ŅōĨşÈ Múśİç / experimental music / Diogens Lantern synth / Universe Zen VOSKHOD-2 / by GIPNOZER

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"Cold sand creaked beneath limbs I couldn't remember having acquired. Metal and flesh, woven into an inconceivable construct, pulsed with a dim, inner light. The planet was dead, scorched to the bone, only rusted rock and endless dunes on the horizon. I didn't know who I was, what I was, or how I had ended up here. My memories held only fragments of alien sensations, echoes of long-forgotten knowledge that didn't add up to a coherent picture. I was a mechanism, not crafted by hand, but grown like a mushroom on the rotting wood of space. My purpose? Nonexistent. My past? Emptiness. I simply wandered, driven by an instinct I couldn't explain, across this lifeless land, like a ghost forgotten even by death. And with every step, with every breath, I felt this planet, this emptiness, creeping into me, erasing the last vestiges of what could have been.
. . .
sound gear:
_ Diogenes' Lantern by Kakos Nonos / ‪@kakosnonos4541‬
_ Universe Zen ВОСХОД-2 / www.universe-zen.ru
_ Tascam DR40x
. . .
musician's account:
Bandcamp: https://gipnoz.bandcamp.com
Instagram: / gipnozer.sound
Telegram: https://t.me/gipnozer_sound
VK: https://vk.com/gipnozer"

And from Kakos Nonos:

Шумовой синтезатор Фонарь Диогена

video upload by Kakos Nonos

Googlish:

"Diogenes' Lantern" is a 12-voice drone synthesizer. However, it is capable of generating noise, ambient textures, and melodies alike.
The synth features a unique control system designed to eliminate the need for a thousand knobs to manage every parameter; instead, it works as follows:
One knob sets the value for the first oscillator, while a second knob determines the *offset*—how much the value of each subsequent oscillator differs from the one preceding it.
This method is used to control all parameters: frequency, waveforms, and signal combination types.

Link to the VK group:
https://vk.com/musicnoisebox

Features:
12 oscillators with adjustable waveforms
16 waveforms that morph smoothly into one another
8 signal combination schemes (for pairs of signals) that morph smoothly into one another
3 filter types with resonance (HP, LP, Res)
Filter LFO with selectable triangle, square, or oscillator/combiner-derived waveforms
A second LFO featuring complex waveforms, capable of modulating synthesis parameters—including the filter (providing two dedicated LFOs for the filter)
Tone quantization capability (quantizing to the tonic or fifth)
6-button keyboard interface; individual keys can be custom-configured, or a layout can be selected from 63 presets
Attack, Release, and Glide controls
Killswitch with smooth fade-out/fade-in functionality
Randomize button, allowing for independent randomization of synthesis parameters and LFO settings
"Move" mode: each key is assigned its own unique synthesis preset
Polyphonic mode with 6, 4, or 2-voice polyphony
Support for 432 Hz tuning
Distortion effect
Smoothly adjustable "Mass" parameter ...of sound, where the number of operating units can be regulated.

Original Russian:

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Kakos Nonos (documentary about the RoAT creator)

video upload by Vlad Kreimer

"Documentary about Kakos Nonos - a new creative mind that joined SOMA."

See this post for additional details.

Rumble of Ancient Times (SOMA Lab main DEMO)

video upload by Vlad Kreimer

Credits: camera/edit — Sofia Rubinstein https://www.instagram.com/degermaark/
video_fx/music — Alexander Zavgorodny https://www.instagram.com/kakos_nonos/
pixel_art — John Nornon Irr https://www.instagram.com/john_norton...
subtitle font: Mister Pixel by Christophe Badani (Velvetyne Type Foundry)

Rumble of Ancient Times DEMO | No Talking

via SOMA SYNTHS

Rumble of Ancient Times (RoAT) is an 8-bit noise synthesizer and sequencer inspired by the clever programming of the early PC era when an entire video game would fit on a floppy disk. RoAT is capable of a wide variety of sounds ranging from dense noise scapes to diverse glitching rhythmic patterns. The compact and portable instrument contains many elements that can be combined into surprising musical results.

The 'heart' of the synthesizer contains 4 sound oscillators, each with a tunable waveform and an individual LFO, which can modulate the tone or volume of the oscillator. The modulated signal of each oscillator is mixed with other signals using 1,536 variations of complex summing algorithms that contain FM, ring modulation, bitwise logical operations and more.

The synth contains an 8-bit resonant lowpass filter with a distinct Lo-Fi character. The built-in sequencer can be synced to an external device and also send clock out. RoAT is battery powered and can work up to 130 hours on one set of AAA batteries.

Rumble of Ancient Times is built on a very simple 8-bit microcontroller similar to the ones used in the “brains” of old refrigerators and other simple electronic devices. Thanks to some very clever programming, it’s also able to drive a very capable synth with many features!

In stark contrast to modern consumer electronics, this synth celebrates and emphasizes what can be achieved with efficiency of code and using chips considered obsolete by industry leaders. We live in an age where text editors can be 1GB or more and simple things like checking email require the latest OS and powerful processing, despite the core tasks being no different than 15 years ago with a fraction of the computational power.

So RoAT proposes a new kind of ecological thinking with the innovative use of chips that were developed and produced decades ago, instead of turning them into millions of tons of trash. We can still use technology that the industry forced us to consider obsolete, with the added benefit here of extremely low power consumption. It’s an environmentally friendlier approach than galloping in the rush of planned obsolescence that damages our planet and wastes precious resources.

Rumble of Ancient Times was designed and programmed by Kakos Nonos, a new creative mind who joined the SOMA development team. His very unique style of building electronic musical instruments combines quality craftsmanship, advanced programming and a love for medieval acoustic instruments such as gusli, wheeled lyre and bagpipes."