Some superb SuperBooth booths (2025 edition)

video upload by Floyd Steinberg

"Here's a walkthrough of SuperBooth '25!"

Table of contents:

00:00 Berlin-Wuhlheide
00:33 Polyend MESS
01:23 Some booths so busy you can never talk to anyone, ever
01:53 Wavy Industries Monkey (Updated)
02:33 Error Instruments Loopman
03:17 Zoom H5 Studio
03:41 Instruo Seashell
04:30 Storm Summoner
05:35 Chase Bliss Onward
06:34 GS Music Bree6
07:12 Gamechanger Audio Motor Pedal
07:34 Teenage Engineering
07:51 Waldorf Iridium
08:09 OXI2 Sequencer
08:58 Playtronica Orbita
10:08 Eternal Research Demon Box
10:48 Wildword Soundworks Express & Lightning
11:29 beetlecrabs Tempera
11:59 Torso S4 Firmware V2
13:07 Yamaha's Booth Montage M V3
13:40 napkey chord
14:42 flowfal
15:21 Zynaptiq
16:18 quray
17:13 Red Dot Audio Grand Blue
17:43 Soma Labs Flux
18:20 First Love Synthesizer Update
18:59 Dato Synths
19:14 Leaf Audio
19:53 MOOG Messenger
20:22 Trails
21:30 Conclusion

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Bare Enner G

video upload by SOMA Laboratory

"Video by SOMA Labs Music artist John Holcroft

Special thanks to his family: daughter Fiona, wife Nancy and brother James"

Ambient performance and patch explanation // Cocoquantus // Elmyra // Palmelund BAAS // Borderlands

video upload by Lesjamusic

"I really enjoyed putting this one together. First half: Performance, second half: Patch notes.

Gear used:
Borderlands Granular
Neutral Labs Elmyra 2
Ciat-Lonbarde Cocoquantus
Palmelund Synthesizers BAAS
Chase Bliss Mood Mk2
Off camera: Soma Cosmos, Walrus Audio Slöer, Oto Boum

00:00 Performance
07:49 Patch Notes"

BUCHLA & FRIENDS: THE SYNTH MAKER SHOWCASE Event Set for LA Next Weekend Jan 25 & 26

Tickets available at Eventbrite

"We’re gathering over 70 boutique synth makers in one awesome Silverlake spot so you can learn, listen, and live the latest in electronic music sound production. This hands-on, headphones-only gathering gives you a chance to hear the best sounds science has ever created. From additive to subtractive, analog to digital, keyboards to breath, audio to visual (yes- some video synths will be here too!), modular to full-size polyphonic, eurorack to Serge to Buchla, you’ll meet synth makers and synth enthusiasts alike. This will be January’s biggest two-day collection of hands-on synths on the West Coast! If you love creative sound, you need to be here."

Delicious food (including vegan) from Moby Rick’s fish tacos, incredible carbonated beverages from United Wild Brew. Exhibitors: 1010music • 4ms • After Later Audio • AIAIAI • AJH • ALM Busy Circuits • Animal Factory • Ashton Research • ASM • Bastl Instruments • Bitwig • Black Corporation • Bored Brain • Buchla • Catalyst • Circuit Happy • Crosspatch • Days of Yore • Rain City Modular • Doepfer • Dogbotic Labs • Dreadbox • Drift DJ • Elektron • Endorphines • eowave • Eternal Research • Five12 • Flame • Frap Tools • Future Retro • Genki Instruments • Groove Synthesis • Jomox • LA Synth Club • Mega Modular Corp • Melbourne instruments • MEMS project • Meris • Modbap • Moog Foundation • Mystic Circuits • Netherblade • New Systems Instruments • Noise Engineering • Noisebug • Novation • Null Modular • OXI Instruments • Polyend • Prism Circuits • Roger Linn • Schlappi Engineering • Sleepy Circuits • SoCal Synth Society • SOMA • Soundwork Shop • Studio Electronics • Supercritical • SynthRISE • TipTop • Tobinski • Touellskouarn • U.D.O. • Vermona • Wavea • Waveform Magazine • Wavesequencer • Weston Precision Audio • WMD ... & more!

Buchla organizes this event to make a stronger synthesizer community. We make it free to attend and affordable for exhibitors. This makes the vibes great - after all, we are all making our own waves!"

Soma Laboratory Introduces HARVEZI HAZZE Distortion Pedal

video uploads by SOMA Laboratory

Playlist:
1. HARVEZI HAZZE + Drums & Synth (no talk demo by SOMA)
2. HARVEZI HAZZE + Guitar & Bass (no talk demo by SOMA)
3. HARVEZI HAZZE (SOMA Labs)

"Harvezi Hazze — a versatile and quite unique distortion pedal with a wide tonal palette.

The heart of Harvezi Hazze is a waveshaper designed around a unijunction transistor, a relic from the early days of the semiconductor industry.

The unique properties of the unijunction transistor allow one simple component to replace a number of complex devices: depending on the operating mode, we can get a distortion, a limiter, a waveshaper and a generator — with a smooth transition between them.

The signal chain of the unit consists of an optical compressor with fixed parameters; a dual-mode distorting amplifier with either softer or harsher clipping; a waveshaper built around a unijunction transistor; and a tone stack section trying to tame all this mess.

Harvezi Hazze works perfectly with guitar, bass, drums and synthesizers.

The net price (without VAT, shipping, customs, money transfer expenses): 290 Euros.

HARVEZI HAZZE will be available for purchase in January 2025."

Check with dealers on the right for availability.

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SOMA Labs FLUX testing with J.S. Bach’s Badinerie

video upload by SOMA Laboratory

Metaconformer is SimpleXFM now, a surprisingly deep FM synthesizer

video upload by Floyd Steinberg

"SOMA Labs released a firmware that turns their #Metaconformer #midi processor/router/splitter/merger into a 4 voice, 4 part multitimbral #fmsynth with comb filters and multiple modulation destinations, which can lead to some pretty expressive and/or noisy sounds."

Table of contents:

00:00 demo 01
00:30 introduction / what's this?
01:26 how to install
02:00 you'll need a master keyboard and an external sequencer, ideally
02:31 channels and voices
02:57 timbre and articulation layers

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Soma Labs Lyra-8 & friends, etc.

video upload by SynthAddict

FLUX basic playing techniques (SOMA Labs)

video upload by SOMA Laboratory

SOMA Labs Introdues Messeiver irrational device for exploring the world of primal, wild radio reception

video upload by SOMA Laboratory

"More info and how to buy: https://somasynths.com/messeiver/

During the recording I didn't change MESSEIVER settings, all changes are influence of those global natural parameters + choosing of interesting parts from the recordings."

"MESSEIVER is an irrational device for exploring the world of primal, wild radio reception – the way it was first experienced by the pioneers of radiocommunication.

MESSEIVER – is a shortwave receiver that is capable of receiving different stations from all around the Earth. Its peculiarity is that it doesn’t have the classic input tuning circuit, which lets you select a single station. Instead, it captures a big part of radio ether as it is. This way you can listen to many radio stations at once from around the globe. The set of stations that you can hear, their loudness and sound are defined by numbers of constantly changing global natural parameters. Weather, solar activity, cosmic particles, clouds and dozens of other phenomena define radio waves propagation, turning the world into a global DJ that makes a unique mix of radio stations here and now, exclusively for you. More details you can find in the manual and demo video."

FLUX + COSMOS + TERRA (SOMA Labs)

video upload by SOMA Laboratory

the Power of 2 x LYRA-4 (SOMA labs demo)

video upload by SOMA Laboratory

"Reissue of the legendary synth!"

"We present to your attention the revived version of LYRA-4, organismic synthesizer, the younger sister of the famous LYRA-8. “Organismic” means that LYRA uses some principles that lie in the base of living organisms. The way how LYRA’s modules interacting between each other and the behaviour of the instrument resembles a live conversation. It’s smaller and weighs less but is equally rugged in design, and still packs a lot of punch. This makes it easy to fit in a backpack and perfect for taking the LYRA sound on the road. And playing two LYRA-4s can actually sound very different than just one LYRA-8.

LYRA-4 is based on four generators, which will be referred to as voices. Their design is not like a traditional subtractive synthesis VCO. Instead of having a linear or logarithmic dependency on control voltage, they resemble the tone generators in old electric organs. Hence the use of the term “voices” instead of “VCOs”. Lyra uses non-linearity a lot, and the voices are constructed in such a way that allows for non-linearity to express itself.

The voices are divided into two pairs (12, 34), creating tree-like structure.

The voices can function either in an electric organ mode or in an FM synthesis mode with each of the voices and its envelope acting as a separate FM operator. The voice’s impact on FM synthesis will decrease along with the decay of its envelope.

LYRA-4 also has the next blocks:

The HYPER LFO is a complex low-frequency generator, whose waveform is synthesized from two simple LFOs by summation or multiplication of their frequencies. It also has a sync mode. The LFO can modulate the selected pairs of voices and the MOD DELAY.

The MOD DELAY consists of delay with feedback. The delay has a unique possibility of self-modulation where the output signal modulates the delay sample rate, creating cool effects.

The DISTORTION is last in the chain, after the delay. It enables the delay to also influence the distortion.

For all its experimental character, LYRA is a professional instrument. Its output dynamics and frequency response are balanced and ready for a live performance or studio recording without any additional processing.

Colors: Black and White. Yin and Yang 🙂"

Superbooth 2024: Trying out the Soma TERRA

video upload by Tweeeeeak!

"No talking, just jamming with the brilliant TERRA from Soma Labs.

00:00 Terra DRONE (evolution jam)
09:57 Geronimo in the land of high FORMANTS
10:37 aaaaeeee aaaaoooo
12:02 aa aa oo oo aa aa ee ee
13:38 ada adeeh ada adeeh
14:10 ARPs of loneliness
17:29 Strange LEAD from the forest
19:34 Little bee meets the butterfly"

Superbooth 2024: Trying out the Soma PULSAR-23

video upload by Tweeeeeak!

"No talking, just jamming with the PULSAR-23 from Soma Labs.

Semimodular drum machine with 100+ patch points
4 tracks: kick, bass, snare, hihat.
It has a sequencer, but I only used it 2 times, on the bass and hihat. The rest is triggered by the 8 clock sources."

FLUX sonic and performance possibilities (1st demo by SOMA labs)

video upload by SOMA Laboratory

"All sound is FLUX without post processing and FX.
In this video, I used 13 from 37 possible synthesis algorithms.
In the lower left corner, you can find the glif of the current algorithm.

Algorithms
TIMELINE:
0:00 Pipe
9:36 Bell
22:10 3D 4
23:31 Tremolo 1 Tempo
27:37 Detuned Saws
32:28 ByteBeat 1 Tempo
41:02 Vox
47:10 3D 2
54:15 Sync Resonances
57:00 3D 3
58:06 Detune
1:01:57 Digital Chaos
1:06:23 Clavir"

SOMA Flux - Gesprächskonzert at SUPERBOOTH24

video upload by Superbooth Berlin

"A presentation of the innovative synthesizer FLUX by SOMA labs.

Vlad Kreimer the founder of SOMA labs presents a unique synthesizer FLUX based on magnetic principles.
In many ways, FLUX is inspired by the Theremin and inherits its core feature - the unique opportunity of controlling sound by moving your hands in the air without touching any object.
FLUX is the musicality and expression of classical instruments, such as violin or vocals, enriched by new timbres and the flexibility of postmodern instruments, harnessing the power of current technology."

Soma Labs Flux - Highly Expressive New Instrument - Sonic LAB Presentation

video upload by sonicstate

"Soma Laboratory's unconventional design is a major factor in why their instruments are so unique. We take a look at the latest instrument Flux - which takes a lot of inspiration from the no touch approach of the original Theremin. However with the use of small magnets in each had there are five control axis per hand and up to 16 controllable parameters.
The instrument is loosely based on the Terra synthesis concept and features 37 digital algorithms which are treated like individual instruments with their own timbral characteristics.

The right hand controls the pitch, dynamic, octave and tilt (for timbral control) and the left hand controls more of the timbral character with a considerable amount of tonal range possible.

We talked with Vlad Kreimer who gave us an over view of how Flux works.
The first batch of production units will be going out later this year and the price they are aiming for is in the region of 1000 Euros + tax
More information at
https://somasynths.com/flux/

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00: 00:00 start
00:00:28 Playing example
00:01:31 Overview
00:03:20 synth engine
00:07:30 Pitch and dynamics
00:12:54 polyphony
00:18:28 external control
00:19:45 bass
00:20:40 UI
00:24:52 the magnets
00:25:38 percussive mode
00:26:40 other sizes?
00:28:09 price"

Pulsar-23 VS Tanzmaus - TEKKNO SESSION TWO

video upload by alternatingbitmusic

"A lengthier & beefier session as the MFB Tanzmaus clocks the SOMA LABS Pulsar-23 in a rhythmic showdown."

Pulsar-23 VS Tanzmaus - TEKKNO

video upload by alternatingbitmusic

"MFB Tanzmaus clocks the SOMA LABS Pulsar-23 in a rhythmic showdown."

Dreamtime - Part 1 /// Neutral Labs Elmyra 2, Intellijel Cascadia, Metropolix, Sealegs, Soma Dvina

video upload by Jon Gee

"First in a series of Dreamtime meditations."