JMT LD-2: "The Witching Hour"

Kris Lennox

"You'll be glad to hear I haven't succumbed to a non-existent virus, but rather, the music computer was broken. I acquired a new one, and I'm back on track. I'm still working on getting the image format in Premiere how it should be, but i'll get there (i.e if the aspect ratio in this video is off, it'll be fixed soon).

To the synth: recently I picked up some synths from Tetsuji (JMT Synths), one of them being the LD-2. Brilliant synth for sound/noise design - absolutely fantastic, with the bonus of built-in delay. Build quality is also impeccable. And hand-built by the man himself.

I hold the LD-2 up there with the Lyra-8 in terms of industrial/noise sound design single-unit systems. Lyra is more appropriate for clunky & factory-like, with the LD-2 more appropriate for odd & noisy.

Boutique items, certainly - but if you like making those kinds of sounds/noises, why not? There's a place for everything in this world.

Despite the apparent simplicity of this patch, it took around 3 hours to create... lots of work! Pitch/levels were key for this one. I added a subtle drone/bass after the LD-2 patch was recorded (intentionally keeping the sound relatively bare as this is my first video demonstrating the LD-2 i.e letting the synth sing). Bass should be obvious with headphones.

The title? Well, it is October :) Thin veil and all.

PS I a few weeks ago I took Tetsuji's synths to an abandoned factory area for some great photos. I think Tetsuji put the images on his page. If not, I have them over on fb (my personal/private page, though).

Enjoy/more soon now I'm back in the game.

All best
Kris"

Pearl Drum-X: a Simmons Drums contender

Valmont

"A true gem of forgotten electronic machines!
Totally analog, with digital memories, this japanese Pearl Drum-X had serious potential for successful sales... But came too late on the market!
The first models were released in 1987, a year where PCM drums appeared and made those fantastic analog things completly old-fashionned.
Anyway, not many were built, and no one seems to know about this lil happy box. Working units can be found for almost nothing, got mine for a hundred bucks, but the 'edit' buttons are broken. Tried to fix that but now my unit doesn't start anymore... Gotta repair this one, as well as so many other machines now. Soon I'll do a noice jam with my soviet Lel UDS, RMIF Elsita, the 808 and this cool Pearl! :D

The Peal Drum-X has a huge variety of sounds, from 909-like toms to typical simmons snares or weird cowbell tones.
Later models had MIDI, this one doesn't. But not a problem when you have multi-trigger drum machines! (Such as the Roland R8)
It has 5 outputs, plus a mixed one, and the box can be screwed in a rack (Only 2U), so it's definitely a great studio machine, as well as for live gigs thanks the quick patch recall buttons."

Altair 231 1984' - Strange Sounds Of Soviet Union - Soviet Mini Moog

Gargula Tron

"undoubtedly one of the best synthesizers built in the soviet union, endless sound possibilities."

AudioNowcast episode 215, Dave Smith and the reintroduction of the Prophet-5 synthesizer.

AudioNowcast

"This is a very special AudioNowcast podcast with Dave Smith and Andrew McGowan from Sequential talking about the reintroduction of the legendary Prophet-5 synthesizer."

https://www.sequential.com/product/prophet-5/

This one was spotted and sent in via Soviet Space Child.

FM synthesis on the Novation PEAK

Floyd Steinberg

"Table of contents below. Novation PEAK is a great sounding hybrid synth with digital oscillators and an analog filter. One of the features of it's powerful mod matrix is frequency modulation. So it should be possible to create that DX7 electric piano patch, right? :-)

00:00 Intro
00:45 beginning with a saw wave...
01:16 fm uses sine waves, so do we
01:26 frequency and loudness adjustments
01:38 amp envelope
02:00 mod matrix: FM O1-O2
03:08 mod envelope on OSC 2
04:27 velocity sensitivity for OSC 3
05:04 adjusting mod envelope
05:18 some effects
05:52 finished sound
06:44 hmmmm....

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Velvet Machine AUv3 Factory Presets Demo using Shoom Synthesizer

Yuri Turov

Coming soon to the App Store…

"Shoom played with a MIDI keyboard and processed through Velvet Machine.

All Shoom patches have its internal reverb turned off. The only effects are Velvet Machine and a limiter.

https://yuriturov.com/velvet-machine"

It's Yellow, It's Fat, It's got a Knob. The DSTEC Original Syn Analog monosynth

David Morley

"The DSTEC Original Syn came out in 1999. A 3 VCO midi controlled monosynth. Classic monosynth architecture with a few tricks.. Demo uses the DSI Tempest for Drums and a simple bass note from the SE1. The main sequenc is the DSTEC. Kawai K5000s for pad. Enjoy!"

Toraiz Tracks by Krog360

Krog360

Maschine Mk2 tracks by Krog360

Krog360

New Elektron OS Features With Analog Four + Analog Rytm MKII Black

Perfect Circuit

"The Elektron Analog Four and Analog Rytm both got an OS upgrade that adds USB midi and USB audio features. Mario from Elektron US came by to show us how these new features make integrating the Analog Four and Rytm with iOS devices much easier.

Having USB audio and midi means you can easily record the output of your analogs with your phone, or sequence them with an iPad, or maybe sequence an iOS synth with your Elektron by just plugging it into the USB port.

We used the new Analog Four MKII and Analog Rytm MKII with the black finish, but this OS works with the gray MKII versions as well as the original MKI versions.

#PerfectCircuit #Elektron #iOS"