Orbiter: collisions driving sampler #3

YouTube via rubymatt — May 03, 2010 — "Now optimised to handle up to 64 particles at 50Hz. With 8 voices collisions can trigger one of two samples."

Audio not so good in the previous two vis:

Orbiter: collisions play sampler #2

"rubymatt — April 27, 2010 — Particles now have an "energy level" that is randomly assigned at initialisation time. Brighter particles have more energy. When particles collide they trigger a slice of the sample to play (the sample is divided into a number slices equal to the number of particles) based on their particle numbers. Pitch is related to Y position, Granularity to X, Speed & amplitude to the collision energy. It's all still captain random and, maybe, will never amount to much but it's been interesting getting this far and nice to hear *something* for my (quite disproportionate) efforts!"

Orbiter: collisions driving sampler

"rubymatt — April 26, 2010 — When two particles collide it now triggers the sampler. The collision parameters (and particle data) determine the resynthesis parameters. Lots of work to do here. Spectular: YouTube have stripped the audio channel from my video again leaving only the mic audio. Useless."


Update:

TMA-2: Energy to velocity

rubymatt — May 04, 2010 — "This thing doesn't get any less silly.

In the latest version particle energy now determines particle speed (brighter particles have more energy and move faster). At this point the only thing left to fix in the basic model is the result of collisions. At the moment only one particle is redirected.

It's not apparent from the video but I also spent quite some time doing further CPU optimisations to make 64 particles feasible. In the previous version I was still getting audio overloads. Even then though I have had to drop the update frequency to 25Hz.

Once the base model is complete the next thing to add is a gravity well that you can place in the vessel to deform the trajectory of particles. Since the X,Y co-ordinates of a collision determine the pitch and granularity of the sample playback this will offer a means to 'shape' the sound without directly controlling it.

A future version of the Reaktor ensemble (tentatively called TMA-2 at this point) will drive an additive oscillator bank instead of a sampler. That might prove more musical. Or not..."

"Neuron" - Free VST based on Hartmann Neuron

Published on Jul 15, 2017 100 Things I Do

"The Hartmann Neuron is one of those synths that intrigues and seems full off possibilities. Somewhere between Sampler, modeller and resynthesis engine built for a short time in the early 2000’s

This is the VST based on Axel Hartmann and Stephan Bernsee’s creation that was also also for sale for a short time before the company folded. It came with a controller (Nuke) which also acted as copy protection. Fortunately Stephan Bernsee has updated the code as much as possible to make the Neuron no longer tied to the controller and it now is available for free via his website and the Neuron facebook group.

The VST is built around the older VST 2.1 SDK which means the code is not compatible with most DAW’s today. You will need an Intel Mac running a VST Host that supports the older system. A full list of supported clients & links to downloads are available at http://www.neuron-synth.com/

Unfortunately the windows code base has been lost and is no longer able to be updated.

The Clip was composed 100% on the VST and no effects besides some compression was used."

Tone2 Icarus2 Synthesizer

Published on Feb 17, 2020 Tone2 Audiosoftware

Tone2 Icarus2 factory sounds

"Icarus2 is an extremely powerful synthesizer-workstation. The award-winning audio-engine provides a gigantic sonic range, offers true high-end sound quality and creates a wide range of sounds impossible with other synths. Icarus2 ships with 1600 hand-picked patches created by professionals.

This workstation is one of the most versatile and mighty synthesizers ever. Icarus2 offers 54 different synthesis methods and provides a gigantic sonic range. The audio engine is not only able to create all classic synthesizer sounds. It can produce a vast range of fresh sounds, which are impossible with other products. The innovative '3D wavetable synthesis', which is exclusive to Icarus, creates a new dimension of sounds with dynamic expression and acoustic movement. Besides that many other unique synthesis-methods are available that can be combined freely.
Icarus comes with the largest collection of filters available within a synthesizer. The audio-engine offers many powerful features like a drum-sequencer, a built-in vocoder, re-synthesis, a glitch-sequencer, the most advanced wavetable-editor available, an extremely mighty oscillator section, MSEGs, ...

However, the synth still remains very easy to use. A comfortable interface with drag & drop support gives you instant help, visual feedback and immediate acoustic results.

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PPG Waveterm A + Wave 2.2 Video

YouTube via retrosound72 | February 02, 2011 |

"vintage synth demo by RetroSound

PPG Waveterm A and Wave 2.2 Wavetable Synthesizer from the year 1982.

The Waveterm is the heart of the legendary PPG system and based on an old german computer called Eltec Eurocom II with Motorola 6809 processor.

- creation of Waves and Wavetables
- fourier analysis / resonator
- additive synthesis
- 8 bit Sampling for the WAVE 2.2
- sequencer / event generator
- storage of sounds on 8" disc

this first demo video shows only a few functions (creation of waves, wavetables) of the Waveterm A. more coming soon."

PPG Waveterm A + Wave 2.2 pt.2

YouTube via retrosound72 | Feb 23, 2011 |

"this second WT-A demo video shows a few samples from The Waveterm A library, sample edition and resynthesis. You hear only pure waveforms, no sounds."

Open Sound Control (OSC) for Kyma

"Bidirectional communication between Kyma, iPad, Lemur, and other OSC-enabled devices & software

CHAMPAIGN IL-March 2, 2010-Symbolic Sound Corporation has expanded the list of real-time controllers and software that can communicate with its Kyma sound design environment by adding support for Open Sound Control (OSC) to its Paca(rana) sound engine.

By connecting a Paca or Pacarana to the Ethernet, sound designers, musicians, and researchers using Kyma on Windows or Macintosh computers can establish bi-directional communication with OSC-enabled devices and software on the network to control parameters of Kyma sound synthesis and processing algorithms. Open Sound Control is an open communications protocol that delivers higher speeds, greater resolution, and more flexibility than is afforded by the standard MIDI protocol. (For a partial list of software and hardware currently supporting the OSC protocol, please see http://opensoundcontrol.org/implementations).

Doug Kraul, CEO of Harmony Systems, Inc. is enthusiastic about Kyma's new OSC technology. "OSC is a brilliant addition to the already stellar Kyma sound design workstation", said Kraul. "It immediately enables exciting new ways to use Kyma on stage or in the studio. But the true impact of this forward looking technology is the new, innovative controllers and applications that OSC makes possible for the Kyma platform".

Plus Bidirectional MIDI Streams Over OSC
Don't have any OSC-enabled devices or software yet? Not to worry! You, too, can benefit from the faster speeds, higher resolution, and reduced cable-count of OSC by using Symbolic Sound's protocol for sending bi-directional MIDI streams over OSC. Symbolic Sound is happy to announce that several third-party development partners are concurrently announcing new software that supports bi-directional communication with Kyma over OSC:

OSCulator: Known as the Rosetta Stone of music controllers, Camille Troillard's Mac OS X application OSCulator (http://osculator.net) is already familiar to Kyma users who utilize it for sending individual MIDI controls, OSC, and HID control data over FireWire to Kyma. Now, in OSCulator 2.9.2, you can also send OSC messages directly to the Paca(rana) over the network. OSCulator 2.9.2 also implements Symbolic Sound's Bi-Directional-MIDI-streams-over-OSC protocol, enabling you to send streams of MIDI events from your software directly to Kyma without need for a MIDI interface on your computer and without having to map each controller individually in OSCulator.

vM2 and PacaMidi: Harmony Systems, Inc. is offering two new Mac OS X applications in its Delora product line, vM2 and PacaMidi, that incorporate Kyma's new "MIDI-over-OSC" technology to further enhance and facilitate real-time interaction with Kyma. vM2, a "virtual MotorMix", enables JazzMutant Lemur owners to enjoy automatic, fully integrated tactile control over Kyma's Virtual Control Surface. Recently updated to include several exciting new features, vM2 2.0 employs "MIDI-over-OSC" to eliminate the complication of physical MIDI cables and interfaces. PacaMidi, Harmony's newest product, uses "MIDI-over-OSC" to create a "virtual MIDI interface and patchbay" that adds three merged MIDI inputs and one MIDI output to a Paca(rana). This expands Kyma's connectivity options, while saving you the expense and complexity of using physical MIDI interfaces, hardware mergers, and numerous cables. For more information see http://www.delora.com.

Max & M4L: If you are one of the many artists using Kyma in conjunction with Ableton's Live and/or Cycling74's Max, you'll be happy to hear that Andrew Capon has written a Max external for bidirectional MIDI communication over OSC that works with both Max and Max For Live. For more details, please see: http://www.symbolicsound.com/Learn/AndyCaponMaxExternalOSC

For software and hardware developers
Starting from the Open Sound Control definition of a MIDI data type, Symbolic Sound has published additional details that make it possible to define a bidirectional stream of MIDI events sent as OSC messages over a network. Software and hardware developers planning to add MIDI-over-OSC capabilities to their applications or devices are invited to utilize this protocol to ensure compatibility with Kyma and Symbolic Sound's development partners: http://www.symbolicsound.com/Learn/BidirectionalMIDIStreamsOverOSC.

For developers utilizing pure OSC who would like to ensure compatibility with Kyma, please see:
http://www.symbolicsound.com/Learn/OSCSoftwareDevelopers

Who can use OSC with Kyma?
Anyone using Kyma on a Windows or Macintosh computer with either the Paca or Pacarana sound engine can utilize the new OSC features.

Sound artists will find this new feature of interest primarily due to the new opportunities it affords for controlling Kyma using OSC-enabled software running on devices such as the newly announced Apple iPad (and compatible iPhone and iPod Touch), the award-winning JazzMutant Lemur multi-touch surface, and numerous other OSC controllers and software.

This new feature may also be of particular interest to research labs and researchers developing data-driven virtual environments. Using the Open Sound Control protocol, researchers can write their own software for updating sound parameters while running experiments or for streaming data from networked computers to the Paca(rana) to update sound synthesis parameters in real time in response to external controllers, experimentally generated data, streams of data from remote sensors, or synthetically generated data based on computer models.

Pricing & Availability
OSC-enabled Kyma X.74 is a free software update for registered Kyma X owners. OSC communication requires the Paca or Pacarana sound engine. Kyma X.74 also comes with additional features, including an 11-times speedup in the Virtual Control Surface, support for the MOTU UltraLite Hybrid mk3, TC Electronic Impact Twin, and Prism Audio Orpheus converters, track-pad compatible menus, refinements to the Tau resynthesis, and more.

Symbolic Sound's innovative Kyma X environment features a unique set of sound synthesis and processing algorithms and a powerful way to easily re-combine these algorithms to create sounds that have never been heard before."

SPECTRAL SYNTHESIS USING SPEAR & iDENSITY

Published on Mar 14, 2018 Element S_

"Spectral Analysis-Resynthesis and Granular synthesis are two of the most powerful music electroacoustic tools available.

In this video, the sounds from a Harrier jump Jet engine are turned into musical elements for my electronic composition 'Flight Sequence V' thanks to Michael Klingbeil's 'Spear' editor and Apesoft'

https://element-s.bandcamp.com/releases"

Technos Axcel - vidéo de démonstration

MuStudio

Super rare resynthesis synthesizer. See this post for demos from the creator and this post for demos from Perfect Circuit. See the Acxel label for additional posts.

Description for the video above (Googlish below): "Cette vidéo a été retrouvée dans les archives de Michel Geiss, j'estime qu'elle a été enregistrée vers 1988-89.

La qualité n'est pas extraordinaire car la vidéo était enregistrée sur une cassette VHS au format NTSC et elle commençait à présenter de signes de fatigue, je l'ai numérisée moi-même.

Mais le plus important, c'est la rareté d'un tel document. En plus, c'est suffisamment rare et exceptionnel qu'il soit en langue française - québecoise."

Googlish:

"This video was found in the archives of Michel Geiss, I believe it was recorded around 1988-89.

The quality is not extraordinary as the video was recorded on a VHS tape in NTSC format and it was starting to show signs of fatigue, I digitized it myself.

But the most important is the rarity of such a document. In addition, it is sufficiently rare and exceptional that it is in French - Quebecois language. "

ImageLine Morphine additive Synthese, Resynthese Example

YouTube via buenasideasde — April 16, 2010 — "Soundexample Imageline Morphine Resynthesis, Hallo"

[SUPERBOOTH22] HAKEN AUDIO : Nouveau firmware d'analyse / resynthèse (Tous Continuums + Osmose)

video upload by Les Sondiers

"Christophe Dusquesne nous présente le nouveau moteur d'analyse : resynthèse développé par Haken Audio."

"Christophe Dusquesne presents the new analysis engine: resynthesis developed by Haken Audio."

Computer Music Journal

click here. via peterwendt in the comments of this post on the Acxel Resynthesizer. I will add this to the Synth Books section on the right.

"Computer Music Bibliography
Acoustics, Psychoacoustics, and Music Perception
Additive Synthesis and Sampling
Analysis/Resynthesis (FFT, PV)
Anthologies of the Computer Music Literature
Composition with Computers
Computer Music Representation and Models
Computer-Based Musical Analysis
History of Electro-Acoustic and Computer Music
Interactive Performance Systems
Interactive Signal Processing
Mathematics and Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
MIDI
Multiple Wavetable, Wave Terrain, and Granular Synthesis
Music Languages
Nonlinear Distortion and Waveshaping Synthesis
Physical Modeling
Reverberation, Auditory Localization, 3D Sound
Speech/Formant/LPC
Subtractive Synthesis
Synthesis Using Distortion Techniques
Synthesizer Design and Theory
Textbooks/Sound & E-A Instrument Design
Wavelets"

Tone2 Nemesis Feature Overview

Published on Nov 15, 2013 Tone2 Audiosoftware·33 videos

"Available the 1st of December from Tone2.com, Nemesis takes FM synthesis to its next evolutionary step: NeoFM synthesis.

NeoFM is an exclusive new and improved approach to FM synthesis that is extremely powerful and intuitive. Nemesis includes traditional FM synthesis as well as a completely new and improved approach to FM called NeoFM synthesis. It is now easier than ever to get very good sounding results.
The sound quality of Nemesis surpasses conventional synths, making it easy to locate the sonic sweet spot.
Nemesis features an easy-to-use interface, which ensures that you will experience FM synthesis at its best and most entertaining.

* Unrivaled sound quality.
* Offers a new and user-friendly approach to FM synthesis. Nemesis makes FM synthesis accessible to everyone, regardless of skill level or experience.
* Easy to tweak presets or program your own sounds with.
* NeoFM covers all important aspects of traditional FM synthesis, but is in no way limited only to bell-style sounds. It offers a very large sonic range, one that is much more varied than other FM synths.
* Due to its innovative technical approach, neoFM does not suffer from a metallic sound or from the weaknesses of conventional FM.
* No fewer than 22 combinable synthesis types. Nemesis expands FM with further synthesis methods such as Additive, Formant, Wavetables, Waveshaping, Phase distortion, Sync and Reso synthesis.
* Contains 1000 inspiring patches from professional designers.
* Unique signature sound.
* Nemesis features a large number of exclusive sounds that are not possible with other synthesizers.
* Perfect for modern, as well as all other music styles.
* Wave import, resynthesis and the additive spectral editor offer unlimited sonic possibilities.
* True 4x stereo unison.
* An extensive number of high-end quality effects, with flexible and innovative routing options.
* Trancegate with an extensive selection of setup options.
* High-End sound quality with low demands on your CPU.
* Powerful, easy-to-use arpeggiator."

sympleSEQ Now Available

You might remember sympleSEQ from this previous post. Hex Inverter wrote in to let us know their IndieGoGo funding blew past their goal and they are now in production. They also made some significant updates to the feature set.

"What am I talking about? Well, the original concept was VERY minimalistic. There was nothing other than tempo, gate out and CV output. Through the discussion had with members on the forums where this was being developed, people requested pause/reset functionality be included as well. Using a very small amount of components and some trickery, I was able to achieve this -- so now sympleSEQ also boasts the option of adding reset/pause functionality!

Possibly best of all is that I had a panel artist come to me who wants to make panels for everyone!

I have a limited number of kits left in stock, but plenty of bare circuit boards for people. There is a well documented assembly manual for people as well.

sympleSEQ can be found/purchased at: http://shop.hexinverter.net

Panels will be available soon from Ben at: http://www.resynthesis.co.uk

Here is the build manual"


Below is a video of sympleSEQ with a Benjolin.



Benjolin Meets sympleSEQ -- a sequenced analog synthesis jam
YouTube Uploaded by hexinverterDOTnet on Dec 5, 2011

"Rob Hordyk's amazing Benjolin meets hexinverter.net's sympleSEQ for a little jam before they get enclosed in their final enclosure.

Here I am driving the two oscillators and the onboard filter at different times with sympleSEQ, as well as just noodling away on the Benjolin.

sympleSEQ is an easy to make 8-step analog step-sequencer. It utilizes board-mount components and a unique dual PCB design, making it simple to create an analog sequencer for driving your voltage controlled synthesizer gear or circuit bent toys with. It is particularly suited to lo-fi artists due to the low feature set (and thus complexity). It is also very economical to build compared to any other sequencer on the market.

sympleSEQ can be driven by a wide range of voltages (9-15V DC) and thus is highly portable.

Kits, PCBs and more information about sympleSEQ can be found at:

http://shop.hexinverter.net"

Waldorf Demos with Saga's Jim Gilmour at the Frankfurt Musikmesse in 1992

Saga - Jim Gilmour Demo - Musikmesse Frankfurt 1993 1992 Published on May 12, 2013 MadSevenFilms

"Jim Gilmour ( Saga keyboardist) in a demo at the Waldorf stand during the musikmesse in Germany.
Humble Stance, Wind Him up, Don't be late, Careful where you step, On the loose,etc ...."

Update: according the swissdoc, these videos are actually from 1992. That would make the appearance of the prototype Wave in 1992, not 1993. This post has been updated to reflect that. Note swissdoc's write-ups are from 1993 as you can see in the datestamps for the links, and I believe the production model Wave was indeed released in 1993.

Here's a blast from the past featuring a bit of Waldorf history in via swissdoc. This may very well be the only Waldorf footage from the event. Check out the non-working prototype of the Waldorf Wave in the background. 1992 was the year it made its first appearance to be released in 1993. Note the Microwave rack was released earlier in 1989. Further below you will find some notes on Musikmesse 1993 (the following year after these videos) from swissdoc, followed by a transcription of the Wave flyer. This is a fascinating look back on synth history. But first, one more video from the 1992 Musikmesse.

Update2 via swissdoc: "In addition, for those who can read and understand German, there is a big series of three articles available for download (email has to be provided) from the German Keyboards magazine. Inside Wave. Amazing level of detail plus in part three an interview with developers and users plus additional interviews with the people behind the Wave.

https://www.keyboards.de/heftarchiv/1994-10/inside-wave-1-wave-intro/
https://www.keyboards.de/heftarchiv/1994-11/inside-wave-2-tech-talk/
https://www.keyboards.de/heftarchiv/1994-12/inside-wave-3-wave-story/"

Update3: The following scans have been added to the bottom of this post:
Messe.1992.TSI.Messeinformation
Messe.1992.Preliminary.Wave.Info
Messe.1993.TSI.Show.Information
Messe.1993.Wave.Flyer

Saga - Jim Gilmour Scratching the surface - Musikmesse Frankfurt 1993 1992

Published on May 13, 2013 MadSevenFilms

"Jim Gilmour ( Saga keyboardist) in a demo at the Waldorf stand during the musikmesse in Germany.
Scratching the surface"

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The following is a Musikmesse 1993 recap via swissdoc aka George Mueller, who attended, from way back in 1993 (you'll find a transcript of the Waldorf Wave flyer text further below). P.S. for a quick look at the gear released at the 1993 Musikmesse see here and here, both from swissdoc.

"Before I go into this Wave stuff, I'd like to tell you a little about the Frankfurt Musik Messe. Those restless gear junkies, skip the next 24 lines.

The Frankfurt International Music Fair was held for the 14th time and was attended by a record number of exhibitors: 1194 from 40 contries. So it's the leading event for the music business.

The Messe Frankfurt has 10 halls of different sizes, three of them are used by the Musik Messe. Hall 9.0 is the most interesting, it's for electronic instruments, 9.1 is for guitars and amps, 9.2 is for stage light, sound and mixers. These halls are middle in size, rows range from A to F, with booth numbers up to 90 each. Hall 8 is for acoustic instruments and publishers; it's funny, all that noise from test-playing violins, flutes and so on. This is the biggest hall, rows from A to P. The monster booth of Yamaha is in the back of this hall with all their synths, FXs and personal keyboards. So it's a long walk to Yamaha. It's a bit risky in this hall, if you enter one booth, browse thru the pages of some book, after talking to the salesman you probably lost your orientation. Hall 10.1 is reserved for grand pianos and uprights. No elctricity allowed there.

It's funny, when you change from 9.0 to 9.1, all those long haired heavy metal guys. One amp or guitar company has a Hard Rock Cafe at their booth, evertime overcrowded with guys drinking cocktails or beer.

So, here we are, the promised report on the TSI shows WAVE MUSIC DEMO and INSIDE THE WAVE.

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circuit bent yamaha tg33 vector synth

tg33 revision

YouTube via spunkytoofers

via this auction

"- circuit bent yamaha tg33 synth with vector joystick (retains full functionality pre-bent when all bends are deactivated)

-breakout box with 32 banana jack patchbay which effects the awm waveforms

-4 switches activates 8 dedicated banana jacks located on side and back of box for switching

-8 stackable banana cords provided

-getlofi ltc1799 precision oscillator replaces internal clock frequencies for smooth pitch control of approximately 5+ octaves on any given note. (until the sound breaks into sound grains)

-1 switch selects precision oscillator or original fixed frequency clock

-1 fm/awm waveform glitch and resynthesis 4 position rotary switch with one center off-momentary on/lock on switch to activate rotary.

-replaced internal memory battery with a fresh battery.

-db25 connector cable from breakout box to synth

-db25 jacks on tg33 and breakoutbox

-1 vintage blue beehive lens with bright led lighting

-1 vintage milk glass lens with random slow phase lighting

-original owners manual

-bend diagram jpeg and tips and tricks sheet emailed to winner

-cd-r of manual, many great patches, and editor program

-power supply included (north american supply only, international countries will need to supply their own adapters. the tg33 is regulated to handle anything from 9-12 volts dc with a positive tip around 700 ma is best)

(check out video below)

this is probally my secret weapon of choice at the current moment. it's quite unique from other synthesizers and will reward those that take the time to program/tweak this thing.

although this isn't the most difficult synthesizer to program it will require the user to dig in a little bit and study the manual. the editor also accesses some very in depth synthesis options. vector synthesis is pretty straightforward and intuitive to work with but there are elements like assigning midi controls, selecting voices to work together, envelope shaping, indepndant lfos, sending sequences/controllers, and recording vector movements to really make the best of the possibilities. it's pretty simple to work with but has real power shaping sculpture.

if designing from scratch is too much for you to deal with it still would be easy tweak or play many of the included patch banks straight and all patches will respond to circuit bending.. the synth also features a random vector voice create feature!!! the included backed up sound banks are really well designed and have alot of sounds to keep you busy. but. those without a decent midi controller, basic midi knowledge, basic synth design, tweaks, and assigning controls from menus, etc, this may not be a good synth to start with if you are starting out or don't work with midi, otherwise be prepared to meet a truly unique synth!! "nice to meet you" it says..

the synth works with 4 waveforms in the vector per note of polyphony (think 4 oscillators per note). 2 of which are fm, 2 are awm based sampled waveforms. the awm waveforms are bendable. so approximately half of the 300+ available waveforms are circuit bendable. each waveform is independantly circuit bendable with it's own response to the pressures of bending. what makes that interesting is that when you play with the vector you can assign the circuit bent waveforms to the vector and also assign waveforms that aren't circuit bendable to the vector to either stack voices or morph a voice from the strange abstract sounds and aleatoric responses of circuit bent synthesis into a more traditional synthesis by use of the vector joystick or by assigning the x-y grid to two midi controllers. you can also record exact movements in the vector into the voice's program everytime you trigger a note. either way the awm waveforms can be circuit bent or left alone. the circuit bends depending on how you patch the waveform can have subtle tonal results such as stutter, tonal variations to extremes of complete self composing glitches or dense walls of sound. there are too many results to try to describe here.

instrument has an added getlofi precision oscillator which controls the total pitch of the synthesizer. all midi functionality is retained in the tuned frequencies of the oscillator. the oscillator is on a switch with the original clock signal if the user should not want to use overall pitch control. pitch bend internally by midi and pitch bending on the precision oscillator are not unlike each other but they are certainly completely different then each other.

the instrument is completely stable. able to go to completely strange circuit bent sounds and back to normal without any hitches at all in the system or voices!!!

now here is where things get completely chaotic!!!!

4 fm/awm brain scramble bends are allocated on a rotary switch. the rotary switch is activated by a switch is a 3 way switch which can either disconnect the rotary,momentary snap connect or lock into position. each bend interacts with the others to push it different directions sonically. these bends are completely chance orientated but more often then not great new patches are made and mysterious soundscapes occur. a switch activation cycles through complete mutations to the fm sounds, sound patch restructing, auto accompainments, self compositions, bizzare playing responses in reaction to sent control data. each throw of the switch creates a new sound either slightly altered to extremely altered with often mysterious and good results. since these bends are chaotic i've kept them seperate from the awm extention box as the awm bends of this instrument is completely stable and will not alter the sound of the patch when bends are deactivated. the fm bends are chance orienated and often alterations are extreme which make it better for studio work. although with some careful fm waveform assignments to the vector. you can find fm waveforms which aren't quite as extreme and make more subtle alterations and bent sounds. you can then improvise with the circuit bent fm/awm waveforms with some planning in regards to creating your own unique patches or finding the best presets and saving them into internal memory.

when fm waveforms are bent they can still be bent further with another activation from the fm switches but will not return the original patch without a power cycle on/off on the instrument. when the instrument is booted up the patch returns to its original form and nothing is lost in memory.

db 25 connector is in what used to be the cartridge slot with industrial strength adhesive. the connector already fit in the slot pretty nicely but the industrial strength adhesive sets the connector in it permanetely and securely. since the cartridge slot is occupied that closes up the option for using memory cards. this shouldn't be much a problem since the cartridge is proprietary and finding the exact card is extremely difficult since they are extremely rare and if you do find one they're pretty expensive not to mention all the time you'll be spending on ebay trolling for one.

the unit however has internal memory for patch storage as well as the ability to dump and recive patches via sysex. the unit's memory back up battery was replaced with a fresh lithium battery and a battery clip easily located so it would be easy to replace the battery in the future by the user or any tech.. as is, the fresh battery should last from 5-10 plus years depending on the use of this machine. the battery should last much longer than that, the battery i replaced was the original and was working fine before replacing and that battery had lasted nearly 20 years!! also a pdf manual, patch editor and many banks of great professional patches are included on a cd-r with this auction. i can include some patch notes of my own to illustrate how to organize a patch notebook to facilitate bending patches based on this system."

circuit bent yamaha tg33 vector synth and akai ewi 4000s


previously posted

circuit bent yamaha tg33 vector synth


Sold For: US $333.33

Rossum Panharmonium Explained by Learning Modular

Rossum Panharmonium 1/2: explained Published on Oct 26, 2019 Learning Modular

Don't miss Part 2 below.

"The Rossum Electro-Music Panharmonium Mutating Spectral Resynthesizer is a very unusual signal processing module: It studies the incoming signal, breaks it down into its most dominate frequency components, and assigns those to a bank of up to 33 oscillators to re-create (re-synthesize). You can choose which band(s) of frequencies to analyze and how often that analysis happens, and on the output side transpose it, blur it, decide what core waveform us used for the resynthesis, and perform other “mutating” functions including feedback looping.

This first movie gives an overview of how Panharmonium works. It does not dive into every individual feature (there’s a great manual that already does that); this is intended to give you an understanding of how it works, and to quickly get you up to speed using it:

00:00 examples
01:08 overview
01:53 audio ins & outs
02:27 starting configuration
03:17 the sound sources
03:36 Analyzer: Slice & Multiply
04:12 Modifiers: Voices
04:49 Modifiers: Blur & Gide
06:35 Analyzer: Center Frequency & Bandwidth
08:03 Modifiers: Frequency & Octave
09:08 Modifiers: Feedback
11:04 Spectral Warping
12:36 Modifiers: Waveform
14:14 teaser for rhythmic applications

My Patreon supporters (https://www.patreon.com/LearningModular) at the +5v level and above also have access to additional posts on both of these movies."

Rossum Panharmonium 2/2: rhythmic uses

Published on Oct 26, 2019

"The Rossum Electro-Music Panharmonium Mutating Spectral Resynthesizer studies an incoming signal, breaks it down into its most dominate frequency components, and assigns those to a bank of up to 33 oscillators to re-create (re-synthesize).

The first movie of this set (https://youtu.be/i_GWFs7xgoY) is a “quick start” on Panharmonium where I give an overview of how it works and how the sections interact. In this movie, I focus on my personal specialty: rhythmic applications of Panharmonium. Here is the index:

00:00 examples
01:08 overview & sound sources
01:26 slowing down the analysis
02:04 Slice Clock Output (triggering envelopes)
02:20 enveloping the output
03:31 mutating the sound
05:03 tap tempo
06:10 external clock
07:23 timing issues
08:38 “Freeze Tap”
10:33 more mutation
11:49 conclusion

My Patreon supporters (https://www.patreon.com/LearningModular) at the +5v level and above also have access to additional posts on both of these movies."

NAMM '11 - Kemper Profiling Amp Demo - Resynthesis

YouTube Uploaded by premierguitar on Jan 25, 2011
Watch after the 3:00 minute mark. This one in via Dustin. "This technology is incredible, Im sure that it is just a matter of time before this makes it to effects and synths. The videos on sweetwater are slightly better. Basically you are "sampling" a process I suppose it could be used to sampler filters, etc...incredible"

video description:
"http://www.premierguitar.com PG's Shawn Hammond is On Location at the 2011 NAMM Show where he visits the Kemper Amps booth. In this segment, we get an overview and demo of their new Profiling Amp.

For more 2011 NAMM show videos, or to view all guitar-related news, updates, reviews, demos, videos, interviews, and instructional columns, be sure to visit http://www.premierguitar.com"

Spectraphon | by MakeNoise x Soundhack

video upload by Cinematic Laboratory

"The Spectraphon combines a spectral processor with a complex VCO. While it may look huge (34 HP)) it's still a lot smaller than a combined Buchla 259 and 296. A spectral processor is a bit like a parametric EQ with CV control, where you can slide through/focus on frequency bands. SP will analyze incoming sound, classify the harmonic content (the spectrum) and adds it to its own fundamental sine. The process of resynthesis is like impressionism in paintings, creating loose and inaccurate brush strokes of the original sound. So it's NOT a sampler and it doesn't capture audio. It listens to incoming audio, and paints its own picture. The process is called Spectral Amplitude Modulation (changing the volume of individual 'colors' with CV) aka SAM. Hello, SAM!

These spectra can also be saved for later use. But it doesn't stop there. First, SP offers two independent spectral processors A & B, which can interact with an FM bus. Side B can also sync with/follow side A. So you can process two sounds and then mangle them into beautiful new textures. You can also use the saved spectra (16 arrays containing up to 1024 spectra) in Spectral Array Oscillation mode (SAO) and use it as a dual complex spectral VCO. But it doesn't stop there either. It also offers two multi-functional outputs that work as envelope followers in SAM, and sub-oscillators in SAO. They also double as stepped/smooth random CV and a triangle LFO. Then, the journey begins. So yes, you will be influenced. Spectraphon is a Jedi mind trick. This is the droid you're looking for.

All music in this video is created with Spectraphon as the final audio source. Some parts are produced and multitracked in the DAW. I'll use a 'live' indicator when the patch is 'raw' and recorded as is.

00:00 A Spark of Inspiration
02:06 Introducing the Spectraphon
04:03 What are Spectra?
07:20 Spectral Amplitude Modulation - SAM
08:33 Harvesting for Spectraphon
11:26 Partials
13:52 Spectral Array Oscillator - SAO
19:59 Patch Ideas"

Failed SympleSEQ Demo

YouTube Published on Sep 10, 2012 by JohnLRice

"I screwed up the video portion but decided to use what I had anyways. This is the same synth patch as my previous video "Typical JLR Patch Demo" except this time instead of using a keyboard and MIDI to CV converter I'm using the SympleSEQ 8 step sequencer designed by http://shop.hexinverter.net/ and built by http://www.bigbluewave.co.uk/resynthesis/index.htm to control pitch and gate. Near the end I add in the Moon Modular 569 sequencer to control pitch and gate instead, while the SympleSEQ controls a STG Sea Devils VCF."

Index of Channels

"This track contains the results of experimenting with home made resynthesis. A short sung phrase has been analysed in 24 bands for pitch, amplitude and "spectral flatness" (a scale which would have at one end a sine wave, and at the other white noise.) This information is used to play oscillators of various kinds. The control data may be transposed, slowed down or speeded up, slewed, skewed, quantised, thresholded or otherwise altered. The track begins with the original recording, followed by several resynthesised results, played live with SuperCollider and containing no additional processing." You can find more at Cylob
Also see these prior posts (scroll after click).

SUPERBOOTH19 // ROSSUM ELECTRO PANHARMONIUM // RE-SYNTHESIS // HANDS ON // EXPLANATION

Published on May 15, 2019 LESINDES

"DAVE ROSSUM is demonstrating his PANHARMONIUM EUro module that is featuring resynthesis with 33 oscillators.
In the very end of the video, Dave is also re-synthesising a snare drum sound with an interesting result!"