New Synth Coming from PPG

Something new is developing at PPG Published on Jul 29, 2017 WPalmWT

"A short teaser of my new synth
Thanks to Jean-Luc Nest for the beautiful sounds"

PPG of course is Wolfgang Palm, maker of the original line of PPG hardware synths, and the more recent iOS and software synthesizers based on the classic PPG wavetable synthesis and more. My guess is this will be a new software or iOS synthesizer, but you never know of course...

Current iOS synths by Wolfgang Palm:
WaveGenerator - Wolfgang Palm
WaveMapper - Wolfgang Palm
Phonem - Wolfgang Palm
MiniMapper - Wolfgang Palm

Current VSTs by Wolfgang Palm:
PPG WaveGenerator
PPG WaveMapper 2
PPG Phonem

Update: and here it is:

Infinite DemoSong

Published on Jul 30, 2017 WPalmWT

"Infinite demo song from Cornel Hecht"

Cool pin style modulation matrix. Interesting that Pitch appears to be a modulation source.

In the beginning

Published on Jul 31, 2017 WPalmWT

"A story about noise and sound
Thanks to #nachtsmeer# for the lyrics"

Transcript:

In the beginning there was noise

Pink noise

Structured noise

In time, from noise came individual sine waves.

Some of these sine waves were louder, others quite.

Some had low frequencies others frequencies were high.

The sine waves grouped together in various amplitudes and frequencies.

Together they created fundamentals, then formed partials, overtones and harmonics.

and in conclusion we journey on to the

PPG Infinite

PLEX 2 - Free New Synth From Legendary PPG's Wolfgang Palm

YouTube Uploaded by WPalmWT on Oct 26, 2011

"showing the PLEX 2 synth, with automatied Icons on the Sound Palette."

Download here: http://plex.hermannseib.com/

Update: For those not familiar with PPG and Wolfgang Palm, he brought us wavetable synthesis in the late 70s. via Wikipedia: "Wavetable synthesis is used in certain digital music synthesizers to implement a restricted form of real-time additive synthesis. The technique was first developed by Wolfgang Palm of PPG in the late 1970s [1] and published in 1979[2], and has since been used as the primary synthesis method in synthesizers built by PPG and Waldorf Music and as an auxiliary synthesis method by Sequential Circuits, Ensoniq, Korg, Access and Dave Smith Instruments among others." The PPG Webpages is a great resource for everything PPG.

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Free Soundbank for PPG Infinite

Published on Aug 31, 2018 WPalmWT

"Free Soundbank for PPG Infinite
A demo of new sounds I made. These sounds were done with a new analyser I am currently working on. It is still in an experimental stage.
Thanks to JeanLuc Nest for letting me use his beautiful sounds.
For details on how to get the soundbank, please visit my site:
http://wolfgangpalm.com/infinitepro_s...
http://wolfgangpalm.com/iinfinite_sou..."

Vintage PPG Videos by Wolfgang Palm

PPG 1983

Published on Jan 10, 2014 WPalmWT·11 videos

"PPG rooms and coworkers 1983 and the 500 th wave 2.2"

PPG 1984

Published on Jan 10, 2014

"PPG Company 1984, Production, 10 year anniversary celebration
music by Michael Wehr 2009 and from PPG-demo 1983"

Very special PPG System Demo 1986

Published on Jan 10, 2014

"PPG System Demo at the Frankfurt Fair 1986"

PPG System Demo 1987

Published on Jan 10, 2014

"PPG System Demo at the Frankfurt Fair 1987"

PPG Infinite demo by smk

WPalmWT
Published on Aug 5, 2017

"Markus Stadelmann playing his Infinite soundcreations"

PPG's Wolfgang Palm FreqWarpFx

video upload by WPalmWT

"Realtime audio Effect with 3D spectrum display"

Alfred Rademakers playing Infinite from the Seaboard.

WPalmWT
Published on Aug 10, 2017

"Our sound designer and betatester Alfred Rademakers demonstrates the setup and performance using the VPC mode (voice per channel)."

iTunes: PPG Infinite - Wolfgang Palm

PPG WaveGenerator and WaveMapper AU-extensions for iOS

Published on Aug 31, 2016 WPalmWT

"A preview of AU extensions for the iOS WaveGenerator and WaveMapper.
The release of these updates is planned for October.
More info: http://wolfgangpalm.com"

iTunes:
WaveGenerator - Wolfgang Palm
WaveMapper - Wolfgang Palm

The magic in PPG Infinite

Published on Aug 1, 2017 WPalmWT

"A short demo about the Morpher and Noiser"

PPG Phonem - Show And Tell by Wolfgang Palm

Published on Nov 13, 2015 WPalmWT

"Wolfgang Palm demonstrates his vocal synthesizer

for more info go here:
http://wolfgangpalm.com/phonem.html"

PPG Phonem VST/AU - Multi Voice Update

Published on Nov 23, 2016 WPalmWT

"Demoing the new Multi Voice panel and sounds.
Please note that this is a preview of the free update coming in December."

PPG Infinite PRO Tutorial • Envelopes

Published on Dec 18, 2017 WPalmWT

"Tutorial about particular features in Infinite
For more info go here:
http://wolfgangpalm.com/infinitepro.html"

Xmas 2020 via Wolfang Palm

WPalmWT

"Christmas greetings to all my friends"

PPG Infinite for iPad • Show And Tell with Creator Wolfgang Palm

WPalmWT
Published on Aug 6, 2017

"Wolfgang Palm introduces the Infinite iPad app and is playing and morphing sounds.

For more info go here:
http://wolfgangpalm.com/iinfinite.html"

Playlist:
PPG Infinite for iPad • Show And Tell with Creator Wolfgang Palm
PPG Infinite Tutorial 1 • Show And Tell - Wolfgang Palm explains time envelopes and the morpher
PPG Infinite Tutorial 2 • Show And Tell - Wolfgang Palm explains the sine editor pages.
PPG Infinite Tutorial • The Browser - How to setup your author string and use the preset browser.
PPG Infinite Tutorial 3 • Show And Tell

Wolfgang Palm Vocal Synth Articulation Exercises

YouTube Uploaded by WPalmWT on Nov 2, 2011

"featuring my vocal synth plugin (prototype)"

Total Morph • A sound morphing experiment from Wolfgang Palm

WPalmWT

"A little experiment I did recently.
Please note: this is just a test.
I cannot say yet whether this will grow into a new product.
Anyway, I thought it might be interesting."

PPG Infinite Getting Pro Version for Mac and Windows?

The magic in PPG Infinite PRO Published on Nov 22, 2017 WPalmWT

"A short demo about the Morpher, Noiser and Molder"

PPG Infinite PRO? It looks like PPG Infinite is getting an upgrade to the Mac, and possibly Windows based on PPG WaveMapper2.

Until then you can play with the iPad version on iTunes: PPG Infinite - Wolfgang Palm

PPG WaveMapper 2 Analyzer Tutorial

Published on Oct 31, 2014 WPalmWT

"A little tutorial on how to analyse samples in the PPG WaveMapper 2"

PPG Phonem Coming to iPad

Published on Aug 4, 2016 WPalmWT

"Cornel Hecht featuring the Phonem vocal synthesizer.
All sounds from Phonem (except drums)."

"After the huge success of the PPG Phonem VST/AU plugin, we optimized the sound-engine to make it run pretty well on the iPad. It has also been adapted to make best use of multi-touch and comes with IAA and AU-extension.
PPG Phonem lets the user create expressive vocal synthesis beyond anything ever heard before. With its advanced routing system every aspect of the voice can be controlled and modulated in any conceivable way. Anything from a quiet whisper to a scream. Use the intuitive text to speech tool to make Phonem say whatever you want.

Although the PPG Phonem was originally designed to do just vocal synthesis, it turned out that the system was also capable of producing a wide range of universal synthsizer sounds. So we extended the parameter ranges and made everything accessible to the user, to take advantage of this fact.

'The human voice is a very complex system, which can produce a wide range of sounds. It is however restricted by natural physical dimensions. Phonem does not impose limits, letting you create all the filter configurations and sweeps you could only ever have dreamed of.'
Wolfgang Palm

The heart of the system is a multi resonator filter with 12 individual resonators which can produce vocal sounds as well as all kinds of filter sweeps and effects. This is combined with a very flexible excitation source which can work as a simulation for the human vocal source (the glottis) but also use wavetables and time-corrected-samples (TCS) to drive the filter.

The user can dig into every detail of a synthesized utterance, right down to the individual phonemes. Each phoneme can be adjusted to meet the voice of an individual character or a dialect. Additional there is a pitch-track and a control-track which makes the voice sing with phrasing and expression. A little inspiration and imagination allows the user to create whatever they wish.

PPG Phonem comes with a modulation matrix - allowing 19 sources to control 40 parameters. In this way the vocals or sound effects can be modified rhythmically using LFOs, envelopes or two X/Y control pads. All these modifications can of cause be recorded into the controlling DAW.

For speech or vocal synthesis a versatile excitation generator is provided. But we did not leave it at that and added a wavetable and TCS system, which adds a new dimension to the sound palette. Wavetables can be imported from WaveGenerator or created and edited, TCS can be imported and modified from WaveMapper 2.

Phonem comes with more than 500 presets made by our sounddesigner team. The browser page allows you to list and sort your sounds. Besides that you can copy presets to another list.

Key Features
Create your own singing style and expressions
Large Phoneme inventory - 46 english/american plus 5 german plus 4 french phonemes
Versatile excitation generator/oscillator
Working with typical voice source or wavetable and time-corrected-samples (TCS)
Extreme time stretching, freezing and reversing
Pitch track - let your robots sing
Control track - let it cry and shout
Song mode - making it easy to compose your synthesized text
Wave page - create your own wavetables and modify time-corrected-samples
Import WTS and TCS files from the iPad WaveGenerator and WaveMapper
All internal parameters available to the user - give your voices a special dialect or individual character
Versatile matrix system - allowing 19 sources to control 40 parameters
Two X/Y control pads freely routable to 40 parameters
6 Envelopes, for control of filter sweeps, waveform, noise and many modulations
4 LFOs plus Vibrato, Flutter and Growl generators
Fully programmable resonator filter - allowing production of new sound effects
Delay/Reverb effect
Overdrive/Distortion effect
A/B compare your edited sounds
AU extension - run multiple Phonem instances in AU hosts
IAA - inter-app audio support
Audiobus 2 with statesaving
10 min audio recording and Audio copy
Redesigned browser with new listing filters
Directly accessible context help for each module
Freely configurable schematic keypad, with extremely expressive modulation options
4 Keypads play modes: Poly, Mono, Legato and Multitrigger.
4 MIDI modes: Poly, Mono, Legato and Voice-Per-Channel.

Phonem will be available in your app-store very soon..."

PPG Phonem 1.0.1 - the new resource handling

Published on Dec 19, 2015 WPalmWT

"All changes you made are saved in the DAW project.
You still can save your resources in your user folders, but don't have to.
for more info go here:
http://wolfgangpalm.com/phonem.html"