Elektron Digitakt + Elektron Analog Four + Chroma Console

video upload by Hologram Electronics

"Chroma Console expert mode 🤓

Using the Dual Bypass feature, you control what modules come on and off with the bypass foot switch. Here we have the bypass foot switch bringing in and out Phaser and Reels. When it gets into self-oscillation territory (and if you have trails enabled), the self-oscillation will naturally decay when deactivating delay and other Diffusion effects. Makes for fun and interactive live effects processing 🎛"

Here We Are by ThorF

"So, here we are. Me and you, together in this very moment.Thank you for reaching this point. You make it all worth while. The music on this album, was written/recorded in the last 4 years. Everything ,except mastering, was done in my home studio in LA. To sculpt the atmosphere you are listening to I used various synths and efx. All hardware. Clicks & pops, mis-timed midi messages, live mistakes and other things :) It’s all on it. For few good reasons. It’s how the hardware I own, sounds. It’s how I play my instruments, sounds. From the computer that records the audio to the end of the FX chain.

The machines have character.
I hope their character gets delivered to your ears with these recordings.

Instruments: Novation Summit, BC Deckards Dream MKII, Roland Juno 106, Roland JX-3P, Yamaha DX7, Jomox Alphabase Drum Synthesizer, Custom Eurorack System, Coffee. FX: Strymon Big Sky/Timeline, OTO Machines BIM/BAM/BOUM, Hologram Electronics Microcosm, TC Electronics Hall Of Fame 2/Helix Phaser, Coffee. Recording Hardware: PC Desktop/Windows 64 bit, Quad Core 4.0 MHZ, 32 GB RAM, 5TB SSD Combined, MOTU 828es/16A/Midi Express, Furman Power Conditioner, Roland Gold Instruments Cables, Coffee. Recording Software: Reason 12, Coffee."

https://moatun7.bandcamp.com/album/here-we-are

Intellijel Cascadia: patching Ring Mod into FX loop with Chroma Console

video uploads by The Synth Shed

Playlist:

1. Intellijel Cascadia sound demo with Vector Five12 sequencer (no talking)

Sound demo showing how to set up a basic patch and modulations (based on some of the start-up examples in the manual) - with CV pitch/gate controlled through the amazing Five12 Vector Sequencer to give us a driving techno line with lots of dirt.

side-note: I don't know if I was hallucinating after too much coffee, but by the end I thought the melody had morphed into the Star Wars Imperial March. WELCOME TO THE DARK SIDE!

2. Intellijel Cascadia: patching Ring Mod into FX loop with Chroma Console

Fourth part of my initial Cascadia explorations, again using the Chroma on fx duties, but this time with the added textures created by patching the Cascadia's Ring Modulator into the FX loop. Tasty sounds!

3. Intellijel Cascadia x Chroma Console = 'Add N to (X)'

Building on the patch and sequence created for my first Cascadia sound demo, we take things further with the addition of the inspiring multi-fx unit Chroma Console from Hologram Electronics. The perfect pairing for creating experimental sounds - and if you slow the tempo you're in instant 'Add N to (X)' chunky synth groove territory. Once again driven by the Five12 Vector Sequencer.

4. Intellijel Cascadia x Chroma Console PART 2: Filthy fuzz bass!

Had so much fun experimenting with this killer combo in the first video, that I ended up recording another video just to show how dang low down and dirty the Cascadia can go with a little help from its friends (in this case, FX from the Chroma and sequencing via the Five12 Vector)

Microcosm and Chroma Console with Drum Machine

video upload by Hologram Electronics

"Microcosm and Chroma Console being used in tandem to create a super dynamic/glitchy drum processing chain 🎛

Microcosm's Tunnel presets (secret sauce for percussive sounds) track your input signal and do a bunch of wild granular processing in realtime. In this video, you'll hear how quickly Microcosm tracks the incoming drums and spits out weird time-stretched samples and other miscellaneous space noises

Microcosm's output is going directly into Chroma Console, where we've made a patch that in addition to crunching up the drums/Microcosm also has some interesting time-based effects going on with the Collage effect.

Stick around for a walkthrough of these patches and a little jam at the end 🥁"

Rocco's Resurrection from Supersex OST by Ralf Hildenbeutel, Moog Matriarch + Erica Synths Perkons

video upload by Mattelica

"Excerpt from Rocco's Resurrection from the Supersex OST with a Moog Matriarch + Erica Synths Perkons to a Hologram Electronics Microcosm to a Yamaha MG10xu mixer to a Canon 6D + 17-40mm lens"

Chroma Console: Sound from Scratch #4

video upload by Hologram Electronics

"In this video, we’re using a barebones mono synth (Korg MS20) with Chroma Console. The MS20 has a mono output and no built-in effects, which makes it a great platform for demonstrating Chroma Console’s stereo effects.

We build two patches (a massive bass/lead preset, as well as a more ambient, tape-like preset). We also explore Chroma Console’s CAPTURE feature, an ephemeral looper/sustainer, which can be used to expand sonic possibilities, as well as a tool for improvisation."

Erica Synths Perkins Demo + Hologram Electronics Microcosm "Robotron X" by MATTELICA

video upload by Mattelica

"Original track with the Erica Synths Perkons thru a Hologram Electronics Microcosm to a Yamaha MG10xu mixer to a Canon 6D + 17-40mm lens"

Cadence Demo Gates, Drones and LDRs

video upload by DecadeBridge

"Cadence's oscillator A gating the Dreabox Erebus.
Erebus LFO to Cadence's filter cutoff CV in.
Cadence's oscillators B, C and D out to the Hologram Electronics Microcosm.
Using a torch to change the oscillator pitch using the LDRs."

Matrix mixer ambient jam.

video upload by DecadeBridge

"A simple demo of the passive standalone 3 x 3 Matrix mixer.

The Moog Subharmonicon VCO1 is routed to input 1. VCO2 connected to input 2.
The left channel of the volca keys is connected to input 3.

Out 1 from the matrix mixer is connected to the audio interface sending a mixed dry signal of the 3 inputs.
Out 2 is connected to the hologram electronics Microcosm.
Out 3 is connected to the battery powered Low Pass Filter."

Warpman Demos Jan Feb 2023

video upload by DecadeBridge

"A few demos using the Warpman cassette player motor controller in different ways.

00:00 - Using the players radio to create and record a hi-hat rhythm with the ableton push. Then switching to the cassette tape to create a chord loop using Warpman. Kick and snare from Rample.
01:46 - Controlling the pitch of the tape using the SQ1 as a CV source connected to the 0HP VCA bridge between the Warpman and modified player.
02:47 - Recording the radio to tape whilst using the Warpman to change the speed of the cassette motor, then playing back the results.
03:20 - Running the player's stereo out through the 0HP VCA controlled by the Moog Subharmonicon's envelopes. The output from the VCA is then connected to the Hologram electronics Microcosm.
04:14 - Another patch using the SQ1 to control the player's pitch whilst using the Warpman to alter the pitch range. 05:31 - A simple dirty breakbeat tape loop."

Hologram Microcosm: Electric Piano and Mono Synth

video upload by Hologram Electronics

"In addition to its eccentric effects, Microcosm can be used in more traditional sound design contexts too!

🎹 The electric piano here (Hohner Pianet) has no onboard effects. With Microcosm's Looper Only mode, we created a chorus + reverb effect to run the Pianet through."

Desert Songs - Biodata to MIDI

video upload by Love Hultén

"Desert Songs uses Plantwave - a small device that translates biodata from organic material into MIDI. It's not magic and the plants are not composing, it's simply biofeedback creating true organic 'randomness'. Tiny changes in electrical current - the plants act as variable resistors. Cacti was used for this project due to their very sparse and sporadic activity. The cacti garden includes a few different specimens hooked up to probes, and outputs for individual plants can be changed as you go using patch points upfront. The MIDI signals are sent to a Korg NTS-1 for simple waveshaping and then drenched in atmosphere using the Microcosm from Hologram Electronics. To complete the biolab environment look, a custom MIDI visualizer was made mimicking chloroplasts under microscope."

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Sequential Prophet rev2-16, Sequential Take 5, Dreadbox Nymphes & Hologram Electronics Microcosm

video upload by DKS SYNTH LAB

Lisa Bella Donna's hidden sonic sanctuary

video upload by EarthQuakerDevices

"Join us as we take a detailed tour of Lisa Bella Donna's legendary home studio, Appalachian Recordings, deep in the Appalachian mountains of the eastern United States. Lisa is a longtime friend of Jamie Stillman’s since before the inception of EarthQuaker Devices in the early 90s, when they would play punk house shows together. Lisa is a renowned recording artist, composer, sound designer, modular synthesist and educator.

In this incredible episode of Show Us Your Junk, Lisa talks about her early inspirations that led her to start playing music, and eventually using electronic synthesis to craft the unique voice that she envisioned. After hearing Black Sabbath's “Paranoid” and Wendy Carlos's “Switched on Bach” and “Sonic Seasons,” it became clear that music was her destiny. Her stories include recording and editing commercial jingles in the 80s, selling her car to put a down payment on an Arp 2600 synthesizer, and discovering the rich characteristics of recording to 8-track tape.

While this studio packs in a ton of rare gear, Lisa claims she doesn’t consider herself a collector. “My choices are very utilitarian; pretty much everything in here is here for a purpose, and it’s part of the big picture - the great stream of what my albums become,” she says. Some of her staple instruments include the ARP 2600, ARP Odyssey, ARP Omni, Mini Moog, and Fender Rhodes. EQD pedals she frequently uses include the Rainbow Machine, Arpanoid, and Grand Orbiter, but her favorite EQD pedal is the Avalanche Run. She loves it so much that she had a custom rack mount version built, which is patched directly to her main console. “It's one of my favorite reverbs still - one of my most used for sure.”

Lisa has an interesting perspective when it comes to connecting music to visual concepts in nature and her environment. “When I compose music, I see it just as much as I hear it. I look at my arrangements as landscapes or deep woods mountain paths with all the textures and colors of the elements that surround it,” she says. This all makes sense when you see the picturesque plot of land in which she chose to settle down to build her studio and raise her daughter.

Shot by Chris Tran, Jeff France, David Whited, Dannesh Moosa
Edited by David Whited
Additional footage shot by Tristan Whitney Weary
Music by Lisa Bella Donna, EYE, Deadsea

Music Provided by Lisa Bella Donna
'Turning Points'
'Twi Spirit, One Life'
'Kohoutek'
'Emerald's Run'
'Ascension'
'Pure Stereo Time Machine'
'Falling Leaves'

Special thanks to:
Moog Music Inc.
Waves Audio
Antonus Synthesizers
Hologram Electronics
Lower West Side Studio / Canada
Behind The Sky Records
SFI Records

Check out more of Lisa Bella Donna's work:
https://lisabelladonna.bandcamp.com/
https://lisabelladonna.com/"

Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator 32 Tonic through Hologram Electronics Microcosm Demo

video upload by Mattelica

Hologram Microcosm: Outside Jam with Roland JX-08

video upload by Hologram Electronics

Hologram Microcosm: Shaker + Music Box

video upload by Hologram Electronics

"awtekor" by mattelica, Korg Volca Drum, Hologram Electronics Microcosm

video upload by Mattelica

"Original track with chain sequenced Korg Volca Drum through a Hologram Electronics Microcosm to a Canon 6D with a 50mm 1.4 lens."

Synth Saturdays! Ambient Jam with the Korg Modwave, Aeros Loop Studio & Microcosm

video upload by Tefty & Meems

"Really enjoying the @Korg Modwave so far. This is our first jam with the synth. Per usual, an ambient looped experience. Using the trusty @Singular Sound Aeros Loop Studio to first capture an arp patch, followed by textured wavetable sounds. The Aeros is chained to the @Hologram Electronics Microcosm which is blended towards the end of the jam for a beautiful transition. Meems recorded her improvisation the following day in one take."

Soma Lyra 8 and Microcosm

video upload by Nicolas Melis

"Soma Lyra 8 and Microcosm
First day with Soma Labs Lyra 8 and Microcosm by Hologram Electronics"