Building Pocket Operator Modular 400

video upload by Jarkko Tuohimaa

"Building process of Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator Modular 400. Sound in the video are first sequences I patched with Pocket Operator Modular 400."

Herb Deutsch Has Passed Away

video upload by Moog Music Inc



Herb Deutsch passed away yesterday. He was born on Feb 9th, 1932, making him 90 at the time of his passing. If you come to this site you know who he is. You can find pages of posts featuring him here. He was constantly active in the synth community, from it's birth as the co-inventor of the Moog Synthesizer with Bob Moog, to this day. I thought I would share the recent GIANTS video featuring him above from February this year.

When the greats pass away, I like to capture images and bios at the time of their passing. To the left is Herb Deutsch's current Facebook profile image. Directly below that is the last update of his posted on December 7. Below that is an image from the Wikipia page for him with the text that immediately follows. Finally, below that are some images of him from the early days from Moog Music's Herb Deutsch Looks Back on the Early Days of Electronic Music tribute.

He and Morton Subotnick likely had the greatest influences on the design of synthesisers as we know them. Herb brought us the tonal influence via the keyboard as the direct interface for a synthsizer and Subotnick brought us atonal sound exploration akin to tape manipulation.

via Wikipedia

"Herbert A. Deutsch (February, 1932 - 9 December 2022[1]) was an American composer, inventor, and educator. Currently professor emeritus of electronic music and composition at Hofstra University, he is best known for co-inventing the Moog Synthesizer with Bob Moog in 1964.

Deutsch died on 9 December 2022.[2]

Herbert A. Deutsch (February, 1932 - 9 December 2022[1]) was an American composer, inventor, and educator. Currently professor emeritus of electronic music and composition at Hofstra University, he is best known for co-inventing the Moog Synthesizer with Bob Moog in 1964.

Early life and education
Deutsch was born in 1932 in Baldwin, Nassau County, New York. At the age of four, he first realized he had a musical gift. Through his childhood, he studied music and began composing at a young age. Deutsch attended the Manhattan School of Music, earning his B.A. and M.A. there.

Work with Moog
Deutsch had assembled a theremin based on Moog's design in 1962 and in November, 1963 he introduced himself to Moog at a music-education conference in Rochester, NY.[3] In 1964 Moog and Deutsch started investigating the possibilities of a new instrument to aid composers.[4] Deutsch has been credited with the keyboard interface of the Moog.[4] He composed the first piece ever for the Moog ("Jazz Images - A Worksong and Blues"[3]) and performed early Moog concerts at The Town Hall and The Museum of Modern Art in New York (1969's Jazz in the Garden [5]).[6] The prototype Moog synthesizer, developed by Bob Moog and Herbert Deutsch in 1964, is part of the collections of The Henry Ford museum.[7]

Career
Deutsch was a dedicated educator. In the early 1970s he taught at St. Agnes High School in Rockville Centre, New York. He has taught at Hofstra University for over 50 years and was twice the chair of the music department. Deutsch co-founded the Long Island Composers Alliance in 1972, and worked with music foundation NYSSMA. In 1994 he proposed its Electronic Music Composition Showcase.[8]

via Moog Music's article Herb Deutsch Looks Back on the Early Days of Electronic Music

"On October 12, 1964, Bob Moog unveiled the first modular voltage-controlled synthesizer, an instrument that forever changed the course of modern music.

It began quietly, in 1964, when Bob Moog designed a new electronic instrument to composer Herb Deutsch's request. Herb wanted something to create complex and experimental sounds, tones not easily found from other instruments or with studio trickery. What Bob designed was not wholly new, it sprung from a powerful new combination of existing ideas. The concepts, when combined with some elegant design choices, made a very powerful and revolutionary new system. The new ideas found in the Moog synthesizer took several years to catch on, and it is likely even the first users had little idea what range the new instrument could truly offer."

4ms Shaped Dual EnvVCA, Dual EnvVCA & EnvVCA Demo

video upload by 4ms Company

"Featuring the Shaped Dual EnvVCA, Rick Batyr runs all of the EnvVCA units, along with our other new modules through the paces.
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Shaped Dual EnVCA
https://4mscompany.com/shapedenv

The Shaped Dual EnvVCA is a two-channel analog envelope generator with variable waveshaping and a stereo linear VCA. Unlike conventional analog envelope modules, the waveform of each envelope can be controlled with a slider or CV without changing the envelope timing. With a wide time range from an hour to 2.5kHz, and a plethora of CV inputs and attenuverters, it can be used as an LFO, audio-rate oscillator, slew limiter, waveshaper, ASR/ADSR/complex EG, independent audio/CV VCA, envelope follower, sidechain processor, and general utility module. Each channel has dedicated linear outputs plus attenuverters and offset controls for the variable waveshape outputs, making it an ideal modulation source and stereo VCA. 100% analog, 20HP, $339

Dual EnvVCA
https://4mscompany.com/dualenv

The Dual EnvVCA is a two-channel analog linear envelope generator with two fully independent low-noise exponential VCAs. With time ranges from 30 minutes to 8kHz, it can be used as an LFO, slew limiter, ASR/ADSR complex EG, audio-rate oscillator, stereo audio/CV VCA, envelope follower, sidechain processor, and general utility module. The outputs can be attenuated, inverted, and offset without disrupting the VCA, making it a versatile modulation source. 100% analog, 16HP, $225

EnvVCA
https://4mscompany.com/envvca

The EnvVCA is compact analog envelope generator with a built-in low-noise exponential VCA. It’s a perfect companion to any VCO, whether you trigger it or self-cycle, and/or use the envelope output to modulate something else. With a wide time range from 30 minutes to 10kHz, it can be used as an LFO, slew limiter, audio or CV VCA, ASR/ADSR envelope generator, audio-rate oscillator, and more. 100% analog, 8HP, $159
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Audio Housing Launches New Tablet Extension for the Auxiliary 16 Music Side Unit

You might remember the 196hp Eurorack Extension for Compact One Music Desk by Audio Housing. The also make what they call the Auxiliary 16 Music Side Unit pictured here. They added a side unit.

Details via Audio Housing:

The Audio Housing Auxiliary 16 music side unit has become even more versatile thanks to a new and highly flexible tablet extension. Perfect for combining and mixing your favourite rack-mount sound processors with your desktop synthesizers or drum machines, the new optional tablet measures 52 cm wide by 24 cm deep, is reversible, features a cable hole and can be mounted in many different positions thanks to four M6 flat head rack screws."

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stille #4 | minimal ambient | mellotron m4000d | soma cosmos

video upload by Elinch

"recorded live with cubasis
for the best listening experience listen to the video with headphones or good speakers.

if you want to support me:
https://elinch.bandcamp.com

#synthesizer #modular #ambientmusic"

Analogue Synthesizers: Roland System 100, Moog DFAM, Dubreq Stylophone Gen R-8, KORG SQ-1

video upload by Tanoi

"Just noodling - Roland System 100, Moog DFAM, Dubreq Stylophone Gen r-8, Korg SQ-1
Korg SQ-1 modulates the filter of the Roland System 100 / 102"

Remote to Both

video upload by Todd Barton

"A fun little trick with the Buchla Program Manager Card for the Easel."

Wogglebug Wind and Noise Demo

video upload by Lower West Side Studio

"Here the Wiard Wogglebug, built in MU format by Lower West Side Studio, is being used to modulate wind and rain sounds generated by 2 noise sources and filtered by 2 separate voltage controlled filters.

Modules used in this patch include;
Wiard Wogglebug
Yusynth Sample & Hold
LWSS M401 Multimode Filter / Resonator
Synthesizers.com Q110
Yusynth ARP VCF
Oakley VC-ADSR/VCA
Yusynth Quad LFO
CGS114 Dual Universal Slope Generator
Yusynth VC Panning Mixer

For more information visit http://lowerwestsidestudio.com"

KORG Modwave Native & All LFO.Store Presets!

video upload by LFOstore

"Dear customers!

We glad to announce that all our Modwave soundsets are successfully tested and working with Modwave VST plugin!

Plugin sounds massive and wide and strongly recommend.

Enjoy!

Buy: https://lfo.store/product-category/ha..."

PG-2K Patch Generator - Pulsate Bass Category

video upload by Retroaktiv Synthesizers

"This video demonstrates they types of sounds generated by the PG-2K Patch Generator's 'Pulsate Bass' Algorithm."