Baloran The 3FX

video upload by Laurent Baloran

"The three-voice analog effects synthesizer by Baloran.

The 3FX offers three independent effect voices, advanced modulation, analog filtering, series/parallel routing, creative feedback, MIDI control, and above all, an instrumental approach to sound processing.

It brings together a complete set of creative tools within a coherent instrument, designed as a vast playground for sound exploration.

(Video by Laurent Depla)"

Additional 3FX posts

Baloran THE 3FX short demo with Roland JD800

video upload by Pulsophonic

Clone Synthi VCS3 et The 3FX

video upload by Laurent Baloran

"The The 3FX découvre mon clone Synthi VCS3 avec sa drôle de matrice augmentée de plusieurs lignes la midification."

"The 3FX checks out my Synthi VCS3 clone, featuring its quirky matrix—augmented with several additional rows—and MIDI capabilities"

The 3FX et Buchla

video upload by Laurent Baloran

"Quelques instants avec le Buchla (construction maison) et The 3FX."

"A few moments with the Buchla (DIY build) and The 3FX."

Baloran The 3FX demo. Fantastic chorus with Roland RS202 string machine.

video upload by Pulsophonic

"Baloran The 3FX demo 1.
Roland RS202 through Baloran The3FX, the incredible new chorus which replaces and surpasses The Triko which was already a reference.
Recorded through a Machie 8BUS and a Focusrite Scarlett. No other effects used."

The 3B and The 3FX

video upload by Laurent Baloran

"The 3B et The 3FX ensembles.

0:40 Bypass de The 3FX
0:55 Réactivation de The 3FX
2:22 Bypass de The 3FX
2:34 Réactivation de The 3FX
2:42 Utilisation des macros"

Baloran The 3FX

video upload by Laurent Baloran

"Après avoir sculpté le son dans l’espace avec The 3B, The 3FX explore la création d’espaces sonores capables de transcender tous vos instruments.

After sculpting sound in space with The 3B, The 3FX explores the creation of sound spaces capable of transcending all your instruments."

Also see New VST3 Plugin - The 3FX by Baloran In the Works

via Baloran:

"The psychedelic The 3FX

After sculpting sound in space with The 3B, The 3FX explores the creation of sound spaces capable of transcending all your instruments.

ARCHITECTURE

The heart of The 3FX is built around three fully independent effect voices, each based on a coherent 8-module architecture:

Two delays per voice, usable in series or in parallel
An advanced, progressive feedback path up to controlled self-oscillation
An analog 12 dB/octave multimode VCF (BP, LP, HP) to optionally process the audio spectrum, both on the delay lines and on the dry signal
Independent levels for the dry signal and each delay line
A panorama control to position the voice within the stereo field.
The stereo input signal is distributed across the three voices: left / left + right / right. A mono signal is distributed across all three voices.
Each voice can be used alone, stacked or combined with the others to create textures impossible to achieve with a conventional delay.

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New VST3 Plugin - The 3FX by Baloran In the Works

video upload by Laurent Baloran

"Petite présentation rapide du plugin VST3 de The 3FX ;)"

"A quick introduction to The 3FX VST3 plugin ;)"

Building a Drum Computer for the RetroChallenge 2021/11

video upload by Michael Wessel

This one is in via Michael Wessel.

"This is my entry for the RetroChallenge 2021/10.

My Hackaday project page explains some more details"

And via Hackaday:

"In this episode, I extend the pattern-based drum computer to full 16 steps / beats (4 bars x 4 beats), and tailor for real time drum pattern input (like a real drum computer).

This requires inputting data from the keypad using the KIN (Keyboard Input) op-code, whilst playing back the pattern, and hence isn't possible with the standard Microtronic KIN. Thus, I implemented a non-blocking KIN behavior. Utilizing 2 more vacuous op-codes, I can now toggle between the standard blocking KIN input behavior, and the new non-blocking behavior.

The op-codes for determining the KIN mode of operation are 3F0 (blocking KIN mode) and 3F1 (non-blocking KIN mode). By default, the Microtronic only uses blocking KIN. The vacuous op-codes 3F0 and 3F1 are idempotent immediate AND (ANDI) op-codes, i.e., the operand 0xF = 0b1111 = 15 is idempotent for 4bit registers, and hence, no (existing or new) program would ever use them. So it is safe to assign the mode toggling extra side-effect to them.

In general, the following vacuous op-codes are available for side effect extension:

MOV x,x: copy register x onto register x, 0xx
ADDI 0,x: add 0 to register x, 50x
SUBI 0,x: subtract 0 from register x, 70x
ANDI F,x: bitwise AND of register x with F, 3Fx"

Full details on Hackaday.

Roland Museum Germany Massive Synthesizer Selloff - Most Gear for Sale in a Single Auction

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This one in via Marko of Retrosound.de.

26.000,00 Euro gets it all.

via eBay

Someone needs to contact the Guiness Book of World Records. Longest list of gear for sale ever:

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Waldorf Blofeld Comb+ filter

via Boele of SCD on the Waldorf list:

"And another example of using the self oscillating combfilter. Now I used a Comb+ filter. It produces a very different sound compared to the Comb- filter (which I used in the two examples yesterday).

I have to say that there is a analog delay and also a reverb added to this sound, but still... :-)

http://www.synthmusic.info/mpdries/combfilter3.mp3

Too bad it swallows voices, those combfilters.

By the way, another method to make your sound more dirty is using the samplerate parameter in the 3FX effect. Little distortion and that samplerate parameter around 60-70 does miracles to a sound ;-)"