These Plugins Sound AMAZING… Except One

video upload by Keith Crosley

"Space Age Strings, Traveler 1.1, Arturia MiniFreak V, and Liminal Space 2 RC6: three plugins I'm excited about, and one that's... fine. Your old pal Keith demos vintage strings, custom wavetable import, Bloom and reverse reverb, and gloriously backward shoegaze. Grab your mod wheel for another episode of your favorite talky synthesizer content show!

First up: Authentic Soundware's Space Age Strings, with gorgeous legatos, vintage ribbon-mic character, and serious Mancini energy. We pair those nine violins with Liminal Space 2's new Space Age Scoring Stage preset and compare the library's built-in reverb with some algorithmic spaciousness.

Then we revisit Traveler! Version 1.1 fixes the big wavetable-workflow frustrations from my previous review: now I can point it at my existing KRC Mathwaves folders without duplicating gigabytes of content. Cue polygonal bells, Morlet wavelet vowels, and a much happier Keith. We also try MiniFreak V's new user-wavetable import. It's great to have it, but I've got opinions about the workflow, the effects, and whether the software version floats my boat.

Finally, we explore my Liminal Space 2 RC6 reverb for macOS and Windows: MIDIverb II-inspired Bloom sounds, reverse-style swells, ACTUAL reversed audio, and instant imaginary Cocteau Twins guitar with Native Instruments' Electric Sunburst Deluxe. We build Bloom effects on piano, shape them with curves and wavetables, and explore Reverse Capture's Diffuse and Clear modes. Then we get dark and wobbly with Clockwarp and the new Vulture 224 filter, inspired by Alex at Vulture Culture. Woot!

Disclosure: Authentic Soundware kindly supplied Space Age Strings; this is not paid placement. I purchased Traveler myself. Liminal Space 2 and KRC Mathwaves are my own products. Liminal Space 2 is demonstrated in RC6; the RC7 Follow feature is teased for a future video."

You can find wavetables and additional resources by Keith Crosley available at https://www.wavetables.lol.

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Ambient Ø launchpad pro mk3 TR-6S GODJ 20260922

video upload by a/n

"made by SONICWARE Ambient Ø , novation launchpad pro mk3 , Roland TR-6S , JDSound GODJ
including splice samples
mash up with ' Both Sides, Now ' by Joni Mitchell"

Etches First Look With ‪@yukesmusic‬

video upload by Puremagnetik

"Thanks to ‪@yukesmusic‬ for creating a new video exploring the rich soundscapes and sound design that Etches has to offer.

Etches Kit is a complete Etches synthesizer that you assemble yourself. The parts snap together. There's no soldering and nothing to source, so all you need is a small Phillips screwdriver and about twenty minutes.

Etches is a layered soundscape synthesizer. It's a palette for playing with sound, sketching melodic sections and building evolving tapestries. It moves between cinematic washes, percussive pizzicatos, and atmospheres worn smooth through ambient processing.

Inspired by live modular techniques, Etches is built upon classic synthesis and tape music traditions. Etches's main engine includes a complex oscillator, a splice recorder and built-in space processing.

We designed Etches to be performed. Every control is on the surface, and every gesture is audible the moment you make it. There are no traditional envelopes or filters here. You shape the timbre as you play.

Pick a root note, choose from eleven scales and modes, and the pads stay locked to that key while you move. It's hard to play a wrong note, which means you can focus on phrasing instead of finger positions.

At the center is a monophonic voice generator and a splice recorder with overdub, so you can layer sounds into something bigger than individual patches. An internal LFO moves against each splice, modulating where the recording starts and ends. It's a behavior we first used in our LAPS and JOTS pedals. Around all of that: a tape-style delay, and a stereo space processor you can get lost in."

You can find additional demos in previous posts here.

MultiWAVE the Monosynth | Make Noise

video upload by MAKEN0ISE

"The 0-Coast 10 year celebration is coming up Saturday September 12! RSVP here:

https://dice.fm/event/k65qyq-aplr-and...

Sign up for the 0-Coast workshop here! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA...

Parallel mode with Span setting 1 Activates all eight channels on each gate - just like "Unison" mode on a classic poly.

Also, enjoy a new visual score by Norman Freund, realized sonically by Del!

/ norman-freund
/ user-780024068

Here is Del's full description of the realization:"

"When I first encountered Norman Freund's score, I noticed the shapes were sketched quite roughly. In order to implement the score in a structured way, I made the decision to 'quantize' the original drawing to a grid. I hope I have suceeded in maintaining Norman's intent for the piece.

I decided on a grid of 64 'bars' at 120 bpm (each bar 2 seconds) Total time = 128 secs - 2:08

I identified common types of graphic entities in the score which would act in a similar sonic way and decided that there would be no implication of pitch in the score, just timing.

Colors were assigned to each type of graphic for visual and compositional reference:
Red - vertical line with spiral top
Light Blue - vertical line
Pink - horizontal line
Dark Blue - horizontal line with circle incorporating clockwise arrow indicator
Orange - rounded rectangle
Green - divergent lines (crescendo mark) and convergent lines (decrescendo mark)

Each entity in the score was recorded from a modular setup and arranged in the DAW (Reaper).
The sound palette came from the various reels of the project iterations.

Below are descriptions of two different ways in which sounds were mapped to graphics:
1. The Green divergent/convergent lines are the most persistent entities in this score. They are treated algorithmically. Each green entity has a different splice from "12 string iteration 0 reel". The methodology was to speed up each splice in Morphagene forwards from 0 to 100% (Green light) precisely over the time specified in the quantized score by the divergent lines and then back to 0 in the same way as specified by the convergent lines. For this I researched and discovered the Rossum Control Forge and used this to apply the precise voltage over time. An interesting technique learned and likely not one I would have considered otherwise.
2. The Red shape is a composed (ie non-algorithmic) collage of the individual sounds from iteration 3.

Other modules used were QPAS, Wogglebug and Mordax Data."

http://www.makenoisemusic.com

Meet YPC - An Online MPC Like YouTube Slice and Trigger Player

This one is in via Ivan Trajkovic aka deejayiwan.

You can find it at https://ypc2000.fun

It's pretty self explanatory. Just give it the ID of any YouTube video in the top YouTube URL field and trigger the pads for different clips, then explore the rest of the controls. Essentially you can sample splice any YouTube video and audio. I'm not seeing the ability to loop samples or the ability to set the length individually - the sample length appears to be global for all pads.

Sinewave Reel | Make Noise Morphagene

video upload by Akihiko Matsumoto

"Drum: Machinedrum Sample Pack https://akihikomatsumoto.sellfy.store...

Sinewave Reel from Morphagene (Reels Pack)
https://akihikomatsumoto.sellfy.store...

Recomposing the Architecture of Sound
The Make Noise Morphagene functions as a system for reorganizing recorded time. Each splice and grain becomes a modular event, where sound is reshaped through control voltage, feedback, and probability.

The Morphagene Reels Sample Pack ver.2.1 extends this system by providing a collection of reel structures designed for direct use. It includes 26 sets of curated sound materials that range from TB-303 inspired acid patterns to dubstep modulations, color bass textures, rave stabs, Wave atmospheres, retro PCM timbres, breakbeats, and industrial percussive elements. Every reel is pre-labeled with accurate splice points, enabling immediate interaction within Morphagene without additional editing."

Kevin Parker Built a Synth and It's Actually Incredible: Telepathic Orchid Reviewed (Plugged In)

video upload by Splice

"What happens when you plug the Telepathic Orchid into Splice INSTRUMENT and let it run? In this Plugged In Splice's Devon Johnson ‪@dontgodcj‬ finds out — and the results speak for themselves.

The Telepathic Orchid, co-created by Tame Impala's Kevin Parker, is a chord-generating synthesizer designed to help producers and songwriters find musical ideas fast — without needing deep music theory knowledge or traditional keyboard technique. Paired with Splice INSTRUMENT, it becomes something even more powerful: a way to explore sounds and progressions at the same time, in the same session.

In this video, Devon unboxes and demos the Telepathic Orchid and its various creative uses and incredibly chord generating technology. He then uses the Orchid's chord logic system as a MIDI controller to trigger sounds inside Splice INSTRUMENT, building a full beat from scratch and showing exactly how the two tools work together in a real production workflow. From dialing in chord voicings and inversions on the Orchid to flipping through Splice's instrument sounds in real time, this is hands-on and unfiltered — no templates, no pre-built loops, just the tools doing what they're built to do.

Whether you're already a Splice user curious about the Orchid, an Orchid owner wondering how to integrate it into your DAW setup, or just a producer looking for a new way to create new chord patterns — this one's worth watching all the way through.

#telepathic #synth #hardwaresynth #gearreview #pluginreview #plugintutorial #chords #chordprogressions #musictheory #musicproducer #musicproduction #splice #piano #chordvoicing"

Is there something it can't do? Get more out of your rack with the DPW SW3 Splice

video upload by The Sound Convergence

"The SW3 Splice is a cleverly designed dual audio and CV router and selector in 6 HP.
The SW3 interacts interestingly with a whole range of CV and audio inputs. It can be used as sub-octave maker, distortion unit, pattern selector, CV combiner, stereorizer, jitter/humanizer and much more.
This is my longest video to date, as I tried to show you as many use cases as possible. Enjoy!

00:00 Intro
01:24 Module Overview
02:29 OSC: Creating Suboctaves
03:35 Musical Example: Suboctave processing
04:11 OSC: Making new wave shapes
04:53 OSC: Wave shaping wave shapers
05:17 OSC: Slope switching
05:31 OSC: D and R inputs for further shaping
06:03 OSC: Jitter/PWd squarewave
06:31 OSC: Timbre switcher
07:37 As stereorizer
08:07 Widening a lead
08:35 Stereo-widening mono fx
09:34 Distortion: Hard-switch mode
09:52 Glitch: Slow switching glitches
10:48 Distortion: via D-input
11:14 Distortion: Bit reduction mimicking via D-input
11:48 CV: Introducing swing
12:36 CV: Mixing gate patterns
13:04 CV: Mixing 2 AR envelopes
14:27 Final thoughts"

Audio Damage Releases Traverse Lo-Fi Tape Effect

via Audio Damage

"Traverse is a lo-fi tape effect and stereo delay in one plugin. The cassette side runs a hysteresis-modeled tape engine with Drive, Wow, Flutter, and a tilt-EQ Tone control. The delay side does what delays do — Time, Feedback, Width, sync, ping-pong. A Post-Delay routing toggle lets you swap their order, so you can use it as either a tape-flavored delay or a cassette effect with a delay built in.

Layered on top: a four-control splice system for procedural dropouts, and a procedural noise generator with nine styles — Hiss, Crackle, Dust, Fan Rumble, 60Hz Hum, 50Hz Hum, White, Pink, and the Califone Card Reader. The noise routes into the cassette path, so whatever else you've dialed in shapes it on the way out.

This is the third entry in our Motion Effects family, alongside Ascent and Descent. Same as the rest of our catalog: Mac, Windows, Linux, and iOS. No DRM, no subscriptions, no dongles, perpetual license."

You can find additional details at Audio Damage.

Backrooms Inspired Sound Design with Omnisphere 3 and Vulture Culture’s Legendary Synths

video upload by Keith Crosley

"We’re noclipping into liminal sonic realms, doing some Omnisphere 3 patches inspired by the Backrooms… and using Vulture Culture’s “Legendary Synths” sample library that I’ve converted to O3 multisampled soundsources! We’ll talky talky talky about liminal ambient inspirations, some of my favorite sound design tricks, and a few of the more unusual effects in Omnisphere. So grab your low-proximity magnetic distortion system and get ready for an ANALOG-HORROR-A-GO-GO episode of your favorite talky synthesizer content show!

-- MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO --
🎹 Vulture Culture Legendary Synths Collections: https://vultureculture.live/collectio..."

You can find wavetables and additional resources by Keith Crosley available at https://www.wavetables.lol.

─── CHAPTERS ───
00:00 Why Sound Design for the Backrooms (A24 Film + Kane Parsons)
01:02 What This Video Uses: Omnisphere 3 + Vulture Culture's Legendary Synths Vol. 1 & 2
02:14 Why Omnisphere 3's New Effects Are Perfect for Analog Horror
03:07 Pre-Built Patch Walkthrough: Noisemaker, Film Projector & Spring Reverb
03:48 The JX-10 "Mays Pad" + Wavestation Tape Splice Sound

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midiphy zetaSID: bassline engine (new firmware v1.5)

video upload by midiphy

"Introducing bassline engine: integrated, stereo-linked 303-style sequencing for zetaSID. Two modules on bass, two on percussion, some external FX in the chain.

What's in the patch:
two zetaSIDs linked via phybus carry the stereo bassline
patterns are switched live from the user interface. Sync To Measure stays active, so every pattern change lands cleanly on the next bar. The zetaSIDs stay step-locked across the polychain throughout
the joystick is spliced into LFO1 for hands-on modulation in real time
the fader is spliced into filter cutoff and forwarded to all zetaSIDs: live SID filter sweeps, no menus
two more zetaSIDs run the drums, triggered by gates from the modular, no MIDI used

What's new in firmware v1.5:
zetaSID bassline engine: 303-style 16-step sequencer, eight patterns per channel, per-step note / octave / gate / slide / accent / one freely assignable parameter, two LFOs and an additional envelope with curvature
three new input sockets per module: SEQ STEP, SEQ RESET, SEQ PATTERN. Splice them through phybus and your modular drives the sequencer directly with clocks, sequence reset triggers and pattern select CVs
pair two zetaSIDs over phybus for a true stereo bassline patch that stays step-locked
non-bassline feature: individual instrument attenuation for drum engine
non-bassline feature: 180° screen rotation support (mount your zetas upside-down, if you want :-))

Download the new firmware: https://www.midiphy.com/en/firmware
Test in our free web emulator: https://www.midiphy.com/en/zetasid-em..."

ETCHES | Soundscape Palette by Puremagnetik

video upload by Puremagnetik


via Puremagnetik

"Etches is a layered soundscape synthesizer. It's a palette for playing with sound, sketching melodic sections and building evolving tapestries. It moves between cinematic washes, percussive pizzicatos, and atmospheres worn smooth through ambient processing.

Inspired by live modular techniques, Etches is built upon classic synthesis and tape music traditions. Etches’s main engine includes a complex oscillator, a splice recorder and built in space processing.

We designed Etches to be performed. Every control is on the surface, and every gesture is audible the moment you make it. There are no traditional envelopes or filters here. You shape the timbre as you play.

Pick a root note and choose from twelve scales and modes and the pads stay locked to that key while you move. It's hard to play a wrong note, which means you can focus on phrasing instead of finger positions.

At the center is a monophonic voice generator and a splice recorder with overdub, so you can layer sounds into something bigger than individual patches. An internal LFO moves against each splice, modulating where the recording starts and ends. It's a behavior we first used in our LAPS and JOTS pedals. Around all of that: a tape-style delay, and a stereo space processor you can get lost in.

Etches Features:
• Four articulation pads that control contour, timbre-shaping and animation
• Musical overdrive with soft clipping
• 80-second multi-splice recorder for capturing ideas and layering sounds
• Stereo space processor with tape-style delay and a pristine reverb.
• Stereo output
• Runs on a standard Boss-style 9V power supply"

You can find a link to the manual and addtional details at Puremagnetik

Synthux Spotykach - Dual looper with CV controls

Note: links to listings are affiliate links for which the site may be compensated.

via this Reverb listing

"Limited run of 300 units. According to their website more than 200 have already sold.

Excellent condition. Works perfectly. Includes accessories bag and items it came with.

Just bought it while traveling, hard to find in the US.

Very cool semi-modular dual looper with CV control multiple sample/loop banks.

Dual Independent Decks: Record, play, reverse, and overdub seamlessly. Switch between Reel, Slice, and Granular Drift modes while modulating incoming signals.

Generative Modulation: Built-in, Eurorack-level modulation sources and envelope followers keep your loops evolving.

Semi-Modular Workflow: Designed to sit at the heart of your setup, whether you're jamming dawless or integrating with a hybrid rig.

Performance-Driven Interface: High-resolution LED feedback and "tape-splice" touch pads for immediate, tactile control."

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Live Electronic Performance Analog Synth Jam Push 3, Prophet Rev2 #push3 #prophetrev2 #bassstation2

video upload by ASLAA Link Music

"A live electronic performance built using Push 3 as the central instrument to trigger and evolve scenes in real time.

In this session, I explore a flexible structure where each scene represents a different stage of the track — shaped live through dynamics, tension, and space.

🎹 Gear used:

Sequential Prophet Rev2: expressive evolving lead + ZOOM Multi Stomp (Effect pedal)
Novation Bass Station II: analog bass line & repetitive patterns
Splice: additional bass texture
Push 3: scene launching, variations, and live performance control

🎧 A hybrid approach between:

improvisation
live arrangement
electronic instrumental performance

The idea is to let the track breathe, shape textures in real time, and build a sonic narrative as it unfolds.

👉 Headphones recommended for full low-end and detail.

Thanks for listening 🙏"

Creating wavetables and Morphagene reels with Gemini 3 and Google Colab.

video upload by Cinematic Laboratory

"When I asked Gemini 3 if it could create wavetables, a new world opened up. Now, I am aware it's about artificial intelligence taking over the wonderful job of creating wavetables by hand (64 cycles of 256 bytes) I'd rather make music and noise with them. In this workflow, you'd describe what kind of 'morph' or 'animation' you'd want, and Gemini 3 would write the code in the Python programming language.

Next question is obviously: how do I run it because we don't want code, we want a WAV file in WaveEdit format. It turned out to be just a matter of pasting the code in Google's Co-laboratory (COLAB) environment and press 'play'. Then COLAB would run the code and output a .WAV with a pre-coded descriptive name. So next is to install them on your VCO of choice, which hopefully has an SD card or USB 'disk mode'.

But then the real fun begins. You can also ask Gemini 3 to code a 48K/32 bit Morphagene reel with a splice marker for every wave. These waves can be much longer, much more complex, and they can be stereo. You can create wobbles, sweeps, morphs, ticks, hiss, grains, anything. And then you can take your files to the modular, disconnect from the internet and lock the doors."

Morphagene Acid Reel Session | Make Nose Shared System

video upload by Akihiko Matsumoto

"Morphagene Reels Sample Pack https://akihikomatsumoto.sellfy.store...
Explore a dynamic mix of samples crafted for Morphagene, blending the warmth of analog and modular synths with the precision of cutting-edge digital sounds.

Dive into rich textures and unique tones to inspire endless creativity in your modular setup!

The wav files are marked with Splice Markers and can be split up by material.
This pack is a collection of 32bit/48khz .wav files."

Smart Wavesplicing for Creative & Unique Tones & Modulation // 3 Patches with SW3 Splice from DPW

video upload by DivKid

"Here we have the new SW3 Splice module from DPW Design. It's a smart zero crossing and zero difference dual switch module ... a mouthful maybe, but it's two channels of intelligent switching for audio or CV with simple to use options for anything from making mutes, manual gates, click free audio switching, modulation waveform chaining and a whole host more.

This is a '3 Patches' series video, where we distill things down to just 3 patches, but I've added in some bonus bits where I wanted to change up something in the patch to explore how the module performs with other sources. Check out the patches below."

"Wavesplicing made simple. It works both with audio and control signals or a mix of those.

The SW3 is a module to splice (switch) any signal together with something else click free at up to high audio rate. A tool for audio and CV experiments. A way to expand what you already have into new sonic and control roams.

It can be dual mono, stereo coupled or switching mono into stereo for big stereo fields."

Splice made its first appearance on the site last October.

S4: Track in 10 - 4 Random samples

video upload by torso electronics

"An empty project and 10 minutes on the clock. In an uninterrupted one-take, we explore ideas, sculpt sounds, and let the S4 sculpting sampler guide the moment. "Track in 10" is about staying in the flow and creating without overthinking.

In this video, we take four random Splice samples and run them through the S4 device chain, building a full idea from scratch in real time. Everything is captured: the decisions, mistakes, and happy accidents."

Bristronica 25 - DPW design - Splice

video upload by Stromkult

"At #Bristronica25, Dan from DPW Design shows us his new Splice module which can switch and mangle any type of signal completely click free to create interesting textures.

More info here: https://dpw.se/"

ARTURIA MINIBRUTE 2 SEMI-MODULAR SYNTH

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via this listing

Additional Signal Sounds listings

"Manufacturer's description

MiniBrute 2 has evolved from the legendary monosynth that revolutionized the analog scene with its mixable waveforms, Steiner-Parker filter, and Brute Factor. Now with semi-modular architecture, you can splice its genome and expand its raw power into the world of Eurorack modular. From the earliest electronic instruments, synthesizers have expanded and enhanced the possibilities available to musicians. We decided not only to apply this mantra to the sound of our new instrument, but to synthesizer itself. MiniBrute 2 was born! A synthesizer that would sound huge and yet be compact, self-contained and versatile. An instrument that would be both comprehensive and evolving.

The MiniBrute 2 has nothing to hide. Take a look at its front panel, get yourself acquainted. You’ll notice the now-iconic Brute oscillators, the acidic Steiner-Parker filter, and the mayhem-inducing Brute Factor knob that has become the signature Arturia synth element for many fans.

Looking a bit further, beyond the usual modulation sources and controls, you’ll notice some exciting, unexpected features: a second VCO; a second LFO; new VCO and Filter frequency modulation possibilities; modifier-related modulation destinations; a brand new, loopable AD envelope. Once tamed, this little beast will reveal the full range of its vocalizations, including raging leads and piercing sequences, as well as smooth pads and purring bass."