Knobcon 2017 Videos by Synthtopia

Published on Sep 12, 2017 Synthtopia

Playlist:

KVgear Vixen Mixer Sneak Preview At Knobcon 2017
Roland D-05 Hands-On Demo
Synthesis Technology WaveEdit & Wavetable VCOs
Conductive Labs NDLR Polyphonic Arpeggiator Sneak Preview
Modal Electronics CRAFTrhythm First Look
Elektron Digitakt Sampling Workflow
Couture Voltage Synth-Inspired Clothing At Knobcon 2017
Using Elektron Analog Heat With Overbridge
ZORX Electronics CV Controllers
SYINSI Intros Compact 1U Modular Synthesizer
Five12 Vector Sequencer (Sneak Preview)
Roland TR-08 Drum Machine Hands-On Demo At Knobcon
Roland SE-02 Analog Synthesizer
Roland SH-01A Synthesizer At Knobcon 2017
Mystic Circuits Eurorack & 1U Modules At Knobcon

tc electronic Echobrain sound demo (no talking) w/ Novation Peak

Published on Sep 17, 2017 Bonedo

Jim Aikin on Modular Synth Patching - 3 of 3

Part 3 added to the main post here.

80 PATCHES ENSONIQ ESQ-1 SQ-80 ESQ-M REWRITABLE RAM CARTRIDGE

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via this auction

Follow-up to this post.

This set features the following:

"Re-writable cartridge with a total of 80 patches. (2 Banks* 40 Patches)

Compatible with the ESQ-1, ESQ-M and SQ-80.

This cart is re-writable, the pre-programmed patches can be overwritten.

3D printed case (Clear / Black), gold plated contacts and white LED power indicator when the cart is inserted.

Patch List:

STUDIO 2A
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1: HARPSO 2: HOTBOT 3: ANSYN2 4: SYNBS2 5: GATED
6: SHRTST 7: FAAH 8: VELBEL 9: ARPEGI 10: BIRDS
11: TOADQ 12: ZILTS 13: SYNBRA 14: FATBAS 15: CLAP 1
16: MODSTR 17: HOOWAA 18: BELLS2 19: EVENTS 20: BOMB
21: TOYPN2 22: ORGON2 23: TRUMPS 24: FNKBS2 25: SLTDR3
26: MP STR 27: NEAR 28: GAMELA 29: ECHO P 30: WSTLVX
31: BLPNO2 32: LOPIPE 33: BRASS2 34: AC BAS 35: SYNTOM
36: PIZZ 37: HOARSE 38: SWEET 39: ECHOBL 40: "BEE"2

STUDIO 2B
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1: PIANET 2: PYPORG 3: ANABR2 4: A BAS 5: EKDSNR
6: WAVE 7: BNJOVX 8: DMBELL 9: S&H 10: SPRING
11: OCTPNO 12: CHURH 13: HORNS 14: BAMBA 15: EKDESN
16: HAPNIN 17: MELLOW 18: ZUMBA 19: OCTBEL 20: BOILER
21: ELPNO4 22: FLUIT 23: BIG 2 24: THUMP 25: BRUSH
26: 6 STR 27: BOROOT 28: PLKOFF 29: LOOPJE 30: ICICLE
31: TOYNSE 32: BLAP 33: HIPLSE 34: BASS 5 35: KICKLO
36: 12 STR 37: SAKU-H 38: AMBVIB 39: NIMPEX 40: BENDUP"

DrumPlay 091717

Published on Sep 17, 2017 Henry Birdseye Jr.

"This was the start of an exercise to see how many drums voices I could get out of my big box.

I used an Optomix with some noise for #1 Disting MK3 Resonator for #2 Braids in various modes for #3 Rings for #4 Little Drummer Boy for #s 5, 6 and 7 Radio Music playing drum samples for #8

I noticed a couple things right away.

The Disting resonator makes a sound on both the rising and falling edge of any gate, so I had to crank gate width to 0 on the BSP.

The Radio Music was late, so I had to turn gate timing for each beat to -50 so things would happen on time.

I could probably build some more simple drums, but I'd want more ADSRs to do it right."

severence // inside a dream patch

Published on Sep 17, 2017

"// vacuum tube noise soundscapes

// patch notes //

erogenous tones levit8 out 2 - metasonix rk1 decay cv in
erogenous tones levit8 out 7 - metasonix r54 pitch cv a
erogenous tones levit8 out 7 - metasonix r55 pitch cv a
erogenous tones levit8 out 7 - schippmann omega-phi pm depth

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BURG - norwalkers (blofeld, volca, monologue, MI rings, braids, octone)

Published on Sep 17, 2017 ollilaboratories

"If you like my stuff please support me on http://music.ollilab.com/ and https://www.patreon.com

Waldorf Blofeld is in the house! :)

As some of you know I purchased the Blofeld while traveling in Europe on vacation and I have been dying to get a jam done since I came back home... on this premiere jam it does a sort of a gritty/brassy lead with some added messed up modulation using the pitch bend and modulation wheel. I am pairing it up with the big guns, eventide space and Strymon timeline for some ICE shimmer delay in the timeline + a smooth hall reverb in the space.

The track has a lot of stuff going on, TR8 in double speed, volca bass does the main bass with a monologue 14 step polyrhythm pattern on top being fed with some high overtone melodies from the volca fm (in a 16 step pattern) for that stabby chord effect.

The modular is doing an 8 step round robin on the octone with rings + braids is being controlled by the beatstep in a 12 step pattern... the braids has dual filters, HPF and LPF modulated by some LFOs and an envelope style curve in the maths which is triggered by random using the 2hp Turing machine.

The polyrhythms help to give a lot of space in between melodies since they create a lot of variation, e.g allows for smooth transitions.

Elektron A4 fills in with some sequences and percussion and it is also controlling the 0-coast via CV (which is not really visible under the monologue). The majority of the sequences and percussion in the analog four has conditional triggers set which adds complexity and variation to the beats.

All in all, a fun track to make with the new setup, even though I no longer have the system-1, tb-3, erebus.. it is a bit different when prepping everything with the waldorf being broken into the workflow :) but, still good fun! I do miss the bubbly TB-303 style sounds though, and I have a plan to replace that in the future, so do not despair! :)

Hope you can enjoy it!

Gear used: blofeld, NLA1, reface CP, ms-20, monologue, volca bass x2, fm, keys, elektron A4, TR8, 0-coast

Current modular rack: https://www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/v...

FX, strymon timeline + eventide space (blofeld), el capistan (ms-20), catalinbread CSIDMAN, red panda particle, bluesky (reface CP). Zoom ms-70 CDR, keys + bass, EQD transmisser, space spiral, keeley caverns, RE-20 (modular)."

Korg Minilogue + Ohmless Lorena demo

Published on Sep 17, 2017 PetrolLimiter

"DRIVE WARZ vol. 1

The quest to find the ultimate clean drive pedal for synths starts here! The Lorena is supposedly a Klon clone with high headroom, transparent output, and not so great heavy drive sounds."

ER-301 Ultraviolet Granular // Custom Unit Clouds Clone

Published on Sep 17, 2017 r beny

"Orthagonal Devices ER-301 Custom Unit - Ultraviolet (Clouds Clone)

As a challenge, I set out to make a Clouds 'clone' custom unit on the Orthagonal Devices ER-301. It's not strictly or exactly a clone, but rather a Clouds-inspired custom unit that expands on the Manual Grains unit in the 301. It adds a few Clouds-inspired controls, as well as a few other twists. I ended up with 2 different versions for now (more on that later). It's heavy on the CPU (65%-75%) and there were two features I played with swapping out. There are two main Clouds features missing - one is the reverb and the other is the texture control that shapes the envelopes of the grains.

This current version was built with and was only tested on firmware 0.2.18!! It may work with previous versions, as long as it has the highpass filter. I would recommend only using it on 0.2.18 for now. It's only in stereo for now as well. The input is automatically set to IN1, but may be changed.

Shoutout to Lance Drake and Bryan Noll for helping me test this! And shoutout to Joshua Saddler for notes and ideas.

Here is a list of the paramters and what they do (everything can be put under CV-control)

Wet/Dry - Sets the wet/dry mix between the input source and the granular unit
In Gain - Sets the amount of the input signal feeding into the recording buffer/granular unit
Freeze - Gate input, stops the recording buffer from recording
Trigger - Trigger input, triggers the grains
Reverse - Toggle input, reverses the grains
Density - Triggers the grains internally without the need for a trigger input
Position - Sets the start point for the grains
Size - Sets the size of the grains
Cut - Cutoff of the filters
Res - Resonance of the filters
Pass - "Spread" of the filters
V/Oct - Volt per octave pitch control of the grains
Warble - Adds a small amount of pitch warble to the grains. Has a chorus effect when you can still hear the dry signal
Spread - Stereo spread and panning amount of the grains
Mod - Adds internal random modulation to the Position and Size parameters that are synced to both the Trigger Input and the Density Input
Gain - Grain gain

There are two versions of Ultraviolet - one has a feedback control which feeds the grains back into manual grain unit. The other has a control called Refract that is a distortion/bit crushing unit. I'm including a custom unit with both controls, but it's prone to pops after a while.

The recording buffer is set to one second, just like Clouds, but it can be changed pretty easily.

Hope you enjoy!

You can downlaod these units here - https://www.dropbox.com/s/zv0xxseb5za..."

EXP-1 USB Otg smartphone used as MIDI controller

Published on Sep 17, 2017 Fingersonic

"In this video, we are making a track to demo the USB Otg MIDI connectivity of EXP-1. An android smartphone with a MIDI controller App is used to play live the melody part of the track.
Bassline is made using the synth section of EXP-1 Osc1: square Osc2: saw
Melody is made using the bassline section of EXP-1 Osc1: Saw
Sequencer: Two patterns are used and are assembled using the song mode of EXP-1
Also, the synth cutoff parameter is controlled with the first slider of the MIDI app (CC N°3)"