Chronium Synthesizer and Sequencer, Demo for the iPad

Published on May 25, 2016 thesoundtestroom

iTunes: Chronium - MN Signal Processing

"Chronium is a sequencer/synthesizer app for creating, recording, and sharing complex melodies simply by a few finger touches.

The main user interface consists of a fingerboard and a control bar. Touch the fingerboard to start, stop, or modify a voice. The horizontal axis of the fingerboard corresponds to different frequencies, similar to a guitar fingerboard. The vertical axis corresponds to different sounds and rhythm patterns which you can configure. When a voice is playing, the corresponding rhythm pattern is shown as a loop around the touch position, along with the red play cursor. On 3D Touch devices (for example iPhone 6S), the pressure applied to the fingerboard affects the sound by changing filter parameters or modulation depths. On other devices, the same parameters are controlled by an estimate of the surface touched by your finger.

The rhythm patterns are produced by thresholding a weighted sum of binary signals. The weights and thresholds can be set using sliders in the pattern editing interface. 7 basic binary signals are available with periodicities ranging from whole notes to sixty-fourth notes. 5 thresholds are used to determine the timing of the notes, the octave, and whether the notes should be accented or not. The weights and thresholds can be set for 3 different locations along the vertical axis of the fingerboard. Patterns in intermediate locations are obtained by interpolating the weights and thresholds.

Up to 7 different sounds can be placed on the fingerboard and sounds in intermediate locations are obtained by morphing between the two nearest sounds. For this app, an advanced virtual analog sound synthesis engine was developed to enable morphing between classic analog and FM synth sounds.

On devices with an A7 processor or higher (iPhone 5S or higher, iPad Air or higher, iPod Touch 6th Gen or higher), you can record what you are playing as a video and share it on social media, via email, or to the device's camera roll.

What's New in Version 1.1
With version 1.1 you can share your Chronium performance as a video to social networks, by email, or to your camera roll."

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Moog The Rogue + SQ1

Published on May 25, 2016

"a demo of the nice little synth Moog The Rogue sequenced by Korg SQ1"

Live Jam #35 - Ambient / Drone - Self playing patch on Eurorack modular synthesizer

Published on May 24, 2016 TRM

"Unfortunately I forgot to write down a patch description for this one. I remember it was inspired by the self playing random tones caused by the MFB dual lfo stepped random out, voltage controlled by its own tri lfo. Then through the a156, tuning the Dixie II.

Stuff used:
Eurorack modular synthesizer with:

Doepfer: a-118, a-119, a-124, a-143-4, a-148, a-156, a-160-2, a-199
Intellijel: Dixie II, uFold, Quadra, 2xTriat , Linux, mult
Make noise: MMG, Lxd
Mutable instruments: Clouds, Peaks
MFB: Dual LFO
Synthrotek: Echo, Deluxe power

Audio via the Behringer mixer to a Moto Ultralite MK3 hybrid.
External effects: T.C electronics M350 for reverb.

No post processing."

Zombie Nation - Left Rack (studio session)

Published on May 24, 2016 Zombie Nation official

"having fun with some classic gear from my studio. - unreleased

Ursa Major Space Station SST-282 / Delay
SND FB-14 Stereo / Filterbank
Vertigo VSC-2 / Quad Discrete VCA Compressor
Doepfer MS-404 / synth
Modulus Monowave / synth"

The Monowave was a Paul Maddox creation before Vaco Loco & Modal Electronics. It was a monophonic rack synthesizer featuring PPG waveforms (not full wavetables) and a Moog style filter. See this post (note there was an all digital Monowave II) followed by the Monowave label for more.

Yamaha CX5M demo 4 Operator FM synthesizer computer from 1984, feat. Sir Talkalot

Published on May 24, 2016 Arrayzable

"Yamaha CX5M music computer (short DEMO of the built in software)
Korg MS-20 mini
Korg Electribe EMX-1"

Sines O' Bop

Published on May 24, 2016 Paul Dither

"This piece features nine tracks of the Dave Smith Instruments' synthesizer Pro 2 recorded directly into Ableton Live."

Intellijel Atlantis

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via this auction

Details on the Intellijel Atlantis first went up on December 26, 2013 here.

EMU EMAX II Rack

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via this auction

"It has been fully tested and it works great! The LCD backlight works too! It's in good cosmetic condition - the front panel is especially very clean - please see the photos attached to this listing. (There are a few minor scratches from normal use on the top & back of the unit, and some tape residue on the top & side. The rubber middle portion of the power button is missing - but this does not impact functionality). Note: There are some pop-noises that occur when using the main outs - to avoid this, the headphone output jack must be used instead, which works great & sounds pristine! Comes with the power cord, OS 2.13 floppy disc, a free external zip-drive with a top-quality 25-pin cable. Also included for free is a zip-disc full of great patches to get you started!

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Emu Emulator EIII Rack 16 bit Sampler

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via the listing: "replaced the hard drive with a new fujitsu(I think it's a 1,000 mb but the EIII can only utilize 800mb)Upgraded to the 2.40 os and shelved it-no time on the HD and has spent all this time in a smoke free air conditioned environment.This an 8mb version and the original selling price was $15k.It has curtis analog filter chips ,sequencer,and 16 individual outs as well as stereo outs.This one is missing the sample input knob."

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Ult Sound DS-4 (unique percussion synth) SN 970338

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"For sale is the Ult Sound DS-4 – a great-sounding ultra-rare Japanese 4 channel analogue drum synth with unique cascade triggering option - accessed by pulling individual channel sensitivity knobs.

An instrument that produces both analog drums and strange sounds. Nice high quality pots and sliders build to last. It is possible to concatenate all the sections for make sequences, great for experimental music.

Made by Toyo Gakki and was widely used by the Yellow Magic Orchestra.

This is the rarer of the two models that were originally designed. A black face model and this blue and yellow design. This particular unit was one previously used by Mr. Takahashi.

The unit comes as a whole set with all original drum pads, power supply, accessories and a hard case, as seen in the photos. It uses a 100V power supply with 12V input voltage.

There are currently no known issues with this unit, it is fully operational.

Cosmetically the unit is in good condition, given it's age. One portion has rust as seen in one of photos, besides that they are a few very minor scuffs.

Also it is worth mentioning, that slight crackle sound may occur when these vintage units are not used for a very long time but this will soon clear with use."

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