MATRIXSYNTH

The beautiful & scenic Taconic Parkway in Westchester County, New York

video upload by CatSynth TV

"We take a ride along the beautiful and scenic Taconic Parkway in Westchester County, New York. The Taconic functions as a freeway in the northern suburbs of New York City and one of the main routes connecting north to the state capital in Albany. The highway is designed to be in harmonic with its landscape, sometimes broad and open, sometimes narrower and winder, as the terrain changes.

In this first of multiple videos, we start just north of its junction with the Saw Mill Parkway (as seen in a previous video) and heading north passing NY routes 100 and 133 in Millwood and Chappaqua (where CatSynth creator and host Amanda Chaudhary grew up), crossing the Croton Reservoir on the AMVETS Memorial Bridge, and passing Franklin D Roosevelt State Park. We turn off the Taconic onto the Bear Mountain Parkway, US 202 and NY 35.

The music through most of this video is the track "Taconic Parkway Bridge" off of Amanda Chaudhary's new album January Suborbital Denomination. The track features composer and musician Jerry King on electronic guitars in addition to Amanda on keyboards and synthesizers. You can hear (and purchase) the album at:
https://amandachaudhary.bandcamp.com/...

Synthesizers on "Taconic Parkway Bridge" include:
Arturia Pigments, 2600 V, Synthi V, Delay Brigade
Arturia MiniFreak
Yamaha RX5 vintage drum machine
Cherry Audio Elka-X, GX-80, and Stardust-201 tape delay

Additional music features:
Cherry Audio MemoryMode, Chroma, and Stardust-201
Arturia CMI V
Big Fish Audio Grindhouse (Kontakt)
AudioThing Wires

00:00 Introduction
00:10 Hawthorne, Briarcliff Manor, and Mount Pleasant
02:13 Millwood, Chappaqua, Ossining
04:02 Crossing the AMVETS Memorial Bridge into Yorktown
06:05 Exiting onto the Bear Mountain Parkway, and US 202 / NY 35

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Coca Cola Synth Watch Demo

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video upload by AL

via this listing

"Very rare Coca Cola synth watch from the 1980s. Works perfectly. Still has a protective plastic film over the screen.

Screen indicates time, then date and seconds when you press the top right button…. And it plays a chromatic octave ! :)

Comes in metallic tin box.

Check out the video

Lighter than a prophet 5. Available to play anytime, anywhere."

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Midicake Arp and The One Finger Jam (no talk)

video upload by Richard DeHove

"Something's wrong if you're making music but not having fun. It should all be fun. But writing good, coherent, interesting and long patterns is difficult (for me) and often liable not to be much fun. The usual path is to make a good 16-step pattern, copy it, add some variations, and bump to 32 steps. Then what about little fills and other bits? Now you're talking about "song mode" and other mathematical duties.

So the idea here was: Let's use the Arp to create long patterns, then hit record on the DB-01 and just feed in the result. I did try that and it worked a treat. But as an alternative you can just manually "play" the entire thing on the Arp - which is what I did here.

It took a bit of practice to get the timing right and I wouldn't want to be playing the entire "song" to a live audience with one finger unless there were a few other things running to cover in case of a mistake. Of course in the studio no one can hear you scream after five errors in a row.

Live-playing the DB-01s like this you lose various programmable goodness like the pitch envelopes, filter mod and accents; but on the flipside you can use portamento on the sequence (although I didn't here) and can use the Arp to set and vary the gate lengths. For example the top DB-01 is playing the high blippy theme on the Arp channel 3 and the longer three-note bass prod on channel 4. It can seemingly produce two sounds almost simultaneously because channel 3 has a short gate and high octave, while channel 4 has a long gate and low octave.

When you think about it that is pretty amazing work for an arpeggiator! It's like instant program change on a synth with no programs.

In this piece all the music is coming from the two DB-01s, with a drum track added afterwards in the DAW. I chopped it up a little to make a 90-second jam (instead of the 8-minute director's cut) but it is essentially live-played. There are no DAW effects, no extra layers or EQ.

After all this intricate fun it seems to me that calling the Midicake Arp an "arp" is monstrously understated. I see it more like your synths are big dumb blue-ribbon bovines standing around in a field and the Arp is a supercharged border collie begging to chase them through a Marine bootcamp obstacle course. Make those machines sweat! They cost enough.

Lots of downloads for supporters on Patreon: / richarddehove
Many thanks to my kind patrons who keep this channel ad-free
My website: https://richarddehove.com/"

4TOMS, as a 4 voices synth

video upload by LARIX ELEKTRO

"The Larix-Elektro 4TOMS is made to produce...toms (of course)
But as we're already seeing in other videos, it can do far more kind of sounds.

In this video, we show that you can use the module as a 4-voice synth.
The Pitch CV input is not 1V/Octave, but there is a lot of way to deal with...

The base is a sine sound, but with the TONE, we can add some distorsion.
And with the ACCENT, we can contrôle the volume and the shape of the attack.

I'm adding the Q-BIT DATA-BENDER to the sound, and then some delay and reverb. Nothing else.

@http://www.larix-elektro.com/"

5 new Modules you should try in July 2024

video upload by Omri Cohen

The patches from this video and from many other videos are available on my Patreon page - https://www.patreon.com/omricohen

Please consider supporting the developers

OME - https://library.vcvrack.com/OMEg1
Skinktronix - https://library.vcvrack.com/squinktro...
CV Funk - https://library.vcvrack.com/CVfunk
Sanguine - https://library.vcvrack.com/SanguineM...
SickoZell - https://library.vcvrack.com/SickoCV
Sapphire - https://library.vcvrack.com/CosineKit...

00:00 - Introduction
00:10 - Damonitu
03:37 - Harmony II
07:04 - Syncro
10:37 - Funes
12:57 - Enver
17:23 - Galaxy"

Sample jam on the new studio

video upload by Meska

"Here a quick jam , more proof of concept, done only with sample , from a eurorack session record with friends in paris.
We have plan to do more jam, and perhaps make an EP with the track made of the Jam sound material. This one is a quick one done in 1H, like i say more a proof of concept.
Since only sample was use, most of the sound you hear come from Octatrack and gotharman's LD3 with some euro sound process

Thank you for watching.
My name is Meska of the statik collective . I've been making mostly 'dark and expérimental' music for more than ten years now, i'v learn so much online, now it's time for me to share my knoledge, my exploration and this channel is a place to talk about the tools, sound design and techniques to make music with.

You can stream my albums and EPs at https://statikwave.bandcamp.com/

If you'd like to support the channel consider buying music from bandcamp ;)
Contact/booking: meskastatik@gmail.com"