Building a Buchla 248 MARF with Stages, Stages, Stages and Marbles

video upload by Cinematic Laboratory

"Sorry about that title. The MARF is short for the Multiple ARbitrary Function generator, a huge Buchla design carrying the model number 248, and is part of the 200 series. It's not easy to compare it with anything, but you could see it as a 16 step 0-CTRL, a Rossum Control Forge and maybe even the 250e circular Dual Arbitrary Function generator (DARF) like Frap Tools USTA. I contacted Todd Barton (thanks so much!) to be able to study a few MARF images. The sliders made me think of Mutable Stages, and the control section reminded me of Marbles. While getting lost on the way, I finally got a patch that sounded similar: 'music that sounds like dancing butterflies'.
The recipe involves variable timing, notes, a quantizer, and a transpose. You may also need a trigger or gate when a segment runs or finishes. There's a lot to explore here, and I don't think you can find a MARF in a single eurorack solution. I tried to approximate it, but I also needed Maths to do envelopes and gate extraction. It took a while to make this video and I wasn't sure about the results until the very end. Then suddenly, it worked.

You'll need a lot of stuff to do it, but there may be smaller solutions. I'll revisit this idea when my Control Forge arrives and I'll be able to combine USTA with the CF.

This is a complex video so I hope it will make a bit of sense. It would have been better to figure all this out and then make a video. But you'd be missing the fun of exploration. There are plenty of useful examples of how 'factory' Stages can be used, but I installed the Qiemem firmware for max flexibility. In the end I only used its 'random segment' feature in this video, but it doesn't play a role in the MARF patch. You can do this with factory Stages but it still requires a chain of 2 or 3. You can use any sequencer with a clock input for this. A DFAM will also help you to cover the time/level sequence.

Installation requires playing a .WAV into the module which can be bit of a drag. I recommend using a eurorack sample player like the BitBox for a high success ratio. Using a phone, PC or pad can be a nightmare. Also, I am not sure if the firmware works on a clone, please comment if you tried it.
https://github.com/qiemem/eurorack/re...

I am still trying to wrap my head around it. Even though Stages and Marbles are now discontinued, they're easy to find as fully functional clones. With Eurorack, we have the 'power' to build our own synths, or get inspired by designs which are still amazing and modern after +50 years. I hope it inspires you too."

Fervour - Live Industrial Jungle Doom - Ableton Push 3 Standalone, Perkons HD-01, Tasty Chips GR-1

video upload by Abre Ojos

"134bpm Industrial Psychedelic Jungle Doom

Live hardware jam with Ableton Push 3 Standalone, Perkons HD-01 and Tasty Chips GR-1 Granular Synth.

Perkons & GR-1 fed into the Push with some Roar and Hybrid Reverb.

Video processed live through Resolume

Shot with GH5 MKII

Dark ambient audiovisual stuff: https://abreojos.net
Noisy layered drone techno: https://dronskot.net"

CircuitTracks J-6 / Original / Jam

video upload by cocolobeat / ココロのサケビ

Novation Circuit Tracks
Roland AIRA Compaact J-6

Melodic House
Progressive House
Techno Pop
Melodic Techno
Electronica
instrumental
Dawless
Jam

Super Jupiter: Unlocking the Best MKS80 Sounds

video upload by Andy Whitmore

"Analog Synthesizers Rewind: Top 10 Classics!
S1:Ep7 - The seventh in a series of 11 videos!

Roland MKS80 Sounds - All the Best sounds #SuperJupiter

The Super Jupiter MKS80 serial numbers are:-

Roland Super Jupiter MKS-80 613 588
Roland Super Jupiter MPG80 Programmer 511447

Note: There are two revisions of the MKS-80. The rev 4 (serial numbers up to and including 511799) features CEM3340 oscillators, Roland IR3109 filters, and CEM3360 VCAs. The rev 5 (serial number 511800 and later) featured Roland IR3R03 oscillators and IR3R05 combination filter/VCAs.

This would suggest that my MKS80 is a Rev 5 with the Roland IR3R03 oscillators and IR3R05 combination filter/VCAs.

SuperJupiter: Unlocking the Best MKS80 Sounds

Analog Synthesizers Rewind: Top 10 Classics!

• Video

00:00 Super Jupiter MKS80 Intro
00:24 SuperJupiter: Unlocking the Best MKS80 Sounds

The audio is DIRECT, 100% DRY, & IN STEREO - You are hearing the raw audio as it comes directly from the synthesizer. NO post processing (Effects, EQ, or Dynamics) whatsoever.

Watch me bring that sound back to life!🎹🕺"

Tunefish Modular Cooking with Teensy 4.0 Phazerville ~ Strymon Cloudburst

video upload by Ebotronix

"Tunefish Modular Ornament and Crime with Teensy 4.0 Phazerville
Quantermain App with Aeolian Scale
Temps Utile, µYarns,µ Braids,Veils ( V1&V2), µVeils, Kings, Minx,
Peaks, (2x)µPeaks,(4x) Shades.
Mutable Instruments, Ripples (6x), Beads (2x),
Make Noise STO (4x)
Doepfer R2m , A 156, A 174-2, A 143.9
Verbos Scan and Pan
4ms Peg
Flame Q Slider
Malekko IMX (2x)
Strymon Cloudburst (2x) Midi CC controlled by 16n Faderbank
20.04.2024
video # 2365"

Memetune studiopan

video upload by Memetune Studio

"A Lot of modular synths for you to look at (music from the Roland corner)"

You can find Memetune posts here.

Ultra Rare Synthesizer Kitchen Jam

video upload by CleverJoe Music

"Off the cuff music looping with the Siel DK700 and Arp Pro Soloist synthesizers to help stretch their legs. Both synths have been stored for awhile (the Siel for over three decades!). I'm running both synths through the delay and reverb effects in the Boss RC-505 loopstation. I also have the Siel Expander 80 which I'll explore in a future video."

Follow-up to The Rarest Synthesizer in the World?

Slowly Learning The Five12 Vector Sequencer

video upload by John L Rice

"Just some baby steps as I learn to use the Vector Sequencer and integrate it into this system. The Vector Sequencer is just playing two chords and sending them via MIDI to the genXnoise dXeus machina (8 DX7’s in an 8 hp module!) and the MIDI thru goes to the Mutable Instruments Yarns which I’m selectively using to play four SynthTech based voices ."

http://www.five12.com

MadLab Bleep-o-Tron DIY Synth! \\\ Patch Flip & Tweak ///

video upload by midierror

You might recognize the name from a 2016 incarnation posted here. See the MadLab label for additional creations.

"This phase modulation synth costs $45 !!?! Take a quick tour tweaking some patches for the excellent Bleep-o-Tron (Redux) from MadLab! This is a DIY kit you solder yourself, which has some pretty impressive features. It's a polyphonic synth with 5-Pin MIDI In, 3.5mm audio out and built in effects (Flanger, RingMod & Delay).

There is a superb editor for the synth, which not only alows you to control various elements of the synth, but also copy/paste them to different sections! The video does have audio glitches and held notes, due to the playback of multiple MIDI notes during the tweaking - these by no means affected my enjoyment, but are worth mentioning.

More info here: https://www.tindie.com/products/madla...

MadLab site: http://www.madlab.org/

The audio has light post-processing applied."

Zaturn Saw Animator

video upload by gotharman

"Funny things might happen, if you put a saw animator after a filter :)
www.gotharman.dk"