Too hot for a studio tour: let's make a chilled beat instead ( with Deluge and Pyramid

Published on Aug 13, 2018 Olivier Ozoux

Check out the grass! That's a refreshing setup. Nice mellow track.

"I was going to publish a video about my updated studio, but it's too hot here, the AC is broken, so I decided to publish a chilled beat to help us cooldown.

This track is based on my first jam with the Synthstrom Deluge [posted here] reworked to use the entire studio ( yes, I'll edit the tour video next )

Squarp Pyramid: sequences all the things
Synthstrom Deluge: sampled drums and percussions
MFB Tanzbar Lite: analog drums
Preen FM2: Bass and more
Waldorf Blofeld: Ambient Pads
Audiothingies MicroMonsta: Keys
Dreadbox NYX: lead ( modulated by the ANTS! LFO)
Bastl Instruments MicroGranny: vocals processed by THYME"

Microgranny & The Daily Loops Project - July 2018

Published on Jul 13, 2018 Los Sabios Duendes

"This month in The Daily Loops Project the protagonist will be a little goblin who does big things! Microgranny, the little 8-bit sampler created by Bastl-Instruments: http://www.bastl-instruments.com/

Download these Daily Loops and create a new music with them!

The Daily Loops Project is an idea generated by the musician Marcelo Acosta, also known as "Los Sabios Duendes" (trad: The Wise Elves)

All the days composes, records and publishes a loop in this site:

https://soundcloud.com/the-daily-loop..."

DIGITAKT meets his GRANNY (demo how to combine the two)

Published on May 1, 2018 Supah Dupah

"Today I show a few ways of controlling the BASTL instruments Microgranny 2.5 with the Elektron Digitakt's midi sequencer. These two samplers are great companions!"

MICROGRANNY 2.5: UNBOXING & explorations (from BASTL instruments)

Published on Apr 30, 2018 Supah Dupah

"In this video I unbox my newly purchased BASTL instruments Microgranny 2.5. A cool little monophonic granular sampler.

Njoy this first exploration!

Supah"

AE Modular-Tangible Waves & Microgranny 2.0-Bastl Instruments

Published on Mar 8, 2018 Dziam Bass

"AE Modular-Tangible Waves & Microgranny 2.0-Bastl Instruments
AE Modular is a modular system from Tangible Waves in combination with Microgranna 2.0 - a granular sampler from Bastl Instruments. At the beginning of some sounds, noise with a little crunchy but about a minute added bass with Ae Modular used analogue sequencer 16SEQ with AE Modular."

ELECTRAINS / Korg Electribe 2 / Novation Circuit / Bastl Microgranny / Volca FM / Volca Sample

Published on Feb 23, 2018 mishpult

"Going after some cinematic feel with this one. As always, recorded in one take, no additional processing. Footage is taken from a bridge at Oslo Central Station. Enjoy and let me know your thoughts."

Live Jam With PO-12, Monotribe + MicroGranny 2

Published on Oct 13, 2016 STEFAN

"My last live jam went down so well I decided to do a round two, this time I used a Korg Monotribe, PO-12 by Teenage Engineering and a Microgranny by Bastl Instruments. For you tech heads the Monotribe is sending a CV sync to the PO-12 and the Microgranny has some external effects running through Logic Pro X. This video was filmed on a GoPro and iPhone."

MicroGranny 2 Bastl instruments-Granular 8bit sampler-granularity on loop mode

Published on Jan 22, 2018 Dziam Bass

"microGranny 2 is a monophonic granular sampler.8-bit 22050Hz wav recording .This video shows how this sampler affects sound granularity. Great effects when you turn on the granulation on the loop mode, here the loop mode is used, it makes various sequences of the sequence and adds more crash sound."

A Quick and Dirty Jam with Microgranny

Published on Jan 11, 2018 Brian Kupferschmid

"Hey folks. Still enjoying the glitchy and distorted sounds of the Microgranny from Bastl Instruments. I thought I'd share a short, unedited play through of some of the preset sounds. I left all the mistakes and poorly timed cues, just because I'm human. I'm hoping I get some time soon, most likely after NAMM, to really dive in and make my own samples, then combine a lot of the other instruments I have, to make a full on performance. I hope you like this and stay tuned for more stuff."

FJORD

Published on Oct 21, 2017 mishpult

"Original composition using Korg Electribe 2 / Bastl Instruments Microgranny / Novation Circuit / Korg Volca FM. Effects: TC Electronic Hall of fame (reverb) / KP2S Mini (multi-tap delay). Recorded on Tascam DR-05. Added slight compression and limiter. Shot from the rooftop of Oslo Opera House - November 2017"

A new composition from supporting MATRIXSYNTH member, mishpult.

MASSE UND MACHT: ELECTRIBE 2 / VOLCA SAMPLE / MICROGRANNY

Published on Oct 10, 2017 mishpult

"A Korg Electribe 2 composition performed in one take. Other equipment used: Korg Volca Sample (vocal sample and under-beat), Bastl Instruments Microgranny 2.5 (drone), TCE Hall of Fame (reverb) and Korg KP2Mini (delay) Enjoy and thanks for watching!"

DrumBrute-Arturia vs MicroGranny-Bastl Instruments(Loop Mode)

Dziam Bass
Published on Aug 31, 2017

MicroGranny 2.0 -Bastl Instruments 8 bit sampler

Dziam Bass
Published on Aug 3, 2017

"MicroGranny 2.0 -Bastl Instruments This is a great 8 bit sampler with sampling frequency of 22050Hz. Here's a sample kick .snare, bass, one vinyl cut and a pitch plus crunch . sound is awesome this is full Lo-Fi sound. These samples are recorded by a linear input, the microgranny also has a built-in recording microphone and an SD card on which you can transfer your samples to a computer or other sampler."

Best Ambient Synth Shootout Videos by Christian's Sonic Spaces

Published on Jun 4, 2017 Christian's Sonic Spaces

31 videos at the time of this post showcasing various synths. Note the list is out of order for whatever reason. You can use the controls in the player above to get to what you want. Be sure to read the list below. You don't see demos for some of these synths that often. Each (synth and demo) have something different and interesting to offer. Don't miss the formant demos of the FS1R. That's the actual synth engine - no samples.

Playlist:
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #30: E-MU Morpheus - Song 1
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #29: Bastl Instruments XOR - Song 1
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #28: Technics WSA1- Song 3
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #25: SM Pro Audio V-Machine - Song 3
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #21: M-Audio Venom - Song 2
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #18: Bastl Instruments Kastle - Song 1
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #16: Modal Craft Synth - Song 2
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #7: Yamaha FS1R - Song 1
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #17: Kawai K5000R - Song 3
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #12: Ensoniq Fizmo - Song 3
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #6: Korg Wavestation SR - Song 3
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #2: Yamaha TG33 - Song 2
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #X1: Bastl Instruments MicroGranny 2
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #27: Technics WSA1- Song 2
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #24: SM Pro Audio V-Machine - Song 2
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #20: M-Audio Venom - Song 1
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #19: Bastl Instruments Kastle - Song 2
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #15: Modal Craft Synth - Song 1
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #14: Kawai K5000R - Song 2
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #11: Ensoniq Fizmo - Song 2
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #9: Yamaha FS1R - Song 3
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #4: Korg Wavestation SR - Song 1
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #3: Yamaha TG33 - Song 3
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #26: Technics WSA1- Song 1
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #23: SM Pro Audio V-Machine - Song 1
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #22: M-Audio Venom - Song 3
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #13: Kawai K5000R - Song 1
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #10: Ensoniq Fizmo - Song 1
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #8: Yamaha FS1R - Song 2
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #5: Korg Wavestation SR - Song 2
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #1: Yamaha TG33 - Song 1

Bastl Instruments NEWS at Superbooth 2017

via Bastl Instruments:

"We have a lot of exciting news to share at Superbooth 2017 - finally our flagship effects processor Thyme comes to life! Peter Edwards a.k.a. Casper Electronics will show his new invention: a portable, experimental synth called the softPop. We have a new eurorack module drum pad interface Kong. Dude is a new portable mixer with concept of modularity in mind. We are starting to offer our trusty microGranny as a DIY kit and we will also show the aluminum panel designs for our Eurorack line of modules for the first time. And as the Bastl community is growing we have more updates in the wide range of activities that we make, too.

The Thyme effects processor [see here for a Superbooth video] will finally scrap off its vaporware label at Superbooth, where we will give the first public demo in two years after announcing an early prototype back in 2015. The Thyme is best described as a sequenceable robot operated digital tape machine. With a lot of parameters at hand it enables the exploration of all the time based effects and the vast space in between their classical multi-effects categories! Each of the 9 different parameters (Tape Speed, Delay Coarse & Fine, Feedback, Filter, extra heads Spacing and Levels, Dry Wet Mix and Volume) has a dedicated and very flexible modulation source - called the Robot - which can be phased out differently for left and right channel to create psychedelic new sound effects. The Robot can either be an LFO with many different waveshapes, external CV source or an envelope follower to enable effects reacting to dynamics. On top of everything there are 8 buttons to select a preset and those presets can be sequenced by a built in meta sequencer. The Thyme is ready for production and pricing and availability will be announced in May 2017.

softPop is a playfully organic, semi-modular light and sound synthesizer with wide variety of sounds: from random dripping water pops to heavy subtractive basslines. Its fully analog core consisting of heavily feedbacked system of dual triangle-core oscillator, state variable filter and sample and hold is played through an intuitive interface of 6 faders that provides countless combinations which can be explored by anyone. It can also process external audio thru the filter while using the envelope follower to intuitively synchronise to the incoming signal. The analog soul is enhanced by a quantize feature (auto-tune) and pattern generator with two memories A and B. For adventurous and courageous souls there is a secret chamber in the back for hacking & modding. We will launch the pre-orders in a couple of weeks with price somewhere below 300 eur.

KONG

The expressiveness of a drumming performance and the freedom of a eurorack modular synthesizer finally have a dedicated interface! Kong is a dual drumpad interface that amplifies the drumpad signal and converts it to trigger and velocity CV signals. The Gain knob helps to amplify signal from any drumpad and serves as a sensitivity setting for the velocity, too. The whole architecture is fully analog and the Velocity CV signal is generated by sample and hold circuit with extremely low drift which makes it perfect for controlling crazy patches by hitting a bunch of drumpads. Kong is available NOW for preorder from noise.kitchen for 109 eur without tax. Preorders will ship in June.

Dude is a portable battery operated 5 channel audio mixer with mini jack inputs and output. Each channel has a dedicated mute button and up to +20dB gain to boost weak signals or saturate line level signals. It is a monophonic mixer but can drive your headphones and therefore its perfect for small portable rigs or submixes on stage. It runs on four AA batteries (or external powersupply) and it is almost as small as its batterypack. Because each channel has enough gain that it can be turned into tone generator by feeding the output back to an input thru a passive eq and other simple circuits. The first batch of the Dude is available NOW from noise.kitchen for 75 eur excluding tax.

microGranny2 as a DIY kit

We have announced the microGranny2 about 3 years ago and it still is very popular machine. After several updates we can finally offer it as a DIY kit! microGranny is a granular sampler with built in microphone that operates samples on a microSD card. It is available NOW from noise.kitchen for 130 eur excl. tax!

Aluminum panels for Eurorack modules

We dedicated a lot of effort to make our wooden panels look and feel great. Now after quite some requests from people we finally found a manufacturing partner for the aluminium panels that meets our high expectations. We are using silkscreen printing in between of the anodizing phases. This method bakes the color perfectly into the material making the colour full, rich and yet very durable!

The modules will be gradually available from selected retailers from 1st May 2017. Note: the wooden panel version of the modules will NOT be discontinued

Further updates from the Bastl Community

● We have made a zine about the Bastl community which will be presented and distributed on demand at the Superbooth 2017 and further
● Noise Kitchen Synthfest: Connecting Distant Patchpoints organized by Bastl and partners takes place in the coming days after Superbooth 2017 in 4 different cities: 23.4. Berlin, 26.4. Praha, 28.4. Brno, 29.4. Wien . Join us there <3 http://noise.kitchen/synth-fest-2017/
● Two new films were published about the Bastl community: Cuckoo’s in depth documentary & Electronic Beats INSIDE: Bastl Instruments
● 2 recent releases on our Nona Records label: NONA004 Family Matter, NONA005 607f/s by ~emb http://www.nona-rec.com/
● We are opening new coffee store front called Koffein at Panská 13, Brno, Czech Republic. Learn how to make great coffee at home, enjoy the best coffee made by Valentino at Bastl and patch a modular synth in the meantime!
● Project 60 knobs is getting finalised
● Due to the recent shift of the Czech Currency (CZK) and rising living costs in the Czech Republic we
will be adjusting our international prices accordingly from 1st May"

DIY 8 Bit Bass Sound Synthesis with the Bastl Micro Granny 2

Published on Feb 16, 2017 TheDaydreamSound

"DIY 8 Bit Bass Sound Synthesis with the Bastl Micro Granny 2

This one is for the DIYer’s out there. Creating your own custom sounds can be a very rewarding process. In this video we’ll use the 8 bit converters of the Bastl Microgranny 2 sampler to create a Synth Bass sound from a Tibetan Singing Bowl. For those who are looking for an entry video into the world of sound design, this will provide enough to peak your interest as well as open you up to the vast possibilities of using Lo-fi sounds sources as an addition to your design process.

Lastly using an 8bit sampler like the Microgranny is an alternative option for those who want a vintage lo-fi sampler sound but don’t want to buy and older sampler."

We lived in Arizona: a live jam with MicroGranny and MicroMonsta

Published on Feb 12, 2017 Olivier Ozoux

"I'm not completely convinced about that one, but here it is anyway. Vocal sample from an interview with Rickie Lee Jones, used with great effects by The Orb's in "Little Fluffy Clouds".

Instruments:
- Squarp Pyramid (sequencer)
- Korg Electribe 2 Sampler (drums and percussions)
- Bastl Instruments MicroGranny (samples)
- PreenFM2 ( bassline and arp )
- MeeBlip Triode (bassline)
- Audiothingies MicroMonsta (keys)
- Waldorf Blofeld (pads)"

#JAMuary08: a live jam with Blofeld and MicroGranny

Published on Jan 31, 2017 Olivier Ozoux

"Only 8 tracks for JAMuary which is far from once a day, but still is at least twice as many as I've done in any month last year.

Instruments:
- Squarp Pyramid (sequencer)
- Bastl MicroGranny (voice samples)
- Korg Electribe (drums and percussions)
- PreenFM2 ( bassline, and woodie sound)
- MakeNoise 0-Coast ( arpeggio )
- AudioThingies MicroMonsta ( main pads )
- Waldorf Blofeld ( everything else )"

#JAMuary 05: a live jam with Bastl MicroGranny and MakeNoise 0-Coast

Published on Jan 10, 2017 Olivier Ozoux

"According to Deadmau5' MasterClass, the basics of an EDM beat is a kick on every quarter note, a snare and/or clap on every other quarter note, and a hi hat in-between."

Icelandic Poets: a live jam with Squarp Pyramid, MeeBlip Triode, Blofeld and more.

Published on Dec 19, 2016 Olivier Ozoux

"You shouldn't let poets lie to you.

- Squarp Pyramid (sequencer)
- Korg Electribe 2 Sampler (drums)
- Waldorf Blofeld ( pads )
- Audiothingies MicroMonsta ( keys )
- Makenoise 0 Coast ( arp )
- MeeBlip Triode ( bassline )
- Bastl Instruments MicroGranny ( vocal samples )"