Bela + Doepfer Dark Energy II: what can Bela do with an analog synth

Published on Mar 31, 2016 Bela Platform

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Simple demo of what Bela can and cannot do when connected to a CV-controlled synth.
Using Bela-flavoured libpd to run Pd patches

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Doepfer Dark Energy Mark I Analog Synthesizer on MATRIXSYNTH CLASSIFIEDS

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"Doepfer Dark Energy Mark I. Serial # on upper-back. The only cosmetic wear is on its bottom where it sat on my desk. No scratches, no dust. I have the original box from Doepfer Musikelektronik/GmbH in Gräfelfing, Germany. The 41 page instruction manual in English. US power supply. And of course its two original orange patch cables. It is in very good shape.

Not only is it a great stand-alone synthesizer/full synth-voice with plenty of modulation options that work perfectly with Eurorack gear but it's also a MIDI-to-CV converter/interface (which it works great at). Its got 5 pin MIDI and MIDI-over-USB. Its got CV/Gate Eurorack standard CV/1 Volt per Octave. This model is no longer in production due to the lack of Curtis filters. Doepfer now makes a Mark II. This is a killer little synth. Hope it goes to a good home where it will be used more."

MINIBRUTE SE +DARK ENERGY MK1+URZWERG PRO MK II

Published on Mar 22, 2015 ux256

"URZWERG PRO SEQUENCER WITH MINIBRUTE SE FOR BASS LINE AND DARK ENERGY FOR THE PERCUSSION"

MINIBRUTE SE +DARK ENERGY MK1+URZWERG PRO MK II

Published on Mar 22, 2015 ux256

"URZWERG PRO SEQUENCER WITH MINIBRUTE SE FOR BASS LINE AND DARK ENERGY FOR THE PERCUSSION."

The Organ Patch - Intellijel Metropolis - Tiptop z8000

Published on Dec 3, 2014 Organzoner

"Sequencing: modded Yamaha FS-30 organ, Korg poly800, Harvestman hertz donut, Doepfer Dark Energy II, Pittsburgh Modular Osc. Converting Gate and CV to MIDI with Doepfer A192-2, & converting MIDI to parallel switching, with J-omega electronics MTP-90. organ mod. circuit . some transpose modulation from light bulb and solar panel. All recorded from Mackie 1640i mixer - Alesis 3632 - then Boss BR600 recorder.
please excuse less than perfect sound and video...still noob
I'm diggin' these sequencers."

MFB URZWERG MK II vs. MINIBRUTE & DARK ENERGY

Published on Aug 15, 2014 ux256

URZWERG MK II MEET MINIBRUTE AND DARK ENERGY

Published on Aug 15, 2014 ux256

Doepfer Dark Energy II Semi Modular Analog Synth - USB / CV Gate / Midi

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Arp Tweaking 1: Moog Minitaur analogue synthesizer (dreamsofwires)

Published on Jun 7, 2014 DreamsOfWires·31 videos

"Moog Minitaur, Mutable Instruments 'Midipal' providing the arp in 'Random' mode.
This is the first in a series of old recordings (and potentially very boring to watch videos) where I was messing around on various synths with the aid of an arpeggiator and recorded the results. It's perhaps just a 'niche' thing, but as always, I'm uploading them on an 'in case anyone is interested' basis, even if they only to serve as an example of the sounds that can be had from these instruments.

NOTE: If you want a very small, flexible MIDI arp generator, SH101-style sequencer, MIDI keyboard splitter, and lots besides, check out the Midipal, I think it's excellent."

Arp Tweaking 2: Roland SH-1 analogue/analog synthesizer (dreamsofwires)

Published on Jun 15, 2014 DreamsOfWires·32 videos

"Part 2 of my old arp-tweaking recordings, although this one is actually a step-sequencer pattern, but the same idea. I used the excellent Mutable Instruments Midipal for the pattern (it has an SH101-style step sequencer function). Of all the analogues I've had/used the Roland SH-1 is definitely my favourite in terms of sound, followed my the Micromoog.
This is an old recording and I can't remember what how/what I recorded it with, sorry. There's no video because I didn't have one at the time, and it'd be rather boring to watch anyway."

Arp Tweaking 3: Doepfer Dark Energy (with Moog Slim Phatty & Minitaur) by dreamsofwires

Published on Jun 17, 2014 DreamsOfWires·32 videos

"The 3rd arp tweaking video, this time the Doepfer Dark Energy, using it's own built-in arpeggiator. Yet again, this is an old recording, which originally had some Micromoog parts accompanying it, but they were messy, so I re-recorded some of them with the Moog Slim Phatty, except the bass section near the beginning, which is the Slim Phatty panned to the left, and the Minitaur panned to the right.
No MIDI sequencers were harmed during the making of this video, nor were any insects. All critters, including mechanical ones, were filmed by me from my home using a Canon 650d, footage of synths captured with a hacked Lumix GH2."

Arp Tweaking 4: Moog Minitaur (2nd video) analog/analogue synth

Published on Jun 24, 2014 DreamsOfWires·35 videos

"Another old recording using the Moog Minitaur with the Mutable Instruments Midipal's arpeggiator in random mode."

Arp Tweaking 5: Moog Slim Phatty analogue/analog synthesizer

Published on Jul 27, 2014 DreamsOfWires

"Moog Slim Phatty, powered by the random arpeggiator of the Mutable Instruments 'Midipal'. All sounds are by the Phatty. This was a totally off the cuff/make it up as you go along recording, so don't expect musical genius.

Video recorded with a Panasonic GH2 (hacked), Olympus 45mm f1.8 (synth shots), 14-42mm II kit lens (train footage)."

Synamiitti 2013

Published on Nov 2, 2013

"Synth meet 'Synamiitti' 21.9.2013 at Bar Dynamo in Turku, Finland, Europe.

Synths in order of appearance:

Konekonekone & Regenbot eurorack modulars, Elektron Analog Four, Metasonix S-2000, various euromodules, Arturia Minibrute, Anushri, Mirror-face pimp Mutable Instruments Shruthi, Preen FM, DIY stripboard TR-808, Olegtron 4060, Olegtron modular banana prototypes, Korg monotron, Simmons SDS 8, Kawai R-50, Jen Sk100, Bent Technics something, Verde Audio tube Synths and Sequencers candystore, Prophet-5, Prophet 08, Doepfer Dark Time and Dark Energy, Yamaha 40M, Memotron (we also had an Mellotron but I forgot to shoot it!), Euro modular, Roland SH-101, JP-80x0 Editor and Kirnu Cream, Roland-8080, Modcans and euro goodies, a beautiful Easel-like DIY Electronic music box (listen to Sigma - Sleep of Shadow), Korg Synthe-Bass, Korg M500, Electrix rack collection, Zyklus MPS, Yamaha EX5R, Noise zoo, 5U DIY goodness (owner had to leave early, hope to catch more next year!), Moog Minimoog, E-mu Emulator II courtesy of Jori Hulkkonen, Olegtron 4060 closeup (you want one, trust me! Buy!), Simmons in action, JP-8000 and 8080, Vermona PerFourmer, Prophet-8, the talented Mr. Regenbot wiggling live, Yours truly jamming out on the 4060 and euro with Olegtron.

Please join us next year!
http://synamiitti.com

Filmed and edited by Jesse Juup. Post production by Jesse Juup."

Doepfer Dark Energy II

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Doepfer Dark Energy 2 Expansion / Break-out Box (very first test)

Published on Aug 31, 2013 creativegallerysynth·24 videos

"For users with electronic knowledge the Dark Energy II offers much more internal expansion features than the Dark Energy I.
This expansion box offers: Triangle output, Reset, Direction and Rectangle output for LFO 1&2. (JP10 & JP11 of the voice board)
Next to this the VCF Lowpass,Bandpass and Highpass are taken out to individual outputs.(JP6 of the voice board)
4 signals can be mixed with an extra A-138 mixer which is powered by the powersupply of the DEII. (JP14 of the interface board, 20mA max)
No music, no special sounds, just some testing for the ones who are interested.
More info and documentation about this: http://www.creativegallery.nl/index.p...
or at:
http://www.doepfer.de/home.htm"

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Modcan DD + Dark Energy II

Modcan DD + Dark Energy II from Equinoxoz music solutions on Vimeo.

"Just a video of the Dark Energy being run into the new Modcan Dual Delay, I just have a basic Arp coming from Ableton via the DEII's USB MIDI in, the innerclock syncgen-IILS is providing the pulses for the delay syncs.

I just fiddle with the knobs there isn't much in the way of modulation happening which I will elaborate on in a later video, the delay sure does sound good though and its functionally VERY deep!

Oh and the Dark Energy II has its filter being modulated at audio frequency rates by a Pittsburgh Oscillator, which is having its pitch controlled by the Dark Energies MIDI note CV out."


More Modcan Dual Delay and Dark Energy II from Equinoxoz music solutions on Vimeo.

"Just a continuation of a noodle from earlier exploring more parameters of the Dual Delay, same beats and Arp, I apologise for the repetition."

My first Doepfer... (MK II)

Published on Apr 1, 2013 freelanderride·15 videos

"First try-out with my Doepfer Dark Energy Mark 2 and a little MFB 522 drums.
Both small boxes, but GREAT to hear and to PLAY with.
Its sounds analog's good...

Grtz and enjoy"

Doepfer Dark Energy Mk II SN 121533

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"This is a great little synth, with USB and midi in. It is a monophonic desktop synth, with lots of ins and outs to play with the sound with. It is built really well, and is of course 100% analogue. The filter is great with an incredibly large range...

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Doepfer Dark Energy I (4x) stacked with MIDI Thru

Published on Jan 8, 2013 creativegallerysynth·20 videos

"This is a video I recently found, dated from a year ago. Not proud of it. Never published, because it is rather boring or even terrible. But as for the many questions about stacking Dark Energy's I will post this. No playing skills. It shows 4 stacked dark energy's. In this way you can play polyphonic. However, if every DE has it's own sound, and that sound is depending on which key is touched first, you'll never know which DE you will hear first.. So striking 4 the same keys more times after eachother will sound different by each strike. The fifth sound you hear comes from the WMD Synchrodyne which is connected to the cv output of DE1. The DE's are internally connected via MIDI thru (as you can see none of the DE's is CV connected). In that way the keyboard controls the DE's via MIDI, but every DE has its CV output, so you can connect other cv controlled devices to every DE....(even the Pitch Wheel or other MIDI commands send to filters for example) So instead of 4 sounds per chord you can add many other sounds per note of the chord. This is one of the many advantages of this marvellous semi-modular synthesizer. Soon I will show the MIDI stacked combination of 4x Dark Energy I and 2x Dark Energy II with 6x Doepfer A-111-5 (Modular version of Dark Energy I) connected to the CV output of each DE, so chords of 6 notes can be played with 2 voices per note...."

Doepfer Dark Energy Mk I vs Mk II

Published on Dec 19, 2012 by AudioCentralMagazine

"A quick comparison between Doepfer Dark Energy Mk I (CEM-based, just lopass w. lin fm) and Mk II (state variable filter, discrete circuit, etc.). Both machines under the same CV/Gate control from Dark Time step sequencer (courtesy of a bunch of multiples...). Mk I is panned more on Left audio channel; Mk II is more on Right audio channel. When they plays together, its a real GAS!!! :-)"

Doeper Dark Energy II Rnd Seq & FM

Published on Dec 19, 2012 by AudioCentralMagazine

"Doepfer Dark Energy II under Dark Time sequencer control (sequence in random mode advance); some nasty audio rate FM modulation over Cutoff Frequency; some Filter Mode exchange while seq is running. No FX. Straight to digital out."

Doepfer Dark Energy II Filter Sweep

Published on Dec 18, 2012 by AudioCentralMagazine

"A simple filter sweep test for Doepfer Dark Energy Mark II. No music on this video, just slow filter opening and closing under LFO 2 control with the four modes: LP, BR, HP and BP.
A little great machine with a sound fairly different from Dark Energy Mark I."

Doepfer announces availability of Dark Energy II Analog Synthesizer

"GRAEFELFING, GERMANY: audio hardware developer Doepfer is proud to announce availability of its new Dark Energy II Analog Synthesizer, a redesigned version of the original Dark Energy, a standalone monophonic analogue synthesizer with inbuilt USB/MIDI interfacing and CV connectivity released to much critical acclaim in 2010...

So why the need to redesign something so successful so soon? Simple. Needs must. And who better to explain this than company CEO Dieter Doepfer himself: “As the Dark Energy had to be discontinued, because an important electronic component (CEM3394) is no longer available, we decided to do a redesign. The new Dark Energy II looks like the Dark Energy at first glance, but the basic sound of the Dark Energy II is clearly different because of the new circuits for the VCO, VCF, and VCA.”

Given the absence of that rich-sounding, analogue ‘synthesizer-voice-on-a-chip’ (CEM3394) from Curtis Electromusic Specialities successor OnChip, how does the Dark Energy II sound? Still rich, still analogue — with 20 to 30 minutes tuning time needed for the VCO’s temperature-controlled pure analogue circuitry, but different... mainly because of the completely different filter type.

Notable differences in specification between the two — together with a number of functional additions to the Dark Energy II — are as follows: firstly, the Dark Energy II features a sawtooth-based VCO core (compared to the Dark Energy’s triangle-based one), which, as implied, outputs a sawtooth waveform, with a waveform Shape switch for selecting sawtooth, off, or clipped/inverted sawtooth; meanwhile, that all-important, sounding-defining VCF is centred around a 12dB multimode filter with lowpass, notch, highpass, and bandpass, together with an all-new filter Mode control for continuous transition from lowpass via notch and highpass around to bandpass (as opposed the 24dB lowpass variety with linear frequency modulation (LFM) control found on the Dark Energy); the VCF’s exponential frequency modulation (XFM) control also has a polarization function, whereby the modulation source (LFO2 or ADSR) selected by the Source switch can affect the filter frequency with a positive or negative behaviour (by rotating rightwards or leftwards, respectively); finally, the VCA has an exponential scale (unlike the Dark Energy’s combined linear/exponential scale).

Benefitting those with a modicum of electronics know-how, the Dark Energy II offers much more internal expansion possibilities than its ‘Mk I’ predecessor courtesy of pin header terminals for the following functions: rectangle and sawtooth VCO outputs, linear FM input for VCO, hard sync input for VCO, lowpass/bandpass/highpass VCF output, rectangle and triangle outputs for each LFO, and optional reset/direction features for each LFO — all conspiring to make this already flexible synthesizer even more flexible!

The upshot of those differences is that sounds created on a Dark Energy II of course cannot be replicated on a Dark Energy (and vise versa) — though there is nothing to stop the two distinctive synthesizers from being daisy-chained together to produce an even wider palette of sounds. Indeed, several units can be polyphonically or monophonically cascaded (via internal MIDI out/MIDI in connections) to create an ‘über-synth’ of sorts!

Like the Dark Energy, the Dark Energy II is a standalone monophonic analogue synthesizer with inbuilt USB/MIDI interfacing and CV connectivity housed in a rugged black metal case with wooden end cheeks; likewise, sound generation and all modulation sources are 100 percent analogue, appealing to purists — only the USB/MIDI interface includes digital components, naturally! Again, vintage-looking, high-quality potentiometers with metal shafts are used throughout, and all are fixed to the casing — except for that all-new filter Mode control — to ensure stability. Spacing between them is generous (in comparison to the necessarily smaller A-100 Analog Modular System modules like the A-111-5 Mini Synthesizer Voice equivalent of the original Dark Energy) to ease sound-shaping manipulation.

In truth, then, the Dark Energy II is — to all intents and purposes — an all-new synthesizer from Doepfer! Why not plug in and play?

Dark Energy II can only be ordered online within Germany directly from Doepfer (http://www.doepfer.de/form_e.htm) for €428.00 EURO, including VAT, or purchased from an authorised dealer. (An optional Glide control option is also available for self-installation for €10.00 EURO, including VAT.)"

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Doepfer Dark Energy I & II Comparison (1+2)

Published on Nov 11, 2012 by creativegallerysynth

"Doepfer Dark Energy 2 mounted to Dark Energy 1.
Trying to compare the sounds of the two machines.
First part is cv controlled by SH-101.
Second part MIDI controlled by Dark time Sequencer.
Just turning the knobs to check out differences..."

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