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Immersive Generative Music | Max/MSP

video upload by Akihiko Matsumoto

https://akihikomatsumoto.com

Music For Polybrute 5

video upload by Mysterious Machine

"Music for Polybrute 5 is a single patch created from scratch with the Arturia Polybrute ( 6 voices ) synthesizer demonstrating its expressive capacity. No multitracks. No external effects were used, only Morphee, reverb, delay of the synthesizer. Just, Polybrute.

Images from the retro documentary: Más Allá - Los Mayas. Directed and presentd by: Fernando Jiménez Del Oso. Channel: TVE. Date: 01-06-80.

Vídeo from archives: Moisés Garrido y Claudia M. Moctezuma."

Roland Jupiter-8 real time sound design | How to make great pads

video upload by Espen Kraft

"Programming synths has been my life for over 35 years. I'm good at it and I always enjoy it.

Most of my sounds and patches are made so they will fit in nicely with other sounds in an arrangement. Not too thin or to thick in the frequency spectrum. Sounds must blend well with each other.

I have a set of chord structures and intervals I often play through to find the sweet spot of any sound I'm working on. This video shows how I work in the final stages of a patch. The release time of the envelopes, the filter, filter envelope and oscillator detuning. It all comes into play (literally) when finding that sweet spot and small adjustments can change a lot.

The ability to detune Osc 1 from Osc 2 (on synths that have two or more oscillators) is always tempting as the sound will fatten up, but it can easily turn a usable sound to unusable as it takes up too much space and with Roland synths and a saw waveform, it will turn the sound into a "supersaw" which in turn will make everything sound like "Trance", which is not good if you're doing 80s pop. Be very careful about detuning oscillators like that.

When I'm creating a sound or patch I have one rule I live by; Could I use this sound in my OWN music? If the answer is yes, then the sound is ready.

Find my music here:
Bandcamp: https://espenkraft.bandcamp.com/"

Serge Modular | Episode 02 | Voices and Utilities

video upload by Cinematic Laboratory

"I wish I could do this all day. Building a Serge system in eurorack is great fun, and the same applies to figuring it out. I've been running this channel for a while know and I assumed I knew a lot. In EP01 I knew nothing and I could hide behind fancy animations. In this episode I still don't know enough to dive deep but I've figured out there are 4U voice- and utility panels. Most of them can be directly translated to eurorack and in this episode I've 'built' a La Bestia II (with some missing parts).

A deep compare with Maths is unavoidable, so we're going to compare Maths with DUSG again. I shouldn't do this, but Serge modules have rise and falls all over the place and they sound totally different. Indeed, they're designed to double as full featured VCO's with varishape waveforms, AM and FM. They can filter, and work as VCA's or LPG's. This is called 'patch programmability'. So what's on the panel isn't necessarily what the module is for. Without direction, a dual slope means nothing.

00:00 Introduction
01:07 Maths V1 = Serge DUSG + (Buchla 281) + 257
02:38 Maths EOR/EOC vs DUSG END
03:29 DUSG as Complex VCO
04:33 Introducing GTS
05:10 Utilities sound like utilities
07:26 Winds of Wood
09:01 Quantized jam with Rene, Optomix & Mimeophon
13:01 A Krell patch with the La Bestia II panel layout (eurorack)."

Serge Modular synthesizer: Playing the MEDUSA with the TKB programmer

video upload by fonitronik

"Just a simple test of the MEDUSA, manually played by the TKB programmer."

GForce impOSCar3 Mini Demos

video upload by GForce Software

"At the heart of GForce‘s impOSCar3 lies the design of the legendary British hardware synth. Like the original, its hybrid architecture combines the precision of digital oscillators with the warmth of analogue filters, providing a wide range of sonic possibilities.

Craft expansive, lush, dark or ambient pads, resonant bells, and precise leads with this exceptional recreation. The finely tuned filter, aligned with the new wavetable editor, blends the best digital clarity with an unparalleled analogue richness. If that’s not enough, switch to poly-unison for a true wall of sound. Prepare to be surprised."

Phantasmal Force - firmware tinkering 🛠️

video upload by Arman Bohn

"Phantasmal Force and Prismatic Spray are available here:

https://distropolisgoods.com

I’ve been working on a firmware update for the Phantasmal Force that includes MIDI CC LFO.

I’m hoping to release firmware 1.3 sometime during 6/2024."

Groove Synthesis 3rd Wave first impression and walkthrough

video upload by MIDERA

"A few notes: I think it's clear that the OS version on this unit is not current. I'll figure out what it is later and post it, but looking at the website it appears that it now has poly unison - something I wasn't able to use in the video. I'm also hoping it fixes whatever happened with 'Make Waves' where it crashed twice. I read up on it later and this is for recording incoming sounds to 'make waves' and was arming the input. However, I do think it should allow me to exit, so I hope other owners can chime in and say whether that's been 'fixed' (if there is indeed something off with what happened to me).

Again, please realize I basically spent zero effort looking into this before playing it. Think of this as your friend testing this out in the most likely way that you might do so yourself before using it.

Also note - that because I didn't spend any money on it (this is borrowed) it's very easy for me to be dismissive of certain features. If I pine after something for months and then get it, I usually feel like I can 'trick myself' into believing it's the most amazing thing in the world. Although - that's possibly not entirely accurate, because when I got the Prophet 10, I kind of hated it for how much I spent. I have grown to love that thing as a top 5 synth I've ever used... but when I don't put any money into it, I can see myself saying 'Well, cool, but what's the point?' And that sort of thing could give it a negative spin on something, especially when the only thing I know about it is that it's like a modern PPG.

I'm now sitting here wondering if I could have held the source and destination, LFO, and other buttons and twisted the controls to 'connect' things easier - that would be nice, but something that didn't occur to me during this first video.

No external FX used. I chose not to in this video because, well, it has FX."

What if a DX7 can have a lot of CV inputs?

video upload by Ariel Raguet

"And what if three DX7 can have a lot of CV inputs??!!

Three Arturia DX7 VST in VCV Rack controlled by polyphonic sequencers for notes and gates, LFO's and random generators for many DX7's parameters.

Ariel Raguet

Buenos Aires, 2024/04/06

Arturia DX7 VST
LoudMax Brickwall VST
https://loudmax.blogspot.com/"