U-He Zebra 3: 50 Bass Presets. Sound Demo. Live Jam

video upload by Anton Anru

"🎸 'Bass Elements' is a collection of 50 bass presets for U-He Zebra 3.
The patches cover a variety of bass tones: analog and digital, warm and metallic, deep and bright, soft and punchy, long and short, static and rhythmical.
All sounds are very dynamic: they have Velocity and ModWheel assignments.

🎛 Each patch includes 4 Macros controlling brightness, movement, envelope, modulation depth and rate, noise, distortion, and other parameters.
ModWheel opens the sound and adds harmonic content.

📦 The download link: https://antonanru.sellfy.store/p/zebr...
❗️Compatible only with Zebra 3. Not compatible with Zebra 2/Legacy.

🧿 The soundset is universal, these basses are suitable for all genres of electronic music, including Techno, House, Trance, Lounge, Downtempo, Funk, Disco, Pop, Acid, Hardcore, IDM, Drum'n'Bass, Breaks, Breakbeat, Trap, Electro, Ambient, Dubstep, EDM, Synth-Pop and others.

Technical Info – How to Import Presets
Open the Zebra plugin.
Go to the Presets tab.
On the left panel, find the User folder.
Drag and drop the folder the presets folder from your computer into the User folder inside Zebra.
Restart the plugin or refresh the presets list if needed.
The presets should now appear under User in the Zebra browser.
Make sure you are using the latest vst-plugin version.

I added drums and pads to the demo for musical context. They are not included in the soundset. The melodies/patterns are also not part of the collection—it contains only timbres/presets."

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Zebra 3 – Preset Walkthrough Pt. III (no talking)

video upload by u-he

All parts

"We continue on our musical journey through Zebra 3's preset categories 7-9: Keys & Classics, Winds & Strings, Pads. https://u-he.com/products/synths/zebra3/

00:00 - Keys & Classics
02:29 - Winds & Strings
05:17 - Pads"

Simple Arpeggios, Endless Textures | Moog Minitaur Ambient Session

video upload by Hideo Nakasako

"Simple arpeggios, endless textures. 🌙

Tonight’s ambient session is centered around the Moog Minitaur. Starting with a simple arpeggiated phrase, I layered textures from the Yamaha SEQTRAK and Elektron Analog Four to create a warm and spacious soundscape.

Thanks for listening.

Gear:
• Moog Minitaur
• Yamaha SEQTRAK
• Elektron Analog Four
• Mutable Instruments Beads
• Strymon BlueSky

#ambientmusic #ambientsession #moogminitaur #seqtrak #analogfour"

Snipe Young Presents Titanium | Akai Pro MPC Expansion

video upload by Akai Professional

"As creative as he is prolific, Snipe Young has built a signature sound sought out by artists across genres and around the world.

The multi-platinum producer’s hard-hitting beats and atmospheric sensibilities combine hip-hop, trap, and R&B into a calling card that collects hits. Beyoncé, Chris Brown, Dr. Dre, and Justin Bieber have all brought Snipe Young into the studio with results that have been streamed hundreds of millions of times.

Pack Contents:
40 MPC-Ready Drum Kits
1 Full MPC Project
160 MPC Clips
40 Audio Previews
626 Samples

'Snipe Young Presents – Titanium' is a showcase of the Grammy Award-winning producer’s prowess, a victory lap in a sample pack that provides the jumpoff for you to create your signature sound. Chirpy hi-hats, battering ram basses, choppy rimshots, and snare hits that bounce like they’re on the hardcourt are all on deck. Every sample was run through high-end studio gear for added punch, depth, and dimension.

Titanium is included with MPC Live III and MPC XL. MPC3 OS / MPC3 Desktop required.

Learn more: https://inmusic.to/2p8mczud"

Nord - The Making of the Red Keyboards

video upload by nordkeyboards

"Step inside the Nord factory and discover the story behind the original red keyboards. This unique short documentary offers an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the craftsmanship, innovation and people who bring Nord instruments to life.

A documentary by Jonas Embring
Executive Producer at Nord: David Sjöqvist
Sound Design: Martin Stenberg
Narrated by John Russell

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Befaco 7U Backpack

video upload by Befacosynth

"The Befaco Modular Backpack is designed specifically to carry your Befaco 7U Case safely and comfortably wherever your music takes you.

Built for modular musicians on the move, the backpack features a soft padded interior, ensuring your system stays protected during transport. Its expandable design gives you extra space when needed, while keeping a compact profile for everyday travel.

A dedicated laptop compartment lets you bring your computer along for live performances, studio sessions, or patching on the go. Multiple accessory pockets keep cables, headphones, power supplies and small gear neatly organized — including a hidden pocket for your knurlies and tiny essentials.

Sized to be cabin-friendly, the backpack is ready for flights, gigs, rehearsals, and studio hopping. Whether you’re travelling across the city or across the world, it’s the perfect companion for your Befaco 7U Case.

https://www.befaco.org/7u-case-backpack"

TR-808 // MONOLIT SEQUENCER // CONCRETE :: pt.2

video upload by Light Reft [Sasha DZA]

Chase Bliss BIG TIME Delay Showcase | Sound Demo (feat. Modal Element One) ‪@ChaseBlissAudio‬

video upload by Davide Puxeddu

"A pure audio demonstration of the Chase Bliss Big Time hybrid analog/digital echo, utilizing the newly released Modal Electronics Element One virtual analog synthesizer as the main sound source.
No talking, just hardware.

Designed in collaboration with John Snyder of Electronic Audio Experiments (EAE), the Chase Bliss Big Time is a true-stereo hybrid echo that revisits the mixed-up, unique circuitry found in rackmount delays from the early 1980s. In that era, advanced analog engineering was functionally used to prop up crude digital systems. The Big Time intentionally embraces and pushes this hybrid architecture to its absolute extremes.

This video showcases how the Big Time's interactive controls and dual stages of analog coloration transform incoming synthesizer signals:

• Stereo Analog Preamp (Color): Adds beautiful, warm saturation to the input stage, designed to handle a wide variety of instruments.
• Feedback Loop Limiter (State): An analog clipping limiter in the delay path that creates everything from smooth compression to crumbling, misbiased overdrive that slowly disintegrates your echoes.
• Cluster Slider: Blends in additional delay taps and diffusion, smudging and expanding the sound into rich ambient delights and multi-tap clusters inspired by vintage space station units.
• Scale & Motion: Controls creative transposition, Thermae-like musical sequencing, and stereo modulation (Sine, Square, Envelope).

Watch how the Big Time's motorized faders react and seamlessly transition through different delay modes—from tight modulations (3-46ms) to Short (46-736ms) and Long delays, across HiFi, Focus, Warm, and Analog voicings.

Providing the core audio tracking is the Modal Element One. Its 8-voice virtual analog engine, morphable filters, and rich stereo waveforms offer the perfect high-quality sonic canvas to test the Big Time's true-stereo capabilities, input saturation, and analog dry-thru.

🎧 Headphones or studio monitors are highly recommended to capture the full true-stereo imaging and analog character of the pedal.

Special thanks to Chase Bliss!"

Unusable Engineering Releases Partials & Discrepancies Additive Soft Synth & Effects

video uploads by Unusable Engineering

Playlist:

1. Partials & Discrepancies | Full Walkthrough of an Additive Synth
2. Partials & Discrepancies | Sound Examples
3. Geometry Delay | Full Walkthrough of a Multi-Tap Delay
4. Geometry Reverb | Walkthrough of a Geometry-Based Reverb
5. Binaural Modulator | Full Walkthrough of a Spatial Modulation Effect
6. Partials & Discrepancies | Extremely Long and Incredibly Offhand


via Unusable Engineering

Today marks the release of our second synth, a multi-tap delay, a reverb and a free spatial modulator for both Mac and Windows as AU/VST3.

Partials & Discrepancies is an 8 voice additive poly-synth. The goal was to make additive synthesis accessible through a much simpler abstraction model than what you usually get, and include lots of sonic motion capabilities within a simple interface without modulation matrixes or multi page layouts. As always, we want to build instruments and effects that makes it fun to make music and that won’t slow down the creativity. Partials & Discrepancies is available for 79 euros incl. VAT. Discounts and cross-grade offers may be available on the account page for earlier costumers.

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How Honeysmack jams live techno — 303, 808, modular & more

video upload by Noisegate and Honeysmack

"David Haberfeld — better known as Honeysmack — is a live techno improviser. That means the tracks in his sets are built and arranged in real time in front of an audience rather than pre-sequenced in a DAW. In this studio tour he walks through the hardware he performs with and puts a track together from scratch on the spot.

The rig spans vintage and modern boxes: the Roland TB-303 (the synth-with-a-sequencer that anchors a lot of his sound), Roland's TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines, a Mackie 16-channel mixer, a DJ mixer he's come to use as a performance instrument, Behringer's RD-8 MKII and RD-9 (clones of the 808 and 909, both of which he beta tested), the Behringer Syncussion SY1, a Pro-1 synth and a modular system. Along the way he gets into why the 808 and 909 ended up defining whole genres — and argues it had less to do with how they sounded and more to do with what was simply available at the time.

Honeysmack has a new Live Techno Masterclass coming up on Sunday 26 July at Collingwood Yards, Melbourne:

https://events.humanitix.com/honeysma...
/ dz1kazpuoma

CHAPTERS
0:00 live techno improvisation
0:36 studio reveal
0:59 Roland TB-303
1:42 building a track from scratch
3:47 808/909
5:43 Performance
7:08 Synths, modular & sequencers
8:45 jam

GEAR FEATURED
Roland TB-303 · Roland TR-808 · Roland TR-909 · Behringer RD-8 MKII · Behringer RD-9 · Behringer Syncussion SY1 · Pro-1 · Mackie 16-channel mixer · DJ mixer · modular synthesizer

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Noisegate is an Australian based collective of working musicians, producers, DJs, and live audio professionals dedicated to bringing you the latest music gear news, tutorials, interviews and more. We cover a range of categories including guitars, bass, synths, keyboards, pro-audio, DJ gear, live audio, industry news and all the ways we make and interact with music and sound."