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I decided to compile the noisy jams I made in my demo video of the Bastl Bestie, for people who just want to hear things going through it, with no talking.
"Finally got my hands in one of these, bought used from a fellow synth-head in Italy. You will hear me going through some factory presets, with some Microcosm and Nightsky for FX, although it gets a bit too messy at some point, you can have an idea of how nice it is.
I had to reduce the bend interval from 1 semi-tone to 1/2 semi-tone, otherwise it sounds more like a player making too many mistakes, rather than adding expressivity."
"Another little demo showing the new features coming with Nano 1.2.0 update - the virtual analog synth engine we built that’s included in the KORG drumlogue"
"Drawing from the earliest days of polyphonic synthesizers, Sound Bank ‘79 for Softube Model 80 finds its inspiration in synthesizer music found in documentaries and library music from the late 70’s and early 80’s.
A bank comprising 30 patches for instant inspiration. The goal was to squeeze as much vintage analog juice out of this plug-in as possible, primarily working within the constraints of the original Sequential Circuits Prophet-5. Part of the magic of the Prophet-5 design was it's clear workflow, enabling you to get a wide array of sounds quickly. I'm happy to say that Softube have stayed faithful to this simplicity that has helped this instrument to endure all these years.
Sound Bank '79 is a series of vintage tones for different synths and plug-ins, so look out for future releases. Recorded completely dry with no external effects or processing.
"So I was trying to check if I could port BRAIDS to the PI PICO. It took me near 3 months of studing and tweaking and adapt the code and finally I got it running
PICO is like 6 times more capable than the original stm32f103 of braids so it left me with a ton of power to experiement and tweak. The first logical step was to replace the 7 segments screen with a 128x64 pixels OLED screen.
Then I added a generative sequencer. And a second envelope. And an LFO. BOOM, it starts to look like a generative drum machine. I fucking love generative drum machines and most of my projects ends looking like one, but they all came from a totally different perspective, sounds totally different and has a unique archhitecture tailored to that system
Currently this one has parameter locks, per step saving and I will be adding probability probabily too :D
Another branch of the project would be to add MIDI (currently working on it) and turn it into a polysynth. Kind of Microfreak, but with the braids oscillators. But that one if ever, will be quite in the future yet.
The Drum machine, is near ready to lauch, and maybe ready to appear as build units, kits and PCBs in my Tindie and Etsy stores, as always
"Making a couple beats on a Roland TR-707. I used this drum machine a lot before getting the MPC X but it doesn't see much use these days. I still use 707 samples pretty often though especially the snare."
