Vermona Mono Lancet 15 -Demo Sound with Beat

Published on Apr 19, 2018 Dziam Bass

"Classic monophonic synthesizer for lead- bass and effect-sounds.

Mono Lancet ’15 might be small-sized device, despite it is a bona fide analogue synthesizer.
Two oscillators and a noise generator are the foundation for its sound. Together with the musical lowpass filter and VCA it’s capable of producing warm and precious sounds full of character.

Beside its audio qualities Mono Lancet ’15 has a dead simple and intuitive user interface. Each parameter has its own control."

Jean-Michel Jarre at The Paramount Theatre Seattle

Above you'll find a photo stream of some pics I took at the Jean-Michel Jarre concert last night at The Paramount Theatre in Seattle (mouse over the image and use the controls on the left and right to flip through). Apologies for the quality of the pics as I only had my iPhone at the show. I was there to enjoy it, not to document it. That said, I of course couldn't help but take some pics and video. I still need to review the videos, so they may come in follow-up posts if they do JMJ's fantastic performance justice - see this post for a couple of videos from the San Jose concert for now - there are others on YouTube as well. I will say the concert was an absolutely incredible experience. If you ever get a chance to see Jean-Michel Jarre perform live DO NOT miss him. P.S. There are still two dates left for the tour in Southern California, Coachella tonight in Indio, and the Spreckels Theater in San Diego. Seriously, if you can make either, just go. The majority of the light show was all lasers and LED panels that moved across the entire stage. The effect was 3-dimensional. Jean-Michel frequently spoke to the audience and gave insight and background to many of the classic and new tracks they performed. I was fortunate enough to have Stephane Gervais, who performs with JMJ, invite me to the show. I was able to meet one of my personal heroes, an incredible influence on my life, early years, and now as an adult. I literally have Jean-Michel Jarre to thank for getting me into synths. It either was that or drums! :) Drums were not an option where I lived and I loved listening to Rendez-Vous when I was just 16. I ended up purchasing an Oberheim Matrix-6, brand new, and the rest his history. Thank you to Stephane and Jean-Michel for being such incredible people. Your music makes the world so much better.

P.P.S. Some synth spotting included Roland gear, an EMS SYNTHI, MacBeth Elements, ARP 2600 MKIII Orange and Black, and a GRP system.

Update: videos added below. These were taken with the iPhone so not the best; per above I was there to enjoy the show not capture it. I zoomed in while filming so the set in person was about 4x larger that what it looks like in these videos. I did see it all in person. The ceiling you see above is actually the underside of the second floor balcony seating. It was truly amazing to see, and it sounded pristine. The iPhone just isn't capable of capturing it unfortunately. Regardless, these videos should give you a sense of what it was like to be there.



Playlist:
Jean Michel-Jarre Équinoxe 4 Live at Paramount Theatre Seattle 2018
Jean Michel-Jarre The Time Machine w/ Laser Harp Live at Paramount Theatre Seattle 2018 (stable after :30)
Jean Michel-Jarre Stardust Live at Paramount Theatre Seattle 2018
Jean Michel-Jarre Oxygene 17 Live at Paramount Theatre Seattle 2018
Jean Michel-Jarre Brick England Live at Paramount Theatre Seattle 2018
Jean Michel-Jarre Fourth Rendez-Vous Live at Paramount Theatre Seattle 2018

You can find the setlist for the show here.

Also see:
Jean Michel-Jarre - Oxygene Pt. 8 Live in San Jose
Roland Keyboard Rigs - On-stage with Stephane Gervais (Jean-Michel Jarre)
Roland Keyboard Rigs Jean Michel Jarre

The Bats of Ballard - 44.5

The Bats of Ballard - 44.5 from Steve Turnidge on Vimeo.

No synths?! Then why post this? Well, every now and then I like to share what the makers of synths are doing out there in addition to making the gear we love. Enter, Steve Turnidge of SYNTHWERKS. That's him on bass. I ran into him last night at the Jean-Michel Jarre show, along with Jamie Simmonds, aka Mr.Simmonds. It was an amazing show BTW. There are two dates left on the tour: https://jeanmicheljarre.com. Just go! If you can make it, you will not be dissapointed. Anyway, Steve shared the video above with me and I thought I'd post it. Enjoy the non-synth music, although there are some keys in there, mainly organ.

"A track from the recording session of the 44th album by The Bats of Ballard... Fully improvised at The Player's Lounge, Seattle.

Amy Denio - Vocals and Woodwinds
Christian Heilman - Keys
Steven Enstad - Guitar
Steve Turnidge - Bass
Greg Reid - Drums

Recorded at The Player's Lounge on December 29, 2017
Audio and Video recorded by Greg Reid
Mixed by Christian Heilman
Mastered by Steve Turnidge
Video by Steve Turnidge

Copyright 2017 The Bats of Ballad"

Clair de Lune Modular

Clair de Lune Modular from Giorgio Alverà on Vimeo.

"More of my modular synth music at

https://soundcloud.com/giorgioalvera/sets/materiale-elettrico-modular"

Vermona PERfourMER Mk II and mos-lab.

Published on Apr 15, 2018 Resonant Anvil

"Fullest sound on headphones. 64-step sequence, including rests, and some keyboard. Five sine sources from mos-lab system. Reverb by Strymon Big Sky. One take. No overdubbing."

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This one was spotted and sent in via Soviet Space Child.

Pure Nord Lead 4 - Custom Presets from Aiyn Zahev Sounds

Published on Apr 19, 2018 AiynZahevSounds

"Available on https://www.aiynzahev-sounds.com/coll...

'Pure' provides a lush and full sound all the way through. The bank contains 99 presets and 25 performances, including huge pads, silky strings, brooding atmospheres, deep basses and rich plucks and leads.

The influence of electronic dance music runs through the bank, so just about all sounds will easily fit that context, but no since genre dominates, allowing "Pure" to cater to a wide variety of styles. These patches are designed to inspire.

Some of the performance patches are combinations of different sounds chosen to compliment each other, while others are programmed to behave just like individual sounds, but of course with the added benefit of more oscillators, filters and routing, resulting in a richer tone than could be achieved with individual sound slots.

35 MIDI files are included provide musical inspiration and examples of context, you can hear these in the demo.

99 Individual patches
25 Performance patches 35 MIDI files
Modwheel assignments
Many hours of careful programming, this bank started in 2014!"

ESK - Assimil8or Dishes with Clouds Flavour

Published on Apr 19, 2018 Metunar

"To test the new arrived Assimil8or i made some sequences. I also used the Mutable Instruments Clouds as effect.

1. The MFB SEQ-01 Pro is triggering a 808 patch on the Assimil8or.
2. The MFB SEQ-01 Pro is triggering voice samples on the Assimil8or and some analog MFB drums.
The samples have some pan and pitch modulation. I changed manually the start point on one of the samples.
3. Again the MFB SEQ-01 Pro as main sequencer with different patches on the Assimil8or. Additional drums from MFB and an FX sound with the Synthesis Technology E350 OSC.
4. Sample scrubbing and a lot of Clouds FX.

Music and Video by Metunar

In the ESK (Experimental Sound Kitchen) Videos i plan to do demos, sound experiments, equipment reviews or other silly things."

New Lifeforms Primary Oscillator from Pittsburgh Modular Coming to SUPERBOOTH18

"We will be showing a new #eurorack oscillator at #superbooth18 Lifeforms Primary Oscillator. Cascading #analog waveform sculpting creates a unique set of modulatable waveforms. #modular #synthesizer"

Flow diagram below.

Moon Modular Introduces the 501D Dual Voltage Controlled Oscillator 5U Module

via The Lunar Experience

"This module combines two VOLTAGE CONTROLLED OSCILLATOR circuits in one double-width unit. The two oscillator halves enter a symbiosis in that they share some controls which affect both while other functions are individual to each oscillator. Each oscillator has its own octave range switch (32’...2’ plus low frequency and wide settings, ‘wide’ augmenting the range of the tune pots to the whole ten octave span of the oscillators).

The master tune control on the left side affects both vcos while the corresponding pot on the right controls the detune interval beween vco 1 and 2. Bipolar attenuators for frequency and pulse width modulation with their corresponding input jacks are separate as are the two pulse width controls.

The central waveform selector controls both wave outputs 1 and 2 while three additional output jacks provide sine, sawtooth and pulse waves of oscillator 2; the output area is completed by a white noise source. More individual wave outputs can be obtained by adding the 501E expander module. The seven control voltage inputs allow control of fre- quency modulation and pulse width modulation of vco 1 and 2. Two more jacks control frequency (1V/oct) while the central cv input jack controls both oscillators at once."

Cathedral of Low Freqs - Tardigrain test

Published on Apr 19, 2018 theProxyServer

iTunes: tardigrain - Erik Sigth

"Quick test of the Tardigrain app - hooked it up and liked what emerged, hence this quick vid..."

Another one spotted on discchord. Some nice timbers in this one.

You can find additional posts featuring Tardigrain here.