11/6/26 Pasco Scientific 9301 + Rucci 16-step CV Seq + Heathkit ID-4101 + Yamaha EM-100 + CXM 1978

video upload by Cfpp0

"11/6/26 Pasco Scientific 9301 + Rucci 16-step CV Seq + Heathkit ID-4101 + Yamaha EM-100 + CXM 1978"

11/5/26 Pasco Scientific 9301 + Rucci 16-step Seq + Heathkit ID-4101 + Yamaha EM-100 + (…)

video upload by Cfpp0

"11/5/26 Pasco Scientific 9301 + Rucci 16-step CV Sequencer + Heathkit ID-4101 + Yamaha EM-100 + Alesis MIDIVERB II

The sun was setting and this was the last take, so you can barely see anything, but the Rucci 16-step CV sequencer is driving and modulating the two Pasco Scientific 9301 dual function generators, as well as the Heathkit ID-4101. The Heathkit is panned left, the left 9301 is panned right, and the right 9301 is panned center. There is some spring reverb from the Yamaha EM-100 mixer and some delay from the Alesis MIDIVERB II."

The M-VAVE FM-1 is a turning point, here's why / Tutorial: How to "vibe code" your own firmware

video upload by Floyd Steinberg

You can find the M-VAVE FM-1 on Amazon.

"Y'all send me so many comments and messages on the M-Vave FM-1, so here finally is my video on this box. It's an opinion piece, a collection of jams on different firmwares and a sysadmin tutorial rolled into one."

Table of contents:

00:00 Jam 1: Frasil
00:34 Hi, what's this?
01:20 The FM-1 situation: I have some thoughts and I'm going to talk about them
02:14 Jam 2: OverVave
02:26 Thought 1: Nice hardware!
03:55 AD: OneOdio Studio MAX 2 review - low latency 9ms wireless studio headphones
07:19 Jam 3: Original Firmware
07:44 Thought 2: The original firmware is good
11:10 Jam 4: Vector37
11:49 Thought 3: Chinese companies are only starting
13:17 Jam 5: Tuna
13:42 Thought 4: The Firmware situation is out of control
16:39 Tutorial: Installing the SDK and the Toolchain and Visual Studio Code
21:49 Jam 6: Floyd FM
22:12 Thought 5: The genie is out of the bottle
24:16 Jam 7: FMEL-1
24:31 Thought 6: It's the hardware, cupid
25:42 Summary + do the YouTube thing!

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ORRERY Generative Modular by RedtailWorks, ORRERY - by Recluse Studios, and ORRERY by Kepler

video upload by RedtailWorks

Three different apps based on celestial mechanics. Above is RedtailWorks ORRERY Generative Modular posted just today. No additional details are provided.

Directly below is Recluse Studios' Orrery from about two months ago. You can find Kepler's Orrery in previous posts here dating back to 2007. As always, dig and explore.

Orrery by Recluse Studios First Look

video uploads by Recluse Studios

https://reclusestudios.net/orrery.html

"Orrery is a generative music environment where wires carry theory, not audio. You don't write every note — you set the rules, and the machine obeys them forever. Gravity becomes a tonal center. A wormhole becomes a canon machine. A supernova becomes structure.

This is the celestial canvas playing a real piece: three minutes born from a single brief — start in A minor, move to E phrygian, end in D lydian. Bells, soft pads, percussion. No supernovas. One wormhole. All sounds generated in-engine.

Orrery is deterministic by contract: the same file, the same seeds, the same performance — every time, on your machine, offline. No black box, no cloud, no subscription. The composer stays the composer. The machine does the paperwork.

Built by Recluse Studios.

#GenerativeMusic #Orrery #MusicTech #RecluseStudios #CompositionTools" Playlist:

1. Orrery - First Look
2. Orrery - Ouroboros

This is the celestial canvas playing ouroboros — the first demo, and the one that shows what the clock really is. A single voice walks D, F, A, C, E while the tempo itself orbits: 40 bpm, up to 280, and back down, forever. Because the clock's own rate is fed back into the clock. The snake eats its tail.

3. Orrery - Canon in Em

This is Orrery's celestial canvas playing Canon in Em — a strict three-voice canon in E minor, doing exactly what the docs always promised. One theme, eight bars, an original line. It enters, and two wormholes swallow every two-bar phrase and return it unchanged, on time: the same melody at +2 bars, and at +4 bars, forever. Pachelbel's ground, translated — i, v, VI, III, iv, i, iv, v — in natural minor, where the dominant stays minor and the cadence stays modal. 80 bpm. Four minutes. No scenes, no supernovas, no shortcuts: the form is the canon.

4. Orrery - Undertow

One static texture, three rhythms braiding against a bar.
The piece: a Glass-style additive ladder climbs D5→D6, a tresillo thumps on the grid, and a 2-in-7 euclid pattern laps at the beat but never quite lands — the one voice that refuses the bar. The polyrhythm is the entire form. In the middle section the ladder learns to breathe — ties, rests, an accented held apex — before the machine returns, unchanged.

GRAVITY IS A CHORD.
WORMHOLES ARE CANON MACHINES.

You drop bodies into a sky and wire their ports together. A clock keeps time. A key holds the tonality. A progression walks the changes, a voice-leader smooths them, and a gravity well bends everything nearby toward its centre. Wire a body's output into another's input and the second one starts listening.

Beads sit on the wires and do the arithmetic — scale, offset, clamp, curve, lag — so a die roll can drive a filter sweep and a slow contour can nudge a whole section. The machine has no opinions. It has a clock.

See https://reclusestudios.net/orrery.html for additional details.

The M-VAVE FM-1 Firmware for Dark Ambient – GR!MM #mvave

video upload by GR!MM // Deathdream

You can find the M-VAVE FM-1 on Amazon.

Additional demos below.

"GR!MM is a free, open-source custom firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1. It turns the little FM synth into a dark ambient instrument with four tracks, your own samples, tape and grain effects, chords and a sequencer. Everything is saved automatically.

Easy install:
▶ https://thefirmwarehub.com/ (choose the FM-1, then GR!MM)

▶ Try it in your browser (no FM-1 needed): https://grimmbient.github.io/grimm/
▶ Online editor (sounds, samples, backups): https://grimmbient.github.io/grimm/ed...
▶ Download & source: https://github.com/GRiMMBIENT/grimm/r...
▶ Cheat sheet: https://thefirmwarehub.com/cs/grimm/
▶ Controls sheet: https://shorturl.at/jqUt8

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Drum'n'Bass Jam With Korg Electribe EM-1 & Monotron Delay

video upload by ghostradioshow

"No other Instruments in use. Enjoy ;)
#dawlessjam #korg #electribe #monotron"

Polysynthi Loops

video upload by Memetune Studio

"Here's a happy/sad tune on the ultra rare and quite exquisite EMS Polysynthi. Maybe only about 30 of these synthesisers were ever made, and probably just a handful are left in the wild. It came out in 1978 to rave reviews (https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/em...) but then disappeared in spectacular fashion when other polysynths came to market around the same time (Prophet 5, Korg PS3100, Yamaha CS80, Polymoog, Roland Jupiter 4), most of which had huge corporate advertising budgets behind them. But the EMS had a number of unique things going for it, such as 49 note polyphony (albeit sharing one filter / VCA -- it is essentially paraphonic, like the Polymoog), 2 LFOs with a clever routing system, pressure sensitive keyboard, and a voltage controlled analogue delay section. But above all, it has a totally "of-its-time" sound like no other synth I know - it creates instant late-70s happy/sad tones like nothing else in my studio. And the other thing - JUST LOOK AT IT

This is a live performance using the Polysynthi and the Concrete Box (stereo loopers) to layer up multiple passes of melodies

As always, thanks for watching, and enjoy the tones"

ORLA Micro Partner - 9 Fake Nokia Ringtones ☎️

video upload by General Midi Guy ⚡

This is the first demo of one to be featured on the site. One came up for sale back in 2020.

"Was bored and made a bunch of Nokia styled ringtone sounds on my General Midi device Orla Micro Partner, start the party! Ringtone rave all night :p

#nokia #generalmidi #ringtonemusic #ringtones #90snostalgia

Make your own ringtones and send em to me, my favourite music, just upload somewhere and post a link, mp3 is fine but 16/44 is even better for maximum enjoyment 😺

(b) general midi guy 2026

and send me your old Nokia phones to :p"

6/11/26 Pasco Scientific 9301 + Heathkit ID-4101 + Rucci 16-step CV seq + Yamaha EM-100

video upload by Cfpp0

"6/11/26 Pasco Scientific 9301 dual function generator + Heathkit ID-4101 switch + Rucci 16-step CV sequencer + Yamaha EM-100

One Heathkit ID-4101 switch and two Pasco Scientific 9301 dual function generators are being used as oscillators, modulated by the pulse output and CV output on the Rucci 16-step CV sequencer. The banana-jack audio outputs are converted to TS 1/4” by the Low-gain Electronics format jumbler, then mixed on the Yamaha EM-100, with its internal spring reverb."

Latrodectus | Twin Monomachine IDM | Second pass with the new custom monomachine firmware by Em-

video upload by MIDERA

"New track using Elektron Monomachines with the new custom firmware (here: https://github.com/emuyia/ems-monomac...)

P.S. all drums are synthesized, not samples.

NI Raum used for reverb

#elektron #monomachine #nativeinstruments"

Lox | Twin Monomachine IDM | First pass with the new ems-monomachine-firmware

video upload by MIDERA

"Alright - so I guess someone really cool (Em-) decided to give the Elektron Monomachine new life - I installed this on both my Monomachines and gave it a test. I know there are some bugs, but after reading through them it didn't seem like it would affect what I was doing. I'm extremely excited by the updates, as they address the thing I missed a lot on the Monomachine - independent track lengths. Here you can hear just a single pattern with longer total patterns. Honestly, it's kind of game changing. So thank you Em-. This is great!

Here's where you can go to get this release: https://github.com/emuyia/ems-monomac...

#monomachine #elektron

Native Instruments RAUM for reverb"

Formanta Polivoks - Soviet Analog Synthesizer Ambient (SASA) #2

video upload by LFOstore

"Soviet Analog Synthesizer Ambient (SASA) space launched!

Thanks to our great master Alex Taber for advices,
Repair, midi mods and tuning for this lovely old USSR machines.

Maybe it's a first time in history when these rare machines are collected, restored and played and filmed in one authentic video.

By Nick Klimenko

We want to show that Soviet analog instruments are not odd or noisy unfinished boxes, but perfect and beautiful instruments with its own spirit and history.

This cosmic ambient soundtrack played and recorded with:

Formanta Polivoks (main drone)
Electronica EM-25 (lead sound)
Murom Aelita (reso sweep)
TOM 1501 (lead sound)
Ritm-2 (s&h solo)
Maestro (unique internal arp)
Alisa (lead sound)

Recorded with Zoom LiveTrack L6 - a perfect portable mixer.
FX by Zoom H9 Max"

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..."

Inside a Soviet Synth Collection – Rare Analog Sounds You’ve Never Heard

video upload by RetroSound

"In this video, I take you on a tour through my personal "Best Of" collection of rare Soviet Synths gathered over the past 30 years. These instruments are known for their distinctive sound character, shaped by unconventional engineering and vintage components.

Featured in this collection:
0:00 Rodina Alisa 1377
3:11 Formanta Polivoks
9:52 Elektronika EM-26
11:40 RMIF Opus

Each of these synthesizers offers a unique tonal palette – from raw and aggressive textures to warm analog pads and experimental sound design. Their unpredictable behavior and lo-fi charm make them especially inspiring for electronic music production.

If you're into analog synths, vintage gear, or experimental sounds, this collection showcases some of the most interesting and underrated instruments from the Soviet era.

(c)2007-26 by RetroSound
supported by UVI: http://bit.ly/retrosound-uvi

synth tees: https://retrosound.creator-spring.com
Donation: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/9N..."

East Block Synths playlist:

monophreak EMMY1OH1 Software Editor for the Roland EM-101 Preset Desktop Synthesizer

via Monophreak

"With the right firmware mod (that’s right – no mysterious hacky soldered in dials) for old board Roland EM-101 machines, the EM-101 is no longer a preset machine. Often billed as a cutdown Juno 106 restricted to just 24 presets, this box previously had some interesting uses but didn’t really deliver as an anlogue beast in my arsenal. It was too restricted. Until now. Due to the amazing work by Ryan (Plutoniq), the EM-101 has been give a new lease of life and transformed into a strong addition to my music making and since the parameters can now be controlled over midi CC, I have written an editor to load in presets from the Juno 106 and MKS-7, extended to a new Roland EM-101 format with naming and created a preset saving system and librarian for patch recall. It’s not a Juno 106 but it is a very nice sounding a machine with it’s own character sharing a lot of parallels. If I have understood correctly (there could be inaccuracies!), it has a M5232RS tone generator chip with 36 (I think) waveforms that are beautifully shaped by Roland analogue fitters. A good example is the IR3109 VCF filter, found in a the Jupiter 8 or M5241L VCA found in the MKS-70. If you look at the chip list, there are lots of shared electronics that overlap between Junos, Juipter and other quality Roland gear of it’s time, giving it character. Notably, the MN3009 and MN3101 chorus chips shared by the Juno 106 chorus. It has interesting analogue effects on board but the chorus particularly shines due to the much greater CC control (as you can see from the screenshot). That chorus is gorgous, adds that analogue sheen and processing. I spent last night building up a preset bank for the EM-101 to release with the editor (and check bank functionality) and got lost inside this little beauty."

If you forget the EM-101 you can find some pics and demos in previous posts.

This one is in via monophreak in the comments of this post and this post.

Pearl malletSTATION EM Pro Adams Marimba - All Playing, No Talking featuring Mitchell Shiner

video upload by Kraft Music

Follow-up to this post.

"Great bundle deals on Pearl malletSTATION EM PRO:
https://kraftmusic.com/collections/pe...

Mitch Shiner plays the 'Adams Marimba' sample on the Pearl malletSTATION EM PRO. This malletSTATION is equipped with the optional EMSC sound card, making it a standalone instrument. More from Mitch here:
https://shineymusic.com

Pearl malletSTATION EM Pro is an expandable, premium quality professional electronic mallet instrument utilizing a modern 32-bit multi-processor architecture and Muse Kinetics Smart Fabric Technology. Built around two separate components that work seamlessly together – the EMC two-octave control unit and optional EMX one-octave expansion unit – EM Pro is all about raw power, ultimate performance, and expandability.

Get more for your money with an exclusive Pearl malletSTATION EM Pro bundle from Kraft Music. These package deals include the accessories you'll need to get the most out of your new electronic mallet controller instrument, all for one low price. If you have any questions, please contact us. Our knowledgeable sales advisors will be happy to assist in choosing the bundle that's right for you!"

Pearl malletSTATION EM Pro Jazz Vibraphone - All Playing, No Talking featuring Mitchell Shiner

video upload by Kraft Music

"Great bundle deals on Pearl malletSTATION EM PRO:
https://kraftmusic.com/collections/pe...

Mitch Shiner plays the "Jazz Vibraphone" sample on the Pearl malletSTATION EM PRO. This malletSTATION is equipped with the optional EMSC sound card, making it a standalone instrument.
More from Mitch here:
https://shineymusic.com

Pearl malletSTATION EM Pro is an expandable, premium quality professional electronic mallet instrument utilizing a modern 32-bit multi-processor architecture and Muse Kinetics Smart Fabric Technology. Built around two separate components that work seamlessly together – the EMC two-octave control unit and optional EMX one-octave expansion unit – EM Pro is all about raw power, ultimate performance, and expandability.

Get more for your money with an exclusive Pearl malletSTATION EM Pro bundle from Kraft Music. These package deals include the accessories you'll need to get the most out of your new electronic mallet controller instrument, all for one low price. If you have any questions, please contact us. Our knowledgeable sales advisors will be happy to assist in choosing the bundle that's right for you!"

midiphy zetaSID audio demos (ROM patchbank)

video upload by midiphy

"midiphy proudly presents: zetaSID for eurorack, an expandable powerful SID voice covering a wide range of tones and textures, from classic chiptune staples to sounds you might not expect from a SID chip. The legendary sound engine that defined the Commodore 64 era and shaped the childhood memories of a whole generation of musicians turns out to have plenty left to say. What started as three humble oscillators in a home computer back in 1982 still has a unique character that nothing else quite captures. And zetaSID is here to make sure that sound keeps finding its way into music for years to come.

Here are some selected audio demos, some of them use external FX, some are dry, directly recorded from the bare metal.

You can test-drive the zetaSID ROM patchbank sounds on your own, in your browser, for free: https://www.midiphy.com/en/zetasid-em...

Note for U.S. customers: Perfect Circuit is our exclusive U.S. reseller: you can buy these modules here: https://www.perfectcircuit.com/midiphy

...or in our european webshop: https://www.midiphy.com/en/shop/

Enjoy and best regards!
Peter/Hawkeye

introducing midiphy zetaSID: expandable modular SID synth voice

video upload by midiphy

"midiphy proudly presents: zetaSID expandable modular SID synth voice

The legendary SID chip reimagined as an expandable modular synth voice: powerful synthesis engine, animated OLED display, and polyphony-expandable.

zetaSID is a powerful eurorack modular synthesizer voice packed into just 4 HP, expandable via the new midiphy phybus backplane link. Start with a single monophonic voice controlled via CV/gate and scale it to a full polyphonic MIDI synthesizer with up to six stereo voices with MIDI control. At its core lies the legendary MIDIbox SID synthesis engine, featuring six LFOs, dual envelopes, quad wave sequencers, eight modulation paths with dozens of sources, algorithmic operations, and an extensive trigger matrix.

It ships with 100 carefully crafted patches in its ROM bank, ready to use as-is or as inspiration for your own creations.

zetaSID is an expandable powerful SID voice covering a wide range of tones and textures, from classic chiptune staples to sounds you might not expect from a SID chip.

Try out the free web-based emulator (no installation required) here:
https://www.midiphy.com/en/zetasid-em...

More info:
https://www.midiphy.com/en/zetasid"

midiphy 4 x zetaSID Song

video upload by Avrilcadabra

"Hi everyone, These are midiphy eurorack modules.

Disclaimer I have marked this video as Paid Promotion although I was not paid to make this or any video, I was sent these to test before release.

The zetaSID modules are based on the legendary Midibox Sid Synthesizer.
They contain the lead and drum engines from the Midibox Sid and use Hermits (creator of Sid Wizard tracker) Sid emulation.

Each zetaSID contains 3 voices and filter as you would expect from an Sid chip ( The Sid chip is the sound chip from the legendary Commodore 64 home computer from the 80's )

So each zetaSID is a like one commodore 64. If you have multiple zetaSID's they can be linked together with supplied ribbon cables internally to add them to the Phybus, midiphy's way of having all modules being able to talk to each other. They then can work in unison, as stereo pairs, monophonically or for polyphony so a lot of different ways to use them. Of course I wanted to test how I could use them multitimbrally, and in this example I have them unlinked (not physically you can do it from the menus)

The midi module is Nexus Midi by midiphy and allows you to control the zetaSID's via regular midi over the Phybus (they do support cv gate also)

zetaSID 1 is using the drum engine, here I have split, kick, snare and hats over different voices on a single zetaSID, so indeed you can play a kick, hat and snare at the time time if patched this way.

zetaSID 2 is the lead sound, it is going through some hall reverb in this example. It shows off legato bends and using the impressive wave sequencer to increase vibrato over time (like tables if you are familiar with trackers)

zetaSID 3 Uses the Arp to provide classic c64 Arp sounds, I am just sending chords to this module over midi and it is handling the arps itself. It actually has 3 arpeggiators, one per voice, so a stereo pair of zetasids can run SIX arps with completely different settings at the same time from a single patch, impressive.

zetaSID 4 Is using one of the factory presets Den of Saws, I've just high passed it a bit since we are using a lot harmonically rich voices in this song.

This was midi sequenced via a Dirtywave M8 Tracker.

I will show more of the zetaSID's, as they are very powerful and very deep, the amount of modulation they have is outstanding even has Logic Gates, you can literally XOR lfo's together and I need to say if you are seeing this video and thinking you want like to write songs on these that program change isn't currently implemented, but is a high priority on the roadmap.

If you like my music I have a bandcamp here https://avrilcadabra.bandcamp.com/
And you can find me on streaming services and socials also."

2/20/26 (2 clips, tune knob) Pasco Scientific 9301 & WA-9307A + Yamaha EM-100

video upload by Cfpp0

"Two Pasco Scientific 9301 dual function generators are functioning (themselves and each other). The lower function on the right 9301 is modulating the top of both 9301s. We had our WA-9307A Fourier Synthesizer modified with a tuning knob, which I am turning back and forth in the first clip (chasing two pencil lines). The WA-9307A is being modulated through the right 9301. The spring reverb, panning, and a little EQ is from the Yamaha EM-100 mixer."