Playing EVERYTHING on ARTURIA ASTROLAB

video upload by Woody Piano Shack

"Demo of every sound engine in the ARTURIA ASTROLAB STAGE KEYBOARD, featuring the sounds of ANALOG LAB and V-COLLECTION. Let's play the acoustic instruments, GRAND PIANO, RHODES, WURLI, HAMMOND and vintage analog and digital synths, featuring MINIMOOG, JUNO, JUPITER, PROPHET, EMULATOR, FAIRLIGHT and more!"

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► https://woodypianoshack.com

This Is Not Rocket Science Geometric Anomaly launch! Demo and Q&A livestream

video upload by This Is Not Rocket Science

"Our AWARD WINNING full analog voice with two of everything
Join us as we launch this set of sounds into the world"

Also see SUPERBOOTH 2024: This Is Not Rocket Science - Geometric Anomaly

Howard Jones' Keyboardist & Behringer Synth Demonstrator Dan Clarke Has Passed Away

Some sad news via @howardjones

"Breaks my heart to bring you the news that our lovely Dan passed away on Sunday of cardiac arrest. Dan Clarke was a beloved member of my band, he brought energy and joy every night to the stage and was such great company on tour."

And via @behringer:

"We are deeply saddened by the passing of Dan Clarke, a truly wonderful person and a joy to collaborate with. His work on the Behringer synth videos was nothing short of amazing. Dan's musical talent and positive spirit will be greatly missed.

Rest in peace, Dan."

Bad Gear - Serum in a Box???

video upload by AudioPilz

"Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world's most-hated audio tools. What a time to be alive as a synth enjoyer! Ultra affordable clones of timeless classics, even the most obscure ways of sound generation are available for the price of one soul and samplers are now almost as powerful as they were in 1991.

Meanwhile, all these beautiful instruments have become basically irrelevant for actual music production and were replaced by gaming PCs with pirated copies of SERUM.

Today we are going to talk about moDWave. This family of wavetable synthesizer was introduced in 2021 and seems to be Korg’s attempt to bring the harshness of the aforementioned industry standard plugin to the hardware world. Is it SERUM in a box?

Korg modwave module
Korg modwave mk2"

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Touch Tuul Proto: Granular Aliens

video upload by gotharman

"Making granular alien sounds by tweaking a FOF oscillator, a dual band pass filter, a chorus effect and a stretcher effect. Four draw wave modulators were used for the modulation.
www.gotharman.dk"

Xplorer Editor Now Open Source and Available on Github

video upload by XplorerEditor

Note the video above is latest from from 11 years ago. You can find additiona demos in previuos posts here.

News via the developer on the Xpantastic group:

"The Xplorer editor is now open source and available on Github: https://github.com/xplorer2716/XplorerEditor/ Almost everything is explained in the readme file https://github.com/xplorer2716/XplorerEditor?tab=readme-ov-file#readme, so I won't duplicate the information here.

Sadly I have no time to develop new features since years, you know how real life is. Now anybody can grab the source and continue the journey.

I hope this will help Xpanders/Matrix-12 owners to get the best of their beloved synths. This is my humble contribution to the community :)

IMHO, the best thing to do with the source code would be to migrate the it to a perennial framework such as JUCE, so any users could run it on Windows/Mac/Linux, whatever the underlying architecture is (Intel, ARM, etc...). This is not a simple task, mostly regarding UI.

The latest release is available here: https://github.com/xplorer2716/XplorerEditor/releases/tag/v2024.8.2.1
"

SCJS #19 - 100 Grit, Bean Jelly, nRings, Battering Ram

video upload by FL3SHB4CK

"Small Case Jam Sessions #19
4U 50hp recorded live into Syntakt reverb and delay"

Correction: Passive Mixing revisited

video upload by O.Z. Hall

"This video is a combination of a technical correction and a demonstration of a very inexpensive 2hp Passive Mixer kit from Synthrotek.com.

The error I'm correcting is in reference to Passive Mixing with a multiple. This error was in my System 55 Mixers video starting at about 2:30. [posted here]

Here's a link (not an affiliate link) to the product:
https://store.synthrotek.com/MIX-Kit_...
Here's a link to the build Assembly Instructions document:
https://www.synthrotek.com/kit-assemb...

TIMECODE

0:00 - Intro
1:30 - MIX Kit
2:28 - Use Cases for Passive Mixing
3:22 - Examples
4:02 - Mix Audio Waveforms
5:55 - Mix Low Frequency Waveforms
8:02 - LFO into Sample and Hold
9:50 - LFO into Quantizer
11:52 - Conclusion"

Minimoog & Odyssey // A 70's Love Story

video upload by Starsky Carr

"If you could only have one? Odyssey vs Minimoog, Mac vs PC, there's always a rivalry and in the 70s it was these 2. Or was it more a case of unrequited love... or lovers from different sides of the track... Romeo and Juliette, Tony and Maria, Rose and Jack

The ARP Odyssey takes you to gritty howling sizzles, and the Moog Minimoog tends to lean towards smooth and warm fuzziness. Both amazing iconic monosynths, both limited in today's terms but both stunningly awesome!"

0:00 Synth P@rn to get the juices flowing
2:53 Comparison begins
3:27 they both do FM
7:20 Oddy Ring Mod is DIRTY
7:46 Waveshapes for range of tones
10:18 Moog hits back with tuning
11:31 YES!! PWM on the Minimoog
13:55 LFO from VCOs
14:44 Sync +1 for the Oddy
16:24 Envelopes aren’t just envelopes
20:05 S&H FTW
21:55 High Pass on the Oddy
22:29 Oddys came in different flavours not just Orange
23:41 Low Pass filters
30:17 ….and?
32:38 Binaural demo

Korg DW-8000 Polyphonic Hybrid Digital-Analog Synthesizer SN 005781

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via this listing

Additional SYNTH CITY Listings

"Classic hybrid analog-digital synthesizer: internal wavetable waveforms are digital while filter and envelope stages are analog."

You can find demos of the DW-8000 in previous posts here.

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