OAK Sampler Sampling and Effects (ASR-10 in Hardware)

video upload by oak sampler

"I love the ASR-10. I’m building a new hardware sampler inspired by the ASR-10. It can run the original Ensoniq ASR-10 OS and effects algorithms. This video shows sampling from external inputs and applying effects. Note the ASR-10 can live preview effects during sampling. This uses: Michael Sembello’s Maniac sample into Peele horror.

waitlist is open for the OAK-S37
www.oaksampler.com

Music: “Maniac” Michael Sembello, Written by Michael Sembello and Dennis Matkosky © Respective copyright owners

#ASR10 #ASR10Hardware #Ensoniq #HardwareSampler #Sampling #Synthesizer"

See the OAK Sampler label below for additional posts.

Making INSANE Synth Beats from Scratch

video upload by Chambers

0:00 Chord Progression
1:45 Sound Design
3:19 Synth Bass & Lead
6:02 Drums went crazy
8:06 Final Beat

Online Class: https://chamberscourses.com
100+ detailed course videos, 7 FREE kits!

ICONIC Drums: https://www.chambersmixedit.com/produ...
Chambers' signature sounds, guaranteed crisp

Love the Prophet 6 from ‪@SequentialLLC‬

Supercritical Redshift 6 | Cinematic performance

video upload by Jay Hosking

"Please support my work on Patreon: / jayhosking
A live synthesizer jam performed with the Redshift 6 at the centre. Percussion added afterward in the box.

Fair warning: both Supercritical and MAS Distribution sent along their respective gear (the Redshift 6, and the Solarfaze/Polyphrase, respectively) for free. Take that as you will. Neither of them explicitly asked me to make a video with the gear, although I'm sure that was the point, right? But in both cases, the gear they sent along was a joy to play, which is why they're here.

I ended up really enjoying the Redshift 6. It's ostensibly analog where it counts—6 DCOs and VCFs—but it's also really clean and precise sounding, giving it a digital sheen. That's somewhat less my thing. However, it has a few things to really give it personality: multi-timbrality, up to a different timbre for each of the six voices; a Character parameter which vastly can change the sound of a voice, its filter and mixing and more; a great built-in effects suite (can only run one at a time); three pairs of stereo outputs to run your timbres separately (as here); easy-to-setup macro knobs for live performing using multiple timbres, all from one page; and a built-in sequencer for getting basic ideas onto the table without outside help. In many respects, it feels like an iteration on some of the ideas from the Elektron Analog Four, another synth I really love, only with enough voices to create a pad, arp, and drone at the same time.

Here, I run one timbre, a constant note, into the Vongon Solarfaze, which adds chorus and then drive/saturation. The second timbre, a single-note sequence, runs to the Vongon Polyphrase, adding delay. Both of these pedals impressed me way more than I had expected; there is something extremely performable about the Polyphrase that makes me want to get it on the table again straight away. And then for the third timbre, the pad, I run it direct out from the Redshift 6, using the synth's built-in reverb. I'm pretty picky on reverb these days and I think it sounds awesome.

With the macro knob opening all filters at once (to varying degrees), this live performance got huge. I had originally intended it to be only the synth, but once I heard the final performance, and how much it reminded me of a soundtrack cue, I knew I had to add orchestral percussion. I built the percussion out of modified samples from the Reason Studios loop library.

Altogether, it created an extremely cinematic performance and I'm very happy with the musical results. I was having such a good time with it that I'm excited to get back to the studio today and explore a little more. Thanks for listening.

https://jayhosking.bandcamp.com"

EMS Logik Demo

video upload by Jörg Schaaf

"I recently had an EMS Logik Synthesizer at my synth repair workshop. I could not resist recording some bleeps with it before it get's picked up again by the owner. I must say, I really love that synth. The form factor, the deep sonic landscapes it paints and last but not least the light weight of the case!"

Kermit the Frog Would love this Sound

video upload by Polydata

"A tasty patch on this Sequential Circuits prophet-5 rev 3.2"

Ensoniq Mirage — Famous Songs and Sounds

video upload by Nicolas Melis

"A live performance of famous songs and sounds associated with the Ensoniq Mirage, using patches from the original factory library. Some sounds have added reverb.

0:00. Janet Jackson – Escapade (A08 – Crotale)
0:07. Janet Jackson – Escapade (A04 – Stacked Strings / High Strings Bowed)
0:26. Rhythim Is Rhythim – Strings of Life (C06 – Acoustic Piano )
0:38. Rhythim Is Rhythim – Strings of Life (C06 – Bowed Strings)
0:56. Cherrelle & Alexander O’Neal – Saturday Love (A01 – Vibraphone)
1:06. Alexander O’Neal – Fake (B04 – Orchestra Brass Section)
1:21. Inner City – Good Life (B03 – AH/DO)
1:31. Janet Jackson – Nasty (B05 – Flute)
1:38. Janet Jackson – Nasty (A08 – Che Cymbal)
1:44. Janet Jackson – When I Think of You (B02 – Piano+1)
1:58. Janet Jackson – When I Think of You (C08 - Electric Bass #1)
2:07. Janet Jackson – When I Think of You (C08 - Marimba)
2:17. Janet Jackson – When I Think of You (A10 – Igor’s Hit / Orchestra Hit II)
2:22. The Cure – Hot Hot Hot!!! (B04 – Cellos / Violins)
2:33. Stacey Q – Two of Hearts (A03 – “DOO” Vocal / Female Voices)
2:51. Full pipe-organ improvisation (B09 – Full Pipe Organ with Bass Pedals)
3:28. Paul Hertzog – Bloodsport: Triumph (B08 – Wooden Flutes)
3:52. The S.O.S. Band – The Finest (A01 – Vibraphone)

All music in this video is performed live on the Ensoniq Mirage using sounds from its factory library. No audio from the original recordings, backing tracks, or externally sampled material from the featured songs was used. This video is presented for educational, entertainment, and instrument-demonstration purposes."

Tech Talk: Pancratio - Akai S950, Cirklon Sequencer & Creative Workflow (Electronic Beats TV)

video upload by Telekom Electronic Beats TV

"For this episode of Electronic Beats Tech Talk, we visited Pancratio in his studio to talk about music production, creative workflow, and his passion for vintage hardware. Born Gian Luigi Mendozza in Rome, Pancratio has built a unique sonic identity shaped by experimentation, texture, and a deep love for electronic music production. Alongside releasing a wide range of music, he also runs OTTA research lab, a creative studio where he helps other artists to develop their creative and artistic voice.
In this Tech Talk, Pancratio takes us through his studio setup, explains why old Akai samplers and the Cirklon sequencer play such an important role in his process, and shares some of his favorite synthesizers and production techniques."

Minitron synth (Mellotron+Minilogue)

video upload by Love Hultén

"Commission piece incl Mellotron M4000D, Korg Minilogue, Microcosm, Chroma Console and a custom tape echo. In the video I’m using the Mellotron as lead over a Minilogue seq, but the synths can also be played simultaneously for joined voices"

See the Love Hulton label below for additional creations.

Kawai K3 as a plugin | FB3 from Full Bucket (and it's awesome)

video upload by Espen Kraft

"I've got access to the work-in-progress FB3 from Full Bucket Music and it's fantastic. I love having the K3 in a plugin form and it's very close to my hardware.
At the time of this video it's not yet released, but I will link to it once it's out.

If you're looking for a editor and librarian for your K3/K3, hardware, I've made one recently. You can download it for free from my web shop here: https://espenkraft.com/b/6r5k7"

https://www.fullbucket.de/music/vst.html - not yet on their site as of this post, but check back later. You will also find other free soft synth emulations of classic vintage hardware synths, drum machines, and effects.

place, japan.

video upload by hijaq.

"never using a gopro again lol. shot in omiya."

"all my music is free to use. liking the video or subscribing to the channel helps me make more stuff. thanks love u.

hijaq. https://linktr.ee/hijaq"

This 4HP Eurorack Module Just Got INSANE

video upload by wgd modular

⏱️ Chapters
00:00 – Intro
00:14 – What happened since the last video? [embed below]
00:54 – New panels
01:17 – Fixing the noise problem
01:50 – Melon in live performances
02:03 – Firmware flashing infrastructure
02:32 – Updates to existing firmwares
03:08 – New firmwares
03:18 – Metal Hit
04:14 – RALPS
04:50 – Reese Bass
05:29 – Drums
06:26 – fxloperformer
07:29 – Final thoughts


"In this video, I’m taking a look at what has happened to melon since my last video. My 4HP Eurorack adaption of Hagiwo’s amazing RP2350-based MOD2 has grown quite a bit since then, with new panels, new firmware, community contributions, and improvements to the overall infrastructure.

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Alesis Andromeda VST Incoming From Isla Electronics?

via bradholland of Isla Electronics:

"Lots of love for the Andromeda here...
Fully sysex compatible with modelled ASICs in the oven.."

Stylophone DS-2 // Misuse is the best use!

video upload by Dexba

"A drone synthesizer, so what? I made a kick drum with it! And used the LFO as a pitch sequencer too!
The truth is, I simply love to challenge the name and intended purpose of an instrument: if they tell me it's for ambient, I'm going techno; if it's the ultimate experimental machine, I'm going to make cheesy pop chords, and so on.
It's liberating, and like a puzzle to solve, that greatly expands my knowledge of the machine in the process: before you can (properly) misuse something, you have to understand its workings really well!
BUT you can only do this if the quality of the instrument provides you with enough latitude, and the DS-2 does that. The oscillators sound good, the filters sound good, the delay sounds great, the reverb is MORE than "more than" enough.
So... the instrument is ready to take you wherever you want to go!
I hope you'll enjoy this video, full demo & review coming next week 🧡"

High energy dance music, with a dash of breakbeat and a modicum of crazy bastard - OP-XY Live Jam

video upload by Dan Chippendale

"I love wonky sounds. I love making wonky music. Thank the electronic gods for music gear. It's easily the best outlet for my brand of weirdness. I hope this resonates with you 😁

Gear used:

Music:
Teenage Engineering OP-XY
Novation Launch Control 3

Video:
Fujifilm X-E5
Motu M2 Audio interface
Mac Studio with Logic Pro X"

Tengu presents: Sonic Explorations with Bloop Group

This one is in via Caroline Swords of Bloop Group

Details follow:

https://ra.co/events/2423801

Saturday July 25th
11am to 3am

Tengu invites Bloop Groop to take over The Drape, SCARLET’s immersive installation, with a hand‑picked string of live hardware sets. Curated across ages, backgrounds, identities and career stages, the 4-person lineup is united by one thing: a deep love of making and playing electronic music. Expect banging, all‑hardware techno that’s as thoughtful as it is full‑on - something real, authentic and firmly rooted in Dublin’s underground.
Greg Oleksevic, MAV, Gint, Katie Laffan

Brought to you by Bloop Groop - a community for electronic musicians of every level based in FLUX Digital Hub, Dublin 8.

Tickets:
€13.15 - €16.40
Resident Advisor link: https://ra.co/events/2423801

Location:
Yamamori Tengu, 37 Strand Street Great, North City, Dublin 1, Ireland

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Teenage Engineering OP-XY & Novation Launch Control 3

video uploads by Dan Chippendale

A playlist of videos by Dan Chippendale featuring the Teenage Engineering OP-XY with Novation Launch Control 3.

Playlist:

1. OP-XY can sound so clean and pristine - Minimal House Live Jam

Kept things intentionally simple for this one and made sure the mix was nice and clean. Love how good the OP-XY can sound for this type of music. Hope you enjoy it

Gear used:

Music:
Teenage Engineering OP-XY
Novation Launch Control 3

Video:
Fujifilm X-E5
Motu M2 Audio interface
Mac Studio with Logic Pro X

2. Music for an old roll of unprocessed colour film – OP-XY electronica live jam
3. Would you like to see the OP-XY GO HARD? Well would you? Watch this. - Hard Dance Live Jam
4. Express your mood through music //// Melancholic beats and synths OP-XY Live Jam
5. I like making live electronic music. I very much hope you enjoy it
6. Bake for 2:45 at 34 degrees Celsius
7. I still maintain the OP-XY is one of the greatest music making devices ever created // IDM Live Jam

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"Thunder Jam" with the Perkons HD-01, Bassline DB-01, and Echolocator

video upload by Aurélien Vieira Lino

"Finally jamming with the huge (in sound and size!) Perkons HD-01from ‪@EricaSynths‬ . Love the rawness of the machine, and sound exploration super power! A perfect match to the DB-01 bassline, and a dream to jam along."

MATRIXSYNTH Turns 21

Yes, MATRIXSYNTH is now old enough to legally have a drink in the US!

Joking aside, MATRIXSYNTH in its current form started on July 20, 2005 with this post. Since then there has been only a single day without a post, which occured back on that dreadful day of August 6, 2005. I can't link to it because there isn't a post to link to. :) Sorry for the bad humor. That said, since then, I haven't missed a single day posting on the site including holidays, vacations, and two bouts of eye surgery due to a retinal tear and detachement in 2025. It was painless, but scary, and now all is good.

For those of you not in the know, MATRIXSYNTH is a one-man operation, run by your host, me, matrix. Every single post has gone up by hand - there is no automation and definitely no AI. Including this post, there have been at least 260,897 posts to date. There have actually been been more but some have been taken down due to either videos or audio dissapearing over the years, which brings me to a point: please don't remove your videos and audio demos off the web. You might think they are no longer relevant or you might even be embarrased by them as you think things have progressed and they no longer meet your standards, but they are relevant. They are part of history and will always be worth a look-back in context. Who you are today isn't defined by what you put up years ago. Trust me, I am often embarrased when I look back at some of my older posts. I'll likely be embarrased by this one. That said, please keep your old content up! It's a bit of synth history, and it's a look back at what you felt worth sharing back when you posted it. It doesn't define you today. It's like throwing away old family photographs because you are now older. That and there is always something interesting to find in older videos. A timbre from a given synth, an experience relevant in time.

That brings me to something I wanted to clarify for those that may be wondering: in general I prefer to keep myself out of posts for fear of influencing or even ruining the experience for others. I feel it is my job to present content w/o bias, and I prefer to post things as they are presented by the person or entity that created the content to begin with. Not influencing how others might or might not experience what goes up is a conscious decision. I realized over time it's akin to talking through music.

What I love about running MATRIXSYNTH is getting to share what's new to me on a daily basis. I have a policy of only posting specific content once. That means out of 260,897+ posts to date, nearly every single one is unique. It's also great to realize that there have been multiple things to actually feature every single day of the year, shared on the day itself, over the past 21 years!!! That's saying something, not about me or the site, but about the community.

The original MATRIXSYNTH actually started back in 1997. Click to see the monstrocity. That site will be 29 this year! The site was my personal portal into the world of synths. On the left were a list of sites I visited back then that would open in the right window frame when clicked on. Unfortunately that functionality is no longer supported in modern browsers; however you can right-click any link and open it in a new window. It's worth a look back at what synth sites were around back in 1997. Remember, YouTube didn't come out until December of 2005. MATRIXSYNTH in its current format, the blog, came out before YouTube. Think about that for a bit. This site has tracked the personal world of synthesis since before YouTube came out! Also, you might notice the old site came out well before The Matrix movies. The alias matrix, and hence MATRIXSYNTH, comes from my first synthesizer, the Oberheim MATRIX-6 which I purchased new in 1986 and still own to this day.

OK, this post is long enough. I want to end it by thanking the supporters of the site, the banner sponsors of the site, and most importantly, you, my readers. This might surprise some people, but I sometimes feel irrelevant, like why am I even doing this? I then remind myself I do it for the sake of doing it. I want to capture a bit of what's out there on a daily basis. I want the site to be a log (a weblog - blog) of synth history. I started back in 2005, and ever since that day I've had something to post, except for that solemn day on August 6, 2005. (P.S. I went on vacation that day and didn't think there would be internet access, let alone that I would be posting every single day after that - imagine not being able to say "I never missed a single day!" for the rest of your life because of one single day! "If it wasn't for that day!..") I think I will be doing this until the day I'm no longer here, and although I know I would be doing this regardless of whether I had an audience or not, knowing I do have an audience makes a world of difference. And thank you to all of you out there sharing your synth content. You are creating SYNTH HISTORY!!!

P.S. I want to give a special shout out to Amanda of CATSYNTH who not only is a supporting member of the site, but was kind enough to remember my anniversary and reach out to me today. Thank you!

P.P.S. It was CATSYNTH's 20th Anniversary yesterday. Happy Anniversary CATSYNTH! :)

MEET NODES: A MODULAR FX RACK PLUGIN

video upload by Okay Synthesizer

via Okay Synthesizer

"We're excited to share something we've been working on: Nodes, a modular FX plugin that just launched in early access.

Here's what makes it different: instead of being locked into a single effect chain, you get 55 nodes and counting—24 modulation sources and 29 effects—that you can wire together however you want. Sound design on steroids. We've also baked in our Eurorack LFO Lowstepper and mutable instruments modules, so the creative possibilities are basically endless.

The best part? It's a one-time purchase ($50 right now, down from $100). No subscriptions, no hidden costs. The price holds until version 1.0, when we're adding Linux support and more.

We built this for sound designers and producers who love tweaking, but the macro system makes it live-performance-friendly too. And because we're an active developer team that actually listens to community feedback, this thing is only going to get better.

It's CPU-efficient, works on Mac and PC now (Linux coming at 1.0), and honestly—you can build anything with it. Grab it here: https://okaysynthesizer.com/nodes"

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MiniMoog Program for Akai MPC4000, Z4, Z8 Samplers

video upload by TONELAB

"Listen with Headphones if possible.

Quite possibly, the closest thing to having a 'Moog Plugin' inside your MPC4000, Z4 or Z8. Rather than settle for a traditional 'multi-sampled' Instrument, having only a few or a dozen (at most) Samples onboard, and declaring it a 'MiniMoog'. I wondered, 'why not capture EVERY KEY from the original Model D MiniMoog?' ..and give one of the most celebrated Synthesizers of all time the closest possible incarnation on Akai's most revered Samplers of all time?!

Furthermore, the MPC4000 is quite a beast, in that, it can Sample at 24-bit / 48kHz, which is perfect to capture such a prized vintage Synth that's revered for it's thick, rich tonality. From that point, I wanted it for myself.

And so, with the labor done, we now have, what I consider, the most ambitious MPC of all-time loaded with arguably, the most celebrated Synth of all time.. and well, here's the result.

A first look at this labor of love, and I can't tell you how good it felt to finally play chords with sounds from a vintage Model D! ..evidently, I overloaded the MPCs internal Mixer, but, knowing full well I did overload the MPCs output, I didn't think it was necessary to sugar-coat the 'first look', and thought, this 'overloading' was just as important to include as the rest of it. As one could expect, if you played 5 MiniMoogs side-by-side.. you too, would probably overload what ever Mixer they're running into, too.

A simple reduction in resonance and/or Program volume, and there's more headroom to reach with those 'wider' chords.

Anyway, warts n' all, here it is, just as I was discovering in real-time. The nature of all of 88 individually cut and looped Samples playing alongside each other. Something the original MiniMoog simply can not do.

Here's hoping you enjoy this fascinating discovery of how the MPC4000 'sounds' when faithfully loaded up with 88 Samples from an original 1976 MiniMoog Model D's Ramp Oscillator! (Actually the MiniMoog offered 96, but as most MIDI Keyboards offer up to 88 keys, I stuck with 88.

PS. 5 more MiniMoog-shapes coming soon!

https://store.tonelab.au/collections/mpc4000"

John Bowen Solaris for keyboard.