MATRIXSYNTH

LITTLE BIG SOUND: Ambient orchestral cinematic Korg NTS-1 & Volca Keys: Jam Impro #NTS-1 Nu:Tekt

Published on Mar 4, 2020 Gary P Hayes

"Such a surprise this little box and although I would have loved to take it outdoors, torrential persistent rain put an end to that, so a little duo with Volca Keys. The effects in the NTS-1 are pretty amazing, particularly what they call 'riser' reverb, which is almost as good as Strymon's shimmer, so this is used throughout. Other notables are crisp ping-pong delay and some great chorus's. It can also cover everything from deep rich basses through to very complex non standard arpeggios... obviously it has significant limitations compared with instruments 20x the price, but that limitation is what allows you to explore and find treasures, vs being given the universe and hardly exploring anywhere because it is too vast ... "

A moment of solace

Published on Mar 4, 2020 MIDERA

"Used the Chroma Polaris and Eventide Blackhole for FX"

5 mars 2020 Featuring the Waldorf Wave

Published on Mar 4, 2020 Deep Forest

"Sou design and improvisation with my beloved Wave Waldorf #musicproducerslife"

The Worst "Drum Machine" Ever Made? | Bee Gees Rhythm Machine

Published on Feb 9, 2020 Simon The Magpie

"The 'Bee Gees Rhythm Machine' (made famous by Kraftwerk) is a unit I see popping up online all the time. As a drum machine non the less! So I finally decided to pick one up and see if I can make music with it!"

The Soviet 808 Drum Machine?

Published on Mar 1, 2020 Simon The Magpie

"Checking out the ELSITA. A soviet vontagw drum machine that is written as possible to make 808 sounds. I call bullshit. But cheap bullshit!"

SEQUENTIAL INTERVIEW w/ DAVID COOK

You can find the interview on Sequential's website here.

"Pianist, composer and Musical Director David Cook was born in San Diego to a musical family and raised in Columbus, Ohio. Now living in New York City, he has enjoyed a varied career of performing, recording and producing.

A graduate of the University of Michigan school of music, David has music-directed and played for many notable artists, including 10-time Grammy Award-winner Taylor Swift, Thomas Rhett, Emmy/Oscar/Tony winner Ben Platt, Maren Morris, Shoshana Bean, Lizz Wright, Academy Award winner Jennifer Husdon, Kesha, Utada Hikaru, Halsey, NSYNC, Billy Porter, Tei Shi and Shayna Steele. He has also played piano in jazz groups led by drummers Mark Guiliana and Red Baraat’s Sunny Jain, guitarist Greg Howe, saxophonists Adam Kolker and Bob Reynolds, as well as two-time Grammy-nominated trombonist Alan Ferber.

David has released two critically acclaimed records on the Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records label: Pathway (2010) and Scenic Design (2015). Produced by Ben Wendel of Kneebody, Scenic Design features David Smith on trumpet, Wendel on saxophone, Matt Clohesy on bass, and Kendrick Scott on drums. Two-time Grammy Award-winner composer and bandleader Maria Schneider says “Scenic Design is full of heart, intelligence, and simply fantastic playing… every piece thoughtfully carries the listener along with evolving nuance, expression, and harmonic details.”

David is a member of the faculty at Montclair State University as Adjunct Professor of Jazz at the John J. Cali school of music. He also represented the United States in 2008 and 2017 with ensembles through Jazz at Lincoln Center and the U.S. State Department. Those travels included Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait, and provided performances and clinics to audiences across the regions.

Other musicians that David has recorded or performed with include Dennis Chambers, Quincy Davis, John Ellis, Nir Felder, Tomas Fujiwara, Christian McBride, Donny McCaslin, Marcus Miller, Robert Randolph, Sachal Vasandani, and Victor Wooten.

We chatted with David on how he uses Sequential instruments in his music.

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You can find previous posts featuring Sequential's Spotlight series here.

Making Synths with Arduino & Dr. Bleep of Bleep Labs

via Eventbrite

"Making Synths with Arduino

April 2nd - May 15th, 2020
Thursdays, 6-9 pm
7 class sessions total + dadageek Exhibition on May 29th
$300 class fee + $50 materials fee

ABOUT THIS CLASS

In this course, you’ll learn how to build your own digital synthesizers and effects from scratch.

By the end of the course, you might create a new kind of delay effect, an ambient sound generator for an installation, a patchable modular synth, or whatever device you can dream up!

Starting to code with Arduino and hooking up the appropriate hardware for audio i/o and control can be daunting, but in this course, we’ll start at the very beginning and quickly get you making all kinds of music and noise.

This course is great for beginners to DIY hardware and software as well as those who have some coding experience and would like to get into making noise.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Arduino programming basics
Using the Teensy audio.h library
Digital and analog hardware basics
Audio processing basics
Coordinating LEDs with your sounds
Novel user interface hardware (light, motion, touch…)"

Ob 6 Transitions

Published on Mar 4, 2020 Arnaud Music.

Sequential OB6
Eventide Blackhole

Behind the Space - Novation PEAK evolving space ambient drone

Published on Mar 4, 2020 Alba Ecstasy

"Starting from an #ambient custom patch I made for the #NovationPEAK (soon on https://www.albaecstasy.ro), I just tweaked the filter and the delay parameters. Added from time to time some noise, increased the resonance and... that's all!
All internal effects, no EQ.
Amazing synth, right?

#patches"