MATRIXSYNTH

Hologram Microcosm 10th Anniversary

video upload by the nightwater

"Quick jam with the absolutely amazing Hologram Microcosm 10th anniversary edition pedal. UDO Super 6 was going through the microcosm. Univox Minikorg on bass. Dave Smith Tempest on drums. Some additional reverb from the Strymon Bigsky Mx.

Please check out my music here:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/43pG4...
Apple: / the-nightwater
Soundcloud: / thenightwater
Bandcamp: https://thenightwater.bandcamp.com/"

Doboz DVNA No talking (Only Sounds)

video upload by Demover

"Heyho!

I’m very grateful to my friend ‪@doboz.modular‬ for creating the DVNA with so much dedication and persistence. For me, it’s so addictive that it’s really hard to put down. ^ ^

It’s a chord synth with 12 touch sensitive keys, featuring 4 oscillators, effects, and lots of useful functions.

With this video, I’d like to show you some of the amazing things you can create with it, and I haven’t even demonstrated all of its useful features yet."

See the announcement post here.

Buchla Ziggy Envelopes Tutorial

video upload by Buchla

"This video provides an overview of how the Ziggy instrument manages envelopes, focusing on intuitive shaping rather than traditional ADSR parameters."

UDO DMNO Multitrack Demo | Dusty Chords

video upload by Laboratory 0

"All sounds from UDO Audio DMNO, sequenced in Ableton Live and recorded in multitrack, music by Laboratory 0."

Mask1EX/MK2 Sound Bank - GALAXY WAVE VOL 1

video upload by Kodamo

"New sound bank for your Mask1/EX

These 11 voices can be used as single or layered voices. In layered mode, you need to setup them this way to sound identical as the demo:

Voice 0 LLGP + Layer P02 Lsou
Voice 1 R2D2+ Layer P36 rE2
Voice 2 Cuit + Layer P61 LPL2
Voice 3 MSMT + Layer P188 Forest
Voice 4 Bashunte + Layer P71 Ludoc
Voice 5 Ufol + Layer P49 Horns
Voice 6 Lulu + Layer P50 Supersaw
Voice 7 L9J9 + Layer L55 (in this bank)
Voice 8 L55 + Layer P73 Ochoir
Voice 9 Luns + Layer LLGP (in this bank)
Voice 10 Cbr2u + Layer L55 (in this bank)

These layered voices are made for the Mask1 EX. For Mask 1 keyboard users, layered voices may differ.

Download here: https://kodamo.org/attachment?id=1598

Sound design by Ludovic Ferrando aka Cutting Edge
Copyright © 2026 Cutting Edge"

Ziggy Quick Beat

video upload by Buchla

"ziggy sounds plus MPC sample factory sounds"

Korg USA Mourns the Passing of Jack Hotop, Legendary Sound Designer and Innovator

Some sad news in via Korg.

You can find posts on MATRIXSYNTH featuring Jack Hotop here for a look back on his influence in the synthesizer community. The first post was a simple pic back in 2006.

Press release from Korg follows:

Over a 40-Year Career, the Influential Synthesist and Accomplished Touring Keyboardist Shaped the Sonic Architecture of More Than 100 Landmark Instruments, Including the Historic M1 Workstation

MELVILLE, N.Y. - Korg USA announces with deep sadness the passing of longtime employee, celebrated sound designer, and musical instrument industry icon Jack Hotop. Joining Korg USA (then Unicord) in 1983, Hotop started as Senior Voicing Manager and spent over four decades driving the development, sound design, programming, voicing, and product demonstrations for more than 100 Korg products. As a pioneering engineer and exceptionally skilled performer, his extensive contributions helped guide the evolution of synthesizers and digital workstations from the early 1980s through the modern era, leaving an indelible imprint on instruments used by musicians around the world and for generations to come.

Hotop’s foundational expertise was anchored in a rigorous musical and technical background. Raised in a musical family, he began piano lessons at age seven, inspired by his father, a musician featured on several Broadway cast recordings, and numerous pianists on his mother’s side. By age 14, he was actively performing in local bands on a Gibson 101 organ. He pursued formal training at the Berklee College of Music, majoring in arranging, composition, and accompaniment, before expanding into emerging music technology at the Boston School of Electronic Music under Roger Powell. It was there that Hotop established his core synthesis fundamentals using early hardware including the ARP Odyssey, 2600, 2500, and EMS Synthi, building a deep understanding of waveforms, envelopes, low-frequency oscillators, and modulators.

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introducing splines

video upload by Þ

"A first tour of the new splines eurorack module by thorn.audio out now.
For more information please visit the manual page at:
://thorn.audio/splines"

This one was sent my way via Meska.

"Splines is a visual vector curve generator in Eurorack format, with a wide frequency range and a built in quantizer, cv scope and cv processing capability.

It can be used in ways similar to a wavetable VCO, LFO, step sequencer or envelope generator.

Onboard quantizer scales, backups and firmware updates are managed as you would use an external USB drive.

It’s a small, shallow, multifaceted addition to any setup, and for touring rigs it can fill many roles in exchange for little space and weight.

in depth.
In the technical sense "splines" are most commonly used in 3d modelling, animation and vector graphics. It's essentially just a way of creating a curved path from one point to another.

In this module, you have up to sixteen user configurable points or nodes which function much like a step sequencer, where the X axis represents time and the Y axis represents voltage.

When the phase(time) reaches the X position of a node, the 1v/oct output changes to the Y position value of that node.

Each of the sixteen nodes also has a configurable trigger setting, determining if the gate output goes high when the phase crosses the X position of the node.

The nodes are connected by a spline and the shape of this spline is determined by three parameters; Tension, Continuity and Bias. The spline output gives you a voltage following this curve.

Tension changes how extreme the curve between the nodes is.

Continuity sets the angle of the spline at the node.

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First Steps with OXI One MKII / EP. 12 Domino Mode

video upload by OXI Instruments

00:00 Introduction
01:11 How Domino works
01:39 Adding notes
03:10 Setting mono or poly mode
03:54 Decoupling the two sections
05:05 How repetition engine works with Domino
06:20 Adding accumulators
06:59 Velocity, gate groove and randomization

First Steps with OXI One series

"Domino is a new trigger-layered sequencer mode designed to break away from traditional step sequencing workflows. Instead of tying rhythm and pitch together in a fixed pattern, Domino separates trigger information from melodic content, allowing both layers to evolve independently while remaining perfectly synchronized.
This simple but powerful concept opens the door to endlessly shifting phrasing, evolving grooves, and unexpected melodic variations. Start with a single musical idea, then explore entirely different interpretations by changing how notes are triggered over time. A static melody can suddenly become dynamic, human, hypnotic, or completely unpredictable — all without rewriting the original sequence.
Because trigger and note layers interact independently, Domino encourages experimentation and rewards happy accidents. It’s a workflow designed for musicians who want movement and variation without sacrificing musical coherence.

Domino is featured in the new Nigrán 2.0 firmware update, available now through the OXI App."