Control Synthesis Deep Bass 9 Acid Techno Jam with Nord Drum and Novation Circuit

video upload by Waiting For Zyo

"Time to get some basslines from my Control Synthesis Deep Bass Nine, an analog bassline synthesizer from 1994. It comes with a single oscillator switchable between saw, square, and none (for audio input processing) and a few basic controls like tuning, cutoff, resonance, filter envelope, decay, accent, and volume.
Made as a clone of the TB-303, it fails to emulate the iconic synth but has its own character, with deep basses and squelchy resonance. I created some classic bassline sequences with the Novation Circuit (where velocity engages a filter opening in the Deep Bass Nine), a lead line using the internal synth (with a custom preset), and used the four drum parts to control the Nord Drum.

The result is a techno tune with a pulsing bassline and a wannabe acid flavor. :D Enjoy!"

Digitakt II & Digitone II OS 1.10 Upgrade

video upload by Elektron

"Double OS delight is coming to the Digi IIs! Digitakt II and Digitone II are both leveling up to version 1.10, sharing a bunch of features while picking up some fresh new tricks along the way. Let’s dive into some of the standouts, but be sure to check the release notes for a full feature list.

Digitakt II is receiving the Comb+ filter from Digitone II, adding this metallic flavor to your filter options. Mono sampling makes its return, joining stereo sampling and offering greater flexibility when capturing sound. Routable overdrive distortion and base-width filter now lets you decide whether they come before or after your various filter alternatives. Keytrack modulation also jumps over from Digitakt II’s younger sibling.

Digitone II brings Chord Mode on board, more powerful than ever, and with various modes and Chord Memory to maximize your harmonic flexibility. Overbridge streaming is now possible, allowing multi-track audio streaming straight to your computer (the rest of Overbridge for Digitone II is in beta testing and coming soon). You can also do lots more with the Arpeggiator, rotating the offsets for new melodic sequences as well as gaining new arp speeds to experiment with.

There’s lots more too! Find out more and download: https://bit.ly/41ulpGo"

Digitone II OS 1.10 Video Guide


Digitakt II OS 1.10 Video Guide

How to Set-up and Use Motion Recorder on Roto-Control MIDI Controller with Elektron Syntakt

video upload by Melbourne Instruments

"Roto-Control is a motorized MIDI controller for software and hardware. Roto-Control can extend the creative capabilities of synths, drum machines and any compatible MIDI hardware or software in MIDI Mode. In this video we show you how to set-up and pair Roto-Control (in MIDI Mode) with an Elektron Syntakt, and how to use the Motion Recorder as a performance enhancing tool. We show how easy it is for Roto-Control to MIDI learn and map 8 mutes and 8 different parameters from the Syntakt to Roto-Control's buttons and knobs. This method can be applied when using Roto-Control with other Elektron devices.

🎛️ Here are key steps to setting up both devices:
1. Connect Roto-Control MIDI Out to Syntakt MIDI In, and Roto-Control MIDI In to Syntakt MIDI Out, via 2 different MIDI cables.
2. Choose MIDI Mode on the Roto-Control.
3. Check Syntakt settings page and sub menus:
• Settings - MIDI Config - Port Config - Encoder Dest INT + EXT
• Settings - MIDI Config - Port Config - Receive CC/NRPN
• Settings - MIDI Config - Sync - Clock Send and Transport Send
4. Map Syntakt parameters to Roto-Control buttons and knobs:
• Press LEARN on the Roto-Control and select the knob or button want to assign. The LEARN button will flash and the MENU window will display what knob or button you have selected.
• On the Syntakt move or press the button you want to control. Roto-Control's display will immediately display the MIDI channel and MIDI CC.
• Press LEARN to confirm and exit.
The default labels on Roto-Control will display the MIDI channel and CC value as "CH:xx/CC:xx". Further customization of controls can be done with the Roto-Setup App - change labels and colors that reflect parameters on the Syntakt.

🖥️ Download the Roto-Control Syntakt MIDI Setup used in this video here, import it and try it with your Roto-Control: https://tinyurl.com/483cbnbx

Motion Recorder:
Check the Motion Recorder settings on the Roto-Control. We want to synchronize the Motion Recorder and playback from the Syntakt as the the master clock. In MIDI Mode, press FUNC and select MIDI EXT CLK for external clock. Also select Motion Recorder length on the same page, in this video we are using 64 steps. Press FUNC to confirm and exit.

⚡️HOT TIP: On the Roto-Control or the Roto-Setup App change the minimum and maximum values via the MIN VALUE and MAX VALUE for the button mutes. MIN Value = 0 and MAX Value = 1, this will ensure fast bidirectional muting between the Roto-Control and the Syntakt.

Roto-Control is a motorized MIDI controller for software and hardware. Roto-Control brings Melbourne Instruments' motorized technology to a MIDI controller in a powerful, portable, affordable tool for studio and live applications.

Unlike anything seen before, rethink software and hardware interactions via fully assignable motorized touch-sensitive knobs, user definable haptics for detailed control, high-res screens providing easy-to-read labels for every control, and internal memory with storage for thousands of assignments. Powerful, compact, and portable, Roto-Control features three main modes of operation: MIX, PLUGIN and MIDI with Motion Recorder."

Slicing rhythms and melodies with Circuit Rhythm

video upload by Novation

"Watch as Dylan chops up rhythms and melodies using Slice Mode with Circuit Rhythm to create a solid beat from samples of his own and a collection of breakbeats.

Create packs and download your samples from Circuit Rhythm, just connect your Circuit Rhythm to the computer and go to Components. https://components.novationmusic.com/

Learn more about Circuit Rhythm: https://bit.ly/_Circuit_Rhythm

Chapters:
00:00 Slicing rhythms and melodies on Circuit Rhythm
00:24 Finding a sample
00:55 Repitching a sample with Circuit Rhythm
01:06 Slicing a sample with Circuit Rhythm
01:39 Fine tuning slices on Circuit Rhythm
02:16 Finding the tempo of your track
02:39 Adding a backbeat to your track
03:08 Playing the slices into the track
03:25 Making the phrase longer
03:38 Recording a melodic phrase
04:09 Adjusting the mix and reverb of your track
04:42 Adding a breakbeat to your track
05:00 Beat match the break with Circuit Rhythm
05:26 Slicing the break
05:50 Making a two bar drum phrase
06:22 Sidechain the samples
06:54 Tweaking your samples sound
07:46 Playing with grid fx on Circuit Rhythm
08:09 Making a track using a few samples on Circuit Rhythm"

MultiMods | NUSS Episode 02 | One is enough, but why stop there?

video upload by Cinematic Laboratory

"The MultiMod is now officially my favorite module of 2025, but the year is still young and spring is in the air. Between you and me, I got a second one because of the audio processing. Yes I know it's a 1 to 8 CV processor but when you speed up an LFO, it becomes sound and when you spread it up, it becomes a cluster. I'll add chapter markers later because it's a long video.

I've been inspired by the works of Allen Strange and Curtis Roads, so you can expect some strange recipes and microsound adventures. It must be a coincidence but MakeNoise also covered gate delays. I'll use the 281t for mixed envelopes triggered by Pams, and the MM will make variations from it. It's great fun to send all kinds of CV to the Morphagene and it's even more fun to use two MM's, one for modulation, and one for sound 'surrealization'. I picked a new word so I will not give the false impression 'it can do audio rate'. It's more like experimental 'abuse' of the 24 bit AD/DA converter that just happens to respond extremely well with any sound source.

In the final scene I'll use a Lyra-8, which is a dream combo because the Lyra-8 is mono and it becomes a stereo Lyra-64 with MM."

Mandala mk2 tutorial 4: CV glide and LFOs.

video upload by likaoninstruments

"In this tutorial, we see how to glide between CV steps on the Mandala mk2, and how it allows us to create relatively complex LFO curves.
With the quantization and shuffling capabilities, this is going to get more and more interesting !"

You can find all parts in the tutorial series here.

Ambient w/ Prophet-10, norns, grid, LOSSY | Spring Snowfall 2025-03-19 by atnr

video upload by atnr

"A piece created using the ‪@SequentialLLC‬ Prophet-10, norns, and grid. It’s a minimal ambient work built on simple accompaniment and sequences.

The Prophet-10 is played through ‪@strymon‬ blueSky to add reverb.

On norns, I create sequence phrases with awake, and the output is routed through ‪@ChaseBlissAudio‬ LOSSY and ‪@gfisys‬ SPECULAR TEMPUS. The sequence phrases are dynamically modified using grid. I change the timbre with awake and further process the sound with filters on LOSSY, while SPECULAR TEMPUS applies delay."

Moog Sub-37 | Novation Summit - "If Stars Could Wish" (a solo improv)

video upload by eM

"When you don't have the words to express things, music somehow speaks for itself. It's a gift to your soul, when the world is spinning in ways you can't control, music does have a way in putting tings at ease. It's a good thing to find it necessary at times to bring yourself to an instrument, and allow yourself to play. Enjoy. :-)"

Timelapse: Moogseum Awning Replacement After Damage by Hurricane Helene

video upload by moogfoundation

"Although it took six months after Hurricane Helene to get our awning at the Moogseum replaced, we are thrilled to have this visual beacon back on the building. Thank you ‪@airventexteriors7232‬ for the great job!

Find out more about the Moogseum here: www.moogseum.org
Reserve tickets here: https://moogseum.org/advance-tickets-...
Become a member here: https://moogseum.org/membership

Music credit: Robeone"

ACID SYNTH - Our Homage To A Classic That Launched A Genre

video upload by The Crow Hill Company

Press release follows:

The Crow Hill Company creates VAULTS - ACID SYNTH as an homage to the revered Roland TB-303 Bass Line synth and associated Acid House genre

EDINBURGH, UK: music-making community tools-maker The Crow Hill Company is proud to announce availability of VAULTS - ACID SYNTH as the latest entry into its lengthening line of free and accessible virtual instruments arising from company co-founder and composer Christian Henson effectively opening his ‘vaults’ for everyone to enjoy — this time creating an homage to the revered Roland TB-303 Bass Line, launched with high hopes in 1981 as a so-called Computer Controlled bass synth by the Japanese giant of electronic musical instrument manufacturing responsible for its creation before being deemed a commercial failure and discontinued quite quickly thereafter, though it was later instrumental in driving Acid House into the musical mainstream as a whole new EDM (Electronic Dance Music) genre and associated cultural movement, the popularity of which triggered a dramatic rise in the price of used units — as of March 19…

It is fair to say that when Roland released its TB-303 Bass Line in 1981 as a so-called Computer Controlled bass synth with the intention of mimicking the characteristics of an electric bass guitar, there were far fewer tools to create electronic music available. But buyers of the TB-303 Bass Line were possibly swayed by the fact that it could be time-synced — using Roland’s proprietary five-pin DIN sync interface (later superseded by MIDI) — to its contemporarily-released Computer Controlled sibling, the TR-606 Drumatix drum machine, making for an affordable rhythm section that could conceivably fit into a small briefcase as a beautiful backing combination for the solo gigging musician, further helped by both devices being battery operated as an attractive alternative to their (included) AC adapters… or so Roland had hoped.

Though the engineers involved tried their best to imitate the sound of an electric bass guitar with the technology of the time, the TB-303 Bass Line fell short in capturing its subtleties as an instrument, sadly, so it was discontinued within a couple of years, with Roland cheaply selling off the last of the 10,000 units manufactured. Now, normally this would be the end of the story, yet something incredible happened…

Helpfully, for the benefit of anyone not already in the know, The Crow Hill Company’s Theo Le Derf picks up what is an incredible story in itself: “DJ Pierre and his band called Phuture found a used TB-303 in a music shop in Chicago for a bargain price. They started experimenting with the bass sequencer and a drum machine while playing about randomly with the filter and resonance knobs. The sound they produced was so unique and, frankly, weird that they decided to commit the jam session to tape. With the release of this experiment on Trax Records in 1987, they unwittingly birthed a new genre: Acid House. This slimy, hypnotic, subversive sound subsequently built a cultural movement, and was the soundtrack to many illegal warehouse parties of the late Eighties — all of this from a tiny synth that was used ‘incorrectly’.”

Thanks to VAULTS - ACID SYNTH’s GUI (Graphical User Interface) being as intuitive as always, correct — or ‘incorrect’ — usage of the virtual instrument in question comes quickly. “The first large dial — CUT OFF — is a 24dB lowpass filter that controls what high frequencies you cut out, and it is automatically assigned to MIDI CC1.” So starts Theo Le Derf by way of an appropriately quick guided tour, before continuing: “RESONANCE determines the peak of the filter as it opens and closes, which creates that characteristically ‘squelchy’ sound that the synth is known for. The small dials are more concentrated effects — MOD controls how much voltage is being sent to the filter, so you can get some really interesting sounds by adjusting the CUT OFF dial and MOD simultaneously; DECAY controls the decay for all the envelopes; and, of course, there is also our standard ECHO and SPLOSH, with the SPLOSH being an algorithmic imitation of a cave, which suits this synth so brilliantly.”

It is as easy as that, though Theo Le Derf is keen to add: “Another thing to mention is that you can obviously play staccato, but when you play legato — MIDI notes overlapping with one another, you get a glide between the notes. This glide effect is another characteristic that the ’303 is renowned for.”

No need, necessarily, then, to risk dropping a bank-balance-busting four-figure sum on a decades-old Roland TB-303 Bass Line when The Crow Hill Company’s ‘tribute’ truly captures the essence of its distinctive sound for all to enjoy for literally nothing. Notes Theo Le Derf, ending on a high note: “The story arc of this synth is so amazing — from its unpromising beginning to completely defining a genre and an era, it’s so
exciting to have this celebrated instrument at my fingertips for free!”

VAULTS - ACID SYNTH is free for everyone — as are all VAULTS… releases from The Crow Hill Company — from here: https://thecrowhillcompany.com/vaults/