Dirtywave M8 Tracker // Atmospheric First Sketch

video upload by Dexba

"Only good things to say about the M8 Tracker.
I briefly owned the mk1 version (which I still prefer from a purely aesthetic standpoint: it was so cyberpunk!), and I had many plans for it, including a convoluted recording featuring the Wingie 2 outside, but I had to sell it because, as usual, money!
Now we're back with the mk2, which, aesthetic preferences aside, is better in any way: usb-c, battery, structural integrity, comfort in the hands, and I am starting again from zero.
The reverb now sounds way better, I have a tiny bit more experience with trackers, and I've digested hours of tutorials (but I am still scared of using Tables, lol)
It might seem a very basic jam, and it probably is for seasoned users, but I want to treat this channel as a diary for my journey with the various instruments I try, so here is my first sketch!
Recorded with the LOVELY 'Render' feature, which should be almost mandatory on all the digital grooveboxes around (OPXY, I am looking at you...)
Hope you'll like it!"

B:art Instruments & Strymon Starlab // From melody to chaos

video upload by Dexba

"The power of modular is flexibility, but I've never been a fan of having to buy a lot of utilities just to get going! The cost of a little setup skyrockets as soon as you start adding the basics, so I honestly love the fact that getting a b:ond (here in the v2, the new version) just gets you going as soon as you put it in the case.
Two oscillators, 4 VCAs, suboscillators, waveform morphing, FM (through zero!), PM, sync, mixing... everything is just ready to play and enjoy.
The natural companion is the b:righten, a gentle (in the cutoff) and gnarly (in the resonance) filter.
The rest is history and... Starlab :D"

Make Noise Multiwave // First contact outside the NUSS

video upload by Dexba

"The Make Noise Multiwave is here, and... wow!
There is a very tangible cleverness in the design of these new NUSS modules, and I am all for it. This video is just a very brief first contact, testing the water, before diving into it when (when?) Polimaths will join the party.
What are your opinions about the "necessity" of a dual QXG?
Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy the sound; no talking here, because when I was deciding on the purchase, I didn't find many videos with it."

Erica Synths Steampipe + Torso S4 // DAY 17 #jamuary2026

video upload by Dexba

"Perfectionism almost killed this video, and for a second, I forgot about the point of #jamuary I recorded, and recorded, and re-recorded, and a few days have passed, back and forth, because I care so much about this sound, this vibe, this balance.
I am not 100% satisfied, but I have to let it go, because otherwise I know for sure I will start to hate these chords, I will have to tweak the sounds once again, I will change the video, and so on.
But I do love the resulting vibe, and I will try my best to bring variations on this theme in some live scenario, maybe with a different controller instead of the OPXY (which I am only using because it has midi via 3.5mm jack and... an audible metronome, I am looking at you, Torso)
I hope you'll like it, now this jam is free to run wild on the internet 🧡"

Beetlecrab Tempera & Piano // DAY 16 #jamuary2026

video upload by Dexba

"First of all: what a beautiful light to let the canvas shine, right?
Second: what an intelligent piece of gear, the Tempera is. I am not even sure why I would call it that, but I feel it has an answer for almost everything (granular related, obviously) I could ask.
And I felt that from the instant I got it. It was probably one of the rare few times I decided to go through the manual before trying the instrument, and I feel that approach comes from the machine layout itself: we need to prepare the canvas before letting ourselves go with the painting process.
But I like this approach, it slows you down, helping you to think about your intentions with a specific emitter, even a specific color.
I started with the piano as a neutral input, and a simple drum track, using the brilliantly implemented Euclidean sequencer, and it's love already.
I hope you'll like it! 🧡"

Random Source SERGE INORI + TKB // DAY 14 #jamuary2026

video upload by Dexba

"This feels so wrong – but why? 😄
A sprinkle of acid with my Serge INORI, using 8 steps only from the TKB, lane A for pitch, lane B for glide, lane C for filter modulation (and lane D was for pitch transpose, but that was a bit harder to master in a quick jam, so I ended up leaving it out).
One oscillator provides the bass, the other one the kick, you know the drill.
So much fun, I hope you'll enjoy it! 🧡"

Synthstrom Deluge // Laid back beat

video upload by Dexba

"I can never say no to a lo-fi beat on the Deluge; it has this distinct sound quality that invites me to keep it softer and relaxed (it must be the Boards of Deluge presets too).

The Arpeggiator functions are just so cool, especially with the current 1.3 firmware, where I can use the four buttons under the screen to navigate through the menu pages.

But the firmware being still in beta also meant for some reasons the Swing function wasn't working on this project, and being a quick jam during #jamuary I didn't have time to troubleshoot the situation 😄

That's on me though, there is really nothing bad to say about the Deluge as an instrument and a community around it. Will 2026 be the year I become more comfortable with its many functions?

Proceeding slowly but steadily :)

Chase Bliss Clean is there for a little bit of gentle polish (I know the Deluge already has a compressor, but since I got it in the Mystery Box last year, I am trying to leverage it more ahah), and Generation Loss mk2 is probably the pedal I use the most with the Deluge, exactly because what I was saying in the beginning: enhancing the lo-fi, laid back approach.

I hope you'll like it! 🧡

#synthstromdeluge #synthstrom #lofimusic"

Moog Subharmonicon + Boss RE-202 // Beautiful Harmony

video upload by Dexba

"I don't usually play the Subharmonicon, but when I do, I get lost for hours in this delicate balance of over (and under) tones.
The Roland/Boss RE-202, which some people call the most faithful recreation of the RE-201, fills the gaps, in an awesome synthetic glue.
I hope you'll like it! 🧡"

Eventide H90 + 0-Coast // The New Granular Engine!

video upload by Dexba

"Almost only the pedal is audible, bleah
That's the point!
Eventide recently came out with a surprise update, adding a completely new (and FREE, wow!) granular engine to the H90. For this video, I loaded two instances in parallel, one running the Cosmic Web algorithm (and as soon as you hear the video, you'll immediately understand why it's called that), and the other running Glitch, for those sparkly textures you hear here and there.
«but Dexba, you didn't even patch the Make Noise 0-Coast», yeah, exactly, because in this video the instrument is the Eventide H90, and I wanted the simplest (but best sounding) source I could use.
Plus, you get to experience a slow 0-Coast for once, since most of the other videos are focused on its plucking capabilities ;)
I hope you'll like it! 🧡"

Teenage Engineering OPXY // Sparkling Water

video upload by Dexba

"Caught the flu, locked in bed, brought the OPXY with me because JAMuary doesn't stop.
I wanted to play something soothing, but still with a kick, and here we are!
OPXY is slowly teaching me how to lay down drums, and I just wish it had more parameters to mess with, à-la-tracker. Maybe I should get a tracker? 😄
I hope you'll enjoy it!"

Meng Qi Wing Pinger + Torso S4 // DAY 7 #jamuary2026

video upload by Dexba

"What a fitting combination of instruments! Love, love, love.
I would have liked to spend more time (and I will) crafting a more intricate performance, but the time of a lunch break clearly wasn't enough.
Still, I love what came out of this jam, and the great polyrhythms that naturally arose.
I hope you'll like it! 🧡"

UDO Super 6 // DAY 6 #jamuary2026

video upload by Dexba

"Washing my brain today without any beat, with a single instrument, on the floor: throwback to the OG Dexba 😄 The Super 6 by UDO is so effortlessly cool.
I am not strictly talking about the sound it produces, but the whole experience: tactile, visual, and auditory. JAMuary is still at the beginning, so I didn't get too crazy with the patch, and I also wanted some relax and pure sound/chord enjoyment.
This recording made me make peace with my OB-6 sale; we should never sell anything, some sales hurt more than others, and until this session, the OB6 was one of those hurting the most. Not anymore!
Yes, playing in this position is not ideal, and you'll inevitably hear the spot where something slipped, but it helps me so much reconnect with the pure joy of playing, outside of the room I've appointed studio.
I hope you'll like it! 🧡"

Suiko ST-20 + Chase Bliss Reverse Mode C // DAY 4 #jamuary2026

video upload by Dexba

"I love everything about this combo, from the colors to the subtle lo-fi nature of the sound (I am using the halved sample rate on the RMC).
I also like the Suiko for its limited sound palette and the fixed, exotic (to me) scales, which force me to find my way around them or within them or both.
I hope you'll like it! 🧡

This time, no affiliate links, because the Suiko hasn't been in production for the past 40 years, and the Chase Bliss pedal is also not in production ;)

#jamuary #chasebliss #suiko"

Erica Synths Steampipe + Synthstrom Deluge // DAY 3 #jamuary2026

video upload by Dexba

"New day, new instruments, different languages, different gestures, and it's to surprise of no one that I am not equally proficient in each one of them, especially when they are same-same but different (like with the OPXY vs Deluge).
I've listened to this recording for a good part of the day and I was getting nauseated, but I asked my girlfried to check it out, she genuinely liked it a lot, so that's why I am uploading it.
Day by day, I feel the need for a mixer (and maybe a more powerful computer), but the focus is practice, and give a spot to all the beautiful toys I keep in the studio.
I hope you'll enjoy it!"

Make Noise Strega + Torso S4 // DAY 2 #jamuary2026

video upload by Dexba

"The music is tickling: I've spent the last night envisioning a setup that could yield the most power in the shortest amount of time, both for the recording and the preparation.

I decided not to use the OPXY again, because I feel like just resorting to a groovebox would be a bit like cheating. Anyway, here we are, and I am very happy I've uncovered yet another use for the Strega :)"

Teenage Engineering OPXY // DAY 1 #jamuary2026

video upload by Dexba

"This year, I really want to try.
I want to get better, I want to become more fluent in the language of the many instruments I've collected, I have no idea where this will lead me, probably I'll feel the urge to sell everything and go back to just listening to other people's music, but in order to find that out, I need to at least try.
So here we are!"

Make Noise Almost ReSynthesizer // Diffusion Patch

video upload by Dexba

"[no talking, patch notes on screen]
I am building a ReSynthesizer, little by little, and I wanted to share with you my journey while the case is not yet full, but already showing a lot of potential for interesting patches.
This is how I envision a patch I would go live with: some key points ready to be messed with, but without the need for planned sequences, saved patches, and so on.
I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did playing it 🧡"

Donner L1 // Four evocative patches [no talking, audio only]

video upload by Dexba

The Roland SH-101, here reimagined by Donner in the L1, didn't offer most of the amenities we are accustomed to today, but I wanted to try to come up with four patches that could show some other sides of the instrument, closer to my likings. I hope you will find them of some inspiration 🧡"

0:00 Sync Birds
1:25 Broken Tape
2:53 Gluey Piano
4:11 Kick & Snare

TipTop Resonator // What is a resonator?

video upload by Dexba

"I always feel like there is some obfuscation going on with the terminology in synthesizers (and music theory too, btw), and that's even more noticeable when we're talking about 70s technology 😄
This time, we're checking out the new TipTop module, which is, by nam,e a resonator, the blueprint coming from the Moog PolyMoog, but we'll find out the lines are blurred, and you might find great uses for it as a filterbank, an end-of-chain EQ, maybe even a sound source, and definitely a performative element for added movement and depth to our patches!"

Wingie & Mood mk2 // Just the voice

video upload by Dexba

"breathe in – breathe out
colouring outside the borders with the help of electronic instruments"