Teenage Engineering KOII - Knockout

video upload by sonicstate

"Samples on our http://patreon.com/sonicstate

The new KOII from Teenage Engineering bucks the trend when it comes to price point - the original range of Pocket Operators were low cost this one takes the concept and adds some more of that Teenage design magic. And their OP-1 Field, TX-6 and TP-7 are priced way out of most people's league, this is what one would consider to be affordable.

The KOII is a 64mb sampler Composer and features 48 tracks of sequencing with up to 12 voices of polyphony. It looks like a 1990's calculator but its got a lot going on.

With four groups (ABCD) of 12 pads, each pad can play a sample as a single hit or via the keyboard for pitched lines. You can also use a pad or track to record and playback MIDI (note, velocity, pitch bend, aftertouch and CC)

Samples can be manipulated with some simple parameters, pitch, attack/release, rudimentary time stretch, amplitude and panning. You can also use stereo samples -though this will eat two voices and the limit is 20seconds in length.

There's a decent single global effect (Delay, Reverb, Chorus, Distortion and Compression) which you can send on a per group basis using the fader - this fader can also be used to record automation for various parameters - LPF, HPF, Decay, Pitch etc again per group.

Add to that you have insert FX which are global and effect everything - designed for real-time sound mangling and performance most are controlled in some way by pressure on the 12 pads - yes they have pressure too - this can also be mapped to a repeat function in the style of the MPC repeat.

Memory is organized into 9 Projects - each pad group has up to 99 patterns A01-99, B01-99 etc. And each pattern can be up to 99 bars long - and can record free or quantized. Then there are 99 scene memories - this stores the pattern assignment for each group.

In practice one would create a groove in Scene01 - say drums in grp A, bass in B other sounds in C or D

say these are all A01, B01, C01, D01. Then when you are happy commit the scene, and Scene01 is created (no pause in playback) Patterns are duplicated to 02 slot on each group and you could then add or subtract parts to create another variation or section.

Scenes are not chain able so you will need to perform any song structures you want to create, but its an elegant and friction less creative workflow - I really enjoyed it and I have a low tolerance for obscure operation.

The output section alsoe gives drive and compression giving a real glue ti the sound. The KOII sounds great by the way, plenty of weight and nice snappy transients.

I'll be honest, I really like this unit and feel that its a great creative tool. There are limitations - no song mode, some parameters would be nice to automate but are not accessible (delay time for instance) and the memory state is live - so whatever you do is written into memory, there's no revert aside from basic Undo.

The good news is that TE have released a beta version of the Web Memory tool which allows you to not only drop samples into the unit, but also to backup all the memory.

As a drum machine and very capable MIDI sequencer its hard to beat, its fun to use and aids creativity. Nice work Teenagers.

Price $299/Euros available now."

You've never heard oscillators do this before // Warp & Reflect *NEW* Wavefolding VCOs

video upload by Starsky Carr

0:00 Whats is all about?
1:58 Oscillator 1
9:26 Focus and AGC
14:52 Oscillator 2

"https://patreon.com/starskycarr
Is it witchcraft, fairy dust, magic, sonic alchemy or science? Whatever it is its pretty amazing. The Pittsburgh Modular Voltage Lab 2 has 2 wavefolding oscillators - but they have beed designed from the ground up to do things differently.

Firstly, the 2 oscillators aren't the same.

VCO1 has their proprietary centre and newly developed centre clipping circuit that splits the positive and negative portions of the signal so you can attenuate them independently.

VCO2 works in a different way. It has the reflection parameter that gradually folds the negative up into the positive

Add all this together and it took over 20 minutes of tweaking a drone to demo what they could do... and here it is.

Roll a fat one and enjoy the sonic bath. Imagine staring at the stars as this reverberates around the canons in the sea of tranquility - and I know you can't hear anything in space, but f**K it, go with the flow :)"

Gravedad VCO by Olivella Modular demo

video upload by Stazma

"More infos & affiliate links in the description // Support on Patreon to get samples from this session: / stazma

Today we're going to try ou the 'gravity' oscillator by Olivella Modular, hailling from Argentina. Gravedad can do a lot of things and it's a very fun sound generator. I'll show some stuff I like about it and explain one of the main concept it uses: frequency division.

Have fun!"

Reverse Reverbs Revisited | ZAPS | Versio x 2, Maths | Erbe-Verb, Mimeophon

video upload by Cinematic Laboratory

"I am still dreaming of a Reversio, a module that can take an audio source, reverse it, add reverb and reverse it again. But no. It's 2024 and we still don't have a module that can do it, EXCEPT Lubadh, but it can only do it in mono. Anyway, I've been thinking about it a lot, and I wondered why I never used Desmodus BEFORE the Melotus. These are the true questions in life. Melotus offers reverse grains, so in theory I should be able snippets of reversed reverb. And it works, but there's so much going on you can barely hear it.

I've been using Winter/Plankton ZAPS for this experiment, which was lying around for about two years because it's so deep, and you can't figure it out without a manual. Sure there's one, but it's a reference manual so it's hard to figure out how it works as a whole. Regardless, it's one of the coolest modules I have. Using it with the Versio's has been an adventure, but my experiment failed.

Then I remembered that Mimeophon can reverse the long repeat. So I used Erbe-Verb fully wet in a send/return, only reversing the reverb tail and pre-delay. Yeah! This was very close. You can always rely on Tom Erbe. People often regret the Erbe-Verb has a mono in, which makes sense because it was designed for the mono Shared System. But reverb works fine with a mono send/stereo return, in fact it works better. I tried to explain how you can work in and out of a camera frame when you're close, but when you're in the back of a hall, that same distance looks very small. I had an amazing session and I hope you like it too."

Behringer Introduces the SYNCUSSION SY-1 for $199

video upload by Behringer

"One of the hidden gems of the Techno world comes to Eurorack, introducing the SYNCUSSION SY-1. An all analog drum & percussion synth that is capable of a wide range of analog drums, basses, percussive elements and hole host of weird and wonderful tones.

00:00 Syncussion Intro Song
00:49 Introducing
01:06 History of the Syncussion
02:33 Controls Demo
04:40 Demo Jam 1
05:44 Oscillators Demo
06:42 Demo Jam 2

Music & Video created by Patrick (PatchDog) exclusively with the SYNCUSSION SY-1."

"Experience the legendary sound and feel of a classic analog percussion synth with the Behringer SYNCUSSION SY-1. This historic equipment allows you to create a wide range of percussive sounds and effects, from deep kicks and snappy snares to metallic clangs and sci-fi zaps.

List Price: $199"

[$11] DIY eurorack modular synth SSI2131 VCO | analog oscillator

video upload by HAGIWO

"My 79th original eurorack modular synth DIY projects.
SSI2131 IC based analog VCO.

working documents (schematics)
https://note.com/solder_state/n/nf478...

Additional information about SSI2131 VCO module
https://www.patreon.com/posts/1054345...

Please support me to continue projects.
In patreon you will find content about my background , technical information.
https://www.patreon.com/hagiwo"

Access Virus kb soundscape - The memories that haunt us

video upload by MIDERA

"Three quarters of the way through filming I heard my camera snap shut. I knew something had happened. I thought "maybe it just hadn't restarted recording. No - I realized later that I accidentally did not start it. Eventually it plays and you'll see me playing along. But before that - you will have to just enjoy a looped small video of it alongside some videos of a winter storm I filmed from 2023.

Today I put back the old keybed in my Virus kb. There are two TP/8s keybeds apparently. Some that are from 2005 and earlier, and those that are made afterwards. The person who I sold my Virus kb to in 2020 was willing to swap keybeds with me on my new one (that I bought and was disappointed it had a different keybed, but then I sold it, and eventually bought it back). It's been about 4 years - but now this keybed needs some work (some keys are no longer velocity sensitive, some keys didn't work at all - although I fixed the non-working keys before this video was made).

I really don't know what it is about the Virus B I like so much. When I play it next to the TI, they sound identical, but then again, I feel like there really might be something there, something different that I just can't pick up when I compare them.

Well - they are similar enough. I'm still a little tempted to pull all these keys off and put them on my Accelerator, which has a similar keybed (TP/8SK), but it is a little different. Then I could sell the Virus kb. But, I am not sure I can sell this synth yet.

Sorry about the audio clipping. I hadn't realized until too late that it was absolutely way too loud into the mixer.

No external FX used."

Asteroid Snare Drum & Hats by Blue Lantern Modules || Full Walkthrough and Sound Demo

video upload by Robots Are Red

00:00 Opening
00:36 Introduction
01:07 Asteroid Snare Drum Overview
01:37 Asteroid Snare Rundown - Base Oscillators
01:59 Asteroid Snare Rundown - Thud Generator Oscillator
02:46 Asteroid Snare Rundown - Impact/Noise Generator
03:34 Asteroid Snare Rundown - Aux Input
04:09 Asteroid Snare Rundown - Impact VCA CV Input
05:01 Asteroid Snare Rundown - Cutoff CV Input
06:32 Asteroid Snare Sounds Demo
07:42 Hats Overview and Rundown
08:58 Hats Noise Sounds
10:50 Hats Pseudo Choking
13:06 Hats SUS Switch Riser
14:34 Some Music

Bastl Instruments SP2 Acid Ripper

video upload by Bastl Instruments

"Softpop SP II is a powerful instrument for beginners and experts alike. Explore its sound capabilities with VAMP ACID"

vampacid.bandcamp.com

Flexible Eurorack Quantizing, Slew, Transposition, Precision Adders & MIDI // dail from Instruo

video upload by DivKid

"Is multi-octave quantising a world first? Serious question without trying to sound clickbaity, I haven't seen that before and it's a fantastic idea! Multi-octave quantising is having the ability to quantise to different notes in different octaves, which we do here in the video with dail ... anyway onto the video ...

Dail is the new Instruo 4HP Eurorack quantiser that not happy with it's already highly flexible nature decides to throw in (as if it's sentient!) multi-octave quantising, equal and natural note distributions, MIDI note selection, MIDI to CV, slew and both an analogue precision adder input AND on board quantised precision adding and transposing. All in a simple interface that feels performative easy to use."