Journey West

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"Large Format modular synth live studio song.
The new module is a Maneco Labs Sequencer 16 trigger step sequencer. I used it as the main clock source for the rest of the system.
I started with the Maneco Labs Grone dark drone machine module for the opening intro.
The bass line was introduced next using triggers from channel six of the Sequencer 16, with the Corsynth pair of VCO's into the Grove Audio G294A LPF and the Synthetic Sound Labs Tube VCA/Timbral Gate and then on to the STG Soundlabs mixer.
The percussive parts came next. First was a pair of Q206's in Sync mode through a Moon Modular 517S high pass filter. Pitch voltage was from the lower Q960 step sequencer. The pattern pulses were from a pair of Mega Ohm Audio LFO2 modules run through a triple switch module from Lower West Side Studios.
Second part was a single STG Soundlabs Oscillator in drone to the SSL Tube VCA, pulsed by the STG Envelope modified with an LOF to the decay input. Then on through a Behringer Digital Delay. The pattern triggers were from the SSL Geo-Gruvn Euclidean Sequencer.
I used channel 3 from the Seq16 to pulse the SSL VC ADSR with the SSL Woven Spirits module. The SSL Quad LFO was used to fade in and out the pulsing part. The pitch sweeping is done by an LFO to the Harmonic input of the Woven Spirits. The pizzicato string part came next. It was actually the first part I created. The use of channels 1 & 2 from the Seq16 were sent through the SSL Octal Linear VCA with the AD/AR Expander module as envelopes. The sound was from the pair of SSL TZ-VCO's which are pitch controlled by a pair of The Matrix Algorithmic Composer modules. They are sent to a Modcan Dual Delay 73B and on to a Dove Audio D502 Multimode Filter with Hi Pass to Low Pass in 2-pole mode. The reverb is from an UA Golden Reverb in Hall 2 mode.
The final part is the upper Q960 step sequencer with all three rows sending pitch voltages to three oscillators. First row was to the Dove WTF. Second row was to the Mos Lab Moog 901 and 904 array. The third vco is a synthesizers.com Q106. They are mixed and sent to the EHX Grand Canyon in Mod Delay mode. Gate timings from the Moon 563 Trigger Sequencer.
I closed out with the Grone module."

Hermetic Modular - Launch Announcement - New Open Source Eurorack Manufacture

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"Introducing a new modular synthesis company. Shipping early July.

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Open source!

Thank you to Victory Nguyen for performing, Justin Benjamin for the good camera work (all bad camera work should be attributed to me), and Greg Dixon for some of the excellent sound design demos."

How do you test 36,700 LEDs?

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"Run a burn in test! Enjoy 10 minutes of the uninterrupted test - an important step in the QA process. This runs for a minimum of five hours per board.

Proper eurorack LED ring pot feedback.

And all 3060 of these LEDs pictured passed :)

Music credit to @adamwonak on IG - "abstract" from 202606 on Bandcamp now."

ECHOA STEREO DUAL DELAY AND REVERB PROCESSOR

Four delay lines total — two per stereo channel. Morph delay into reverb from first principles, from clean digital delay to smeared, textured reflections. Route the four lines in series, parallel, isolation, or spectrally. Presets, parameter lock on every pot, character engines, and more.

TIME
Delay time from 1 ms to 16 seconds, up to four taps per delay line, configurable for your sound design. Feedback up to and past unity, and a dry/wet mix per channel. Freeze delay buffers, set tempo with tap on the line buttons, or patch a clock and lock each line to a musical division. Linear or logarithmic time taper options: a full featured, clean delay line.

SPACE
Bend echoes into reverb. Diffusion sweeps a four-stage Schroeder all-pass network from discrete repeats to a wash. Bloom grows short, fixed loops into long modulated plate and hall tails. Damping is bipolar from noon — counter-clockwise darkens the tail, clockwise thins and brightens it.

ENGINE
Degrade each line's voice across with four engines — digital, BBD, tape, vinyl. Saturation, bandwidth limiting, compander, wow and flutter, hiss, crackle, digital glitches. Depth scales from bit-pristine bypass, to a gentle touch of character, to destruction.

CONFIGURABLE FOR PERFORMANCE ROUTING
Parallel, series, mono, or spectral delay-line topologies.

CV MAPPING
Per-CV destination, with attenuverters on every input.

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Baloran The Pool 2024 w/ Original Box & Manual

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"If you want bells and whistles, this synth's got it! This "The Pool" is in very good condition with very few signs of wear. Comes with its original box, manual and power cable as shown in the photos.

The Pool is a unique synthesizer concept featuring a full bi-timbral panel, four bi-timbral voice cards and a two-bus effects unit. The control panel houses a large 7-inch color capacitive touch screen, 79 potentiometers, 34 encoders and no less than 169 illuminated pushbuttons.

Each bi-timbral voice card features:

2 analog VCOs (type CEM3340) with wave mixer by VCAs, magnificent “natural” saturation beyond the unit gain accessible via modulations and morphers, sync by VCO or digital generator.

2 complex digital generators with classical waves, wavetables, soundfont, additive synthesis, euclidean generator and VCO ADC for complex operations like RING, FM or multiband formants with vowel presets, mixing by VCAs always with this beautiful “natural” saturation beyond the unit gain. You can import your wavetables using the WaveEdit application (). The import of your own soundfonts will be possible later.

Hardware Sync from VCO or Digital generator to VCO.

1 input for insertion of an external signal before each filter group.

2 groups of 2 VCFs (type CEM3320 and CEM3350), Lowpass 12/24 db/Octave, FM via VCO or digital generator for the 3320, Bandpass/

Highpass 12 db/Octave for the 3350, serial or parallel, mixes of the two filters and filter groups on each channel. Hardware FM from VCO or Digital generator to filter 3320.

Two analog envelopes (type CEM3310 with VCA CEM3360) with ajustable/modulable offset (perfect for drone mode) and modulable pan.

Two digital envelopes with adjustable exponentiality from ultra percussive to linear.

Three digital LFOS integrating complex waveforms. You can build your own modulations using the WaveEdit application ().

For each timbre/channel, the envelope VCA incorporates panning and adjustable offset, ideal for drone modes among others."

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Original 70's Moog Minimoog Model D Signed By Bob Moog! SN 8247

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"We try to get these as often as possible. When we do we fully service them. We recapped this one and rebuilt the keyboard. It is a great synth. Sounds and plays amazing. The cherry on top is that it was signed by Bob Moog!! That is pretty rad. The case has been restained. But it is in great cosmetic condition otherwise. A true classic signed by a true classic."

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1979 Oberheim OB-X - 8-Voice with MIDI SN

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"You will not find a finer example of an original OB-X Eight Voice. This one has been in a non smoking home studio and has been serviced and MIDI added. These are incredible sounding synthesizers and it is fully functional. Big Fat sounds are its specialty. It sounds incredible!!!!! Amazing Synthesizer all around."

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Moog Memorymoog with LAMM Mod 345A SN 2818

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"Outstanding example of the MOOG flagshiip synth from the early eighties. This one is in amazing condition, it has been in a non-smoking home studio for years. It has the coveted LAMM mod. You won't find a finer example of the Memory Moog 345A. Excellent working condition and fully serviced. Excellent."

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Roland Jupiter-8 with MIDI Kit SN 030104

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"Incredible Roland Jupiter 8. The king of all Roland synths. This one is the last Rev with factory 14 bit DAC. This is one of the finest examples we have seen. Fully fuctional and has MIDI professionally installed. Well cared for in a non smoking home studio. It is in fabulous condition and sounds absolutely amazing. If you are looking for a Jupiter 8. Look no further. The best of the best. Awesome."

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Oberheim Matrix 1000

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Shigin Conductor 3 Tone Monophonic Synthesizer

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Oberheim SEM 1977 via 360 System Spectre

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"These used to be a somewhat well kept secret, obviously no more. But if you're not familiar with the 360 Systems Spectre, it was a pretty terrible GUITAR synth (slow & choppy tracking) that 360 Systems produced with Oberheim SEMs as the heart of these units.

Sometimes you'll see these listed as being "Converted to full-functioning SEM" but often there's a thing or two that were missed. You have to reconfigure a few jumpers, add a missing coupling capacitor to each envelope generator, add the missing Decay and Sustain controls to the EG on the Amp VCA, replace the input gain resistor for the external input, add shielded wire for the output, change the output impedance resistor and so on. Everything was done to this unit to make it true full-functioning SEM. An original SEM/CPS-1 power supply (recapped) was also installed inside.

I'm also including a 1977 CPS-1 chassis (complete with recapped PSU) with it so if you do find a faceplate, you'll have a complete SEM. My plan was to find or have someone make me an SEM faceplate in the rare black finish. I thought the gray knobs would look killer on the black panel. But tbh, I really liked the portability of the 360 case. Oh well, someone else can enjoy it now. I've used this in my studio for the last 5-6 years. I will miss it but I'm not doing much synth-based music.

-Synth was fully restored 5 years ago with some basic maintenance in the last 2 years

-All electrolytic and tantalum capacitors have been changed

-VCOs & VCF tuned/calibrated

-AC cord was removed from the front and an IEC was added to the rear of the case

-pots and switches were recently cleaned

-Sub OSC ckt. was added (non-invasive, made by Pete's Gear Garage in Sweden, uses 'Guitar' knob in mixer section)

-Each Jack on the bottom row has a function such as Hi & Low outputs, CV & Gate in, Ext. Input, LFO retrig, VCF in and out (for use with modular) and VCF CV.

-I still have the 360 Systems Control board. It was robbed of a few parts but the PSU and the Transpose rotary switch are still on it. If you want it, send me a msg and I'll include it with the sale."

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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 🧡"

Elastic Melody - Update 1.2 Quick Demo (NOT OUT YET!)

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"This is a quick demo of some of the new features coming in Update 1.2.

If you’d like to join the Elastic Melody TestFlight, you can do so via this link: https://testflight.apple.com/join/52T...

What's coming with Update 1.2

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Master Section
Added a general Master level
Added simple volume meter

OSC
Added 4 more Oscillator Waveforms for a greater range of sounds
Added Modulations for a greater variety of sounds
1) Pitch Modulation
2) FM Modulation
3) FM decayed Modulation

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Dub Techno w/ KORG wavestate & volca modular | Panic Zone Incident 2026-07-25 by atnr

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"A dub techno piece where complex sound textures intertwine.

This work features the wavestate, volca modular, and OP-1 field.

On the wavestate, synth pad sounds are performed and processed through the MOOD MKII. Layered micro loops create dense and complex sound textures.

On the OP-1 field, the DBOX engine generates glitchy percussion sequenced with the ENDLESS sequencer. The CWO effect adds modulation delay, while the MOTHER effect applies gated reverb.

The bassline uses an FM-style bass sound from Omnisphere. The kick and clap sounds use Ableton Sampler.

The volca modular is used without patch cables, with its original sound shaped through parameter editing. It is synchronized with the wavestate through the MSY2, which converts MIDI clock into an appropriate synchronization signal. The volca modular output is processed through the NIGHTSKY with filtering and reverb."

Change

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"Jungle? IDM? DnB? Whatever it is, it is.

Check out my website: https://www.midera-artist.com/
Support me by checking out or buying my music: https://midera.bandcamp.com/album/sta...

Instruments used:
Radikal Technologies Spectralis 2 (Sequencing, drums)
Access Virus TI (Drum FX)
Oberheim Xpander (Intro sounds)
Moog Minimoog (dirty bass)
Roland SH-101 (Lead)
Sequential Prophet 10 (pads)
Roland JD-990 (Strings)

NI RAUM for reverb

#idm #sequential #Spectralis"

Sequencing 4 VCOs with Pam's | Small Eurorack Cases, Big Possibilities

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"Patch Memory #6 — Breakdown of a compact modular patch showing how to generate rich textures using looped random voltages from Pamela's New Workout.

4x Thonk Synth VCOs
3 VCOs set up as a pseudo-chord through reverb
1 VCO running lead line duty
All filtered through the Vostok Instruments Atlas
All main sequencing & modulation generated directly inside Pam's

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SCJS#109 - LOQUELIC INSANIA III

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"Small Case Jam Sessions #109

DUAL S&H, CONTOUR 1, JUMBLER, LOQUELIC ITERITAS, IDA, BEADS

Recorded live thru Syntakt delay & reverb"

How to Get That 80s Analog Bell Sound (Korg Multi/Poly Tutorial)

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Follow-up to Turn the Korg Multi/Poly Into a Vintage String Machine

"In this tutorial, I'll show you how to recreate those classic 80s synth-pop analog bells on the Korg Multi/Poly. Taking inspiration from the legendary Roland JX-10 (which is essentially two JX-8P synths in one box), we’ll dive into how to layer oscillators and use component modeling to achieve that iconic hollow, phasing tone.

Whether you're using the Multi/Poly or any other analog synth, these sound design principles will help you nail that vintage vibe. We’ll start from an initialized program and walk through everything from pulse width modulation and detuning to filter shaping and adding that essential chorus and delay.

Key Topics Covered:

Setting up square/pulse waveforms for a hollow bell tone.
Detuning techniques to mimic analog voice cards.
Shaping the sound with 24dB low-pass filters and envelopes.
Adding stereo depth using chorus, cross-delay, and stereo filters.
Experimenting with octaves and subtle noise for extra texture."

Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction to Synth Pop Bells
0:49 - Starting from an Initialized Program
1:18 - Oscillator Setup: Pulse Width & Waveforms
1:35 - Detuning for Analog Character
2:25 - Shaping the Bell with Filter Envelopes
3:30 - Adding Effects: Chorus, Delay & Reverb
4:21 - Testing Ring & Cross Modulation
5:04 - Adding Subtle Noise Texture
5:24 - Layering Octaves for Depth
7:18 - Stereo Filter & Panning Tips
7:56 - Adding Pitch Drift & Final Touches
8:40 - Outro & Suggest Your Ideas!

Can M-VAVE FM-1 make a FULL SONG? All sounds from this pocket FM synthesizer / no talking demo tune

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"Creating a whole track with only M-Vave FM1 tweaked factory presets (even the drum sounds). Each layer was recorded through SSL 2+ audio interface to Ableton Live. Used mostly internal FM-1 effects. Some EQ/panning (as it is mono) and a bit reverb+delay added in Ableton.

You can check my comparison of M-Vave FM-1 vs. Yamaha DX7 here:"

Real budget DX7 in your pocket? Vintage Yamaha DX7 vs. new M-Vave FM-1 sound comparison (no talking)

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"Loaded the same patches to the original Yamaha DX7 and the new chinese M-Vave FM-1 portable mini FM synthesizer. All recorded simultaneously through SSL 2+ to ableton live, with some gain staging, but no processing. They sound pretty close, what do you think?"

Akai Professional MPC Live II with Analog Cases Hardcase

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Jomox Moonwind MK1 SN 1014 - 0201

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