Superbooth 2018 - Set Up Day Walkthrough

Published on May 2, 2018 DivKidVideo

"Here's a preliminary look at Superbooth 2018. A walk across the park into the FEZ (the venue) and off we go! Great to see familiar and new faces and meet people we only tend to see once or twice a year if at all. There's some hellos, silly stories including modular cases flying out of the back door of a rental car on the motorway and just some good fun all round. We walk through the venue, have a look at a few bits of gear before getting into the mass of videos to follow.

We're proud to have our Superbooth 2018 content sponsored by www.thonk.co.uk"

New Bastl Instruments TIMBER Introduction - Dual Waveform Lumberjack

Published on May 2, 2018 Bastl Instruments

"This is a walkthrough of Timbers features with short sound examples and waveform visualisation.
All parameters are explained briefly to give an insight to how Timber can be used to add harmonics
to simple waveforms or any signal."

via Bastl Instruments

dual waveform lumberjack

Timber is very flexible wave shaping module that can produce rich timbres by adding harmonics to simple waveforms (triangles and sinewaves) or any other signal. It has 2 different unique wave shaping circuits – I. – the WAVE DRIVER and II. -the WAVE FOLDER and voltage controlled crossfader to fade between the different circuits or between one of them and the clean input signal.

Both circuits share the same control voltages: the SHAPE which sets the input amplification before the wave shaping circuit and the SYMMETRY control which adds voltage offset to the input signal to provide various asymmetric overdrives or wave folding sounds. There is also voltage FBK CV jack which when provided with positive voltages feeds respective portion of the output signal back to the input which results in chaotic and aggressive behaviours. It is calibrated to work well with 5V gate voltages.

I. the WAVE DRIVER is an overdrive circuit with one folding stage and it has 2 configuration 3-way switches (9 different configurations). The drive switch can set the overdrive character to SOFT or HARD or something in between. The FOLD switch can set the folding threshold to HI or LO or it can turn the folding stage off in the NO position.

II. the WAVE FOLDER is a novel take on the serge style wavefolding circuit which has specific behaviour to abuse the high gain of the input amplification stage to provide rich high frequency timbres with higher settings of the SHAPE parameter. It has a configuration switch which can either activate clean 4 stage wavefolding in the OK position or highly asymmetric folding stage in the KO position that provides strange metallic character. The NO position provides only the very last overdrive-folding stage.

FEATURES:

I. WAVE DRIVER is overdrive circuit with one folding stage.
3-way DRIVE SWITCH to set character of overdrive (SOFT-MID-HARD)
3-way FOLD SWITCH to configure the folding threshold level (LO-NO-HI)
independent output I. OUT
II. WAVE FOLDER is 4 stage wavefolding circuit
3-way FOLD SWITCH to set character of folding stages (OK-NO-KO)
independent output II. OUTcommon INPUT for both circuits
SHAPE sets input amplification before signal enters waveshaping stages
SYMMETRY adds voltage offset to the input signal
SYMMETRY becomes bipolar attenuator when the jack is connected
X-FADE voltage controlled crossfader with bipolar attenuator
switch to select between INPUT and I. WAVE DRIVER for the left side of the X-FADE
X-FADE IN jack breaks normalisation of II. WAVE FOLDER on the right side of X-FADE
positive voltage at FBK CV jack sends signal from the output or II. back to the INPUT
TECHNICAL DETAILS:

7 HP
PTC fuse and diode protected 10 pin power connector
24mm deep
power consumption +12: < 50mA, -12: <50 mA

THYME - 20 SOUNDS - NO TALKING

Published on May 2, 2018 Bastl Instruments

"In this video we show some sound examples of THYME our robot operated digital tape machine.
All sounds are recorded directly from thymes stereo output. The examples feature varrious
settings resulting in different textures and rhythmic delay patterns. Certain parameters
are being changed over time by thymes internal automation units - the robots. The changes
can happen slower or in the lower audio domain synced to clock or in free run. Settings
are saved as "sounds" which can be recalled sequentially. THYME can make a delay sound like
its a totally independent track in the music and thus can be used in a very creative way."

More posts featuring THYME here.

New 2 05 18 Serge Modular System Videos by batchas

Videos [1] & [2] have been added to this post. I also created a playlist for all four videos.

Roland D-05 Boutique Part. 3

The third demo of Roland's D-5 from DKS SYNTH LAB has been added to the playlist here.

New Audio Damage Quanta - Granular Soft Synth for AAX, AU, VST, VST3, and iOS

via Audio Damage

"We are very pleased to announce Quanta, our new synthesizer for AAX, AU, VST, VST3, and iOS. Quanta is a 10-voice granular synthesizer built around an incredibly easy-to-use and capable granular engine, with a 'sidecar' oscillator that can be used in addition to the granular source, or mixed in with it, or instead of it. Quanta has two multi-mode filters and a cross-platform preset mechanism, and can load AIFF, WAV, Ogg, FLAC, and MP3 format samples.

Modulation sources? Quanta's got 'em. Quanta features our new Flexible Envelope Generator (FEG), which is an arbitrary-length breakpoint generator with optional host tempo sync. Easily add and remove breakpoints, and set loop points and curves. These comically powerful envelope generators are essentially sequencers in their own right, and Quanta has four of them.

Quanta also has a pair of our new Flexible LFO, which made its first appearance in Discord4. The FLFO has, for all intents and purposes, an unlimited series of waveforms that are easily accessed via the SHAPE, SKEW, and WARP knobs.

Mod routing #easymode. Quanta has a full modulation matrix page; touch a knob and it instantly scrolls to that row, allowing you to easily and quickly direct modulation sources throughout the synth; virtually every control in the synth engine can be modded.

In addition, Quanta is fully MPE (MIDI Polyphonic Expression) capable, and owners of MPE controllers such as the Linnstrument, Haken Continuum, Roli Seaboard and Rise, and Madrona Labs Soundplane can utilize their full expression range.

Quanta for iOS is functionally identical to the desktop versions, and will be available as standalone and AUv3 (iPad only); presets created on the desktop can be used in the mobile version and vice-versa.

Setting aside the marketing-speak and bullet points for a moment, we'd just like to say that we're very proud of this instrument, which is the result of many months of research and development in both DSP and user interface methods, and the first product of this new chapter in the history of Audio Damage. Our goal was to try to make granular synthesis as easy to understand and use as subtractive, and to make it as musical and playable as possible. Whether we've succeeded or not is up to you folks to decide, of course, but we are really pleased with what we've come up with here, and are excited to show it to you.

Today (May 3rd, 2018) is the first day of Superbooth 18, and we'll have beta versions of both desktop and iOS Quanta on display for use, as well as a Roli Seaboard Rise and Linnstrument on hand to demonstrate the MPE capabilities. If you're in Berlin, please stop by and have a play. We do not have a final price or release date at this time; there are still some things we need to tighten up, and we won't be shipping Quanta until it is solid as a rock. With that said, it won't be long; more than a couple weeks, but less than a couple months, is our best guess."

New Roland SYSTEM 500 modules Electro Jam with TR-08 and Rainmaker

Published on May 2, 2018 Honeysmack

"Featured modules include:
New Roland SYSTEM 500 modules: 505, 531, 555, 510.
Intellijel: Rainmaker, Metropolis, Plonk.
Noise Engineering: Basimilus Iteritas Alter
WMD: Chimera.
Mutable Instruments: Peaks
Drums: TR-08

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Inside KOMA Elektronik HQ at Common Ground

Published on May 2, 2018 DivKidVideo

"To kick off the Modular Podcast footage at the 2018 Superbooth we went to KOMA Elektronik at their headquarters in Common Ground. Common Ground is a community, DIY build space, DIY kit shop, vintage synth collection and lots more. Woutr takes us on a tour around the public and private spaces involved with both the Common Ground shop front and the working spaces and staff at KOMA. The space is peppered with great books, modular systems, DIY projects, soviet era synths, broken synths users can buy and fix themselves and loads more.

We're proud to have our Superbooth 2018 content sponsored by www.thonk.co.uk"

Building a CV QUANTIZER with Arduino - 01

Published on May 2, 2018 Sbranvlztronics

"A CV quantizer with Arduino UNO (ATmega328) in its earlier stage of development. In this video the quantizer is doing its thing on two LFO waveforms. There is two independent CV inputs to be quantized, other parameters are voltage controlled also: scale choice, clock, tessitura (low and high note range for each CV input channel). Yet to be implemented are: synchronization with external clocks, MIDI output, if memory won't run out...

Enjoy

Sbranvlztronics"

Dave Smith Instruments Prophet X Demos by Rozzer

"This is a compilation of parts from recordings I made when creating patches for the Prophet X synthesizer. I recorded much more, but edited down to the the best bits. There are no additional effects or processing. All effects are from the synth itself.

DISCLAIMER: There is no particular musicianship in these demos. They were recorded whilst patching mostly with one hand on the keyboard and the other hand tweaking knobs. The purpose of uploading is to give an idea of the tone, sound and character of the Prophet X as explored by one sound designer."

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