"The Cwejman S1 Mk2 is not merely a synthesizer; it's an exquisite instrument that offers an expansive sound design realm for producers, musicians, and sound designers. Its scarcity and the manufacturer's commitment to quality make it highly sought-after in the synthesizer community.
Features precise oscillators, versatile filters, and dynamic modulation. Renowned for its clarity and clean sound architecture.
A semi-modular analog synthesizer hailing from Sweden, conceived by the meticulous and innovative designer, Wowa Cwejman. Known for its premium build quality, superb sound, and compact design, the S1 Mk2 stands out in the world of modular synthesis. Below, we explore its key features and highlight some renowned artists who have utilized Cwejman synths in their sonic explorations."
"One of the rarer ones in the line up, somewhere between a 700s and an MS-20, featuring the amazing Traveler filter, superb sounding ring mod and very unusual chromatically playable noise.
Imported from Japan in 2018, professionally serviced then and fitted with a Kenton Kit allowing external CV/Gate/Low Pass Cutoff Frequency control, under the Korg standard, so you need a Hz/V (as opposed to 1V/Oct) capable interface, like Kenton boxes, Arturia Keystep, various options in Eurorack...
Great cosmetic condition, no missing metal ring to any of the knobs, which seems to have happened to a lot of those. A noticeable chip to one wood side, otherwise only a few regular micro paint chips and dings, clean example overall.
"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."
"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/"
"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)."