A Simple Patch for Complex Melodies - Serge Modular Synthesizer Tutorial

Published on Apr 8, 2014 Doug Lynner·19 videos

"Using a sequencer, a sample and hold and two clocks you can create complex melodies.

Though this is illustrated on a Serge the concepts apply to many modular synthesizers. Let me know how you apply this on your modular synthesizer.

To see the modules used in this patch in detail see the Mystery Serge at http://www.serge.synth.net/gallery/dl

Doug's website is http://www.neatnetnoise.com.

Interact with Doug:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1LRX
https://soundcloud.com/doug-4
https://www.facebook.com/doug.lynner"

via Doug on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

A Simple Patch for Polyrhythms

Published on Mar 9, 2014 Doug Lynner·16 videos

via Doug on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

"This modular synthesizer patch tutorial shows a way to create polyrhythms using two Envelope Generators and a master clock.

Though this is illustrated on a Serge the concepts apply to many modular synthesizers. Let me know how you apply this on your modular synthesizer.

Doug's website is http://www.neatnetnoise.com.
Learn more about the Mystery Serge at http://www.serge.synth.net/gallery/dl....

Interact with Doug: [links on YouTube]
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1LRX...
https://soundcloud.com/doug-4
https://www.facebook.com/doug.lynner"

Pitch Division - Harmonic Arpeggiations - Serge Modular Synthesizer Tutorial

Published on Mar 15, 2014 Doug Lynner·17 videos

"This modular synthesizer patch tutorial shows a way to create pitch divisions using two Envelope Generators and a master clock.

Though this is illustrated on a Serge the concepts apply to many modular synthesizers. Let me know how you apply this on your modular synthesizer.

To see the modules used in this patch in detail see the Mystery Serge at http://www.serge.synth.net/gallery/dl....

Doug's website is http://www.neatnetnoise.com.

Interact with Doug:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1LRX...
https://soundcloud.com/doug-4
https://www.facebook.com/doug.lynner"

via Doug on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Wave-shaping with the Blacet VCO 2100 - Patch of The Week

Published on Aug 28, 2014 Doug Lynner

"Using the voltage controlled wave-shaper on the Blacet VCO 2100 to exploit "distortion synthesis."

Though this synthesizer tutorial is illustrated on Blacet modules the concepts apply to many modular synthesizers. Let me know how you apply this on your modular synthesizer.

Many thanks to Guest Host, Illinois Synthesist, Michael A Firman for this Patch of The Week!

Visit Michael A Firman's website at http://www.mlswebworks.com/.

Doug's website is http://www.neatnetnoise.com.

Interact with Doug:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1LRX...
https://soundcloud.com/doug-4
https://www.facebook.com/doug.lynner"

Hold the Voltage for Better Beats

Published on Nov 7, 2014 Doug Lynner

"Three approaches to rhythm generation are combined to create a versatile, master-patch for live or studio percussion needs.

These patch techniques were used in my recent performance, Tenderloin Rain Dance - http://youtu.be/30_pgfnU3Go.

Though this is illustrated on a Serge the concepts apply to many modular synthesizers. Let me know how you apply this on your modular synthesizer.

To see the modules used in this patch in detail see the Mystery Serge at http://www.serge.synth.net/gallery/dl....

Doug's website is http://www.neatnetnoise.com.

Interact with Doug:
https://www.youtube.com/user/mlwebworks
https://soundcloud.com/doug-4
https://www.facebook.com/doug.lynner"

How To Create Complex Waveforms With a Programmer/Sequencer - Serge Synthesizer Tutorial

Published on May 1, 2014 Doug Lynner·21 videos

"Run a Programmer/Sequencer on high speed and use the CV output for audio. Adjust the stage pots to control the waveform.

Though this is illustrated on a Serge the concepts apply to many modular synthesizers. Let me know how you apply this on your modular synthesizer.

To see the modules used in this patch in detail see the Mystery Serge at http://www.serge.synth.net/gallery/dl....

Doug's website is http://www.neatnetnoise.com.

Interact with Doug:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1LRX...
https://soundcloud.com/doug-4
https://www.facebook.com/doug.lynner"

Patch a Parametric EQ - Serge Synthesizer Tutorial

Published on Jun 9, 2014 Doug Lynner·23 videos

"Use three filters to create a parametric EQ.

Though this synthesizer tutorial is illustrated on a Serge the concepts apply to many modular synthesizers. Let me know how you apply this on your modular synthesizer.

Many thanks to Guest Host, San Francisco Sergian, Dmitri SFC of coa-modular (http://www.coa-modular.com) for this Patch of The Week!

Doug's website is http://www.neatnetnoise.com.

Interact with Doug:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1LRX...
https://soundcloud.com/doug-4
https://www.facebook.com/doug.lynner"

Serge Positive Slew Vintage Module Review - Patch of The Week

Published on Nov 10, 2014 Doug Lynner

"The Positive Slew, one of the original Serge modules, has inspired contemporary modules and continues its own legacy. Here is a overview of the module and a selection of functions that can be patched with it. It's the perfect example of Serge Patch Programming.

To see the modules used in this patch in detail see the Mystery Serge at http://www.serge.synth.net/gallery/dl....

Doug's website is http://www.neatnetnoise.com.

Interact with Doug:
https://www.youtube.com/user/mlwebworks
https://soundcloud.com/doug-4
https://www.facebook.com/doug.lynner"

Twilight Cycle - Serge Modular Synthesizer Tutorial

Published on Feb 16, 2014 Doug Lynner·13 videos

"This is how I made my piece, Twilight Cycle, for the charitable release on the Aural Film label, Enter the Twilight Zone. Twilight Cycle can be heard and downloaded at https://auralfilms.bandcamp.com/track.... The entire release can be heard and downloaded at https://auralfilms.bandcamp.com/album....

Doug's website is http://www.neatnetnoise.com.
Learn more about the Mystery Serge at http://www.serge.synth.net/gallery/dl....

Interact with Doug:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1LRX...
https://soundcloud.com/doug-4
https://www.facebook.com/doug.lynner"

Wave-Folding with Wave-Shapers - Serge Synthesizer Tutorial

Published on May 11, 2014 Doug Lynner·22 videos

"Use several Wave-Shapers in series to accomplish Wave-Folding plus basic Wave-Shaper operation and advanced tips and tricks.

Though this is illustrated on a Serge the concepts apply to many modular synthesizers. Let me know how you apply this on your modular synthesizer.

To see the modules used in this patch in detail see the Mystery Serge at http://www.serge.synth.net/gallery/dl

Doug's website is http://www.neatnetnoise.com.

Interact with Doug:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1LRX...
https://soundcloud.com/doug-4
https://www.facebook.com/doug.lynner"

Tuning a VCO with a Scalable VC Input - Patch of The Week

Published on Sep 13, 2014 Doug Lynner

"You don't need 1v/oct inputs if you know how to set the range of a scalable VC input. Tracking additional VCOs is just as easy too.

Though this is illustrated on a Serge the concepts apply to many modular synthesizers. Let me know how you apply this on your modular synthesizer.

To see the modules used in this patch in detail see the Mystery Serge at http://www.serge.synth.net/gallery/dl....

Doug's website is http://www.neatnetnoise.com.

Interact with Doug:
https://www.youtube.com/user/mlwebworks
https://soundcloud.com/doug-4
https://www.facebook.com/doug.lynner"

An Interview with Doug Lynner

You'll find the full interview at FREQ.org

"Doug Lynner started out as a keyboard and guitar player in psychedelic rock bands in California in the 1960s. Doug also teaches music composition and is known internationally for his modular synthesis performances and online tutorials. He was editor and publisher of Synapse magazine and currently helms the Neat Net Noise label. Doug improvises as Bloop Quack with R Duck on processed guitar, and the duo hosted a weekly live radio show, Bloop And Quack, on KZSU Stanford 90.1 FM in the Bay Area.

This interview accompanies his session for Philippe Petit‘s Modulisme platform as part of Freq‘s ongoing collaboration with the site."

Serge & Buchla systems pictured. According to Doug, the bottom is at California Institute of the Arts. "It is the Buchla 200 that was in the fabled Studio B-303."

Podcast 279: Doug Lynner

Published on Jun 2, 2019 20Objects

"I first knew Doug Lynner's work as the editor/publisher of Synapse Magazine, an electronic music magazine before most people even knew that was a thing. Doug laid the groundwork for magazine-as-history in our cultural world, and took the opportunity to leverage his position and location (L.A.) to get a lot of great interviews over the magazines short-ish lifetime.

I have a couple of listener requests to have a chat with Doug, which caused me to do a little background work. My God - what a career. Between his CalArts education, the magazine work, his bands and his long history with Serge systems (including being an artist/demo dude for Serge himself), he was clearly a touchpoint for the things that interest all of us.

He continues full-force, doing one-on-one teaching, producing a weekly live performance radio show on KZSU (https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/bl...) and releasing new work based on his Modular Tonalism system. All of it is intriguing, and after listening to this chat, I'm sure you are going to want to learn more.

Check out all of Doug's work at https://www.neatnetnoise.com/, or at his bandcamp site (https://douglynner.bandcamp.com/). Enjoy!"

You can find additional info on Synapse Magazine on the Cyndustries website here.

Got Random? - A Serge Modular Synthesizer Tutorial

Published on Jun 18, 2014 Doug Lynner·23 videos

"Use a Serge Smooth and Stepped Function Generator to create a random voltage generator.

Though this is illustrated on a Serge the concepts apply to many modular synthesizers. Let me know how you apply this on your modular synthesizer.

To see the modules used in this patch in detail see the Mystery Serge at http://www.serge.synth.net/gallery/dl....

Doug's website is http://www.neatnetnoise.com.

Interact with Doug:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1LRX...
https://soundcloud.com/doug-4
https://www.facebook.com/doug.lynner"

Sound Transform Systems Serge M-Class Boat Tour - Patch of The Week

Published on Nov 26, 2014 Doug Lynner

"STS Serge M-Class Boat featuring the new, Version 2 of The Creature. Module-by-module tour.

Doug's website is http://www.neatnetnoise.com.

Interact with Doug:
https://www.youtube.com/user/mlwebworks
https://soundcloud.com/doug-4
https://www.facebook.com/doug.lynner"

Album Art

Anyone know where this image is from?

"LEM Studios." Via Cynthia on AH:

"The picture appears on the back of the LEM album MACHINES (highly recommended), Wavefront Records 1977. It is Bryce Robbley's chrome mannequin and Serge System next to Doug Lynner's Serge System, and Alex Cima's Steiner Parker SynthaSystem... It was shot in Star Track Studios on Santa Monica Blvd. in West Hollywood, circa 1977 or so. Danny Sofer of Oberhiem Electronics also played with them and may have contributed the Polyfusion modular on the right side of the picture? They also used an ARP String Ensemble, a Synthi AKS, and an EML PolyBox, a Syndrum, some Oberheim, and a little Buchla 200. These guys were good friends of mine and part of the Synapse/LEM/Triode crowd. They recorded together under the names MOBIUS and LEM (Live Electronic Music). Bryce (RIP) and Doug went to Cal Arts, and Doug's 5-panel Serge was the very first sold as an assembled unit, instead of as a synth kit from the CIA "staircase assembly party" days. Doug went on to use his Serge in the band INVISIBLE ZOO which enjoyed radio airplay of their pop tune "Synthesizer Man" and he performed with it as recently as last October when he and I played live at the the Sacred Elixirs Festival at the San Jose Convention Center."

Update via Loren in the comments: "I use to have that album. You forgot to add Steve Roach as another person who played with these guys. I know Steve played in MOBIUS and I think he made a guest appearance on the LEM album if my memory is correct."

Update: more from Peter Grenader of Plan B:
"A bit more trivia about one part of that photo - the Steiner-Parker
Synthasystem shown in the photo to the left of the robot's ear. - that was
Alex Cima's..

After Alex stopped rep'ing Steiner Parker in Southern California, this
system became the property of John Waddell, who already had one other and
along with a VCS3, were being used for the Electronic Music Studies
department of Birmingham High School in the SF Valley, LA. John was my very
first EM mentor and is wholeheartedly responsible for me being accepted to
CalArts as he pushed me to enter a concert competition that Alex hosted. I
did, I made it, I submitted that to Cal Arts, I made that. Waddell gave me
the best music theory instruction I've ever had, up to and including CIA.

John passed away four years ago, and willed that Steiner-Parker to
me...which I really loved and, although it's recently found a very good home
in Marina Del Ray. It's a great system.

Back about 1977 (?) Alex and I hosted a couple of EM concerts together, one
of which LEM performed live on the seond half. Cima and I also performed
live once with Emmett Chapman, which was one of the highlights of my
performance career. Oddly enough i didn't touch electronics on that one - i
was playing flute and sax, w/Alex on synths, this dreadful percussion player
Alex found and Chapman, who as usual played the stick like no other.

I ended up inheriting Alex's EM concert series, called Electronic
Explorations, after he had had enough. I did three or four of them, one
co-produced by John Waddell, which got that horrible review in Synapse by
Doug Lynner (of LEM) i've spoken about here before. The poster for that
event was done by a very good friend of Cynthia's at the time who used the
name of Sue Dinim (get it?) for her artwork credits.

Ain't it weird how the fabric of the LA electronic music scene was sewn?

Alex Cima is still around, teaching recording and electronic music at
Fullerton College and while he has long departed with his various Steiners,
still owns his Synthi AKS."

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Third Ear at Tom's Place with Peter Grenader, Doug Lynner, and Shiro Fujioka

Published on Mar 21, 2018 Fourdimensionalsound

"Modular synthesizer supergroup (Peter Grenader, Doug Lynner, Shiro Fujioka) performing in Berkeley, CA. Check out Doug's setup of classic and modern Serge synths (left side), Shiro's mix of modern Eurorack (with a lot of Wiard modules), and Peter's massive Plan B system (designed by Peter, including some modules which are one-off creations) mixed with modern Eurorack."

Doug Lynner Modular Live in Santa Cruz Tonight

A chance to see some modular gear performed live. Via Doug Lynner in The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge:

"I will be performing at Balloon - Electronic Music Salon in Santa Cruz, CA this evening. Show is from 6-9pm. Check out http://www.neatnetnoise.com/ for info! There is no cover charge Also performing are Rduck Show, Riz Orkestra."

Doug will be performing with the Mystery Serge and a Cyndustries six-pack as pictured in the image.

Don't forget, there's tons going on this weekend:

Upcoming Events: MMTA SYNTHFEST, TRASH_AUDIO, BMF, Synth-O-Mania & More

Have a Very Synthy Holiday! via Doug Lynner

Cynthia modules in Modcan format.

via Doug Lynner on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

"A very happy holiday season to Matrixsynth Jones and Matrixsynth and thanks for all of the good that you do for the electronic music world!"

Thank you Doug!

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