A playlist of videos by Dan Chippendale featuring the Teenage Engineering OP-XY with Novation Launch Control 3.
Playlist:
1. OP-XY can sound so clean and pristine - Minimal House Live Jam
Kept things intentionally simple for this one and made sure the mix was nice and clean. Love how good the OP-XY can sound for this type of music. Hope you enjoy it
Gear used:
Music:
Teenage Engineering OP-XY
Novation Launch Control 3
Video:
Fujifilm X-E5
Motu M2 Audio interface
Mac Studio with Logic Pro X
2. Music for an old roll of unprocessed colour film – OP-XY electronica live jam
3. Would you like to see the OP-XY GO HARD? Well would you? Watch this. - Hard Dance Live Jam
4. Express your mood through music //// Melancholic beats and synths OP-XY Live Jam
5. I like making live electronic music. I very much hope you enjoy it
6. Bake for 2:45 at 34 degrees Celsius
7. I still maintain the OP-XY is one of the greatest music making devices ever created // IDM Live Jam
"@WeAreElektron Tonverk full of @somasynths Pulsar 23 samples & Waldorf Iridium Desktop
Video:
Live visuals using Patrick (1978) from Archive.org played through cracked ancient iPad and processed through:
Video microscope
Sony ZV1
Roland V1-HD
@entropyandsons Recursion Studio
Resolume Avenue
Recorded with Rodecaster Video
"Don’t have a real cloned Buchla 200 to hand? No worries! Just put this video on in the background (in full-screen mode), and have the next best thing 😁
Here is 10 minutes of self-playing modular synthesiser randomness
Why not put it on loop - then you can have it playing away in the background while you do other things
A note on the patch:
'I’m using the 259 as the main sound source, which is being sent to various places: the 288 delay, the 296 filter bank and the Dodeca modules’s LPGs
The MARF is combined with the 208 5 step sequencer to produce all the modulations, all powered from a 281 VC function generator
The Dodeca mixer provides stereo panning and the general output'
"Can a real analog synthesizer cost less than $100? In this review, I take a hands-on look at the Stylophone Gen X-2, an affordable portable analog synth with a resonant filter, LFO, delay, sub oscillators, CV/Gate connectivity, and surprisingly powerful sound.
I'll unbox it, explore every feature, hear what it actually sounds like, connect it to my ASM Leviasynth via CV/Gate, and find out whether this tiny synth is just a toy - or a serious instrument that's worth adding to your studio.
If you're looking for an inexpensive synthesizer, a portable analog synth, or a fun hardware synth with real analog sound, you may be surprised by what this little Stylophone can do!"
0:00 Intro
0:34 Inexpensive Synth
2:05 Different Stylophone Synths
2:57 Stylophone Gen X-2
4:00 Unboxing and Controls
6:27 Installing Batteries
7:25 The Sound: Envelope
9:27 LFO
10:07 Filter
12:06 Sub Oscillators
12:35 Delay
14:34 Octave and Ribbon Strip
16:12 CV/Gate Input
19:29 Be David Bowie
"Been having a pop at Autumn Part 1 these last few days and this take I recorded (take 111!) has come out slightly 'dystopian' sounding and synthy. Have pushed the filters a bit more. There’s a bit of overdrive in places and some wobbly 'pitchy' stuff happening. But lots going on and lots of things to remember to do. Or not to do. This take here was only the 4th time I’d made it to the end, and the first and only without completely ballsing it up.
Odyssey #3 was briefly back in the fold last week and was ably handling the sub bass part all on it’s own, but it started going wrong again and has been taken back to the repair shop. So to cover that part here, I’m bringing in and out oscillator 2 on Odyssey #6, which is set to a square wave an octave down. I’d say a good 80 of those earlier takes that I mucked up were ruined by me forgetting to do this, or doing it badly, or at completely the wrong time. There’s a 'high jeopardy' patch change happening on Odyssey #1 too which I liked to get wrong, transitioning from a short filtery harmony part at the beginning to a long square wave lead line for the slow bit towards the end.
As before, I got the Midi parts online and processed them in Ableton Live. I combined and reduced them down from the 24 orchestral parts to the 5 here. Fixed up a few dodgy notes. Probably added a few of my own. Then I tempo matched to an orchestral performance of the piece, which is probably the fiddliest and most time consuming bit. There were a few more evenings messing with note lengths and refining the tempos further. So, I’ve been using Korg’s Odyssey plugins up to this point in the process, slouching on the sofa on my laptop, but the next step is to move into my little music room and to practice on the actual ones. Spent a couple more evenings working things out there and then a couple of days trying to film a good run through.
It’s certainly tricky trying to adjust each part as dynamically as I’d like when they’re all coming at me in one big terrifying lump. I’m not mixing or even EQ’ing afterwards so I’m battling to keep a good audible balance between the synths as I go. If I get too involved or too “two-handy” on a synth for too long, I’m neglecting the other four and I’ve missed 5 other things I wanted to do. So I’m relying quite a lot on the Decay slider in the envelope section, as it seems to offer a one-stop dynamic shop that I can adjust on two synths at the same time. I’ve modded all of the Odysseys to have a free-running LFOs also, so I can introduce a slow LFO to the filters to keep them shifting about on their own whilst I adjust something else elsewhere.
I have started re-recording these pieces 'properly', one Odyssey at a time, with view to putting them up somewhere for streaming or perhaps even pressing them onto vinyl. Would sound good on record I reckon. You reckon? And I have a whole shelf full of peculiar synthesizer albums from the 60’s and 70’s that it would be an honour to mingle with.
But hey, thank you so much, everyone who showed up and watched the last video. For all the views and subscriptions and above all, the kind and encouraging comments. That was nuts. I didn’t know you lot were coming! Absoutely amazing and thank you sincerely again.
Oh, to wrap up, here the Odysseys are going balanced out into a Behringer ADA-8200 Interface, which is optically connected into the Adat In of my UAD Apollo. They get their 5 channels of Midi note on, note off information down USB from Ableton Live which is in turn recording the audio coming back. I added some Hall Reverb from Arturia’s LX-24 but nothing has been EQ’d. It’s all how it comes out of the lovely boxes. I did however have a Limiter on the main channel, to put a bit of a lid on some of the more feisty bits.
"A two part process of making a track. I start by sampling the snare and hihat channels from the @somasynths Pulsar 23 into the Tonverk. And then build a patch on the Evolver and then pulling it all together to make Lax"
00:00 Intro ramble - The Idea!
02:48 Sampling the Pulsar into the Tonverk
10:46 Testing the @EZBOT_ Subtracks method
15:23 Bringing it all together Part 1
15:58 The Evolver!
35:40 Building and testing and building and testing
43:20 Some other layers from the Tonverk
49:34 Bringing it all together Part 2
@WeAreElektron Tonverk full of samples & DSI Evolver
"Yes, I want to make a PlexiPhon video too. It's always a joy when MakeNoise announces a new Tom Erbe collab, and always a drag to wait for it to cross the Atlantic. I have it on pre-order since I saw the first video. As far as I can tell, MakeNoise didn't explain what a 'plexus delay' is and how it differs from, let's say, a Mimeophon. At first listen they sound like very close family, maybe even too close. However, MakeNoise did a follow-up video where we could hear how the PP changes its delay line like a chameleon, depending on whatever goes into the module and I had a clear WOW moment.
But I still didn't know what a Plexus was, and since I am writing a Book that's supposed to last at least 50 years, I had to do some research. The term is mainly used in biology, describing complex junctions in our nervous system. The term is adopted by networking and represents a complex node to node network. Now it's a small step from a delay line to a delay network, and from a delay network to a reverb. The fun part about a closed plexus is that it can re-encounter elements from anywhere in the chain. Imagine taps that can select crossroads and take a long way home.
I explored the concept with XAOC Samarkanda Quad Delay, which allows me to 'patch program' any combination of four delays with four feedback paths. It's a plexus, but a very simple 'square'. I decided to use the WMD Sequential Switch Matrix so I could patch the I/O in a 4x4 grid. It still doesn't sound like much, but now a 'tap' can travel over 65.536 different routes (2 to the power of 16) which is more than enough to create a vast diffusion network.
I am aware it's a lot of patching and most of you won't be able to follow, but you can freely experiment in VCV too, and learn a LOT. And let's not forget the PlexiPhon can be on its way to the stores right now, which could downsize my experiment into one convenient little module. I can't wait to get my hands on one. But honestly, if you own a Samarkanda, experiment with it first, and only buy new stuff if you really have to. Remember this: It's not the module, it's the behavior!"
Push & Modular connected via ADAT with Expert Sleepers ES-10
@Ableton Push 3 Standalone @afterlateraudio Adventure case & Atom @ExpertSleepersLtd ES-10 Neutron Sounds Dust of Time @QuBitElectronix Scanned Gehrin Plaits & Bean Jelly 2.0 @makenoisemusic QPAS @EricaSynths Black Joystick 2 Nonlinearcircuits Triple Sloths V2 @NoiseEngineering Manis Iteritas & Viol Ruina @Befacosynth Iroi
Video: Live visuals using Creature of Destruction (1967) from Archive.org played through cracked ancient iPad and processed through: Video microscope Sony ZV1 Roland V1-HD @entropyandsons Recursion Studio Resolume Avenue Recorded with Rodecaster Video
"The trusty Prophet 08. I've had this synth a long time. It's not super inspiring right out of the box but as you learn it more deeply, it's a lot of fun, really inspiring and sounds awesome. Especially once you learn the sequencer and how much you can do with it creatively. The LFO's and assignable envelope are also very cool. It has a lot of ways to modify your sound. Fun Stuff.
0:00 Intro Stuff
1:54 First Sounds
5:28 Synth Drums
7:24 Chiptune Universe
8:08 I Really Like This
9:36 Spacey Outro"
"This no-talking video explores 7 different methods of using the Novation Peak as a drum synthesizer, a drum machine or even a groovebox.
A soundbank for the Novation Peak (should also be mostly compatible with the Novation Summit) with all stuff from this video and some more, as well as the individual Peak patches, can be downloaded here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...
00:00 - Intro 01:06 - Peak Drum Jam #1: Fake Trance for Drake Fans 03:13 - Kraftwerk — Autobahn throwback 03:36 - How to turn your Peak into a drum machine? The Autobahn beats 05:10 - Peak as a Groovebox: The Streets — Blinded By The Lights 06:22 - 'What if?' break: AFX mode for the Peak now! 07:02 - Simulating AFX mode by sending MIDI PCs to the Peak 08:32 - Surrogate Multitimbrality: Marvin Gaye — Sexual Healing 09:15 - 6 Methods for Peak beatmaking — Drummer from yet another Mother 09:55 - JMJ — Oxygène IV throwback 10:38 - 'Played' drums 11:28 - Arpeggiator 'played' mode — how it works 11:59 - Pink Floyd — On The Run throwback 12:08 - Feeding 'played' mode from an external sequencer 12:18 - Testing the limits of 'played' mode: Elbow — Grace Under Pressure 13:05 - Patch from scratch: Four-to-the-floor beat with rumble 19:24 - Changing the master tempo (impact on LFOs vs. Envelopes) 20:12 - Peak Drum Jam #2 (with the patch just made from Scratch) 22:39 - Making a drum template patch (with random Peak Spa Meditation background music) 26:02 - LFOs vs. Envelopes: Creating an early 80s beat from our drum template patch 36:14 - Final Peak Drum Jam #3 (1983/84 throwback)
All Peak Patches in this video were created from scratch. All Peak tracks were recorded through RME audio interfaces (Babyface Pro and Fireface UC) directly into Cubase stereo tracks. There are absolutely no effects on the individual Peak stereo tracks, not even panning, and levels are set to unity gain, to give an as-clear-as-possible impression of the Peak’s sonic potential and limits. On most parts (except intro), there is brickwall limiting on the stereo master, and on most multitrack parts also additional compression and EQ on the stereo master. Guitar parts recorded D.I. into the Fireface UC with a 1973 Stratocaster, several track and send FX on those.
Autobahn — written by Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider and Emil Schult Blinded by the Lights — written by Mike Skinner Sexual Healing — written by Marvin Gaye, Odell Brown and possibly David Ritz Oxygène (Part IV) — written by Jean-Michel Jarre On The Run — written by David Gilmour and Roger Waters Grace Under Pressure — written by Guy Garvey, Craig Potter, Mark Potter, Pete Turner and Richard Jupp
1. Sapience - Psychedelic Doom Hip Hop - Ableton Push 3 & Eurorack Modular
2. Perspicuity - Psychedelic Doom Hip Hop - Ableton Push 3 & Eurorack Modular
3. Erudite - Psychedelic Doom Hip Hop - Ableton Push 3 & Eurorack Modular
47bpm - We can be better
Push & Modular connected via ADAT with Expert Sleepers ES-10
@Ableton Push 3 Standalone @afterlateraudio Adventure case & Atom @ExpertSleepersLtd ES-10 Neutron Sounds Dust of Time @QuBitElectronix Scanned Gehrin Plaits & Bean Jelly 2.0 @makenoisemusic QPAS @EricaSynths Black Joystick 2 Nonlinearcircuits Triple Sloths V2 @NoiseEngineering Manis Iteritas & Viol Ruina @Befacosynth Iroi
Video: Live visuals using Destroy All Planets (1968) from Archive.org played through cracked ancient iPad and processed through: Video microscope Sony ZV1 Roland V1-HD @entropyandsons Recursion Studio Resolume Avenue Recorded with Rodecaster Video
"Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world’s most-hated audio tools. Today we are going to talk about the 1998 Yamaha FS1R which is simultaneously the best AND worst synth of all time."
Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune
00:34 Overview Yamaha FS1R
01:40 Filters, FX
02:18 Software Editor
02:36 Why it is complex, Engine Deep Dive
03:14 Operators, Envelopes, LFOs, More Filter Stuff
03:43 UI Pain, Macros
03:58 Formant Synthesis, FSeqs
04:23 Multitimbrality, Patches
04:58 Price, Thanks
05:26 H*te Screen
05:56 Jam 1 ( Techno )
06:43 Jam 2 ( Drum'n'Bass )
07:56 Finale ( Retrofuturist Elektro )
08:25 VERDICT
00:00 overview
00:46 Dronage Terminal for Linux, Windows, MacOS
04:36 Fantasy Synth on Steamdeck
08:41 DS8 on PlayStation Vita (TR-808/909 style drum computer)
13:15 MIDIConnect by Wavy Industries - new MIDI BLE for Windows
15:42 Picotracker Advance: New sample instrument engine
18:38 nOb status update
"A quick aside from the ongoing LP works : through one of those quirks of my tech sidejob, I ended up with a LinnDrum and an Emulator II in my bedroom at the same time :) My project singer Angèle and I couldn't resist putting them through a fun functional test. So here goes our first cover of a French band we really like. The song is called 'Soleil d'Hiver' by NIAGARA. Simply faithful to the original, because why not? x) And while we're at it, happy birthday to Daniel Chenevez, who co-wrote this song with Muriel Moreno :)))
Also involved in this live tracking: URSA Major Stargate 323, Dynacord PDD14, A/DA MB-1, Alesis XT:C, Dynacord VRS23, Publison Infernal Machine 90, Roland SIP-301, MXR Dual Limiter, Klark Teknik DN780, Yamaha R1000, A/DA MP-1 and BiAmp Model 42.
Angèle's instagram : / angele.brc
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My name is Valmont, I'm 24 from Paris! I compose/produce music, take sound on movie sets and repair instruments :)
After a double bachelor in musicology and mechanics in Sorbonne, I ended up doing the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis-Lumière.
I wrote my thesis on Publison and Early Digital, which ultimately tied together my long-standing fascination in vintage machines, servicing and technical demystification with my personal attraction to these instruments.
I tend to hope for a unified low-level approach to music production guided by DIY values. This Youtube channel is a form of its realization!
Join the gang : / valmont_naudin
Listen to my stuff : https://iconism.io/frame/valmont"
"Push & Modular connected via ADAT with Expert Sleepers ES-10
@Ableton Push 3 Standalone
@afterlateraudio Adventure case & Atom
@ExpertSleepersLtd ES-10
Neutron Sounds Dust of Time
@QuBitElectronix Scanned
Gehrin Plaits & Bean Jelly 2.0
@makenoisemusic QPAS
@EricaSynths Black Joystick 2
Nonlinearcircuits Triple Sloths V2
@NoiseEngineering Manis Iteritas & Viol Ruina
Livewire Electronics Vulcan Modulator
Video:
Live visuals using Planet of the Vampires (1968) from Archive.org played through cracked ancient iPad and processed through:
Video microscope
Sony ZV1
Roland V1-HD
@entropyandsons Recursion Studio
Resolume Avenue
Recorded with Rodecaster Video
"This was an instagram post that turned out to be a pretty darn good exploration of Chromaplane through Sparks and Big Time, so I'm tossing it on Youtube for those of you who are on the hunt for more Big Time audio examples. It’s admittedly busy sonically, but sometimes I just love making a big pot of sonic gumbo.
The modular stuff is a series of homegrown samples being processed by Multigrain, Arbhar, and Morphagene.
If you like these kinds of sounds, grab a copy of my sample pack Bokeh-- it's loaded with sounds from this universe that you can use in your music.
"History will be made again with this unique show dedicated to such exciting times and people. Performers from all over the globe bring their Serge (and other 4U varieties) modular synthesizer for this intimate time capsule of such a tight scene.
We are also lucky to have a short form interview with Jill Fraser and Todd Barton who share a little of what it was like to be getting into this stuff in the mid-late 70's. Exciting times, and exactly why this story needs to be told."
"Just a quick Sunday Afternoon test of my ARP Odysseys. The free-running LFO mods I did are just the ticket here but a couple definitely need their Oscillators calibrating. I'm especially looking at you #1! A job for this afternoon ...
When I moved from Bristol to Perth, Australia 2 years ago, ARP #3 didn't enjoy the voyage, refused to power up when we got here and is currently with the good technicians at EAV in Morley. It is being represented here by a colour photocopy (photokarpy) sellotaped onto some cardboard.
But there are lots of plans afoot for myself and the Odysseys.
