Ghetto Lab

Ghetto Lab from jon johnstone on Vimeo.
"Finished my MFOS Sound Lab. Listen to the sweet sweet sounds!

Actually I have no idea if this sounds right or not. I'm just happy that my second project, after an atari punk console, didn't burst into flames when I turned it on."

studio cleanup

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PlanB Model 17 Triple Event Timer gearporn

YouTube via dkimcg
"More experimentation with the triple event timer. Turns out it's really really nice for making little tribal sounding resonant drum patterns when used with the Model 13 Dual Timbral Gate. You can really hear the vactrols here since the gates are literally just open or closed with a pulse. That resonant almost membrane type sound is the slowness of the vactrols. Sweet huh? So in this patch the Model 10 was free to do other stuff, but I think it was just cycling back into the control processor for the second timing on the right side. Ah, that loudness in levels must have been feedback. Sorry about the levels being way too loud at parts, I think the voltages got too high too. I need a voltmeter in the rack...

YOu can see pretty clearly what the Model 17 does with the LFO feeding into it going slow. The timer's positive direction send out one set of pulses to the 1st gate, the negative direction send out a 2nd set of pulses to the 2nd gate giving you two voices played with one LFO timing everything out. 6 triggers events total, so you can do some nifty timing stuff with it. See the other video for a better idea on the outbuts at the lower section."

advanced Loading... PlanB Model 17 Triple Event Timer Outputs

YouTube via dkimcg
"Not too complete, the negative triggers don't seem to be firing anything in this patch (probably pulsing to a filter or something while quiet), but you can see the or outputs which look like they could be used for a backbeat drone or trigger another note/event.

See the other video for a better idea of what the triple event timer can do. I really like this thing a lot now that I know what it can do. No stereo really, it's a raw recording with no delay or anything, just the two gates mixed together in mono."

Machinedrum and A.S. 8500 Short Sequence

YouTube via bigcitymusic
"Here's a tough little sequence from the Analogue Systems rs200 Sequencer module synced up with the Elektron Machinedrum via the rs140 MIDI/CV module. The rs140 is one of the most feature-laden MIDI to CV converters available, and it's in eurorack format!

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"They say it's gonna rain" - on Böhm Station One

YouTube via organfairy

"I don't know very much about this German workstation. In fact I have only found out a fraction of its capabilities. But I have used it to play the rhytm and some of the voices on this song. The rest is played on the Yamaha organ which also acts as keyboard for the Böhm."

MFB Filterbox Demo

YouTube via tobsenteque
"Clocked MFB Filterbox applied to a Synth Sequence. Some additional EFX"

The tiny YMO click module (take2)

YouTube via denha
"This makes a model of MOOG moduller sequencer. The sound has been changed."

Synthorama - Synth Museum Walkthrough - Parts 1 - 5

YouTube via matrixsynth.

This is the walk through of the Synthorma synthesizer museum in Luterback Switzerland. Before you watch this video I want to make a few notes. First of all, be sure to click on the synthorama label/link below to see all posts on my visit to the museum. Second, this set of five videos is literally walk through the museum. If you have been following the posts you will know that the majority of synths are hooked up to headphone amps. There is a very good reason for this - you are encouraged to explore and listen to the individual synths without the disturbance of others doing the same. Because of this there is obviously no synth audio in this set of videos. The purpose of this post is to give you an idea of what is there and to give you a sense of what it would be like to walk through and see all of this before you put the camera down and start playing. :) There is no background track as you walk along. Just a ton of synths you want to explore.

For those of you that get camera sick watching videos like this, apologies ahead of time, and there are plenty of shots of the museum in my prior posts if that works better for you. Hopefully the vids aren't too bad.

That said, enjoy this set of videos, or not. Remember you can mouse over the video and click on the forward and backward links to move on to the next video if you do not have the time to watch all five in one shot.

Thanks again to Martin Hollinger for hosting such an incredible synthesizer asset for the community and a special thanks to swissdoc for not only driving me to the museum with the great synth talk, but also for dropping by the music shop and brockenstube on the way there. I couldn't have dreamt of a better synth fix on my vacation. Thank you.

Synthorama - MISC Shots

click here for the last set of images of the Synthorama synthesizer museum in Luterbach Switzerland. The set includes that last random shots I took of the museum after completing a tour of all the synths. Next up, the video tour of the musuem. Click on the synthorama label below to see all the posts of my visit.