"'Absence' is the 8th release this year from MATTHS as part of his 2021 project that sees me release one track a month. Here he gets deep with a dark ambient production that plows through swashes of reverb and distortion that is a single take, unedited, performed and produced by MATTHS all at the same time using his bespoke modular setup.
'Absence' is available now over exclusively at Bandcamp before it hits streaming platforms sometime later in the year. Subscribers over at Bandcamp get a second exclusive version of this track too!
"The PPG Waveterm A is the heart of the PPG System from the year 1982.
The Waveterm based on an old german computer called Eltec Eurocom II with Motorola 6809 processor.
- creation of Waves and Wavetables - fourier analysis / resonator - additive synthesis - 8 bit Sampling for the WAVE 2.2 - sequencer / event generator - storage of sounds on 8" disc"
"Massively fun and tweakable synth so many live switching and routing options it demands to be played...
This synth is a classic... a lesser known classic... the closest thing i can compare it to is the MS20
but it is a very different beast than the MS (it doesn't squeal) in the right hands its a beast...
Duophonic it has CV and GATE (Hz/v s-trig) for each oscillator... then you get 2 of everything with interesting rerouting options...
external in... opens up more possible fun... I lost hours testing this thing... its hard not to get something intersting out of this thing!
Please note this is Hz/v s-trig CV control... I tested it with an Arturia beatstep pro (arturia is good for Hz/v)
Tested CV and GATE ins and both working fine and seperately together!!! 2 lines 2 filters 2 envelopes
I perfer to use just gate triggers and play the keyboard live because the live controls are a breeze!"
"Just a live tweaking with a split sound i made with my Waldorf Quantum. The performance was directly recorded in Ableton Live 11, without any external FX and post processing."
"Norand is a new French synthesizer manufacturer. Mono is their debut synth that I've been commissioned to do a sound library for. In the process of doing so, I put together a demo song wherein every sound is sequenced and generated on the Mono entirely. Every single sequence and sound, including drums was made on the Mono (yes the chords too). Pretty impressive stuff for a "compact" 303 inspired synth ...
And while it may appear to be inspired by the 303 it's actually an amalgamation of "things". Working on this synth, took me back the the 90s, when I read Future Music magazine. During that 303 clone craze time, the king was the Future Retro 777, and in many regards the Mono brings up a bit of a design vibe from that. While the 777 was, to my ears a cross between a Sequential Pro One and 303 there is something about it that the Mono spiritually continues. Similarly, the Mono does have all the provisions that a 303 has (especially on the sequencer front) but then it updates it with pretty much all the modern facilities an Elektron box would have.
The Mono is a kind of 21st century bridge between the best of the past and the best of the now. The sound of the actual machine is much more vintage in character than most modern synths but the way you play and manipulate and sequence that sound is firmly 21st century with the vibe and some charming idiosyncrasies of the 303 sequencer. Don't sleep on this one, it's an absolute winner.
Multi-tracked and mixed entirely on an AMS Neve 8424 console with some fx processing (light reverb and delay) from a Lexicon 480l. Filmed and produced at Infinite Power Studios, Los Angeles, CA."
"Out Soon... I love u-he's Synths, they're some of the best Software Synthesizers out there. While I usually deal with Hardware, I have made patches for u-he DIVA and others, so I decided to make a 100 Patches for Repro 5.
It contains a wide range of Sounds from Pads & Strings, Bass & Lead, Poly & a few Famous Sounds. Many of them utilize the additional functionality in the Mod Matrix for more diverse sounds.
