Erica Synths HexDrums - Versatile analog drums

video upload by Group Technologies Australasia

"GT Lab reviews the new HexDrums from Erica Synths, a powerful analog drum machine with digital advantages."

Endorphines Evil Pet: A Granular Powerhouse

video upload by Matt Lowery

"The Evil Pet, by Endorphines, is an incredibly capable desktop granular workstation. Here are some tips and tricks for working with it.

Oh, and make sure to grab a sample pack here to feed your Evil Pet: https://otakusound.gumroad.com/l/boke...

00:00 Overview of the pedal
10:57:12 Buffer Scrubbing a drum loop
44:02 Playing grains back via midi
57:03 Real-time audio processing
51:19 FM radio tuner"

You can find additional posts featuring the Evil Pet here.

5 Ways to Enhance Eurorack Patches with Interpolating Scanners // Unique Sound Design & Modulation

video upload by DivKid

"Here's a video with 5 patches showing relatively simple ways to enhance what you have in your Eurorack modular synth with interpolating scanners. Whether it's searching for unique sounds and tones from your oscillators or morphing creatively through your modulation sources.

I'll be using the Vostok Instruments & DivKid Trace module throughout but these patches are applicable to many of the options for scanning that are now in Eurorack and some of them will work well with standard CV controlled switches too."

*TIMING INDEX // CHAPTERS*
00:00 Hello & previews
00:35 What are we doing in this video?
01:58 Modulation morphing
04:06 Complex VCO tones from a single oscillator
05:58 Blending octaves & fifths with audiorate modulation
08:35 Dynamic dual velocity envelope rhythms
10:55 Sample selecting morphing & making “hooks” from scanning

80s YAMAHA Rhythm Machine RX17 & Kasane Teto sampled OP-1 field | Resolve 2025-11-11 by atnr

video upload by atnr

"This piece was created using the ‪@teenageengineering‬ OP-1 field, ‪@NordKeyboards‬ Nord Lead, ‪@YamahaSynthsOfficial‬ RX17, MU15, and MOTIF-RACK ES. It combines rhythm machine beats, melodies made from sampled vocals of 重音テト Kasane Teto SV, and live bass performance.

On the OP-1 field, the sampler contains Kasane Teto’s voice, which is used to create melodic phrases. At certain points, looping is applied through the NTS-3, and the signal is processed with the ‪@ChaseBlissAudio‬ MOOD MKII.

The RX17 rhythm machine is recorded with an ALESIS 3630 compressor applied.

On the MU15, synth sounds are performed using its built-in keyboard, with reverb added via the blueSky.

The Nord Lead plays melodic parts in the middle section of the piece, processed through the ‪@gfisys‬ Specular Tempus for delay.

The bass is recorded through a SANSAMP Bass Driver DI, routed directly into the audio interface for a clean yet warm tone."

Yamaha DX7 Synthesizer from 1985–some favorite Custom Presets

video upload by Tom Loncaric

"Earlier this year, a friend gifted me this beat up Yamaha DX7 MKI. A sticker on the back indicates it was manufactured in 1985. A technician replaced the felts and rebuilt the keyboard. Apparently someone had spilled some sort of beverage inside! I also installed a new OLED display and the Special Edition ROM chip, which adds some useful features.

Since then, I’ve dragged the DX7 all over the United States, from Nashville to New York. It actually performs very well at concerts. This video showcases some of my favorite presets. The presets are gathered from various sources, including ones on the HyperSynth Hcard-101 cartridge, Bo Tomlyn cartridges, and believe it or not, DX7 patch books from the 1980s. I made a couple presets from scratch, however it took many hours—one must be extremely patient! Only one preset is from the factory Yamaha collection, and that is the infamous “E. Piano 1” sound.

Everything played live straight into an iPad.

Effects used:
Meris MercuryX reverb
Strymon Volante delay
Strymon Lex rotary speaker simulator"

Molli Looper mangling the Elektron Syntakt

video upload by Elastic Instruments (Oliver Greschke)

"Molli Looper 🔁 – the looper that never forgets! Available on iOS, Mac & PC.

In this video the Elektron Syntakt goes into an Arturia Audiofuse soundcard which is connected to my iPhone. The iOS app AUM is receiving Audio from the Syntakt and Molli Looper is running as AUv3 effect on the Audio Input with the Elektron Syntakt.

Molli Looper is a realtime stereo effect for looping and filtering. Intended mainly as an easy to use live performance tool, no preparation is needed to trigger loop recording - input is constantly recorded in the background to be triggered whenever it is needed.

Info/Order: https://mominstruments.com/mollilooper/"

Additional Molli Looper posts

Noise therapy in playdate

video upload by errorinstruments paul tas

"Interesting small setup — this little thing really makes us happy at @errorinstruments 💥

With the @playdate.by.panic Resonance and the amazing developer @orllewin, we’ve been experimenting with FX Noise Therapy to create those beautifully imperfect, tape-like and wobbly textures. 🎛️✨

It’s a minimal setup, but it delivers so much atmosphere — perfect for ambient explorations, experimental noise, and on-the-go sound design sessions. Compact, creative, and ready to travel anywhere inspiration strikes. 🌍🎶"

Novation BassStation: Everybody Needs A 303 (and then some)

video upload by BucketBrigade

"Today, we’re featuring the BassStation - the original, you might say! This was the first synthesiser from a company called Novation - they’ve been rather busy since.

We’ll talk about the story of its development, the market at the time of its release, and comprehensively cover the features of the BassStation from the oscillators, filters, envelopes and utilities. Hopefully by the end of this video you’ll know far more about this synthesiser than you ever wanted to. Thanks for watching :)

My thanks to Keith Littler and Steve Davies for their help in production, as well as Mark for loaning me his synthesiser.

Here is a link to the Novation Bass Station 1 manual. There are separate manuals for both the Bass Station Rack and Super Bass Station: https://www.polynominal.com/novation-...

All music in this video was composed by bucketbrigade Music, 2019-2025, except for the demonstration track of Try Again by Aaliyah recorded by bucketbrigade Music and Beautiful Day by Keith Littler. With the exception of those tracks, they will be available for download in due course.

BucketBrigade Ident sound effects from the BBC Sound Effects Library.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:08 The History
06:35 Demo Track 1 - BassStation Only
09:02 Overview of the unit
10:20 Pre-flight checks, Key’B Util Mode, MIDI
16:08 Tuning
17:11 Patch Memory
19:31 Oscillator 1
20:16 Osc 1 & 2 Modulation
21:57 Oscillator 2
23:52 Filter
27:20 Demo Track 2 - 'Try Again'
28:40 Envelope
34:44 Demo Track 3 - Bass Station Post-rock jam
38:18 Final thoughts
43:23 Credits"

Yamaha CS-01 - The Little Synth That Could

video upload by BucketBrigade

"I'm back! (A little later than planned.) Today we're looking at the Yamaha CS-01, a monosynth from 1982 that - while it can't compete with it's older bigger brother the CS80, has plenty to give - more than you may think ;) Thank you to Paul for loaning me this lovely machine.

Let me know if you owned a CS01 in the comments below, I'd love to hear your stories - and feel free to suggest any other synthesisers you'd like to see on the channel in the future.

PS: A quick note - the quality of the microphone and camera are a bit skew-whiff in this channel. Unfortunately nothing went quite as I had hoped as I didn't have my normal equipment, ran out of time and made some errors - chucking a screen with some photo references in the corner of my eyeshot reflecting the whole time being one of them. Lastly, if my voice sounds a bit weird at the start, my noise reduction plugin went a bit overboard and makes me sound like an AI voice. I'm not, I promise!!"

The Proteus 1 Synthesiser in 2025 - Any Fun?

video upload by BucketBrigade

"Today, we're looking at the original Proteus sound module by E-mu, released in 1989. These were immensely successful back in the day and this one started it all, and so I decided to have a poke around the Proteus' patches to see which ones tickled my fancy.

Again, my thanks to Jon for lending me the Proteus.

If you have any stories about the Proteus, I'd love to hear them. Feel free to leave a comment or email me using the address in my channel description.

I appreciate my playing isn't maestro level, I'm no Doctor Mix unfortunately!! Expect more coming soon :)

The dry-signal version of this video is coming soon!

All images used belong to their respective owners, all music composed by myself, except for the piece used in the 'synth for a walk' sketch"