Yamaha VP1 Virtual Acoustic Synthesizer - Wonderland | Music By Christian Halten, Game Solitude

video upload by Christian Halten

You can find additional posts featuring the Yamaha VP1 here.

"The track Wonderland by Christian Halten is composed and performed on the very rare Yamaha VP1 Virtual Acoustic Synthesizer released in 1994. The arrangement was recorded using live overdubs, no other instruments nor external effects were used. The visuals for the track derive from the game Solitude by Jerboa Entertainment with kind permission. Solitude is available on Steam from the link below.

The VP1 is a 16 voice synthesizer that creates sounds based on Physical Modeling technique resulting in pseudo-acoustic tones. All sounds can be altered in real time (even material properties) with a lot of onboard controllers including three tactile expression pedals. Yamaha created a custom 64 core computing architecture for the VP1. At the time it was a very expensive instrument and only a few of them were built.

Christian Halten is a film music composer and creative director based in Berlin. He started his career at the age of 17 scoring a cinematic documentary published by National Geographic. Ever since he is passionate about exploring and expressing sound in music to picture. He worked in Los Angeles in various teams around Hans Zimmer. His latest work is a collaboration with composer Michael Stearns.

Game Solitude On Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/37...

Christian Halten On Bandcamp
https://christianhalten.bandcamp.com/"

Limited Edition SONICWARE LIVEN Lofi-6

LIVEN Lofi-6 (Official PV)video upload by SONICWARE

See this previous post for additional details and demos of the standard edition Lofi-6.


LIVEN Lofi-6 Sound Demo video upload by SONICWARE

"LIVEN Lofi-6, a limited edition of 500 units in collaboration with Perfect Circuit.
https://sonicware.jp/pages/liven-lofi6
https://www.perfectcircuit.com/sonicw...

0:00 01 : DIXI (Dixieland by Takahiro Sato)
0:15 02 : AIME (Chabada by Christian Laffitte)
0:28 03 : JIVE (Jive by Chris Lody)
0:46 04 : FONO (Fonogram by Christian Laffitte)
0:58 05 : SEA (ASMR-ish 'By the sea' by Takahiro Sato)
1:10 06 : LATE (Late One Day by Chris Lody)
1:31 07 : NOVA (La Vie Est Belle by Christian Laffitte)
1:44 08 : HEY (Hey by Dr. Endo)
2:05 09 : BAYA (Baya playa by Christian Laffitte)
2:17 10 : LIFT (Lift Music by Chris Lody)
2:28 11 : LAGO (Lago by Christian Laffitte)
2:44 12 : EASY (Easy by Chris Lody)
3:05 13 : DRAW (Draw the Picture with Your Sound by Yasutake(elfin))
3:20 14 : D.NOC (Dobranoc by Yasutake(elfin))
3:46 15 : COSY (Cosy by Yasutake(elfin))
4:00 16 : BK.HL (Might Be Blackhole by Yasutake(elfin))"

Sonicware Liven Lofi-6 Quick Start Guide - How to Make Retro Lofi Music

video upload by ChrisLody

perdide

perdide from druc drac on Vimeo.

via Druc Drac Sertyle on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

"This generative patch name is after the movie "Les Maîtres du temps" by René Laloux, with drawings by Mœbius and synthetic soundscapes by Christian Zanési."

French video description followed Googlish further below.

"Le nom de ce patch - et de cette vidéo - fait référence au film "Les maîtres du temps" de René Laloux, dont Mœbius avait signé le dessin et Christian Zanési les ambiances sonores synthétiques.

This patch - and video - name is after the movie "Les Maîtres du temps" by René Laloux, with drawings by Mœbius and synthetic soundscapes by Christian Zanési.

Détails du patch :

Le seul VCO utilisé est le DPO.

Les deux premières voix :
La sortie dent de scie du premier oscillateur et la sortie carrée du second passent chacune par une piste de l'Optomix.
Celles-ci sont modulées par les canaux 1 et 4 du Maths au niveau du Control et sont triggées par les sorties EOR et EOC du Fonction.
Le Fonction et le Maths s'intermodulent (les sorties sont récupérées pour changer les durées de Rise et/ou de Fall du module voisin).

Troisième voix :
Les sorties sinusoïdes des deux oscillateurs du DPO s'intermodulent dans le Moddemix.
Je récupère la sortie 2 de celui-ci, ce qui me permet de remoduler le résultat par la sortie SUM du Maths.

Quatrième voix :
La sortie Final du DPO est directement récupérée.

Intermodulations supplémentaires :
La sortie EOC du canal 4 du Maths vient donner une clock à l'enveloppe 1 du PEG.
Cette enveloppe influe sur la durée du Rise des canaux 1 et 4 du Maths.
Les sorties EOR et EOF du PEG fournissent les clocks du Brains et du VIII de Razmasynth qui séquencent chacun la hauteur de chaque oscillateur du DPO.
Le Fonctions vient aussi moduler l'indice de modulation FM entre ces deux oscillateurs.
La sortie OR du Maths vient changer le Scale du PEG.

Enfin, le VCA Matrix me sert à atténuer les différentes pistes.

Je récupère le tout dans ma carte son et je le mixe dans live (niveaux, panoramiques + injection dans une Valhalla Room)."

Googlish:

"The name of this patch - and this video - refers to the movie" Masters of Time "by René Laloux, including Moebius had signed drawing and Christian Zanési synthetic soundscapes.

This patch - and video - Effective name is the movie "Masters of Time" by René Laloux, with drawings by Moebius and synthetic soundscapes by Christian Zanési.

Details of the patch:

The only VCO is used DPO.

The first two votes:
The sawtooth of the first oscillator and the square output of the second pass each output by a runway Optomix.
These are modulated by channels 1 and 4 of Maths at the Control and are triggées by EOR and the EOC function outputs.
The Function and Maths intermodulent (outputs are retrieved to change Rise times and / or of the adjacent module Fall).

Third voice:
The outputs of the two sinusoidal oscillators DPO is intermodulent in Moddemix.
I get the output 2 thereof, which allows me to remodulate the result by the SUM output of Maths.

Fourth voice:
Final output of the DPO is directly recovered.

Additional intermodulation:
The EOC output channel 4 Maths just give a clock to the casing 1 of PEG.
This envelope affects the duration of the Rise of channels 1 and 4 Maths.
EOR and EOF PEG outputs provide clocks of Brains and VIII each séquencent Razmasynth that the height of each oscillator DPO.
The functions also comes modulate the FM modulation index between these two oscillators.
The GOLD Maths output is change the Scale of PEG.

Finally, the VCA Matrix I use to mitigate the different tracks.

I get all my sound card and I live in the mix (levels, panoramic + injection in Valhalla Room)."

Playlist of Technics WSA1 Videos

This one is in via Jusuf in the comments of this post. Many have been featured on the site before, some haven't. Enjoy! :)

Playlist at the time of this post:
Technics sx-WSA1R demo - that other acoustic modeling synth from the 90s - Floyd Steinberg
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #26: Technics WSA1- Song 1 - Christian's Sonic Spaces
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #27: Technics WSA1- Song 2 - Christian's Sonic Spaces
MOV 0217 - hien trinh
Technics SX-WSA1 MarkovModels - Tom Noopher
technics wsa synthesizer - some physical modelled sounds - borgmechaniker
puredata-algorithmicsequencer-02.mp4 with Technics WSA - borgmechaniker
Demo technics sx-WSA1 part1 - gravili
Technics WSA 1 Sound Demos mit 4 von mir improvisierten Songs - Musiker Lanze
both units are now sold. bye bye my synths. - myRegression
Korg JP8000 JP-8000 Review (Technics WSA1 WSA-1) - TR0LLreviews
LooPing petit bout de piano - LooPingVideoHome
Stay with me - Andreas Fechner
Improvisation 2 - Andreas Fechner
Koródi Csaba - Improvizáció - Szintimánia
Technics WSA 1 Film Demo - Dave Blackburn
BuddyN-Trance masterclip - BuddyMYT
Technics SX-WSA1 Ambient Demo - Blake Foster
TECHNICS WSA1 - Demo Song - Szintimánia
Tax-5 - The Labyrinth (Dark Ambient) - Technics WSA1 - Stephan S
Technics SX WSA 1R Synthesizer - Chillout Demo, by Clouds Testers - Alexander Bobrov
Demo Technics sx-WSA1 part2 - gravili
WSA1- Technics - Piano Steinway & Sons - Por Rogelson.mpg - Roger Syst Gama
technics wsa1 view sơ qua phần FX chỉnh tiếng. - hien trinh
Short Technics WSA1 Jam with Ryan - "Garbage Truck" :) - CoolColJ
Technics WSA1R Sounds - borututu forte
Technics WSA1 - Changing the display - 01 - roghelson
Cool/Funny ad - Technics WSA - lbulbu
groove - mruebsam
T.W.G music: lost - T . W . G
Magic World - Andreas Fechner
Live Jam #18 (LXR, acid8, DCM8, JP-08, Shruthi-1, V-Machine, System-1m, Atmegatron, SX-WSA1, etc.) - Christian's Sonic Spaces
Best Ambient Synth Shootout #28: Technics WSA1- Song 3 - Christian's Sonic Spaces
RS - Song for C (featuring Technics WSA1) - stratomoto
Technics WSA1 / WSAr - Synt Hudba

Christian Günther presents his products @SUPERBOOTH18 - CG Products

Christian Günther presents his products @SUPERBOOTH18 - CG Products from HerrSchneider on Vimeo.

This is a great performance. Don't miss it. Note the record player has controls for looping similar to tape. Cool trumpet playing with reverb.

"CG Products is fine small company from Berlin developing analog circuits for eurorack and stand-alone musical instruments. Here you can hear some of Christian Günthers unique designs in his Gesprächskonzert at SUPERBOOTH18."

See the Christian Günther & CG Products labels below for more.

The Crow Hill Company Introduces POCKET STRING no-barrier-to-entry-styled string library plug-in

video upload by CROW HILL XTRAS

Press release follows:

"The Crow Hill Company creates POCKET STRINGS as no-barrier-to-entry-styled string library plug-in produced without compromise… with added ‘synthy spice’

EDINBURGH, UK: having recently rebranded itself with an aesthetic that truly realises company co-founder and composer Christian Henson’s heartfelt dream of encouraging people to make music and help them on their journey, regardless of whatever point they were at and wherever their journey began, The Crow Hill Company continues its journeying into ‘Season Two’ as a producer of resources and tools to protect, inspire, support, and provide opportunities for music-makers the world over, believing that music is, and should remain, a wholly human experience, one that is by far one of the most powerful forms of expression, escape, comfort, and remembrance, of which its newly-created POCKET STRINGS — styled as a definitive string library plug-in that opens the doors to collaboration between anyone anywhere, creatively combining live cinematic orchestral recordings with some rarefied vintage synth classics made to measure for added body, depth, and character — readily represents the cornerstone of this ethos, as of July 10…

“A string library that’s accessible to all without compromise — a distillation of the last 25, nearly 30, years that I’ve been working as a media composer, which means that I write music for film, TV, and computer games, giving you the very basic necessities to write pro-end string arrangements. Whether that be adding to productions, songs, collaborating with others, or, indeed, creating professional film scores — whether that be to demo for an orchestra to play, or, indeed, to go to broadcast, there’s been no compromises here. But accessibility is the key — not just with the price point, but with usability.” So says Christian Henson himself, perfectly positioned — as The Crow Hill Company’s original founder, forging forward by building upon his extensive experience gained from founding Spitfire Audio to originally offer a palette of sounds he had created for his own use as a professional composer to his film world colleagues by invitation only, though the rest, as they say, is history — to proudly introduce POCKET STRINGS as a never-tried-before strings library plug-in that aims to bring broadcast-grade string possibilities to everyone.

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Christian/Vienna – Sync-Gen II PRO

Christian/Viena via Innerclock

"Merry Christmas David,

Man, it just works as you told me.

Installation was the easiest I have ever done.

But most of all, it does what you promised.

Thanks a very a lot!

Christian – Grow! Records, Vienna"

"03/31/10" - Lopass Mates

"03/31/10" - Lopass Mates from Sean Suter on Vimeo.

"Lopass Mates are Charles Cohen and Christian Mirande

Taped by Sean Suter and Sean Traynor

Sound Engineered by Kevin Quann

Edited by Sean Suter

rustysawhouse.com"

Click here for all posts featuring Charles Cohen and Christian Mirande. Click here for one post that didn't make that query for whatever reason.

via Christian Mirande

Charles Cohen and Christian Mirande - Buchla Live

"Lopass Mates @ Rotunda Wed ...all Buchla, all the time Wednesday, March 4, 2009 The Rotunda 4014 Walnut St. Philadelphia 8 PM

Lopass Mates:
Charles Cohen, Buchla Music Easel
Christian Mirande, Buchla 200 Modular Analog Synthesizer

The Buchla 200 is the Mother Ship of the Music Easel. It only appears around here once a decade.
For this improvisational performance it will be piloted by Mr Mirande, an aficionado of Sharks, Coral, Century Series Fighter Planes, and Electro-Acoustic Music.

presented by Bowerbird.org

MORE INFORMATION

also playing:
THE INTERNATIONAL NOTHING (Berlin)
Kai Fagaschinski - clarinet, composition
Michael Thieke - clarinet, composition

KO KOED
Alban Bailly - accordion
Dustin Hurt - accordion"

Update: according to Christian in the comments, this show is free.

Here's a video of Charles Cohen previously posted here. Be sure to see these posts as well.


CHARLES COHEN AT THE BUCHLA MUSIC EASEL from Alex on Vimeo.
"/ / / / / Viewing with headphones or a stereo source is highly recommended / / / / /

This colorful video features sound artist Charles Cohen improvising on a 1970's Buchla Music Easel. This extremely rare instrument is one of Don Buchla's 200 series. Buchla (a pioneer of audio synthesis) only manufactured 14 of these units. The entire film was edited from an hour-long set of free improvisation, with audio was taken directly from Charles' mixing board.

All of the photography and editing was produced by Alex Tyson, a sound and video artist from Pennsylvania. The film was shot in 16:9 720p High Definition format, using a 35mm LensBaby 3GPL.

This film is free to distribute, share, blog, vlog, etc. When re-posting, please copy and paste this text to inform anyone about the film.

At this time the film is only available online. While you can stream it in HD, it is best viewed on DVD.
Please contact the filmmaker for hard copies if interested.

Charles can be reached at ccohen (at) voicenet.com.

Thanks to LensBabies for making this awesome lens!"

multi-touch the storm - interactive sound visuals - subcycle labs

multi-touch the storm - interactive sound visuals - subcycle labs from christian bannister on Vimeo.

"sound visualization, multi-touch interface, break beat performance engine, sonic navigation, sound storm visualization, time machine, interactive sound, time stretch tabla more at subcycle.org"

Update:

low frequency entity - subcycle labs from christian bannister on Vimeo.

"a real-time multi-touch interface to a visualized low frequency sound. the various touch configurations control different parameters of the synthesized bass including filter modulation rate, bit crush, sample and hold, feedback, oscillator phase and fm synthesis. more info at subcycle.org"

low frequency entity 2 - subcycle labs from christian bannister on Vimeo.

Christian Guenther's XR-1

I spotted this one on StromKult. It is currently sold out, but Christian is working on a new model. I couldn't find any additional info, so I contacted Andreas Schneider of StromKult and Schneiders Beuro via @SchneidersBeuro. I asked him if there was a website with more info. Currently there is not, but his work is out there and has been featured at the Musikmesse Superbooth. You can see an article featuring his work with Moritz Wolpert here in German (Googlish here). You might recognize the "steampunk" modular in the image from this previous post.

You can find some nice higher res pics of the XR-1 that just went up today on Aliens-Project here.

"Soundtüftler. Moritz Wolpert (links) und Christian Günther. - Foto: Doris Spiekermann-Klaas"

Olivier Briand et Christian Neil : "Hydrasynth first contact"

Olivier Briand

"Mon ami Christian Neil m'a fait essayé sa dernière acquisition dans mon studio : L'Hydrasynth, que j'ai trouvé fort intéressant, voici un partage de mes expérimentations sonores, ainsi que les premiers patchs originaux de Christian, ENJOY !"

Playing the Cursus Iteritas with MPE

junklight

"The Cursus Iteritas is my kind of oscillator and as soon as I heard a demo I knew I needed one. More often than not though it ends up making percussive sounds. For todays video though I hooked it up to the seaboard via the FH-1 and let it do its thing. The output is routed via the Viol Runia for some extra grit & flavour

Accompaniment is a Christian Henson piano sample and MLR, Morphagene and W/ are adding to the action too. Reverb as ever is Valhalla DSP.

Talking of Christian Henson his recent video is very interesting on the topic of synthetic/natural sounds [below] and goes a long way to explain why I love adding layers of distortion to everything :-)"

Why Are Synths So Difficult To Mix???

Christian Henson Music

"Do you find synths difficult to mix? If so what methods do you employ, a bit of distortion, a spring, a plate?"

Dance Machine by Decktonic - KORG DS10 Album

"Immediate download of 11-track album in any format. Suggested price is $5, but if you want it for free, that's cool too."
"The debut KORG DS10 album from Decktonic. All songs were made with the KORG DS10/DS10+ software, with no post-processing or external effects, with the exception of Digital Sound #10, which was created by slowing down a 3 second sample from "Robot Bounce" and applying effects in Ableton Live.
credits
released 06 March 2011
Artwork By Christian Montoya

All songs written by Christian Montoya except for:
Supernova - Written by Christian Montoya, Anthony Seeha
Licensed for Use (Anthony Seeha Remix) - Remix by Anthony Seeha

Love & Tonic Records #001
Decktonic: thisisdecktonic.com
Anthony Seeha: youtube.com/seehanth001"

Dave Smith Instruments In The Spotlight With the Prophet-6 and Christian Matthew Cullen

You can find the full interview on DSI's website here.

"Christian Matthew Cullen has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry as a musician and producer. He is best known for his enthusiastic and soulful playing style and uncanny ability to sound design classic and modern sounds from master recordings in a live setting.

Over the last 15 years as a professional, Christian has traveled the world recording and performing on TV, radio, arena and theater tours with: Night Ranger, Abe Laboriel Jr. (Paul McCartney), Alan Parsons, Alex Ligertwood (Santana), Andy Sturmer (Jellyfish), Bo Bice (American Idol), Brad Gillis (Ozzy), David Pack (Ambrosia), Deen Castronovo (Journey), Eric Martin (Mr. Big), Henry Paul (The Outlaws), Jack Blades (Damn Yankees), Jim Peterik (Ides of March), Jimi Jamison (Survivor), Joe Lynn Turner (Deep Purple), Joe Zook (One Republic), Johnny Van Zant (Lynyrd Skynrd), Kevin Cronin (R.E.O. Speed wagon), Martha Davis (The Motels), Mickey Thomas (Starship), Bobby Kimball (Toto), Kevin Cronin (REO Speedwagon), Reb Beach (Whitesnake), Rick Nielsen (Cheap Trick), Robin Zander (Cheap Trick), Robbie Dupree, Rik Emmett (Triumph), Spencer Davis, Styx, Tommy Shaw, Vince Neil, and Winger. He also composes and sound designs for TV and radio advertising, film, video games, toys, and eLearning for clients such as Fox, Ford, Merrell, Google, Disney, Smirnoff, V-Tech, Tomy Infantino, an Party City."

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You can find previous posts featuring DSI's Spotlight series here.

Introducing: GUITAR HIVE

video upload by The Crow Hill Company

"You have never heard a sample library like this before. Instant, Cure, Smiths, Cocteau, Lanois, Eno, Edge, Steve Reich vs Pat Metheny under your fingertips. An homage to great British guitar beds from shoe gaze to stinking student union bars in the north of England to the pristine layers of Reich’s Electric Counterpoint. Construct endless layers of interweaved guitar parts that become a highly controllable sonic weapon that goes from elegant to pure filth in no less than a turn of a dial.

Join the minds (and fingers) behind this; Christian Henson and Theo Le Derf on the beginning of your Hive journey. This is the gift we all wanted this Christmas."

Press release follows:


EDINBURGH, UK: The Crow Hill Company is proud to announce availability of FILTH - GUITAR HIVE — heading up its FILTH sub-range of products produced and recorded at the Annex in Edinburgh, Scotland, its self-styled safe house packed with vintage equipment, rarified instruments, synths, processing, and potential, with the main emphasis being on creating more experimental sample projects that think out of the box and are the very antithesis of virtual instruments; in this case, guitar performances on a limited-edition Fender Telecaster by Theo Le Derf, D.I. (Direct Injection) recorded via a pristine Thermionic Culture The Rooster Valve pre-amp with EQ & attitude and mixed through countless processors to give users control over the uncontrollable, ultimately providing what all at the music-making community tools-maker collectively yearn for in the process... utter filth — as of December 18…

Now knowing what FILTH - GUITAR HIVE is positioned as being, best to take a function-highlighting, whistle-stop tour of its clearly considered UI (User Interface) implemented to take that mission statement to the musical masses, filthy or otherwise. On the face of it, the front panel-dominating ‘Obutsu!’ is basically a ‘filth’ dial, allowing users to effortlessly transform their sound with three simultaneous signals — from tasteful and pure D.I. to a crunchy deluxe amplifier, all the way to overdriven feedback and tempo-synced tremolo; SHIMMER is a dual-direction granular pitch shift fed into a massive reverb chamber, creating a cascading, shimmering veil of tone; DRIVE is an unmistakably distorted, crunchy signal, modelled after a tube amp that has been utterly misused; ECHO is a tape-based, multi-tap echo/delay that syncs to the host tempo — an associated speed control determines what subdivision of the beat the repeats play at; and SPLOSH is a suitably reasonable decaying reverb for anyone’s roomy needs.

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CG Products - Christian Günther @SUPERBOOTH19

Published on May 12, 2019 Superbooth Official

"All who know Christian Günther and his instruments, also knows that he stands for a guarantee for something quite special.
He builds very personal and high quality products and always brings fresh ideas for innovative performances."

Superbooth 2023: Modal Electronics - Carbon 8 & Limited Edition Cobalt And Argon 8

video upload by sonicstate

"Christian at Modal Electronics gave us a preview of the forthcoming 8 voice experimental digital synth Carbon 8.

Carbon 8 employs over 40 complex waveform algorithms, and is geared towards the more agressive and harsh modern spectrum of sounds. With two discrete oscillators, the Carbon 8 has a similar form factor to earlier Modal Synths, but has a new mixing stage with independent level controls for each oscillator. While the synth is in development, it already boasts a total of 33 filters to give total control over sound shaping, a 512 note sequencer, arpeggiator and 26 effect algorithms.

Available September 2023

Price: TBC"

Superbooth 2023: Modal - Limited Edition Cobalt And Argon 8


"At Superbooth 2023, Sonic State caught up with Christian from Modal Electronics who showcased the limited edition Argon 8 and Cobalt 8 synthesizers. In celebration of Modal Electronics' 10-year anniversary, the Argon 8 pays homage to the Modal 002 with its color scheme and comes with firmware version 3.0 and new features. The limited edition synthesizer will be available in stores in September and there will be only 100 units worldwide. It will be priced the same as the regular Argon 8, and it is only available in the 37 key version.

The Cobalt 8 synthesizer, which comes in the dark color scheme of the Modal 008, will be availablearound Christmas time. Modal Electronics is currently seeking customer feedback to decide if they will release the Cobalt 8 in a 37 key version, 61 key version, or as a module. If you want to get your hands on these limited edition Modals, keep an eye out for their release at the end of 2023."

Best Ambient Synth Shootout #98: Alesis S4 QuadraSynth - Song 3

Christian's Sonic Spaces

"This is the third song with the S4 QuadraSynth. It's a 64 voice 16-part multitimbral ROM-based synthesizer from the early 90s.

I used for the recording the following FX chain:
S4 QuadraSynth - Digitech Obscura - Pigtronix Echolution 2 Deluxe - GFI System Specular Reverb 2. Depending on the recorded track some FX are deactivated.

The signal went through a Presonus StudioLive 16.0.2 into the PC via USB for recording. To create the complete song I recorded consecutively several stereo tracks. The final song was then mastered with a bit EQ and compression on some tracks and some limiting on the master track."

Christian's Sonic Spaces Best Ambient Synth Shootout

low frequency entity - subcycle labs

low frequency entity - subcycle labs from christian bannister on Vimeo.

"a real-time multi-touch interface to a visualized low frequency sound. the various touch configurations control different parameters of the synthesized bass including filter modulation rate, bit crush, sample and hold, feedback, oscillator phase and fm synthesis. more info at subcycle.org -"

low frequency entity 2 - subcycle labs from christian bannister on Vimeo.