Rheyne - Demonstration - Black Octasource

Published on Aug 20, 2017 Rheyne

"A demonstration of an Erica Synths Black Octasource as a sync'd random voltage generator, as well as a view of modulating its phase-shifted outputs."

Roland S-10 old school sampling tutorial/workflow - Free samples download

Published on Aug 20, 2017 Espen Kraft

"Performance of the track 'Ocean Drive - Main theme' 17:47

Todays episode is a review and demo of one of my all time favourite samplers, the budget (of its time) sampler Roland S-10. It has "only" 4.4 secs of total sampling time and it holds only max 4 sounds in its memory at a time. Each of the ABCD slots/banks can hold 1.1 sec of sampling time.

Despite all its limitations it has remarkable many features and a killer arpeggiator as well and the sound on this is incredible, especially at the low end. The 12 bit 30KHz converters give this sampler a low end grit that really is very musical and provides perfect counterpoint to more modern sounds. Its big brother, the S-50 has the same sound and even more sampling time.

The S-10 was one of my first samplers so it holds a special place in my heart and I had lots of fun with it back in the day and even did gigs with it of course as it WAS a pro sampler in its day despite its shortcomings in the memory department.

S-10 manager software can be downloaded here:
http://s10manager.corlinks.nl/#C

A set of my own original samples for the S-10, not obtainable anywhere else on the net can be found here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0i7oybeovyi...

Please give me credits if you use those in any commercial way, thanks!

The track "Ocean Drive - Main theme" is recorded with only the S-10 sampler and all the sounds come directly off the S-10. It has been multitracked as the S-10 can only hold 4 sounds in its memory at a time as described above and in the video.

The song can be downloaded through Bandcamp.
https://espenkraft.bandcamp.com/

My tracks pay homage to all synth.pop acts of the 80'ies like Howard Jones, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Thompson Twins, Tears for Fears, Ultravox, OMD, Euryhmics, Duran Duran, Giorgio Moroder, Jean Michel Jarre, Jan Hammer, A-ha and many more.

A use mostly old gear on my tracks and among them Roland Juno 6, Alpha Juno 2, D550 and JX-8P. Korg DW-8000. Roland TR-626 drum machine. Yamaha DX7 and TX802 and drum machine RX11. I use the Novation Mininova as a vocoder on all my tracks. Effects are usually handled by Strymon and TC electronics. Sampling is done on my E-MU ESI-4000, Akai S1000 and Roland S-10."

Korg Sigma demotrack

Published on Aug 20, 2017 ikworgek

"demo track made with the Korg Sigma

all sounds from the Korg

sequencer: Korg SQ-1

solo's played by hand

some reverb and delay

Enjoy!"

Update:

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A Night With the Analogue Solutions Fusebox Synthesizer

Published on Aug 20, 2017 Analogue Solutions

"Here's a fun little, one-nighter track using all sounds from the new Analogue Solutions fusebox synthesizer!

All tracks were recorded from the AS fusebox and layered into Logic as they were dialed in. A touch of reverb was used on a couple of the sounds just to position them in the track.

Fusebox is shown here in its horizontal position, but can also stand vertically or be racked.

CAUTION: The Interval Generator AND the Patternator were used in the creation of this track!

Just a sampler of things to come..."

Analogue Solutions Fusebox: Dirty, Filthy Bass Tweaking

Published on Aug 20, 2017

"Wait for it!

OK, a little fun reverse engineering a familiar bass line -- or not! :)

All in good fun, some NIN Closer remixing going on in real-time with the Analogue Solutions Fusebox synth.

This is by no means an attempt at a spot-on reproduction of the Closer bass line, but more a live tweaking and patching session with the new Fusebox synth showing only an inch of its sonic potential.

Fusebox can be as dirty or as clean as you require!

What's going on?

1. Fusebox is having its filter modulated by MIDI key/note velocity (Logic)
2. Fusebox pitch is being controlled via MIDI notes (Logic)
3. Patternator is creating patterns in real-time (intro)
4. Bass sound tweaked live on Fusebox while sampled beat resides on 2nd Logic track
5. Sound is dry without processing, and entirely Fusebox."

Octatrack + Analog Four - Solid convictions (live)

Published on Aug 20, 2017 MrGOFIOvideos

"Just playing a pattern over Elektron machines (Octatrack sampler and Analog Four MK I 4-voice analog synthesizer). After recording, some effects plugins were applied into the sequencer (EQ, compression and panorama expander)."

MFB Tanzmaus & Elektron Analog Four

Published on Aug 20, 2017 3rdStoreyChemist

"Tanzmaus drum machine and Analog Four synthesiser.

MIDI clock from Analog Four to Tanzmaus. Tanzmaus output to Analog Four's audio inputs and effects used.

No further processing except for normalisation."

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Moog Minitaur & EHX Deluxe Memory Man

Published on Aug 20, 2017 3rdStoreyChemist

"Minitaur synthesiser through the DMM. Minitaur is sequenced from an Elektron Octatrack.

No further processing except normalisation."

ALM Busy Circuits Dinky's Taiko & Make Noise Telharmonic

Published on Aug 20, 2017 Delta Aquari

"Quick jam with ALM Busy Circuit's Dinky's Taiko and the Make Noise Telharmonic. Been using the Dinky for simple basslines a lot lately, still waiting for my Pamelas New Workout to make it really come alive as a rhytmic drum module.
Acidlab Drumatix and the PICO Drums module by Erica Synths were used for the drums."

VicMod - Sunday Funday

Published on Aug 19, 2017 brassmonkey

"Just some test footage using my new camera at the monthly VicMod meetup group at MESS (Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio)"

Digital Waves Roland JD 800

Published on Aug 19, 2017 100 Things I Do

"This week I thought it was time to take a look at the Roland JD-800 again. One of the most unique synths Roland has made to date. With an original list price of around $3000 back in 1991 when it came out it was the first sign that people were getting sick of presets and the pain of menu diving to create new sounds!

The JD 800 suffers from a few unique gremlins such as the 'Red Keys of Death" (The glue used to secure the key weights degrades over time and leaves a nasty trail of sticky goop and lost key weights!).

Delamination of the keybed connector is also quite common and then with so many digitally scanned sliders they get dirty and the machine can get quiet glitchy.

I have had to deal with each of the above problems over the years to keep this synth alive... which has surprised me due to me not actually using the synth much. The sound is like a Wavestation mashed with a D-50 , no real wave sequencing but you get 108 waves... saw, sine all the way to attack samples of various instruments. The Digital resonant filter adds even more unique flavour. The filter can be quite hard to dial in for the sound you want.

As I have said before I hardly ever use this synth and it is always on the potential chopping block to be sold when I find a new synth of interest :D"