Poly Evolver Synthesizer Discussion and Demos

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"The Dave Smith Instruments (Sequential) Poly Evolver is one of the greatest hardware synthesizers ever made when it comes to sound design flexibility and versatility. It allows you to get "out of control and beyond acceptable" in a way very few other synthesizers can. I'm very pleased to have one in my studio and I have no plans to ever sell it!

Jameson Nathan Jones • The Poly Evolver is wonderfully weird... a... [posted here]

Blush Response • DAVE SMITH'S MOST INTERESTING SYNTH [below]

00:00 Intro and Opening Discussion
03:24 Sound Demo 1
05:17 Sound Demo 2
06:59 Sound Demo 3
09:37 Sound Demo 4
12:39 Sound Demo 5 and Final Discussion"

DAVE SMITH'S MOST INTERESTING SYNTH

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X1L3 - ALLEYKAT - LAST NINJA 2 - 8580 SID - EURORACK MODULE

video upload by X1L3

"By ear cover of the central park loader and in game music from The Last Ninja 2. Originally written by Matt Gray for the C64 in 1988 📺🕹️🔥

Performed on the Alleykat module loaded with an 8580 SID 🐈🐾🎵

Three yarns modules and a midi to gat module are used for the nine control voltage and thirteen gate signals required to do this in this midi to cv/gate eurorack kind of way. I probably need to make myself a 4x yarns build and a mega midi to gate module one day ⚙️🔧🪛

The real thing doing the real thing. No lazy 'file player' action, and absolutely no "passionate about retro " 'technician ted / just jamie' flavoured AI generated twenty vids a week edge lord fish for clicks shovelware crud that i find myself having to trawl through and ignore on here these days 💀🙈❌

The module has been tested with the 6581, 8580, SwinSID and public domain SID and SIDkick pico to date. The SIDkick pico doesn't seem to want to play nice with it. I've yet to figure out the reason why. But the real SIDs and the PDSID and SwinSID have worked flawlessly 👌👌💯"

“Flying to Silesia” - 1010music blackbox & DSI Tempest

video upload by itramtal

"The main idea for this piece was captured from the very beginning using the 1010music Blackbox during a flight to Silesia. From that initial idea, the composition was improvised and developed together with the DSI Tempest by Dave Smith Instruments, preserving the spontaneity and energy of the moment it was born."

[049] first jam with the teenage engineering op-xy and tx-6

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Symphonia de Noctis – Epic Electronic & Cinematic Music I Synthesizer Live Performance

video upload by Matzumi

"Symphonia de Noctis – Epic Cinematic Electronic Music | Studio Session

Every shadow holds a voice, and every silence carries a storm waiting to break.

'Symphonia de Noctis' is a musical tale of transformation. It begins in the deep, uncharted territory of the night — surrounded by atmospheric electronic drones, distant vocal pads, and a feeling of quiet mystery. But as the dark deepens, something awakens.

Slowly, layer by layer, the darkness gives way to light. The track erupts into a sweeping, symphonic climax where driving rhythms, acoustic guitars, and shimmering mandolins take flight. It’s a journey from isolation to triumph, bridging the gap between modern electronic soundscapes and raw, organic power.

🎵 INSIDE THE STUDIO:
In this studio session, watch how "Symphonia de Noctis" was brought to life — combining deep synth synthesis with live acoustic instrumentation to create a vast, cinematic experience.

Created for lovers of Epic Music, Hybrid Cinematic Soundtracks and Modern Electronic Fusion."

➽ Official Website: https://www.matzumimusic.com/

GLX BALSAM #1 | Winterdagen

video upload by Winterdagen

"Welcome BALSAM!

The first time I heard about BALSAM was when I was writing a review for a blog about an amazing record by an artist called Chorusing. On that record I heard absolutely gorgeous, slowly drifting synth tones, which I later found out had been made with the artist's home-built synthesiser, beautifully named BALSAM.

A little later (I think), I found out that the synth was being further developed for release, and I came across its website, which featured the most beautiful music. The warm tones, slowly gliding from note to note and moving through the stereo field, were absolutely mesmerising. I kept coming back to the website just to listen to this gorgeous music. That was the moment it became a dream of mine to play this synth, if it were ever actually released.

Fast forward a year or four, and here it is! I'm so happy to have this synth in my studio. It's been a constant source of inspiration from the moment I took it out of the box.

In a nutshell, BALSAM is an eight-voice hybrid synth (VA with analogue VCAs and an analogue stereo filter at the end of the signal chain), with eight buttons and sliders instead of a keyboard. You pick a tuning from eight banks of tunings and use the buttons to trigger the voices. The real superpower lies in the sliders and a unique feature called viscosity. Each voice is assigned a pair of notes, and the sliders let you glide between them. Viscosity acts a bit like a slew limiter, slowing down the movement of the sliders. What makes it truly special is that you can set different viscosity amounts for each of BALSAM's two oscillators, making them glide to their new notes at different rates. Hearing BALSAM slowly detune and gradually find its way back to target notes and intervals is unlike anything I've experienced with any other synth.

BALSAM's the perfect combination of familiar subtractive synthesis - so familiar that you don't even need presets - and a truly unique way of triggering and gliding between notes.

This first piece is full of slowly drifting sawtooth pads with stacked fifths in the oscillators, along with some LFO movement on the filters that speeds up over time because the LFO rate is controlled by the modulation envelope.

There's a lot more to explore with BALSAM, including its second superpower, which turns the sliders into an amazing polyrhythmic sequencer. I'll definitely be exploring that in future videos.

Find out more about BALSAM at: https://glx.ltd/"

Also see: Introducing the GLX BALSAM 8-VOICE MODAL SYNTHESIZER

Novation Launchcontrol MK3: This feature won me over (shown with Reaper)

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Knight Rider theme & Spandau Ballet's True on the Prophet 6

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True - Spandau Ballet - synth intro on Prophet 6

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JMT Synth NM-4 Desktop Synthesizer

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Dirtywave m8 MK1 Tracker Synthesizer + Sampler + Sequencer

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Kawai K3m Hybrid Wavetable Synthesizer Module

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New Kawai K3 editor and librarian | And it's FREE to Download

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Also see Espen Kraft's Korg DSS-1 editor.

"My sound patches: https://espenkraft.com
Kawai K3 & K3m patch editor and librarian — it runs in your web browser.
A tool I built to edit and organise sounds on the Kawai K3 and K3m hybrid synthesizer.

Tweak every parameter on screen, pull single patches or whole banks off the synth, back them up as sysex files, or load sysex files from your computer and into the hardware.
I added a little on-screen keyboard too, handy if you're using the K3m.

It runs in a web browser (Chrome or Edge — not Firefox or Safari) with a MIDI interface connected to the synth. It works on PC and Mac, and under Linux.

It's my personal tool shared for anyone who wants it. Setup instructions come in a short readme with the file, but I offer no support on this. It's shared 'as is'.

You can find it in my web shop here (it doesn't cost anything): https://espenkraft.com/b/6r5k7

My K3 patch bank can also be picked up from my web shop here: https://espenkraft.com/b/gCvqT"

Loading Any Firmware (or Custom Panels) on Plinky 12

video upload by Nathan Plante Synths

"Did you know that you can load any of the panels onto your Plinky 12, no matter which one you actually bought? This week I'm exploring the panel picker menu which you can access on startup. I'll also take a quick look at some examples of custom panels that anyone (with coding knowledge) can create."

Doctor Mix C-64 Synth Series

video uploads by Doctor Mix

"👉 🔥 PLAY MY C64 SYNTHESIZER — FREE, IN YOUR BROWSER: https://doctormix.com/doctormix64 🔥 👈 This is the one. My Commodore 64 synthesizer is FINALLY finished — and it came out better than I imagined. 🎹"

"Sam from Look Mum No Computer built me the control panel, but I'd been keeping it in an ugly functional box that was destroying the look of the C64. So in this episode I build it a proper detachable enclosure from scratch — measuring, cutting, gluing, a LOT of sparks, and one or two moments where I call myself an idiot on camera. 🔥

Then the good part. SID chip number one was completely dead — so I repaired it. Which means there are now TWO vintage SID chips running at the same time, one hard left, one hard right. That's not a stereo effect. That's two synthesizers playing together. 🎚️

And somewhere along the way I fell down the electronics rabbit hole — learning the oscilloscope, building my own MIDI tester out of a £12 screen and a microcontroller, and using AI to modify the firmware so the C64 screen now says DOCTOR MIX instead of Cynthcart. Being able to dominate your own electronics is MASSIVE.

Oh — and I built a virtual version of the whole thing that you can play in your browser for free. It's very beta, almost alpha, but it's real and it's yours. Link at the top ⬆️"

eurorack & squarp instruments hapax - live performance

video upload by Tom Leclerc

"recorded at my home studio
hapax sequencing my eurorack setup"

https://tomleclerc.bandcamp.com

Untitled 0001 / Akai MPC Live III

video upload by Isobutane

"All sounds from ‪@Akai_Pro‬ MPC Live III.
Thank you for waching."

Minimal Music w/ OP-1 field Piano, Nord Lead & Marimba | Bookstore on a rainy day 2026-08-02 by atnr

video upload by atnr

"A minimal piece featuring lo-fi piano loops, synth pads, and marimba sounds.

On the Nord Lead, synth pads are performed with reverb through the Specular Tempus.

On the OP-1 field, a piano sound from the Sampler is looped using the ENDLESS sequencer. The signal is processed through the GENERATION LOSS MKII for tape effects, then through the blueSky for reverb.

A minimal marimba loop is layered into the composition in Ableton Live."

ARP2500 & Baloran The RIVER - Sketches

video upload by Smartti1970

"Synthesizers:
ARP 2500 (Mos-Lab)
Baloran The River

FX:
Lexicon PCM80
Eventide H8000"

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Making INSANE Synth Beats from Scratch

video upload by Chambers

0:00 Chord Progression
1:45 Sound Design
3:19 Synth Bass & Lead
6:02 Drums went crazy
8:06 Final Beat

Online Class: https://chamberscourses.com
100+ detailed course videos, 7 FREE kits!

ICONIC Drums: https://www.chambersmixedit.com/produ...
Chambers' signature sounds, guaranteed crisp

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