ImpulseDie – Patchable Drum Synth & Looper | Out Now (inspired by SOMA Pulsar-23)

video upload by Diego Capoccitti

"ImpulseDie is out: a drum synthesizer you patch with cables, inspired by SOMA Pulsar-23. In this video: the hardware that inspired it, a quick look around, and a techno groove built from an empty panel, one cable at a time.

Four voices (kick, bass, snare, hi-hat), four tape-style loopers with a piano-roll view, a clock divider, the SHAOS random generator, an LFO, delay, reverb, distortion and 122 pins: any output can go into any input.

▶ Desktop plugin – €9.99
macOS and Windows · VST3, AU, AAX
Pay once, use on 2 computers · Free 15-day demo, all features
https://www.diegocapoccitti.it/shop.p...

▶ iPad + iPhone – €5.99
Standalone app + AUv3 instrument and AUv3 effect · Pay once, no subscription
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/impulse...


Manual (PDF): https://www.diegocapoccitti.it/INSTAL...
Chapters
0:00 Inspired by SOMA Pulsar-23
0:20 A look around
1:07 Build a patch from scratch
2:35 Out now: prices and links

The patch in this video
CLOCK 4 → BD TRIG · BD ENV → BD MOD (AMT up a little)
CLOCK 16 → HHT TRIG
CLOCK 2 → INV → PULSE CONVERTER 1 → SD TRIG
CLOCK 16 → SHAOS CLK · SHAOS 2BIT DIR → ATTENUATOR 2 (about 0.48) → BASS CV IN
BASS in CV mode · CLOCK 16 → BASS TRIG · BASS ENV → BASS MOD (LPF)
LFO triangle → HHT MOD (HPF) · SD and HHT FX sends into the delay, parallel distortion
Then flip SHAOS to 16 when you hear a phrase you like.


Pulsar-23 photos: SOMA Laboratory.
ImpulseDie is an independent product inspired by SOMA Pulsar-23. It is not affiliated with, licensed by or endorsed by SOMA Laboratory. SOMA, SOMA Laboratory and Pulsar-23 are trademarks of their owner. Algorithms, code and graphics are property of Diego Capoccitti / 34Audiovisuals."

ImpulseDie // SOMA Pulsar-23-inspired drum machine, desktop & iOS, Diego Capoccitti // Walkthrough
video upload by Gavinski’s Tutorials

"This is a walkthrough of the ImpulseDie plugin for iOS and desktop by Diego Capoccitti, a four-voice drum synth (kick, bass, snare, hi-hat) with a tape-style looper and a set of small utility modules that you connect with virtual cables. This is an unofficial emulation of the Soma Labs Pulsar-23 hardware. Soma Labs know about this release and have no issue with it, btw. This video explains most of ImpulseDie’s important controls, and will teach you how to use the app much faster than going through the manual will.

You can go very experimental here, but you can also make much more conventional drum grooves, and early in the video I demo both styles.

Note that although you can go very deep with your cable patching, you can also use ImpulseDie in a much simpler way, focusing on dialing in the sounds of the main voices and recording your drums manually, as in the hardware, or using the looper page of this app which even allows you to draw your hits in, something that is not possible with the hardware but which is very very useful indeed.

Thanks to Diego for sponsoring this video. Sponsorships pay for my time, not my opinions, and I only do sponsored videos on apps that I like.

iOS price: €5.99 / $4,99
Desktop price: €9.99 / $9.99

Requirements: iOS 15 / macOS 12.0 Monterey / Windows 10 (64-bit)

AppStore Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/impulse...

Desktop link:
www.diegocapoccitti.it/shop.php

ImpulseDie is an independent product, inspired by SOMA Pulsar-23. It is not affiliated with, licensed by or endorsed by SOMA Laboratory, and contains no code, circuit designs or samples from SOMA Laboratory. SOMA, SOMA Laboratory and Pulsar-23 are trademarks of their owner. All algorithms, code and artwork are the property of Diego Capoccitti / 34Audiovisuals."

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Introducing COLAPSO | Atomic Synthesizer Plugin by Imaginando

video uploads by Imaginando

Playlist:

1. Introducing COLAPSO | Atomic Synthesizer Plugin by Imaginando
2. Imaginando COLAPSO Demo - No Talking

"20 minutes of COLAPSO factory presets, played straight from the synth. Every sound you hear is built from the measured emission lines of real atoms.

🎹 Try it free, no time limit: https://www.imaginando.pt/products/co...

COLAPSO is an additive synthesizer where you don't choose the partials. You pick one of 22 elements from the periodic table, and its emission spectrum becomes the timbre. Each spectral line becomes a partial with its own level and its own decay, cross-checked against the NIST Atomic Spectra Database. The main control, Observation, trades time against pitch like the uncertainty principle: a broadband click at one end, a pure, stable tone at the other.

0:00 Breathing Cathedral 1:02 Aerosol 1:50 Drawbars 2:56 Adrift 3:39 Aardvark 4:38 Aeolus 5:29 Glass Taps 6:54 Longwave 8:07 Icicles 9:06 Ion Engine 9:57 Lyre 10:52 Nicolitious 11:38 Afar 12:31 Acrobat 13:12 Strobe 14:15 Tongue Drum 15:12 Tremolo Room 16:03 Trench Resonator 17:17 Violet Hour

💶 Launch price: €69 instead of €89 until 1 November 2026, or rent-to-own at €8.90/month.
Also in the Synth Bundle with DRC and FRMS for €189."

"What does an atom sound like? Meet COLAPSO, the new atomic synthesizer from Imaginando.

Pick an element from the periodic table and its measured emission spectrum becomes the timbre. Every partial is a real spectral line, cross-checked against the NIST Atomic Spectra Database and transposed down into hearing range, with its own level and its own decay. One control, Observation, trades time against pitch like the uncertainty principle: a broadband click at one end, a pure, stable tone at the other, and a whole territory in between.

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MANNER - Algorithmic Sequencer (VST / Standalone)

video upload by Laboratory 0

"MANNER is a MIDI sequencer that picks its own notes. As on a step sequencer, you set each part's rhythm; instead of placing pitches, you give it a key, a style and, if you like, the chords. It chooses the notes by the rules of harmony, voice leading and form, and plays them with a player's phrasing.

• Human manner. Timing drifts as a player's does; phrases slow down, speed up, and land back on the bar line; loudness follows the phrase.

• Song form. Sections of four phrases: an idea, its answer, a contrast and the return (A A′ B A″). Variation sets how far each section strays, from an 8-bar loop to a new variation every section; each part's Improv sets how often that part changes.

• Chords that go somewhere, toward a cadence and home. Pin the ones you want, or play it your chords: it follows what you hold, bass note included, and plays the rest.

• 4 parts (Bass, Chords, Arpeggio, Melody), each with its own rhythm and one of 27 styles, from Alberti to walking bass.

• A take is the seed for its random choices, not a stored piece: change any setting and the notes change; change nothing and it plays exactly the same notes, so a bounce matches what you heard.

• Drag the last 16 bars into your DAW as a MIDI clip.

MIDI only: use any instrument. VST3, AU and a Logic MIDI FX on macOS; VST3 on Windows; a standalone app on both.

https://laboratory0.gumroad.com/"

UMWELT - Generative Ecosystem Synthesizer (VST / AU)

video upload by Laboratory 0

"UMWELT is a synthesizer made for listening. Press the capsule to generate an autonomous ecosystem with its own weather, tuning, four creature groups, and occasionally a language. Drag across the landscape to rotate the view. Active sounds light up and create ripples, revealing which group is active. The capsules along the top recall recent worlds.

Take your time with each world. Populations grow and decline, day turns to night, storms pass through, and the creatures copy each other's songs with small mistakes, so the same world sounds different ten minutes later.

Free Download: https://laboratory0.gumroad.com/"

How it works

A 64-bit seed sets every parameter of a world. The sound is made in four layers.

Substrate is one of four sustained generators:

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BLOT - Experimental Modal Synthesizer

video upload by Laboratory 0

"BLOT is an experimental modal synthesizer played by shaping matter instead of turning knobs: the geometry of a lump on screen is the patch.

Every piece of the lump is a modal resonator, eight damped oscillators tuned by its size. Smaller pieces ring higher, and sizes settle on just-intonation ratios of the MIDI root. How far apart the modes spread, how bright they are and how long they ring follow the piece's shape and heat. They are excited by a slow breathing noise, by strikes, by friction as you sweep over the matter, and, when it runs hot, by droplets: short tones above the ringing that rise as they burst.

Pull out a tendril and it becomes a plucked waveguide string, pitched by its length. Press in a dent and it becomes a formant filter, a mouth whose position sets the vowel. Cut a piece and its modes split into two pitches. Pieces that come close ring-modulate each other, and pieces that meet fuse back into one.

Rubbing heats the matter: the modes stretch and each piece's drive saturates. Pushed harder, a 4× oversampled multiband saturator with a feedback comb tuned to the root takes over from clipping. Memory, an eight-line feedback delay network, holds what the matter has played. MIDI notes move the root and strike every piece. Two engines play the same matter: default stays clean until the matter is rubbed or overloaded, while intense heats and drives it with every cut and strike, and makes hot pieces crackle. “Pause" freezes the matter in place while it keeps sounding.

VST+AU, macOS only
Free Download: https://laboratory0.gumroad.com/"

SOMA FLUX multi-bow algorithms demo

video upload by SOMA Laboratory

00:00 - Algorithm "Chromatic"
01:52 - Algorithm "Fifths"
04:28 - Algorithm "Overtones"

Download the new firmware: https://somasynths.com/flux_firmware/

V3.0
Release date 09.09.2026
Manual V1.0
Algorithms V2.0
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Added experimental multi-bow algorithms FIFTH, CHROMATIC, OVERTONES.

0-Coast by MakeNoise | 10 years later

video upload by Cinematic Laboratory

"I am not sure when I saw the 0-Coast for the first time. I had no idea it was already around for two years when I started modular in 2018. The 0-Coast became my 'tiny teacher' after getting lost in the Shared System first. It turned out to be crucial to fully understand that everything is voltage, and every circuit can make sound even when the circuit is intended for something else. The 0-Coast combines Buchla, Serge and Moog philosophies in one tabletop unit. By itself, it provides endless possibilities provided by its confined option space. I can safely say it gets better as your own skills develop. And don't forget to use stackables or a mult."

KHÔRA - Microtonal Soundscape Synthesizer

video upload by Laboratory 0

"KHÔRA is a drone-based harmonic instrument. There are no labels - every control is a living geometric object. The ring of stars is a map of just-intonation pitches. Star size represents consonance, while color represents harmonic families. Rather than relying on theory, a keyboard, or parameter lists, KHÔRA offers a new way to explore harmonic space through interaction.

Five built-in chord generators:
Click the Seed (center-left icon) to generate a chord. Right-click to switch modes.

1. Genesis: Generates a new just-intonation chord, favoring simple, consonant intervals while always retaining the root.

2. Metabole: Preserves some common tones from the current chord while regenerating the remaining voices, balancing continuity and change.

3. Topos: Moves the entire chord through just-intonation space while preserving its internal structure, revealing more distant microtonal colors.

4. Skia (Hidden): Explores dark, modal harmony over a fixed drone, with spacious minor voicings that return to the home chord every fourth generation.

5. Helios (Hidden): The only mode based on 12-tone equal temperament (12-EDO), featuring modern color harmony with smooth bass motion and a return to the home chord every 4th generation."

Laboratory 0 also brought us MORPH-6: Algorithmic Lifeforms Synthesizer and Carousel: Five-Voice Round-Robin Polyphonic Synthesizer.

MORPH-6: Algorithmic Lifeforms Synthesizer (First Explorations)

video upload by Laboratory 0

"Six observed entities share the same communication protocol, yet exhibit entirely different behaviors. The same signal manifests as a different physical reality within each: some proliferate like concrete, forming vast resonant structures; others retain an untamed, primordial roar; others persist as translucent organisms of granules, metal, rubber, and glass, sustained through endless cycles of fracture and reassembly.

The windows are not control panels, but communication terminals. What you see are not parameters, but cross-sections left behind as another consciousness passes through the medium. No label can faithfully translate them. Each algorithm is another point of contact with a different lifeform.

Or perhaps they have simply chosen to borrow our world as a place to be heard.

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Designed by Laboratory 0
Available soon on laboratory0.gumroad.com
macOS only, with a potential iPad app in the future."

Carousel: Five-Voice Round-Robin Polyphonic Synthesizer (VST3 / AU)

video upload by Laboratory 0

"Carousel is a five-voice round-robin polyphonic synthesizer built around a simple idea: a circle. Its five voices sit like seats on a carousel, and every note you play is assigned to a different one - in sequence, random, or all at once.

Each voice is a complete synth with its own oscillator, filter, and envelopes. Differences in tuning and timbre drift across the stereo field, creating a sound that is organic and quietly imperfect - like an old carousel left in the sun.

Carousel is designed to be simple. No LFOs, no presets, no complex synthesis - just pure play. A childhood that exists only in memory.

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Designed by Laboratory 0
Download Carousel for free: https://laboratory0.gumroad.com"

UDO DMNO | The Beauty of Digital

video upload by Laboratory 0

"UDO DMNO recorded in multitrack, processed with granular and glitch effects. Music written by Lab 0."

Sound Sketch 6/6/26 with DMNO & Tonverk

video upload by Laboratory 0

"Going in a different direction with the DMNO & Tonverk - it’s a rough sketch and far from finished. I really like how the DMNO is capable of producing the wildest digital sounds while hiding them behind an analog-style control interface. It’s a much more familiar and welcoming experience than using synths like the Iridium, Hydrasynth, or all sorts of VSTs, while still achieving similar results. Sounds are DMNO processed through Tonverk, layered with some multisampled Kontakt patches."

UDO DMNO Multitrack Demo | Dusty Chords

video upload by Laboratory 0

"All sounds from UDO Audio DMNO, sequenced in Ableton Live and recorded in multitrack, music by Laboratory 0."

UDO DMNO | Round-Robin Arps

video upload by Laboratory 0

"Recorded in a single take using the cycle mode on the DMNO. Light reverb and delay added in post."

Passive Bandpass Filters Are GOATED | AudioThing Octaves

video upload by HAINBACH and AudioThing

"Passive bandpass filters are an obsession of mine, so it was just a question of time until AudioThing and me would make a plugin of the special subset called octave filters. Octaves is out on now: https://www.audiothing.net/effects/Oc...

My Music: http://hainbach.bandcamp.com"

"Hainbach’s Bandpass Filter

Octaves is our latest collaboration with Berlin-based composer and YouTuber Hainbach. It is a filter plugin designed to take apart the audio spectrum in spreads of octaves, allowing for unique and enchanting spectral sound design effects. Octaves gives you a retro-scientific approach to sound that echoes the timeless productions created in the BBC Radiophonic workshop or the WDR Studio für Elektronische Musik by the Avantgarde masters, and modern places like Willem Twee, Strøm, and Hainbach’s own laboratory.

Octaves is available for macOS, Windows, and Linux (VST2, VST3, AU, AAX, CLAP).
It’s also available on the App Store for iOS and iPadOS (AUv3 and Standalone).

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Cyma Forma ALT Rhythmic Experiment

video upload by Laboratory 0

"Some additional pads & synths were added in post"

Melbourne Instruments Nina | First Patches

video upload by Laboratory 0

"First few patches with the Nina - No external effects."

Melbourne Instruments Nina Round-Robin Experiment #1

video upload by Laboratory 0

"How close can the Nina get to the Vermona Perfourmer? Distributing MIDI notes evenly across three layers on the Nina, each with slight variations in filter and envelope settings. The track, originally made with the Perfourmer (ID: Samuel Yang - Skyward Bound), is now played on the Nina, and I’m amazed by how closely it replicates the original, with its round-robin arps.

Arps coming from Nina, everything else was pre-recorded / taken from the original track."

Studio Live Ambient Sessions | Vermona Perfourmer MKII

video uploads by Laboratory 0

Playlist:

1. “Echoes” - Studio Live Ambient Session | Vermona Perfourmer MKII, Chase Bliss Thermae
2. Vermona Perfourmer MKII + Hologram Chroma Console + Piano
3. Vermona Perfourmer MKII + Intellijel Sealegs Generative Ambient Sequence

Cyma Forma ALT Soundscape Synthesizer - First Contact

video upload by Laboratory 0

Quick Sketch with Dreadbox Artemis | Ambient Arps

video upload by Laboratory 0