Patches on the Fly // Classic Pads on Modern Synths

video upload by Starsky Carr

"Making some classic pad sounds using the basic techniques needed to start crafting your own. There's a million different tones but only a few knobs to tweak to get there. Understanding how they're made will help you place them better in your productions. Great for 90s house or pure 80s synthwave!!

Doing it on the 3rd Wave in this, but most synths and soft synths can do pretty much everything in here, except maybe 3 oscillator tones."

0:00 Preamble - Classic Pads on the 3rd Wave
1:16 Simple as it Gets - Jupiter 4, Juno 6 60 106, Polysix
7:31 2 Oscillators - Prophet5, Oberheim OB, Jupiter 8, Jupiter 6
12:40 3 Oscillators - let's get more movement in there
16:27 Supersaws - AMAZING for pads!

Bad Gear - Almost as GOOD as REBIRTH

video upload by AudioPilz

"Bad Gear - MC 707

Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world’s most-hated audio tools. Roland instruments are the pinnacle of music technology: tones so awesome that they are still force-fed to music enjoyers decades after their creation, timeless design and a history of pushing forward innovation exactly where it’s needed while preserving their great heritage.

Today we are going to talk about MC-707. This OG groovebox for the 2020s comes with the third-best display to ever grace a Roland machine, their second-best modern take on the classic sounds and THE best method to sell more cloud subscriptions."

video guide to the zeptocore

video upload by infinitedigits

full guide at zeptocore.com

00:05 about the machine
01:08 stop/start
01:20 mute/unmute
01:32 volume, tempo, pitch
02:49 jump / mash / bass modes
03:23 jump mode, retriggering, looping
04:31 toggling effects
04:57 mash mode
05:17 bass mode
05:36 changing banks and samples
06:39 chaos parameters
07:31 play modes (continuous, one-shot, locking, tempo matching)
10:22 making sequences
12:44 chaining sequences
13:24 lets talk about effects
13:54 fx: saturation
14:16 fx: loss
14:23 fx: distortion
14:43 fx: bit crusher
14:57 fx: timestretch
15:04 fx: delay
15:29 fx: stereo comb
15:34 fx: beat repeat
15:48 fx: gate
16:02 fx: reverb
16:08 fx: autopan
16:15 fx: scratch
16:25 fx: filter drop
16:46 fx: repitch
16:55 fx: reverse
16:59 fx: tapestop
16:12 favorite fx combos
17:35 probabilistic fx
18:26 sequencing fx
18:53 saving and loading
19:35 external sync clock
20:03 loading your own samples
26:35 building one-shot sample packs
28:35 finalizing samples for sd card

05.02.24 Mos-lab 2500 & Kesako Player [Excerpt 04]

video upload by batchas

"Moving the Start Point of a pygmy vocal sample to create rhythmical variations.
4th and final excerpt of a jam session with the Mos-lab 2500 and my Kesako 'Player & Reverb' after installing and testing the last revision of the pin matrix prototype. The wooden case is also provisional.
I made a panel to adapt Buchla modules and also BugBrand modules in the 2500 system."

"No Expectations" Elektron Model: Cycles, MiRack Modular

video upload by Vöstok-one

"No Expectations,

It was there, on a shelf, waiting for me.
The Model Cycles came to me, he asked me for more attention.
And I gave him some. I rediscovered a very interesting instrument, extraordinary playability and above all a lot of fun in the use.
So I found him a game partner with MiRack Modular. Here just a simple drone patch.

I hope you will enjoy this song as much as I had fun playing it."

Roland Juno 6, Yamaha CS01, Solina String Ensemble Synthjams

video upload by Jeroen Elfferich

"A live jam featuring some legendary synths from the eighties."

Nonlinear Labs C15 - the new Sound Designer Bank by Dr. Manny Fernandez

video upload by Nonlinear Labs

"In this video Tim Sund presents a representative selection of sounds created for the C15 by Californian sound design legend Manny Fernandez.

Manny's bank as well as the banks of the other sound designers, who have created sounds for the C15, can be downloaded here: https://www.nonlinear-labs.de/support...

Presentation: Tim Sund
Video filming and editing: Thomas Jaufmann

www.nonlinear-labs.de"

Canoodling with Groc Granular Synth

video upload by oddment audio

"Polishing, polishing, polishing our prototype before we head to Superbooth 24 in less than 2 weeks!

For the patient ones among you... find out how to: change samples, set the amplitude envelope and time path, use a second envelope to modulate a destination parameter, connect pitch bend to the tuning knob and mod wheel to the grain size, connect an LFO to the resonant low-pass filter, and mess with secondary parameters of one of the echo paths."

Sound design tutorial from the film Blade Runner 2049 using OB-6 and Moog Grandmother

video upload by EthanJamesMusic

"This is a sound design tutorial for how to approach a specific sound that was used in the film Blade Runner 2049 from 2017 with a score by Hans Zimmer. I was requested to show how I would make the lead sound that happens in the track 'Mesa'. The sound is a wet synth brass type of sound, with some wrinkles, where the pitch is a little further apart than you normal would do for an EDM track or the type of pop 1980s track, where this type of sound was used a lot.

The Sequential Circuits OB-6 can do a respectable job of coming close to the sound. I have no idea what was actually used for the film, but it sounds closer to a CS-80, which now costs over $100,000 used. For this reason, I'm teaching how to make the sound on both OB-6 and the Moog Grandmother.

Analog synthesizers have found a way back into film music, which has led to a lot of rich experimentation of what these instruments are capable of. I think my main takeaway from making this video, is that a lot can be achieved by moving the pitch of two oscillators far apart from each other to create a lot of disturbance in the melody. Also, having a really dry sound mixed in with lots of ambience really cuts through in a way that creates a strong effect.

I hope you learn something from this tutorial, and it gives you some ideas to try out! Please let me know if there are any questions, or if anyone knows what instrument was used on the film. I would guess a Minimoog or similar."

How to program synth strings on any synth

video upload by Matt Johnson Jamiroquai

"Here I show you how to get great synth strings no matter which synth or plug in you are using. Some useful tips for sound design.

Come and see me perform at Scala London on 10th May!"