A timeline of Akai Professional's (and Roger Linn) MPCs

video upload by Audiorial

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"Hello

Today, I'm offering you a mini documentary that looks back on the adventure of Akai and Roger Linn's autonomous MPC. Happy watching!"

Easel explore

video upload by Todd Barton

VCS3 Workout

video upload by Synthesizer Keith

"I recently restored an EMS VCS3 and DK-1 keyboard, and put them through a recording workout. This video has an easter egg of sorts in it. More details in the upcoming repair video."

Dystorpia - digital fuzz overdrive pedal from Noise Engineering

video upload by Noise Engineering

"Futuristic Fuzz, Dystopian Distortion, Overdrive Oblivion.

Dystorpia is Noise Engineering’s digital fuzz/overdrive pedal. Utilizing wavefolding and rectification, along with flexible tone controls, Dystorpia offers up a diverse sonic palette to work with for recording or live performance."

The Nastiest Distortion Pedal Ever - Dystorpia

video upload by Harp Lady

Press release follows:

Los Angeles, CA — Noise Engineering, known for their innovative Eurorack synthesizer modules, has made their first foray into guitar pedals with the announcement of Dystorpia, an entirely unique take on digital distortion and drive for guitar.

Noise Engineering has a reputation in the world of synthesizers for putting their own spin on classic concepts, and they’ve now brought their expertise to the guitar world. Having designed over a dozen modules that make use of distortion, Noise Engineering has taken ten years of experience creating new tones and brought it into an expansive overdrive toolkit.

“From the start, we knew we wanted to make something designed with guitarists in mind. Our testing initially focused entirely on how Dystorpia sounds with the more complex dynamics of guitars. Once we got there, we started trying it on other instruments and we were excited at how well we’d hit our mark; Dystorpia sounds great on guitars, but also basses, synths, drums, and more,” said Stephen McCaul, co-owner and Chief Noisemaker.

Dystorpia features three different distortion parameters. Gain sets the input level going into the rest of the pedal, and can overdrive for classic driven timbres. As the Blend knob is turned up, it adds in a slight saturation for some gentle distortion on its own. This makes it easier to timbrally balance the unaffected dry sound with the heavily processed wet signal. Fold controls a wavefolding algorithm, a technique taken from the world of synthesizers that creates a unique flavor of harmonic distortion. Pura adds a full-wave rectifier to the mix, another unique distortion.

Along with all of that distortion, Dystorpia features an expression-controllable Tone control with variable mid-band frequency, a switchable noise gate, and an optional suboctave generator.
Dystorpia also features two foot switches. On the right, a buffered bypass turns off and on the distortion processing. The left foot switch activates a latching or momentary freeze effect, infinitely sustaining a sound until it’s unfrozen again. While a sound is frozen, the pedal can still process new sounds at the input, allowing the performer to play over a frozen signal.

With so many tone-shaping options and performative features, Dystorpia is much more than just another fuzz or overdrive pedal. Dystorpia encompasses an entire pedalboard worth of distortion and tonal effects in a compact and fun package.


Dystorpia is available now at https://noiseengineering.us and at retailers globally.

Features
● Three unique distortion effects
● Expression-controllable Tone parameter
● Optional noise gate to reduce hum and add dynamics
● Add in suboctaves with the DOOM switch
● Infinitely freeze a signal with the left footswitch
● Sounds great on guitar and synths


Availability and pricing:
Dystorpia: In stock. Shipping from Noise Engineering and retailers starting August 22nd, 2024; MSRP US$399

Check with dealers on the right for availability.

Waldorf Introduces Microwave 1 Plugin

video uploads by WaldorfMusicChannel. Last two videos in the playlist above by Martin Stürtzer and James Dyson.

"Waldorf just released the Microwave 1 - as software! I am happy to present the plugin and compare it to my original Microwave 1 Rev A.
https://waldorfmusic.com/microwave/"

"35 years ago Waldorf Music released its first instrument, the Microwave, which took the hearts of the leading musicians and producers of the nineties by storm. Its vibrate and distinctive sound transported the early wavetable sounds of the eighties into the rising electronic dance music of the following decade. Massive base lines, enigmatic wavetable modulations, brutal attacks and pads smooth like silk have been inspired generations of musicians. Microwave’s unique interpretation of wavetable synthesis combined with analogue filters defined what hybrid synthesis is at its best.

Now’s the time to bring back this magical instrument in a software form to the digital workstations of producers and musicians world-wide. The Waldorf Microwave 1 Plugin was painstakingly recreated from the original hardware with all its idiosyncrasies and wonderful singularities.

A multi-year effort and a labor of love which analyzed and modeled the original instruments down to the finest sonic details of every aspect of the hardware. Only the first generation of the Microwave and also the Waldorf Wave were based on a custom developed integrated circuit called the Waldorf ASIC. In combination with the legendary Curtis filter chips and a very unique 68k CPU based controller software the ASIC defined a very special flavor of wavetable sound unparalleled to none. No one else than the inventor of Wavetable Synthesis of the eighties, Wolfgang Palm, helped to design this unique chip. Waldorf took a huge effort to analyze and recreate this integrated circuit within the plug-in. As the original, the plug-in runs the internal synthesis with the ultra high sampling rate of 250 kHz regardless of the DAW sampling rate. The recreated digital waveforms have been bit-by-bit compared with the original to be 100% identical.

Even the old-school digital-to-analogue converters of the original hardware were modeled with their non-linearities and tone shaping color which were leading into the two Curtis filter chips variants used for the revisions A and B of the original hardware. The plug-in allows further for artificially detuning and recalibrating of the analogue components. Brutal attacks, snappy decays and a plethora of wonderful transients define the sound of the first generation Microwave. But the Microwave 1 Plug-In goes one step further: Its modern and inviting graphical user-interface reveals many aspects of the synthesis engine which were hidden before in the original hardware by its sparse hard to use interface.

Its livelihood never sounding mechanical but always different was based on a very unique architecture to create the envelopes, LFOs and modulations which was painstakingly recreated by the plug-in down to the finest grains.

A fully scalable modern interface with readable high-contrast fonts supports an intuitive sound editing process with many graphical representations of the wavetables, envelopes and filter response curves using animations for modulations and playing positions. The Microwave 1 was never as close as this under your finger tips. A joy to edit sounds with.

But we stopped not here, for the first time the inner makings of the Microwave have been put to the surface. Based on the internal control tables the user can now easily edit existing wavetables and create new ones in a very unique and intuitive process. All the original wavetables are available with their control structures and the full original waveform catalogue. In addition to user wavetables, also user waveforms can be created within the plug-in. Additional randomization modes make wavetable editing fun and sonically surprising as experienced never before. The multi-mode becomes now a weapon of its own for sound design. Originally hard to edit from the panel, the plug-in UI allows now for quickly layering of single sounds to create the most complex and exciting sonic structures.

An easy to use mixer page lets you fine tune their sonic relationships. Even the more exotic feature like tuning and velocity tables have been implemented and can be edited in the UI. All the original factory single and multi-mode sounds are contained in the plug-in in combination with new and modern sound presets. Original MIDI and Sys-Ex dump files can be imported such you can load your favorites from the past. Moreover, the plug-in can be used to control the original hardware are a graphical editor. If you a lucky owner of an Microwave first generation, the plug-in allows you to take your beloved hardware virtually with you where-ever you like and keeping its magical sound. The Microwave 1 plug-in comes as VST, VST3, AU and AAX for macOS and Windows supporting the major digital audio workstations."

The Vanilla Sounds of the Deepsounds Novation Circuit Pack

video upload by Deepsounds

"These are 64 patches for Novation Circuit created with the Vanilla patch editor. Vanilla is an easy, fun-to-use editor to create analog-style sounds on the Novation Circuits (both OG and Tracks).

The patches and the editor are included in the Deepsounds pack.
The Deepsounds pack additionally contains a second soundpack with 64 unique ambient sound patches and 64 drum samples (which were created on the circuit itself!).

All packs and patches are ready to use on both the Circuit Tracks and the OG Circuit.

▶ Get the deepsounds pack: https://payhip.com/b/NQHvB"

Oberheim OB-8 - "Vintage Sampler Series" 242 Samplepack

video upload by LFOstore

"Welcome to the sounds of True Legend - Oberheim OB-8 Synthesizer (1983)

BUY: https://lfo.sellfy.store/p/oberheim-o...

Nick Klimenko had a great opportunity to play on the one of the most expensive instrument in the world & sample fully restored & tuned OB synthesizer!

Big Thanks to Alex & Dmitriy for this gift!

Now you have an access to 242 exclusive samples:

Leads
Basses
Drones
Strings
Pads
Seq's
FX
Plucks
Bells

Hi quality 24/44 samples (256 mb) in root "C" in different octaves to transpose to any not you want."

AMS S-DMX/Chorus Controller/Oberheim Matrix-12

video upload by foleytronics fx repair

"This is Keith’s AMS S-DMX and Ramble’s Oberheim Matrix-12. I threw in my own Chorus Controller since there aren’t a ton of good demo videos of that unit."

LD3 Special Edition

video upload by gotharman

"Little deFormer 3 MkII polyTouch with white and blue LEDs and special knobs."

www.gotharman.dk

East-Coast Modular Eastern Osmosis

video upload by John L Rice

"Something just for fun. All first takes and some minimal editing.

Solo Synth:
Expressive E Osmose

Modular Synth Sequence:
Moon Modular - 569 sequencer, 591 switcher, 517 VCFs
Synth Tech - MOTM-300 VCOs
Oakley - Dual VCAs
Krisp1 - Octo LFO
Club Of the Knobs - C911p poly EG

Modular Synth Drone:
Modcan - 58B VCDO, 66B Control
Club Of the Knobs - C998B Spectral Modulator, C1660 VC Phase Processor
Marienberg Devices - Sine Phase VCO
Synthetic Sound Labs - 1250 Quad LFO
Oakley - Flanger/Chorus

Effects and Mixing For The Modular:
Strymon - BigSky and Timeline pedals
Lexicon - MX400 rack
Allen & Heath - MW3 20s mixer

Hand Percussion:
Generic - small Tabla, small doumbek, goat hooves
Zildjian - finger cymbals
PANArt - Hang Gede

Thank you for watching, rating, and commenting! :-) If you'd like to "tip your server" I would be most grateful and you can do so at the link below:
https://buymeacoffee.com/johnlrice"