MATRIXSYNTH

A "JP-8000" in your DAW for FREE

video upload by mylarmelodies

"Meet the DSP6300 crew and 'JE-8086', part their amazing ongoing project to make the firmware in 90's virtual analogue synths run in a modern DAW as a VST plugin. FOR FREE. 🔗 https://dsp56300.wordpress.com/ 👉 / mylarmelodies 🙌 MORE LINKS BELOW

Thanks to those who sent me the lecture - it's really interesting if you'd like to understand how this was achieved!

MORE INFO
▶︎ DSP56300 Site (the plugin is called "JE-8086"): https://dsp56300.wordpress.com/
▶︎ Roland's Official JP-8000 Firmware is here: https://www.roland.com/global/support..
. ▶︎ Lecture video by the creators on how it was done: • 39C3 - From Silicon to Darude Sand-storm: ... [video below]
▶︎ The DSP56300 donation link from the app: https://paypal.me/dsp56300
▶︎ More talks from them: https://media.ccc.de/search?p=giulioz

CHAPTERS:
00:00 This sounds familiar.
00:42 The sound, the feat
02:07 How it was done
03:41 Legal implications of ROMs
04:27 A quick fiddle
06:49 How to install & support it

39C3 - From Silicon to Darude Sand-storm: breaking famous synthesizer DSPs

video upload by media.ccc.de

"https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-from-sili...

Have you ever wondered how the chips and algorithms that made all those electronic music hits work? Us too!

At The Usual Suspects we create open source emulations of famous music hardware, synthesizers and effect units. After releasing some emulations of devices around the Motorola 563xx DSP chip, we made further steps into reverse engineering custom silicon chips to achieve what no one has done before: a real low-level emulation of the JP-8000. This famous synthesizer featured a special "SuperSaw" oscillator algorithm, which defined an entire generation of electronic and trance music. The main obstacle was emulating the 4 custom DSP chips the device used, which ran software written with a completely undocumented instruction set. In this talk I will go through the story of how we overcame that obstacle, using a mixture of automated silicon reverse engineering, probing the chip with an Arduino, statistical analysis of the opcodes and fuzzing. Finally, I will talk about how we made the emulator run in real-time using JIT, and what we found by looking at the SuperSaw code.

This talk is a sequel to my last year's talk Proprietary silicon ICs and dubious marketing claims? Let's fight those with a microscope!", where I showed how I reverse engineered a pretty old device (1986) by looking at microscope silicon pics alone, with manual tracing and some custom tools. Back then I claimed that taking a look at a more modern device would be way more challenging, due to the increased complexity.

This time, in fact, I've reverse engineered a much modern chip: the custom Roland/Toshiba TC170C140 ESP chip (1995). Completing this task required a different approach, as doing it manually would have required too much time. We used a guided automated approach that combines clever microscopy with computer vision to automatically classify standard cells in the chip, saving us most of the manual work.

The biggest win though came from directly probing the chip: by exploiting test routines and sending random data to the chip we figured out how the internal registers worked, slowly giving us insights about the encoding of the chip ISA. By combining those two approaches we managed to create a bit-accurate emulator, that also is able to run in real-time using JIT.

In this talk I want to cover the following topics:
What I learned since my previous talk by looking at more complicated chips
Towards automating the silicon reverse engineering process
How to find and exploit test modes to understand how stuff works
How we tricked the chips into spilling its own secrets
How the ESP chip works, compared to existing DSP chips
How the SuperSaw oscillator turned out to work

giulioz

https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/h..."

Siberian Sun - analog synthesizer from Russia #lmz #Siberiansun #analog #synthesizer

video upload by LMZ

Siberian Sun - analog synthesizer from Russia #lmz #Siberiansun #analog #synthesizer

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Tom 1501 from UltraRare

video upload by Futulyric

"Tom1501, based on the Soviet synthesizer of the same name, is now complete. Multichannel mode has been added. Separate chorus and sustain controls for both keyboard sections are available.
Coming soon to the store.
https://ultrarare.su/?post_type=product"

Ambient loopy live synth work out OB6 (Steps Right)

video upload by Surgeons Girl

"Steps right taken from my new EP on Livity Sound available everywhere but you can buy here.

OB6 seqeunced with ableton Mother 32 playing bass line/lead internal seqeunce - Blofeld playing long pads seqeunced with Digitone. Long live preset 507 (OB6)"

Blue Techno

video upload by itramtal

"Erica Synths DB-01 & LXR02, Nightverb & Zen Delay, Sequential OB-6, Pro2."

Nord Performance Sale - March 2026

video upload by Kraft Music

"Nord Performance Sale at Kraft Music:
https://kraftmusic.com/collections/no...

The Nord Performance Sale at Kraft Music for March of 2026. Save up to $1000.00 on select Nord instruments for a limited time, plus bonus items, and exlusive bundle offers!"

Baby Audio GRAINFERNO

video upload by DATABROTH

"Read my full review here: www.databroth.com/blog/grainferno-review

check out my wavetables and presets at https://gumroad.com/databroth
join my Patreon https://www.patreon.com/databroth

00:00 Melody and tweaking
02:56 SFX
03:54 Ambience
04:43 Chaotic Percussion"

Granular synthesis redefined

Break your samples apart to build new and unique sounds

Play any audio file like a synthesizer-in tune with your song

Explore a new world of sound design with audio as your raw material

A firestorm of granular power

Grainferno is an advanced granular instrument built around a new way of synthesizing sound from existing audio. Its next-gen grain engine breaks your samples into microscopic fragments and rebuilds them into entirely new textures.

From pristine tonal clouds to experimental digital noise, Grainferno turns your sample library into an endless source of playable inspiration.

Make a synth from any sound

Grainferno can generate grains at speeds fast enough to cross into the audio range. At these rates, grains stop behaving like texture and start acting like oscillators-turning any audio file into a playable synth voice.

Even at audio rates, traces of the original sonic character remain, giving you unique synth building blocks with the spectral fingerprint of your source audio.

Add modulation and grain-level shaping to build ready-to-use granular synth tones that stay in tune with your song like a traditional synth.

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Aarhus with Kusama

video upload by copenhagennoiselab

"Inspired by the immersive logic of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms, this work transforms Aarhus into a living field of light and sound. A real urban dataset is remapped into a 1-meter volumetric grid of dots, turning streets, facades, and terrain into a shimmering, porous city body.

Viewers enter a synchronized walk: wherever you join from, the system places everyone at the same point in the loop at the same moment in time. The city is shared, but the experience is personal. Dot groups pulse in slow, shifting color relations, and no two listeners hear identical spatial balance.
At irregular intervals, simulated litter-like impacts strike the environment. Instead of decay, each collision produces resonance: expanding waves through the dot matrix and bell-like modal tones tuned to a constrained scale with slight detune. Impacts can ricochet across surfaces, and terrain now influences bounce direction, coupling topography to rhythm.

Built with public geospatial data, procedural animation, modal synthesis, and iterative AI-assisted development, the piece sits between urban memory, ecological friction, and collective choreography: a walkable score where city form becomes light, time, and vibration.

Check it out at:
https://www.unusable.ai/aarhus-with-k...
(Best experienced on big screens / projection)"

Korg Modwave - "Space Explorations" Soundset (40 Performances)

video upload by LFOstore

"'Space Explorations' is an immersive collection of 40 performances crafted exclusively for the Korg Modwave. This soundset channels the boundless mystery of deep space: vast, shimmering pads that drift like nebulae, evolving atmospheres pulsing with distant stars, hypnotic sequences orbiting like gravitational waves, soaring leads cutting through the vacuum, intricate ARPs twinkling like constellations, and ethereal keys echoing across light-years.

Harnessing Modwave's powerful wavetable engine, motion sequencing, and layering capabilities, every performance is designed for maximum expressiveness — most respond vividly to modulation wheel, velocity and real-time tweaks via the four modulation knobs. You'll find deeply modulated, evolving textures perfect for slow-building ambient journeys, Berlin School-inspired sequences, sci-fi film/TV scoring, meditative drones, retro-futuristic electronica, and live improvisations that feel like piloting a starship through uncharted galaxies.

Whether you're evoking the solitude of interstellar travel, the awe of a supernova, or the quiet hum of a black hole's event horizon, "Space Exploration" turns your Modwave into a personal observatory for sonic cosmos. These aren't just presets — they're portals to other worlds and extraordinary soundscapes. Created with passion for both vintage space-age vibes and Modwave's modern hybrid synthesis, this library invites you to explore the unknown and bring the universe into your music!

Please find more information here - https://ottolfo.sellfy.store/modwave/"