The Lost Part of a Stellar Symphony

Published on Jan 7, 2017 Alba Ecstasy

"Volca Keys in Octave mode, some detuning, providing a sample for Clouds, in Looping Delay mode.
Volca FM, passed through Demora for delay.
Roland JD-Xi for sequenced pads, bass and percussion. Virus Ti2 for FX.
Sky in fluffy snow mode :P "

No Talk, just Sound - Arturia MatrixBrute - First Contact

Published on Jan 6, 2017 The Inventory

"Making first contact with the incredible Arturia MatrixBrute and showing a few of the amazing factory presets and how playable the synth is!

NOTE: We strongly recommend listening using headphones or good quality speakers to listen to the full harmonic content!

All sounds in the video recorded direct from MatrixBrute with no additional processing whatsoever."

New nonlinearcircuits 8HP Triple Sloth Eurorack Module

via nonlinearcircuits

"This module contains 3 Sloth chaos circuits. Each one runs at a different rate; Torpor takes approx. 15-30 seconds to travel around 2 strange attractors, Apathy takes 60-90 seconds and Inertia takes 30-40 minutes.
There are no controls for Inertia, it does what it wants.
The pots for Apathy and Torpor do not specifically alter the frequencies, rather the weight of the outputs. Various settings will cause the signals to spend more time travelling around one strange attractor rather than the other.
Apathy and Torpor also have CV inputs. Sometimes the CV signals are injected onto the chaotic signals but depending upon conditions may cause windows of periodicity or voltage jumps. Generally the results are good.
The X, Y & Z outputs for each Sloth are taken from different stages of the circuit and are all different to each other, although Z is simply the inverted version of Y. The three Z outputs are also fed into a Difference Rectifier and the results of this are available from the + and – outputs at the bottom of the panel. The Difference Rectifier outputs are (ignoring diode voltage drops):
out + = VApathy +VInertia - VTorpor If greater than 0, otherwise 0
out - = VApathy +VInertia - VTorpor If less than 0, otherwise 0

PCB set (2) - US$24
Aluminium Panel - US$20
assembled - US$210

This is not a suitable build for beginners, if you are new to synth DIY, I suggest you get the thru-hole single Sloth."

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Syntaur Synth Wizards

Published on Sep 5, 2016 Syntaur

"A quest to rescue synthesizers. Man vs. Keyboard. This is Syntaur's new web series on resurrecting vintage synthesizers: Synth Wizards."

Dual Division 6 Business Card Sequencer & Barton BMC45 Router Eurorack Modules by Ninstrument

Two new custom modules via Ninstrument:

"Business Card sized Sequencer from Div 6. Here I took two of them and stacked them into a eurorack module. Realize when you buy the kit it is just ONE sequencer. I bought two for this custom build. This kit was very easy to build and dare I say the most ‘inexpensive sequencer you will find!’ Realize the custom euro panel I made for this was a very difficult task. There are 122 holes in this panel and was very challenging to make."

How cool is that? You might remember the DIY Division 6 business card sequencer from this post.

"BMC45 router from Barton. This is a fun straight forward build. Most of Barton’s eurorack DIY kits are very affordable and very well thought through and as a plus are very affordable. I added four custom mute buttons to this one as I thought that made a nice addition to live performance. The link to that kit is here."

Behringer Desktop Deepmind 12 Desktop Leaked for $999.99?

This one was spotted and sent in via Joel Braverman. I thought the price was high, so I did a quick search to see what the keyboard version was going for. To my surprise, the desktop version popped up in the sponsored search results on the right, so this ad is actually out there. The keyboard version though, goes for the same, $999.99. Did they use the wrong image? Your guess is as good as mind.

The Desktop version was first mentioned back in November 11.

DSI PRO 2 KARPLUS-STRONG SOUND DESIGN TUTORIAL ~ Synthesize This! Ep.06

Published on Jan 6, 2017 once upon a synth

"In this episode we use an approximation of the Karplus-Strong algorithm to design plucked string sounds on the DSI Pro 2 synthesizer using physical modeling synthesis. The Karplus-Strong algorithm involves a short burst of noise that is fed into a delay line. The samples are averaged as they feed back through the line and this results in a crude simulation of a plucked string which sounds surprisingly good. Unfortunately the pitch doesn't track correctly here because this needs to be calibrated in code and what I'm doing in this video is just a simulation of this algorithm using the delay and some noise."

All parts here.

Polytik Synths Dirty Electronics & Jack Featherstone Original Mix

"Polytik modular synths: playing with graphics and sound.

Polytik is a collection of beautifully designed hand-held synth modules exploring the border between play and sound.

Dirty Electronics & Jack Featherstone Original Mix made only with sounds from Polytik plus edits and processing."

Roland Juno 106 Synthesizer

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Polivoks feat. ALISA

Published on Jan 6, 2017 Cyril Saar

Polivoks

Published on Jan 6, 2017 Cyril Saar