Everyone Can Play Music #21: Understanding Wavetable Synthesis

YouTube Published on Aug 31, 2012 by Discchord

"This lesson explores wavetable synthesis and looks at different ways of playing with Animoog. This should be helpful for people using PPG Wavegenerator and other wavetable synths too! Visit the site a free pack of Animoog Timbres and details on how to make your own: http://discchord.com/blog/2012/8/25/official-unofficial-animoog-timbres-plus-how-to-diy.html"

iTunes:
Animoog - Moog Music Inc.
iPads on eBay

2 x 8 Sequencer Prototype v2

YouTube Published on Aug 31, 2012 by Fahz0r

"I have added an external click input so it can run together with my TR-606 at the flick of a button. I can then set the step length via the tempo knob which causes it to sort of quantize itself into different time signatures."

Jimmy Edgar Studio Visit

YouTube Published on Aug 6, 2012 by KOMA Elektronik

"On a nice summer day the KOMA Elektronik team visited endorsed artist Jimmy Edgar at his studio in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin to talk synths, effects, and analog production techniques! See Jimmy patch his monster Eurorack synthesizer and rock the Kommander!

Jimmy Edgar is an established player in the Detroit and Berlin techno scene. He is not only a great music producer (releases on Warp Records, !K7, Poker Flat, etc.) and an awarded fashion photographer, he is also a modular synthesizer fanatic. His obsession for analogue electronics made him and us come together. Check out his new record Majenta and you know why we dig his stuff!

- http://www.jimmyedgar.com/ || https://www.facebook.com/jimmyedgar
- http://www.koma-elektronik.com || https://www.facebook.com/KOMAelektronik"

Jimmy Edgar Studio Visit Part II

Published on Aug 31, 2012 by KOMA Elektronik

NI Massive Online Course by Producertech

Sample Module from NI Massive Online Course by Producertech - Intro to Massive

YouTube Published on Aug 31, 2012 by producertech

"This lesson is the first module from Producertech's new Massive Online Course by Rob Jones. The movie gives a basic outline of the synth and what you can expect from the rest of the course. Although the course is made for www.synthcourses.com, it's only available currently at Music Courses - a brand new website for all things music related - go here, to find out more: http://music-courses.com/Music-Software/Soft-Synth-Courses/Synth-Courses---Massive/p-69-110-162/"

Spectrasonics Omnisphere Online Course by Producertech

Sample Module from Spectrasonics Omnisphere Online Course by Producertech - Intro to Omnisphere

YouTube Published on Aug 31, 2012 by producertech

"This lesson is the first module from Producertech's new Sylenth 1 Online Course by Rob Jones. The movie gives a basic outline of the synth and what you can expect from the rest of the course. Although the course is made for www.synthcourses.com, it's only available currently at Music Courses - a brand new website for all things music related - go here, to find out more: http://music-courses.com/Music-Software/Soft-Synth-Courses/Synth-Courses---Omnisphere/p-69-110-161/"

Lennar Digital Sylenth 1 Online Course by Producertech

Sample Module from Lennar Digital Sylenth 1 Online Course by Producertech - Intro to Sylenth 1

YouTube Published on Aug 31, 2012 by producertech

Lesson 1 - Introduction and Overview

"This lesson is the first module from Producertech's new Sylenth 1 Online Course by Dom Kane. The movie gives a basic outline of the synth and what you can expect from the rest of the course. Although the course is made for www.synthcourses.com, it's only available currently at Music Courses - a brand new website for all things music related - go here, to find out more: http://music-courses.com/Music-Software/Soft-Synth-Courses/Synth-Courses---Sylenth-1/p-69-110-163/"

Alisa-1387. Soviet analog synthesizer.

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YouTube Published on Aug 31, 2012 by Strangesoundful

"Made in 1987. Whith built-in MIDI-interface."

via this auction

"The synthesizer "Alisa - 1387" made in Luberetskiy factory of musical instruments. This instrument has 3-octaves keyboard, a modualation wheel and the control system (regulators and buttons). The instrument consists of the following main blocks: tone generator, filter, contour filter, signal contour, modulation, sound mixer and output. Later to this synthesizer was integrated MIDI interface. Controls on the front panel: Tone generator - tuning, generator 1:3 waveforms, modulation amount, pulse width modulation, portamento, register: subfrequency, 32',16',8'; generator 2: sync on, interval, waveforms (square, sawtooth) Sound mixer - generator 1 (level), generator 2 (level), noise (level). Filter - cut off, resonance, vibration, keyboard tracking Filter contour - attack,sustain, decay, release. Modulation - tempo; waveforms ON, oscillator/filter, depth (wheel). Output - common level; output ON. Switcher to "MIDI mode". The supply voltage - 220-230V/50Hz. For 110/127V, a voltage converter is necessary. Connectors of back board: line output (Jack 1/4'') MIDI IN (5-DIN) power on power plug external triggering - generator, output, input, ON. Front board - output for head-phones (5-DIN). About "external triggering - generator, output, input, ON" - I don't know how it works and I have never used it. Perhaps it is useful thing if you have another extra analog synth."

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Roland Jupiter 8 + Oberheim OBXA Gas Giants

YouTube Published on Aug 30, 2012 by synthartist69

Vermona DRM mk3 / analog drum / DUB DEMO

YouTube Published on Aug 30, 2012 by caleb condit

"I'll have a full write up on this synth up at beepbloop.com. I just noticed that there's not very much on this drum synth so I messed around with it for a half hour and am bringing you the tastiest bits. It's typically pretty overlooked in general, but is incredibly capable of all types of tones. I pushed it pretty far into tonal territory for this demo, but I'll follow up with some demos on creating typical analog drum tones.

It's a bit softer edged than some of the vintage roland classics, but that makes it really good for dub and more experimental pieces. Also the tonal parts make it really great for trap, moombahton and other harder genres or things like IDM. There are separate outs for each sound and I really could have run each one to my mixer to for maximum quality to get specific compression for each tone, etc, but for this demo I wanted something more loose and fuzzy.

I do push the mixer pretty hard at moments but I like what it does to the sound. I sequenced the beat on an electribe ER-1, to utilize the classic XOX style sequencing and ran it through an Electro Harmonix Memory Man with Hazarai to get a bit of ambience and the last clip also has a bit of beat repeat in Ableton that I forgot to take off.

Surprisingly the rhythm is the same throughout, but I just tweaked tones to show that even with something fairly unchanging, by just tweaking tones you can really do so much with this module and just faded volume knobs to bring parts in and out. The output works in an interesting way, where the different tones seem to fight each other a bit for what sits on top at times, and it's really nice. Very different from many things I've tried."

Handel Modular fuga g-minor HWV 605

YouTube Published on Aug 30, 2012 by powerofthetruth
Listen to this one in stereo

"Another fuga of G.F. Handel played on YUSYNTH modular played by Daniel Philipp Stotz. Recently I recorded the whole well tempered clavier mainly on this synth.
Maybe this fuga is a much earlier work, if you compare it with to HWV 608 of 609. It is very interresting, how carefully Beethoven studied not only Bach but even more Handel fugas. Please take a look at the fugas of Beethoven, mainly in the 9. Sinfonie!
More info please see http://www.danielphilippstotz.info/"