Budapest Music Expo 2015 - Tiptop Audio Workshop and New Product Announcements by Konstantin Gervis

Published on Oct 5, 2015 Analogue Zone Showroom / Synths and Studio

"Analogue Zone presents - Tiptop Audio Workshop and New Product Announcements by Konstantin Gervis

http://www.analoguezone.com/
http://www.analoguezone.com/internati..."

Budapest Music Expo 2015 - Introducing the Birdkids Bateleur VCO and Expander and Mixer:Noise

Published on Oct 5, 2015 Analogue Zone Showroom / Synths and Studio

"Analogue Zone presents - Introducing the Birdkids Bateleur VCO and Expander and Mixer/Noise

http://www.analoguezone.com/
http://www.analoguezone.com/internati..."

Budapest Music Expo 2015 - Mannequins and Monome Eurorack Modules Overview by Trent Gill

Published on Oct 5, 2015 Analogue Zone Showroom / Synths and Studio

"Analogue Zone presents - Mannequins and Monome Eurorack Modules Overview by Trent Gill

http://www.analoguezone.com/
http://www.analoguezone.com/internati..."

Demora: audio rate modulation

Published on Oct 5, 2015 wellurban

"Testing audio-rate modulation of Roland's Demora delay module. The effects are petty tame to start off with, but get progressively wilder from about the 2 minute mark."

http://www.roland.com/aira/airamodular/

MODOR NF-1 Digital Poly Review

Published on Oct 5, 2015 sonicstate

"A desktop DSP based polysynth from Belgium is proud to be digital. We take a look"

Buchla Easel K tip 2 & 3

Published on Oct 5, 2015 Todd Barton

"Using the 218’s Pulser to clock for the 218 Sequencer and the 223e Arpeggiator you can have 2 synchronized variable step/pitch combinations: 3-5 steps with the 218 and from 1-23 steps with the 223e. Also, the 223e offers many pattern modes: Rising, Falling, Triangle, Random and Spiral."

Buchla Easel K tip 3

Published on Oct 5, 2015

"In contrast to Tip 2, this tip uses the 223e Arpeggiator to clock the 218 Pulser. For a close up photo of the card used here go to:
https://www.hightail.com/download/bXB..."

All parts here.

The Doors - Break on Through Old School Computer Remix

Published on Oct 4, 2015 bd594

"It's been awhile so I hope you enjoy my old school remix of The Doors - Break on Through to The Other Side. My video has two versions one with DECTalk vocals and one without. DECTalk is same speech synthesizer Stephen Hawking used back in the 80's. Which video do you like?
Devices Used
HP ScanJet 3C - Vocals
DECTalk Express - Vocals
Yamaha CX-5M Computer - Saw Wave Bass
Yamaha CX-5M Computer - Sine Wave Organ
Drums - Slamming Hard Drive Head
Cymbal - Striking Hard Drive Platter"

nonlinearcircuits cellF - live human neurons based modular synth

cellF hall Published on Oct 5, 2015 cirtcele

"A very quick behind the scenes look at the setup for the 1st performance of cellF. This was filmed on a very crappy old mobile-phone, so def. not HD. More info here - http://guybenary.com/work/cellf/"

via nonlinearcircuits

"On Sunday 4th October the 1st live performance of cellF was given. cellF is an analogue modular synthesizer controlled by live human neurons grown on an electrode array...

Regarding the electronics:
The neuron dish has 60 electrodes, each of these is hooked up to and amplifier circuit to boost the neuron signals by approx 100x and then a comparator. Neurons chatter away constantly but they put out bursts of triggers every now & then, called action potentials, and it is these triggers we want.
So the black panel contains 60 processing circuits to extract the action potentials (triggers) and then we use these to control the synth.

The panel also has 16 stimulation input to send signals into the neurons (reduced to a max of 1Vp-p and approx 7ms trigger). To prevent feedback loops there are 60 analogue switches to momentarily turn off the processing circuits when a stim signal is sent. All this took quite a bit of work to develop and get right, but it is now fkn great!
During the performance (I was not the performer, we had a real musician for that - Darren Moore), I had to check and adjust the comparators a couple of times as the neuronal activities changes over time. Otherwise the synth was untouched and just communicated with the Darren, his drumhits were fed to the stim inputs. During the performance, it was very clear the neurons were responding to stimulation. It was great to listen to and must have been an incredible experience for Darren. A pro vid & audio crew recorded the event, so I will add links when they become available.


The actual synth section contains only NLC modules:
6 tri-core VCOs
4 LFOs
4 LPGs
8 VCAs
2 VC spring reverbs
2 diff-rectifiers
2 jerkoff chaos
4 281 EGs
2 Sauce of Unces
2 7 stage clock dividers with staircase
2 quad logic with resistor ladder & VC slew
2 Quad oscillator / low pass filter
2 choppers
2 Delay no mores
2 Vactrol PiLLs
2 DP filters
2 FF chaos
2 Sloth chaos
2 offset mixers
4 voltage controlled matrix mixers (32 VCAs in each so 128 VCAs)
2 multiband distortions
12 envelope generators
8 Frigates (pitch2CV and pitch2gate modules)
Plus a bunch of mults....think thats it"

Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 Moog Source Roland VP330 Oberheim DX

Published on Oct 5, 2015 boogie-boutique

"This time with a better camera angle, performing my last idea with imperfect action and choreo, but the sounds are real nice I think, headphones or external speakers recommended

Midi & DIN-Sync Master: Elektron Analog Rytm
Reverb & Delay: Behringer X32
Source triggert with Roland 606"

The Indiana Revolver VHS (DIY MIDI Controller) Unboxing

Published on Oct 3, 2015 KM Productions

"The official unboxing (and example) of Kyle's hand crafted DIY MIDI Controller "The Indiana Revolver VHS". It consists of 12 potentiometer knobs built inside an Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark VHS cassette tape. In this video it is controlling 12 FX knobs in Ableton Live.

Controller is using a Teensy 2.0 Board

*Special Thanks to Toby Hendricks aka Otem Relik (https://www.youtube.com/otemrellik) he helped out a ton with providing base code/sketches for this."