04-The Baldwin Fun Machine- ASR presets

video upload by AutomaticGainsay

"Here is a demonstration of the sound and functionality of the ASR presets found on the Baldwin Fun Machine."

AutomaticGainsay Baldwin Fun Machine posts

Taetro: In Sequence - That's An Unlock // Novation

video upload by NovationTV

"In this Artist: In Sequence episode, we caught up with Taetro, a producer/content creator living in Los Angeles, CA.

Taetro ran us through his thought process on making music, and how studio gear and the music community offer inspiration. Looking at the Launchkey range, he also shared some of his favourite features of the range and why it's a staple tool in his studio.

--- Discover Launchkey:
http://bit.ly/LaunchkeyMK3"

Novation Artist: In Sequence posts

No Pop No Fun by Chinaski

https://chinaski-sfx.bandcamp.com/album/no-pop-no-fun

"Preview the album here.

For an understanding of the past, you have to look to the future – or was it the other way round? No matter how you want to put it, some things are an aesthetic choice, and the meaning of style does not necessarily go hand in hand with the latest fashion fad or an incurable retromania. Chinaski’s debut (album under that name) on Running Back seems predestined to resume these discussions. Drenched in sepia colors and faded VHS tapes memories, fed by a science-fiction that never became a fact, essentially made with the ultramodern instruments of yesteryear (see back cover for further reference) that became redundant through their own relatives and a need to ensure efficiency (time, space, money), it’s either concept art, an ode to Disco Piu, a post card from the early days of Frankfurt’s Dorian Gray or the search and itch for a time machine.

All of the debate above is rendered useless by the title though: No Pop, No Fun! And those are the main musical reference points here: instrumental pop that you can dance to, pastel melodies that stick with you and fun frequencies. Downtempo ballads for video game characters in love meet cabriolet anthems and... more
credits
released February 25, 2022

Written, produced and mixed by Stefan Haag at Heaven and Hell Studios.
Track 1 - 6 additional mixing by Julian Naaf.
℗ +© 2022 Running Back"

Building a Fairlight CMI: Episode 9

video upload by Syntaur

"Cris Blyth is a brave man. He has a dream of taking a Fairlight MFX and upgrading it to a Fairlight CMI Series III. In this episode, Cris goes through the process of testing the digital voice cards, getting characters to work on the MFX, basic repairs, and getting cards unstuck!"

Building a Fairlight CMI episodes

Turning the dial on some alien shore

video upload by junklight

"An ambient improvisation full of chittering rhythms

featuring a couple of new toys - ditto looper (not seen in the video - I'm actually using as a foot pedal!), Manifold Research Tetragrid and a Percall - which frees up a lot of modules & wires since the whole percussion envelope/vca setup is something I use a lot"

Live annotated performance: Buchla 208c Easel Command avant-garde synthesizer electronic music

video upload by EthanJamesMusic

"I am using the Buchla 208c music Easel Command along with the Make Noise 0-ctrl as a stand in for the 218 touch controller and wanted to explore how to use a patch that my 3 year old son put together. I am using annotations to try to teach some of my thought process when I'm making these improvisations. This is entirely live and unrehearsed. The goal of this piece of electronic music was to find musical ways to use the combination of the Pulsar to pitch with the Envelope Generator to Timbre in the complex oscillator. I was able to pull off his favorite sounds: Ambulance and Truck Motor. The combination of the two modulations allows me to create some interesting rhythmic concepts. This is a relatively simple patch and doesn't need many connections to get something that can sound extremely complex. I am using the west coast technique of starting with something and spinning it out like a centrifuge. I'm processing the sound through a few eurorack modules that I will detail below. Hopefully this camera angle also helps you learn something!

Patch Notes:
Buchla 208c Easel Command audio to 4ms Tapographic Delay to Make Noise X-pan controlled by Intellijel Quadrax and Tangle Quartet. Audio from Eurorack output to Boss RC-5 loop pedal and Eventide H9 reverb.
Live patching: in annotations"

Zen & the Art of Synthesizer Maintenance - Tracking Early Korg Serial Numbers

Supporting member Electropict wrote in to let us know about their website Zen & the Art of Synthesizer Maintenance, and specifically an interesting project they took up during the lockdown.

"Whilst under pandemic lockdown last year, I started compiling information on early Korg serial numbers, which has gradually turned into a group of pages with about two thousand of them, of which about eighteen hundred have Matrixsynth references. (I think my curiosity got the better of me.)

There are, at last count, forty-four potential corrections, some of which are very interesting imho, and many of which are only obvious once you've understood the early Korg systems. (Hopefully these pages will be a useful reference in future, for anyone interested.)

The main page of all early Korg serials Iʼve found, which I'm updating about once a week: https://zasm.earth/korg-serials

The original idea, considering MS-20s in more detail, in its own page: https://zasm.earth/korg-ms20-serials-characteristics

And a page about one of the more interesting corrections - two MS-20s with the same serial number. https://zasm.earth/twynthesisers"

Be sure to see the rest of Zen & the Art of Synthesizer Maintenance for additional synth resources while there.

Nanobox Lemondrop - "Tesseract" 40 Presets

video upload by LFOstore

"Lfo.store presents 'Tesseract' the first bank for Nanobox Lemondrop.

Buy: https://lfostore.sellfy.store/p/nanob...

We are starting a new series of banks dedicated to synthesizers Nanobox by 1010music.

Nanobox Lemondrop is an incredible synthesizer with amazing features and sound.

The first bank for Nanobox Lemondrop is dedicated to motion pads and deep textures.

40 amazing presets are waiting for you and ready to fill your compositions with new colors and inspire creativity.

Cinematic, Electronic, Ambient, create new music worlds with Nanobox Lemondrop and 'Tesseract'

Every patch of our soundset is musical & can be immediately used in your tracks & production.

Enjoy and may the music come with you!"

Roland JX-08 & Behringer RD-9 - DuB TeChNo - Clone Wars - Synthesizer Demo ft. Dancing Stormtroopers

video upload by Wine&Synths

"Here is a synth demo in a dub techno style made with the Roland JX-08. It's accompanied by the Behringer RD-9. A clone of the legendary TR-909."

Bad Gear - Akai S2000

video upload by AudioPilz

"Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world's most hated audio tools. Today we are going to talk about the Akai S2000 Stereo Sampler. Is there still some use for this 90s sampling workhorse or has it been surpassed by newer plugins and grooveboxes? Is it really that boring?

Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune
01:10 Overview
04:59 Hate
05:26 Jam 1
06:24 Jam 2
07:22 Finale
07:53 Verdict
8:56 Patreon "Vocoder" Shoutout (more like vocal mangling shoutout;)"

AudioPilz Bad Gear posts