Electronic Music Production Week with Soundtoys - New Presets, Tips & Sale

Soundtoys is having a sale from July 20 - 24. See here for details.

Above is a playlist featuring their new presets and tips. Many of the demos focus on vocals but can be used on synths as well of course.

Playlist:

1. Quick Listen: The Ah-Ha Dicer Preset for Effect Rack

Introducing a hard dicing preset that turns any audio into a rhythm.

Download the preset for Soundtoys Effect Rack: https://bit.ly/3oe06pa

Watch how to Drag, Drop & Save your new preset here: https://bit.ly/3bkPO3F

2. Quick Listen: The Double Weird Preset for Effect Rack "Introducing a unique but useful preset for vocal doubling and glitch effects. Get weird.

Download the preset for Soundtoys Effect Rack: https://bit.ly/3B3Kqg9" 3. Rhythmic Modulation Basics

Take a quick tour of Rhythm Mode in FilterFreak for a better understanding of how to use rhythmic modulation in Soundtoys. Rhythm Mode is also a feature of Tremolator and PhaseMistress.

4. Quick Listen: The Four on the Floor Preset for Tremolator or Effect Rack

This preset is an easy way to add a quarter note pumping FX. Use it on anything in need of a little groove!

Download the preset for Effect Rack: https://bit.ly/3yR2Ca0
Download the preset for Tremolator: https://bit.ly/3OeCcV5

5. Quick Listen: The Devil's Advocate Preset for Little AlterBoy

This preset makes it easy to add an octave-down vocal for an edgy sound.

Download the preset for Little AlterBoy: https://bit.ly/3PjjcpT

6. Vocal "Hype FX" with Little AlterBoy

Learn how to use pitch-shifting to change inflection or add excitement to a vocal. SHOW LESS

Covering @ChakaKhan with a Novation BassStation II

❝Do you like synths? Should I play more? Let me know in the comments!!♥️@ChakaKhan - Best in the West❞

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— Novation (@WeAreNovation) July 20, 2022

Also see A little jam on Sequential Circuits Prophet 6 Synthesizer

Novation Summit Synth jamming with Electron Calgary @ Kaffeeklatsch

video upload by PinPoin7 Music

"An excellent synthesizer jamming session with the boys at Electron: Calgary synthesizer nerd hang out party club. (with beer). The Novation Summit is just too fun to play around with. Still one of my favourite hardware synths."

And a couple patches from PinPoin7:

Patch From Scratch 02 - Novation Summit - Analog Style Pads


Patch From Scratch 01 - Novation Summit - Chiming Arp

Glo Phase - 123 BPM live house set w/ Elektron Analog Rytm, Roland SP-404 MKII, Bass Station 2

video upload by Glo Phase

"123 BPM Live electronics with the Elektron Analog Rytm, Roland SP-404 MKII, Novation Bass Station 2, MXR Carbon Copy, and the ZED-6FX."

https://glophase.bandcamp.com/

Sounds of the XPO

video upload by MAKEN0ISE

"Time stamps:
0:00 Intro and Title
0:20 Stereo Wavefolding
1:46 Stereo Vari-Timbre
3:10 Stereo Pulse Width Modulated Bassline
4:15 Stereo Frequency Modulation

Same Patch on Three Outputs:
4:43 1. Wavefolded
5:02 2. Vari-Timbre
5:22 3. Pulse Width Modulation

5:40 Low-pass filtered Wavefolded output, High-pass filtered PWM output
6:58 Vari-Timbre through Low Pass Gates
8:26 Stereo PWM
8:55 Mono PWM
9:46 FM Index Modulation
10:32 Vari-Timbre and Spike

Patchin’ with the Make Noise Crew
11:14 Patchin’ with Meg
11:43 Patchin’ with Sam
12:38 Patchin’ with Spenser
13:37 Patchin’ with Newt
13:58 Patchin’ with Jake

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A Timeline History of Korg Polysynths | Gear Through The Years

video upload by Reverb

"Korg has released a wide variety of innovative, iconic synthesizers and other keyboards that span nearly the entire history of electronic music-making. In this video, we're focusing solely on Korg's original polysynths—removing recent reissues—of which there are many highlights."

Glitch Craziness from Mutable Instruments Plaits!

video upload by Piotr Garbaczonek

"Thanks for watching!
This patch was insanely fun to play with. Almost all the glitchiness is coming from the Mutable Instruments Plaits, which is being rhythmically supported by the Mutable instruments Elements. Full detailed patch notes are available on my Patreon!

Here are some links of mine:
https://linktr.ee/pgarbaczonek
Go follow my Patreon here:
https://www.patreon.com/pgarbaczonek?..."

The Sound of Kenny G Songbird with Oberheim OB-Xa, Emulator II, Rhodes

video upload by RetroSound

"(c)2007-22 by RetroSound
supported by UVI: http://bit.ly/retrosound-uvi

❤️ Support #RetroSound​ channel: retrosound.creator-spring.com

One of my favorite songs from the mid 80s. So moody.
Kenny G - Songbird from the year 1986
Produced by Preston Glass


I used here the Oberheim OB-Xa for all synth pads and string parts like in the original song. And I used the Yamaha Reface CP for the Rhodes sound and the arpeggio. The soprane sax is made with the Emulator II sampler. Sure not so dynamic like a real sax.

RetroSound synthesizer demo videos since january 2007.
Everything is free. If you like my work, you can also support me with the purchase of my merchandise (shirts, bags, mugs, stickers) Thank you!"

From nothing to musique concrète with Isla Instruments S2400

video upload by MrMakingsound

Description française ci-dessous.

"Look mum, no sequencer !

Isla Instruments S2400 is a modern sampler inspired by E-MU SP-1200.
Yes, you can create vintage, lofi and dirty Hiphop/House/Techno with it, but you can also compose modern stuff with neat sound quality. Before the review (i'm still working on it), i wanted to show how to perform a musique concrète-ish track without using the sequencer. Nothing is written before, all the sounds are performed live with pads, faders and filters.

S2400 only, with une pincée de OTO Machine BAM at the end, because there is no reverb in the actual firmware. But i hope it will change (This is a message for Brad and Vlad ^_^).

How it works :

Instead of using discrete and short sounds on each track, i like to use very long recording as a library of sounds, textures and ambiances. With the faders help, i can change playhead position, volume and pitch for each track. Pads are used to trigger and re-trigger sounds, filters to make room for frequencies.

As files bigger than 64MB can't be loaded in the S2400 editor, changing playhead position needs to be done blind, but that's part of the fun. You never know what you will trigger next, you need to improvise, and each performance is unique."

French:

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[Synth Exploration] LL Electronics Rozzbox One V2 (no talk)

video upload by MrMakingsound

"The Rozzbox One V2 is a poly synth created by Kilian Leonhardt (LL Electronics).
Released in 2008, only a few were made, and one year later, Kilian stopped the production to get back to his studies.

Ahead of its time, between digital and analog, this synth is perfect for making drones and pads.

No FX, only Rozzbox.

Not your typical poly synth :
- 5x voices polyphonic synthesizer
- 4x digital oscillators with 20 waveforms
- Digital and analog filters on each voice + one tube filter.
- FM mode with 7 algorithms
- Ring modulator
- Audio input
- 4 completely independent sequencer lines per voice, each with its own running mode and synchronization settings
- Complex 4-point modulation matrix with 16 sources and 16 destinations
- Complex trigger matrix with unlimited connection count, for interconnection of LFOs, sequencers, envelope triggers, MIDI clock,
- The switchable “Hacker” adds artificial analog aliasing (tunable)
- Bit reduction / Sample rate reduction
- Full MIDI control of every parameter

Includes 3 self-resonant Filter-Types:
- Digital high pass/low pass filter with resonance and 24dB/octave (4 filter poles)
- Analog low pass ladder filter with resonance and 24dB/octave (4 filter poles)
- Completely tube-driven analog low pass filter with resonance and 12B/octave (2 filter poles)"