Korg NTS-1 Sounds Immense Over Midi! - No External FX -Warm Up Jam

Published on Apr 18, 2020 ChrisLody

"A new toy arrived in the post today, the Korg Nutekt NTS-1 kit synth! I've been waiting a fair while for this to arrive due to delays with it being released here in the UK, even before the outbreak began, but the wait was worth it.

The first thing I did after I popped it together was to get the USB midi up and running as I do like to explore things with a keyboard attached if at all possible. Turns out the NTS-1 sounds absolutely massive when programmed correctly. It responds to velocity over midi nicely with it being routed directly to volume so getting a bit of expression going is easy. Also here I'm controlling how far the filter envelope opens (or filter sweep as it's known) by changing how legato and staccato my playing is. This is 100% NTS-1 with no external FX, sound great!

Only negative I've discovered so far is USB noise. I need to invest in a ground loop isolator or a minijack to din midi adapter, or both. I'm using Reapers Reafir Subtract setting here to remove the noise in realtime."

Customizing Synthesizers, Model:Samples

Published on Apr 18, 2020 True Cuckoo

Some video of the inside of Model:Samples as well.

"I've been thinking about this since day one. The Elektron Model:Samples, while totally a capable and affordable sample groovebox, the plain white design didn't really speak to me. I've been wanting to give it a colourful makeover from day one. So here it is.

Used in this video:
Elektron Model Samples
Molotow Acrylic Markers
Montana Primer spray
Montana Varnish spray
Time
Patience

Camera and audio:
Panasonic GH5
Sennheiser e935
Audiofuse
Soyuz Launcher
iPad Pro"

Hawkeye - Fractal Floater (midiphy LoopA and the six synths)

Published on Apr 18, 2020 Hawkeye

"Back in time, when we were surfing the skies...


Made with six polyphonic tracks on the midiphy LoopA.

Synths used in the order of appearance:
1) Pad: Alesis Andromeda

2) Bassline: MFB Dominion I through DIY Polivoks

3) Lead: Waldorf Microwave 1

4) Drums: E-MU 6400 Ultra

5) Lead: Erica Synths Fusion VCO & Polivoks filter
6) Drums: Vermona DRM1


FX: Strymon Timeline and Big Sky, dbx 1066 compressor on drum bus - directly recorded with a Tascam WAV recorder, no DAW used.

The video footage is back from 2015 and was found on some old harddisk :).

Hope you enjoy!

Thanks for watching and listening!
Hawkeye / Maelstroem Records"

Let the light shine on you

Published on Apr 18, 2020 synthjunk

"A new track with a good vibe to it.

From my latest EP called C64 is your friend.
Hope you enjoy it."

Akai S612 rackmount sampler in there as well.

Demo of the Roland MT-90U MIDI Music Player

Published on Apr 18, 2020 Techmoan

"Now all but discontinued - the MT-90U is Roland's last all-in-one General MIDI playing 'Music Tutor'. It's also the only model in the range to feature a USB port rather than a floppy disk drive."

Patch of the Week 54: minilogue + NTS-1 Sound-on-sound Drone Looping

Published on Apr 17, 2020 Korg

"Everyone loves looping, so we created a drone track using just the Korg minilogue and the Nu:Tekt NTS-1 as a pseudo 'tape' looper. Time to get lost in the loops!"

Korg Patch of the Week posts

OBXone 2'nd voice board

Published on Apr 17, 2020 Lackan

"A very quick demo of my newly expanded OBXone. I added a second voice board in total unison with the first voice board - except for the possibility to set the filter different.

This makes for very cool formant effects and is pretty much exactly what the OSCar has with the "separation"-knob: two 12dB-filters with the peaks separated.

Just a very quick demo..."

Introducing Substantia - Electroacustic Physical Modeling Laboratory

Introducing Substantia from Giorgio Sancristoforo on Vimeo.

"Substantia (latin: substance), is an electroacustic physical modelling laboratory with hundereds of models. It is a modal synthesis software with integrated euclidean sequencer and recorder.

Many modal synthesis tools, so far, have a limited number of options and models. Some instruments give you just inharmonicity and dumping controls over a bank of resonators, some other offer few models like a pipe, a plate, a box, and usually a very small selection of materials: metals, plastic, wood…

Substantia has 16 different models and 23 materials, ranging from Aluminium to Nickel, Glass, Marble, Sapphire, Platinum, Gold, Nylon, Uranium and more, for a total of 368 resonant models. (The list will grow with updates).

For unparalleled precision, Substantia uses 100 Resonant Band Pass filter for each voice, for a total of 800 filters (8 voice polyphony).

You can excite the resonators with contact microphones (2 for stereo sound), samples, or white noise and experience a new exciting way to make digital sounds with human gestures. Substantia is a powerful tool to create new hyper-real sounds, from amazing bongos to luxurious glassy and metallic textures.

A must have for experimental musicians, lovers of new frontiers of sound.

Release: April 19th 2020

h12PM CET

www.giorgiosancristoforo.net"

Shutdown Sounds by Sensel

Published on Apr 16, 2020 Sensel

Playlist:

1. Sensel - Hugo R.A. Paris Sound Bath for UVI Falcon

Download from https://sensel.com/pages/sensel-hra-p...
This instrument was designed with sounds by artist Hugo R.A. Paris for the Sensel Morph Buchla Thunder Overlay using the default map for Preset 1 on the Thunder. It also works for the default MPE map for the Piano, Drum,and Music Production overlays.

MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) is used to create a "sound bath" instrument for ambient audio explorations.

Vertical gestures on each note control filter cutoff for a bandpass digital filter. After-pressure controls the stereo spread of the digital filter. Velocity selects the start point of the loop.

The long "feathers" of the Buchla Thunder control samples from a Paris composition, primarily using the 4MS SWN synthesizer.

2. Sensel - Hugo R.A. Paris Sound Bath for UVI Falcon
3. Noizebusters Timbre Drums For Sensel Morph and Bitwig Studio Pro

Virtual Superbooth 2020: Eurorack Jamsession with Tubbutec µTune

Published on Apr 17, 2020 Tubbutec

See the red SUPERBOOTH20! label on the top lef of the site for more. You can find previous posts featuring the Tubbutec uTune here.

"Excerpt from a presentation for 'Virtual Superbooth 2020'

Using Tubbutec µTune and expanders to quantize CV and as a midi interface for a monophonic voice and a 3-voice paraphonic synth.

Also using midi velocity to control filter and clocking a sequencer via µTune.
A midified Rhythm Ace FR3 (Tubbutec uniPulse) is synced and triggered via midi, too.

Modules used:
Tubbutec µTune
Tubbutec µTune expander
Tubbutec Sumtiple

VCOs:
Haible Living VCO
Doepfer A-110-2
Leaf Audio VCO

Filter:
Oakley COTA Filter
Doepfer A-105 VCF
Doepfer A-121

ADSR:
Doepfer A-140

Other:
Ladik S180 / S183 Sequencer
EMW Stereo Mixer"