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Unseen Forces - Aquifex collab - Rain 1 remix 040921

Aquifex03 · Unseen Forces - Aquifex collab - Rain 1 remix 040921

"My friend Unseen Forces sent me a minimal synth/drum demo, and I was inspired to chop it up and add some parts I made live on looper with the JD-Xi and its internal FX. Afterward, the loops were mixed down live to a stereo recorder.
It's live, so it isn't perfect but it was fun. The key is F#min.
This is similar to the band project 'The Postal Service', where parts were shared and collaborated remotely, but they sent stuff back and forth multiple times."

Update via SynthAddict in the comments:

"I forgot to mention, my track additions were made with the help of the wonderful TheoryBoard - I could never come up with all those chords/inversions on my own. Thanks Irijule...
Also the velocity/aftertouch works fine, contrary to many complaints - you just have to set the right velocity profile for you. You can hear the bassline filter cutoff as I change my velocity."

ID700 - Software Synth Based on the Buchla 700

via https://modo.sc/id700/

Available on the App Store here.

"In 1987 Don Buchla released the Buchla 700 synthesizer. It was the next logical step from Don's previous digital synths (the Buchla 400, Touche, Buchla 500) but was also influenced by the synth trends of the 1980's, specifically FM synthesis and the all-in-one workstation concept. As usual, Don was ahead of the curve and the 700 never took off. Very few were sold and even fewer functioning units exist today. I always loved the sound of Don's digital oscillators, and combined with the scarcity of the instrument it seemed like a fun project to recreate it in software and reintroduce its concepts to the world.

ID700 is a software synthesizer based on the voice architecture of the Buchla 700. Like many of Don's other designs, sound generation is achieved primarily via FM synthesis and waveshaping. Each voice is made up of sixteen individual modules:

four Oscillators
six Indexes
two Waves
one Morph
one Filter
one Amplifier
one Location

The Oscillators, Indexes, and Waves are configured in one of twelve preset Algorithms, all of which feed into the fixed signal paths of the Morph, Filter, Amplifier, and Location modules.

Each of the Oscillator, Index, Morph, Filter, Amplifier, and Location modules have their own dedicated complex Envelope for modulation.

The Wave modules provide wavetable synthesis using Chebyshev polynomials and include additional waveshaping functionality.

Arbitrary tunings are supported via the Scala Tuning File format.

MIDI and MPE are supported (note: not all hosts support MPE).

The iOS version supports AUv3 and IAA."

Update: demos posted here.

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Space music: Korolev's Last Rocket (For the 60th anniversary of human spaceflight)

video by Richard DeHove

"Sergei Korolev was the driving force behind most of the early Soviet successes in space from Sputnik to Vostok-1. Although his last rocket, the massive N-1 failed, Korolev's influence lives on even today in the incredible Soyuz launcher. "Korolev's Last Rocket" (Последняя ракета Королев) is a tribute to Korolev, Gagarin's Vostok-1 mission and the N-1. Release date is to mark the 60th anniversary of human spaceflight: Gagarin's Vostok-1 mission of April 12th 1961. (April 12th is also the annual International Day of Human Space Flight).

Russian ground control audio at the start of the clip is from a modern Soyuz launch; the audio at the end is radio chatter between Korolev and Gagarin. The track was written at DubDub studios and mastered by Scott Craggs at Old Colony Mastering.

The track is available as a 320K MP3 for all Patreon supporters:
https://www.patreon.com/richarddehove

My site: https://richarddehove.com/

The track is also on all the major music sites. A few direct links below:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08...
https://www.deezer.com/en/album/20693...
https://music.apple.com/us/album/koro..."

Play The Novation Peak on YouTube

video by Floyd Steinberg

Here's an interesting one. Launch the video and press any number 1 - 8 on your keyboard.

Chords tiggered: 1 - Am (00:30) 2 - F (01:00) 3 - C (01:30) 4 - G (02:00) 5 - Em (02:30) 6 - Dm (03:00) 7 - G# (03:30) 8 - F# (04:00) ORIGINAL IDEA BY PlayWithKeyboard (https://www.youtube.com/c/PlayWithKeyboard/videos)

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Ensoniq ESQ-1 Synthesizer - Part 4 - Patch Transfer Over MIDI (MIDI-OX) & Hidden Functions

video by Runningonair

"Ensoniq ESQ-1 Synthesizer - Part 4 - Patch Transfer Over MIDI (MIDI-OX) & Hidden Functions

In this video I'll be looking at transferring patch data to and from the ESQ-1 using MIDI-OX and the 7 hidden functions."

Runningonair Ensoniq ESQ-1 Synthesizer posts

Elektron Talk: 1 Pattern - 1 Song, Performance Techniques, Minimal Techno

video by EZBOT

"In this video we talk about getting the most out of 1 pattern, performance techniques, and writing minimal techno - with the Digitakt and the Octarack.

Banter 0:00
Music, tips and tricks 2:46
More Banter 10:14"

If you want more and feel inspired to support me, please visit my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/ezbot
https://www.ezbot.live/
https://soundcloud.com/ezbotmusic
https://www.modbang.com/"

Galassi - Another great combo (Korg DW8000 + MS20)

video by Sebastian Galassi

Equipment:

Korg Ms 20 - Bass Synth
Korg DW 8000 - Polysynth
Roland Juno 60 - LFO Bleep Synth
Roland JX3p - Synth Bells
Roland TR 626 (HKA Design Eprom) - Drums

Boss CH-1 Stereo Super Chorus
Lexicon LXP15 II - Reverb
TC Electronic M•One XL - Reverb
Digitech Studio 400 - Delay

VAI 51 Elka Wilgamat III / Elka Solist 505

video by Vintage Audio Institute Italia

"More Elka Wilgamat III - this time with some external help from the Schulte Compact Phasing and Roland RE-301 for rooms.
We also like to use the Roland Space Echo as a tape machine : a round on tape, wet only echo with one bounce, does magic for drum compression."

Vintage Audio Institute Italia posts

Buchla Easel Command 208C - Amazing Grace

video by TheTrackdriver

"My version of 'Amazing Grace'. All sounds are from the Buchla Easel Command 208C drenched in effects, mainly from Valhalla DSP. A few tracks were pre-recorded in Ableton Live. The complex oscillator is sequenced and controlled via MIDI channel 1 and the modulation oscillator on channel 3."