Roland TR-8, TB-3, and Korg ESX acid house jam

Published on Apr 17, 2015 anode8

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Here's a little acid house jam on my new TR-8, accompanied by the TB-3 and the Korg ESX. this is by no means a full demo or indication of the capabiities of these machines, just me having a little fun in the home studio with some old school flair."

Raspberry Pi Wavetable Synth Complete

via the Raspberry PI Synthesizer blog:

"Time to call it a day and say yes, this thing is feature complete.

Feature set :

Single EG per note, 2 LFOs per polysynth
LFOs have sin, saw, square, tri and S/H modes
LFOs may optionally be synced to sequencer clock - the one feature not *quite* implemented yet
One LFO is always on, the other is ramped up by the Mod wheel

2 layers of wavetable trajectories ('oscillators') per note
Each wavetable trajectory consists of up to 8 wavetables, traversed in
- linear time
- quadratic time t*t
- inverse quadratic time 1-(1-t)*(1-t)
- exponential time - half-life a go-go
There isn't an EG to drive trajectory, just a dTrajectory/dt parameter. Trajectory resolution is always normalized to 1.0 irrespective of how many tables are in the trajectory, so a dTraj/dt of 0.5 will take 2s to pass through all the tables, unlss the linearity parameter is set to exponential, in which case the 0.5 is interpreted as a half-life, so after 0.5s you will be half way through the trajectory list, after 1s at 0.75 etc. Exponential is nice as you always have some movement going on, no matter how long you hold a note, but obviously you are getting asymptotic to 1.0 after a while.

The trajectory traversal may also be modified with both the LFO and MOD LFO, with programmable sensitivities. This gives really great slow movement for ever, even on non-exponential settings
Pitch of oscillators may be modified by both LFOs with programmable sensitivities - great slow movement plus crazy MOD wiggling
Oscillator B may be manually detuned / uptuned by +- 12 semitones, with exponential control for fine detune
Oscillators are MIP-map antialiased, the octaves generated by FFT / de-FFT, and there's a secret sauce trick that can be manually enabled to preserve the phase of certain harmonics whilst retaining my 'must have' / non-negotiable feature of a positive-moving zero transition at table location 0 for all octaves.

There is a back-end LPF, which is a truly brainless 1st order thing but it does go truly transparent at half Nyquist. This is just one filter per polysynth, effectively a very coarse tone control to tune out the psychotic edge of the more extreme waves and bring in some 'mellow', if mellow is what you fancy. This is nice on lush ensemble stringy sounds to push them more background but leave their tones prominent to reinforce a melody.

There are some 21 built-in wavetables - I need to count, there may be just 17 - there are more than 16, I broke the nice power of 2 limit because I had some I couldn't bear to leave out. These include 3 Caitlin vowels, sampled piano, brass, alto sax, viola, and also analytical waves like saw, sin, square, tri.

The Cray XMP / SIMD programming system is included, to support user construction of rich new wavetables from combinations of existing tables, be they built in or user-programmed.

Nice feature set, eh?

A first generation Raspberry Pi seems to be able to generate about 20 notes of polyphony from this synth, which is a lot of synthesis. So a completely reasonable thing is to create 4 PIANA Virtual Analog monosynths, 3 PIANATRON sampled synths and a pair of 4 note polyphonic PICYCLE wavetable synths, and let them go play.

Obviously on a Raspberry Pi 2 you can do all this and find a cure for the common cold in parallel using neat protein folding tricks. Or just fire up another dozen synths and go really crazy.

This thing sounds even cooler than I imagined, and to be honest I always expected it to sound cool. But it is BRILLIANT. Seriously.

Video to follow.

p.s fave trick to date - the Gordon Reid 'strings' trick with a Slightly Phase Distorted pair of different stacked sawtooths, one FMd by a 3Hz 0.08 semitone amplitude S/H LFO. Lush ..."

MESSE 2015: Malekko Modules for 2015

Published on Apr 17, 2015 sonicstate

"MESSE 2015: Malekko Modules for 2015 Something that is not from Roland..."

http://malekkoheavyindustry.com

WMD Phase Displacement Oscillator Mk2 -Oscillator Beats (eurorack)

Published on Apr 17, 2015 bigcitymusic

"The WMD Phase Displacement Oscillator Mk2 (PDO Mk2) is slowed down to LFO rate. Displacing the phase of the individual outputs is used to create shuffled beats. The individual phase outputs from the PDO mk2 are used to trigger drums from the Mutable Insturments Peaks. The Peaks drums are sent into the PDO Mk2 where we are monitoring the output from the Sum feeding into an Eventide Space Reverb.

http://bigcitymusic.com/wmd-phase-dis..."

MESSE 2015: Abstract Data Octocontroller Overview

Published on Apr 17, 2015 sonicstate

"MESSE 2015: Abstract Data Octocontroller Overview Justin Owen gives us an in depth look at the multifunctional module"

http://www.abstractdata.biz/

Nova Musik - JoMoX XBASE 999 Analog Drum Synthesizer

Published on Apr 17, 2015 Nova Musik

"Check out great deals on JoMoX XBASE 999 at Nova Musik:
http://www.novamusik.com/machines/jom...

Available as a Producer Edition in addition to the regular version, JoMoX XBASE 999 is a drum machine with nine instruments, four of which are fully analog discrete circuits: the kick drum, the snare drum and the high and low toms. The kick and snare sound and parameters will be familiar to anyone who's heard or used JoMoX's dedicated single-voice MBase kick drum module or M.Brane snare drum module.

The other voices in XBASE 999 are short 8-bit samples, and JoMoX provides a free Mac/PC application to upload and manage your own sample sets. Each sample-based voice has its own analog VCA, which gives them surprising power to cut through a mix.

Not to be overlooked is XBASE999's analog X-filter, a 2-pole stereo multimode filter with dedicated sequencer tracks to control its cutoff, Q, resonance and VCA level per step. And speaking of the sequencer, XBASE 999 allows for individual step edit—aka parameter locking—on all parameters for both the analog and sample-based voices."

Let's Play with Cyclop for iPad

Published on Apr 17, 2015 Tim Webb

"Sugar Bytes' latest iPad app is a direct port of their Cyclop monophonic synth. This bass beast is best suited to DubStep, so I took a stab at the genre in this Let's WUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUB. If you enjoyed this please consider supporting this series by sponsoring them on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/discchord

Be sure to visit http://discchord.com for the latest music app news!"

iTunes: Cyclop iPad Edition - Sugar Bytes GmbH

Doepfer A106-5 12 db SEM filter vs. A124 Wasp Filter Pt. 2b Band Pass Filter

Published on Apr 17, 2015 Raul's World of Synths

"Continuing the Doepfer A106-5 video series. We finish up the A106-5 series with a few more sounds from the A106-5 and the A124.Sound and Video by Raul Pena"

All parts:

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Musikmesse 2015 Introducing the New Erica Synths Eurorack Modules

Published on Apr 16, 2015 Analogue Zone Showroom / Synths and Studio

The Moog Liberation Overview Videos by Marc Doty

1-The Moog Liberation: Oscillators

Published on Apr 13, 2015 AutomaticGainsay

"Here is a demonstration of the sound and functionality of the oscillators of the Moog Liberation.

Do you enjoy these loving portrayals of the synthesizers of yesteryear? Support Automatic Gainsay at
http://www.patreon.com/automaticgainsay"


02- The Moog Liberation: Filter

Published on Apr 17, 2015

"Here is a demonstration of the sound and functionality of the filter section of the Moog Liberation keytar."

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