Oddest pic of an ARP 2600 ever. I never noticed how thin they were on top. What's crazy about the angle of this particular shot is you can't see where it widens out on the bottom, as you can see in the other pics.
"Excellent, fully working condition.
There are some loose screws on one corner at the back which will need addressing by an expert with music kit. But very well and lovingly looked after throughout its life. Comes as seen in photos."
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First track using my Roland Boutique TB-03 which I won via the recent Roland #60secondsessions competition.
Roland MX-1, A-01, D-05 along with other Boutiques, System 1, TB-3, Korg Volca's, Circuit + others #rolandboutique
If you have enjoyed the track, please feel free to like, subscribe and share, if not, no problem.
As always, the track is played 'live' in one take - with no DAW, editing, or post production.
Recorded live [08/11/2017]
Used:
Korg Kaoss Pad Quad
Korg Mini KP 2
Korg Volca FM
Novation Circuit
Roland Boutique A-01
Roland Boutique D-05
Roland Boutique JP-08
Roland Boutique JU-06
Roland Boutique JX-03
Roland Boutique TB-03
Roland Boutique TR-09
Roland MX-1
Roland System -1
Roland TB-3
"I love this little synth but there's very few demos on YouTube. Therefore here's ten minutes of paraphonic ambient Nyx patches, guaranteed no talking, no overdubs and most definitely no Strymon shimmer effects. Just Nyx with a little stereo delay at the end of the chain to widen things up for headphonauts.
Oh, and there's cheeky beats from the Octatrack on one patch, just for a bit of fun."
"A calm techno session wit the modular generating all sounds. The faster melody is generated by a unsynced looping envelope, the baseline is sequenced from the BSP. Kick and hats from the BD808 and MFB hats, other percussive sounds are synthesized with the help of the Make Noise LxD.
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Stuff used:
Eurorack modular synthesizer with:
Doepfer: a-118, a-119, a-124, a-143-4, a-156, a-160-2, a171-2
Erica synths: Black wavetable VCO
Expert Sleepers: Disting MK4
Intellijel: Dixie II, uFold, Quadra, 2xTriat , Linux, mult
Malekko heavy industry: Unity mixer
Make noise: MMG, Lxd
Mutable instruments: Clouds, Peaks
MFB: OH/HH/CY
Synthrotek: Echo, Deluxe power
Tiptop Audio: BD808
Diy: Quad passive attenuator"
"This is a early version of Terrorformer, which spawned from a earlier live jam. The final version will be released on my first full length album, A Distant Love for Life. This song uses all hardware sounds and sequencing.
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: Hardware :
Roland JU06
Roland JP08
Roland SH01a
Microkorg
Korg Minilogue
Elektron Digitakt
Focusrite Scarlett 18i8
Apple iPad Pro
"I'm having a lot of fun with my new Roland boutique setup!!!
I love this tiny but great sounding little machines!
I hope you like this demo :-)
Everything has been synced and recorded on Ableton live using a USB cable from each instrument through a simple USB powered hub, thanks to the "Aggregate audio device" function on Mac OS X."
"Erica Pico MSCALE (Moog Scale, to be specific) is precision scaler to adapt Moog Mother 32 to eurorack standard 1V/oct control voltages.
Those, who own Moog Mother 32 know, that it requires -5V - +5V on 1V/oct input to operate in full range, while the eurorack standard is 0V - +10V. So, to control Moog Mother 32 from a eurorack sequencer you need to bias a sequencer output for 5 volts down. And vice versa – Moog Mother 32 sequencer outputs -5V - +5V on 1V/oct output, and, if you wish to control some eurorack VCO from Moog Mother 32, you need to bias it 5 volts up. This is exactly what MSCALE does – it has two sections – upper one adds 5V to the input voltage, other subtracts 5V form the input voltage. Of course, the module is not limited for use with Moog Mother 32 only. You can use it as a regular eurorack precision voltage scaler.
Features:
Precision scaler to adapt Moog Mother 32 1V/oct to eurorack standard
Moog to eurorack section
Eurorack to Moog section
High precision, high temperature stability
Skiff friendly, compact design
With Pico Series we challenged ourselves – can we make ANY superior functionality synth module 3HP wide and affordable? Yes, we can."
"A live performance on the Akai MPC Live - more of a different retro (80s style) to this track. All samples recorded by me (see list below), no external gear. One take, no edits, single camera recorded on a Zoom Q4 direct audio out of MPC Live into the camera.
Samples:
► Fairlight CMI
► Roland D-50
► Roland SE-02
► Roland JU-06
► Roland System-8
► Roland System-1
► Waldorf Streichfett
► Korg Minilogue
► Alesis HR16A
► My voice
Filmed in my hotel room in Brisbane, QLD, Australia. Yeah, I got bored! I guess this also qualifies as my 3rd coffee table jam!
All work is original without any commercial benefit from supplier or manufacturer."
"Something perhaps suitable for a villain leitmotif. Features Studio Electronics Tonestar 2600, Roland TR8, Novation Bass Station 2 and DSI Prophet ‘08."
Wish this one was a little longer with a fade out. Unfortunately it abruptly cuts off at exactly 1:00. Still cool though.
The Quadrantid Swarm is a desktop touch synthesizer aimed at sound designers and musicians who are looking for an expressive tool to explore rich and unusual soundscapes with a direct intuitive approach.
Past research and development at eowave has contributed to a range of successful products aimed at musicians and performers - including sensor interfaces, MIDI devices, modular synthesizers and more. This has been honed and distilled in the Quadrantid Swarm. It is an instrument that has been designed openly - to be used with MIDI, alongside your modular synthesizer/CV sequencer or to be explored as a standalone drone/sequencer/generative synthesizer.
Modes
The QS now features 8 modes. Each should be considered a springboard for musical exploration, rather than a preset. The modes are not direct emulations of existing instruments, but they borrow on inspiration from their namesakes. We found that this was the best way to retain the immediacy of function per button design while offering a generous feature set. The QS will ship with a cheat sheet that details the specifics behind each mode - the waveform, perc sound and character effect.
Organ - Strings - Drone - Noise - Grains - Perc - Metal - Chiptune
Let's take a closer look...
Front panel
Building on the feedback we received at Superbooth 17, we have redesigned the front panel to be easier to read. This matte black PCB pictured below is the final material we will be using on production, although there is a mistake on this panel that will be rectified (white layer inverted!).
Oscillator
The oscillator section is a digital wave generator. In sequencer mode (activated when you push start) the spread control multiplies the waveform up to 8 waveforms. In live mode (sequencer not active) the spread control will not affect the oscillator because the 8 waveforms are spread across the touch keyboard to be used as a simple polyphonic synthesizer. Character controls a different effect or folder depending on the mode. The character effects/folders will help you design timbres that will range from clean and glassy to dense and distorted.
"Here is a small demo of the Prophet Rev 2 16 voice that I recently purchase. I love this synth a lot. Huge improvement over the Prophet 08 I had for some time. Some patches were accented with the H9 from eventide, and Big Sky from Strymon"
"Another iOptigan tip, until we finish the user manual: there are three triggering modes for the chord buttons, selectable in the settings.
"MIDI G#0-E2 for Chords" lays out all the chord buttons in a chromatic mapping. Priority was placed on fitting everything with the keyboard scale on a standard 61-note keyboard, so the layout isn't very intuitive, but it gets the job done. Chords are at the lower end of the keyboard, SFX tabs at the upper end.
"MIDI Chord Detection I" is a more intuitive mode, which allows the user to simply finger the desired chord in the low octave of the keyboard. Playing a C maj triad produces the C maj chord. Playing a C min triad produces the C min chord. etc.
"MIDI Chord Detection II" allows for more extended chords to be played using the time-honored Optigan technique of playing two chord buttons at once to approximate more complicated chords. There's alot of trial-and-error involved with this, and results vary depending on the disc, but if you finger, say, a Cmaj7 chord on the keyboard (again, in the low octave), iOptigan will play the C maj and E min chords simultaneously. Try fingering other extended chords to see what you get, and you'll likely stumble upon some unexpectedly pleasing combinations!"
"Sound sources are a Moog DFAM, 2x Mother-32, a Noise Engineering LIP, a Make Noise DPO, and a Morphagene. The vocal sample in the Morphagene is a recording of my voice, speaking the words 'this is only a test.'"
"All sounds from Cwejmam. Orthogonal Devices sequencing.
Patch Notes.
This patch was inspired by Maho Cwejman asking if anyone had some ADSR-VC2 or CTG-VC videos. I didn’t want to do a demo, but I had the idea that I would do a Cwejman-centric patch and use those modules as the back-bone.
All of the sound sources are from the Cwejman family. Just supplementing with the sequencers and some modulation sources.
Drone is Monome Ansible controlling the PH8 as an oscillator in the QMMF4. 2 of the Ansible channels are modulating the QMMF’s frequencies to create a shifting chord sequence. The whole shebang goes through one side of MMF2, the and FSH-1 for effects. Malekko Varigate-8 is running the rhythmic modulation on that.
Rhythm. Kick is the CTG hitting the MMF6. Release time is modulated by the CV out of the Eloquencer, which is programming all the of the rhythm tracks.
‘Snare’ is the BLD. Hat is the RG6 going into the VCA-2P, which has it’s panning being modulated by a Batumi.
All of the percussion goes into a MX4S. One side goes to the main mixer, WMD Performance mixer, and one side goes into the side-chain input of the DP2.
Melodics.
Still wrapping my head around the Orthogonal Devices ER-101/102, but they are driving three voices.
Bass is a VCO6 into the MMF1s.
Middle and upper voices are the two sides of a VCO-2RM into a DMF2. They both go to the VCA_4MX into the input of the DP2. The percussion is side-chaining all of the melodics there.
Then they all go through the SPH2 for a little stereo fun.
I’m using Intellijel Rainmaker and Audio Damage EOS reverb for effects.
There is a slight amount of Electron Analog Heat on the whole thing. Mastered with Izotope Ozone 8, Vertigo VSM2 and Fab Filter Limiter.
"Volca Keys doing the Bass and Volca Bass doing the lead melody on this one. Sunrizer was used for the noise sweep. Recorded in AudioShare via a Behringer Xenyx mixer and mastered in Final Touch."
"The MI Grids produced three channels of drum (or other) triggers with manual and voltage control over the underlying rhythm pattern and how many hits per measure are produced per drum channel. This video gives an overview of its basic operation; the next video dives into its advanced settings options. This video breaks down into the following sections:
00:00 quick overview
00:38 clocking
00:59 starting pattern
01:47 Fill (trigger density)
03:32 Map X & Y (pattern)
06:07 Chaos (random fills)
07:19 Accent
Learning Modular Patreon subscribers (https://www.patreon.com/LearningModular) also have access to an additional informational post about this module."
Mutable Instruments Grids 2/2: Advanced Settings
Published on Nov 7, 2017 Learning Modular
"This video describes each of its advanced settings, including control over clock in, triggers out, and even access to an alternative Euclidean sequencer mode. This video breaks down into the following sections:
00:17 enter Settings/Options mode
00:44 clock resolution
01:30 Tap Tempo versus Reset
02:03 Swing versus Chaos
02:26 Accent jack mappings
03:37 Triggers versus Gates
04:15 Euclidean sequencer mode"
"Stephen and the twoHPmodular crew (who have been pouring modules out lately) were kind enough to send along their recent slicing and glitch-friendly Eurorack module, Freez, for an examination.
ContinuuCon 2018 :: New Location! Published on Nov 7, 2017 ContinuuCon
"We are very pleased to announce that ContinuuCon 2018 will take place April 26-28, 2018 in Paris at IRCAM, the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music.
Performers, sound designers, composers and electronic music enthusiasts who attend ContinuuCon explore this uniquely expressive instrument through music, workshops, lectures and more. Dr. Lippold Haken, inventor of the Continuum, and Edmund Eagan, developer of the Continuum’s synthesis engine EaganMatrix, along with many other technologists and performers openly share their knowledge, history and musical talents at this event.
Tickets will be available soon. Learn more at continuucon.com"
"Just jamming with my buddy JC as he takes on the Sub37 and some poor camera framing leaves us wondering just what synth I’m playing exactly?! (I’ll give you a hint, it starts with an S and ends with “ystem-8”
Avoid minutes 4 and 5.... I think it gets gross there for a second or ten... and then it’s totally kewl again!"
"Hey guys back again with yet another modified Stiener Parker type 12db per oct VCF, this based on a mashup of Ken stone and Yves Ussons schematics.
I have increased the diode ladder from 10-12, and also the size of the capacitors in the ladder and also my own tailored trimming for keyboard tracking.
There is also a trimmerble diode pair in the resonance network , which can at some points sound like a nice distortion pedal and tames the wild resonance. i have also changed values in the Freq Cut and Res potentiometers resistance to ground to compensate for the bigger change in top end content.
PLEASE USE HEADPHONES OR SPEAKERS TO CATCH THE LOW END PROPERLY ;-).
Again many thanks to Yves Usson and Ken Stone for their inspirational circuits."
"Using the QCD as the master clock, two channels of the STS are going into the Tapographic Delay. The force resistance sensor (and preset patches) are generating the polyrhythms, textures, and pitched percussions. With the SMR’s 1V/Octave outputs, pitch is sent to ALM’s Akemie’s Castle. The PEG triggers envelopes with the VCA Matrix for each note, and those notes then hit the DLD to create elongated melodies. The SMR’s six channels are then pinged, or plucked by the RCD gates. The SMR’s notes pass into the Tapographic Delay, accumulating varying tapped patterns."
"Although I knew my father for the 37 years that we were here on Earth together, I never really knew his public persona, Bob Moog, until he passed away. The path of discovery that followed has provided a deep well of inspiration, which has lead me on a journey to carry on his powerful legacy transforming people's lives through sonic exploration. Inspiration is a powerful cultural resource, and we must use it to do the most good for our challenged society. Michelle Moog-Koussa is the daughter of synthesizer pioneer Bob Moog. She has been the executive director of the Bob Moog Foundation for eleven years, and has spearheaded educational and historic preservation projects which inspire children and adults thought the science, music, technology and the spirit of invention. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx"
This is a great talk including not only some fascinating bits of synth history, but a rare glimpse of Bob Moog's personal life, from non other than his own daughter, Michelle Moog-Koussa.
"Celebrating Bob's contribution to the world of synthesis, illustrator David C. Lovelace offers a beautiful hand-drawn creation for our newest art t-shirt design, Moogsaic. Composed of over 250 hand-drawn, detailed synthesizers, modules, and other sonic components, Bob's image and intense gaze emerge to compel the viewer to examine the mosaic of skillfully placed musical hardware. Bob's signature wavy hair, composed of patch cables, crowns the design. It is a striking homage.
You can purchase the Moogsaic t-shirt here and you can read more about David's artistic process in developing the t-shirt here.
All purchases from our online store go to benefit our educational and historic preservation projects. Please keep us in mind as the holiday giving season approaches!"
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P.S. David C. Lovelace is supporting MATRIXSYNTH member! Thank you Dave! You can find more of his work and music on his official website, umop.com. He is the man behind The Packrat synth comics and the synthtastic Parallax.
"Warning: Headphones or High quality monitors should be used when listening to this.
All of the sounds that come with the new moog subsequent 37 synthesizer."
And an unboxing video from Ham:
MOOG SUBSEQUENT 37 - MY FIRST ANALOG HARDWARE SYNTH - UNBOXING
Published on Jun 22, 2017 Ham Garcia
"I got to pick up my first analog synthesizer. This is what it looks like and make sure to subscribe for the upcoming video of the sounds it can make!"
"Short video while testing the GUI code for the Percussa SSP on the computer (no sound). The basic idea is that you can insert synth modules anywhere you want in the network grid, by moving a selection rectangle using the navigation soft keys and the 'insert' key. When the modules are placed next to each other, the modules are patched together automatically."
It’s Celine here :-) The past week I’ve continued my work on the software GUI for the SSP, and started working on the implementation of the network editor.
The basic idea is that you can insert synth modules anywhere you want in the network grid, by moving a selection rectangle using the navigation soft keys and the “insert” key. When the modules are placed next to each other, the modules are patched together automatically.
[Above] you can see a short video (no sound) where I’m showing you how to insert, change, and delete synth modules. I’m testing the code on my computer using the Percussa Remote control surface, which is connected through USB to my computer.
Meanwhile Bert is hard at work on the PCB layout, he'll write an update later this week to give you the latest news :-)
"This is a video demonstrating a custom warm pad I made with the Novation Peak, and the Strymon Big Sky Shimmer Reverb. I am using my DSI Prophet Rev 2 as a controller for the Peak."
