"Released in 1979, the SH-2 is one of Roland's early monophonic analogue synthesizers. It sounds much like the SH-101 synth, including the typical SH-style sub-oscillator. But the SH-2 employed 2 oscillators for a much fatter sound. Features ADSR envelope, with envelope follower on the external audio input, 37-note keyboard, auto bend, PWM, and portamento. Made in Japan."
"'Hardstyle' Buchla Synth Line + 12-Tone Row | Live Improvisation with Touché Controller
In this live improv I take a 12-tone row from Nicolas Slonimsky’s Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns and control it with the Expressive E Touché SE controller.
This is part of my current exploration of touch-sensitive /tactile input devices and other gear to find out, which devices I can use to expand the possibilites of the Easel.
🔊 Gear used:
• Buchla EaselSynthesizer
• Expressive E Touché SE Controller
• Nicolas Slonimsky’s Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns"
"Polyphony in eurorack isn't always easy. It can be, if you'd use midi capable modules like Poly Cinematic or BitBox (just to name two I own). A modular purist would pick multiple VCOs, VCA's, envelopes and VCFs, and wise modular purists would use Quad designs. I don't consider myself a purist, I can't handle rules very well and I won't deny myself the easy way of midi and working with the DAW. I can also confirm it's amazing to patch a 'quad full voice' setup every once in a while and explore multi-timbral polyphony. However, most of the time I'd use a single full voice and experiment with freezes and sustain FX. Great modules for this are Clouds, Endless Processor, the Mimeophon, Morphagene, StarDust, Arbhar, etc. Anything that can freeze, remember, loop and repitch.
In this episode, I'll use Blukac Endless Processor and its expander to turn a mono voice into a polyphonic experience. I called it 'monopolyphony' and I think it's an excellent compromise.
This is one of the first videos where I'l start using patch notes and diagrams. I never realized my patches aren't obvious, easy and straigtforward at all. If my goal is to teach you something, I'll need to make diagrams too. I also know I love to make powerpoints."
"The new 1.3 firmware update for NGEN – Algorithmic MIDI Workstation is now available and it includes the new Song Mode, new MIDI and CV tests, updated MIDI Monitor, a new Pop mode, new shortcuts and animations, improvements to clock generators, file management, and more.
For more information about the new 1.3 update, check out our latest blog post at: https://spektroaudio.com/blog/2025/1/...
NGEN is a unique 16-track MIDI sequencer design in São Paulo / Brazil that lets you combine multiple algorithmic / generative generators and MIDI FXs to sequence multiple hardware or software MIDI instruments.
NGEN – Algorithmic MIDI Workstation is available at https://spektroaudio.com/ngen
