Roland Boutique JP-08 Synth Demo Sounds

Published on Nov 18, 2015 mylarmelodies

"Being largely a collection of some sounds on the ace little Roland Boutique JP08 I programmed in the car on a motorway, demoed through a touch of Valhalla Vintageverb. Thoughts on it below:

I think it's ace. The sliders have a tiny throw - they're 10mm. That's not much, but personally speaking, they're not at all 'unusable' either, as some commenters have pre-judged it to be before it was even in shops. Unusable means the machine is just that, and it just isn't. If you feel like complaining about it, you can go ahead and make your own better version. Sure, it can be tricky to absolutely nail a setting in certain circumstances, and for live performance it might not be ideal, but for a studio (or car) setting I had no problem whatsoever programming it. I suggest you reserve judgement till you've actually tried it in person, if you haven't.

In terms of sound I don't have a Jupiter 8 to compare it to, if you want to know if it's like half of a real Jupiter 8. There's a slight feeling of over-perfection to its sound, pitch stability, in that the original will never really be absolutely in tune, and that absolutely impacts the sound, but all I can assure you is that this is a genuinely impressive sounding thing, and frankly is more than 'close enough'. If there was anything I'd like it'd be a 'stability' setting to make it a bit wonkier. Anyway I think you'd probably struggle to pick it out from the real thing in a double blind, and anyway all that really matters is it's an inspiring sounding voice, very flexible, and to have all that flexibility in a box that's so tiny you literally can shove it in a carry bag and take it on holiday along with your laptop...that's cool. That's really cool.

Roland are to be congratulated for bringing this back in any form frankly, and here's crossing fingers for more ace Jupiter 8 inspired gear to come."

Click here for all JP-08 posts to date.

Studiologic Sledge II: Custom Patches

Published on Nov 18, 2015

The Studiologic Sledge 2 with Waldorf synth engine. See this post and this post for details and previous demos of the 2.0 version.

BLUE 2 Chord Mode

Published on Nov 18, 2015 Rob Papen

"Tutorial about the creative 'Chord mode' inside BLUE-II
http://www.robpapen.com/blue2.html
Note: presets used in this video are from the latest version of BLUE-II (November 2015) . If you own BLUE-II or the eXplorer-III bundle, please log-in to download the latest version."

Global Fusion - 2015 - Radio Built Radio

Evaton Technologies was one of the sponsors of Mike Maxwell's performance "Radio Built Radio" [see this post] during Resilience Radio at the Global Fusion 2015 conference at Texas A&M recently. Maxwell's live performance rig included 4 RF Nomad modules, which were the sole audio sources. Listen to an excerpt of his performance above.

Cheap Crap and Bad. Pt3 of tHe BucKety series about going to a gym.

Published on Nov 18, 2015 macbethsynthesizers

"Many thanks to Ken Woody 'Ronson' Woodburn for the guitar and backing vocals on this extremely crummy track! All synths on this- MacBeth Elements! 24 hour play on this only...it's so bad."

O0O Eurorack Modules

BSDM (Bareback kick) & SCAT (0-logical distortion) from 000 on Vimeo.

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SNORE FIST DRUM 000 Percussion & Distortion Modules from 000 on Vimeo.

"SNORE FIST DRUM
A reinterpretation of a snare drum by 000
000 Percussion & Distortion Modules"


BSDM (Bareback kick) & SCAT (0-logical distortion) from 000 on Vimeo.

"BSDM Bareback kick (BasSDruM) and SCAT 0-Logical Distortion
000 Percussion and Distortion Modules"


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Inputs: Trigger, Accent
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O0O SN0RE Fist Drum Eurorack Synthesizer Snare Module

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via this auction

"This is the snare drum in the 000 set.

An analog design for snare and sci-fi trepanant frequencies with an analog white noise level control.
The Snap potentiometer -Band Pass Filter- allows you to locate the sounds in the edges of reality.
Potentiometer Control: Pitch/Envelope/Decay/Snap/Noise/Volume
Button: Whip (Trigger)
Input: Trigger, Accent
Output: Audio
2mm black soldermask panel, golden traces (ENIG), robust metal potentiometers, black knobs, custom light push buttons with black laser engraved logos.
Designed by 000 on summer 2015."

Note this is the first 000 post. See here for a list of their modules.

Uoki-Toki Eurorack Modules

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via these auctions

All but the first appear to be branded as Uoki-Toki modules. Uoki-Toki is known for circuit bending (Speak & Spell, Roland TR-626). I created a new Uoki-Toki channel label on the site for these moving forward.

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ROLAND SYSTEM-1m synthesizer teardown MF#59

Published on Nov 18, 2015 markusfuller

"A look into the Roland System-1m module to see if the possibility of future boutique plug-outs will be possible."

You'll find the JP-08 teardown here and all JP-08 posts here in newest-post-first order.

Moog Minimoog Model D SN 1735

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"Here is a beautiful Moog Model D Minimoog from 1972. The serial number is 1735 making it the 735th minimoog made. I’m the second owner and I bought the synthesizer from a friend in 1982. I don’t think that he took it out much from his home studio. I never took it out of my studio except to move to a new studio location. The unit is in (want to say perfect) extremely good working condition and very good physical condition considering it is about 44 years old. My tech and I went through the unit to physically align the keyboard (many mini keyboards are really wavy, guess I didn’t play this one enough) and to clean the connectors for the pitch/mod wheel section since the Glide switch would occasionally stay on, but now works correctly. Other than that we couldn’t find anything else wrong to fix. Th synth stays in tune and doesn't drift. Included is a heavy-duty flight case, which I refurbished with new PE (polyethylene, the good stuff) foam to make it like brand new inside. If you check the sold minimoogs on ebay you’ll see a range of sell prices up to and over over $6000 or more for ones of this vintage. $4495. Don’t be afraid to shoot me an offer."