Amiteque FM-01 – Hardware FM Synthesizer with Original Yamaha YM2164 Chip

video upload by Amiteque Electronics

"Amiteque FM-01 — Hardware FM Synthesizer Module

The Amiteque FM-01 is a modern hardware FM synthesizer module built around the original Yamaha YM2164 (OPP) FM synthesis chip, the same sound engine used in the Yamaha FB-01.

Unlike software emulations, the FM-01 generates its sound using a genuine Yamaha hardware FM chip.

The FM-01 combines the characteristic sound of classic 4-operator Yamaha FM synthesis with a modern standalone design and straightforward front-panel operation.

Main features:
• Original Yamaha YM2164 (OPP) hardware FM synthesis chip
• 4-operator FM synthesis
• 8-voice polyphony
• Multitimbral operation planned
• Front-panel voice and setup controls
• 16×1 LCD display
• MIDI IN / OUT / THRU
• SysEx support
• Stereo 6.3 mm audio outputs
• External 9 V DC power supply
• Designed and developed in Canada

This demo features the Amiteque FM-01 together with the Amiteque AR-110 analog drum synthesizer and other studio instruments.

FM-01 is currently under development.

More information:
www.amiteque.com"

New EMW S-8000 Sample Synthesizer

TEST SOUNDS - O SINTETIZADOR MAIS COMPLETO QUE JÁ TOQUEI.S-8000. BY TIAGO MALLEN ‪@emwsynthesizers‬
video upload by Tiago Mallen

"The EMW S-8000 is an 8-voice polyphonic sample-based synthesizer with stereo audio, multimode filtering, envelopes, modulation, effects, and extensive sound-shaping capabilities. It also comes with a large built-in sample library, ready to explore right out of the box."

via EMW

Explore a new world of sampling with the power and flexibility of modern technology.

The S-8000 combines a compact sample player, synthesizer and effects processor in a single instrument, allowing you to create complete instruments from WAV files using single samples or multi-samples. With pitch, gain, Root Key, start point and loop controls, the S-8000 gives you everything you need to shape and play your own samples.

Its powerful synthesis section features a resonant VCF with dedicated envelope, VCA with ADSR and LFO with multiple waveforms, along with Velocity, Mod Wheel and Aftertouch modulation. A wide range of effects, including Chorus, Phaser, Delay, Reverb, Bloom and Stereo Spread, further expands its sonic possibilities.

Samples are stored on a microSD card, making it easy to build and organize large sound libraries. The S-8000 also includes MIDI IN/THRU, a color graphic display and high-quality stereo audio output, with many synthesis, performance and effects parameters available for external control via MIDI CC.

The S-8000 also comes with a growing library of samples organized by instrument and equipment. EMW regularly expands this collection with new sounds and updates, allowing the S-8000 to continuously grow with new instruments and sonic possibilities.

S-8000 — powerful sampling and synthesis in a compact instrument.

Yamaha EMR-1 Digital Drummer Sound Demo

video upload by Runningonair

Note: this appears to be the first demo featuring the EMR-1 on the site. There was one previous post featuring the EMR-1 in Yamaha's half rack series here.

"In this video I demo patterns from the Yamaha EMR-1 Digital Drummer, released in 1988. The patterns vary in usefulness but the lofi digital sounds (8/12bit) could be good for sampling. The individual sounds can apparently be played via a midi utility, but I've not looked into that so far.

All patterns are at 120BPM, for those that would like to try them out."

Music/Support:

https://runningonair.bandcamp.com/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5fNUf...

https://paypal.me/runningonair?

Grooving with B.A.C.H.

video upload by Kaona Modular Music

"A short example of B.A.C.H. in use, featuring its Groove mode."

Playing a Fugue with B.A.C.H.

video upload by Kaona Modular Music

"A short musical example with B.A.C.H., a generative Eurorack module.

Here, B.A.C.H. is used to build a polyphonic fugue, with several voices developing and interacting over time.

B.A.C.H. was designed to explore generative composition, counterpoint, repetition and evolution (without trying to replace the musician!)."

B.A.C.H. generates melodic, harmonic and rhythmic structures in real time. At each clock pulse, it determines the activity of the four tracks, along with their pitches, durations and dynamics. The result is shaped by the selected compositional language and the constraints defined by the musician.

The module controls a modular system directly through its Gate, Pitch and Mod outputs. It can also control MIDI synthesizers and sound modules. Each voice has its own configurable MIDI channel.

Twelve compositional languages
FUGUE constructs a multi-voice exposition from a subject, answers, a countersubject and episodes.

CANON develops a leading line through imitation, transposition, delay, contrary motion, retrograde or augmentation.

PROBA uses Markov chains and several transition vocabularies to produce directed randomness.

TINTINNABULI combines a melodic voice with voices whose notes are drawn from a triad or the current chord.

MINIMAL applies gradual processes of phase shifting, addition, substitution and hocketing.

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NUX NTK-61/Z review: a 61 keys and channel aftertouch MIDI controller keyboard

video upload by Floyd Steinberg

"The NUX NTK-61Z MIDI controller has a lot of functionality for the asking price, channel aftertouch and DAW integration via Mackie or HUI protocol being among them. Table of contents:

00:00 demo
00:40 Hi, what's this?
01:18 in the box
02:02 hardware overview
04:58 firmware features: arpeggiator
06:10 channel select
06:25 scale
06:45 note repeat
07:00 modes
07:28 controller setup
07:39 DAW setup
08:11 scenes
08:44 app
08:52 conclusion"

HÄLP ZIS CHANNEL
https://www.patreon.com/floyd_steinberg
https://floydsteinberg.gumroad.com/
https://floydsteinberg.bandcamp.com/"

Nikolator - Musical Tesla Coil simulator (demo)

video upload by Hügelton Instruments

"Nikolator is a physical modeling synthesizer based on a musical Tesla coil.
Instead of using conventional oscillators or samples, it generates sound by modeling the resonant circuit, discharge and resulting sound in the air.
We have made the Tesla coil itself into a playable software instrument.

Features
・Physical modeling of a musical Tesla coil
・Monophonic and polyphonic modes
・Voltage, current and discharge controls
・Adjustable arc length, branching and channel behavior
・Drive envelope
・4 × 6 modulation matrix
・Paraphonic valve low pass filter
・Twenty-two factory presets and user presets
・MIDI velocity, pitch bend, modulation wheel and sustain pedal with assignable modulation routing

Available for macOS (AU / VST3 / Standalone) and Windows (VST3).
https://hugelton.itch.io/nikolator"

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Diatonic Diamond – Generative Harmonic Sequencer

video upload by Mute State

"Find the generative harmonic sequencer here: https://www.mutestate.com/diatonicseq...
The generative harmonic sequencer creates af diatonic field of chords from a scale, moves around between the derived chords (or intervals and triads) after a set number of bars (in this case 4) a portal into another scale and key is created ... by either reinterpreting the active chord, mutating on of the notes by a semitone, or converting it into its negative counterpart using negative harmony. In this demo the sequencer controlled an Elektron digitone, a teensy based bass synth (digitaur) and an Elektron digitakt. The sequencer has seven tracks in total, a bass track, a harmony track and a melody track and finally four drum tracks. Besides midi it also has an internal sound engine."

Korg Wavestate "Klaus Schulze Tribute Vol. 2" – 40 Berlin School Performances

video upload by Synth Cloud

"▬▬▬ Download Link ▬▬▬▬
🚀 https://www.synthonia.com/marketplace...
📩 Mail: info@synthonia.com

Klaus Schulze Tribute Vol. 2 for Korg Wavestate continues the journey into the sound world of classic Berlin School electronic music.

This second chapter is dedicated to the atmosphere, movement and musical language connected to Klaus Schulze, one of the most influential names in electronic music history.

The soundset includes 40 melodic and atmospheric Performances for Korg Wavestate hardware and Wavestate Native, designed for musicians who want evolving sequences, complex arpeggios, warm leads, large polys, strings and deep atmospheric pads.

The direction is clear: classic and modern Berlin sequences, modular-style motion, expressive solo sounds, cinematic pads and long-form electronic textures.

This library was inspired by the spirit of works such as Crystal Lake, Are You Sequenced?, Mirage, Body Love, Velvet Voyage and other classic electronic productions.

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Introducing Loop, an Idea Machine by Polyend

video upload by Polyend

"This is Loop, an 8-track Performance Looper."



Some pics and details via Perfect Circuit

"The Polyend Loop is a complete loop-based audio workstation that brings you 4 independent loopers alongside 4 tracks of sample-based percussion with built-in effects. Each of the 4 loopers offers up to 52 seconds of recording time in mono or stereo with the option for forward, reverse, or ping-pong playback. Add discrete effects to each channel with myriad reverb and delay options, along with classic modulation effects, like chorus, vibrato, phaser, and tape effects; shaper effects give you overdrives, distortions, and other waveshapers, use the panning option for spatialization, and the filter can give you a nice bit of sonic sculpting. Indeed, this is the perfect device to not just sketch ideas, but create an entire album's worth of sonic world-building.

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osmose firmware update 2.3 - overview

video upload by Expressive E

"Osmose keeps evolving. Firmware 2.3 is a major free update for every Osmose owner, taking the instrument further with deep DAW Control and Ctrl-e.

In this overview, Chris shows how Osmose now brings together its unique internal sound engine, expressive MIDI control, deep DAW integration and a growing software ecosystem through Ctrl-e — all from the same multidimensional keyboard.

See DAW Control in action, explore the 900+ expressive presets included with Ctrl-e, discover the new bottom action bar and improved MIDI integration, learn how to install firmware 2.3 and get started with Ctrl-e."

⏱ Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:38 DAW Control
1:45 Ctrl-e
5:05 Get more sounds
5:28 External MIDI Mode
7:08 Other Improvements
8:57 How to Update
9:18 Outro

Synterra Onboard Effects : Vaemi #standalone #hardware #organic #synthesizer #generative

video upload by Vaemi

"Synterra Onboard Effects

VAEMI Synterra features 10 onboard effects. In this video, we’ll introduce these effects and show you how they work.

10 Onboard Effects:
Stutter 1/4
Stutter 1/8
Stutter 1/16
Random Stutter: 1/16, 1/32, and 1/24
Delay Throw
Bit Crusher
Pitch Shift: Two Octaves Down
Pitch Shift: Two Octaves Up
Controlled Chaos
0.25 Hz Filter Sweep

Effect Controls:
The first four effects operate in momentary mode.
The other six effects operate in toggle mode.
Up to two toggle effects can be used simultaneously.
Tempo-based effects can sync to USB MIDI Clock.
Synterra automatically follows MIDI Start, Stop, and BPM changes."

Avalon TB-303 VST by Denver Synth

video upload by manmade madman

"The Abstrakt Avalon was made to perfectly replicate everything in a vintage Roland TB-303, and add features like an additional mod envelope, more knobs for greater control, and excellent metal build quality. But they were rare, expensive on the secondary market, and hard to find. Some people have waited half a decade for delivery.

Until now.

Made by a complete 303 madman deep in a laboratory under strictest of top-secrecy and tightest guarded listening chambers, this digital version gives you everything you could ever want, then goes a little further with more programming modes, tweakable settings for slide/glide and resonance, Devil Fish mods, adds all the filter cartridges (even your own!) new colored skins, and the should-be-patentable EZ buttons. Also included for analog authenticity is the db-cell technology, adding pure analog noise modulation for non-repeatability where it counts; in vintage circuits. Best of all: it matches the hardware through rigorous test harnesses, and countless hours of listening. If it didn't sound authentic, it wouldn't get released.

Thank goodness, it does.

Available now: store.denversynth.com

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ZEROBOY: a Zero-input mixer demo. This time with a beat!

video upload by manmade madman

"Sometimes, you just have to have a play!

Available now at store.denversynth.com"

ZEROBOY

Zero-input mixer. DIY noise artist's playground.
A digital no-input mixer: four channels, two effect returns that are full mixer channels in their own right, db-cell running as the board's own noise floor, and a live patch bay — everything you hear starts as the board's own hiss going round a feedback loop until it finds a mode. CASCADE feeds each channel into the next, wrapping channel four back to channel one; CHEAP/SOLID decides how hard the shared power rail sags and lets every channel modulate every other one through it.

ZEROBOY plugin GUI
Four mixer channels, each with seven selectable circuit topologies and Mackie-style 3-band EQ, plus a CASCADE that feeds straight into the next channel — channel four wraps back to channel one

Reverb and delay aren't send effects — they're two more full mixer channels with their own gain, EQ, and aux sends, already wired into a two-node feedback loop with each other

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INFIDEL low fidelity DIY modular synth from DenverSynthLabs

video upload by manmade madman

"INFIDEL shown here put through its paces.
This is an intentionally non-musical demo to show the power and sound of INFIDEL. It gets loud. If you don't like it, good.
The point is, you've never heard a VST sound like this, ever.
What we make hasn't existed before.
So, stop chasing other people's sound, and make something that's your very own for a change.
With roughly 1/3rd of the available modules shown here, you can tweak until morning.
Just make sure you get some sleep sometimes!

store.denversynth.com"



"INFIDEL is a full modular synth built around one idea: every module runs its own cheap sign-magnitude DAC, at its own sample rate and bit depth, so the whole rack can sound exactly as broken as you want it to — on purpose. You don't have to earn that sound with a soldering iron or a twenty-minute boot sequence. Hit INIT FULL and you've got a working 47-module, 81-cable patch across four buses — lead, drone, texture, drums — before you've turned a single knob. Hit EZ on any module and it rolls a new setting that's checked to never go silent. Cables snap to the nearest free jack, drop onto an existing cable to insert a module inline, or swap one module for another while keeping every cable that matches by name. It's fast to get a sound out of, and it stays deep — a 53-module library and KEY-locked lo-fi clocking mean there's always one more place to take it.

- 53 user modules across Sources, Filters, Effects, Drums, Utilities and Logic — including an 8-model VCF BANK (CS-80, IR3109, SSM2044, CEM3320, SSM2040, STEINER, EMS DIODE, WASP) and effects ported from SpringBoy, BucketBoy, Thermion and Ironwall

- Every module runs its own cheap lo-fi DAC — RATE 1–32 kHz, BITS 2–16 — and KEY locks a module's clock to the last note played, so the grit tracks pitch instead of just buzzing underneath it

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Korg Wavestate SE - Klaus Schulze Tribute Walkthrough

video upload by LFOstore

"In this video chief of www.lfo.store Nick Klimenko presenting latest
Korg Wavestate soundset - Klaus Schulze Tribute Vol.2

Using MW & 4 macro controllers with berlin school style playing you
can get very authentic sounds.

Also this sounds are very usable in any electronic music genre.

Working with Wavestate - hardware & native versions.

BUY: https://lfo.sellfy.store/p/korg-waves...

Introducing 'Tribute Vol.2' soundset with 40 melodic & atmospheric performances for Korg Wavestate splitted on:

Classic & modern Berlin sequences
Complex arpeggios & rhythmica
Warmy Moogy leads & solos
Beautiful big Polys & strings
Atmospheric Pads

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Roland D-50 vs D-110: Can You Hear the Difference?

video upload by Ian Dixon

"The Roland D-50 and Roland D-110 both come from Roland's late-80s Linear Arithmetic synthesis era, but do they actually sound the same? In this blind comparison I play similar D-50 and D-110 sounds side by side, including warm pads, Soundtrack, synth bells, electric pianos, synth brass, Fantasia/Fantasy style patches, and dual-layer sounds, then reveal which synth was which.

The D-50 is the classic performance synth behind so many iconic digital sounds, while the D-110 is the rackmount, multi-timbral workhorse built for MIDI studios. This test is about the real character of each instrument: the modulation, the shimmer, the effects, the PCM attack, and how close the D-110 can get to the D-50 in practice.

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Free Roland D-50 Editor & Librarian – Edit Patches in Your Browser

video upload by Ian Dixon

"My free Roland D-50 Editor Librarian is a browser-based Web MIDI tool for backing up, browsing, importing and editing D-50 sounds without sending your patch data to the cloud.

In this video I show the full workflow from the YouTube transcript: connecting the D-50 over MIDI, enabling SysEx, reading the current edit buffer, opening a patch library, sending sounds to the synth, receiving a full bulk dump from the D-50, saving a library backup, importing SysEx banks, and editing classic D-50 patches such as Fantasia. The editor also makes it easier to work with the D-50's upper and lower tones, partials, PCM and synthesis structures, ring modulation, filter and amp envelopes, reverb, tuning and patch management.

The aim is to give the Roland D-50 a modern librarian/editor workflow: build a large library of card sounds and custom patches, search for sounds quickly, send patches to the edit buffer when recording, and avoid constantly swapping cards or managing small internal banks by hand.

https://thedigitallifestyle.com/w/TDL...

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The Crow Hill Company Announces Availability of Utterly Terrifying CHILDREN’S CHOIR

Utterly Terrifying Choir - WALKTHROUGH video upload by CROW HILL

Press release follows:


The Crow Hill Company announces availability of CHILDREN’S CHOIR, crafting terrifying sounds from school-age children to deliver broad spectrum of timbral possibilities

EDINBURGH, UK: The Crow Hill Company is proud to announce availability of CHILDREN’S CHOIR — crafting terrifying sounds from a school-age troupe of boys singing with just the right amount of ‘beautiful menace’ and an ability to be creative while working with the Edinburgh-based enterprise in support of delivering an instrument based around an expertly curated sample-set with a broad range of timbral possibilities designed by media composers with other media composers in mind — as of September 21…

Asked about the task of crafting CHILDREN’S CHOIR, The Crow Hill Company co-founder and media composer Christian Henson has his tongue not entirely out of his creative cheek in response, resurrecting the famous showbiz warning usually credited to American comedian W.C. Fields, effectively, by way of opening: “Never work with animals and children! So what’s this going to be like? Getting kids to be slightly demonic, evil, scary… they love it! And they totally seem to get making it so pretty that it’s scary. So we thought we’d try and nurture that spirit in a children’s choir library designed particularly for media composers — people who write for film, TV, and computer games. Why are these guys going to be wanting to use a children’s choir? Maybe there’s something set in a boarding school, maybe there’s something slightly choral and religious, but, more times than not, something unsettling is needed, and that’s where we’ve gone with this one. There are limits to how long children should be asked to perform. So, we thought we’d use the time thoughtfully, curating a selection of singing styles that capture this spirit. As opposed to giving you yet another library with ‘AAs’, ‘EEs’, ‘Ahs’, ‘Ohs’, and ‘MMs’, etcetera, AHOH, OHEH [and many more singing styles are available using the EXPRESSION wheel]. There’s some lovely WAVERING stuff where the pitch centres change. They sound great and scary when you cluster up, but on their own — or just a couple of notes — they have all sorts of childlike menace. There’s terrifying RISES and FALLS. And we’ve got a whole bunch of SHORT [singing styles].

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Yamaha FS1R Comes to Software with FSVR Emulator

via musica.studio

ALL 88 ALGORITHMS
Every FM algorithm from the hardware, with the voiced and unvoiced operators the FS1R is known for.

THE FACTORY BANKS BUILT IN
1408 voices [patches], 384 performances and 90 formant sequences read out of the ROM, so the patch browser needs no dump of your own.

FSEQ PLAYBACK
The formant sequences that made the FS1R sound like nothing else, with every loop mode, the start delay and MIDI clock sync.

THE FRONT PANEL IS THE GUI
Down to the cursor stops and the controller set, read out of the firmware's own screen tables rather than off a photo.

VST3, CLAP AND STANDALONE
Windows, macOS and Linux, built on every push, with no installer and no dependencies.

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Native Instruments FM8.plus Enhancement Project

via musica.studio

MORPH ROTATE
Map any MIDI CC to sweep a circle through all four morph timbres. Ride the whole morph square from a mod wheel.

ARP MIDI OUT
The built-in arpeggiator can finally drive other instruments. Probably FM8's most requested missing feature.

TEMPO OVERRIDE
Unshackle the arpeggiator from the DAW tempo and run it at its own.

GAIN +10 DB
Extra output gain, for patches that never quite got loud enough.

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