Polyphony Without Spaghetti: TipTop Audio ART Modular

video upload by HAINBACH

"I love new music technology. When I heard about TipTop Audio's new ART system that allows for polyphonic pitch, gate and velocity information to be transferred via regular patch cables and their own multi-tip USB style cables, I was intrigued. I never thought of Eurorack as being a fun tool for polyphony, as it requires a lot of modules and a spaghetti mess of connections. Can this tech change that?"

A Polyphonic Synth from 1939? Exploring The Hammond Novachord

video upload by HAINBACH

"Playing the ground-breaking and incredible rare Hammond Novachord was a bucket list item for me. So when I discovered that there is a freshly restored at SMEM in Fribourg, I just had to explore it. I was not dissappointed. Check out the EP:

Joranalogue Collide 4 | SynthFest 2025

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"Joranalogue présente son tout nouvel oscillateur "ordinateur spectral en quadrature" (!), développé avec Hainbach, et qui est bien plus qu'un simple oscillateur. Difficile à décrire, mieux vaut l'écouter!

Joranalogue a soutenu l'édition 2025 du SynthFest en offrant un oscillateur Cycle 5 à la tombola, aidant à financer l'évènement."

Googlish:

"Joranalogue presents its brand new "quadrature spectral computer" oscillator (!), developed with Hainbach, which is much more than just an oscillator. It's hard to describe, but it's better to listen to it!

Joranalogue supported the 2025 edition of SynthFest by donating a Cycle 5 oscillator to the raffle, helping to fund the event."

A Kinetik Filterbank: Skulptur with Bram Bos

video upload by HAINBACH

"The best instruments I have made solved a problem for me, and my new filterbank Skulptur with Bram Bos is no different. It was designed for a very special performance with Ensemble Modern, and worked wonderfully there. Now, a much expanded final version is available on iOS and MacOS, this it what it can do."

Bram Bos x Hainbach Skulptur Walkthrough // Filterbank // Mac, iPad, iPhone, AUv3, Standalone

video upload by Gavinski’s Tutorials

"This is my walkthrough, demo and review of Skulptur, the new, very enjoyable performance-oriented filterbank app from Hainbach and Bram Bos. It works on Mac, iPad and iPhone, standalone and AUv3. Enjoy, and smash the like, comment and subscribe if you find the vid helpful. Cheers! Gav"

The Roland TR-608 - Modified Roland TR-606

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via this VEMIA listing

Click the auction link on top when you get there for additional listings.

VEMIA is Peter Forrest's auction house. He is the author of The A-Z of Analogue Synthesizer Books.

"Modified Roland TR-606 dubbed the TR-608 As used by Hainbach. Takes the humble TR-606 and supercharges it into 808 territory and beyond with tuning, decay and tone mods. Incredible modified Roland TR-606 for sale. This is the TR-608, believed to have been modded by Filippo Samore. As used and loved by Hainbach (video below) who had this to say about it: “The mod is high-quality and truly enhances the sound engine of the 606 without compromising its handy form factor. It is almost like a TR-808 now, except maybe a little more interesting, because it is still a charmingly shuffling 606 at its core.” https://youtu.be/aovvoLD2BCs The main modification in this revisited classic is the complete redesign of the kick drum circuit with a lot of borrowed technology from the 808. - On the kick, It adds: Tune, env Control, tone and decay. - Similar thing with the snare, same borrowed technology from the 808 but with an improved decay length. - It gives access to tune, snappy and decay. - It adds tune for L.H toms independent from each other and cuts out the annoying noise present in their circuit. And finally the modification taps into the original circuit of the hi-hats opening the way to hands-on control of : Tune and decay, separate for both open and closed hats This example has had individual outs for kick, snare and toms added. It also has a Kenton Kadi port installed for anyone who already owns a Kadi box or a Kenton Pro with Kadi capabilities added then you are definitely cooking with gas! Voltage Information: Takes a standard 9v power supply (not included).

Lots of interest in this, so a couple of answers to questions: 1) The individual outs are Bass Drum, Snare, Toms 2) Each individual output has a fixed volume and is completely independent of the master output. You can still feed the bass drum out through the master output if you want. Or turn it down to mute it from the master volume. 3) Din Sync is untouched and works as originally intended by Roland."

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A Track With: Collide 4 - Joranalogue and Hainbach's Test Equipment Module

video upload by sonicstate

"The ‪@joranalogue‬ / ‪@Hainbach‬ collaboration module - Collide 4 has been out for a little while, Hainbach is building a new live rig based on four of them as they encompass some of his beloved and enormous test equipment gear, but in a way more practical 20HP format.

In this video, our resident modular artist ‪@matthsmatthsmatths‬ uses Collide 4 as the sole sound source and puts together a piece using just that plus some additional processing. Using both the Filter and the Oscillator plus the 8 separate outputs, there's a lot of tonal variation."

Chapters:
00:00:00 Introduction to the Collide 4
00:01:14 Crafting Kick Drums
00:03:03 Exploring Hi-Hats and Snares
00:11:19 Building Basslines and Melodies
00:25:20 Final thoughts and Track

Joranalogue Collide 4 masterclass | 26 March 2025

video upload by Signal Sounds

"A recording of our in-store event on 26 March 2025 with special guest Joran van Gremberghe of Joranalogue. He gives an in-depth demo of the mighty Collide 4 Eurorack module, which was developed in collaboration with musician and YouTuber Hainbach. Joran explains how it's inspired by vintage lock-in amplifiers but includes a host of new twists that expand its horizons for musical synthesis.

Collide 4 is available here:
https://www.signalsounds.com/joranalo...

Check out Tom's demo too:" [previously posted here]

An Experimental Groove Box: Herbs And Stones Mousse

video upload by HAINBACH

"Herbs And Stones Mousse is a cool oddball groove box: it looks stylish, sounds rich and is fun to play. Mousse and me had quiet the journey together though, as I became an unintentional beta tester. I put various pre-production units through their paces until Herbs and Stones arrived at a solid production unit. In this video I show the process that started in November and ended just now at the end of March. Use the chapters to jump to sound demos, patching tips, and my final thoughts."

00:00 Intro and Unboxing
00:49 Making A Track
03:53 Overview
07:04 No Talking Demos
14:02 Firmware Update For Tuning Fix
16:37 Unit 3 arrives
18:50 Patch Tips
25:08 Mouse with Eurorack
26:38 Final Thoughts

A Miniature Analog Experimental Studio You Can Play

video upload by HAINBACH

"I was commissioned by SMEM, the Swiss Museum and Centre for Electronic Instruments in Fribourg to build them a tape and test equipment studio for their public playroom. While they have a huge collection of keyboards, their test equipment section is meagre. But that was just perfect, as with only a few ingredients I could assemble an instrument that has a surprising range of possibilities. You can play the Hainlab now: https://www.smemmusic.ch

Sample packs, music and extra videos: / hainbach

MY SIGNATURE SOFTWARE:
THE HAINPACK IS HERE: https://www.audiothing.net/bundle/hai...
GRANULAR SYNTH: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/fluss-g..."

Minichord - A Tiny DIY Omnichord With a Big Sound

video upload by HAINBACH

"I love the Omnichord, so when I was asked to give feedback on the prototype of the Minichord, an instrument very much inspired by it, I could not say no. Spoiler: its a fantastic little synthesizer that goes beyond what was and is possible with its venerable Japanese ancestors."

Hainbach presenting Joranalogue Collide 4 - Workshop at SchneidersLaden

video upload by SchneidersLaden

"The one and only ‪@Hainbach‬ presents Collide 4 - a unique (it really is unique!) Eurorack module that was created in a collaboration between Joranalogue and Hainbach himself. This video captures the full presentation and workshop held at SchneidersLaden on October 23rd 2024 – right after Collide 4 was released.

In this session Hainbach explores the unique capabilities of the Collide 4 Eurorack module—a lock-in amplifier adapted from scientific research technology. Hainbach demonstrates how this powerful tool generates and processes audio, transforming complex scientific principles into creative sound applications.

Follow along as Hainbach breaks down the module's features, shares practical use cases, and offers insights into the unexpected sound possibilities that emerge when scientific devices meet modular synthesis.

The first batch of the module was instantly sold out but we just received the second delivery (already almost sold out again) – so enjoy the workshop video while your own Collide 4 might already be on the way to you. We’ll let you know when we receive the next delivery!

This workshop marked one of the last events at SchneidersLaden's Kottbusser Tor location, making it a significant moment for us. By now we are back in full swing at organizing Workshops in our new location in Berlin-Neukölln. See you there!"

Joranalogue Audio Design x Hainbach / COLLIDE 4 / lock-in amp eurorack power / PLAYTHROUGH

video upload by BRiES

"In this video I demonstrate and try to explain the functionality of the powerhouse module that is COLLIDE 4. I split up the video into three chapters providing you with plenty of examples on how to use the different sections of the module seperately and together.

COLLIDE 4 is a collab between the Belgian electronical hi-tech wizardry team at Joranalogue Audio Design and German contemporary artist and mad audiolab scientist Hainbach. They teamed up to make a miniature version of a lock-in amplifier, a versatile test device that can be either used to hunt for subatomic particles or to make earth-shattering kickdrums and eery melody lines straight from a Kindergarten Horror flick. Joran decided that this wasn't enough of a flex so he added frequency shift functionality to the unit and don't ask me how he did it but he made the cleanest frequency shifter ever. COLLIDE 4 being all analog ciruitry that's one hell of a thing to do."

0:00 intro
2:03 input section
36:27 oscillator section
50:35 confusing section
1:16:31 closing statements

COLLIDE 4 Just Sound Series

What Is Originality Made Of?

video upload by Synthux Academy

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
01:28 Picasso & T.S Eliot
02:45 Steve Reich & Tape Phasing
03:15 Hainbach Tape Phasing
04:59 Phasing using 4MS DLD Module
08:23 Sound on Sound on 4MS DLD Module
14:46 Conclusions

Joranalogue x Hainbach Collide 4 | Making music with a Quadrature Spectral Computer

video upload by Tom Churchill

"Collide 4 was one of the most talked-about modules of 2024. It’s a collaboration between Joranalogue and the musician and YouTuber Hainbach, and it’s inspired by the lock-in amplifiers used in vintage nuclear test equipment. In this video, I build some patches to show how I’ve been using Collide 4 both a sound source and as a processor for external signals. There are some ‘softer’ musical applications alongside some grittier stuff."

Fala Versio | Versio Platform | Episode 13

video upload by Cinematic Laboratory

"Noise Engineering has just released three new firmwares for the Versio, Legio and Alia platforms. As always, they're amazing and they're free downloads for any of those platforms. Fala Versio is a formant filter that's super easy to use. It will add a lot of vocal expression to your patch. On mild settings you can create choir-like sounds, on more extreme settings it will talk. In short, it's just amazing.

This is a simple video, which was a warm bath after my last Leibniz video. I'll be using MakeNoise Strega, Bruxa, Serge Medusa and the Broken Loquelic as my sound sources which create an excellent mood for the time between XMAS and the happy new year. I did not make any 'best wishes' or 'best of 2024' video this year because I couldn't finish it in time. I also realized that my 'best of 2024' are never going to be my all time favorites (except the new Serge Medusa and Instruo Dail).

Obviously I wish you all the best and I am hoping you'll have a great time patching the modular during the holiday season - and beyond. I'll probably post something before the end of the year.

Serge has been a personal discovery in 2024, so instead of getting the latest modules, I went back to 70's tech and it's a dream come true. I also love Bruxa a lot. Objectively the Joranalogue x Hainbach Collide 4 is a major achievement in eurorack, and it's impossible to ignore DivKid's colllab-contributions to the eurorack landscape, including the Droid patch.

I still need to figure out my DivSkip. XAOC Berlin is a must-have in the Leibniz niche, but on it's own it's just a very basic VCO. Another favorite is Oneiroi and it's cool to see that Black Maths is on the bestseller list, proving the old stuff doesn't get old. The new Buchla/TTA modules are also dreams that came true and it's great to finally have an orginal 259 . I didn't have time to dive into the new Qu-Bit StarDust looper, but I bet it will be worth checking out if you want to escape monophony."

A Small Wall of Test Equipment: My Modular Setup For 2025

video upload by HAINBACH

"I have made so many Eurorack modular setups in the past, none of them stuck around as an instrument. For 2025 I want to create one that enables me to perform my test equipment music live, relying heavily on the ‪@joranalogue‬ Collide 4."

00:00 The Problem I am Trying to Solve
01:33 Module Overview
06:35 Patching
13:35 Exploring Phase Output
16:21 Sound Examples
19:45 Adding Tape Loops
20:57 Final Thoughts

When Worlds Collide | Why I don't need a lock-in amp | COLLIDE 4 Ep. 03

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"I didn't realize my episode 01 was about three weeks ago. It felt like three months or more. As you may know, this channel is not sponsored and I usually do my research before I buy a module. So far, it didn't work out well and since I am planning to clean-up my collection in 2025, it ended up on my 'may need to go' list.

Don't get me wrong, I think it deserves the 2024 eurorack design award. It's just me not getting along very well. It's advertised as a lock-in amp, but its main purpose is kind of useless in electronic music. So it's meant to be creatively 'abused' and 'repurposed'. Please note I am not trying to use it as a lock-in amp, I am exploring new creative ways to use it.

Instead of making sure your delicate faint source doesn't clip, you'd go for 30 dB gain compensation, turn up the resonance and then gain the filter some more. It's designed to isolate a faint sinewave hiding in a wall of noise and extract phase and amplitude. But why should we even want to do that? And then there's a simple ringmod, a relatively simple sine VCO with TZFM support and some logic. It can't process stereo signals because it will cancel out your center information.

Since I have a huge collection of modules, I always wondered about making my own 'recipe' with a separate amp, filter, frequency shifter, ring mod and quadrature VCO. I think I came a long way this time, only enforcing the idea that the C4 is 'obsolete' in my collection. So even though it's an excellent module, you'll need to double check if you can build one with separates. It wouldn't be a lock-in amp, but I truly believe I don't need one in its designated role and I will explain why.

If you do not agree, PLEASE don't just dislike this video, but share your tips and patching tricks, so the community will be able to learn how to appreciate it - including myself.

And then I hooked up the C4 with my improvised version, and a wonderful world of magic opened up. It was so good that I decided to keep the C4 after all, and follow that path. So it's an all over-the-place personal struggle video, but I think it's real and honest. We all end up struggling from time to time. However, my number 1 rule is 'when you feel a module sounds bad, you're not patching it right'. It's not always true, but it encourages me to try things.

Hainbach is a master in restoring life to old 'crap' we'd throw away as trash, and I love his work. But I am not Hainbach and he's not included in the box. I can only stumble in his footsteps. Fortunately, I can just be myself and do my own thing. Just like there's nobody like YOU either."

COLLIDE 4 | Episode 04 | Post-Collision Course

video upload by Cinematic Laboratory

"I felt I had to make this episode before anything else. In episode 03 I posed the question whether or not I'd need a 'lock-in amp' in eurorack. I got myself into kind of a rut after making two episodes, wondering if I made the right decision to get one. And if this happens, I need to openly reflect on that because there's something to learn from it. If it happens to me, it will definitely happen to you too, because I make these mistakes for a living.

By all means I never meant to say 'do we need a C4'. It depends on your own journey. It turns out Hainbach needs four. Blush Response definitely loved every single HP of it. For his genre and style, the C4 immediately delivers. Truckloads of it.

I was hoping to open a discussion and learn from others, but I've also seen signs of the wasp-nest cancel-culture. I've seen comments I had to delete and I permanently muted some. I do not allow any insults to me, my fellow youtubers and beloved manufacturers. To anyone. But I am too old to get angry about it, or take the insults personally. I learn from personal opinions, I learn from revising my own conclusions, and I always rectify a few episodes later, sharing any new insights. This is a good example.

I kind of promised if there would ever be an episode 04, it would be about a C8, a dual COLLIDE 4. I'll need to work some more on that, but the lab now has two. I had to pay for both of them myself, so there's no 'paid promotion' of any kind. There were no discounts. This is also why it's so much fun to run this channel. I try to be honest, but I can't be objective. I don't ever want you to buy two because I did. I want you to know what you're getting yourself into. The COLLIDE 4 is an open platform. It has no intended use except the scientific measurements of cyclic waveforms in noise. What you get out of it is what you dialed and patched in.

Thanks for your patience and resilience, and be nice to each other."

Sonic Artefacts Introduces the Sonic Chessboard DIY Kit: Compose like John Cage!

video upload by Sonic Artefacts

"Play chess and compose music, at the same time! This Sonic Chessboard is a passive Optical Octophonic Audio Panner / light sensitive "chessboard", based on the design by Lowell Cross for John Cage's and Marcel Duchamps' musical chess performance Reunion (1968). It routes 16 audio signals via the 64 light dependent resistors to 8 separate audio outputs. Cover the squares on the board with chess pieces or your hands to make sounds roll through a room and add to the spatial distribution of all the different inputs. Best to be played with a strong bright light mounted on the ceiling above the chessboard.

Limited edition DIY Kit, available at: https://sonicartefacts.com/product/so... & https://patch-point.com/collections/s...

The materials were originally made in small series for Wouter Jaspers' installative sound performance "Indeterminate Structures (2023). Big thanks to ‪@Hainbach‬ for playing chess with me and ‪@Sonoscopia‬ for the original sound installation and of course to the great folks of ‪@patchpoint4043‬ for hosting us!"

Press release follows:

Berlin, Germany – Sonic Artefacts is excited to announce the release of the Sonic Chessboard, a unique DIY musical instrument that merges the worlds of chess and sound. Inspired by Lowell Cross’ design for John Cage’s Reunion (1968), the Sonic Chessboard offers a captivating way to create spatial sound experiences.

The Sonic Chessboard is a passive Optical Octophonic Audio Panner that routes 16 audio signals via 64 light-dependent resistors embedded in the squares to 8 separate audio outputs, changing the volume when a chess piece gets moved from one square to another. By strategically placing chess pieces on the board, users can control the volume and flow of sound, creating dynamic and immersive soundscapes.

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Orchestra In A Microsecond: Ciat-Lonbarde Clicker

video upload by HAINBACH

"Jan St.Werner of Mouse on Mars and Peter Blasser of Ciat-Lonbarde worked together on a very unusual synthesizer. Rather than creating lush textures, it is meant to excite and play acoustic spaces. Clicker compresses and expands a rich spectrum derived from 'Ringlers', a new take on Rob Hordijks 'Rungler'. Originally made for an exhibition it is now a standalone instrument. The whole concept intrigued me deeply, and as a fan of both their work I invited both of them to my studio for a chat. If found the resulting conversation so interesting I decided not to edit it down too much, only taking out the odd interruption. So strap in for an hour of deep synth, music and art nerdery."

Smashing Sounds With Nuclear Maths: HAINBACH's new Plugin Audiothing Arguments

video upload by HAINBACH

"Arguments, my new plugin with AudioThing is a vintage style test tone generator, a wild processor and a unique combiner of signals. From gentle analog shaping to old school oscillation to absolute signal annihilation, it is a true sound design toolkit Its core idea comes from multiplication modules in the Nuclear Instrumentation format NIM BIN. I have used these for a long to time turn simple signals into heavy beats and basses. With Arguments you can combine any two signals and lock them in a dance for headroom. Or you can use the integrated tone generator for lush 1960s sounding waveforms and pseudo-random noise. Or do both at same time. Arguments is meant to inspire you in your search for the sounds in between.

GET ARGUMENTS: https://www.audiothing.net/effects/ar..."



"Arguments is a vintage-style test equipment plugin for tone generation and dual audio processing. It takes two signals and smashes them together using math derived from analog nuclear research processors. The results are dynamic, often unpredictable but always unique. Since each part of Arguments can run independently, it also works as a sonically rich test tone generator, as a complex distortion unit, or as a multimode filter. Arguments open nature rewards exploration, the presets are a mere suggestion for you to jump off from.

At its core Arguments is an analog computing-based combiner and integrator of signals, re-tuned from science to musical use. These instruments were used in analog nuclear instrumentation modular racks (NIM BIN) to allow for quick calculations without employing a dedicated computer. Arguments takes two signals A and B (B is either external via side-chain or from the internal generator) and puts them together using the argument block. The result is then put through a function block that processes it. This creates a wide range of tones, from simple boosting to high-passed industrial grit, from rhythmic modulations to raw textures. A multi-mode filter stage then allows for exact shaping and modulation. We employed analog modeling at every stage to make Arguments sound not like a calculator but like the rare vintage units that inspired it. " Arguments is available for macOS, Windows, and Linux (VST, VST3, AU, AAX, CLAP, 64-bit only), and also as AUv3 and Standalone on the App Store for iOS and iPadOS.