"Up for grabs is our Roland JX3p with DT200 controller. It all works fantastic, sounds amazing and looks good as well.. see pics for minor body wear etc.. nothing major, in fact this is one of the better JX3ps I have come across over the years. This synth sounds every bit as awesome as a Juno60 and although it does not have as many features as a Jupiter 6 I still feel that its every bit as awesome and every bit as elegant as the Jupiter 6. Also included is the new DT200 and proper connecting cable.
THIS JX3p has had the battery replaced! This synth was tech'd and given a good check up. This synth is good to go for years to come!"
"In this episode of "That Makes Synths", Brad takes a look at Novation's Ultranova. This is a fun synth with a great vocoder and arpeggiator. In particular, Brad will show the sound sets Novation released for their 25th anniversary. Unfortunately, he did not see the sounds still on Novation's website. However, the vocoder patches are still on their website:
"Paulee Alex Bow (@magicalsynthadventure3216 ) takes a look at the new monster synthesis machine - the Waldorf Iridium MK2 (@WaldorfMusicChannel ) a 16-voice synthesizer with four layers and wavetable, FM and sampling engines.
Paulee gives us an overview of the hardware, the new Seeds synthesis, which blends up to 12 mini-synths scanned like a wavetable, plus the flavor knob for note-on randomisation.
Four layers bring a mixer and round robin key assignment, while Aphex Twin-inspired per-note parameter locks assign different sounds and engines to each key.
There's Kernels FM, a Kawai K5-style additive patch, legacy grunge modes, SoundFont conversion via ConvertWithMoss, granular synthesis and CV inputs.
Priced around £2,085 its a robust wavetable synth for tweakers
https://waldorfmusic.com
*Key Moments*
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:35 Rear panel tour
00:02:06 Seeds synthesis
00:05:16 Four layers and mixer
00:07:01 Per-note parameter locks
00:11:26 Kernels FM mode
00:17:39 Legacy grunge mode
00:19:13 Sampler and samples
00:24:26 Granular synthesis
00:34:09 Price and verdict"
Wishing you great summer with bright colours & comfort studio moments!
Presenting a new jam in our new studio space - Orange Celtic Place.
'Inner Desert' is a cosmic & ethnic journey with vintage flavour & hypnotic patterns. In the heart of performance - classic sequence made on Behringer Odyssey.
Korg Prophecy used to play ethnic solo woodwind - physical modeling adding a real magic here!
Composition played by Nick Klimenko Video by Nick Klimenko
George is the only one that looks like himself, ableit with a mustache. Wouldn't mind hearing a New Order/Joy Division Bass Battle.
"Is the Seinfeld theme played by a Korg M1 or by the 360 Systems Midi Bass, lets find out :p both have been credited Seinfeld Bass on various Internet forums.
This test is not 100% as i dont have the same mixer, fx etc 🛸
"Remember Seinfeld? Remember that poppin’ slap bass sound all over the show – in the titles, in the end credits, in every sting and transition? Well, this is the little box of tricks that made that sound. The 360 Systems MIDI Bass was an early sampled bass unit, later upgraded to a Pro version that rackmounted. It was a limited but (for its time) powerful-sounding machine that had swappable EPROMS to access additional sounds. We managed to score an original tabletop MIDI Bass plus a set of EPROMS covering a range of both classic and unusual sounds with a distinctly 80s vibe. There is, of course, ‘that’ Seinfeld Slap bass; but if you don’t fancy reliving the glory days of American comedy, there are seven other sounds to choose from – a great Fender Jazz bass, through a punchy 80s synth bass to a rather cool Stick bass (think Tony Levin playing Peter Gabriel’s live gigs and you’ve got it)… and more.
MIDI Bass hardware Kontakt instrumentThe MIDI Bass is a simple little device – MIDI notes go in, bass sounds come out – so we’ve kept things simple for our recreation, which just adds some useful compression and tube saturation controls and leaves the rest up to you and your funk."
Think the Arturia PolyBrute is just about lush pads and vintage analog sounds? Think again. In this video, I explore the darker, more aggressive side of the PolyBrute and show how features like the Metalizer, Brute Factor, Morph, ladder filter drive, and distortion effects can create brutal industrial textures. If you're into industrial music, EBM, dark electronic music or just want to hear what this incredible analog synth is really capable of, this one's for you."
📻 “Nostalgic Flow” is a bank of 50 arpeggio presets for Synapse Audio Dune 3. In this bank, I wanted to explore the plugin's broad sonic capabilities, including various filter modes, filter FX, different oscillator types, and effects. I extensively modulated the parameters of these modules using tempo-synced LFOs and MSEGs to create dynamic sound. I also carefully worked with arpeggio parameters to add complexity—some presets even sound like sequences or chords.
💾 The bank covers a wide range of timbres: warm, deep, dreamy, soft, noisy, bright, dark, distorted, cold, metallic. They will fit many genres, styles, arrangements, and mixes.
🎛 All presets respond to Velocity, affecting volume and brightness, allowing for accents in the pattern. ModWheel adds expression to the sound through filter opening, detuning, vibrato, or additional movement.
💎 The soundset is universal, the arpeggios are suitable for all genres of electronic music, including Techno, House, Trance, Lounge, Downtempo, Funk, Disco, Pop, Acid, Hardcore, IDM, Drum'n'Bass, Breaks, Breakbeat, Trap, Electro, Ambient, Dubstep, EDM, Synth-Pop and others.
💡 Ensure that you are using the latest software version. To add presets to the collection, open the plugin Browser, click Menu in the upper left corner, then select Import Folder, and specify the folder on your computer.
"Here are my favorite patches in the CTRL-E software with the Expressive E Osmose CE
keywords: synthesizer MPE synth MIDI controller keyboard"
Press release on the sale follows:
Expressive E launches its Summer Offer, with up to 55% off all software until July 23rd
Marseille, France - July 9th, 2026 Expressive E announces today its Summer Offer, giving musicians and producers access to discounts of up to 55% across its software ecosystem. Running from July 9th to July 23rd, the promotion includes expressive instruments, software bundles, Expressive Suites and sound libraries for Osmose, Osmose CE, Touché and Touché SE.
Osmose Sound Bundle at €699 instead of 1562€
Designed as the most complete software collection for Osmose, the bundle brings together 8 premium instruments and synths, 17 expressive sound packs and over 2,800 presets designed for expressive performance with Osmose and Osmose CE.
The bundle includes Expressive E Soliste, Expressive E Noisy 2, Kilohearts Phase Plant, u-he Hive 2, Synapse Audio DUNE 3, Dawesome MYTH, AAS Lounge Lizard and Dawesome KONTRAST.
Expressive E instruments at 40% off
Soliste and Noisy 2 are available at 40% off, giving musicians access to physically modeled solo strings and expressive synthesis at reduced prices.
Expressive Suites : Premium software instruments and presets up to 50% off Expressive Suites combine acclaimed software instruments with curated preset collections crafted by Expressive E to bring more depth, movement and playability to music production.
The offer includes Expressive Suites for Kilohearts Phase Plant, Synapse Audio DUNE 3, Dawesome MYTH, Dawesome KONTRAST, AAS Lounge Lizard and u-he Hive 2. For users already owning the synth, preset collections are also available separately at a preferred price.
Sounds for Touché — Touché-compatible instruments and sound libraries up to 55% off
Owners of Touché and Touché SE can expand their expressive palette with selected instruments, bundles and sound expansions designed for expressive, gesture-driven play.
The Touché Sounds Collection is available at 55% off, alongside Touché-compatible instruments and sound libraries including Imagine, Mercury and Helium.
The Summer Offer runs from July 9th to July 23rd, 2026, with all deals available on the dedicated Expressive E Summer Offer page."
Here are my Midi Editor for the Behringer PHARA-O mini Synth.
The PHARA-O mini Editor gives you direct access from the DAW to the Behringer PHARA-O mini parameters,
allowing you to integrate it into the DAW project.
In the PlugIn VST version you can record the controller movements and so the sound change can be saved.
With the random functions, you can explore the full sound potential of the PHARA-O mini.
Editor Features:
Simple handling of the PHARA-O mini without menu surfing.
Complex sound changes can be made easily and quickly.
Change Behringer PHARA-O mini Sounds directly from Editor.
Many controllers can be automated.
X-Y modulation of all parameters.
You can random the Controllers of the Behringer PHARA-O mini Synth to produce new sounds.
You can use your Behringer PHARA-O mini as a sound module in your DAW.
A Editor sound bank with 40 new sounds is included.
The Editor are available for:
PC: As VST2 and Standalone for 32bit and VST2, VST3 and Standalone for 64bit Windows.
MAC: As VST2, VST3, AU and Standalone, compatible with MAC Intel and Silicon."
"Fusebox X is an analogue monosynth with 3 note poly capabilities"
Priced £1,799.00
Update: additional pics and details added.
Filtopia will be a limited edition synth - we are only building 200 units.
Stereo analogue monosynth - with a 5 Multi-Mode filter Filterbank - to give glorious and unique filter sweeps!
USP - THE FILTER BANK Filtopia’s key USP is a bank of 5 analogue filters wired in parallel. Glorious multi-band filter sweeps are possible. With some tweaking you can also get vowel types sounds.
5 filters doesn’t mean just 5 filters, by having offset filter-cutoff frequencies, with some high resonance levels, can mimic the way the human voice works. Something that can’t be done with a single filter.
Aside from the uniqueness of a multi-channel filter bank for filtering, Filtopia is fully loaded with VCOs, LFOs, EGs, etc.
Filterbank - 5 analogue multi-mode filters - superb multi-filter sweeps, and even vowel sounds!
3 VCOs - can be routed to some or many of the filters as dictated by the front panel.
"Join us as we explore how a sampler can expand the musical possibilities of a monophonic synth.
In this video we continue to focus on using a sampler to enhance the musical functionality of a monophonic synthesizer. This time we will explore using the @Akai_Pro MPC Sample to sample the sounds we built in the last video, and then we’ll use those to build up a drum beat.
Whether you’re shaping tones from scratch or building full arrangements, this setup shows how far a focused rig can go."
"We explore the Spectral Resonator from BLEASS. This captivating effect is based on harmonic resonator banks that are excited by the spectrum of incoming signals. In some ways, it is like a vocoder, but can also act like a resonant filter bank. It can make sounds ranging from delicate chimes to metallic roars and lots in between, and can be used with a variety of sonic material like noise sources, voices, acoustic instruments and drums.
00:00 Introduction 00:29 Overview 00:53 Working with resonators 02:18 Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs), block size, and hop size 03:39 Stretch, shift, density, and blur parameters 07:29 Filter and dampeners 08:39 Chords and MIDI note input 10:34 Unison mode 11:23 Voice demo 12:51 Bass clarinet demo 15:55 Electronic drum kit demo 18:21 Demo with drum track by G. Calvin Weston 21:23 Factory presets 24:18 Conclusion"
BLEASS Spectral Resonator conjures an iridescent palette of resonating harmonics that add colour, texture and contrast to your audio. Whatever the input, the results are rich, expressive, and deeply enchanting.
"🔊 Exploring the Mettalicum: a new XOR-based percussion synthesizer built for harsh metallic hits, industrial rhythms, and unpredictable noise. Unlike traditional drum machines, the Mettalicum relies on logic gates to generate complex, inharmonic square-wave clusters that cut right through a mix. In this hardware demo, we run through the raw oscillators, tweak the parameters, and patch it into an experimental setup to hear what it can really do.
⚙️ Sponsored by PCBWay Huge thanks to PCBWay for sponsoring this video! Whether you are prototyping a chaotic new noise box, building a custom MIDI controller, or ordering high-quality circuit boards for a full production run, PCBWay has you covered. They offer incredibly fast turnaround times on custom PCBs, 3D printing, and CNC machining. Bring your DIY audio projects to life: https://pcbway.com/g/1AhZrq
Ⓜ️ What makes the Mettalicum different? Traditional subtractive synthesis uses standard waveforms and filters to create drum sounds. The Mettalicum takes a different approach by running multiple square waves through XOR (Exclusive OR) logic chips. When these frequencies interact, they create dense, metallic, and grinding textures perfect for noise music, industrial beats, and lo-fi soundscapes.
⏱️ Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 00:20 - The Raw Sound of the Mettalicum 00:32 - PCBWay Sponsor Message 00:44 - Demo with Ampero Mini 02:42 - Hardware Jam: Mettalicum + Experimental Setup
🔗 Gear Used in this Video: Mettalicum XOR Synthesizer Tempest Kick Synthesizer Korg Monotron Delay Bastl Instruments Bestie Hotone Ampero Mini MyVolts CandyCords
✌️ I’m Sid Rockett, a designer and explorer of experimental synthesizers and custom noise-machines.
From boutique pocket synths to DIY Eurorack builds, this channel is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of compact hardware. Join me as we navigate through industrial soundscapes, deep cinematic reverbs, and the infinite feedback of outer-space delays.
"Here we have Swell the new filter and valve (tube for those in the US) sculpting Eurorack module from Bartola Instruments. This is the first commercially released Eurorack module from Bartola and follows many years of valve hi fi work and hundreds of Eurorack prototypes made in super small runs for musicians and friends. Swell offers masses of customisable sound sculpting marrying its precision low pass filtering with high flexible valve control. Whether it's cleaner, yet warm and gently compressed waves or all out untamed chaos there's a lot to explore as you'll see in the patches."
"Hilariously overbuilt and overengineered, this ASR sampler was Ensoniq's flagship, and with compatibility to the EPS and EPS16+ there's plenty of cool sounds that you can use right out of the gate.
The ASR-10 (Advanced Sampling Recorder) was essentially the third generation of the EPS series of samplers, sharing the same basic architecture and user interface as the earlier EPS Classic and EPS-16 Plus. The ASR-10, like its predecessors, was a true performance orientated sampling workstation, and did not require a computer or additional equipment in order to create a complete song. It included a powerful and flexible effects unit, polyphonic aftertouch, an advanced MIDI sequencer, load-while-playing abilities, and a powerful multi-layered synthesis engine. The supplied "Musician's Manual" lived up to Ensoniq's documentation practice, with a highly readable, very hands-on and quite complete description of the device. There was even an included tutorial that covered many features of the machine, including sampling and sequencing."
"A no-talking Partials & Discrepancies 1.0.4 demo focused mainly on foot-controlled slot sweeps.
This patch is played on Arturia PolyBrute 12 in MPE mode, with CC4 / foot control used to sweep through the slot states in real time. I am trying to show how the synth can be played more more expressively with pressure controlled swells and with the slot motion under direct foot control rather than just running as a sequence.
It uses the new red Unusable MPE mode, added in version 1.0.4. In this mode, Slide / CC74 opens the filter, while Pressure controls level behavior for more expressive swells. (the PB12 don't have slide, so it is only pressure used in this video). The screen notes explain what is happening as the patch moves.
This update also includes improvements to MPE voice visuals, smoother Resonance and Res Warp, Versioned Save in the preset browser, better editor responsiveness, and a few other fixes. Release notes in the news section of the website.
More info:
www.unusable.net"
Partials & Discrepancies | MPE Demo with Full Bundle v2
"A no-talking Partials & Discrepancies sound example video focused on MPE playing and pairings with effects from the Full Bundle v2.
This video uses the new "red Unusable" MPE mode and explores a range of sounds, from dirtier and more broken textures to more cinematic and laid-back ones, plus a few more straight sounds and some small tricks along the way. The screen notes explain what is happening as the patches move.
The MPE playing here is done with three different controllers: ROLI Seaboard Rise 2, Expressive E Osmose, and Arturia PolyBrute. The idea is not just to show the synth on its own, but to show how Partials & Discrepancies behaves when played expressively and paired with effects from the full Unusable Engineering range.
So this is less a walkthrough and more a practical look at what the synth can do with MPE and the full bundle around it.
"Entomo- is one of the first synths that I released. I recently came across some old stock and decide to reissue these.
Entomo- is a 6 oscillator drone synth that can be powered with a 9V source or a CV signal.
Entomo- creates a wide range of drone and noise sounds. Activate the oscillators using the patch bay and included jumper wires. Cross modulate signals to disrupt and dictate the sound. From drones to noise to rhythmic chatter and glitching.
https://youtu.be/SJWycjpQpFQ
Knob style and colour may vary depending on stock. A connector for a 9 volt battery is included with Entomo-. Entomo- can also run off a 9V !!CENTRE POSITIVE!! WALL ADAPTOR.
Designed and built by hand in Cheshire England
To keep up to date with product demos, prototypes and competitions follow me here: www.instagram.com/decadebridge
"Ambient music created with Ambient Engine ( https://store.atnr.net/ambient-engine... ) and the @teenageengineering OP-1 field. Sine wave microloops and reverb-soaked synth tones fill the space.
This session uses Ambient Engine v1.2, currently in development. Sine waves are loaded into its four sample players and triggered by MIDI notes from Ableton Live. The resulting sounds pass through Ambient Engine's built-in MicroLoop effect, delay, and plate reverb, forming abstract masses of sound.
On the OP-1 field, a synth pad is performed on the DIGITAL synth with the built-in reverb applied, and the output is further processed with a @strymon blueSky reverb.
