The Hyve Adds Stretch Goal: Double Hyve Hacker

via The Hyve Kickstarter:

"All Hyve Hacker rewards will come with Two Hyve Hacker bare circuit boards when we reach 100 Hyve Hacker backers.

Build one and hack the other
One for you and one for a friend
Make a double wide Hyve by chaining them together
There is a chain area on the circuit board which allows you to connect two together to create one larger instrument. Four wires connect them, which joins power and audio, so you have one power input and one headphone output for both."

Hyve Touch Synth Now on Kickstarter

You all should be familiar with the Hyve Touch synthesizer featured numerous times here on MATRIXSYNTH.

The Hyve Touch is now seeking funding on Kickstarter here. There are both DIY and pre-built options.

The following are some details for those new to the Hyve Touch:

"Hyve Touch Synthesizer is a fun, expressive musical instrument that anyone can make and play. It responds to human touch, even your slightest finger movements give you powerful control. Turning these gestures into sound allows you to play music like never before.

Expressive touch, analog synth

Slide your fingers across the surface to explore new ways to touch sound. It’s a 60-voice polyphonic analog synthesizer that is controlled by pressure, horizontal, and vertical movements of each finger on the surface. Even the smallest wiggle of your finger makes the sound come alive, giving expression to the music you make.

Explore and harmonize

Notes on the Hyve are arranged so that you can easily explore harmonies and tone combinations with small movements of your finger.

The bottom half is arranged like a piano keyboard. Each key senses pressure, vertical position, and horizontal position. Moving vertically allows you to sweep through octaves and harmonically combine them into evolving tones. Horizontal movements push the sound right and left in stereo. Touching the bottom row causes a pressure-controlled pitch bend.

The top half uses a hexagon grid to put notes that sound good together right next to each other. Every adjacent note is harmonically related: straight up is a perfect 5th, up to the right is a major 3rd, and up to the left is a minor 3rd. This means that one finger can play a chord and slide to the next chord in the song. Each hexagon also senses pressure and horizontal position like the bottom half."

Hyve Touch Synthesizer Demo

IEEE-UIUC Hyve Synthesizer Demonstration Published on Mar 15, 2015

There's a workshop coming up on April 2 at the University of Illinois where you can build your own Hyve. Details here (previously posted here). The Hyve is Scok Wiedmann's latest creation. He was the man behind the amazing star shaped modular featured at the 2009 NAMM show and Motus Mavis.

"This video is a demo of the Hyve Synthesizer, a really cool audio electronic project developed (and explained) by Skot Wiedmann."

Hyve Stretch Goals Met

Two stretch goals have been met with the Hyve Touch Synth kickstarter.

"All Hyve Hacker kits now come with 2 circuit boards! Rejoice!"

"All Hyve Premium rewards will come with the carrying pouch. Thank you so much to all 150 Hyve Premium backers!"

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Hyve Touch Synthesizer - Premium Editiona

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"Brand new originally Kickstarter backed, Hyve Touch Synthesizer, Premium version. The premiums were the highest level of backing, and the premium Hyves were crafted, constructed, tested, and tuned by the instrument’s creator before being shipped out. They also ship/shipped with a custom case and power supply. This one is brand new and ready to tap into another dimension.

Premium Edition

Skot Wiedmann, the instrument’s creator/designer

I have teamed up with local woodworker Jeff Nardoni to develop a handcrafted hardwood enclosure. Hyve Synth Premium has a walnut back that looks and feels wonderful. This instrument comes to you ready to play and requires no assembly or tuning.

This is a soft padded neoprene mini gig bag. It is the perfect size for your Hyve and battery pack, and has enough extra room for ear buds or small headphones."

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Joey Gage in the studio with the Hyve Touch Synthesizer

Published on Aug 12, 2016 Skot Wiedmann

"Joey Gage pursues freedom of expression and gets a hands-on experience with the Hyve Touch Synthesizer. "It’s just interesting to go from trombone and guitar, which are almost similar in a way where the tone you are going to get on a guitar is based on your finger movement and how you are playing it, same with a trombone. It kind of makes the Hyve synthesizer feel more natural and organic in a way that what you put into it and how you touch the instrument actually affects the sound."

Sign up for updates at http://tiny.cc/hyve"

Upcoming Hyve Touch Synthesizer ElectroSound Exhibit in Paris

The Hyve Touch Synthesizer will be at the ElectroSound Exhibit in Paris May 25 to 2 October 2016. You'll find the ElectroSound site in French here and Googlish here.

via Skot Weidmann, creator of the Hyve Touch Synthesizer and the man behind Motus Mavis:

"I am so excited to be a part of the ElectroSound exhibit in Paris.

The Hyve Touch Synthesizer will be included in the Future section of the show, and visitors will get to play it!"

We have Skot to thank for bringing the event to our attention!

Exhibits will also include (apologies for the translations via Google):

Pictured: Daphne Oram

"Jean-Yves Leloup and NoDesign, the commissioners Electrosound, chose a unique perspective to talk about, with the red wire machines and technological innovation. They plunge us into an immersive, interactive experience scanning a wide spectrum of musical productions, from 1945 to today, pioneers and scientists from 1950 to 1970 (Pierre Schaeffer, Robert Moog, Peter Zinoviev, Brian Eno, Jean-Michel Jarre ...) to the current and popular triumph electro. Electrosound, the lab at the dancefloor going back in time, over the 20th century that saw the electricity and electronics invest the musical field, until emergence of a major cultural movement, which is called 'electro', 'house' or 'techno'."

"Electrosound, the lab at the dancefloor, is an exhibition aimed at a wide audience, the curious beginner to the connoisseur. It is divided into six chapters decrypting the major stages of this musical revolution. Around a timeline, she meets machines and period instruments (synthesizers, drum machines, and other strange machines), popular objects of broadcasting and listening to music, archives (from the GRM, EMS studios and many international sources) and artistic photographs by Jean-Jacques or Jacob Ader Khrist, showing changes since search studios 1950s until the DJ culture."

Hyve Synth Tutorial - 60 poly analog portable synth

Published on Apr 4, 2017 cuckoomusic

"This is the Hyve Touch Synthesiser, designed by Skot Wiedmann. It's currently campaigning on Kickstarter here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...

The Hyve Touch Synth is very unique, with it's portable form factor, lovely design, and 60 polyphonic analog architecture. It runs on a 9v battery, or with a power adapter. The sound is an analog square-ish signal. But with a tad of filter on the expressive touch controls, and the hexagon chord friendly layout it makes it highly playable. More so than what you would expect.

Here's a tutorial on the preassembled Hyve. How to play it. What it sounds like. And a number of "jams" or improvised sessions, in combination with mostly a reverb and delay."

Review: Hyve Synth - 60 oscillators, and as many VCAs as you have fingers...

Published on Feb 26, 2019 loopop

"Hyve synth is very different from any synth you might know - here's how.

0:00 Intro
1:00 Hyve versions
1:30 Architecture
2:30 Touch control
4:00 Note layout
4:35 Hyve layout
6:15 One-finger chords
7:00 Isomorphic layout
7:35 Stereo control
8:15 Stereo effects
10:15 Pros and cons
11:30 Outro jam "

Hyve Touch Synthesizer performed by Skot Wiedmann

Published on Sep 23, 2015 Skot Wiedmann

"The Hyve Touch Synthesizer is a polyphonic analog instrument with 3 axis touch control. To stay updated on this project sign up at http://tiny.cc/HYVE"

Hyve Synth Goes Open Source

via the Hyve Touch Kickstarter:

"In celebration of an awesome week with 266 amazing people who hit 267%, Hyve Synth is going Open Source. Thank you for believing in this project and giving me the opportunity to share it with you. Let's take a look at a preliminary schematic!"

Hyve Touch Synthesizer Workshop with Skot Wiedmann this Saturday

Just a reminder, the Hyve Touch Synthesizer Workshop with Skot Wiedmann (announced here, video here) is this Thursday. Full details here.

The Hyve is Scot Wiedmann's latest creation. He was the man behind the amazing star shaped modular featured at the 2009 NAMM show and Motus Mavis.

The workshop is this coming Saturday April 4 at 2pm, at the Independent Media Center (where the Makerspace and other cool community organizations are). The address is 202 S Broadway Ave, Urbana, IL 61801.

Explorations with Jake Metz and the Hyve Touch Synthesizer

Published on Jul 20, 2016 Skot Wiedmann

"Electronic Musician Jake Metz finds new sound possibilities and worlds of expression in the Hyve Touch Synthesizer, a new instrument that turns your fingers into melodies, harmonies, drones, and noises. Jake describes his creative process and finds familiar and unique sounds in every gesture.

Find out more at http://tiny.cc/hyve"

Hyve Touch Synthesizer

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"This is a Hyve Touch Synthesizer designed by Skot Weidmann... The Hyve is a really cool, 60 oscillator, square wave analog synthesizer. It is really special sounding, as each note you play starts to fight for the listenable spectrum of sound, causing a really cool form of FM synthesis, giving a simple note a much more complex sound."

Hyve Touch DIY Analog Poly Synthesizer in Walnut Case

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"Awesome little pocket synth. Its about the size of an ipad mini. Comes complete all in tact. Hyve Synth, Battery, Tuner, Cord Card and Case. Perfect gift for that EDM geek in your life or synthesizer enthusiast collectors. MAJOR Cool sounds!

Slide your fingers across the surface to explore new ways to touch sound. It’s a 60-voice polyphonic analog synthesizer that is controlled by pressure, horizontal, and vertical movements of each finger on the surface. Even the smallest wiggle of your finger makes the sound come alive, giving expression to the music you make.

The Hyve was designed to be immediate and accessible. You don't need to know anything to start touching sound.1. Plug in power and headphones 2. Touch the surface 3. Slide and explore."

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Hyve Jam

Published on Oct 14, 2016 Amunraja - Joey Gage

"The first jam I recorded with my Hyve Touch Synthesizer.
Many more to come!

Gear used: Hyve Touch Synthesizer, Arturia Beatstep Pro, Ableton, Allen & Heath ZED-10FX"

The Hyve Synth Workshop Pics & Videos

The following are a few pics and short videos from the recent Hyve Synth Workshop, in via Scott Wiedman of Motus Mavis.

Top pic via sferg1129

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The Hyve Touch Synthesizer will be at the Heartland Maker Fest, Urbana-Champaign, IL

via the Heartland Maker Fest

"Were happy to have Skot Wiedmann returning to the Maker Fest this year. He is an engineer and artist whose creations explore the intersections of art and science. Using his knowledge of electrical engineering, he builds interactive artistic objects. At the Maker Fest, Skot will demonstrate one of his most popular projects, the Hyve Touch Synthesizer! Attendees will also have an opportunity to try the synthesizer for themselves."

The Hyve was at last year's event as well!

Hyve Loops

Hyve Loops from Edmund Eagan on Vimeo.

"The uber cool Hyve synthesizer, processed through custom looping software, controlled via a Wii remote. All live one take."

Hyve Touch Synthesizer Workshop with Skot Wiedmann

"April 4, 2015 - Urbana, IL

Build your own polyphonic analog synthesizer with a multi touch interface. No experience necessary, open to everyone. At 2pm makers, musicians, artists, and students will be guided through an introduction into circuitry and will be making music on their very own touch synthesizer a couple hours later. The instrument is a 60 note polyphonic analog synthesizer. The multi touch interface senses your fingers position on each key and how hard you are pressing for fun finger wiggling playing. Cost: $40. Sign up at tiny.cc/HYVE"

The Hyve is Scot Wiedmann's latest creation. He was the man behind the amazing star shaped modular featured at the 2009 NAMM show and Motus Mavis.