Electribe 2 Chilled - Shards of Glass

Published on Jul 15, 2016 KlaatuNinja

Erica Synths Black Wavetable VCO (with patch explanation)

Published on Jul 15, 2016 nedavine


Erica Synths Black Wavetable VCO (with patch explanation)

AC Sabre Professional MIDI Instrument & Motion Controller

Published on Jul 15, 2016 Air Craft

http://air-craft.co

"Your MIDI Controllers are Boring

While sound technology has advanced leaps and bounds, the tools we use for composition and performance haven’t changed in 30 years. Buttons, knobs, and faders – handy for tweaking but linear and lifeless for performance and riff-making. AC Sabre is a MIDI controller revolution. Experience a whole new dimension to your sound library that will have you giddy like the first time all over again.

Powerful Interface

The elegant multi-touch interface is intuitive at first touch, with depth on-demand. Immediate proficiency, but with the potential for virtuosity...
Intuitive, with Precision

Intuitive control of multiple parameters simultaneously with your movements. No gimmicks, or interpretative ‘magic’. Like all true instruments, what you intend is what you hear...

Music, Mastered

Arpeggios, harmonies, trills, vibrato, modal key changes, 200+ scales, portamento & legato…A maestro’s palette at your command.

And a little extra

Configurable touch ribbons and button, motion-mapping, note-locked pitchbending, polyphonic aftertouch, and...The Drone."

Fun times with Bastl Instruments BitRanger

Published on Jul 15, 2016 djhombre

"Initial noodling with the BitRanger. It's a pretty noisy beast from such a small (but perfectly formed) package.

Battery powered, so totally portable."

Doepfer MS 404 Modification

Published on Jul 15, 2016 Florian Willuhn

"some strange sounds with my doepfer ms 404"

Modular Synth - Patch in Progress 35

Published on Jul 15, 2016 isvisible / isinvisible

Saw's = 7
Wavetable's = 4
Square's = 3

All mixed together with various reverbs and delays = quite lush.

Drums provided by the SoundMaster SR-88.

Cheers.

XILS Vocoder 5000 : Shift Frequency

Published on Jul 15, 2016 xilslab

"This video explains how to use the frequency shifter of the XILS Vocoder 5000"

XILS4 Tutorials

Published on Jul 15, 2016 xilslab

Playlist:
XILS4 GUI Tutorial
XILS4 : Two Parallel Synthesizers Tutorial
XILS4 : Two Series Synthesizers Tutorial

New Handheld ZONT Synthesizer in the Works?

This one in via Soviet Space Child.

It looks a like a Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator and iPhone morphed together. Release is scheduled for Fall of next year.

The initial details:

Exceptional
sound design in your pocket
A ground-breaking pocket-sized digital synthesizer designed for infinite customization and versatility.

Beautifully engineered for the modern producer

— Interchangeable sound cartridges
— Unibody front-plate design
— Durable and soft-to-touch materials
— LED-backlit buttons
— Universal input interface for both rhythm/sequencer and melody composition

ZONT modules change the game!

ZONT digital sound engines come in cartridge form, just like your favorite game, with four engines in your hands right out the box ready to feed the appetites of the modern producer.

Collaborate
Our sound engineers team up with prestigious electronic music producers and DJs to design custom sound engines for limited edition cartridges.

Connect
With RCA, MIDI, USB-C and 3.5mm jack outputs, the Studio Dock turns ZONT into a full member of your studio setup. Integrated Wi-Fi for cloud-based collaboration and production.

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German WaveFrame Corporation AudioFrame Flyer

Another fascinating bit of synth history. Don't miss the UVI demos below. This is the first time the WaveFrame AudioFrame has been featured on the site.  There was a controller for one featured here, and it was used by Barry Schrader and mentioned in my interview with him here and one previous post here.

This one was sent my way via swissdoc: "I just scanned my mega-sized German flyer from 1988/1989 of the WaveFrame Corporation AudioFrame. It is 600x600 dpi an weights in as about 32 megs. You can find it here [or check out the images of the complete pdf in this post - click each to zoom in].

It is similar to Fairlight or Synclavier and was kind of the first DAW. The system is still supported by http://www.waveframe.com

UVI has an instrument based on it.

Features you could install into the slots:

-Sampler (44.1 kHz Samplerate, stereo, 2 - 30MB Ram, grafische Samplebearbeitung, 16 Stimmen pro Karte)
-Mischpult mit 16 Eingängen + Reverb & Delay
-Harddiscrecording
-AD und / oder DA Wandler
-Speichererweiterungen"

And via UVI:

"Back in the 80's the WaveFrame Audioframe was the second generation of mega samplers, in line with the NED Synclavier and Fairlight CMI. A complete 48-voice system would sell for over $100,000, and at the time the feature set was worth it! The Audioframe was used by renowned artists like Peter Gabriel and Stevie Wonder and by leading sound designers and foley artists.

The UVI WaveFrame Sound Collection isn't a massive library dredged with tens of gigabytes of super high resolution wave files - conversely, it's a lean and mean library expertly crafted after the original, weighing in at just over 350 MB.

As you can hear in the demos, size isn't a factor for this library. The collection contains a multitude of very useful and organic sounds such as keyboards, guitars, basses, solo strings, string sections, upper brass, lower brass, brass sections, woodwinds, synths, pacific rim, percussion, drums, effects and test tones.

WaveFrame Sound Collection brings you an excellent library of bread and butter sounds that preserve the character and history of this milestone in music tech history."

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