Solid Jam 2 with Roland MC 707, Overcycler, TD-3 & OTO BAM + BOUM!

video upload by Solidtrax

"I finally took some time to play with a few of my cool tools, aside from sound designing for various companies. #dawless #mc707 #overcycler #tb303 #td3 #jam

Tools used:
‪@rolandglobal‬ MC-707
‪@gliglisfx‬ Overcycler
‪@behringer‬ TD-3
‪@OTOMACHINES‬ BAM & BOUM

Do you fancy some new sounds for your Overcycler - consider supporting and purchasing them here: https://solidtrax.nl/product/cyclic-c..."

GliGli’s Overcycler, an affordable and ‘cycle-over-the-top’ synthesizer?

Supporting member Solidtrax wrote in to let us know he has a review up on GliGli’s Overcycler. You can find it on his site here: https://solidtrax.nl/gliglis-overcycler-review/. You can a couple of video in previous posts here.

From the review:

"The Overcycler is available as a DIY and pre-assembled kit. The DIY kit consists of parts and a pre-assembled circuit board, you only have to do some soldering for the panel, but it’s only through-hole (ie. all the surface mounted parts are soldered already), which isn’t that difficult even if you aren’t a solder-head.

At the moment of writing the price is around €264 for the DIY kit and €314 for the pre-assembled version (ex. shipping). Fabrice and I got in contact and after some discussion, I quickly decided to go for the pre-assembled version so I could help Fabrice with tasks like writing the manual and adding some new factory patches...

But what makes this synth so special and why did Fabrice wanted to create this synthesizer? Well, the manual gives a bit of history, as apparently this project has been a long time in the making:

Quote from the manual: 'This project started about 10 years ago, when I wanted to make use of spare SSM2044 voltage controlled low pass filters I had laying around. The goal was to make a synthesizer that had a very strong character, while staying focused on polyphonic sounds, and the SSM2044 was perfect for that because even when strongly over-driven, it never sounds aggressive. It went through 3 major revisions until it became the full-fledged retail synthesizer it is now. As new SSM2044 are becoming rare, the synthesizer uses SSI2144, which are modern surface-mounted clones, and also embarks LM13700-based voltage controlled amplifiers.'"

Check out the full review here.

GliGli's Overcycler - Custom Patch: Dream Walker ST

video upload by Solidtrax

"Recorded one of my custom patches for the Overcycler by ‪@gliglisfx‬ in a single take using ‪@bitwig‬ Studio. I've mixed in some ‪@Sinevibes‬ Luminance v2 towards the end.

For more information about GliGli's new synth, you can visit: https://gliglisynth.blogspot.com/"

You can find additional Overcycler posts here.

GliGli's Overcycler - Exclusive First Look - 5 Minutes With

video upload by sonicstate

The first prototype of Overcycler was posted in 2015 here, and the final prototype on June 25th this year here.

"Our world exclusive first look at GliGli's Overcycler - a DSP synth with analog filters , ‪@magicalsynthadventure3216‬ takes it for a spin.
The 6 voice instrument works at 80kHz for high quality oversampling and plenty of modulation goodness. Available as a DIY kit or prebuilt from http://gliglisynth.blogspot.com"

Overcycler 3 factory patches demo

video upload by GliGli SFXTeam

The original was posted back in 2015 here.

"This is the final prototype of my DIY synthesizer 'Overcycler', user interface / patch making demo coming soon!
More detail on my synth blog: http://gliglisynth.blogspot.com/searc..."

GliGli's Overcycler Demo

video upload by Ticco Ross

"When I heard that the guy that designed the famous Sequential Circuits Prophet 600 mod was going to release a low cost synthesizer based on the ssm2044 filters, I knew right then that it was going to be an amazing project.
A man only design, develop and build project. With its own sound makes this a unique synth with a lot of possible modulations functions. Here you can hear some patches I made with it."

You can find additional Overcycler posts here.

Overcycler DIY 6 Voice Hybrid Synthesizer from GliGli - Maker of the Prophet-600 Firmware Update

This one in via Soviet Space Child, via reddit, posted on June 24, 2015 by sfxgligli:

"It's a 6 voice polysynth. Each voice is 2 wavetable oscillators into a VCF into a VCA. I deliberately made it so the oscillators can strongly overdrive the SSM2044 filter, which stays very musical and smooth even when overdriven (eg you can hear it on the opening arpeggios). The voices are also panned left to right on the stereo output to get some spatialization."

Note the synth appears to have been completed back in 2013 based on the date of the demo above as well as previous posts on the GliGli website.

You might know GliGli from the P600fw firmware update for the Prophet-600 and the Matrix 1000 ROM upgrade. This 6 voice DIY hardware hybrid synth is called Overcycler. Some of the work behind it actually made it's way into the P600fw update.

From October 9, 2013:
"It will be:
- An expander, in a slanted box.
- 6 voice polyphonic with separate outs, 4 part multitimbral.
- Hybrid , two 12bit DACs per voice (wavetable oscillators for now), one SSM2044 filter, and 1/4 of SSM2164 VCA.
- Using a 20x4 characters LCD / 16 keys keypad / 10 potentiometers user interface.
- Using relatively simple hardware, strongly based on the KISS principle :)
- Having a strong character, each stage will allow some overdrive (filter, VCAs, ...)

I learned a lot while working on the Prophet 600, and I thought it could help me design a slightly different synth from the usual analog ones, more or less inspired by the PPG Wave.

Nothing groundbreaking, Mutable Instruments have done this for a while, but I had an unused set of SSM2044/SSM2164, and I wanted to see how far I could go in simplifying a polyphonic hybrid synthesizer."

Cyclic Chaos - 100 Must-have #sounds for your GliGli Overcycler!

video upload by Solidtrax

"A couple of sounds that I made for the ‪@gliglisfx‬ Overcycler - available soon on solidtrax.nl

In the meantime have a look at my comprehensive review: https://solidtrax.nl/gliglis-overcycl... and listen to some other examples."

5 things to like about GliGli's Overcycler

video upload by Solidtrax

0:00 Intro
0:35 1. The Digital Oscillators
1:35 2. WaveMod
3:51 3. The Analog Filters
4:19 4. Modulation Options
5:51 5. Arpeggiator & Sequencer
7:35 6. Unison