MATRIXSYNTH

Nightverb: First day noodlings (no talk)

video upload by Richard DeHove

"Beware the title: 'First day noodlings'. This isn't a collection of pristine patches or sweetly controlled tone-perfect spaces. It is literally me with the Nightverb on day one twiddling the knobs trying to understand the various interactions and calibrations. But I figure that will be of interest to some. And since my daughter always laughs at how "incredibly niche" my channel is, well, surely it can't hurt.

I'm honored to have Nightverb serial number 0006 sent to me gratis by Erica Synths. Technically that should earn the "paid promotion" tag, and yet, saying that on this random hodge-podge doesn't seem quite right. And since I'm almost qualified as a member of the Erica Synths 10% discount club I think I've earned a pass on this one. Of course the truth is I would have bought this anyway if Erica Synths hadn't sent it to me, so at least this way I didn't have to sell anything - yay!

But about the Nightverb. It's armoured, beautiful and alive with grippy knobs. Reverb has never been so much fun or so fast to program. About halfway through the video I learn that 'late reflections' combined with 'infinite feedback' equals noise - but that's what day one gets you. Give it a few months and I'm sure all this will look painfully awkward. I also had the gain quite high and neglected to touch the low and high damp controls at all, but there's only so many parameters I can deal with fresh at one time. More videos to come of course.

I'm looking forward to pairing the Nightverb with the Zen Delay and Acidbox III though for this first outing I thought it should stay pure. Of course there are absolutely no DAW effects, EQ or limiting. I can certainly see cases in the future where a delay after the reverb could make for some interesting creations. Even so, just with the trusty DB-01 I did enjoy the pseudo poly-synth effect going 100% wet. Likewise the pre-delay with early reflections and feedback gave a good industrial delay. So much more I could say but I'll leave that for a talkie video.

If there's anything specific about the Nightverb I can answer, or a particular sort of audio demo you'd like to hear, let me know and I'll try to cover them in a second video.

0:00 Poly from mono
2:34 Bass riff 1
4:30 Squelchy
6:16 Fairy interlude
6:54 Drummy thing
8:52 Bass riff 2
11:20 Pixie dance
12:43 Bass riff 3
16:04 High arp
18:54 Growler

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Many thanks to my kind patrons who keep this channel ad-free
My website: https://richarddehove.com/"

Synthwave at the Beach

video upload by Mutt Retro

"I can't sit on the beach too long without getting bored. Therefore... I need to play music

linktr.ee/mutt_retro"

Organism 2 /// Elmyra and Strega

video upload by Jon Gee

"Hello friends! Elmyra and the Witch at it again. Bring on the drone!!

Big Sky and EQ on the bus."

Atlantix - quick jam with the VCF and distortion

video upload by Intellijel

"Jamming with Atlantix, Metropolix and Sealegs. Just a basic subtractive patch with symmetric distortion to add some extra harmonic spice."

DecadeBridge Prototypes 2024 (so far)

video upload by DecadeBridge

"Jump to the time stamps below to skip through.

A few things that have been on the Decadebridge prototyping bench the first half of this year.

I like to give these things names relatively early on in the process to remain focused on the idea itself. That doesn't mean it doesn't evolve through the process but it does help cut away any unnecessary functions and the heart of its meaning doesn't give in to the overwhelming options that could, potentially, take away from it's character.

00:00 Laconic running through a low pass filter and some stereo delay. pitch controlled with Turing machine and volts. Volume controlled using a EG triggered by the Turing machine pulse out.

00:53 Laconic. Disting Mk4 controlling pitch. Manually changing settings.

01:45 Laconic. Pitch controlled manually and with the Turing machine and volts.

02:59 Laconic. Pitch sequenced using SQ1 and Moog subharmonicon sequences. All sounds from Laconic. Subharmonicon envelopes controlling voice level.

03:58 Noria. Ongoing, analog style step sequencer project.

06:49 Untitled. Just playing around with a glitchy, Sid chip type sound. 4 step sequencer that quickly turns into erratic dronal stabs. Fun little project.

08:18 Quatrain. 4 in 4 out passive matrix mixer with a few extra bits. Creating drones with feedback paths. the only sound sources are a couple of cheap guitar pedals (reverb and delay).

11:42 Quatrain. Using the mixer in a Eurorack setup mix CV signals.

13:31 Quatrain. Pure feedback paths to generate drones and tones. Korg amp works, Behringer vintage delay and digital reverb all feedback into each other and themselves to generate drones.

16:13 Quatrain. More CV input mixing and playing on Quatrain's other qualities in this eurorack patch."

Loopstyler, capturing sounds of everyday objects, adding effects and rhythms

video upload by Gechologic

"This demo shows the new reverb and flanger effects, also sound capture (from microphone or line input) with automatic "cut by silence" function. All sounds are coming from the device, as recorded on the SD card, with no additional processing, except for fading in and out when editing the video.

Find more info at: http://phonicbloom.com/"

OB-X8 - Writing a track with just one synth!

video upload by Scott McAuley Sounds

"Patches will be available at https://www.orano.co.uk/shop or http://www.synthsounds.co.uk

Before getting the head into Explorations Volume 2, I have Spent that past couple of days familiarising myself with the OB-X8 again and also the new 2.0 Firmware features, decided the best way to road test, is write a track only using the OB-X8

This synth is way up there in my top synths of all time. Absolutely love it.

anyway, a commercial kinda track this one. was great fun putting it together.

Enjoy!
SM"