Offgrid Shuffle in Eurorack: LoFi Hiphop with Stolperbeats

video upload by Making Sound Machines

"Here's a modular lofi hiphop patch that came out so leftfield it was too fun not to share! It's built around #Stolperbeats and Befaco's fantastic Percall Quad Drum VCA, with Stolperbeats sequencing the shuffled gates and a wooden baseboard amplified and routed through our #TausenddB and #Multiplikand patched as a texture control.

Stolperbeats, 'beats tripping over themselves' in German, is our upcoming drum trigger sequencer designed to create shuffled beats influenced by artists like Flying Lotus, Hiatus Kaiyote and J Dilla. We really love those beats and used to reconstruct them for our tracks in the DAW, so we ended up digging deep into the techniques how real-life drummers like Questlove from The Roots or Perrin Moss from Hiatus Kaiyote play these shuffles.

This patch is almost a little hack as it uses Stolperbeats' clock outputs as a musical signal. Subdiv outputs the swung clock or a related set of tuplet subdivisions, perfect for syncing up cartesian sequencers like Make Noise Rene that advance one step per clock tick. Sync plays a straight unswung metronome ranging from once every four bars to 24 ppq, great for keeping a Delay or LFO in time.

Here, Stolperbeats' clock signals are patched to trigger Percall's VCA envelopes, shaping the sounds picked up from the board with piezo contact mics, and creating groove from the offset flams of the shuffled and straight clocks. Enrica is performing the drum rolls by changing the subdivisions on the fly. It's all held together by the lovely blips from Winterbloom 's Juno-inspired DCO Castor & Pollux on kick and a Patching Panda Hatz patch on snare duty.

We'll be showcasing this setup tonight at Muelheim Modular's lovely synth shop in Köln Mülheim. It's part of Mülheimer Nacht 2022 so if you're in Cologne, swing by and say hi! You will be able to try out the patches and modules hands-on. If you want to build our synth #DIY kits, we're hosting a workshop at Superbooth in Berlin, 13.05.2022, 17:00. If you are unable to make it to Berlin, kits are available at Muelheim Modular and Exploding Shed (EU), Thonk (UK) and dsp.coffee (US), or visit our website and mail us directly."

SYNTAXIS Micromodular - your own DIY Synth without soldering! SUPERBOOTH 2021

video upload by Exploding Shed

"A short overview on how to build your own Synthesizer on a breadboard without any soldering."

Leaf Audio Drone Synth Re-vived

video upload by TheLeafAudio

"We re-vived an old friend, the Drone Synth in a beautiful wood-case! Available as a DIY kit only. A classic 4-OSC Drone Synth with OSC-Sync. 2 Channels with 2 OSC each, Mixing Circuit leading into a 2-Chn. Tilt-EQ (combined Hi- and Lo-Shelf). The VCA features a CV-In, Pitch is controllable manually only. Available again from september 2021 via Exploding Shed."

Drone Synth & DFAM Demo

video upload by

Modular Day Barcelona Set for August 30 & 31 - 50% off Workshop w/ Error Instruments

You can find full details on the event here. For the 50% discount, contact Error Instuments' studiopaultas at hotmail.com.

PARTICIPANTES: BASTL (CZ) • BEFACO (ES) • CUTOFF (ES) • DOVEMANS (NL) • ENDORPHIN.ES (ES) • ERROR INSTRUMENTS (NL) • EXPLODING SHED (DE) • GINKO (NL) • MUTANT MODULAR (ES) • MUTANT MONKEY (ES) • NANO MODULES (ES) • PATCHING PANDA (ES) • SYNAMODEC (ES) • TESERACT MODULES (ES) • TOUELL SKOUARN (FR) • TRANSIENT MODULES (ES) • • WINTER MODULAR (ES) • XOR ELECTRONICS (NL) • YAMAHA (JP) • MÁS POR CONFIRMAR...

CONCIERTOS: JAN JELINEK • SELV IKEI • TOYOTA VANGELIS • RALP • JULIA BONDAR • DIE TREPANATION • ALPHA DECAY VS COLLOID • NYON-K • AMBAR • ME-LENNA (VJ)

Kit Review # 21 - Leaf Audio Microphonic Soundbox

Published on Jun 11, 2018 Synth Diy Guy

"Unboxing, Build Log, Review and Demo of the amazing Leaf Audio Microphonic Soundbox, an experimental acoustic instrument with built in contact mics and a super Hi Fi preamp.

Thanks to Exploding Shed for Supplying the kit!
Get yours here: https://www.exploding-shed.com/microphonic-soundbox/"

Random Rings Experiments: Rings+Soundbox

Published on Mar 3, 2018 Hannes Pasqualini

"Second video for my Random Rings series. This time I'm using a Leaf Audio Soundbox played with a violin bow, to create the excitation signal. More info about the Soundbox can be found here: https://www.exploding-shed.com/microp..."

LeafAudio Microphonic Soundbox - Audio Demo

TheLeafAudio
Published on Aug 3, 2017

"Here's a first demo of our Microphonic Soundbox. It's ready and will be available as a DIY kit and ready made unit via www.exploding-shed.com

It is an acoustic instrument which I created 20 years ago and finally we made it public now to share it with you. 2 internal contact mics can be amplified (100x Gain) and mixed to the mono out as a line signal. If an external signal is inserted, mic 1 is switched off. Supercool for creating otherworldly sounds and ambiences, great for processing with hard- and software."

Creating a new acoustic synths label for these moving forward. No, guitars don't count. Guitar synths, however, do. :)

New LeafAudio NoiseFoc Experimental VCO Eurorack Module

LeafAudio - NoiseFoc (Euro) Demo

Published on May 1, 2017 TheLeafAudio

"NoiseFoc (Euro) is an experimental VCO with light control and power starving. Good for noise or non 1V/Oct stuff. It features 3 Oscillators: 2 controlled by potentiometers, 1 with a fix freq or light control. CV In, diode mixed Out, resistor mixed Out. It's also nice as a CV source (later in the video, the VCF was modulated by it's diode out).

The DIY kit will be available via www.exploding-shed.com or in the DIY workshops via www.leaf-audio.com"

Superbooth 2017 - Leaf Audio Microphonic Sound Box

Published on Apr 23, 2017 DivKidVideo

"Manu from Leaf Audio gave us a great demo of their new Microphonic Sound Box. A personal experimental instrument that he has used and experimented with for over 20 years. It features sand paper, contact mic, kalimba style section and an array of metal and springs to get physical with. This will be available through Exploding Shed in the near future."

Leaf Audio - NTBA

Published on Oct 11, 2016 DivKidVideo

"Here's the Noise To Brain Adapter NTBA from Leaf Audio / Exploding Shed. It's a digital oscillator, switcher, noise source and random gate generator. It excels at chip tune and all sorts of cool noises!"

Synths in TV and Film

Note: some of the videos below have been pulled from YouTube, but I'm keeping mention of them up as a reference that they are out there.

Let the page load before scrolling - it's a long one.
Be sure to see the Synth Movies list and see the Synth Movies and Synth TV and Film labels for more.

1. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Synths: ARP 2500 played by Phillip Dodds, head of ARP Engineering, Yamaha CS-?.


2. Fame Synths: ARP 2600, MOOG Minimoog

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