MATRIXSYNTH

Studio Electronics SE-1

Robert Babicz about mastering audio

Robert Babicz about mastering audio from David Star on Vimeo.
Synth content comes it at 11:00 or so. via wire to the ear.

Update via Rebel Droid in the comments: This video is from the excellent DVD music magazine 'Slices'"

NUSofting Groove Analogizer

From the makers of the BDM (Broken Drum Machine)

" Groove Analogizer is an "audio controlled drum synthesizer", it means that like a vintage electronic drum tone generator (e.g. Simmons) the percussion sound is triggered by an audio input, not by a MIDI message. This also means that you must not load, in the host, Groove Analogizer as a VST instrument, it loads as a VST effect, usually in an insert slot.

But it's really a synth: the sound of three oscillators is triggered and shaped by the audio input in many ways.

How triggering works in Groove Analogizer:
A trigger can be any kind of percussive* sound, both mono or stereo, it can be a wav file or another VST instrument.
(*Percussive means: with fast attack time and fast or moderate decay/release time)

For each of the three generators you can choose left, right or left+right input, input can be both mono or stereo, then a band pass filter allows you to select (coarse and fine) which frequency range of the audio source will be used for triggering, this way you can separate hi, mid and low tones in the audio input, allowing you to isolate different trigger patterns from the same complex audio source (e.g. you can input a full drums loop and select snare for trigger 1, bass drum for trigger 2 and hihat for trigger 3).
Groove Analogizer also features Pre-Listening (PL button), so that you can monitor which part of the source is selected as trigger.

Another control at the input named Sensitivity allows to fine select the loudest triggers filtered by the band pass. So that you may include ghost notes or avoid them.
128 of the coolest presets ready to play

Sound Controls For each generator:
Release time: amplitude and pitch envelope time
Bending: positive or negative pitch envelope amount
Offset : pitch base
Timbre: from pure tone to noise, with FM option. New: overtone mode

output Controls For each generator:
Effect: send to internal stereo delay
Pan: stereo image
Volume: output level

master Controls:
FM: global amount
Smooth: slope time for all envelopes
Delay effect controls
Dry: output of the trigger (source audio)
Master : output level of all three generators"

You can find samples and the free download here.

Yamaha DX7 Digital Synthesizer Live Jam

YouTube via martinp268

Synthpop Dance Club

glumbert - Synthpop Dance Club

Guess the synths. If anyone knows who made the track in this video and/or the synths used feel free to comment or send me an email. My contact info is on the bottom right.

Update via Jesper: "Its a swedish band called slagsmålsklubben, thats "Fightclub" in swedish. I think they have a Korg mono/poly, CS-15 a monomachine and some more stuff. The song is called "Övningsköra". You can find a lot of videos on youtube with them."

Slagsmålsklubben - Övningsköra

YouTube via parkering123

WABOT-2

YouTube via pinktentacle3. via oyster rock. Yamaha FX1. You might remember WABOT-2 from this post.

Roland Jupiter-4 "arpeggiated" by RetroSound

YouTube via retrosound72

"vintage synth demo by RetroSound
JP4 demo part2 [part 1 here]
Roland Jupiter-4 Analog Synthesizer (1978)
The JP-4 Arpeggiator is triggered by the TR-606.
drums: Roland TR-606

This video demo is not a musical statement, only demonstration of the sound possibilities of the instrument."

SOUNDLAB PLUS DEMO 2008

YouTube via bluelantern320

"Here is a demo of the new SOUNDLAB PLUS sound. All Synth tracks are SL plus. The drum machine is an 808."

ixiQuarks introduction

YouTube via ixiaudio. via synthtopia
"This video shows the ixiQuarks tools browser, opens up the AudioIn tool and a spectral view and wave view. Then a bufferPool is loaded (into RAM) and soundfiles viewed in a soundfile view. A live sound is then recorded into the bufferPool and played back. We then see an EQview (showing 31 bands). The sounds from the bufferPools are then manipulated in the SoundScratcher instrument which allows for warp (granular synthesis), buffer scratching, and various other methods of granular synthesis. We see how two windows can be used at the same time."