"A brief demonstration of the first (analog) Guitar Synthesizer by Roland, accompanied by Akai MPC-X and Roland System 100. On this occasion I compared it to my beloved Gibson…"
"Two new uses for wavetables today — and neither is synthesis. First: smallcircles.net/waveforms, a web tool by KRC Mathwaves user Quentin that renders any audio file as stacked ridgeline plots — instant Peter Saville/Joy Division "Unknown Pleasures" album cover art. (Fun fact: the cover visualizes radio pulses from pulsar CP 1919, originally plotted by Harold Craft Jr. for his 1970 Cornell PhD thesis.) Second: Wavefield from Fine Increments, a brand-new spectral filter plugin by Seth Watson that turns wavetable frames into FFT gain curves — three modes (Magnitude, Spectral IR, Phase Warp), tempo sync, stereo spread, and wavetable import. We also drop Wavefield into a Bitwig delay feedback chain for spectral delay, feature Authentic Soundware's new Space Age Colors library, and close with Liminal Space reverb for that Blade Runner/Lexicon 224 vibe. So grab your spectral filter and hold on to your pulsar for this wavetables-a-go-go episode of your favorite talky synthesizer content show!
─── WHAT YOU'LL LEARN ───
What the smallcircles waveform visualizer does and why wavetables are perfect input
How to export your own ridgeline waveform art as SVG for shirts, posters, and album covers
Why Wavefield's spectral filtering sounds different from EQ or conventional filter automation
How Wavefield's three modes (Magnitude, Spectral IR, Phase Warp) differ — and when to use each
How to drive Wavefield with your own wavetables, including KRC Mathwaves
How to put Wavefield inside a Bitwig delay feedback loop for a spectral delay effect
─── PLUGINS & TOOLS FEATURED ───
🛠️ smallcircles Waveforms Visualizer (free web tool by Quentin): https://smallcircles.net/waveforms/
🎛️ Wavefield by Fine Increments (14-day free trial, $39 intro / $49 regular): https://www.fineincrements.com/wavefield
─── CHAPTERS ───
00:00 Intro & today's two new wavetable uses
01:49 The smallcircles waveform visualizer
02:55 The Joy Division "Unknown Pleasures" connection
05:00 KRC Mathwaves exponential-saw demo in the visualizer
06:23 Exporting your waveform art as SVG
06:50 Introducing Wavefield by Fine Increments
08:00 Wavefield on a pad track
11:52 Magnitude, Phase Warp & Spectral IR modes
13:10 Wavefield vs. Kilohearts Filter Table
13:45 Sync and speed modes
17:00 WT Start and WT End controls
20:03 Importing your own wavetables into Wavefield
25:57 The Bitwig delay feedback loop trick
26:20 Authentic Soundware Space Age Colors sample library
29:00 Liminal Space reverb for vintage Blade Runner vibes
31:00 The "Beep Boop" factory preset
32:45 Final thoughts
"Two remarkable soul mates riffing in their voltages and bleeping into the cosmos. OTTer from Otter Mods generates unexpected repeating patterns around 8 notes while Trilling's MC2VQ dual voice quantizer generates two melody lines from the same input to the same scale while you push the distance between them. From here on in this is going to be the middle 5 minutes of any future live set. Full reviews to come."
"I love discovering new and inspiring tones. Tones that surprise me - preferably not by layering tons of effects, but achieved much simpler.
Enter the Vongon Rosetones, a polyphonic resonator.
What's happening here: it's hooked up to the Tonverk via MIDI and audio, and MIDI CC's are being changed with the patterns from the Tonverk. In the first part, the percussion from the Tonverk is fed into it as the impulse to excite the resonators, while I play the Replay as a midi keyboard to define the pitches.
In the middle part, the audio from the replay is the input to the Rosetones, which resonates sympatically to the chords. In the third part, it's back to drums exciting the resonators and MIDI control of the pitches. Lots more to be discovered.
And of course, the Rosetones looks beautiful as well."
"rosetones creates a polyphonic synth voice that follows your playing. it listens to
your notes and routes them through sympathetic resonators, creating blooming
harmonic textures and evolving chords
more info @ vongon.com"
"rosetones creates a polyphonic synth voice that follows your playing. it listens to your notes and routes them through sympathetic resonators, creating blooming harmonic textures and evolving chords
at the center of rosetones is a 12-voice chromatic resonator bank that continuously analyzes the input signal and routes detected pitches into tuned delay lines. each pitch class excites a resonator that can sustain, swell, and interact with feedback to create dynamic harmonic movement"