Luca Longobardi - Semi Generative Polyend Tracker Solo Loop Walkthrough

Polyend

"Is it possible to create a complex and semi-generative ambient loop using only the Polyend Tracker? The answer is yes! Learn more at https://polyend.com/whats-up/luca-lon...

This loop was created using onboard samples (Loops n Trouble and Legowelt) and effects only."

Luca Longobardi - The Carillon

"Five irregular sequences made on the Polyend Tracker. Built with the Fill function and managed through the chance parameter to make them sound always a bit different. Filtered by the Hologram Electronics Microcosm and paired to an asynchronous loop on the OP-1."

Luca Longobardi - Polyend Medusa DFM, ModelSample & Nightsky

video by Polyend

"Made by Luca Longobardi - Gritty!"

OXI Artist Feature : Luca Longobardi

video upload by OXI Instruments

"In this video, pianist and composer Luca Longobardi takes the OXI One to new heights, crafting a mesmerizing patch that fully explores the power of the Chord Arpeggiator."

Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit at Pier 36 - New York

video by Luca Longobardi

I thought this was pretty cool. You might have heard about this exhibit online and/or via the news. It turns out Luca Longobardi did the soundtrack for it. His synth videos have been featured here on the site , a couple of which were from Polyend.

"Our Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit opens today in New York and you can't imagine how much I wanted to be there! Because New York is the city that gave me, in my years of studies there, the awareness of how much music could give and do for people." Knowing that from today in the City, (a lot!) people will listen to the soundtrack I wrote for our show makes me happy and excited. Today I feel my heart full of joy!"

Polyend Synth 1.3 - New Synths + New Features

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Download 1.3 Firmware - https://polyend.com/downloads/synth-d...

Introducing DWA: All New Polyend Synth Engine
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"Download the firmware update, patches, and samples here - https://polyend.com/downloads/synth-d..."

Polyend Synth - NEW v1.3 UPDATE - New DWA Synth Engine!

video upload by Oscillator Sink

"The Polyend Synth just got a nice firmware update (v1.3) which incorporates a bunch of MIDI refinements, some new grid modes which open up new performance options and most importantly the new DWA engine which is a fun, dual sample based engine with a comb filter that can be approached in loads of interesting ways.

Transparency Notice: Polyend sent me Synth when it was first released for free in order for me to make a release video. I have not been otherwise paid for any follow-up content made about Synth, although I was given early access to beta versions of the firmware.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:33 Layered Grids for Layered Sounds
04:34 DWA Engine - Intro
05:51 DWA Engine - Setting Expectations
08:07 DWA Engine - Controls
12:16 DWA Engine - Play Modes and Looping
16:20 DWA Engine - Crossfade
17:34 DWA Engine - Single Cycle Synthesis
20:39 DWA Engine - Comb Filter
23:58 Breaking down the lovely piano patch
28:06 DWA Engine - Old Skool Time Stretching
31:59 DWA Engine - Getting crazy with the comb filter
34:20 DWA Engine - Velocity and Aftertouch
37:05 Outro"

Polyend Synth

video upload by Luca Longobardi

"Had the pleasure of trying the new Polyend Synth firmware 1.3 ahead of release. The new DWA engine opens up a world of textures — fragile loops, glitchy fragments, resonant feedbacks, all waiting to be shaped. It’s a reminder of how beautifully unpredictable sound can be."

TipTop Audio ART Octopus (alternative Firmware), ATX1, Vortex and Teenage Engineering Op-1 Field

video upload by Luca Longobardi

"Simple yet complex
Testing an alternative firmware for the TTA Octopus module: basically, this way the Octopus doesn't need any midi controller to play the ART VCOs but it becomes an arpeggiator with chords sequences itself.
P.s.
Math is a good way to wake your brain up in the morning 🧠"

Beetlecrab Audio Tempera

video upload by Luca Longobardi

"Not just beautiful, though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they’re watching me. What I’ve up till now, what I’m going to do — they know it all. Nothing gets past their watchful eyes. As I sit there under the shining night sky, again a violent fear takes hold of me. My heart’s pounding a mile a minute, and I can barely breathe. All these millions of stars looking down on me, and I’ve never given them more than a passing thought before. Not just the stars — how many other things haven’t I noticed in the world, things I know nothing about? (Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore)

P.s.
Did you know that with Tempera you could play the original sample while processing it with different emitters? I didn't, and it was a wonderful surprise to discover this amazing feature."

OXI Instruments Coral, Korg SQ-64 and Teenage Engineering TX-6

video upload by Luca Longobardi

"42º Revolution
If you want to use the Coral as an eight-voice polyphonic synth, Part is the watchword. In the case of this sequence, all eight voices share the filter, envelope and parameters of the synth engine (the same for all) because they are set on the same midi channel which groups them together in one big Part.

P.s.
The Strings engine might my favorite one"

Teenage Engineering OP XY

video upload by Luca Longobardi

"But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.
(Haruki Murakami, After Dark)"

Teenage Engineering OP-XY

video upload by Luca Longobardi

"This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I was nothing but a pathway for the person known as me.
(Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle)"

Buchla & Titptop Audio 259t

video upload by Luca Longobardi

"Strane forme
A little excerpt from a long session done this morning with the 259t. I absolutely love the amount of little variations you can get from this iconic module. The fact that it has ART on board makes it easier for me to manage some little things that are part of my language. I love it, period."

TitpTop Audio Art Octopus, ATX1 and Vortex, O/C module and Error Instruments White Rabbit

video upload by Luca Longobardi

"Another short session with the new TipTop Audio Art modules.
I was exploring the Poly Voice Management of the Octopus, the module that ‘conducts’ the three ART oscillators. In the first part, the simple arpeggio played on the Arturia Keystep is reproduced in order by the first ATX1 (Midi channel 1), the second ATX1 (Midi channel 2) and the Vortex (Midi channel 3). It is easy to follow the change by looking at the red LED that lights up on the modules or the ADSR that is activated on the O/C in the case of the first two oscillators. Things get interesting when you manually switch from Mono 8 mode (one midi channel for each oscillator) to Poly 3, Poly 4, etc. These modes are designed to use oscillators in polyphony, playing chords as you do on a polyphonic synth. By sending a sequence instead, the notes are distributed one after the other among the different oscillators which, with different settings, create an ever-changing melody. A very unique way to make a sequence more interesting I think.
P.s.
The drone you hear comes from the TX-6 while the delay is the White Rabbit by Error Instruments."

Elektron Digitone, Tasty Chips GR-1 and Strymon Nightsky

video upload by Luca Longobardi

"Ma poiché quella promessa non metteva vere radici nella sua coscienza, alla prima pioggia veniva trascinata via dalla corrente e si perdeva chissà dove.
(H. Murakami, 1Q84)

Technical notes:
In this video I live-looped the Digitone sequence with GR-1 which runs a granular patch I made for this dronish track (LFO on Position and Spray).
The live recording runs on 3 different voices: one is in the original key, the second one is an octave above and the third one is a 5th above. I use them to build to track together with the Shimmer of the Nightsky.
Routing: Digiton into GR-1 through USB (audio-interface), GR-1 into Nightsky."

Monome Norns + Grid (Corners Script) and Teenage Engineering OP-1

video upload by Luca Longobardi

"l silenzio / penetra nella roccia / un canto di cicale. Matsuo Bashō, Haiku, XVII sec."

AC Noises Ricorda and Teenage Engineering Op-1 Field

video upload by Luca Longobardi

"From dry to wet.
This is the superpower of @acnoises Ricorda on a pure and dry Op-1 Field arpeggio.
Ticklish for happy brains!"

Monome Norns (Orgn script) + Grid, Cocoquantus 2 and Red Panda Particle

video upload by Luca Longobardi

"In verità cantare è altro respiro.
È un soffio in nulla. Un calmo alito. Un vento.
(Rainer Maria Rilke)"

Modular and Torso Electronics T-1

video upload by Luca Longobardi

"Forma Mentis"

TipTop Audio ART Modules

video upload by Luca Longobardi

"Last series of tests before the imminent commercial release of the Tiptop Audio ART modules.
In this session, of which I recorded a small jam, I configured the system so as to have a good comparison on polyphony tracking.

One of the two ATX1 analog oscillators (bass line) is managed via CV through the ART V/Oct Quantizer, the other analog oscillator and the digital one (Vortex) are instead managed via Midi, all via the Korg Sq-64.
The Roland S-1 is routed in the Morphagene, the Just Friends uses the Mutable Instruments Ripples Resonance to ping it on the melody line entrusted to the digital oscillator and the Pladask Elektrisk Dradd adds some glitchy vibes via its Tape function. TX-6 for delay."

Modern Sound Pluto, Ciat-Lonbarde Cocoquantus 2 and Palmelund Controller

video upload by Luca Longobardi

"Wrapped in the deep fragrance of the forest, I listen to the flapping of the birds' wings, to the stirring of the ferns. I'm freed from gravity and float up--just a little--from the ground and drift in the air. Of course I can't stay there forever. It's just a momentary sensation--open my eyes and it's gone. Still, it's an overwhelming experience. Being able to float in the air.
(Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore)

About the setup:
Pluto into Cocoquantus 2 that acts as a delay (continuous recording). Palmelund Contoller set to change the delay rate and source stereo field."

Teenage Engineering Op-Z + Motion

video upload by Luca Longobardi

"Boilwe Suite: an A/V jam for Op-Z"