RICK AND MORTY REMIX | Leslie Wai with the Novation Launchpad

Published on Nov 6, 2017 Leslie Wai

Wubba Lubba Dub Dub!
Download the track here:
https://soundcloud.com/lesliewai/rick...

CustomSynth EML 500 ELECTROCOMP Synth T-Shirt

Another cool synth T design by CustomSynth available here.

Be sure to see their other designs!

1976: Roger Limb, of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop with the EMS SYNTHI 100

#OTD 1976: Roger Limb, of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, demonstrated how electronic music was made for TV and radio pic.twitter.com/pJyUI9PQTJ

— BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) November 7, 2017

eowave quadrantid swarm - experimental touch synthesizer now on Kickstarter

eowave quadrantid swarm is now on Kickstarter, with a ship date of March/April. The following are the details from the campaign:

"The Quadrantid Swarm

The Quadrantid Swarm is a desktop touch synthesizer aimed at sound designers and musicians who are looking for an expressive tool to explore rich and unusual soundscapes with a direct intuitive approach.

Past research and development at eowave has contributed to a range of successful products aimed at musicians and performers - including sensor interfaces, MIDI devices, modular synthesizers and more. This has been honed and distilled in the Quadrantid Swarm. It is an instrument that has been designed openly - to be used with MIDI, alongside your modular synthesizer/CV sequencer or to be explored as a standalone drone/sequencer/generative synthesizer.

Modes

The QS now features 8 modes. Each should be considered a springboard for musical exploration, rather than a preset. The modes are not direct emulations of existing instruments, but they borrow on inspiration from their namesakes. We found that this was the best way to retain the immediacy of function per button design while offering a generous feature set. The QS will ship with a cheat sheet that details the specifics behind each mode - the waveform, perc sound and character effect.

Organ - Strings - Drone - Noise - Grains - Perc - Metal - Chiptune

Let's take a closer look...

Front panel

Building on the feedback we received at Superbooth 17, we have redesigned the front panel to be easier to read. This matte black PCB pictured below is the final material we will be using on production, although there is a mistake on this panel that will be rectified (white layer inverted!).

Oscillator

The oscillator section is a digital wave generator. In sequencer mode (activated when you push start) the spread control multiplies the waveform up to 8 waveforms. In live mode (sequencer not active) the spread control will not affect the oscillator because the 8 waveforms are spread across the touch keyboard to be used as a simple polyphonic synthesizer. Character controls a different effect or folder depending on the mode. The character effects/folders will help you design timbres that will range from clean and glassy to dense and distorted.

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Prophet Rev 2 16 Voice Demo

Published on Nov 7, 2017 Uriel Ortega

"Here is a small demo of the Prophet Rev 2 16 voice that I recently purchase. I love this synth a lot. Huge improvement over the Prophet 08 I had for some time. Some patches were accented with the H9 from eventide, and Big Sky from Strymon"

iOptigan - MIDI Chord Detection Modes Tutorial

Published on Nov 7, 2017 optigandotcom

iTunes: iOptigan - Stefan Stenzel

"Another iOptigan tip, until we finish the user manual: there are three triggering modes for the chord buttons, selectable in the settings.

"MIDI G#0-E2 for Chords" lays out all the chord buttons in a chromatic mapping. Priority was placed on fitting everything with the keyboard scale on a standard 61-note keyboard, so the layout isn't very intuitive, but it gets the job done. Chords are at the lower end of the keyboard, SFX tabs at the upper end.

"MIDI Chord Detection I" is a more intuitive mode, which allows the user to simply finger the desired chord in the low octave of the keyboard. Playing a C maj triad produces the C maj chord. Playing a C min triad produces the C min chord. etc.

"MIDI Chord Detection II" allows for more extended chords to be played using the time-honored Optigan technique of playing two chord buttons at once to approximate more complicated chords. There's alot of trial-and-error involved with this, and results vary depending on the disc, but if you finger, say, a Cmaj7 chord on the keyboard (again, in the low octave), iOptigan will play the C maj and E min chords simultaneously. Try fingering other extended chords to see what you get, and you'll likely stumble upon some unexpectedly pleasing combinations!"

Modular - Verbos VMS and HO, with Clouds Jam

Published on Nov 7, 2017 Mike Thomas

"This video is about Modular - Verbos VMS and HO, with Clouds Jam"

Rheyne - Sequenced Jam #59

Published on Nov 7, 2017 Rheyne

"Sound sources are a Moog DFAM, 2x Mother-32, a Noise Engineering LIP, a Make Noise DPO, and a Morphagene. The vocal sample in the Morphagene is a recording of my voice, speaking the words 'this is only a test.'"

Cwejman Journey

Published on Nov 7, 2017 Dudadius

"All sounds from Cwejmam. Orthogonal Devices sequencing.

Patch Notes.

This patch was inspired by Maho Cwejman asking if anyone had some ADSR-VC2 or CTG-VC videos. I didn’t want to do a demo, but I had the idea that I would do a Cwejman-centric patch and use those modules as the back-bone.

All of the sound sources are from the Cwejman family. Just supplementing with the sequencers and some modulation sources.

Drone is Monome Ansible controlling the PH8 as an oscillator in the QMMF4. 2 of the Ansible channels are modulating the QMMF’s frequencies to create a shifting chord sequence. The whole shebang goes through one side of MMF2, the and FSH-1 for effects. Malekko Varigate-8 is running the rhythmic modulation on that.

Rhythm. Kick is the CTG hitting the MMF6. Release time is modulated by the CV out of the Eloquencer, which is programming all the of the rhythm tracks.

‘Snare’ is the BLD. Hat is the RG6 going into the VCA-2P, which has it’s panning being modulated by a Batumi.

All of the percussion goes into a MX4S. One side goes to the main mixer, WMD Performance mixer, and one side goes into the side-chain input of the DP2.

Melodics.

Still wrapping my head around the Orthogonal Devices ER-101/102, but they are driving three voices.

Bass is a VCO6 into the MMF1s.

Middle and upper voices are the two sides of a VCO-2RM into a DMF2. They both go to the VCA_4MX into the input of the DP2. The percussion is side-chaining all of the melodics there.


Then they all go through the SPH2 for a little stereo fun.

I’m using Intellijel Rainmaker and Audio Damage EOS reverb for effects.

There is a slight amount of Electron Analog Heat on the whole thing. Mastered with Izotope Ozone 8, Vertigo VSM2 and Fab Filter Limiter.

Whew…."

KORG Volcas Circuit & Sunrizer Deep Session 15

Published on Nov 7, 2017 014london70

"Volca Keys doing the Bass and Volca Bass doing the lead melody on this one. Sunrizer was used for the noise sweep. Recorded in AudioShare via a Behringer Xenyx mixer and mastered in Final Touch."