Torso S-4 • Sculpting An Ambient Soundscape • Autoharp

video upload by Nate Connelly Music

"Torso Electronics S4 Sculpting Sampler

Torso S-4 • Sculpting An Ambient Soundscape • Autoharp

Equipment Used:
• Torso S-4 Sculpting Sampler
• Strymon Big Sky
• Gold Mike SPL Pre-Amp
• Pro VLAII Compressor

Recorded into:
• Cubase PRO 11

Very minimal EQ post processing.

#ambientmusic #torsoelectronics #electronicmusic"

Torso S-4 • Shifting Divisions

video upload by Nate Connelly Music

"Torso Electronics S4 Sculpting Sampler

Last night I was experimenting with the Torso. I have only a pad running on track 1 and a kick on track 2. I set-up 6 scene instances and changed the rate divisIons for the pad on each one - I then created some variation in terms of effects etc and set the sequences to run in a chain with the sequence order set to randomize. It runs at 95bpm, then 50, then 180.

Thanks for listening."

LYRA-COSM • Ambient Improv

video upload by Nate Connelly Music

"Soma Labs LYRA-8 Organismic Synthesizer + Microcosm

Messing around with the Lyra / Microcosm

Equipment used:
• Lyra-8
• Hologram Microcosm
• Strymon BigSky
• SPL Goldmike Pre-Amp
• ART Pro VLAII Compressor

Recorded into Cubase with minimal post EQ processing.

Thanks for listening.

#ambientmusic #ambient #lyra8 #hologrammicrocosm"

LYRA-8 Ambient • It will sing if you let it

video upload by Nate Connelly Music

"Soma Labs LYRA-8 Organismic Synthesizer

Track title: Morning Spaces

I've been playing with the LYRA-8 again after some time. Well known for it's intense sound design and noise capabilites, one of my favourite ways to use it is by taking the time to delicately tune each oscillator by ear, and then see how certain phrases and melodies emerge out from the ether.

Equipment used:
• Lyra-8
• Strymon BigSky
• SPL Goldmike Pre-Amp
• ART Pro VLAII Compressor

Recorded into Cubase with minimal post EQ processing.

Thanks for listening.

#ambientmusic #lyra8 #electronicmusic"

Torso S-4 + • Textural Ambient Cinematic

video upload by Nate Connelly Music

"Track title : Winter Signal

Equipment Used:
• Torso S-4 Sculpting Sampler
• Sequential Prophet REV2
• Moog Sub 37
• Strymon Big Sky
• Gold Mike SPL Pre-Amp
• Pro VLAII Compressor

Recorded into:
• Cubase PRO 11

Very minimal EQ post processing.

Thanks for listening.

#ambientmusic #electronicmusic #synth"

CRUMAR SORRENTO Organ Deep Dive Demos w/ Woody Piano Shack

video upload by Woody Piano Shack

Playlist:

1. CRUMAR SORRENTO Organ Deep Dive Demo

"Exploration of the Hammond organ sound engines and controls on the new CRUMAR SORRENTO organ. Let's play and listen to how closely it emulates the classic Hammonds, such as B3, A100, C3 and more! You be the judge."

2. NEO VENTILATOR 2 Demo, Tutorial & Review

Demo, Tutorial and Review of the NEO INSTRUMENTS VENTILATOR II Rotary Speaker Simulation Pedal, an emulation of the iconic LESLIE 122 used with HAMMOND B3 ORGAN. We connect it to the CRUMAR SORRENTO ORGAN and thoroughly test it out. The Vent pedals are also extremely popular with guitarists so perhaps we can check that out in the future.

3. CRUMAR SORRENTO - Hammond B3 Organ Sounds

All-playing no-talking demo of the newly released CRUMAR SORRENTO ORGAN and CRUMAR BURN 2025 ROTARY SPEAKER SIMULATOR PEDAL. Listen and judge the sounds for yourself (but don't judge me)!

4. CRUMAR SORRENTO Detailed Overview & Demo

Unboxing, demo and first impressions review of the brand new CRUMAR SORRENTO ORGAN, an emulation of the classic iconic vintage HAMMOND ORGAN and LESLIE SPEAKER with the all-new CRUMAR BURN 2025 ROTARY SPEAKER PEDAL.

Featuring music from Sweden's finest Hammond organists, Pierre Swärd and Andreas Hellkvist.

Photos from Hammond B3 Appreciation Group on Facebook and from organ fanatic and friend of the channel Nate Down Under.

Lesson packs available for one-time purchase on Patreon.

MORE WOODY PIANO SHACK: https://woodypianoshack.com

Beat Breakdown with Nate Wood on the KORG drumlogue

In case you missed it, the video is back in this previous post. Korg pulled it and republished it today.

Beat Breakdown with Nate Wood on the KORG drumlogue

video upload by Korg

"Nate Wood takes us through a beat breakdown of how he composed, 'Guru Model,' & demonstrates his masterful use of the New KORG Drumlogue and the fantastic features it offers to enhance his creative process.

Nate harnessed the full potential of the Drumlogue by utilizing all 64 steps, the randomizer to introduce certain notes at specific intervals, giving the piece an ever-changing and dynamic feel, & its built-in nano synth voice adding a unique and powerful bass layer to Nate's composition that serves as the backbone of the song. Mixing standard drum machine sounds with captivating synth sounds, he effortlessly brings in and out different elements, creating a mesmerizing musical tapestry."

Nate Wood - fOUR Performs "Guru Model" in one take ft. the KORG drumlogue, minilogue xd, & monologue

video upload by Korg

"Nate Wood joins us in the studio for a full performance of “Guru Model” from Nate Wood – fOUR, a project recorded entirely in one take with no overdubs! Watch as the multi-instrumentalist builds out this intricate song on the fly incorporating the use of the new KORG drumolgue, as well as the beloved minilogue xd, and monologue. After being introduced to the drumlogue, Nate was able to create “Guru Model” within just a few hours of using drumlogue, and he finds that drumlogue is super intuitive to use and is the perfect complement to the minilogue xd and monologue."

Prophet Rev2, Tape Loop, Stretchweaver, Bigsky | Lofi Ambient | ethereal ghostly soundscapes

video upload by Nate Connelly

"Lofi tape loop drones using a Sony TCM 200DV walkman cassette loop, sequential prophet rev2, drolofx stretchweaver & a strymon bigsky. Everything is directed through my SPL Goldmike pre-amp, through a Focusrite 18i20 and recorded into Cubase 11 Pro.

tapeloops, ethereal ambient, electronic music, ambient music, prophet, bigmuff, stretchweaver, bigsky, drones, drone music, cassette, walkman, noise music

℗ Nate Connelly"

Soma Labs Lyra 8 #4 improv | dark electronic ambient industrial soundscape | a short film nightmare

video upload by Nate Connelly

"Soma Laboratories Lyra 8 analogue synthesizer drone machine.

I created this soundscape and short film for Halloween 2021. A friend and I went for a walk around beacon fell to do some filming and sound recording a few weeks ago, but the weather was far too wet and windy to do either!

However, I managed to get a few shots of the spectacular foggy atmospheres on my Osmo action, and thought they would pair well with the otherworldy sounds of the Lyra 8... so here we are.

The samples are from some radio show about haunted woodlands I recorded late on night on my field recorder.

I hope you enjoy. Please like & subscribe for more videos.

soma labs, lyra 8, synthesizer, synth, ambient music, drone music, experimental, noise, distortion, big sky, lyra, drone, ambient, organic, organismic

℗ Nate Connelly"

Moog Sub37 Prophet Rev2 Volca Drum Stretchweaver beats vocals | live electronic burial style beats

video upload by Nate Connelly

"Moog Sub37 Prophet Rev Volca Drum Stretchweaver beats vocals live ambient electronic burial style beats and drums.

The mix you hear is as it was performed. No overdubs. The Sub37 and the Prophet Rev2 are going through the Strymon BigSky, and then into my computer via my GoldMike Pre-Amp. I applied a little multi-band compression and a limiter to the final stereo mix in post.

The track is titled 'Grey Lies' and is a work in progress.

The white noise you hear was sampled from the Sub37 and looped in the DAW. The bass tones are coming from the Moog Sub37 and into channel 1 of the stretch weaver - the melody loop sequence is coming from the Prophet Rev2 and into channel 2 of the stretchweaver. The stretchweaver is set to the tape setting, and as the bass opens up it controls the side-chain to the melody on the Prophet Rev2. The volca drum is playing the simple mid-kick pattern from the start, with some hi-hats coming in at the peak of the track. I created the burial style drum pattern in Cubase 11 Pro using various samples of rocks and stones, along with various kick drum layers. I took the vocal sample from an acapella on Youtube and re-arranged the pitch and the words to make my own melody and meaning.

00:00 - start
01:03 - intensity surge
01:56 - drums & vocals
03:55 - progression & intensity
05:14 - more-ness
06:10 - ending to out

ambient music. electronic music, beats, drums, live performance, live sequencing, electro, chill-out, melody, musical, burial beats, burial style

🎧 - Headphones for bass"

Prophet Rev2 | Drolofx Stretch-Weaver | Strymon Bigsky | Field Recording | minimal ambient #3

video upload by Nate Connelly

"Prophet Rev2, Drolofx Stretch Weaver, Tascam DR-07 field recordings, Strymon Bigsky. Ambient melodic electronic minimal musical sequence.

The melody is playing from the Prophet Rev-2 into channel-1 of the stretch-weaver. The tascam is playing a field recording of me out walking, into channel-2 of the stretch-weaver. Everything is going through the Strymon Big-Sky.

ambient music, generative music, meditation, relaxing music, ambient, chillout, mellow music, melody, haunting, minimal music, electronic music, electronica, ambient electronic, dark electronic music

🎧 - Headphones for bass"

Prophet Rev2 Stretchweaver music-box mechanism Gecho Loopsynth | minimal ambient melodic experiment

video upload by Nate Connelly

"Music Box, Gechological Gecho Loopsynth v2, Sequentail Prophet 8 Rev2, Drolofx Stretchweaver. Ambient melodic electronic musical looping & sequencing experiments.

The gecho / music box loops are going into channel 1 of the drolofx stretch-weaver - the prophet Rev2 into channel 2 of the stretch-weaver. The Rev-2 is playing a programmed chord sequence in the same key as the melody on the music box. Stretchweaver is on the gate setting. The Gecho music box loops are opening the gate for the Rev2. You can hear how I am adjusting the amount of the Rev2 the music box loops are allowing through. Everything is going through the strymon big-sky, because life is nothing without reverb.

00:00 - Start
00:31 - Pitched Up Lovely
03:05 - Slowed Lessness
04:26 - Moodier Sci-fi Vibes
05:15 - Moodier Slowed
06:13 Sped Up Cresendo (sort of)

ambient music, generative music, meditation, relaxing music, ambient, chillout, mellow music, melody, haunting, minimal music, electronic music, electronica, ambient electronic, electronic music

🎧 - Headphones for bass"

Prophet Rev2 | Drolofx Stretch-Weaver | Strymon Bigsky | Field Recording | minimal ambient #2

video upload by Nate Connelly

"Prophet Rev2, Drolofx Stretch Weaver, Tascam DR-07 field recordings, Strymon Bigsky. Ambient melodic electronic musical sequence. The melodic sequence is playing from the sequential prophet rev2, into channel 1 of the drolofx stretch-weaver. A recording of children playing at an indoor softplay is playing from the tascam and into channel 2 of the stretch-weaver. The recording is then dialled in and out of the weaver to affect the melody increasingly throughout the piece. Everything is going through the strymon big-sky.

00:00 - Start
01:26 - Opened up
02:34 - More Open
03:30 - Open Full + Bass
04:22 - Closed again

ambient music, generative music, meditation, relaxing music, ambient, chillout, mellow music, melody, haunting, minimal music, electronic music, electronica, ambient electronic, dark electronic music

🎧 - Headphones for bass"

Prophet Rev2 | Drolofx Stretch-Weaver | Strymon Bigsky | Field Recording | ambient explorations #1

video upload by Nate Connelly

"Prophet Rev2, Drolofx Stretch Weaver, Tascam DR-07 field recordings, Strymon Bigsky. Ambient melodic electronic musical sequence. The melodic sequence is playing from the sequential prophet rev2, into channel 1 of the drolofx stretch-weaver. A recording of rain-fall is playing from the tascam and into channel 2 of the stretch-weaver. The rain is modulating the melody increasingly throughout the piece. Everything is going through the strymon big-sky.

00:00 - Start
01:20 - More Modulations
02:26 - More Echo
03:32 - Changes
05:04 - More Rain

ambient music, generative music, meditation, relaxing music, ambient, chillout, mellow music, melody, haunting, minimal music, electronic music, electronica, ambient electronic, dark electronic music

🎧 - Headphones for bass"

Gechologic Gecho Loopsynth v2 | musical meditation | first impression & some practical applications

video upload by Nate Connelly

"Gecho Loopsynth V2, Korg Volca Drum, Korg Volca Keys, shakers, singing bowl. Some uses I found for the Gecho Loopsynth v2. I look at two of my favourite channels, 24 & 34, infinite looper and MI clouds. I also try it out with the Korg Volca Drum & Keys. I'm still finding my way around this strange thing.

00:00 - channel 24 - infinite looper & delay
02:07 - change the speed / pitch
03:09 - change the loop length
03:40 - flanging finger drumming
04:23 - volca drum various drum patterns
05:48 - playing with line noise
06:11 - playing volca keys with channel 34 mi clouds
08:02 - final thought

gechological, gecho loopsynth, loop synth, noise box, looper, fx box, boutique effect, noise muic, ambient music, experimental music, synth, loops,

🎧 - Headphones for bass"

Soma Labs Lyra-8 Organismic Synthesizer & Volca Drum | ambient dystopian sci-fi soundscapes | #3

video upload by Nate Connelly

"Soma Laboratories Lyra 8 analogue synthesizer drone machine with Korg Volca Drum & Strymon Bigsky. Another little jam I created late last night. I'm still finding my way around this synth and attempting to control it as best I can. It's pretty wild and unruly."

Soma Labs Lyra-8 Organismic Synthesizer & Volca Drum | ambient drone soundscapes | #2


"Soma Laboratories Lyra 8 analogue synthesizer drone machine with Korg Volca Drum & Strymon Bigsky. A little industrial ambient drone jam I put together. I've been trying to tame this mad machine and find my way into some practical uses for it."

Soma Labs Lyra-8 Organismic Synthesizer | live ambient industrial noise & drones exploration | #1


"Soma Laboratories Lyra 8 analogue synthesizer drone machine & Strymon Bigsky. Here are the best parts from the first hour or so I spent with this amazing synthesizer. I tuned each of the eight oscillators to a random scale before recording in an attempt to create something semi-melodic and harmonic (rather than just noise). I felt my way around and let the Lyra lead the way.

I hadn't read the manual - just watched a few video on Youtube. I made this video to give other folk a rough idea of what they might expect the first time they play it, provided you approach this instrument with an already basic understanding of now synthesizers work.

00:00 - melodic start
01:36 - awesome harmonics
02:21 - insane phasing and squealing
03:02 - nice little chord echo sequence
04:02 - insanity
04:30 - growls & delay feedbacks
06:16 - something more melodic again
07:29 - alarm type noise
08:17 - odd drones from elsewhere"

Vintage Moog Organ - White Elephant - CDX-0652 Cordovox

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video upload by Nate

via this auction

"This is an extremely rare Moog collaboration with Cordovox. When I purchased this beast it was in rough shape so I restored most of the outer shell and got most of the internals working the way they should. This includes

1. Exterior UV treated to restore the original "white" appearance.
2. Fixed various wiring miss connections within the circuitry.
3. Reconnected trouble spots that needed to be resoldered.
4. Repaired sliders that were no longer operational.

This is about as far as I got on the restoration. There are however some issues with the Moog side of things. These include.

1. Pitch on particular keys don't always work perfectly. (I speculate that this is due to bad key contacts, which should be an easy fix)
2. Some presets are not fully operational.
3. In manual mode not all parameters work perfectly.
4. Some Moog sliders don't have caps

This was a really fun restoration project, the Moog side has a few issues as noted above but the organ side of things is truly amazing! All together this Synth/Organ sounds great and is a true one of a kind.

I had to part with this because its taking up too much space and I would like my living room back ;)"

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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with NATHAN HICKS

You can find the interview on Sequential's website here.

"Working out of a small cluttered studio, Silence_Castor is the alias of musician Nate Hicks. He uses it as a creative outlet and a musical experiment. He utilizes old-school recording techniques, analog synthesizers, and a generous amount of reverb and delay to create music ranging from space themed ambient electronica to funk inspired lofi hip hop. His influences and inspirations include Lorn, Rival Consoles, Radiohead, and Nine Inch Nails.

We chatted with Nathan on how he’s been using the Prophet Rev2 in his music.
You can find additional posts featuring Sequential's Spotlight series here.