Nonlinearcircuits VCO Demo

video upload by Randy Piscione

"This is a demo of an older Nonlinearcircuits VCO, based on a Mikulic/Electronotes core with phase sync and pan-pulse circuitry from the Aries AR-338.

The video starts with a sequence, and scope shots of four of the five waveforms the VCO puts out. I didn’t bother with the triangle, but there is a pulse, then saw, then pan pulse and processed saw. These are eventually blended together, and then the left side VCO is faded in. This one is hard synced to another VCO. The equipment list is at the bottom of the description.

The PCB is not designed for Eurorack so I built a dual version to fit them behind a double panel. I originally built it in 2015, made a new panel in 2018, and it stopped working shortly after that. Each VCO required 50 hookups, so 100 wires, 200 solder joints. Ouch!

When it failed, for no apparent reason, I removed all of the point-to-point wiring, couldn’t figure out what happened, and put it aside for quite a few years. If only I had known then what I know now, the failure was a simple IC problem. I had purchased TL074s from eBay that turned out to be pirate versions. It would’ve been a one minute fix. I decided to tackle it again recently, and re-soldered all of the wires. Unfortunately, I used crap wire, so off those came, and I did it again! Still had some issues but with substantial help from John at PM Foundations, we were able to bring it back to life.

Sequence – Pamela’s Workout, Analogue Solutions Oberkorn, NLC VCO, PM Foundations 3080 VCO, Doepfer A-143-2 Quad ADSR, Bastl A B C (X2), Frequency Central Waverunner (X2), ALM Pip Slope, d:Machinery Red LFO, PM Foundations Mod+

Drums – PM Foundations ER-808 (TB-808 tribute)

Bass – PM Foundations SEM tribute modules (8080 VCO, 3080 VCF, ADSR-D, etc.)

String-ish thing – PM Foundations resemble (X4), Full Bucket FB-3300 VST, Full Bucket Modul Air VST

Lead – Mutable Instruments Anushri

Cameo pad – Roland Juno 60

I think that’s it."

Analogue Solutions Maximus Polyphonic Synthesizer Multi Sequence and Lead #shorts

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"Maximus #synthesizer in mono mode, playing a multi-part analog sequence with live lead."

Analogue Solutions Leipzig-S Analog Synthesizer Desktop Module

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Analogue Solutions Maximus Polyphonic Synthesizer Multi-Part Sequencing #shorts

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"Maximus multi-part sequencing 🔥 Create dawless performances or accompaniment for your live playing with Maximus and its eight voices and onboard sequencers.
🎛️🎛️🎛️🎛️🎛️🎛️🎛️🎛️ #short"

Analogue Solutions Ample Review

video upload by Michael Manning

"Ample is a new synth by renowned designer Tom Carpenter of Analogue Solutions. I would describe it as being quintessentially Analogue Solutions. It has that iconic, luxurious sound that has carried through every machine Tom has created, this time coming with a particularly beautiful LPF and an array of generous interface and performance controls.

I spent a month with this on loan from AS and enjoyed my time with it. While possibly not my favourite AS synth (that for me is the Impulse Command), this is certainly a synth worth your attention if you're a fan of vintage tones bursting with vibrancy and soul."

Analogue Solutions Maximus Selective Voice Triggering #shorts

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"Fun patch! Maximus Polyphonic Synthesizer utilising 4 of the 8 onboard sequencers for this unison patch. You can select keyboard triggering per voice! Or, use a voice's sequencer and disable the keyboard entirely (per voice!). Check our bio for a demo video! #shorts"

Analogue Solutions Oberkorn 3x CV - 2X Gate Analog Sequencer SN 10418

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"3 channel CV sequencer with 2 Gate channels. All analog with some interesting features when self patching the positioning. Internal or external clock with CV over tempo. This is a very solid and flexible piece of gear for any eurorack or synth studio. Comes with original power supply. Works perfectly."

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Analogue Solutions Cranial Saw

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"Analogue Solutions Defibrillator filtering and a Waldorf Mod 1 for modulation"

MC-202 & Light Pedal

video upload by Stazma

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Just a repetitive drony ambient jam with my MC-202 and Light Pedal.

Have fun it's #202day !

Update:

MC-202 Analogue Solutions Mod


"Today I'll be going more into the depth of how my modded MC-202 work. I was not able to find any real info on this 'Analogue Solutions Mod' I have on my unit, but in case anyone is curious I'll get throught most of the ins and outs and play some music using these. It's going to be fun!"

Analogue Solutions Maximus | A True Polyphonic Synthesizer

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"Here are several sound demos and examples of the Maximus polyphonic synthesizer.

We have included a variety of sound types, but given the vast sonic possibilities and features of the Maximus, demos will need to be spread across several sessions to grasp the scope of what this synthesizer can achieve.

This video includes examples of warm pads, sequenced chords, leads, fifths, bass lines, multi-part performances, and combo keys (bass + pads)."

Analogue Solutions Maximus Dawless Multi-Part Performance Synthesizer

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"The Analogue Solutions Maximus synthesizer is more than a standard polyphonic synthesizer, it's also an analogue workstation capable of full performance pieces, lush soundtracks, heavy-hitting percussion, and just about any other analogue sound you can imagine.

Here, the Maximus is shown with its 8 sequencers firing different sounds, textures, and percussion. Each part is brought in separately using the stereo mixer.

Live play is also included, using 2 of the 8 voices of this synthesizer."

The Crow Hill Company Announces Availability of SMALL STRING GESTURES

The best string sound I have ever heard!! video upload by The Crow Hill Company

Press release follows:

TCHC announces availability of SMALL STRING GESTURES as toolkit to dial up musical personality with intimate interpretative band behind each key

EDINBURGH, UK: having ‘softly’ set out its software stall late last year with a low-key launch of STRING MURMURATIONS that saw decades of award-winning experience in the music tech sector and at the composing coalface distilled into an easy- to-use, intuitive, and comprehensive sample-based virtual instrument plug-in and GUI (Graphical User Interface) introducing the cutting-edge concept of Gestures (whereby an orchestra interpreting its user’s composition and making it into music and art lies behind every key played), music-making community tools-maker The Crow Hill Company is proud to announce availability of SMALL STRING GESTURES as the latest incarnation of that concept — creating a set of tools where individual instruments and the playing style, strengths, and frailties of the intimate interpretative (3, 3, 3, 3) band behind each key are available for the user to dial up the personality of their composition, created from a collection of master recordings that have been mixed and edited into a sample-based virtual instrument plug-in with a GUI and preset browser that are as easy on the eye as they are in use — as of January 26…

An armada of strings can create awe — an epic tidal wave of human emotion, of scale, of wonder. While STRING MURMURATIONS makes it easy and intuitive to make music that sounds human thanks to three distinct palettes of expressions, each designed to feel like the user is collaborating with an orchestra of real musicians, creating endless harmonic possibilities that inspire from the moment a key is touched, sometimes music-makers need it to be intimate, truthful, personal, human — hence The Crow Hill Company creating SMALL STRING GESTURES as a set of tools where individual instruments and the playing style, strengths, and frailties of the instrumentalists involved are available for the user to dial up the personality of their composition. Cue humanity, in other words.

With this in mind, The Crow Hill Company specifically selected a 3, 3, 3, 3 — three Violin 1, three Violin 2, three Violas, and three Cellos — band size that ensured its sampling style brought every individual within that ensemble into beautifully detailed and intimate focus for SMALL STRING GESTURES. This toolset is provided with a different lens and aperture to play through.

The Crow Hill Company collectively likes to keep things moving, so while this latest incarnation of its Gestures concept is very much related to one of those distinct palettes of expression available in STRING MURMURATIONS, it is worth highlighting hysteresis — dictionary-defined as the phenomenon in which the value of a physical property lags behind changes in the effect causing it, such as when magnetic induction lags behind the magnetising force, for instance — in relation to SMALL STRING GESTURES. Getting in on the act of creating sample libraries involves always asking the instrumentalists involved to perform musical material that is incredibly easy to play in order for the end result to always be ‘together’. That is fine for programming or composing simple stuff since that would sound true to real life, but it becomes harder, however, for players to remain totally locked to each other’s tuning or timekeeping when playing more difficult passages. Pure sound becomes more problematic as a result — reduced fundamental meaning more character, which is why a lot of sample-based music used in films, games, and TV sounds ‘characterless’. Clearly the samples involved therein lack hysteresis as they were easy to play, yet playing something difficult with them does not sound natural, real, or human. Indeed, it is fair to say that what makes musicians ‘hysterical’ is speed — faster playing means looser playing that is less in time and also less in tune; reach — the wider the gap between the notes, the further they have to reach, resulting in less perfectly in tune playing; and pitch — the higher a player plays, the harder it becomes as it involves more intense accuracy from string players performing on fretless instruments.

It is for this reason that The Crow Hill Company decided to get its players to perform the hard stuff — not compositions, but mere fragments, which is why anyone working with SMALL STRING GESTURES will not feel like they are playing phrases; instead it is rather like having a string band under their fingertips. For Gestures are the very real sound of reach and performance. But by not giving the musicians behind SMALL STRING GESTURES simple stuff to play prevented them from getting bored. Better still, SMALL STRING GESTURES users are accessing the sound that musicians make when they are smiling... hysterically!

It is also fair to say, therefore, that the effect of hysteresis on a large string section — including that which was involved in the creation of STRING MURMURATIONS, for instance — is a silky, blurry sound. An audible example of this might be the fast string runs in John Williams’ ‘Hedwig’s Theme’ from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone — ditto the closing bars of ‘Mars, the Bringer of War’ from Holst’s The Planets suite. Saying that, though, there are times when music-makers do not need awe, epic, and huge scale in pursuit of their compositional craft, but instead seek something more intimate, more personal, more human. The theory that led to SMALL STRING GESTURES revolved around if The Crow Hill Company could get a string band small enough then the impact of hysteresis would not be a musical blurring, but rather an exposure of each player involved in its creation — their own style of bowing and vibrato, their own fragilities to help the user’s audience connect more with the human nature of their music.

Making that happen meant designing SMALL STRING GESTURES to make its users approach composing and making music from a totally new angle, one where it feels like there are musicians at their fingertips — not samples. SMALL STRING GESTURES is a collection of master recordings — made by world-class producers and engineers at Glasgow’s Clockwork Studios, a new custom-designed scoring stage for the UK comprising of a large hall for full orchestra (up to 80 players) with a balanced and focused sound ideal for modern orchestral recording, as well as a smaller dry space in Studio B (up to 15 players), with the world-class Scottish Session Orchestra playing some of the finest instruments through the finest microphones and mic pre-amps — that have been mixed and edited into a sample-based virtual instrument plug-in with a GUI and a preset browser that are as easy on the eye as they are in use. Ultimately, it works within anyone’s favourite DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) with 25 presets — presented as six Gestures, four Longs, 10 Presets, and five Bonus — and additional hand-crafted Selects designed by The Crow Hill Company team. There are three mix-ready stereo signals — namely, CLOSE, WIDE, and AMBIENT, as well as unique REVERB controls and a granular effects processor.

Duly designed by professional composers with the sonic connoisseur in mind, The Crow Hill Company’s collective conclusion certainly rings true, stating, “We’re a small team and have worked hard to make everything as intuitive as possible.” Put it this way: with SMALL STRING GESTURES it is perfectly possible to make music that sounds intimate, truthful, personal, human! Hysteresis, of course, comes into play here, albeit with the desired effect — exposure of each player involved in its creation.

Clearly, then, big messages come in small packages when it comes to working with the diminutive-sized SMALL STRING GESTURES as another easy-to-use and intuitive virtual instrument plug-in from The Crow Hill Company, one which is also easy on the wallet for those wishing to step into this new world of gesture-based sampling.


SMALL STRING GESTURES is available to purchase — as an AAX-, AU-, VST-, and VST3-format-compatible sample-based virtual instrument plug-in comprising 8 GB of uncompressed material (compressed losslessly to 4.4 GB) that loads directly into a DAW — for £49.00 GBP (including VAT) directly from The Crow Hill Company here: https://thecrowhillcompany.com/small-string-gestures

SMALL STRING GESTURES is available for free until February 29, 2024 when purchasing STRING MURMURATIONS for £199.00 GBP (including VAT) directly from The Crow Hill Company here: https://thecrowhillcompany.com/string-murmurations/ (Note that SMALL STRING GESTURES is also available for free to existing owners of STRING MURMURATIONS until February 29, 2024.)

Watch The Crow Hill Company founder and composer Christian Henson’s must-see SMALL STRING GESTURES walkthrough video here: [video up top]

Free sounds for all are available by simply signing up to become a Crow Hill member here: https://thecrowhillcompany.com/join-crow-hill/

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Video side note: Analogue Solutions Colossus in the background.

Analogue Solutions Maximus Synthesizer | Warm Resonant Pad

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"Here's another example of the Analogue Solutions Maximus synthesizer acting as a traditional polysynth, where voices are duplicated and played as traditional chords.

You can hear the subtle (or not-so-subtle) character differences in tone, pitch, and timbre in the individual voices, which adds character warmth and width to the overall sound.

Onboard spring reverb and echo (per voice) further add depth and space to this warm pad.

LFO is modulating cutoff."

Analogue Solutions | Live Jam | Fusebox X and Fusebox | No Talking

video upload by VCO USA

"A live track featuring two Analogue Solutions Fuseboxes- The Fusebox X, and the original Fusebox.

One is doing the '303 / Acid' sounding lead, the other is doing the bouncing bassline. Clever use of the built in 'Patternator' let both sounds bounce between low, mid, and high timbres.

To me the Fusebox really does sound special. It has my personal favorite sounding filters of any synth ever made- An incredible Multimode 2 pole filter (Low pass, Band pass, High pass, and Notch). Notice the resonance is maxed, while still being smooth and bright, but without being sharp or ear piercing.

Both fuseboxes are sequenced with Ableton Live, with a touch of overdrive, compression, and reverb. Off camera- a poly synth is playing some simple chords, and just 3 drum sounds make the entire drum track.

Enjoy!

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http://www.vcousa.com"

Analogue Solutions Maximus Polysynth | Bass Chords Split Patch Demo

video upload by Analogue Solutions

"Here's an example of a split bass and chord patch on the Maximus polysynth. We say "split", when in fact, this is voice assignment and programming as follows:

Maximus is utilising the onboard sequencers in voices 1 & 2 to modulate and step the filter on the lower, resonant bass sound (left hand).

As all of the synth voices are independent, sequencer settings per voice can be set similarly, or, vastly different from one another depending on your desired direction.

Voices 3-6 handle the voices of the live chords (right hand). Each voice is set similarly (but not exactly!) to one another.

Additionally, each voice can be its own instrument, percussion, lead, or whatever your imagination holds."

Drum "n" Bass with an Analogue Solutions Impulse Command

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"Bass sequenced by an Akai Timbre Wolf, Drums by an Akai Tom Cat to a Vermona DRM"

Analogue Solutions Oberkorn Sequencer MK3 SN 8817

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"It's a brilliant sequencer for triggering analog synthesizers or drum machines. Various pattern possibilities are achievable thanks to the sophisticated patch options.

3x CV channel
2x Gate channels
5x MIDI-Trigger
3 separate full 16 step CV channels
48 CV knobs
16 Gate switches
17 LEDs
CV control of Speed / Tempo
Aluminium construction"

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Korg Sigma Demos

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Playlist:

Korg Sigma - External Control

Korg Sigma controlled externally by a Quasimidi Raven using a Synthstrom Deluge as a midi to CV convertor.

Korg Sigma - Ring Mod Arp Sequence
Analogue Solutions Mr Hyde greets Korg Sigma

Analogue Solutions Mr Hyde filtering the instrument channel of a Korg Sigma, sequenced by a Synthstrom Deluge CV channel

KORG SIGMA evolving arpeggio
Korg Sigma+SQ1+Mr Hyde=Drone

CV modulation via the SQ1 on the Sigma synth filter and Mr Hyde modulating the instrument channel creates stereo filtering

Korg Sigma Scavengers Coast

Korg Sigma CV sequenced on a Synthstrom Deluge with the Analogue Solutions Mr Hyde filtering the instrument channel and the Korg SQ1 step modulating the filter on both the synth channel and Hyde's filter.

KORG SIGMA Modulated Drone with Deluge Ambient Pads

Good sounds abound
with a SIGMA around

Analogue Solutions Medic Modules Waldorf KB 37 Arp noodles

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Vermona DRM 1 Synthstrom Deluge Medic Modules


"Vermona DRM 1 Synthstrom Deluge Medic Modules - Saturday Session"

Waldorf KB37 - Analogue Solutions Medic Modules Exploration


"Eurorack Dual Oscillator Mono Synth with Sub"

Analogue Solutions Impulse Command Demos

video uploads by The Free Radikal

Playlist:
Analogue Solutions Impulse Command - Staccato Jam - Akai Tom Cat on Kick duties
Analogue Solutions Impulse Command - Locked
Analogue Solutions Impulse Command Sine of the Time
Analogue Solutions Impulse Command - Bit Crusher

The built in Bit Crusher effect on the Impulse Command takes me to Dimension City.

Analogue Solutions Impulse Command - Choppy Bass

Akai Timbre Wolf sequenced the Impulse Command
Akai Tom Cat sequenced the Vermona DRM 1 MK 2

Analogue Solutions Impulse Command Kick Drum

I thought I'd try to design a kick drum on the Impulse Command, as it has stereo filters the L+R channels can be set independently for a unique sounding stereo kick.

Analogue Solutions Impulse Command Cyber Train

Jammin on the Impulse Command with beats from the Akai Tom Cat and Vermona DRM

Analogue Solutions Impulse Command A Minor Incident

Sequenced by an Akai Timbre Wolf, drums sequenced by an Akai Tom Cat via midi to a Vermona DRM 1 MK3, Sub Bass from the Timbre Wolf.