Mother Lode Synth Meetup - The First Ever Synth Meetup in Calif Gold Country

This one in via brian comnes, who happens to be the RSVP contact for the event. Reach out to him at bcomnes@yahoo.com if you plan to attend.

Details follow:

WHERE: Elvis' Rhythm and Brews, 78 Main Street in center of historic Sutter Creek

Come to the first ever Mother Lode Synth Meetup. We have a great venue at Elvis' Rhythm and Brews club/bar.. Yes because Rhythm and Brews is a bar there will be a good selection beer available for purchase.

Bring some gear to to share/discuss/show off or just come for the fun of meeting other synth/electronica enthusiasts.

Rhythm and Brews is a great venue, plenty of tables and enough plugs to hook up. It has a first class PA for solo demos if that is what you want to do. Parking is a bit tight on Saturdays. Get there a bit early We're asking a suggested donation of $5-10 per person. All proceeds go to the venue.

Please RSVP to bcomnes@yahoo.com so we can plan the room better.

Echolocator delay: Tape vs BBD plus weirdness (no talk)

video upload by Richard DeHove

"This video was the result of a comment by @lextron-audio noting that there was no clear comparison of Tape vs BBD mode for the Echolocator. Yes, fair enough I thought, I can fix that. I imagined a snappy three minute video switching between modes as a dry technical comparison. Not exciting, but useful in a nuanced nerdy sort of way, and that's how things started. Yet here we are, 20 minutes of twiddlings co-starring the LXR-02, DB-01 and Acidbox III that gets weirder as it goes along. And everything is unsynced. I wouldn't call it music, I just enjoy the textures and frequencies. That's what comes of spending too many hours playing with shortwave noise as a kid.

'Dirty On' is BBD mode; and 'Dirty Off' is the default Tape mode. I randomly flip between them trying to show the differences in various situations. Sometimes there's not much between them, othertimes especially with pitch shifting on, the differences are huge. In the end though the result is more an experiment in real-time Echolocator playing than a straight mode comparison. Even so I never touched the compressor setting which was at a constant 50. That variable also make a big difference so that's for another day.

Come for the technical comparison stay for the industrio-ambient grit :D

0:00 Basic drums
3:38 Noise drums
5:08 Acidbox weirdness
13:17 Pitchy synth keys
17:33 Sweep effects

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

Blue Bells - Korg PS3300 (Preset Patch 11 Demonstration)

video upload by Brett Little

"All sounds from a single PS3300 patch with no overdubs. This synth has a special kind of magic.

This sound example is a demonstration of a single patch in a bank of presets I am collaborating with Korg to release on future PS3300 units."

ARP 2600 - Space Echo | Making a Bass Patch

video upload by Suspect Media

"The video begins with the creation of an ARP 2600 bass patch. I start by taking a sine wave and routing it through the preamp, amplified by a factor of 100, which gives it a distortion character I really like. I then add a pulse wave from the same VCO, along with a saw wave from VCO 1. In the second part of the video, I demonstrate how this patch is used in a mix... with The Universe as a background.

00:00 Bass patch.
01:29 Mix"

Yamaha CS6x Synthesizer - CR2032 Backup Battery Replacement

video upload by René Feuerlein

"In this short video, I show via stills, where to locate the Yamaha CS6x CR2032 backup battery, and how to replace it."

Audio is from the Yamaha CS6x built-in demo song.

ESK - Leploop Arpoloop Sound Demo Part 2

video upload by Metunar

"Second Demo Track of a Leploop Arpoloop. It’s a kind of „strange analog groovebox“. I'm slowly starting to understand the synth now and it's becoming more and more fun.
Also this time no use of external effects. I will do that later.
Direct recording with soft mastering.

http://www.metunar.ch

Groovebox Patch with MetaModule

video upload by 4ms Company

Bastl WAVE BARD at Superbooth 2025

video upload by Tweeeeeak!

"No talking, just tweaking and patching..."

Patch from scratch with the Befaco Bandit

video upload by Omri Cohen

"Here you can find the document of tips and tricks - / 119073839

You can find this patch, along with many others, available on my Patreon page - / 129021825

00:00 - Introduction
00:23 - Envelopes on different bands
08:53 - Mixing
16:38 - Audio rate modulation
23:21 - Send/return"

PPG 1002 Synthesizer Live-Jam

video upload by Cornel Hecht

"A short live jam with the PPG 1002 analog synthesizer, sonically enhanced with the effects of the Strymon Big Sky and the Zen Delay. Have a listen to the sounds created with this combination! 🎶"