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Generate Infinite Tempest Patches Instantly (New Tool)

video upload by Justin Joe

"Tempest Patchworks generates complete, usable patches on the Dave Smith Tempest with a single keypress — bass, leads, pads, drums, and more — using trained synthesis recipes instead of pure chaos. In this video I walk through how it works, demo some categories live, and show the weirdness control that takes you from safe to surprising. It's launching soon — get on the waitlist below.

🎛️ GET ON THE TEMPEST PATCHWORKS WAITLIST — Be first to know when it drops:
https://justinjoe.com/tempest-patchworks"

The 1010music Blackbox OG Just Got SP-1200 Mode, Chords and Sidechain (Unofficial Firmware Mod)

video upload by Justin Joe

"Twelve new features on the original 1010music Blackbox, added with an unofficial firmware mod: solo, chords, Elektron-style note conditions, SP-1200 / SP-12 / S950 lo-fi modes, a 24 dB filter, a sidechain ducker, slice start/end on the knobs, and a granular delay. It's free, the code is open, and it runs on top of stock firmware 3.1.9.

🔧 GET THE MOD (free) + get an email when new builds drop:
https://justinjoe.com/blackbox-mod

No compiling needed: download 3.1.9 from 1010music, run it through the browser patcher, copy it to your card.

⚠️ Unofficial. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by 1010music. Original Blackbox only (not Blackbox 2). At your own risk. The mod does not include 1010music's firmware; you bring your own copy."

New M-VAVE FM-1 Custom Firmware: Felucca - Multitimbral Sequencer

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In addition to the Baud Girl custom firmware, M-VAVE's FM-1 now has a multitimbral sequencer firmware update, Felucca.

"This video is not about microdexed but the very interesting FM1 from mWave with custom firmware from Felucca. Using only the provided sounds/samples with little tweaking.

https://hugelton.github.io/Felucca/we..."

Mvave FM-1 | Felucca Firmware - Multi Sequencer, 9 Engines, Scale Mode - First Look

video upload by Stanley Gurvich

"The floodgates had opened, First look at the brand new Felucca firmware by Leo Kuroshita (@kurogedelic)"

M-Vave FM-1 Felucca Firmware Jam Session

video upload by 2403R / Case Woo

"There are enough FM-1 videos blowing up now so no introduction is needed. I am just messing on the Felucca firmware for the first time after sequencing 4 tracks and I don't know what I am doing. I have tried Baud Girl's but I was drawn to this one more. Still need to figure out and remember the functions. Install at your own risk."

Crumbling

video upload by Front Disaster

"Extract from Jam 26#04.

In this jam I was modulating the TipTop Audio SD909 and HATS909 modules heavily creating these crunchy percussion sounds.

Things may go wrong. The groove goes on.

FRONT DISASTER is live techno, created in real time on modular synthesizers.

No fixed tracks. No safety net.
Just the moment. Just the groove.

https://linktr.ee/front_disaster"

Droning with Data Bender by Qu-Bit

video upload by Nathan Plante Synths

"This is the first video in a new series all about trying to get music gear to do things it wasn't designed to do. In this video I play with the Data Bender by ‪@QuBitElectronix‬ and try and get some some dark and crunchy drones going.

00:00 Intro
00:39 Setup
01:10 First Drone
05:59 Second Drone

Pod Case by ‪@noisyfruitslab‬

https://www.subvert.fm/nathan-plante
https://nathanplante.bandcamp.com/"

Why doesn't Digital Feedback Blow Up Like Analog?

video upload by Cinematic Laboratory

"When I posted my first Plexiphon video, I got a few comments like ‘how about Bruxa x Plexiphon’, or better, ‘how about two Bruxae x Plexiphon’.
I think I can answer that now. Bruxa is a dominating module. This simply means, whatever you patch up, Bruxa is going to demand all attention. New to modular? Bruxa is a Bruxa is a delay/filter using a crappy karaoke toy chip. Sorry, it’s the ‘lo-fi delay’ that reached a cult status in the legendary Soma Lyra-8 Orga(ni)smic Synthesizer.
And then there’s the PoliMaths vs Maths discussion. Maybe they should have called it the PolyFunction, because it’s not Maths. It’s more like a ‘polyphonic function sequencer’, where a function is nothing more than a rise and fall. A slope or envelope depending on the Coast you’re on. It’s an attack/decay shape to sculpt a sound.
In this patch, I am using Echophon – the echo – as a clock, using the clock divider output. It’s a cool example of working with limitations. There’s no clock module in this case, but any ‘repeat’ that ticks is a clock. So today it’s not a tape delay, it’s just sending blips to PoliMaths’ activation IN. PoliMaths is like an eight channel sample and hold. When a trigger comes in, the module ‘activates’ by reading all knob positions (sampling) and holding them until the next activation. The channel index will decide which of the eight channels is affected. Depending on the SPAN mode/color, the channel will either be addressable (white), rotating (yellow) or fire all (cyan blue). If you’ve updated your PM, there’s a purple mode too (binary logic).
In this patch, the eight envelopes are distributed to various effect modules like Bruxa, more Bruxa and Plexiphon. Depending on knob settings (and especially ABSORB) Bruxa can make percussive sounds with its crappy chip. So what can we do with it? We can make a drum machine that nobody else has.
The patch itself is turning my effects units into an improvised lo-fi CMOS drum machine and Plexiphon is adding a bit of reverb. Even on full strength it can’t compete with the two Bruxae.
There’s an intermezzo where I’ll patch a long loop between Echophon, Mimeophon, Bruxa 1, Bruxa 2, Plexiphon and QPAS. In plain English, it’s making a long FX chain, but the end of chain is also the beginning. A snake biting its own tail. It’s like taking ugly feedback noise, and then try to sculpt it into something that faintly sounds like music – or a score from an 80’s horror sci-fi B movie with lots of sax and violins.
I was expecting something like throwing a mentos in a bottle of Coca Cola, but it didn’t happen. Instead, a nice abstract feedback patch emerged. It turned out to be pretty civilized.
In this video I discovered that feedback patching with digital modules is very different from using analog modules. A well designed digital effect doesn’t explode, it stays clear from crashing into digital brick wall and self destruct. In fact, digital feedback patching is more like continuous sound on sound dubbing. If you’re into chaotic feedback patching, you’ll benefit from adding at least one analog module, like a Serge wavefolder, waveshaper, filter or resonant EQ – or any other brand. Just make sure it’s using real analog components and real voltage instead of coded error handlers, limiters, exceptions and guardrails. In the analog domain, chaos is only bound to the rules of Mother Nature.
The ‘crappy drum machine’ patch is decorated by a second take with Error Instruments x This Is Not Rocketscience Kharper. I am running it through dual Bruxae and Plexiphon, where the PP gets modulation from Bruxa’s mysteriously labeled CV outputs. They basically contain CV related to Bruxa’s internal chip rumble. Nothing special, but super cool as a mod-source."