"This is a third cousin PCB that is a derivative of the famous Buchla 292c Lopass Gate. Don Buchla himself gave approval to this endeavor for us all to learn a bit more about analog synthesizer module design, and for this we owe him a debt of gratitude as a true scholar and gentleman. This is not the first, nor will it be the last Lopass Gate module to come out to the world. People have become transfixed on the magic of Vactrol's which are a combination of a resistor and LED in a light-tight package that seals out the light of the world yet somehow glows with an internal magic, that for the Synth_DIY crowd becomes hard to ignore." more info here Follow-up to these videos.
YouTube via TuneFRK "If you have any new, vintage, homemade or circuit bent music gear or equipment and want to show it to the world, here is the place to go! http://www.tunefreak.org/studio.html You can also share your sounds, mods, pictures and videos. Simply send me an email with your sounds, pictures or links to Youtube videos and they will appear on our list. I will find out soon How you could send your stuff straight to the list, but for now, feel free to send it here gearlist@tunefreak.org or tunefreak@o2.pl Thanks TuneFreak"
YouTube via Turrican101 "Alan Wilder (Depeche Mode 1982-1995 Keyboarder) demonstrates the use of the Emulator II (French TV, around 1986)" Note this was previously posted on January 17, 2006 here. click here for more Alan Wilder posts and here for more Depeche Mode posts.
YouTube via misslaidlaw "A vocoder, is an analysis / synthesis system, mostly used for speech in which the input is passed through a multiband filter, each filter is passed through an envelope follower, the control signals from the envelope followers are communicated, and the decoder applies these (amplitude) control signals to corresponding filters in the (re)synthesizer.
"Now that you have a basic idea of how control modulations are assigned using the Combinator rotaries and buttons, it should become apparent that completley new control configurations can be created. The four buttong controls on a Combinator are programmed in the same manner as the rotary controllers, but the modulations are fixed values assigned to either the on off state of the button." Combinator Modulation Assignment on Reason 4
YouTube via syntesen "Levo Sound Tools presents VIRGIL - the world's first free pipe organ synthesizer.
"Organ synthesizer" means that absolutely no samples are used in the sound generation. Each tone is generated by 52 oscillators, which are on/off switchable. The pipes range from 64' profound (sub-sub octave) to 1' flageolet. There are also combination (mixture) stops, some of which fatten up the sound in unpredictable ways, as well as a tremulant.
To guarantee authenticity, the synthesizer is not limited to a 100% pitch pure pipe simulation; rather, the user can detune the pipes slightly to recreate that authentic pipe organ sound. On top of this, the pipe noise feature adds authentic pipe blowing noise. For good measure, we've thrown in a global low pass filter as well.
The quality of the synthesizer is selectable to guarantee low CPU usage on all systems. (10 tones with all stops enabled results in 12% CPU usage in 64-bit mode, 5% in 32-bit mode on a Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz processor)
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VIRGIL is, and will always be free, but as the principal developer is a poor medical students, donations are very much appreciated. In return for a $5 donation, you will receive the pre-release version of VIRGIL used in the background music of this video.
All donations will be put to use in further developing VIRGIL, as well as, eventually, porting the synthesizer to Windows." http://www.youtube.com/user/syntesen
YouTube via TuneFRK "FB 383 (Reso mod+magic knob mod ) sequenced by X0xb0x + dr550 mk2
If you have any new, vintage, homemade or circuit bent music gear or equipment and want to show it to the world, here is the place to go! http://www.tunefreak.org/studio.html You can also share your sounds, mods, pictures and videos. Simply send me an email with your sounds, pictures or links to Youtube videos and they will appear on our list. I will find out soon How you could send your stuff straight to the list, but for now, feel free to send it here gearlist@tunefreak.org or tunefreak@o2.pl Thanks TuneFreak"
"This is a third cousin PCB that is a derivative of the famous Buchla 292c Lopass Gate. Don Buchla himself gave approval to this endeavor for us all to learn a bit more about analog synthesizer module design, and for this we owe him a debt of gratitude as a true scholar and gentleman. This is not the first, nor will it be the last Lopass Gate module to come out to the world. People have become transfixed on the magic of Vactrol's which are a combination of a resistor and LED in a light-tight package that seals out the light of the world yet somehow glows with an internal magic, that for the Synth_DIY crowd becomes hard to ignore."
