LA67 100 Series Modular Synthesizer

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via this Reverb listing

"LA67 100 Series Modular synthesizer, inspired by Buchla 100 system from 1965, one of the first available modular synthesizers.

In a beautiful wooden case, complete with power supply and power cable to connect the controller skiff to the main cabinet, this 100 Series instrument is ready to go.

With the legendary Dual Sine Sawtooth Genermayor Model 158 the sound is simply amazing. Other modules include Control Voltage Processor Model 156, Dual Square Wave Generator 144, Bandoass Filter Model 194, Six Channel Mixer Model 106, 4x Dual Voltage Controlled Gate Model 110, 2x Dual Attack Generator Model 180, Timing Pulse Generator Model 140, Sequential Voltage Source Model 123, Dual Integrator Model 155, Envelope Detector Model 130, and Touch Controlled Voltage Source Model 116.

This type of system was originally concepted by Morton Subotnick, Ramon Sender, and Don Buchla for the San Francisco Tape Music center in 1963, and the original model is still in use at Mills College, with many other similar models in use at universities and high-end studios around the world, used by artists such Chemical Brothers, Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, Alessandro Cortini, and held in the archive of the Library of Congress.

This LA67 version was carefully assembled and is in great shape and working flawlessly.

Includes custom padded cover.

Can ship or local pickup in NYC."LA67 100 Series Modular synthesizer, inspired by Buchla 100 system from 1965, one of the first available modular synthesizers.

In a beautiful wooden case, complete with power supply and power cable to connect the controller skiff to the main cabinet, this 100 Series instrument is ready to go.

With the legendary Dual Sine Sawtooth Genermayor Model 158 the sound is simply amazing. Other modules include Control Voltage Processor Model 156, Dual Square Wave Generator 144, Bandoass Filter Model 194, Six Channel Mixer Model 106, 4x Dual Voltage Controlled Gate Model 110, 2x Dual Attack Generator Model 180, Timing Pulse Generator Model 140, Sequential Voltage Source Model 123, Dual Integrator Model 155, Envelope Detector Model 130, and Touch Controlled Voltage Source Model 116.

This type of system was originally concepted by Morton Subotnick, Ramon Sender, and Don Buchla for the San Francisco Tape Music center in 1963, and the original model is still in use at Mills College, with many other similar models in use at universities and high-end studios around the world, used by artists such Chemical Brothers, Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, Alessandro Cortini, and held in the archive of the Library of Congress.

This LA67 version was carefully assembled and is in great shape and working flawlessly.

Includes custom padded cover.

Can ship or local pickup in NYC.

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Roland MC-202 MicroComposer w/ Original Box

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"Incredible synth in MINT condition!

This is a museum quality MC202 with original box.

Only selling this because I have two of these plus an SH101.

MC202 is the most buttery and beautiful sounding monosynth out there. Alessandro Cortini has created an entire album with just this machine."

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La Sveglia - - an Alessandro Cortini cover made on the Make Noise Strega, 0-Coast, 0-Ctrl

video upload by Malwida

"La Sveglia from the album Risveglio, originally created on a TB-303 and an MC-202 through a Warped Vinyl pedal."

In Conversation: Tony Rolando and Alessandro Cortini Discuss Bruxa's Development | Make Noise

video upload by MAKEN0ISE

"We were fortunate to be joined by our friend Alessandro Cortini here in Asheville recently. He and Tony Rolando met up at Drop of Sun Studios to discuss the development process of their latest collaboration: Bruxa.

Bruxa is a new evolution of Tony and Alessandro’s original prototype circuits which eventually became the Strega’s Time/Filter Experiment. In this freewheeling conversation, Tony and Alessandro discuss everything from the initial concept designs from which both Strega and Bruxa were born, Alessandro's recent series of concerts (wherein he improvises on a pair of Stregas and a pair of 0-CTRLs), the 'Scared System' and more!

Bruxa is a special release that will be available by pre-order only. Orders will be shipping out to dealers this October. Contact your favorite Eurorack dealer for details and availability.

Thanks again to Drop of Sun for hosting us!!

For more information on Bruxa head to our website: https://www.makenoisemusic.com/module...

Check out Alessandro's music on Bandcamp: https://cortini.bandcamp.com/

Listen to and download 'Strega Musica' for free here: https://makenoisemusic.bandcamp.com/a...

Record, mix and master your music at Drop of Sun: https://dropofsun.com/

http://www.makenoisemusic.com"

We all love Alessandro Cortini - but Strega not so much?

video upload by Cinematic Laboratory

"I've always been in a 'love / hate' relationship with Strega, where 'hate' is a figure of speech because I am actively working on not hating anything or anybody. Regardless, Strega is in my top 10 of all time favorite modules. With the announcement of Bruxa I noticed a lof of comments about Bruxa being just as mono as the Witch, and a more interesting call for help where Strega users just don't come anywhere Cortini's work - and some blame Strega for it (don't).

In this short 'essay', I checked out all videos I could find where Cortini does a Strega demo and found only one at Reverb.com. It's fascinating to see he ALWAYS uses the external input on three application examples.

Using Mr. Spock's logic I can safely speculate it's primarily designed as an FX processor. Sure I knew this, but I didn't get it. Sure there's a VCO, but Alessandro is using it to support whatever's coming in to create low drones, textures and fat saturated atmospheres. So I tried to plug in my guitar and noodled a bit with this new workflow in mind. If you don't have a guitar, try to get a kalimba in. You'll notice there's an abundance of FM paths you can use to influence the VCO and the Time/Filter/Delay/Feedback.

This video is not intended to change your mind about Strega. If you don't like it, that's perfectly OK. But if Cortini's work is part of the music you love most, it's a very convenient and easy way to get you in his 'zone'. He is definitely in there somewhere. And the ugly witch can be a beauty.

3D animations by IceTray, an artist. Not AI. (licensed through Envato Elements)"

New Module from Make Noise: Bruxa!

video upload by MAKEN0ISE

"The Bruxa music synthesizer module is an audio alchemical experiment. Spill your sound into time, and let it decay through the filters to hear the results.

Bruxa is a collaboration between Make Noise and Alessandro Cortini. Inspired by Cortini’s music and sonic experimentations, Bruxa embodies the seen and unseen, the sign and magic, the alchemy of sound. It is a new evolution of Tony and Alessandro’s original prototype circuits which eventually became the Strega’s Time/Filter Experiment. It is a multi-tap delay line with over a dozen unique feedback paths and multiple filters within those feedback paths aligned to allow for accumulation of noise, saturation and signal degradation.

While Strega is a complete synthesizer in a tabletop form factor, Bruxa is a Eurorack module designed to be used as one part of a Eurorack modular synthesizer. You will discover a number of differences in layout, signals, and sound. Living inside the Eurorack modular system, Bruxa encourages you to patch your own sound and modulation sources, yielding results surprisingly distinct from Strega.

Bruxa is a special release that will be available by pre-order only. Orders will be shipping out to dealers this October. Contact your favorite Eurorack dealer for details and availability.

18hp
MSRP $399

http://www.makenoisemusic.com"

Movement - LIVE - MATTHS - Opening for Alessandro Cortini 27th Oct 2023

video upload by MATTHS

"#MATTHS opens for Alessandro Cortini at the ACCA 27th Oct 2023.

The whole half hour show featuring 5 songs and a 3D video of the event is available over at https://www.matths.bandcamp.com along with all of his releases and hours of bonus remixes, albums alternative versions and more.

Thanks to @sonicstate Andy for the additional filming and audio recording - legend!"

Inspired by Alessandro Cortini

video upload by Omri Cohen

"You can find the patches from this video on my Patreon page - https://www.patreon.com/posts/patches...

00:00 - Introduction
00:27 - Building the setup
09:31 - Example 1
12:33 - Example 2

I'm using DistroKid to distribute my music to Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, and more. By signing up through this link you will get 7% off and will support this channel - http://distrokid.com/vip/omri"

Alessandro Cortini + MATTHS Rig Tour

video upload by sonicstate

"Alessandro Cortini played a rare UK gig last weekend, and regular Sonic TALK panelist Matt Hodson AKA MATTHS was booked in the support slot.

We figured it was a great opportunity to have them talk about their gear selection and approach to the performance.

Alessandro opted for something minimal to support his completely improvised approach, with two Make Noise Strega (these were designed in conjunction with Alessandro) and two 0-CTRL - sequencer/CV controllers, Strymon Blue Sky and Volante all into an Allen and Heath Zone 96 DJ mixer, the laptop runs Resolume visuals for the show.

http://cortini.bandcamp.com

Matths has a different approach basing his set around pre writtern material and re-voicing larger modular rig, with the Knobula Poly Cinematic for chords, 1010music Bit Box for triggering CV and gates, the Expert Sleepers ES-9 running from the laptop for triggers from Bitwig, the Soma Pulsar-23, Beatstep

Matt uses an analogue parallel compression path to give the stereo feed to front of house a more consistent polished sound.

https://matths.bandcamp.com/

We have a full 360 Video of MATTHS set available on our Patreon
and also on MATTHS Bandcamp
http://patreon.com/sonicstate

|--------|
00:00 Alessandro Cortini interview
13:55 MATTHS interview"

HOW TO MAKE: Alessandro Cortini - SCAPPA with Endorphin.es x Andrew Huang - GHOST new V2 firmware

video upload by Endorphin.es

"What if @Alessandro Cortini used Endorphin.es? How would it sound?
Having the GHOST paired with the Furthrrrr Generator for ambience and the Ground Control as a perfect sequencer on hands we could not refuse to replicate some of Alessandro's s masterpieces.
With the new GHOST V2 firmware we now have a shimmer, smoother filter and serial processing: global dry/wet mix, which altogether allows us to even deeper sound design experiments.
Ground Control project files included below."

Music Easel Senza Aria Scappa

Music Easel Senza Aria Scappa from CatManDeux on Vimeo.

"2022 marks two anniversaries: a half century since the debut of Buchla’s Music Easel and a decade since Alessandro Cortini performed these songs while on a solo tour. This is my attempt at recreating those songs on a more modern Easel reissue. This is inspired more upon the Control Voltage Faire performance.

I’m still working on refining the patching, and I’m not using a TimeLine delay like Cortini did. But I think I’m reasonably close. Thanks for watching! And be sure to check out Alessandro’s Forse series, which the final versions would ultimately appear (years after the live performances)."

Update: you can find additional posts mentioning Alessandro Cortini Forse Series here.

Strega Musica by Make Noise Music

"Strega Musica is intended to be a free compilation— a gift from Make Noise and a celebration of Strega. All artists on the collection have already been compensated.

"Strega Musica" is a collection of music created with Strega, an instrument designed in close collaboration between Make Noise founder Tony Rolando and Alessandro Cortini. Thoughts on the collection from Strega's co-designers can be found below:

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"It’s quite inspiring when people connect with your output and your works, making them theirs, finding their own emotional color in them. It’s truly magic and I will never stop being thankful for it.

Creating an instrument that reflects your idea for a vessel of compositional creativity, and seeing it stimulate other people’s creative output, has to be in a complete different level, and I couldn’t have been caught more off guard by it.

Hearing what people all over the world have made with Strega is invigorating and overwhelming!

If all that wasn’t enough, I’m here to present you a compilation of pieces composed on the Strega by some of our favorite musicians and friends: it’s really great to see how each of them was able to make the instrument their own, and speak their own language through the grammar that is Strega.

May you find your own language through it as well... happy exploring!”

- Alessandro Cortini

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"As a listener, I am forever seeking music that has the ability to put me into an alternate space. Sounds that let me travel fluidly through time, forward or backward. I'm not usually looking to be in the now while I listen, as I must be in the now for most other parts of my life.

As an instrument designer, it makes me happy when people find a process, a patch program that creates a sound I'd not known was possible with the instrument. If that sound connects on an emotional level and takes me away from the now, the listener in me is also elated.

As a musician, I'm looking for an instrument that wants to connect with me and travel. Searching out a future I wish to know, or a past time I've lived. Maybe a moment I never thought about until I played that instrument on that day.

It doesn't matter if the sound is complex and never before heard, or simple and universally heard for decades.

As a listener, I traveled fluidly through time as Strega Musica played.

As an instrument designer, I was surprised by the sounds these artists achieved.
As a musician, the Strega sparked in me an energy I've not felt in a decade.”

- Tony Rolando, founder Make Noise

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"Strega Musica" was curated by Alessandro Cortini and mastered by Stephan Mathieu | Schwebung Mastering

Cover art by Lewis Dahm

Strega Semi-Modular Synthesizer: Patch Examples, Exploration, and Thoughts

video upload by Patchwerks

"In this video Matthew (aka EZBOT) demonstrates patch examples and shares his experience with the Make Noise Strega Semi-Modular Synthesizer

Order the Make Noise Strega here: https://bit.ly/make_noise_strega

'Make Noise is proud to introduce Strega!

Strega is an audio alchemical experiment. Activate! Spill the tonic into time and let time decay through the filter to hear the results.

Strega is an instrument designed in collaboration with Alessandro Cortini. Inspired by Cortini's music and sonic experimentations, Strega embodies the seen and unseen, the sign and magic, the alchemy of sound.

Strega is able to conjure audio tones, generate control signals, and process external sounds. Patch the 0-COAST or any other line level source into the Strega to unlock new sounds!

This new instrument takes the same form factor as the 0-COAST and 0-CTRL. It was designed to be controlled by the 0-CTRL or the 0-COAST's MIDI CV B outputs and is equally happy interfacing with Eurorack modules as well.' -Make Noise

https://patchwerks.com/
Demo by: Matthew Piecora
Video by: Matthew Piecora ( EZBOT) and Steven Ly (Project 32)
https://www.ezbot.live"

Ciat-Lonbarde Plumbutter V1

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"This is the first version of Plumbutter as used by Alessandro Cortini."

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Exploring the Make Noise Strega with Alessandro Cortini

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video upload by Reverb

via SYNTH CITY Reverb

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Old Cool Echoes by Tony Rolando of Make Noise Music

"Imagine you wished away your surroundings and found yourself in a synthetic landscape where the simplest 3 color pattern animated an entire horizon. If you could suppress your memory enough to experience the new beauty of it, but not so much that you lost the pieces of yourself that make life worth living, this could be your soundtrack.

released December 3, 2021

7 tracks
Written and Recorded: Tony, December 2020 @ Goldenechos Studios
Mixed: Tony, April 2021 @ Goldenechos Studios
Mastered: Joshua Eustis
Cover Art: John Brien
All music © suicide sound songs

Thanx: Kelly Kelbel, Alessandro Cortini, Ryan Gallagher, IMPREC, Make Noise"

Strega Patch Corner!

video upload by MAKEN0ISE

"Let's explore some more patches from the "Patch Corner" section of the Strega Manual!

0:45 Alessandro Cortini, "Breathing"
3:18 Pete Speer, "Wow and Flutter"
5:14 Tony Rolando, "Ducking Synth"
8:04 Sarah Belle Reid, "Melted Rhythm Machine"

http://www.makenoisemusic.com/synthes..."

Synth Design Podcast // E.10 // Tony Rolando, Make Noise

video upload by Synthux Academy

"Co-edited with Teunis Marseille, who's also responsible for the motion graphics and music you're hearing on every episode. Check out his work here: www.instagram.com/teueunis

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Make Noise interfaces are like a riddle. They remind me of minimalistic art pieces from the early 20th century - inviting you to question geometric compositions of mysterious lines and shapes. These instruments purposefully do not give a straight answer but hint towards a direction one could take.

This is a deliberate design decision that aims to shape the way musicians use a Make Noise instrument.

The design invites a particular kind of composer - one that will dare to explore an untrodden path, in the search for exceptional sounds and performance along the way. The interface is like a guide, a map of sorts, that can be read in various ways.

The Strega, in particular, is interesting because of its unconventional signal path. This is not your traditional "voice", to say the least. Placing the delay/reverb in the center of the circuit directly affects the interaction with the instrument and the kind of sounds that will come out of it.

In this conversation, we dive into the challenges of designing an instrument like the Strega - a synthesizer that was made in close collaboration with artist Alessandro Cortini."

Morphagene as a Stepping Stone of the Creative Process

video by MAKEN0ISE

"In this video, Hélène Vogelsinger uses the Morphagene in combination with her voice to create the foundation of a whole piece.

She starts with a simple rhythmic and tonal vocal pattern, that then evolves into deep and grainy textures.

From the Earth to the entire Universe.

To hear more of Hélène's work, click on the links below:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/L3ine​
Bandcamp: https://helenevogelsinger.bandcamp.co...​
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/helenevogel...​

http://www.makenoisemusic.com"

And a few additional videos by Hélène Vogelsinger:

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Podcast 352: Anthony Rolando (Make Noise Music)

video by 20Objects

"For my audience, Anthony Rolando probably needs no introduction. As the product designer at Make Noise Music, his work is found in almost every modular system you’ll run across. From his earliest designs (such as the Maths) to his latest (like the Morphagene), he’s helping to define the future of modular systems.

Recently, Make Noise has come out with a new standalone device – the Strega. This is a remarkable system-in-a-box that includes integrated effects and tone generation, and is particularly focused on live play. As a collaboration with Alessandro Cortini, the Strega is a deep, opinionated view on noise/sound manipulation, and launches a new perspective on what an ‘instrument’ is all about.

In our discussion, we dive into depth on the development of the Strega, Tony’s personal musical adventures, and a bunch of follow-up from our previous podcast (https://artmusictech.libsyn.com/podca...​). As with any discussion with Tony, it was revealing, challenging and inspiring.

Enjoy!

Transcription available at http://www.darwingrosse.com/AMT/trans...​"