OSCar Repair

video upload by Really Nice Audio

"Join me a quest to bring this Oscar synth. Its has mainly cosmetic issues and there are a couple of surprises hidden inside!

Many thanks to
https://www.vintagesynthparts.com
for replacement keys. Well worth a look as they have many obscure parts for many synths.

Music from my forthcoming ATMOS album 'Height Supremacy'. I used this because the main synth line is my OSCar!"

Chris Meyer’s Alias Zone Live in the Knobcon Chillout Room 2025: Circle, Deconstructed

video upload by Chris Meyer's Alias Zone + Learning Modular

"Live performance by Chris Meyer’s Alias Zone
Live visuals by Gordon’s Wireworks and Golfshoes Music

Part of the Paradise Lost 2025 tour: https://aliaszone.bandcamp.com/album/...



(special thanks to Jim Coker of Five12 Inc for making the Chillout Room happen)"

Fractals – MUSIC FOR PEAK (EP) [Ambient | Novation Peak Synthesizer]

video upload by Michele Cataneo Music

"🌌 Fractals is the second track revealed from my upcoming EP MUSIC FOR PEAK (EP), created entirely with the Novation Peak synthesizer.
A sonic ascent of layered textures and evolving atmospheres, where every sound rises and expands toward new heights.

📀 MUSIC FOR PEAK (EP) – Coming Soon"

Soniccouture Releases Deep Felt: Next Generation Soft Piano

video upload by Soniccouture

"James gives a quick play through of Soniccouture's Deep Felt soft piano VST instrument: an ultra-detailed take on the felt piano, with 18 velocity layers and multiple mic channels. https://www.soniccouture.com/en/produ..."

via Soniccouture

"Deep Felt is our take on the now ubiquitous felt / soft piano.

This most atmospheric of instruments is often sampled quickly, with a.. less than desirable specification.

We wanted to do it properly.

With 18 velocity layers and extensive mechanical details, Deep Felt takes this genre to a new level.

Kontakt Player | NKS | Native Access Download

€129 | $129

INTRO OFFER €90 | $90 Until 4th Nov 25"

A Big Three Wind Jam | Make Noise

video upload by MAKEN0ISE

"A little wind-inspired improv with Strega, 0-Coast and 0-CTRL.

This week marks the one year anniversary of Hurricane Helene, whose effects are still being felt throughout our region. Of Landfall and Wildfires is a new compilation of music bay Asheville artists. This is a benefit compilation and all the proceeds will go to Earthjustice, a non-profit public interest environmental law organization.

More info can be found at the links below:



https://ceremonyofseasons.bandcamp.co...
https://earthjustice.org/
https://www.ceremonyofseasons.com/
https://burialbeer.com/collections/as...

http://www.makenoisemusic.com"

Metropolix 1.6 Update: What's New?

video upload by Intellijel

"A brief overview of the new Metropolix 1.6 firmware update.

New features include:
• MIDI Program Change
• MIDI Root Note
• RUN-C Reset Mode
• plus Tweaks & Bug Fixes

Update now with our web updater tool: https://intellijel.github.io/firmware/

Other gear featured in this video:
• Intellijel Cascadia - Bass Synth
• Elektron Digitone MkII - MIDI, Drums and FX

#metropolix #eurorack #sequencer #firmwareupdate"

Performance Techniques - PT210 - SPD-SX Jungle Loops with Novation Peak

video upload by A Work In Progress

"A Work In Progress⁠ ⁠

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Performance Techniques PT210

SPD-SX Jungle Loops with Novation Peak"

The tuning of SID chips and modern replacements

video upload by MIDI IN

"An interesting question came up this week about the tuning of SIDs. I'll be adding calibration tuning to MIDISID's menu which will solve any issues and also allow tuning to other non-tunable things, but I've spent the day testing the tuning of real SIDs and replacements, and looking at what affects their tuning and documented all of that here."

MOON Part 2 - Ambient Modular #19 // Subharmonicon, Rings, Take 5, Juno, Analog Four

video upload by David Falcon

"Parte dos de dos de esta mini serie. Misma secuencia en el @MoogSynthesizers Subharmonicon pero con un arreglo completamente diferente.
En este he añadido un par de elementos en post, ya que en la segunda parte necesitaba un pequeño empujón el tema. Para ello he usado el @SequentialLLC Take 5 y la emulación del Juno de @ArturiaOfficial .
Muy contento con el resultado.
Espero que esta comparativa os haya resultado interesante.

(eng)
Part two of two of this mini series. Same sequence in the Moog Subharmonicon but with a completely different arrangement.
In this I have added a couple of elements in the post, since in the second part the topic needed a little push. For this I have used Sequential Take 5 and Arturia's Juno emulation.
Very happy with the result.
I hope you found this comparison interesting."

Echolocator delay fully cranked for guitar-style feedback (no talk)

video upload by Richard DeHove

"I've always loved dirty guitar feedback. But since I don't play guitar (other than very bad Punk bass) it's proved hard to replicate with synths. Lately I've been looking at the Audrey II feedback drone thing which is all about feedback. At around 400 Eurobucks that seems a lot to pay for feedback so I thought: surely there's something that I already have that can do controlled feedback?

Delays are a reasonably obvious choice although very few have enough controls to generate the classic feedback tone yet also keep it under control. Happily the Echolocator can by a little manipulation of its compressor setting. At zero (in the 0 to 100 range) it is just a little too keen and can generate an overload which freezes the unit and requires a power cycle. I finally settled at "9" which gives it just enough compression to prevent meltdowns. Even so the output level needs to be kept low. Most of the other parameters just add degrees of thickening or turbulence which you can see in the video.

The routing here is the DB-01 into the Echolocator and then stereo out to the Zen with generous serves of distortion and a touch of lowpass filtering to roll off some of the shrill top end. I had thought the Echolocator would be the Zen's executioner, instead they're now a loving couple.

In the two demos here the first is with the clean delay setting with the feedback amount set low in the patch. The second demo using patch 54 uses the 'dirty' delay setting and has the feedback amount programmed high in the patch which is why it starts whining as soon as I switch to it.

0:00 Demo 1 clean
2:07 No Zen
2:51 Demo 2 dirty
3:50 No modulation
4:20 Timing change
5:00 Thick modulation

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