"8 outputs! For sequencing and routing etc. MIDI in/out/thru. Card slot for memory and storage. I can also email you several banks of sounds in SYSEX format; there are several librarians for MAC and PC you can use for archiving and changing banks or single sounds if you wish."
"Messing with the 904C filter coupler I built a while back. The echo is courtesy of a Boss RPS-10 pitch shifter/delay. There is a (Hammond organ) reverb tank built into the Model 15 with a 905 circuit and it's turned up full - but as the decay time is so short you can't really hear it, it's just colouring the sound slightly...."
"This is a tutorials series for anyone who wants to learn how to use the Soma Labs Enner body patching synthesizer electronic instrument. If I get a response to this series, I will try to break things down into small videos that are easy to mentally digest and apply to your own electronic music. We will be exploring both east coast tonal and west coast avant-garde uses of the synthesizer. The Enner is especially good at ambience, noise, and soundscapes for film music.
This second video will go into detail about the output section of the synth and show you some of what's possible to do only using your fingers. Please leave a comment with any questions or requests and a like if this was helpful."
"Here is a jam with two Monos, showcasing our last firmware update.
The Mono on the top is playing electroish bassline. The second one is playing drums and fx synths.
New features used :
0:18 - Master volume control
0:35 - Mod Note Mutes
2:24 - Play Styles
3:25 - Unmute all
4:05 - Step Mutes"
"Wanted to demo some more grounded ways of using this wonderfully deep feature, hope it gets you thinking differently about the tools at your fingertips."
"Decided I would break the camera out and bring you along for my first sit down with this keyboard, the DSI Mopho.
You'll probably see it as a recurring theme in what I choose to share, I want to do my best to find and share gear that is either under-appreciated, or wrongfully out of people's discourse and recommendations.
Essentially every positive thing people say about the bass station 2 can be said about the mopho keyboard, and the prices aren't dissimilar, yet, it's almost never brought up.
If you have one, stick around and you'll see some more coverage.
If you're looking for a new mono synth, maybe keep it in mind as you browse Reverb.
Thanks for watching, always more to come."
Mopho Keyboard v Bass Station 2 // The Value of Intuitive Design
"Frankly, if this was a less busy week I would've reshot this.
This topic is something I would like to explore more, but only with examples that I would consider to be close. What's the value in comparing a matrix programming synth to one with knobs over and over, right? I want a fair fight, how about that."
Why I'm Selling my Sub 37 // Long Term Impressions and Complaints video upload by Jorb
"Hope to do a few more of these, had sold a few things since I started working on this whole YouTube thing and always felt like I was missing an opportunity any time I sold something without getting my thoughts out there. Like I started a conversation in my head, but never shared it.
So, here we have the beginning of a new series. Whenever I have a piece of gear getting sold, I'll just sit down and get my thoughts out there.
I realize its kind of boring to conclude with "its expensive", even in part, but it would be unrealistic for me or most people to ignore that factor.
And on reflecting on my mod matrix complaints, I felt like I was being to harsh on a keyboard from 2014, so I made sure other stuff available at that point had comprehensive mod matrices and they do, so I think it stands.
Considering doing a little patch pack for the Sub 37 before I let it go, and I've been pondering a blindfolded, " Does 'the Moog sound' actually mean anything " video, I'll have to count my pennies and do that before I let the mf'er go."
"Microfreak Oscillators // Visually Explored and Explained // Part 1
0:00 Intro
1:36 | Oscilloscope Intro
X axis is time, y axis is amplitude. The more vertical a change is, the more harmonic content you'll hear. Think about that difference you hear between harmonically rich saws & squares, as opposed to the even low end & strong fundamentals of a sine or triangle.
4:59 | Basic Waves - Does what it says on the box, one oscillator & a sub
MORPH will blend between wave types ; Square, saw, and a double saw
PULSE will change your pulse width, or change the relative position of the 2 saw waves(this will change volume of relative harmonics.)
SUB controls the volume of a sine wave one octave below your normal oscillator.
*Apologies for the lower volume
8:45 | Super Wave - Several duplicates of your original wave shape, all mixed
WAVE switches (doesn't blend) between Saw, Square, Triangle, and Sine waves
DETUNE increases the amount of pitch variation between all the oscillators
VOLUME increases the volume of your duplicate / higher frequency oscillators
*My example of relative pitches interacting gets a little muddied with the actual behavior of the detune in this algorithm. I merely mean to highlight how interacting pitches look and sound, and how that can help us understand detuning.
12:55 | WaveTable - Offers different tables of multiple waves, that can be smoothly blended between
TABLE switches (not blends) between tables, which are separate collections of waves
POSITION blends (not switches) between the waves in your selected table
CHORUS introduces a vibrato'ed copy of your original signal.
22:40 | Harmonic - Allows you to blend in higher order harmonics, and shift the bias of those harmonics higher or lower.
CONTENT lets you decide which harmonics are going to be controlled by sculpt. The higher you turn the parameter, the more upper harmonics and fewer lower harmonics will be present in your final output
SCULPT will increase the volume of your chosen harmonics
CHORUS introduces a vibrato'ed copy of your original signal.
26:51 | Karplus Strong - Simulates the physical interaction of a resonator (drum head, string of a guitar or violin etc) and an exciter (pick, finger, mallet, etc) holy shit
BOW constantly excites the resonator. This is complex. Introduces more distinct frequencies, has their volumes increase and decrease relative to eachother and change, and eventually will lead to overdrive.
POSITION simulates the position of your exciter, close to the edge of the drum head, or nearer to the bridge of your 'guitar'. Introduces more high frequency content
DECAY will increase the decay of the sound, not just an amp of filter change over time, the waves / harmonics decay as part of the algorithm
34:34 | Virtual Analog - 2 virtual Oscillators, implemented in an interesting way
DETUNE (on the WAVE KNOB) changes the pitch of your first oscillator, range is a few octaves up from your keypress
SHAPE (on the TIMBRE KNOB) intrudeces, and changes the shape of your second oscillator, low pulse through squares, through weird high frequency sync stuff
WAVE (on the SHAPE KNOB) blends your first oscillator between saw square and pulsewidth.
*The manual is honestly hilariously bad at explaining this, and is less of a standard VA than basic waves, for example. Should be named differently and explained better.
40:34 | Wave Shaper, complex waves available by means of wave folding and variable asymmetry.
WAVE bends between a "popov wave"(real name?) through a sine, into what I called a super sine, but might be better described as an already-folded sine wave.
FOLD AMOUNT introduces wave folding. Think of this as a complex overdrive, in that the harmonic changes happen when your wave moves beyond a specified 'headroom' but instead of clipping, the portion of the wave beyond the threshold comes back down over the top of your wave, subtracting that portion of its shape (The scope is great for helping to explain this) the folded portion of a wave can even reach the bottom of its headroom, and be folded upwards again. This is more dramatic with lower pitches, and is something I might revisit in a part two.
ASYMETRY will shift your wave to one side, sine eventually becomes a sawtooth
I found the oscilloscope to be invaluable while working through the oscillator types, and more than worthy of sharing.
Microfreak has really impressed me, and I haven't even spent much time with it yet.
If there's anything else you want to see in a format like this, I'd love suggestions.
I've had this little fantasy where I have a hardware oscilloscope and hardware spectrum analyzer on screen in every video...we'll see if its worth it!
Wish the microfreak's screen was in focus, but my eyes are too bad to notice on the camera display. I'll work on it!"
"I really do love this sucker, want to hang it on my wall. **Yamaha did a lot of CARDS based on FM, and a good share of Modules based on samples, like the MU I show on screen. My caption correcting that was lost by upload, and I do not want to reupload the whole video.
0:00 Intro / The Sound Canvas Line 3:03 General Midi Introduction 5:45 Horrible Sub Pitch, you can skip it if you sub 6:41 The SK-88 Pro In Detail 16:05 SK-88 Instrument Examples 23:34 Drum Kits? 25:30 Layer Too Many Sounds 26:40 MultiTimbre Jam (its fine) 29:05 Price / Alternatives"
