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Eurorack performance rig rundown with Eric Schlappi of Schlappi Engineering

DivKidVideo

"Here’s a video with Eric Schlappi from Schlappi Engineering going through his Eurorack performance set up that was filmed as part of DivKid’s West Coast Adventure (playlist below) last year. We get a look at his two voice system, focussing on distortion and harmonic control and saturation and simple drum set up that allows him to perform on a relatively small modular set up.

DivKid’s West Coast Adventure [embedded below]

Check out the exclusive uncut performance jam from Eric at https://www.patreon.com/divkid and with your support gain access to exclusive files, posts and videos.

Schlappi Engineering - https://bit.ly/schlappi

This video is sponsored by the good people at Patchwerks who helped created the amazing trip and time I had on my West Coast Adventure!"

DivKid’s West Coast Adventure

Note this starts with the same video above as it was the latest at the time of this post. You can skip around using the player controls on the bottom left of the player.

Playlist at the time of this post:

Eurorack performance rig rundown with Eric Schlappi of Schlappi Engineering
After Later Audio interview // Talking musical history, Eurorack clones & original module designs
Nathan Moody // Performance interview & Rig Rundown
Malekko Heavy Industry // Manthers, Modulars and Russian Submarines
HOW TO AMULETS with special guest AMULETS // live studio performance and rig rundown
AI Synthesis interview // synth DIY, new Eurorack modules, personal background and bad tomatoes
Marcus Fischer studio performance & live rig rundown // ambient tape loops with guitar and Eurorack
Eurorack design philosophy, talking to strangers on buses & more with Acid Rain Technology
The road to Velocity and the emerging Seattle synth scene
DivKid's West Coast Adventure

New SSL Serge Dual Slope Generator in MU Format

"SERGE DUAL SLOPE GENERATOR IN MU FORMAT ANNOUNCED

Synthetic Sound Labs has just released the flexible 1240 Dual Slope Generator (DSG) - a long awaited addition to the MU world - designed in close collaboration with the legendary Serge Tcherepnin.

The 1240 DSG is the ultimate patch-programmable control voltage generator. A Serge Slope Generator is a slew limited unity gain voltage follower whose positive and negative slew rates are voltage controllable. It has an extremely wide range covering sub-sonic to high audio rates. Trigger inputs and pulse / gate outputs extend the slewing functions for use as a voltage controlled (VC) LFO, envelope generator and a variable pulse delay mono-stable functions.

One VC responds roughly exponentially, and two additional VC inputs are routed to individual Rise and Fall slope attenuverters for maximum flexibility and convenience. This newly updated circuit now includes temperature compensation to help eliminate drifting. The linearity and accuracy of the slews allow them to be used for exacting applications such as portamento functions.

The 1240 has two identical slope generators (A & B) - each of which can be set to self- trigger (Loop), or even to trigger each other for some wild modulation and audio
effects. It also has two auxiliary outputs which provide an output that is the greater of A

& B (PEAK), and another that is the lesser of A & B (TROUGH). These are interesting and go far beyond normal summing / mixing.
Among the many functions the 1240 DSG can perform are (x2):
• VC Transient / Envelope Generator - simply started by trigger or gate at TRIG IN.
• VC LFO - The rates are controlled by the Rise and Fall Rate knobs and inputs, and
the slopes controlled from LOG thru Linear to Exponential.
• VC Timing Pulse / Gate generator.
• VC Portamento with separate controls for rise and fall rates, and slopes.
• Envelope Follower (Detector) - The VC decay rate allows the response to be
moved from positive to negative peak detection.
• VC Pulse Delay (Monostable).
• Sub-Harmonic Series Generator. A trapezoidal wave-shape is generated for
sonorous, smooth sounds.
• Audio Generator with variable symmetry and a range into kilohertz regions.
• Non-Linear Low-Pass Filter. The VC slew limiting can progressively turn a sawtooth
wave into a triangle and many variations between. Thus a slope generator can be used as a very interesting low-fidelity VCF.

SSL uses quality fiberglass-epoxy printed circuit boards, precision automated robotics and meticulous hand-crafted assembly assure years of trouble-free service.

Synthetic Sound Labs has been in the analog synthesizer business since 1973. The 1240 is yet another in SSL’s growing line of new synthesizer modules. Proudly made in the USA.

Pricing is $495 US. Available directly from SSL and through NoiseBug, Pomona, CA."

Ultrasound detectors and Encoder. Hide messages in your music.

Giorgio Sancristoforo

"Did you know? You can use any bat detector or ultrasound microphone to listen to the messages that you hide in your music with Encoder!"

https://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net

Follow-up to this post.

Space Echo RE-201 vs AudioThing Outer Space - Hardware vs Plugin Comparison

AudioThing

"Space Echo Plugin: https://www.audiothing.net/effects/ou...

0:00 Intro
0:04 Snare - Echo
1:08 Snare - Spring Reverb
1:24 Guitar - Echo"

"Outer Space is a faithful emulation plugin of a famous vintage tape echo made in the early seventies.

As the original unit, Outer Space features a tape echo section with three playback heads and a spring reverb tank.

We have modelled three different tape frequency responses and saturations, along with all the analog imperfections of tape recording/playback.

We have also modelled the ballistic response of the delay rate (repeat rate) which can create eerie pitch shifts (due to the Doppler effect), one of the classic tape echo-based sound effects."

What's up with Behringer's UB-Xa?

BEHRINGER

"Here's a little update from our engineers..."

Reco-Synth Jolymod Lomiranda + Korg Odyssey FS

Arthur Joly

[patch] Wave Sequencing with a Blofeld?

Synthesizer Video Service

"Here is one of my sounds from the Frequture Blofeld sound banks (https://www.frequture.net/products/bl...).

In this video, I want to show you how to imitate wave sequencing sounds which you can make with a Korg Wavestation but with a Waldorf Blofeld. We are going to talk about LFO settings and modifiers.

If you want to get the empty Blofeld patch sheet (PDF), scroll down on this page: https://www.frequture.net/support/sup..."

TEISCO SX-400 analogue synthesizer.

adamstan84

"I'm repairing this one for a friend.
Chorus sound between 06:45 and 08:40 is obtained by muting "fast" LFO with trimpot on PCB. I plan to install switch for this, since that "slow" chorus mode turns out to be extremely useful."

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