generation with Patching

Published on Aug 29, 2018 AutomaticGainsay

"Here is a demonstration of the sound-generation capabilities of the Landscape Stereo field through the use of patch cables connecting its inputs and outputs.

This video was funded by the Patreon supporters of Automatic Gainsay. Support the creation of this video and all of the Automatic Gainsay videos that have helped you by becoming an Automatic Gainsay supporter on Patreon!
http://www.patreon.com/automaticgainsay"

AutomaticGainsay Landscape Stereo Field Videos

01-The Landscape Stereo Field- Part 1: Introduction

Published on Aug 21, 2018 AutomaticGainsay

"Here is a functional introduction to a multi-part series about the Landscape Stereo Field, an innovative and expressive sound generating and processing instrument.

This video was funded by the Patreon supporters of Automatic Gainsay. Support the creation of this video and all of the Automatic Gainsay videos that have helped you by becoming an Automatic Gainsay supporter on Patreon!
http://www.patreon.com/automaticgainsay"

AutomaticGainsay Landscape Stereo Field Videos

03-The Landscape Stereo Field- Part 3: Sound Generation B

Published on Sep 1, 2018 AutomaticGainsay

"Here is part two of a demonstration of the sound generation capability of the Landscape Stereo Field. These sounds were generated without any patching, which means the two circuits are working together and interacting."

AutomaticGainsay Landscape Stereo Field Videos

Synth Talk with Richard Burgess of Landscape

LANDSCAPE: 'European Man'

Uploaded on Jan 19, 2008
Landscape's 'European Man', featuring Barbie Wilde.

Pea Hicks who runs Optigan.com and the MC-8 blog, has a great post up on Richard Burgess and the use of the Roland MC-8 Micro-Composer.  The following are a couple of excerpts and videos for reference.  Along with synth talk there are some interesting historical bits on the time including the origin of the New Romantic label and scene.  Richard Burgess worked with Rusty Egan who in turn was in Visage, a band consisting of him Billy Currie and Midge Ure of Ultravox, John McGeoch of Magazine, Siouxsie &  PIL (Johnny Rotten of The Sex Pistols), and others.  Lot's of cross collaboration at the time.  If interested you can start with Visage on wikipedia and click through the names.  The post-punk New Romantic followed by New Wave movement brought synthesis to many.  In Pea Hicks' interview you'll find a great audio snip with some geeky synth talk on setting values for the MC-8 - this is in an actual track.

"Pea: I’m sure to you it probably seems like a head-scratcher why anyone in this day and age would voluntarily subject himself to the hassles of dealing with ancient sync dilemmas, but for me that’s part of the fun and also it’s a way of working that inevitably produces some idiosyncratic results that you wouldn’t get by doing things the “easy way.” I’m definitely after that metronomic Human League type groove.

Richard: I think the machine definitely influences the result so I don’t see it as odd to want to use the MC8. I have thought about it myself.The same thing applies to analogue sequencers. Like I said, we synched the MC8 to the CR78 by programming a square wave to come out of the mulitplex outputs and then we adjusted the level through a console until it ran the CR78. Most of those old drum machines run on simple square waves with no flags. Getting them to run in the same time is less of a problem than getting them to start at the right time. I used the MC8 in preference to later machines because of the timing. I found early Cubase to be shaky (it’s fine now) and SMPTE Track from Hybrid Arts was very sensitive to processor load. I always liked the timing of the Linn 9000 and I still have mine. I don’t know about the DMX but the 808 should lock tight – it’s only one machine later than the CR78 if I recall correctly."

And on Shock's Angel Face:

"Richard: Oh yes, that was all me. Rusty Egan brought the group and the song and I programmed everything in my home studio and recorded it at Mayfair Studios in South Moulton St. with John Hudson engineering. It was the System 100Ms with the 10x gate modification on the bass line for sure. I did all their recordings and I wrote the rest of the songs with various members and Rusty."

Shock - ANGEL FACE - Shock

06-The Landscape Stereo Field- Part 6: Sound Processing (Drums)

Published on Sep 3, 2018 AutomaticGainsay

"Here is a demonstration of the Landscape Stereo Field where a beat I programmed is processed by the Stereo Field and re-performed by me."

AutomaticGainsay Landscape videos.

02-The Landscape Stereo Field- Part 2: Sound Generation

Published on Aug 26, 2018 AutomaticGainsay

"In Part 2, the sound-generating aspects of the Landscape Stereo Field are explored. Of course, one has to keep in mind that so many variables exist in how the Stereo Field generates sound, that this may be the only performance like it that will ever occur!"

AutomaticGainsay Landscape Stereo Field Videos

Jamming with the Landscape HC-TT

video upload by Musical Miscellany (Poorness Studios)

"I posted a few videos about the HC-TT from Landscape and now I decided to do a jam with it. Instead of using glitchy synths and the like, I decided to try it with "traditional" instruments. I'm pretty happy with the way this came out."

Musical Miscellany (Poorness Studios) Landscape posts

Sound design : exploration de la Landscape Noon

video upload by Makingsound

"Découverte et exploration de l'étonnante Landscape Noon, une boite à rythme / drone machine passive, uniquement alimentée par les signaux CV/Gate/Trig et Audio qu'elle reçoit sur ses entrées."

00:00 Intro
01:43 Présentation de la Noon
13:56 Présentation de Landscape et de leurs instruments
17:02 La vidéo qui m'a fait craquer
20:56 Première petite démo
23:26 Une fois dans les mains, à quoi ressemble la Noon
25:17 Découverte du périmètre sonore des deux premières tranches
31:49 Séquences euclidiennes sur toutes les pistes
34:18 Là il se passe un truc
35:25 Là il se passe un autre truc
35:58 Activation des "personnalités alternatives" sur toutes les pistes
36:44 Là il se passe encore un truc
38:30 Là il y a du grabuge qui gratouille
49:00 En plus des triggers, envoi d'une séquence de notes dans les entrées CV
40:45 Récapitulation de ce qu'il se passe
41:22 Là ça grésille par où ça passe
42:20 Le son change en fonction des outils utilisés
43:23 Autre piste de recherche : lui envoyer des enveloppes à la place des trigs
45:44 Boum Boum Boubouboum
47:15 Il y a de la friture sur la ligne
48:09 En mode big band
50:10 Minimal Techno
51:47 La Noon est aussi une machine à drones
52:44 Drone + Circuit Bending
58:23 Utiliser la Noon comme traitement externe (via l'entrée Audio In)
01:04:01 Conclusion

Sculpting Electricity with Landscape FM Noon

video upload by Sarah Belle Reid

"A deep dive into the Noon passive analog drum synth, designed by Landscape FM and Mystic Circuits. This video provides an in-depth walkthrough of Noon and how it works, along with a number of demos and patch examples of Noon in combination with hardware sequencers / touch controllers, Eurorack modular synths, acoustic instruments, and effects pedals. We’ll also go over what 'passive' means and how a passive synth like Noon works."

You can find additional Landscape Noon demos and pics in previous posts here.

5/21/25 Hewlett-Packard 3310A & 241A + Landscape Noon + Paia 6740 + Alesis MIDIVERB II

video upload by Cfpp0

"5/21/25 Hewlett-Packard 3310A & 241A + Landscape Noon + Paia 6740 + Alesis MIDIVERB II

We only hear the Landscape Noon passive drum synthesizer, activated by voltages from the Hewlett-Packard function generators and oscillator. The Hewlett-Packard 241A is just providing a certain rasp through channel 8 on the Noon. The left Hewlett-Packard 3310A sync output runs to channel 2, and its high output runs to channel 1, which together create the bass pulse (panned center). The right 3310A high output runs to channel 4 (panned a little left), and the 3310A range switch is played in patterns to create something like a melody. There is a gated reverb from the Alesis MIDIVERB II on both signals, and spring reverb from the Paia 6740 only on the one signal generated by the right 3310A."

Superbooth 22: Landscape - Noon

video upload by sonicstate

"Eric Pitra from Landscape introduced us to a very interesting instrument: Noon, a passive, un-powered analogue drum and synthesizer.

Noon utilizes incoming CV and Gate voltages to power each of its 8 analogue circuits. Linked together they can grow, inform and process one another in complex rhythmic ways with lots of lovely organic instability.

Noon availability: August 22 Price: 680 USD"

See this post for full details on Landscape's Noon.

Landscape HC-TT 2 Sounds SuperBooth 2019

Published on May 9, 2019 Perfect Circuit

"Landscape showed us the second version of their HC-TT (human controlled tape transport) at SuperBooth and it is upgraded with extra features making it even easier to manually control cassette tapes without having to modify them.

Landscape products available here: https://www.perfectcircuit.com/landsc..."

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05-The Landscape Stereo Field- Part 5: Sound Generation with Patching B

Published on Sep 4, 2018 AutomaticGainsay

"Here is part two of an exploration of the sound generation possibilities of the Landscape Stereo Field using patching amongst the jacks on the front."

AutomaticGainsay Landscape videos.

EML ElectroComp 101 Synth & Landscape Stereo Field by Bill T Miller

Published on Jan 23, 2019 Bill T Miller

"- BTM of http://OrgyOfNoise.com/ cranking a bit of EML Synth bloops with some Landscape Stereo Field static in this jiffy MONO test improv. Stay tuned for more fun in full stereo glory as well as experiments connecting Landscape Stereo Field with circuit bent toys and ARP and modular synths and even some pure EML Synth sonic creations. Just wanted to share this first jam combo with you. i am just barely scratching the surface of what can be done with either of these machines. PS... at end of this one camera shoot the iphone decided to snap out of tripod holder and bounce to the floor and i thought it looked and sounded cool so i kept as the ending. haha.

xtra THANX to Sheri Hausey, ZiggyCat,, Synthesizer Keith & Stephen DeJesus.

THANX to YOU for listening watching sharing downloading digging subscribing etc to all my sonic and visual excursions.

Tons MORE ---- Bill T Miller / Orgy Of Noise at: http://BTMTV.com & http://OrgyOfNoise.com & http://MP3Orgy.com"

Korg Gadget Updated with Landscape Mode, New Gadgets, Ableton Support & More

Landscape mode is particularly useful for when you want to use an external MIDI keyboard as the MIDI USB and audio connectors are on opposite ends of the iPad.  You also have more screen real-estate to interact with the controls.  It doesn't appear you can go full screen with the synths though.  Regardless it will be a step up in usability for some.

iTunes: KORG Gadget - KORG INC.

"What's New in Version 1.0.3
KORG Gadget version 1.0.3 (code name : Santa Clara)

• Two new gadgets, 'Bilbao' and 'Abu Dhabi' (In-App Purchase) [$9.99 each]
• Landscape mode for creating tracks anywhere
• Professional MIDI control takes you to an even deeper level
• A new workflow with Ableton Live: "Ableton Project Export"
• Export audio files any way you like
• Native 64-bit support. Completely optimized for the latest iPad and iOS"

Landscape Noon - Dual

video upload by Bata

"Using a Make Noise 0-CTRL to sequence/modulate channel 2 (Dual) on the Landscape Noon.

This is a patch for 1 voice on the Landscape Noon. Some other voices might be influencing the sound due to how the Noon works but no CV/Gates are going to the other channels except through the mod inputs (which go to all channels)."