Very Easel

Published on Feb 17, 2014 Boele Gerkes·11 videos

"Buchla Easel try-out 1"

Two Verbos Complex Oscillators & two Dual Four Pole Filters

Published on Jul 11, 2017 Boele Gerkes

"Live recording with two Verbos Complex Oscillators en two Dual Four Pole filters driven by two independent arpeggiators. Modulation from Random Sources and Batumi LFOs."

Moog Sub 37: why you need one...

Published on May 3, 2015 Boele Gerkes

"Literally the first sound I dialed in on this just purchased Moog Sub 37.
You're hearing raw Moog sound through a cheap Electro Harmonix #1 Echo pedal (digital delay) which adds a little bit more movement to the running arp.
The organic distortion this synth can produce is unreal."

Verbos Bark filter audio demo

Published on Feb 17, 2018 Boele Gerkes

"Little audio demo of this fantastic Verbos Module. A simple waveform fed into it is first static and not so nice, but after adding two random control voltages into the Width and Center parameters: life!"

355 2010 Before the Flood

video upload by Boele Gerkes

"Various sampled MOTM modular wave forms, shaped and played with two Waldorf Blofelds.
Drums from various samples."

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SCD live - Studio 83 - recorded 23-05-2014

Published on May 23, 2014 Boele Gerkes·13 videos

"Arturia Minibrute analog synthesizer - Novation Bass Station 2 analog synthesizer - Moog Voyager XL analog synthesizer - Arturia Spark Drum plugin - Strymon Timeline and Big Sky Delay/Reverb pedals - Ableton Live DAW.
The Spark drum track goes through FXpansion Maul plugin (distortion). Reverb and delay plugins used in Ableton Live: Valhalla Room and XILS-lab Le Masque Delay.
Master compressor plugin: Arts Acoustic CL1."

Random Source Serge NTO New Timbral Oscillator and Wave Multipliers

video upload by Boele Gerkes

"Small test with these two modules. NTO saw waveshape is going into the lovely wavefolding circuits from the Wave Multiplier. Some modulation from a Verbos Multi Envelope and Verbos Random Sampling.
Signal goes through 4MS Dual delay and Noise Engineering Desmodus Versio reverb."

Oberheim Two Voice Pro demo #4

Published on Sep 16, 2017 Boele Gerkes

"Two SEMs in split mode seperately driven by two arps. Not much tweaking needed :)"

All parts here.

Moog One Sound

Published on Apr 12, 2020 Boele Gerkes

Playlist:

1. Moog One Sound #1

So... after more than a year of doubts, I finally dared to purchase a Moog One, and the thing goes beyond my wildest dreams...

This first recording is a simple two oscillator sound, where I modulate the wave shape of oscillator 1 and 2 (saw/sine) with a random shaped LFO and the pitch with another saw tooth shaped LFO. A little delay from the One does the rest.

You can easily get in 'Cortini'-territory if you like: Buchla-esque types of sounds. Not in the last place because of the incredible musical envelopes with all their stage curve shaping possibilities.

But also because of the character of the oscillators. WELL done Moog!

2. Moog One Sound #2

This one is a bit more experimental. It's three arps not synced to master clock and all three running at a slightly different speed. :)
I start with arp 1 on solo, then 2, then 3, then all three.

3. Moog One Sound #3

Allright, the last one for today: this is a more conventional arp sound, both synced to the master clock. Two layers with the same sound however one of them 1 octave up. Arp play mode is "random" on both layers. Dotted delay does the rest. There is a slight part of ring modulation in the mixer. The ring modulator is pure heaven by the way.

Verbos Analog Shift Register

video upload by Boele Gerkes

"While playing a simple arpeggio, two Verbos Harmonic Oscillators are "animated" with CVs coming out of the Analog Shift Register from a Verbos Random Sampling module. Audio then goes through the DPW Design Mög module and 4MS Dual Looping Delay."

The PPG Wave 2

Update: I put this up earlier yesterday but decided to move this up so no one misses it. Note this is NOT the popular PPG Wave 2.2 or 2.3, but the super rare Wave 2 that preceded the 2.2 and 2.3. This is a very rare and special synth. This is our chance to see and hear it.

via Boele Gerkes (Something Completely Different):
"After Wolfgang Palm had released the WaveComputer 360s series PPG came out with the PPG 2.0. An 8 voice, 1 oscillator digital wavetable synthesizer with analog filters (CEM 3320) and analog VCAs (CEM 3330 dual VCA). It's the forerunner of the better known PPG 2.2 and 2.3, but to my opinion these are quite different sounding PPGs, probably mostly because of the different filters used (SSM 2044) and different VCAs (CEM3360).

I know and own(ed) all the Waldorf wavetable synths too and have done lots of music with those (WAVE, Microwave 1, Microwave XT, the Q) but those are incomparable with the PPG series.

The PPG 2.0 sounds very intimate and to me it's the perfect mixture of digital and analog components in a synthesizer. I fell in deep love with it. And more famous band and people did too: Depeche Mode, Tangerine Dream, Robert Schröder, Gary Numan and others.

Yes, it's digital, yes it aliasing as hell, but ohhhhh..... everything gets polished again by those lovely filters...

All examples are PPG 2.0 only (plus reverb and delay). It's quite clear where some leads from Tangerine Dreams albums of the eighties come from...

Also the demo-tune is PPG 2.0 only. Not really a good song, but it shows a few sounds the synth is capable of. Since there is no midi on the PPG (yet...), everything is played by hand, so excuses for some timing glitches.

The PPG 2.0 on which all this is done, is on loan from a friend of mine. But I just bought one myself. Should arrive next week."

samples:
ppg-1.mp3
ppg-2.mp3
ppg-3.mp3
ppg-4.mp3
ppg-5.mp3
ppg-6.mp3
ppg-7.mp3
ppg-8.mp3
ppg-9.mp3
ppg-10.mp3

Song:
one complete "song"

Dave Smith Pro-2 sessions #11

Published on Apr 3, 2016 Boele Gerkes

"Hardware: Dave Smith Instruments Pro-2 synthesizer, Strymon Timeline, Strymon Bigsky, Strymon Mobius, Eventide Modfactor, Electro Harmonix Enigma Q-Balls, Electro Harmonix Riddle Q-Balls.
Software: Ableton Live 9, GForce Mtron Pro, Toontrack Superior 2, Sonic Charge MicroTonic, Melda Productions Multiband Vibrato, Valhalla Room, Valhalla Plate, Sound Toys Echoboy, Sound Toys Decapitator, Arts Acoustic CL1"

Waldorf Edition Demo

Title link takes you to One more demo via Boele Gerkes of SCD.

"This demosong uses only the plugins from the Waldorf Edition, i.e. PPG 2.v. Attack and D-Pole Filter all programmed by Wolfram Franke plus reverb and delay from Logic. The first part of the song focusses a little bit more on the Attack, the second part more on the PPG 2.v. Although my heart still lays with hardware synths, I have to say these plugins are sounding bloody good!"

Previous post with Attack samples. BTW, I swapped images for this post.

PPG WaveGenreator App Demo - Drone Rise

PPG WaveGenreator App Demo - Drone Rise by ppgwaveapp
"A very nice demo from Boele Gerkes showing the sheer depth of sound created by the PPG WaveGenerator App.

Coming soon!"

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Access Virus TI2 Wavetables with Ringmod

Published on May 20, 2017 Boele Gerkes

"A single sound with two wavetable oscillators with various modulations and using the ringmodulator. This synthesizer has some awesome sounding tricks on its sleeve...
This is pure Virus, No external FXs used"

Strymon Timeline editor for iPad (music with Moog Voyager & Timeline)

Published on May 29, 2013 Boele Gerkes·5 videos

"Strymon Timeline editor for the iPad (music with Moog Voyager and Timeline only)."

Music Laboratory Machines Compilation

Music Laboratory Machines Compilation by Hollow Sun
"A moody compilation of several pieces created by Hollow Sun customers using nothing other than the Music Laboratory Machines ... pieces by Atomic Shadow, Boele Gerkes, Bobbotov, Shadoe42 and some self-penned compositions merged and blended into one long segue of retro electronic abstract goodness.

My thanks to all contributors.

http://www.hollowsun.com"

via The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Oberheim Two Voice Pro demo #2

Published on Sep 13, 2017 Boele Gerkes

"Filter FM on both SEMs with external (tracking) oscillators. I also used two euro rack envelopes to modulate the pitch of one SEM vco and the other to modulate the other SEM VCA. The internal two sequencers are used, synced to MIDI clock from DAW"

Demo 1 here.

Dave Smith Pro-2 sessions #7

Published on Mar 28, 2016 Boele Gerkes

"Dave Smith Instruments Pro-2 synthesizer + some FX pedals."

Moog Minimoog Voyager XL demo song

Published on Apr 16, 2016 Boele Gerkes

"Something Completely Different. All sounds Moog Voyager XL. Drums Sonic Charge Microtonic."