Moog Subharmonicon Semi-Modular Analog Synthesizer

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Moog Mavis Semi-Modular Analog Synthesizer w/ Moog Cover

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Make Noise 0-Coast Desktop Semi-Modular Analog Synthesizer

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Roland D-50 – Still the King of Atmospheric Synth Sounds?

video upload by Elmar Mihm

"Is the legendary Roland D-50 still the king of atmospheric synth sounds?

Take a journey into the fascinating sonic universe of the iconic Roland D-50 Linear Synthesizer!

In this video, I explore some of the beautiful and distinctive sounds from the fantastic „Linear Universe“ Soundcollection. No external FX or EQ.

From lush, dreamy atmospheric pads and shimmering bell-like textures to warm, brass-like tones and cinematic string-inspired soundscapes – the Roland D-50 offers an incredible palette of expressive and atmospheric sounds.

Its unique Linear Arithmetic Synthesis (LA Synthesis) combines sampled attacks with synthesized waveforms, creating those unmistakable textures that have inspired musicians, composers and sound designers for decades.

Whether you’re into ambient music, cinematic sound design, retro sci-fi atmospheres or simply love vintage synthesizers, the Roland D-50 has plenty of sonic magic to offer."

Sequential - Dave Smith PRO2 Quick Demo - WICKED SYNTH!!!

video upload by Seventy Three Records Music Store

"Sequential - Dave Smith PRO2 Quick Demo - WICKED SYNTH!!!"

moogfish5000 on eBay

Korg PolySix Quick Demo

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M-Vave FM-1 as a Prophet-600 synth | Guru-600 mod

video upload by e y l v y

follow-up to this post.

"The FM-1 becomes a Prophet-600: 255 sounds (the 100 factory programs, 100 from the free 2022 collection, 55 of its own), a web editor in 7 languages with a panel inspired by the Prophet-600, four tracks with sequencer, arpeggiator, morph and two insert effects each. Based on Felucca.
Mod created by Marc Massé."

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

Elastic OSC 2.2 Is Out! Mod Animations, MIDI & New Presets

video upload by Elastic Instruments

00:00 Intro
00:20 New MIDI Features (MIDI Ports & MIDI learn) for mobile devices in standalone
01:13 New Presets - John Cohen
02:00 Mod Animation: New Dots & Lines show the modulation effects on a parameter
06:28 New Presets - The Unperson

Elastic OSC 2.2 Update brings a lot of great new features and comes with a bunch of great new presets again.

Added MPE, LPG & LFO modulation animations
Improved arpeggiator timing
Added presets by John Cohen
Added presets by The UnPerson
Added MIDI input port & channel selection (mobile standalone)
Added MIDI Learn / controller mapping (mobile standalone)
Added Ableton Link Sync & Link Audio integration (iOS standalone)"

Roostbox - Play a groovebox like a game (Free iOS app)

video upload by e y l v y

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/roostbo...


Roostbox is a groovebox that looks like a retro arcade cabinet and plays like one. It makes techno and other electronic music live, by hand: fly a ship through a beat, ride the faders, flick the stick, and every gesture you make is recorded and loops with the beat.

It is a different way to play electronic music live. There is no step grid to program and no timeline to edit. Everything on screen is a control, you play it with two thumbs, and the loop keeps what you played.

Two kits are in the box, and everything is free: both kits, the whole performance surface and the AUv3 plugin. No purchase, no account, no ads.

Play it standalone on iPhone or iPad, or load it as an instrument inside AUM, Loopy Pro, Cubasis, Drambo or Logic Pro for iPad.

TWO KITS IN THE BOX

SPACE: fly a ship through a beat. Where the ship goes picks the groove: four-on-the-floor, backbeat, offbeat, broken, sixteenths. The cockpit page holds the mixer, a stick for filter and grit, overdrive, pump, tape, delay, reverb, crush and a DJ filter. A 303-style acid bass and a drum synth make the sound.

PLIVKA: a four-track techno box. Kick, bass, snare and hat, each with a pattern control and a hit control, laid out over five pages: Rhythm, Sound, Perform, FX and Mix. The bass line is a Turing machine that mutates as much or as little as you let it.

UNDER THE HOOD

- Euclidean rhythm generators, a Turing machine sequencer and a trigger sequencer drive the patterns.

- A drum synth and a 303-style acid bass synth make the sound. No samples.

- Every fader move is recorded as motion and loops with the beat. Undo and redo if you change your mind.

- Scenes: snapshot the whole kit and switch on the next sixteenth, beat, bar or pattern.

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Retromulator 2.4 - Nordic 2 Nord Lead 2 & 2X Factory Audio Demos

video upload by discoDSP

https://www.discodsp.com/retromulator/

"The Nord Lead 2 from 1997, running on Nordic 2, a clean-room C++ recreation by discoDSP that needs no firmware or ROM data. It follows Nord Lead 2 OS 1.04 as measured on the unit and as its manual describes, with 64 voices in place of the unit's 16, Performance mode with four slots, the Shift functions and kits.

Nord Lead 2 and N2X banks load as they are, and its own editor shows below the rack. With a Retromulator license, Engine Oversampling runs the oscillators at 2x or 4x for playback and bounce, as on Nordic. Sessions made with the earlier N2X core open in Nordic 2."

Retromulator 2.4 - Nordic 2 Nord Lead 2X Factory Audio Demo

video upload by discoDSP

"The Nord Lead 2 from 1997, running on Nordic 2, a clean-room C++ recreation by discoDSP that needs no firmware or ROM data. It follows Nord Lead 2 OS 1.04 as measured on the unit and as its manual describes, with 64 voices in place of the unit's 16, Performance mode with four slots, the Shift functions and kits.

Nord Lead 2 and N2X banks load as they are, and its own editor shows below the rack. With a Retromulator license, Engine Oversampling runs the oscillators at 2x or 4x for playback and bounce, as on Nordic. Sessions made with the earlier N2X core open in Nordic 2."

Nord Rack previously featured here, and Discovery Pro in posts here.

Retromulator 2.4 - MiniD Moog Core Audio Demo

video upload by discoDSP

https://www.discodsp.com/retromulator

"MiniD is an analog three-oscillator monosynth voiced from measurements of analog hardware, with a ladder filter, filter and loudness contours, poly, unison and double voicing, and a Factory bank of 49 presets."

Korg Pa5X System Update 1.5 | New Features Overview

video upload by KORG INC.

New Features of Pa5X Operating System 1.5.0

Flexible import of MIDI data into a Style

Pads can start in sync with Styles and Songs

Pads in “Lock” status continue to play when changing Style or SongBook Entry

Undo function in Song Edit mode, including history of undoable actions

Search with pre-selection of found items, without automatic selection

Info box with tooltips for detailed information on the Search results

Ellipsis (…) feature for showing longer file paths and file names without cutting the end of the name

Sound Range On/Off and Wrap Around controls added to the “Home” mode, for immediate access and Style tracks programming

Smart Fill control settings, letting the accompaniment tracks continue playing after a Fill is triggered after the first beat of a measure

Fast Play control settings, for letting MIDI Songs start immediately or playing back the setup measure as well

General system improvements

40 brand new Styles of different genres

noiz virus by SPIKE the Percussionist

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"noiz virus reads the real genomes of 42 viruses and plays them or warps your audio input.

noiz virus reads the real genomes of 42 viruses and plays them. (Number 42 isn’t even a virus.) Every three letters (a codon) make an amino acid, and every amino acid becomes a note in the virus’s own scale. STOP codons are rests, and the start codon AUG plays accented.

Each virus has its own look, scale, sound, rhythm and effects. You can mutate them as they play, save the strains you like, and use the genome to chop up your live input with softcut. Grid and arc are supported, and it follows MIDI clock.
Requirements

norns (or norns shield)
optional: varibright 128 grid (vertical or portrait)
optional: arc (4 rings)
optional: something plugged into the norns input, for the sample side"

See this previous post for a session featuring noiz virus.

Best Synths Under $1,000 in 2026

video upload by Vulture Culture

00:00 Intro
00:29 Best Under $400: Waldorf Protein
05:39 Best Under $600: Arturia MiniFreak 37
10:40 Best Under $800: Sequential FourM
16:22 Best Under $850: ASM Hydrasynth Desktop
23:03 Best Under $900: Korg multi/poly
30:03 So which one do you buy?
31:51 What I'd actually buy

Tuned In

video upload by Joe Cook

"Okay - I'm going to stop posting these soon! Two more after this and then I will consider the demos done. And if I don't play a single show of this band (or Agalon Monstynoh music) I will get back to my other three bands plus marimba and acoustic guitar and piano solo (open mic fare)."

Retro Song Bird

video upload by Bird Cartel

via the developer:

"Hi! I’m a solo developer working on Retro Song Bird - a music player for your Game Boy games.

Plug in any Game Boy or Game Boy Color cartridge and the music starts playing, just like a cassette or CD. In addition to music playback, Retro Song Bird can back-up and write ROMs and save files, can be used as a USB webcam with a Game Boy Camera, and can even wake you up every day as your alarm.

I’m excited to get Retro Song Bird in the hands of musicians and chiptune artists. For the first time ever, they can plug a physical cartridge in and get stereo line-out as well as USB Audio with each of the Game Boys four instruments broken out as separate tracks. Using MIDI, they can control playback, track selection, and even tempo so they can beat match two cartridges and perform a DJ set. Here’s a video of me, a non-musician, remixing the chorus of Tetris with the drums of everyone’s favorite Japan-exclusive fish finder, Bandai Pocket Sonar: [video below]

I’m launching a Kickstarter 11/15 to raise funds to turn the prototype into a real production run: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/birdcartel/retro-song-bird"

I did not expect Tetris × Pocket Sonar to produce such a banger 🤘

video upload by Bird Cartel

via Kickstarter

Retro Song Bird supports Game Boy® or Game Boy Color® cartridges. Once inserted, their soundtracks begin to play.

SUPPORTS

Supports 1,900+ games. Plug in your favorite and let the soundtrack teleport you back in time.

Every track, plus sound effects

Physical controls for next, previous and volume

Stereo line out for your hi-fi

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M-VAVE on Amazon

"Skiff 2.5 is out: free, open-source firmware that turns the M-VAVE FM-1 into a six-track groovebox, and M-VAVE's SMK-37 Pro keyboard too. With 2.5, Skiff is nearly feature complete. This video builds one lo-fi song from a new project, press by press, and shows every new feature on the way: two cores and 16 voices, FREE TAKE (play first, keep it after), STRUM, a pad and a pluck made from scratch and saved with their sends, the true-stereo delay with PAN reaching it, FX › DELAY and FX › REVERB, NOTES: DELETE, FILTR, a song you can follow and start from any entry, KEEP SENDS, CLEAR SONG and CLEAR TRACKS, HOME's new views, LARGE keeping the names, 2.2's voices against 2.5's, REMOTE's knobs, and the same Skiff on the SMK-37 Pro, each combination as it is printed.

How it was made: Skiff's screens and sound are Skiff 2.5.1's own code, the firmware's source run on a computer, so the sound and the screens line up to the frame. Every key, button and knob shown is a press performed in the firmware, step by step; the takes are scripted to play like hands, a slip included. The sounds are factory sounds, apart from the three made in the video: TAPE PAD, RAIN PLUCK and DUSTY KIT. REMOTE's CCs are sent from a computer, as a controller would send them. The sound is the firmware's own, only levelled for YouTube. The FM-1 is drawn in 3D and the SMK-37 Pro flat, their screens Skiff's own display.

▶ Get Skiff (free, GPL-3.0): https://github.com/illuminus5/skiff
▶ From 2.2: every FM-1 moves to MENU › SYSTEM › CPU 2 CORES once (16 voices); songs keep a mono delay; undo keeps 6 levels.

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Guru-600 1.0 – a free Prophet-600 firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1

via the developer:

"I've just released Guru-600 1.0, a free, open-source firmware (GPL-3.0) that turns the M-VAVE FM-1 into a Prophet-600 emulator. It is built on Felucca by Leo Kuroshita, and it has been tested on a real FM-1 and is fully working.

What it brings:

- a P600 sound engine built like the original: two oscillators per voice with sync, a 24 dB filter with its own envelope, Poly-Mod, LFO, unison, six voices

- 255 sounds: the Prophet-600's 100 factory programs under their real names, 100 free sounds from the Prophet-600 community and 55 made for Guru-600

- MORPH (gradually turn one sound into another) and MUTATE (a variation of a sound in one gesture)

- everything from Felucca: four tracks, thirteen other engines, 64-step sequencer, arpeggiator, songs, and two insert effects per track

- a web editor in 7 languages, with a panel inspired by the Prophet-600, tooltips and a complete backup of the FM-1

- a Mac app (Apple silicon) that runs the whole Guru-600 without the device

- a user guide (PDF) in 7 languages; older and newer FM-1 units supported

Install from the browser (Chrome or Edge): https://marcgoudy.github.io/guru-600/

Source, release and user guide: https://github.com/MarcGoudy/guru-600"

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

ESK - Perkons + Flanger Drone

video upload by Metunar

"Drone jam with a lot of flanging and feedback. The Erica Synths Perkons makes the drones and noise. Further I used an analog Dynacord TAM-19 and Roland SBF-325 Flanger. There was also an Art Dual Limiter to tame the TAM-19 feedback, a BBE 382i Sonic Maximizer, a Rocktron Prophesy 2 preamp and all was mixed with the Boss KM-60.
Direct recording with DAW mastering."

http://www.metunar.ch

Plinky 12 Chords, Blocks and Syntakt: Polyrhythmic Arps

video upload by Making Sound Machines

"In this video, Enrica and Roland from Making Sound Machines play a melodic house track, performing live with the built-in polyphonic arpeggiator.

Plinky 12 sends a MIDI clock signal to the Elektron Syntakt, synchronizing the tempo between both devices. Syntakt is a fantastic hybrid digital-analogue drum machine and provides the beats you hear in this clip. All synth sounds are produced with Plinky 12's internal synth engine.

Plinky 12's internal sequencer advances through a harmonic progression, while Enrica performs on the touch surface, editing the polyphonic arpeggio. First she extends the length of the loop, leading to great polyrhythmic shifts over the 4/4 house beat.

As the track progresses, Enrica taps the surface to add or delete notes in the arp pattern.

Roland operates a second Plinky 12, the Blocks panel to the left. It is configured to send MIDI messages from an XY surface to Plinky 12 Chords. This allows him to change the sound parameters remotely while Enrica performs on Chords at the same time.

This track was composed for a live set at Club Synth, an event our friends Stijn and Priscilla from This is Not Rocket Science are hosting and organizing quarterly at Ruigoord near Amsterdam. Thank you for inviting us and putting in the hard work to create such a lovely event!

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