MATRIXSYNTH

Sunday, October 09, 2022

Patching in Sines

video upload by boxoftextures

"Sines, a new synthesizer from Cherry Audio. They're on a serious roll this year with new stuff! At first glance there's a billion controls and it seems like you'll never figure it out, but once you spend a few minutes with it things turn out to make a lot of sense. You have four oscillators, four LFOs, four envelope generators, and four slots in the modulation matrix. That last one may seem like an oddly small number but almost every control has its own mod routing, so in a way those four are like a few bonus extra ones.

The oscillators are, well, unique. For one, there's no waveshapes to choose from, it's all and only sine waves. Which seems odd at first! But like the mod matrix, you have a lot of controls to mess with the sines and create all kinds of different tones. It only took a few minutes of knob twiddling to see how it worked, and there's lots of possibility in the design. With all the modulation and tone shaping you can do I found that most of my early patches used only one oscillator. They just sound that rich. One of the patches in the video uses three of them, and I almost had to force myself to do that. And in fact, I'm planning on going back into that one and splitting it up, using the first two oscillators in a new patch and the third one in another.

So bottom line is that at first glance everything about Sines is just weird. Which is true! But it all makes sense and is really well designed, and the sound design possibilities are pretty deep.

As always, all patches are mine, and the end theme under the credits is two of the patches from the video over top of the drone I always use in my opening titles (which I made sometime in the distant past)."

Generative Ambient/IDM with Bitwig 4.3.9 and Spectral Suite

video upload by DATABROTH

"Hi, I finally updated Bitwig, and also picked up the Spectral Suite. Lots of new devices to play with including ricochet and note grid, also new effects I haven't had a chance to use.
I have written two articles on the add ons

Add on announcement: https://www.databroth.com/blog/bitwig...
Spectral Suite review: https://www.databroth.com/blog/bitwig...

check out my wavetables and presets at https://gumroad.com/databroth
join my Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/databroth"

SUNDAY GLITCH (Octachron + Volca Drum)

video upload by Perplex On

"Took the new version of #Octachron sequencer for a spin which added smart randomizer functions, perfect for a lazy glitchy sunday to tickle one’s ears a bit. Here sequencing the #Volcadrum.

Visuals made with #Visualsynthesizer with the spinning speed midi-mapped to the kick notes."

Casio PT-30 Oxygene part IV Cover

video upload by GlakGlikGluk

"casio pt-30 why is the sound so old fashioned ?"

Erica Synths Pico System II: Patch #10 ("the world’s smallest modular synthesizer") by Ascetic Wires

video upload by Ascetic Wires

"Patch made with Erica Synths Pico System II Modular / Eurorack Synthesizer."

Saturday, October 08, 2022

VMC - midi orientated eurorack modules with voltage control

video upload by Florian Anwander

via https://florian-anwander.de/vmc/

"The VMC-System is a series of modules for Eurorack systems, which provide MIDI handling and (analog) clock handling in a broader sense. The modules are internally connected by an additional ribbon cable, which provides powersupply, MIDI busses and an analog clock bus. Basically this bus can be combined with the Fluxus Modules by http://soundcomplete.net/ if an adapter board is used.

The modules are distributed under the brand name fanwander.

The following modules are planned:
Euro-Pal: a euro rack version of the MIDI-Pal - with kind permission of Emilie Gillet (Merci beaucoup!). Clock-Man: a master clock generator for MIDI-clock, DIN-sync and analog clock. Assumingly including a shuffle and swing function.

Break-Beat: a bar orientated start / stop / restart function. The idea is based on the Mungo-Enterprises Sync2 (I give big kudos to John Pillans!).

DIN-2-CLK: a DIN-sync to analog clock converter. This will be the "professional" followup to my DIN-Sync to analogue clock interface

All modules are available as assembled modules and as kits. Frontpanels and PCBs may be sold separately.

At the moment a first production run has started with the following modules:"

"The VMC-1 is a generic module, which combines an ARDUINO NANO with a display, five buttons, three digital-inputs and two control voltage inputs with amount control.
This module may run various software.

At the moment (12/2021) I offer only the SQ-3P sequencer, but other programs like chord-trigger, voltage controlled MIDI-converts, or similar will follow soon.

You need at least one of the Input/Output modules listed below to connect the VMC-1 to youre MIDI-environment. For details see the VMC-1 users manual

Width: 18HP
Depth: 40mm

Powerconsumption:
if powered with +12V ~300mA, if powered from +5V ~250mA, less if used without LED backlight

The modules are distributed under the brand name fanwander."

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Dark ditty with CZ-1000, Juno-60, Brigitta, DR-220A

video upload by SynthMania

"I was listening to some old four-track cassette tapes of me from the '80s, and there was a dark tune I did with CZ-1000 and DR-220A (my first synth and first drum machine) in 1987. I reprised it here, plus added a bit of Juno-60 synth lines, and left hand real time sequenced bass from Synthesizers.com Studio-88 (Brigitta). Reverb: MXR 01, an early digital rack unit from the early '80s."