Breaking down David Bowie's "Heroes" – Tony Visconti

Petr Potacek

"This film is an extended version of BBC Four programme Music Moguls: Masters of Pop (Episode 2: Melody Makers)."

This one is in via John H. Synth at 2:47. You should be able to ID it immediately.

EMS SYNTHI & ARP Solina

Voltage Modular | Polymode - Polymoog & Year Two Sale

Cherry Audio

Playlist:
Voltage Modular | Polymode
Voltage Modular | Polymode Module Overview
Voltage Modular Tutorial | Creating Layered Sounds with Polymode

"The new polymode module is here! Based on one of the earliest and most iconic polysynths of all time, Polymode has been precisely recreated and adds more features than ever before."

The Cherry Audio Year Two Sale Is Here!

Syndrum: The Electronic Drum

Cherry Audio

"A short documentary about the history of the Syndrum, the world's first commercially produced electronic drum, commemorating the release the release of the MRB Syndrum and poly Syndrum modules for the Cherry Audio Voltage Modular platform"

Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with DAVID JOSEPH WESLEY

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

"David Joseph Wesley is a Grammy Award nominated composer based in Los Angeles, working in film, TV, and video games. You may have recently heard his music on several network TV, cable and Netflix series such as James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction, Chicago Fire, Veep, Saturday Night Live, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Santa Clarita Diet, and Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, as well as many trailers and commercials including Toy Story 4, Incredibles 2, Hotel Transylvania, Call of Duty: Ghosts, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Dave was also fortunate to work with composer Ron Jones on the music for several seasons of Family Guy, which also enabled him to work with the largest live orchestra in television history. One of his favorite projects is his work on the music for “Firefly Online,” the video game based on Joss Whedon’s groundbreaking Firefly TV series. Although the game was never completed, he released his music for the game via the album Music To Smuggle By in 2018 as a tribute to the fans and to keep the Firefly spirit alive.

Dave finds inspiration for his music everywhere. An avid astronomer, his love of space led to two albums, several singles and multiple YouTube jam sessions about the cosmos and space-phenomena. In 2019, he released the album, Cassini, as a tribute to the NASA Cassini mission to Saturn, written entirely on the Prophet-6. And in 2017, in collaboration with NASA, Dave wrote an album for the solar eclipse titled Syzygy, also created entirely on the Prophet-6. Similarly, his obsession with synthesizers and the 80s naturally led to his “Pumpkin Patches” albums of synth-based music inspired by 70s and 80s horror as well as synthwave music released under the name “Parsec.”

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

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

Manitoba Cassette - Novation Circuit Pack by Digiphex Electronics

Isotonik Studios

"Manitoba Cassette is the first Digiphex Electronics Novation Circuit Pack to be released through the Isotonik Studios Circuit Patch store, its taken well over a year to get here so we're really excited to see what all you Circuiteers think!!

Warped LP’s and worn out tape is the feel of this pack, with some tape oriented macro controls. “Manitoba Cassette” captures the nostalgic feelings and drifting melodies inspired by Boards of Canada, Tycho, Lone, and even AFX.

GET IT HERE: https://isotonikstudios.com/product/m..."

Scoping out Bifold - New Dual Channel Wavefolder From Intellijel

Bifold Intellijel

"Bifold is a dual channel wavefolder, where one channel (the P channel) has a sonic characteristic inspired by the Buchla-style Parallel “deadband” folding circuit, while the other channel (the S channel) is more characteristic of a Serge-type Serial folding circuit. Besides offering two unique flavours of wavefolding, Bifold features numerous feedback and routing options along with CV control, enabling you to mix, blend and crossfade those flavours into a rich stew of unique waveforms and harmonic movement.

In this video we take a quick look at how Bifold sounds and how it works, in order to get a sense of the creative possibilities offered by this module."

First Folds With Bifold


"This video provides a few demos of how Bifold sounds when used in musical sequences, drones, and distorting drums.

Video Chapters:
00:03 - Melodic sequence with blends of folding
01:36 - Distorting drums and aux feedback
02:36 - Ringmod bell tones and AM
03:28 - Growling drone"

Coming soon for $229.00

"Wavefolding can be one of the most powerful yet simple ways to introduce complex timbres to a simple waveform. When done well, the results can be warm, textured, organic and full of musical character. We studied some of the most revered wavefolding circuits and looked at ways to integrate the positive qualities of these into a design that was full of sweet spots and allowed for a huge amount of experimentation and modulation.

Bifold combines two unique wavefolders with a crossfader; One channel (the P channel) has a sonic characteristic inspired by the Buchla-style Parallel “deadband” folding circuit, while the other channel (the S channel) is more characteristic of a Serge-type Serial folding circuit. There are distinct differences to how they react to specific waveforms, modulation and even their overall frequency response. By linking both folders together with a voltage controlled crossfader we further expand the ability to blend these two different folders together to create new waveforms. But this just scratches the surface of possibilities. Ring modulation, blending, crossfading, complex noise generation, feedback modulation, cascaded folding and so much more are all possible thanks to the strategically placed routing switches, jack normals and attenuators and other control options. This is a module that invites much exploration and discovery and pairs well with almost any kind of modulation and sound source."

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Granular Synth Jam // Gotharman's SpazeDrum, Little deFormer 3 & deMoon #TTNM

THE TUESDAY NIGHT MACHINES

"More electronic music with the Gotharman synth and drum machine trio! More info below :)

♥ SUPPORT: http://bit.ly/ttnm-support ♥

Again, I'm patching both the SpazeDrum analog drum computer and the deMoon digisynth into Little deFormer 3 granular workstation. There I add bass lines with the built-in analog filters, drones and weird effects. The Linnstrument MIDI keyboard plays a deMoon patch I made with my iPad editor. The eight edit knobs on the LD3 are all mapped to specific functions in the patch, so that I don't need a separate MIDI knobs controller :) Let me know if you have any questions!

Little deFormer 3:
http://www.gotharman.dk/ld3_mkii.htm"

10 Things You NEED to know before Building a Dawless Synthesizer Setup

BoBeats

"10 Things you need to know before building a dawless synthesizer setup. This video is sponsored by DistroKid. Use my link and get 7% off: http://distrokid.com/vip/bobeats - its a solid service for getting your tracks onto Spotify & iTunes."

BoBeats links:
►Patreon: http://bit.ly/bobeatspatreon
►Merch: http://merch.bobeats.tv
►Patches & samples http://bit.ly/storebobeats
►Music: http://bobeatsmusic.bandcamp.com
►Circuit Patches: http://bit.ly/bobeatsXisotoniks

An overview of new modules and collections in VCV Rack - August 2020

Omri Cohen

"Here are the patches - https://patchstorage.com/an-overview-...

00:00 - Aria Salvatrice
03:20 - BogAudio
04:39 - Count Modula
05:48 - JW
07:09 - Squinky Labs
08:51 - Stoermelder
12:05 - Studio 6+1
13:43 - Surge
14:31 - Miscellaneous

If you like what I do and want to support my work, consider joining me on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/omricohen"

SyllixMusic Moog Subharmonicon, Mother 32, and Korg Minilogue Synth Tracks

Moog Subharmonicon - Ambient Dream
Celestial - Moog Subharmonicon (10 Minute Relaxing Ambient)
Subharmonicon and Mother 32 Duet
Moog Subharmonicon + Mother 32 Cinematic Jam
Orbit | Generative Modular Ambient - Subharmonicon and Mother 32
Nebula | Futuristic Ambient - Korg Minilogue
Ambient Synth - Moog Subharmonicon and Mother 32
Gene Flow | Ambient Modular Synthesizer (Subharmonicon and Mother 32)
Melodic Modular Synth - Moog Subharmonicon and Mother 32