disting NT - Zero cross detection in the VCA/Multiplier

video upload by Expert Sleepers

"A new feature in firmware v1.17 enables zero-cross detection in the VCA algorithm, which is useful for removing clicking artefacts from very fast envelopes."

just look at the past (Yamaha YM2151 + Yamaha YMZ280B)

video upload by Vivi The Pumpkin King

Fun video featuring the Yamaha YM2151 + Yamaha YMZ280B voice chips. Interstingly, you'll find previous posts mentioning the YM2151, but not the YMZ280B. This simply implies the YM2151 is more comonly used in DIY projects.

"The Yamaha YM2151, also known as OPM (FM Operator Type-M), is an 8-channel, 4-operator sound chip used for frequency modulation (FM) synthesis in 1980s arcade games, home computers, and synthesizers."

Key Features

Voices:

Plays up to 8 simultaneous sounds or channels.

Data Formats: Supports 4-bit ADPCM, 8-bit PCM, and 16-bit PCM waveform data.

Memory: Connects to up to 16 MB of external ROM or SRAM for storing sound data.

Output: Delivers stereo output with 4-bit/16-level panning for each individual voice.P

rocessors: Links with an external digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and can connect to a Yamaha YSS225 effects processor for extra channel processing."

"The Yamaha YMZ280B, also called PCMD8, is an 8-channel PCM and ADPCM sample-based sound chip made by Yamaha Corporation in the mid-to-late 1990s.

Key FeaturesChannels and Operators:

It supports 8 simultaneous channels of 8-note polyphony with 4 operators per channel.

Sound Generation: It includes built-in noise generators, LFOs for vibrato and amplitude modulation, and timer circuits.

Companion IC: It requires an external digital-to-analog converter (typically the Yamaha YM3012) to output stereo audio.

Common Uses

Arcade Machines: Atari's Marble Madness (1984) was the first arcade game to use the YM2151 for FM synthesis, leading to widespread adoption in arcade hardware.

Home Computers: It powered the sound boards in sharp computers like the Sharp X68000 and the Yamaha CX5M music computer.

Synthesizers: Yamaha utilized the chip in early budget keyboards and sound modules like the DX21, DX27, and DX100."

From Light to MIDI with Synterra : Vaemi #synthesis #random #light #synth #sounddesign #sensor

video upload by Vaemi

"In this video, I’m using Synterra through its light sensor. By detecting changes in ambient light, it generates a generative melody in the Hijaz scale.

I’m sending the data generated by Synterra to the computer as MIDI over USB. Here, I’m using not only the MIDI notes, but also the MIDI CC data it generates at the same time.

The MIDI data is routed simultaneously to two different plug-ins: an FM-based synthesizer and a resonator. Some of the MIDI CC data coming from Synterra is assigned to the level parameters of the operators inside the FM synthesizer. This means Synterra is controlling not only which notes are played, but also the structure and movement of the sound itself in real time.

Also, I’m not using all of the CC data Synterra is sending in this video; the system is capable of generating even more control data at the same time.

When MIDI Clock is used, Synterra’s tempo-based effects can also be synchronized easily with the computer-based system.

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Bu videoda Synterra’yı ışık sensörü üzerinden kullanıyorum. Ortamdaki ışık değişimlerini algılayarak Hicaz gamında generatif bir melodi oluşturuyor.

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Synth Spotting in Project Hail Mary

video upload by TheBoysTVuk

Finally got around to watching Project Hail Mary. This scene made me do a double take. Obviously skip if you haven't seen the film and don't want any spoilers, and do not look at the image captures below. It's always fun to see synth gear as promps. Makes you wonder who in the crew owns them and who decided to use them.

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The Strange Machine Behind Some of Rock’s Greatest Songs

video upload by Parlogram

"The sound of the Mellotron is legendary and has over the past 60 years featured in so many great songs by groups such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Zombies, King Crimson and so many others. In this video we visit the most comprehensive, if not the best collection of these wonderful instruments in the world. We look at all the Mellotron models from first to the latest and demonstrate every one too. We hope you have as much fun watching this video as we did making it.

Streetly Electronics website: http://www.mellotronics.com/"

AE Machine | Architecture For Drums That Never Repeat & Oxide Virtual Tape Processor

video upload by Emiliano

"One practical note: listen to this on monitors or proper headphones. Most of what the machine does lives in the low end and in the stereo field, and laptop speakers will simply delete it. Loud is not necessary, full range is."

This one was spotted and sent in via Ivan Trajkovic aka deejayiwan. There are 21 videos in the playlist above. They mainly focus on AE Machine as a whole, but video 7 is focused on Oxide. You'll find the full video descriptions for the first and seventh videos further below. You can find full details on AE Machine at https://www.peamarte.it/ae - Oxide in chapter 52 of the user manual.

In short, AE Machine (estimated release date of October 2) consists of:

"Eleven synthesis voices built from scratch at sample level, five samplers, two free-running pads. A sequencer where a 16 × 16 Markov matrix decides which step may follow which, a note sieve that re-orchestrates the pattern when you transpose it, a chaotic modulation matrix reaching 271 parameters, morphing between any two presets, and a stem recorder that writes twenty-six files in one press. It runs in Max/MSP 9 on macOS and Windows, and playing it requires no paid Max license: an unlicensed copy of Max opens and runs the machine in full.

This is not commercial software in the ordinary sense. It is my working method, the environment I built night after night for my own music, packaged so that you can play it. When you get it, you are getting research: the reading, the listening, the failed versions, the decisions. The manual is a hundred pages and it is already here, whole, free to read. Trust your ears over any paragraph in it."

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The Weekend - Blinding Lights (Sequential Fourm Synthesizer) #synth #musicproducer ‪@SequentialLLC‬

video upload by NeonSlasher84 and Koji Kobura

Daft Punk - Voyager (Sequential Fourm Synthesizer) #fourm #synth #musicproducer ‪@SequentialLLC‬

video upload by NeonSlasher84 and Koji Kobura

First Love FM synthesizer from LOVE Synthesis | #Knobcon 2026

video upload by CatSynth TV

"A demo of the new First Love FM synthesizer from Iceland-based Love Synthesis. The First Love features a visual touchscreen interface, providing a novel and more embodied way of creating and modifying FM-based sounds, including levels, envelopes, modulations, and algorithms.

First Love also features a microtonal scale editor for custom scales and tunings, as well as an arpeggiator.

To find out more, please visit https://www.lovesynthesizers.com/


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0:00 Unveiling the First Love Synthesizer
3:09 Beyond Twelve Notes: Microtonality
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Lyra 8 Organismic Synthesizer with Sequential FOURM Synthesizer

video upload by James Dyson

"Lyra 8 Organismic Synthesizer with Sequential FOURM Synthesizer
Live fun lets see what happens, pre tuned the Lyra to Fourm."

Sequential Trigon 6 -- NO TALKING! (favorite presets)

video upload by Pink Buddha Academy

"Playing through the Sequential Trigon 6 - and these are my favorite presets (in no particular order). Let me know what you think of this one!

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Motionless // Teenage Engineering OP-1f and Ableton Live ambient

video upload by Stefano Mattia

"I made this piece on my OP-1f a few days after my neighbour’s cat died. We found him motionless on the terrace, under the rain.

I had seen him around many times, in the ordinary way you notice the familiar things around you without really thinking about them.

I don’t have much else to say about it. I just made this small piece and somehow it felt right to dedicate it to him."

Xfer Serum 2 | Melodic Techno V4 FUTURE

video upload by NatLife Sounds

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Let’s welcome to the newer Melodic Techno V4 FUTURE. The sounds which make a future of Electronic Music.

Get ready for the absolute powerfull Stab drops, craziest FX’s, flying Leads, big Basses, atmospheric Plucks & Synths. These sounds are no longer so much tied to Melodic Techno as a mixture of Progressive, Electrohouse, Tech House, Synthwave Cyberpunk and Trance styles. But all in all, it can all be combined into one thing: the Melodic Techno of the future!

Get ready for those favorite drops of Anyma, Argy, Mrak, Camelphat, Kream, Massano, Adriatique, Ben Böhmer & of course Stephan Bodzin. Only in this library will you find the best sounds from across the Melodic Techno spectrum – from Bodzin and Böhmer style floating Leads to sharp, Anyma and Argy style Stabs."

Collapsing Pulsar & Limnetic Synth - Virtual HTML Synths by Limnetic Villains.

video upload by Limnetic Villains

"Very early preview of my new experimental HTML synth.

If you want to support the project and have your name added into the synth as a supporter, support the project via Kofi!

https://ko-fi.com/limnetic"

Playlist:
1. Collapsing Pulsar Early Preview
2. COLLAPSING PULSAR Short Preview
3. COLLAPSING PULSAR KEYS/SEQUENCER DEMO
4. 10 minutes hands on with the new Collapsing Pulsar synth


video upload by Limnetic Villains

"Just a very quick first look of the port of my HTML Limnetic Synth to Mac, it's early days, porting both my Villains drum synth and this over. So far so good, sounds great, looks pretty cool, now it's just about honing it and giving it extra features!"

Playlist:
1. Limnetic Synth V1 Mac Demo
2. Limnetic Synth V1 Mac Demo2
3. Limnetic Synth Mac Version Demo 1
4. Limnetic Synth Mac Version Quick Demo 3 Automation And Arps

TableMorph - Experimental Wavetable Synth (Reaktor)

video upload by Cycles & Spots

00:00 Presets
22:27 Walkthrough

"Cycles & Spots created and experimental digital , bright sounding wavetable synthesizer, useful in many genres. It can sound harsh to soft, melodic to disharmonic & produces melodies to soundscapes. It's based on creating rhythm from loops and sound from 2 mixable oscillators each with its own sequencer and lots of modulation options. 127 loops for the rhythmic are included (Drag & Drop possible) and the synth comes with 50 presets.

Pack Details:

1 Instrument / Ensemble For Reaktor feat:
Synced Sample Player With 127 Loops
Envelope Follower (Amplitude)
2 Wavetable Oscillators
2 Sequencers
2 Saturators
Tremolo
Reverb

Available: https://www.deepdataloops.com/?post_t..."

Leviasynth - NO TALKING (favorite presets)

video upload by Pink Buddha Academy

"Playing through the ASM Leviasynth - and these are my favorite presets (in no particular order). Let me know what you think of this one!

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Kawai RC-2 Memory Cartridge for K3 / K3M

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Kawai DC-16 RAM Cartridge

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Teenage Engineering OP-Z Synthesizer Workstation

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Teenage Engineering OP-1 Synthesizer

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Neutral Labs Scrooge firmware update v1.3

video upload by Neutral Labs

00:00 It begins...
00:08 Extended BPM range
00:54 MIDI pattern change
01:04 MIDI playable voices (also chromatically)
01:25 Drumkit mode