Buchla Music Easel in Eurorack!

video upload by Electrum Modular

"Unveiling of the Easel-esque system! Demonstration includes three patches, with notes on each."

Modules:
ST Modular SHIKENSA (1st post to feature one)
Intellijel Scales
ALM Pip Slope
ALM Pamela's Workout
Intellijel Dixie II+
Shakmat Banshee Reach
Intellijel Bifold
Make Noise Optomix
Synthrotek MIXIV
ART Junction (1st post to feature one)
Mutable Instruments Beads
ALM MFX
Doboz Touch Plate Controller & Gliss
Expert Sleepers Disting

Switches + Faders = Power Sequencer!

video upload by Electrum Modular

"I love my main sequencer (Qu-bit Bloom), but it doesn’t have cv control over sequence length, direction, clock rate, glide, etc.
Then I realized that I had two ingredients to build a more patch-programmable sequencer:
Disting’s Multi-Switch mode, which offers up to 6 customizable switches, and a fader bank, Tesseract Modular's Sweet Sixteen...

Further details in the patch notes

Other modules used:

Shakmat's Banshee Reach
Intellijel's Dixie II+
Mutable Instruments’ Beads
Make Noise Maths
Expert Sleepers’ Disting Ex
Pamela's New Workout
Quad VCA
Dnipro Metamorph
Alright Devices' Chronoblob
Doepfer A121-3 filter
ALM's MFX
Behringer Neutron"

Flip your arps! Generating complex arpeggios with soft sync

video upload by Electrum Modular

"To begin phasing out my Behringer Neutron (the first piece of electronic gear I ever bought, back in 2018), I’ve just acquired two new oscillators: Intellijel’s Dixie II+ and Shakmat’s Banshee Reach. Both feature a 'soft sync' option, whereas Neutron has only hard sync. Oscillator sync is generally touted for its distinctive timbral effects. I’ve never seen any discussion of its use at lower (sub-audio) frequencies. But looking at its effect on the waveform, I reckoned soft sync might generate some interesting arpeggios. Here are the results of my experiments!

NOTE: the folded shape of these arpeggios led me to also experiment with using a wavefolder (Intellijel’s Bifold). This worked – and has the advantage of preserving the period/frequency of the arpeggio, and thus the time signature. But as you increase the fold, the arpeggio begins to sound too chaotic. I guess there is a sweet spot (or range) between a bog-standard arpeggio and a formless sequence of notes.

Other modules used:
Make Noise's Maths
Intellijel's Scales
Mutable Instruments' Plaits
Expert Sleepers' Disting EX
ALM's Pamela's New Workout
Low Gain's Short Bus
Alright Instruments' Chronoblob"

Modular ambient with Shakmat Banshee Reach & Bard Quartet

video upload by Sonic Circuitry

Complex VCO With two Banshee Reach & a Jeweler Cast

video upload by Shakmat

"This video show several use cases of two "Banshee Reach" and one "Jeweler Cast" used together to create a complex Oscillator

00:00 - Intro
00:16 - Phase Modulation
10:38 - Amplitude Modulation
18:45 - Waveshape Modulation
26:20 - Dual VCO
30:13 - Adding some noise
33:06 - A Flexible Patch

Shakmat is a Brussels based eurorack manufacturer active since 2015. Shakmat modules, which emphasize on playability, contain intuitive rhythmic sequencers, audio signal processors, and unusual modulation sources."

Banshee Reach, your noise ally

video upload by Shakmat

"Banshee Reach as noise generator and some of his sonic palette, for high-hats, noise burst or some industrial flavours."

Laser bursts, High-hats and glitchy noises with Banshee Reach

video upload by Shakmat

"Demonstration of some of the noise capabilities of Shakmat's Bandshee Reach VCO.

Additional use of Jeweler Cast as VCA"

Wavefolded ring-modulated melody with Banshee Reach and Jeweler Cast

video upload by Shakmat

"Using the pitch lock/octaver feature from Banshee Reach to create interesting overtones while having it both ring-modulated and wave-folded through Jeweler Cast."

Steevio inspired wavefolded melody

video upload by Shakmat

"With much humility today we're sharing a patch influenced by modular maestro Steevio
This patch uses both ring-mod and wavefolding features of Jeweler Cast with Banshee Reach as source and Dual Dagger for some extra filtering."

Liquid resonating bassline with Banshee Reach and Jeweler Cast

video upload by Shakmat

"Our brand new Banshee Reach and Jeweler Cast like to play together.
Today they teamed up with Triple Steeple and Mod Medusa for modulation duties in order to create a lovely liquid resonating bassline"

Shakmat Banshee Reach: Demo

video upload by Shakmat

"Murmuring, singing, screaming, and howling, the Banshee Reach delivers a very large panel of sounds. The mo- dule’s heart is based on a triangle core VCO with thru zero frequency/phase modulation capabilities. Besides delivering independently the typical analog waveforms, the Banshee Reach has a vari output combining a continuously variable waveform crossfading with a sub octave generator.

The analog core has been completed with a digital control for frequency locking and octave transposition, which makes the Banshee Reach really per- formance oriented. LFO mode, hard or soft sync, digital noise modulation and PWM complete this rich feature list. Compact and powerful, the Banshee Reach is a VCO suited for west coast, east coast synthesis and many more!"

Shakmat Banshee Reach — Out Now!

video upload by Shakmat

"Murmuring, singing, screaming, and howling, the Banshee Reach delivers a very large panel of sounds. The mo- dule’s heart is based on a triangle core VCO with thru zero frequency/phase modulation capabilities. Besides delivering independently the typical analog waveforms, the Banshee Reach has a vari output combining a continuously variable waveform crossfading with a sub octave generator.

The analog core has been completed with a digital control for frequency locking and octave transposition, which makes the Banshee Reach really per- formance oriented. LFO mode, hard or soft sync, digital noise modulation and PWM complete this rich feature list. Compact and powerful, the Banshee Reach is a VCO suited for west coast, east coast synthesis and many more!"

See the dealers on the right for availability.

Polymetric plucks sequencing with Bard Quartet and Knight's Gallop

video upload by Shakmat

"Polymetric sequencing using Bard Quartet in arpeggiator mode and triggering Triple Steeple envelopes via euclidean tables from Knight's Gallop.
Triple Steeple controls both VCA and VCF frequency .
This is a sneak peak to our upcoming Banshee Reach VCO.
Keep your eyes peeled, more to come soon!
Bonus at the end: looping envelope for filter FM sounds"

Rhythmic synth voice Karplus Strong inspired with Mimeophon controlled by Mod Medusa

video upload by Shakmat

"Creating a rhythm with a synth voice using Banshee Reach as source and Dual Dagger resonant filter. All feeding Make Noise Mimeophon (with short "Karplus Strong" style delay times) controlled by our Mod Medusa to breathe life to the patch"

[SUPERBOOTH22] SHAKMAT MODULAR : nouveaux modules Banshee Reach / JWLR Cast / Triple Steeple + Proto

video upload by Les Sondiers

"Les nouveaux modules de Shakmat Modular : Varishape VCO Banshee Reach, JWLR Cast crossfader/ringmod+folder, et Triple Steeple, une triple enveloppe bouclable avec plein de tours dans son sac. Un prototype de filtre/vca/lpg est aussi présenté. Vidéo filmée sur le vif de bon matin, mais François a quand même assuré, avec une petite démo sur la fin. Merci :)"

Googlish:

"Shakmat Modular's new modules: Varishape VCO Banshee Reach, JWLR Cast crossfader/ringmod+folder, and Triple Steeple, a loopable triple envelope with plenty of tricks up its sleeve. A filter/vca/lpg prototype is also presented. Video filmed on the spot early in the morning, but François still ensured, with a small demo at the end. Thank you :)"

Shakmat Announces Four New Modules at SUPERBOOTH22

via Shakmat

Belgium-based eurorack company Shakmat, known for their performance-oriented modules, are announcing four new modules for this Superbooth 22. Pretty known for their hands on sequencers and sound processors, Shakmat now focuses on synthesis with a set of 3 analog modules and a compact triple envelope.

Banshee Reach

This 8HP module is not really a new one as we teased it in September in Berlin under the name Banshee Set. After passionate feedbacks and beta testers comments, the UI was completely redesigned in order to propose a compact, versatile and live oriented analog VCO. Besides a series of features already announced last year (varishape, sub generator and thru-zero modulation), the new version has an octaver function which freezes the fine knob and turns the coarse knob into an octave switch covering 9 octaves. Never detune your VCO by turning that tune knob by accident again!

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