Buchla 700 Ambient Scores

video uploads by Dave Whiting

"Using the score editor on Buchla 700. It's such a unique instrument. I'm using Werckmeister tuning in D minor
The only processing is a touch of DJW Audio Shine Reverb https://djwaudio.co/#shine

#buchla #buchla700 #ambientmusic #microtonal #werckmeister"

HYP-1 for M-VAVE FM1

video upload by RedtailWorks

You can find the M-VAVE FM-1 on Amazon.

"Explore the features and functions of the HYP-1, a custom firmware for the M-VAVE FM-1"

https://rustypawz.github.io/fm1-HYP1/

HYP-1 turns the M-VAVE FM-1 into a hypnotic techno and acid machine. It plays from the moment it's switched on: a breathing pad, a deep drone, a generative 303 line and grain, over drums you sequence. You shape the voices like a small modular, flip patterns on the bar, break it down, build it up, and record the whole performance into your DAW.

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Generative Ambient Machine (AMB-1) Inspired by Brian Eno's Music for Airports for the M-VAVE FM1

video upload by DECIMA1

You can find the M-VAVE FM-1 on Amazon.

"Today I cover the FM-1 Generative Ambient Machine (AMB-1) get it here: https://charlesvestal.github.io/fm1-a..."


"A generative ambient machine, inspired by Brian Eno's Music for Airports. It plays itself from the moment it's switched on. You don't perform it, you tend it: pick a piece and a scale, take notes out, put them back, and let it grow.

THE GARDEN

Pad. Four breathing voices, a Rhodes or sung voices, each swelling and fading on its own cycle, so the chord forms and dissolves. Now and then it drifts to another chord in the scale.

Bells. Soft FM bells on four tape loops 13, 17, 23 and 29 beats long, sliding against each other so the melody never quite repeats.

Bass. The chord's root, low and gliding.

Pulse. A thump and two hats on Euclidean patterns of 16, 12 and 7 steps.

Space. A tape echo, a long tape loop and a plate reverb: most of what you hear. REC freezes the chord and lets the reverb ring on forever.

Eight pieces, each remembering how you left it. The keys are the scale: press one to take its note out or put it back. A slow tide between sparse and full, and rests now and then, keep it moving for hours."

Atmospheric Techno Patch Walkthrough | Multigrain, Swells, Atlantix, Metropolix and more

video upload by Intellijel

"This patch combines a fast, hypnotic bass and kick combo (Atlantix), with an ambient layer of pads, reverb and noise with random sequencing and no clock (Multigrain & Swells). Plus, a layer of percussion from Plonk and some glitched out delays from Sealegs. Lots of tricks and ideas in this walkthrough, we hope you find it useful!

Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
00:26 - Ambient Layer - Multigrain, Swells, Flurry
07:21 - Bass and Kick - Atlantix, Metropolix, Quadrax
12:08 - Additional Percussion and Glitch FX - Plonk, Polaris, Sealegs
17:48 - Final Patch and Outro Jam"

Liminal Space 2 RC7: Tape, Fuzz & Beautiful New Reverb Spaces

video upload by Keith Crosley

"Liminal Space 2 RC7 now has tape saturation, tape shimmer, fuzz, robot speech, and new Authentic Soundware-inspired spaces. Your old pal Keith went in to update his haunted digital reverb synth and apparently forgot where the brakes were. So grab your headphones: we're going from beautiful studio strings to a cassette deck that probably shouldn't be allowed to drive!

First, Space Age Strings from Authentic Soundware meets four new reverb banks evolved from Jared Hunter's impulse responses, used with his permission. We explore Color EQ and Decay Color, compare Eastside Church with its source IR, and squeeze into the tiny Relic Room. These are algorithmic reverbs inspired by measured spaces; the IRs aren't playing inside the plugin.

Then things get gloriously unreasonable. The new GRIT module brings warmth, crunch, wavefolding, bitcrushing, shoegaze fuzz, varispeed tape, and Speak & Spell-style speech processing. We build tape shimmer, stereo wow and flutter, and a weird reverse-tape bloom. How many ways can you bend pitch in a reverb? Apparently, ALL OF THEM.

We also cover the new "Clean" tank filtering, Vulture 224 vintage flavor, spring/plate Material, Follow-driven reverb ducking, Lexitone Split Decay, and a quick return to True Shimmer. Plus a "Skippy Save" shortcut for your own wonderfully questionable patches. Woot!

Demonstrated in this video: Liminal Space 2 RC7 in Bitwig on Windows. Liminal Space is my own plugin. This video is not sponsored by Authentic Soundware.

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Reflection 2.7 preview: draw a path, the sound flies along it

video upload by ReflectionDAW

"A first look at what's coming in Reflection 2.7. We're skipping a few version numbers: there's that much new in it.

Draw a path and the sound moves along it: doppler, air, early reflections, room size in metres. Then ShimVerb, a reverb whose tail climbs in pitch on every pass, a new 8-band EQ drawn over the live spectrum, and the Metasurface morphing between two snapshots.

0:00 MOTION: a path for the sound
0:16 Piano roll
0:35 EQ over the live spectrum
0:50 Metasurface morph

Try the free demo: https://reflection-daw.com/?ref=yt

#sounddesign #experimentalmusic #reflectiondaw"

Novation Circuit Tracks Firmware Hack

It finally happened! Circuit Tracks Hacked! video upload by Guinan

"Thread is here,
/ circuithacks_is_out_now_unofficial_custom

Official Github,
https://github.com/Ghillermo/CIRCUITS..."

via Redit:

"NEW UPDATE: Beta1 is finishing internal testing and will be released soon. You can update with the upload tool. Thanks everybody for their input. I tried to include most of your requests (and some of my own) when it was possible, some of them I did my own take, trying to satisfy similar goals into a single approach. Now we have a couple new effects, you can save synth engine's patches, customize your macro Knobs from the device, pattern link, scene repeat, copy and re-arrange stuff inside or between packs... Check GitHub for a full list. All stock functions remain the same. Message me, submit a request on the GitHub or reply to this thread for fixes, new features or clarifications. A demo will maybe come, after a rest. If anyone wants to share theirs, be my guest."

Features for the archives, via Github:

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Polly: a pocket arranger for the M-VAVE FM-1

video upload by Charles Vestal

You can find the M-VAVE FM-1 on Amazon.

"Polly is free firmware that turns the M-VAVE FM-1 into a pocket arranger, inspired by the Yamaha QY70. Play a chord, and a band of eight instruments follows it.

16 styles, each with an Intro, two grooves, fills and an Ending
Write your own chord progressions, and build songs from them, section by section
Record two melodies along the song, and fix any note in the piano roll
128 General MIDI sounds and a drum kit, with a mixer, reverb and chorus
Make your own grooves, save up to four songs, and back them up from the browser
Play from a MIDI keyboard, send MIDI to your computer, and mirror the screen

New in 0.4: melodies start as a choir, and the Ending stays in tune when you ask for it mid-song.

Install from Chrome or Edge, or try it in your browser first: https://charlesvestal.github.io/fm1-p...
Lessons with videos: https://charlesvestal.github.io/fm1-p...
Source (GPL-3.0): https://github.com/charlesvestal/fm1-...

0:00 Play a chord, and the band follows
0:14 16 styles
0:28 Grooves and fills
0:43 Build a song
0:51 Record melodies
1:02 Edit notes
1:16 Sounds, mixer and effects

Built on Felucca by Hügelton Instruments. The piano roll follows the design of Melodee by Kerem Kilic. Sounds by Sonivox EAS. Polly isn't affiliated with Yamaha or M-VAVE."

Radiophonic Modular Performance

video upload by Starsky Carr

"Sometimes we talk too much... so this is a live performance using 'only' the AJH Synth RadioPhonic*, with Erica Synths *Bullfrog Drums*, the *Bullfrog mixer*, all sequenced by the *OXI ONE Mk2

No talking, I promise!! just the track, the sound of the hardware and an on-screen explanation of whats going on.

All synth sounds come from the RadioPhonic, with Bullfrog Drums providing the percussion. The effects are from the Bullfrog Mixer - simply a lovely sounding reverb and a delay.

The setup:
• AJH Synth RadioPhonic — all synth sounds
• Erica Synths Bullfrog Drums — drums and percussion
• Bullfrog mixer — mixing
• OXI ONE — sequencing"

Astra Creative Audio releases Tesseracto 4D MPE Software Synth

Press release follows:

"Astra Creative Audio, the plugin brand of Barcelona producers BLIKO and Phonkid Prod, releases Tesseracto 4D, a wavetable synthesizer for macOS that can be played in the air. Its companion app, Tesseracto CAM, reads both hands through the Mac's camera or an iPhone (Continuity Camera) and turns height, tilt and an open or closed hand into per-note MPE expression, the way an MPE controller would.

Tesseracto 4D

- Wavetable oscillator that travels the table in four dimensions (X, Y, Z and W), shown rotating at the centre of the panel.

- Full MPE: every finger carries its own pitch, pressure and slide; also playable from any MPE controller or a regular keyboard.

- 4D modulation matrix with 3D LFOs and chaos; filter, envelopes, unison and glide; arpeggiator and 4D path.

- Hyper-FX rack: Quantum Folder, Phase Flanger, Chrono Delay, Void Shimmer, Hyper-Stereo Displacer, Hyper-Compressor and Vintage Reverb 70s, in series, in parallel or in a feedback loop.

- 80 presets in 10 categories.

- Version 1.0.0. macOS: VST3 and Audio Unit, universal binary (Intel and Apple Silicon). Licence for life on two computers.

- Tesseracto CAM: macOS 13 or later. Hand tracking runs on the computer: the camera image never leaves it, and the internet is only needed once, to activate the licence.

- Price: €99, taxes included. Tesseracto CAM is included.

One bundle, one payment

- Astra Color Pack: the four compressors (A-2A optical, A-3A leveller, A-2Bus bus compressor, A-76 FET limiter) and the four EQs (A-Pre EQ, A-Channel EQ, A-Program EQ, A-500): €199, taxes included, against €338.80 bought one by one. One licence key activates all eight; macOS (VST3/AU, universal) and Windows (64-bit VST3).

Also coming: from 19 October the A-Vocal FX vocal chain joins the Astra subscription (€9.99 a month or €99 a year, taxes included) with version 1.2.3.

Product pages: astracreativeaudio.com/en/tesseracto · astracreativeaudio.com/en/pack"

MASAMUNE, MURAMASA & The Pursuit of Happiness

video uploads by timfromtheborder

Playlist:

1. MASAMUNE Granular Chopper for Drambo

The MASAMUNE effect uses granular synthesis to chop live audio and turn it into percussive rhythm. It uses Drambo’s Code module and you can grab it here:

https://patchstorage.com/masamune/

2. MURAMASA Transient Slice Looper for Drambo

Create rhythmic loops out of any audio material. Available at https://patchstorage.com/muramasa/

3. The Pursuit of Happiness… a Drambo tape delay module

I cooked up a micro-looper/tape delay Code module in Drambo. This is a little demo. You can grab it here:

https://patchstorage.com/pursuit-of-h...

"Drambo is an innovative modular groovebox and audio processing environment. Modular components are used to build synthesized and sample-based instruments and audio effects using high-quality DSP and audio-rate modulation. Tied to a powerful sequencer, it’s an optimal music creation tool for sound design, composition, performance, and experimentation."

"MASAMUNE Granular Chopper

Named after the legendary samurai sword, MASAMUNE will slice your sound into live beats.

An audio-chopping effect: turn any source audio into rhythmic percussion.

Made with the Code module. This is a RACK preset."

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Celestine for iPad: My real‑time granular device is now an AUv3

video upload by ijo audio

ijo audio also brought us Polycrush 16 - 8-bit synthesizer for Ableton Live

"Celestine is a real-time granular AUv3 audio effect for the iPad. It's always listening and always spitting out grains. If you've been following my channel for some time, you'll know that Celestine started out as a Max4Live device... my most successful one to date. Many people have asked for it to be ported to other platforms and this marks the beginning of that journey. I've spent the last few months on this. I've also got future plans to release Celestine as a VST3/AU for other desktop DAW users.

Just like the original, this iPad version aims for the immediacy of a pedal and the depth of a granular instrument. There are eight granular modes: classic Grain clouds, Mosaic’s harmonic tiles, Glide’s tape‑like swoops, Reverie’s reverse washes, Bloom’s halos, Tide’s pulsing waves, Stars’ sequenced sparkles and Orbit’s swirling stereo motion. Everything stays tempo‑locked when you want it to in Sync mode, the (now touch-based) visualizer lets you perform playhead and pitch gestures on the fly, and the grain panel offers control over density, size, spray, jitter, reverse probability and more.

To shape the final output, Celestine includes a 'Magic panel' of various multi-FX to sweeten things, a lush reverb and a Dirt section with wavefolding and a bitcrusher. Use Celestine as an insert effect and set the dry/wet to taste or put it fully wet on a send to let fragments of your entire session bloom into shimmering clouds. I’ve found it shines on vocals, guitars, synths and pianos, but percussion can turn into glittering glitches and rhythmic sparkles too. I've also added undo/redo, a full preset system and a constrained randomizer to jump to new ideas quickly.

As I mentioned, I’m planning future releases for VST3/AU on desktop, so this is just the beginning of Celestine’s journey. For now, I hope you enjoy sculpting sounds on the couch, in the bathtub or wherever you like to use your iPad. :)

Celestine for iPadOS has an introductory price of $5.99 USD for the first two weeks and then will jump up to $9.99.

Celestine on the App Store

Also, I've recently started up a Discord server and while it's still small, I'd love for you to join and come say hi. I love the community that has built around my work and if we can find new ways to connect, it would be great. Join it here: / discord

#Celestine #AUv3 #iPadMusic #GranularSynthesis #Ambient #SoundDesign #MusicProduction #iOSMusic #AudioEffects #iosmusicproduction"

Korg multi/poly: Tangerine Dream PPG Lead Sound

video upload by Ian Dixon

"In this Korg multi/poly tutorial I show how to build a Tangerine Dream-style PPG lead sound from an initial program, using the built-in digital wave tables rather than imported PPG waves.

The patch starts with a choir-like digital wave, then uses a second detuned oscillator, effects, wavetable position and morph settings to get that wider, vocal, classic electronic lead character.

Chapters:
00:00 Tangerine Dream PPG lead demo
00:57 Choosing built-in PPG-style waves
01:45 Shaping the choir-like wave
02:30 Detuning two oscillators
03:16 Chorus, compressor and tape delay
04:02 Wave morph settings
04:51 Combining the oscillators
05:37 Reverb, detune controls and sound pack info
06:23 CTA and requests"

The Blade Runner Sound on the Moog Grandmother

video upload by kleemannbeats

🎛️ Free Patches: https://synthskool.com/yt-free
🎓 Moog Grandmother Course: https://synthskool.com/yt-gm
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0:00 – The Blade Runner Brass on a Grandmother
0:32 – Oscillator Setup: Two Saws, Slight Detune
1:26 – Vintage Pitch Drift (Mod Oscillator on Both)
2:58 – The Envelope: Where the Sound Blooms
3:40 – Singing Resonance + Spring Reverb
4:15 – Faking the CS-80 Aftertouch (Velocity → Cutoff)
5:26 – Playing Above the Keyboard Range
6:08 – Final Touch: Slow LFO on the Filter

SATURDAY: Elektron Digitone 2, Outbox 8, Analog 4 and Eventide Tricera Chorus.

video upload by Acid Gray

"Digitone 2 and Analog 4 on a melancholic IDM-jam building the first track for my next album.

Digitone 2 used for pads (Swarmer machines) plus Tricera Chorus and reverb. The other tracks are used for drums and percussion.

Here Outbox 8 really shines, as you now can use the DN as synth, drum machine and external sequencer - and still go for hardware recordings.

Analog 4:
T1: Lead
T2: Bass
T3: Additional Pad
T4: Pluck

Will use the DN2 / A4 combo definitely more frequently.

Had severe issues with my BlueBox today, as no separate FX tracks were recorded, although the option was selected, so I added reverb and delay in Logic X Pro this time."

Farfisa Polychrome – A short demonstration

video upload by melodikakofoniko

"Farfisa Polychrome – A short demonstration (with added reverb).

My rarest (and most awesome) synth must be the Farfisa Polychrome. It's a thoroughly beautiful Italian string machine from the late 1970s with four independent sections, a BBD chorus, and a great phaser effect. It's kind of similar to the ARP Quadra (but without a mono section—everything here is purely divide-down based). It's similar in size to the Korg Trident or Elka Synthex (HUGE!) but even heavier! It's got a really otherworldly analog vocal chorus section that sounds unique and beautiful, especially when combined with the other sections.

The keybed has a really nice mechanical aftertouch mechanism, similar in construction to the one found in the Yamaha CS series (though this one works with a magnet and a Hall sensor). My Farfisa collection also includes the Soundmaker and the Synthorchestra—Farfisa's earlier but similarly unique and cool machines with a distinctive 1970s sound (compared to the Polychrome, which sounds quite different)."

You can find additional posts featuring the Farfisa Polychrome here.

Fujiha F8000 LiveJam - Made in Italy by Viscount (Enso Looper & Fac Alteza Reverb)

video upload by VSMI - Vintage Synths Made in Italy

"Fujiha F8000 LiveJam - Middle '80 Made in Italy Home Keyboard Synthesizer by Viscount
5 simultaneous parts
Bass, accompaniment, solo, polyphonic voices, drum based on lo-fi digital samples.
Sound editing: 2 groups of 8 waveforms, 8 mix types and 8 envelopes.
User memory: 4 user-programmable registrations.
MIDI In, MIDI Out and MIDI Thru.
Enso Looper & Fac Alteza Reverb on iPad."

See the Fujiha label for additional posts.

Moog Micromoog & Modular w/ AJH/MiniMod, Hermod+ analog synth jam

video upload by DreamsOfWires

"Testing my faulty Micromoog with some helpful modules from AJH Synth: My poor old Moog isn't scaling/tracking correctly, so the V-Scale module is being used to modify the 1V/Oct output of the sequencer to produce the correct notes. Video guide to how this was achieved: • Correcting Vintage Synths with V-SCALE - T... [below]

Normally the Micromoog follows a 0.95V/Oct voltage to pitch scale, but mine can no longer even be calibrated to this with it's internal trimmers, so until it can be serviced (probably with some new components), the V-Scale at least makes it useable with external controllers and sequencers.

Sequenced by the Squarp Hermod+, the synth's faulty tracking is then corrected using AJH Synth's V-Scale module, gates coverted by the AMSynths AM997 Gate to S-Trig converter.

Micromoog filter modulated by AJH Tap Tempo VC-LFO, random gate skip by AJH CHance Delay.

Drone is 3 AJH MiniMod VCOs into Matrix VCF.

Mixed in the Cosmotronic Cosmix Pro, reverb from FX Aid, delay from 2HP DLY, final mix recorded on the Disting Mk4."

Video guide to how it was achieved:

Correcting Vintage Synths with V-SCALE - Tackling Tracking & Tuning Problems #ajhsynth

video upload by AJH Synth Official

"Using V-SCALE to compensate for the tuning/tracking problems on one of my Vintage Synthesizers, this time a Moog Micromoog from the late 70's. Also, showing how PRECISION VOLTAGES can also be helpful, and bringing the TAP TEMPO VC-LFO, CHANCE DELAY, and the MATRIX VCF into a short performance demo - FULL performance video by ‪@DreamsOfWires‬ can be found here: • Moog Micromoog & Modular w/ AJH/MiniMod, H... [above]

V-SCALE at its simplest will function as a highly accurate buffered multiple, but four of its five outputs are adjustable by way of multi-turn trimmers. These allow for very gradual adjustments to outgoing CV signals, so that they can be made viable for synths or VCOs that are not scaling properly.

Here I'm adjusting/modifying a 1V/Oct signal from a sequencer so that it controls my old Micromoog correctly, but it could also be used with incoming signals other than 1V/Oct, or even to correct am incoming signal which itself isn't scaling correctly or as desired. Each trimmer has an adjustment range of +/- 5%.

My Micromoog's tracking is so far off that it cannot even be corrected using the internal trimmers on the synth, so I'm using the Keyboard Output (KBD) as the CV input, instead. of the intended OSC input. This method bypasses the keyboard, so the keyboard voltage isn't added to incoming control voltages, and so doesn't interfere with it. The only drawback is that the root key will have to be changed to match the notes on a keyboard. That's where the PRECISION VOLTAGES comes in - it can accurately offset an incoming control voltage by semitones and octaves, either up or down."

Korg Minilogue meets vintage Oberheim OB-8

video upload by Synthnerd

"I recently restored an Oberheim OB-8 for someone and before handing it back I decided to see how it compared with the diminutive Korg Minilogue. The Korg is new, small, and cheap – the OB-8 is none of those things. But how do they sound together?

The Minilogue is playing an arpeggio through a TC 2290P delay pedal. Both synths go into the Tascam Model 12 with nothing else in the way. Reverb is from a Lexicon MPX1, their mid-range unit from the 90s, which sat just below the PCM series and above the budget MPX and LXP models. No further processing on this, the audio is straight from the Tascam."

Arp Improvisation with VONGON Family

video upload by keinseier

"Set up a little chain with the Vongon Replay into the Solarfaze saturation into the Polyphrase delay and the Ultrasheer Reverb and improvised a little piece. Added a bassline with the Moog Sub25 and done. Sunday."