Forst, West Germany | SE-02, Plumbutter, Minidisc, OP1, Fieldkit FX, Thyme

Published on Aug 5, 2018 HAINBACH

"The last piece in my holiday series - back home today. The Ciat-Lonbarde Plumbutter is a beautiful filter - running the Roland SE-02 through it gives wide stereo movement and adds even more warmth to this tiny but powerful synthesizer.

Minidisc plays lyrics I sung and cut-up through the lovely delay and frequency shifter on the Field Kit FX, OP1 is the choir patch.'

Steiner-Parker Synthacon Variations 2

Published on Aug 5, 2018 Todd Barton

"Headphones recommended. More explorations of Nyle Steiner’s genius switch modulation matrix on his Synthacon!"

IK Multimedia UNO Synth & volca sample OKGO !!

Published on Aug 5, 2018 SHINGA Instant techno

Korg M1 Synthesizer SN 091193

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Electro Smith FV-1 DSP Eurorack Module Build

Published on Aug 5, 2018 Reckless Experimentation Audio LLC

"I take a Electro Smith FV-1 DSP and build a eurorack module around it."

Roland MKS-80 Repair PART 1?

Published on Aug 5, 2018 Really Nice Audio

"Please excuse the fan noise, everything is on full blast in this heat. But I thought this was too interesting not to try and document the repair."

Moog Grandmother and Octave Cat Messing About #1

Published on Aug 5, 2018 Earmonkey Music

"This video is a general messing about with the Moog Grandmother with the Octave Cat signal patched into the audio in of the Grandmother. You can create some pretty big sounds with the Moog and the Octave Cat is no slouch. Really, this is just me experimenting and talking a bit about what I'm doing. Mostly music and knob twiddling though."

QUASIMIDI SIRIUS FILTERPLAYA by THEXCEE

Published on Aug 5, 2018 TheXcee

"with a lil tricks the SIRIUS FILTER makes really fun!"

Knobcon Number Seven Just Around the Corner - September 7-9 Chicagoland

Knobcon Number Seven is set for next month, the weekend of September 7-9 in Chicagoland!
This is the largest synth event in the US, even bigger than NAMM when it comes to synths.

Full details at https://www.knobcon.com

"Knobcon is a one-of-a-kind synthesizer convention now in it's seventh year. Complete with performances, workshops and vendors, Knobcon allows for a fully immersive experience. Attendees can get their hands on an incredible amount of equipment and talk directly with designers of some of today's most innovative synthesizer products.

Held just outside Chicago, Ill., at the Hyatt Regency Schaumburg, the entire event takes place under one roof. Enthusiasts travel from all parts of the world to attend this yearly event. Direct access to all major forms of transportation make this an easy destination for those traveling.

Who should attend?
If you are interested in electronic-based or experimental music and the tools used to create it, this is the place for you. The diversity and passion of those at knobcon make it enjoyable for all experience levels."

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Be sure to see the Knobcon label here on MATRIXSYNTH for additional posts, including some of what you can expect to see at this year's event, as well as coverage from previous years.

Prophet 12 feedback filters and other features

Published on Aug 5, 2018 Adrian Wardle

"I've been half thinking about selling my Prophet 12 to fund a Prophet X, so thought I'd put together a demo to let me take some time to really focus on the instrument. This uses some of the sounds I've programmed that use the P12's unique features such as the tuned feedback, the polyphonic delays. Also a couple of sounds leaning heavily on the much maligned now pass filter.

This has helped me decide that I'm not selling it. Although it can be a real pain to dial it into the sweet spots, it does things that no other hardware synth can.

Sounds:
Bigger Bully. This is an effort to make a really big polysynth sound. A lot of people think the P12 can't do this sort of sound at all. Uses all for oscillators running detuned PWM's, with the sound layered and all the filters on the second layer have a delayed start.

Enceladus. Sine waves, AM and a lot of tuned feedback.

Fmod DDL Cloud. This is using a sine wave oscillator to modulate the delay time for some delay FM. I'm pretty certain no other hardware polysynth can pull off this trick.

Food DDL Chime. A variation on the above technique to create a very different type of sound.

Resonance in D. This is uses the delays with the time parameters tuned to act as a crude resonance bank. A hefty dose of tuned feedback and lots of subtle and not so subtle routing of velocity to various parameters makes this very organic. I'm probably not showing it off to it's full potential in this vid.

Silver Voices. I've heard a lot of talk about people liking the choir samples in the Prophet X. This started off as a bit of an experiment to see if I could dial in expression to a single cycle wave rather than being stuck with whatever I'm given in the form of a sample as you get on the Prophet X. I then added some Prophet 12 metallic weirdness to complete the sound.

Meditation Bowl. This is using the delay lines as a kind of resonant bank again and a little bit of tuned feedback.

Dark Filter Slow. Just here to show the the Prophet 12 can sound warm and analog when it wants to.

Rez Epoch. Another rich analogue sound leaning heavily on the much maligned Curtis filter."