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Quantizer Sunset Showdown: Tiptop QuantiZer vs Intellijel uScale.

Published on Jan 7, 2017 Dudadius

"Quantizer Sundown Showdown!

I’m a longtime fan of the Intellijel uScale quantizer. It’s quirky, but if you massage it correctly, you can get some musical loveliness out of her. It’s all over my past albums.

Enter the Tiptop QuantiZer. Well, it sure is gorgeous looking! And I love the Circadian Rhythms, so let’s give her a go!

I’ll say off the bat that this is a little apples to oranges; the uScale excels at taking a CV input and outputting 2 [TWO!] quantized cv’s that you can modulate and muck with in very “interesting ways” (as Danjel might say). It’s the ability to modulate the interval degree of the B output that is really cool.

junkyard-kahrs just posted some excellent uScale tutorials which prompted me to revisit this lovely. And coincidentally it’s right when I received the Tiptop QuantiZer.

You’re dealing with just one cv in and one cv out on the Tiptop, so everything is much more straight-forward. So if it’s immediacy you want, this might be the pick. But if it’s crazy musical melody interval madness you’re after: uScale. Or…the typical Muff’s answer: BOTH.

Patch notes:

I’ve been trying to get comfortable with the Moog Mother sequencer, so that is again my source here. I just muck about with playing the ‘keyboard’ while adjusting the cv attenuation going into the uScale. Output A from that is playing an Atlantis, and depending on the attenuation, you will get varying degrees of…NOTHING or the interval you’re after. I need to understand the voltage range of the uScale a little better…

Output B is the interesting part, to me. It’s playing a Rubicon/Polaris combo, and the SHIFT amount is controlled by Planar. This essentially allows you to toss the interval relationship between A and B all over the place, but always within the scale. It’s bloody brilliant! Or ‘Ace’, as some might say.

The Tiptop QuantiZer is playing a Cwejman voice. A Qu-bit Nano Rand is getting clock and then providing random gates to a Pressure Points which in turn passes her voltages along to the QuantiZer. I programmed three chords which correspond to the general Fmi7 vibe that is happening here. This voice just bobs along in a random manner behind the other three voices.

Tiptop Z-DSP with valhalla chip and Intellijel Rainmaker provide the ‘space’. Dubmix is the mixer.

It’s all a little raw, but it was a fun exercise to use both Quantizers…"

Generative composition with Moog Mother 32

Published on Jan 7, 2017 Andor Polgár

"The rhythm was generated with the Xaoc Devices Batumi, the quasi-random melody was generated with Make Noise Maths and quantised with the Intellijel µScale II."

Helios - Waldorf Blofeld, Teenage Engineering OP 1, Moog Model D Reissue

Published on Jan 7, 2017

"Some more fun with my new toys. The step sequencer in the OP1 drives most of the track with some Bass added from the Moog Model D reissue.

Its been VERY VERY Hot in Melbourne for the last few days, I guess it was on my mind this morning when I started to make this weeks clip. I must apologise to Klaus Schulze and also Cliff Martinez as I have subconsciously mashed Crystal Lake with Solaris this ended up with what you hear."

Moog Prodigy 1979-1980

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Uploaded on Jan 7, 2017 feedondreams

"I'm no synth player as you can see, but I figure it'd be good to see the actual unit in action."

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Roland SH-101

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PAiA Modular Analog Synthesizer, Phlanger, Pedal & Extras

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"Includes two cases, keyboard, phlanger, pedal, parts, modules and manuals."

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The Stillson Hammer MKII Tutorial 1.666 Firmware

Published on Jan 7, 2017 Robotopsy Robotopsy

"The Stillson Hammer MKII video demo."

Warble Swell Delaying the Double Gate Drone Synth - Mattoverse Electronics

Published on Jan 7, 2017 mattoverse

Little Phatty Elephant

Published on Jan 7, 2017 Old Beats

Moog Voyager - Bass
Moog Little Phatty - Lead Elephant trumpet
Moog Mother 32 - Noisescape
DSI Evolver - Whooshes
DSI Prophet 08 - Chords
Novation Bass Station 2 - Seq.
Roland Alpha Juno 2 - Synth percussion
Yamaha TX81Z - Metallic Chords
Akai VX 90 - Piano
Roland P 330 - Vibraphone
Drums: Alesis SR 16 - Jomox AirBase 99 - D-Station
TC Electronic M350 - TC Electronic HOF - TC Electronic Flashback - Lexicon MX 300 - Alesis Ampliton
Audio directly from the Allen & Heath Zed 428 mixer
Sequenced and Synced with Ableton Live
AKAI MPK Mini controlling the midi patterns on Live