Gakken NSX-39 & KORG DS-10 Plus - NIJI

Published on Apr 7, 2014 Masami Hashimoto·73 videos

"Use, Gakken NS-39, KORG KP3, Nintendo DS LL + KORG DS-10 Plus
, BOSS NF-1.
ポケットミクで電気の虹を試みる。
オケは昔ニンテンドーDSソフト KORG DS-10 で打ち込んだものを使いました。
一カ所ミスってるのは許してください。"

Gakken Synths on eBay

Monotribe Acid /// Session 3: I herd u liek it sloppy

Published on Mar 30, 2014 PetrolLimiter·10 videos

"Just a quick one I threw together since I haven't done one in a while. Raw, no effects or post processing. Didn't even have enough wires for kaoss pad reverb. First appearance of my korg DDD-1, though I have had it for a while. It has a trigger out which makes for much easier monotribe syncing than what I'd been doing.

Gear Used:

Korg DDD-1
Korg Monotribe + Boss DS-1
Kawai K3
Yamaha MG102c mixer

recorded via audacity

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You can see my new addition, an ensoniq VFX, on the horizon. That will be the object of my affections for the foreseeable future."

REVERSE EMISSION / KORG DS-10 / Nintendo 3DS

Published on Feb 23, 2014

"KORG DS-10で久々のクランチー＆クリスピーな曲を。
VCFが荒ぶってますが、ワウギターっぽいのをやろうとして右往左往しているだけなの­で、気にしないでくださいｗ
今までドラムはデフォ使ってたんですが今回初めていじってみました。 前半はウェッティーですが、後半はカリッカリです。"

Googlish:
"Songs crunchy and crispy after a long time in the "KORG DS-10.
VCF will I Susabu, but since only have Uosao and trying to do from like Waugita, w please do not mind
I was using the default drum until now, but I applied for the first time. The first half is U~etti, but the second half is Karikkari. "

via Palm Sounds

Korg DS 10 - GROK Day Practice

Published on Feb 15, 2014 ratface1987·78 videos

"Getting ready for GROK Day in two weeks! I'm planning on making this my setlist. If you're interested in learning more, here is the website:

grokday.wordpress.com"

Happy New Year! The Year in Synths 2013

Happy New Year Everyone!

What a busy year it has been in the world of synths.

This is going to be one doozy of a post, so bear with me. This post is a review of the year in synths for 2013. We begin with Tributes to Those We Lost This Year, followed by New Manufacturers & Makers, Older Manufacturers Added to the Site, New Gear Announcements, Top 10 Posts by Traffic,  My Standout Posts for the Year, and finally This Years' Synth Events. I did my best to keep things as short and concise as possible.

Let's begin with the hardest part of the post.

Tributes to Those We Lost This Year

RIP Bernard Parmegiani - Electronic & Acoustic Composer
Lou Reed RIP
RIP Dick Raaymakers aka Kid Baltan
RIP George Duke - DreamWeaver
RIP Ralph Dyck, Sept 28, 1941 – May 20, 2013
RIP Ray Manzarek

All missed and never to be forgotten. Take a moment to remember them.

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New Manufacturers & Makers

Starting last January, I decided to keep a running list of every new manufacturer and maker introduced to the site during the year.  This is something I haven't done before and I thought it would be interesting to see how many there were in the year.   It's easy to focus on the big synth announcements throughout the year, but what about all the new makers and brands? I shouln't have to go considerably into the significance of new designers on the scene, so I'll just say two things regarding them.  One, the number of new makers is a direct reflection on the interest in our scene, and two, these are the creators of new gear which directly translate into new designs not previously available to us.  Think about that for a moment.  These are makers and designs that did not exist before.  They are part of our synth history.  So what is the total count of new synth designers for the year? A whopping 113. Think about that a bit. One hundred and thirteen new synth designers and brands this year alone.

Here they are (note a handful date back to 2012, but 2013 marked their momentum and availability):

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Bermuda - Heartbeat (Anthony Seeha Remix)

Published on Nov 14, 2013 Anthony Seeha·75 videos

"Subscribe to my channel: http://goo.gl/YpVMl
A remix of a friend of mine. Korg M01 is an awesome piece of software. For some reason, I'm actually overwhelmed by all the extra polyphony in Korg M01D. I experienced the same thing when I first tried out Dual Mode in Korg DS-10 Plus! I'll get used to it soon. Please enjoy the music and montage! =)

Listen to the original by Bermuda:
https://soundcloud.com/bermuda-music/..."

M01 on Amazon | M01 on eBay

Omega Man

Published on Oct 12, 2013 retrotechnical·42 videos

"Done on Nintendo Korg DS10...Move over Will Smith, Charlton Heston is the definitive Omega Man..."

DS-10 on eBay | DS-10 on Amazon

[Music] Forest Frolic (KORG DS-10)

Published on Sep 29, 2013

"I got a new battery for my DSi! This simple tune was made to accompany an Android video, but it ended up being a little too fast paced, so I decided to spin it off into a separate video. :-)

- Ogg: https://sites.google.com/site/btmura/...

- BPM: 120
- Scale: C Major
- Tools: Korg DS-10+, Blender 3D, ffmpeg"

3DS on eBAy - 3DS on Amazon
DS-10 on eBay - DS-10 on Amazon

DCOs vs VCOs

A recent poll went up on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge asking whether DCOs are analog or digital. DCO stands for Digitally Controlled Oscillator and in many cases they are actually analog. They are just digitally controlled. I remember the debate coming up frequently on the Analogue Heaven mailing list so I did a quick search and found the following from the late Jürgen Haible. He was an extremely respected synth DIY designer who's work is frequently featured on the site to this day.  I thought I'd share it here on the site as well.  Note the bits preceded with  > are from someone else.  JH is the rest.

">
>>There are different types of DCOs.
>>An analog oscillator, whose frequency is synced to a digital clock. Thus
>>the tuning is perfectly, but the waveform is smooth.
>>Example: Oberheim Matrix 1000, Matrix 6/6R
>
>My M-6 can really get out of tune sometimes (not often though). Perhaps it
>only syncs when you use the "tune" function?

I always thought it's the (resonating) *filter* that is tuned on request.
The DCOs are locked to clocks as said in the original mail.

>>A digital circuit, which aproximates analog waveforms as step functions in
>>hardware, the bit resolution gets worse the older the gear is.
>>Example: Korg Poly-800, Bit-99
>
>The DCO's in these should rather have been labled DO's by the manufacturers
>then, as the sound is digitally generated.

IMO, there are quite a lot of nuances of VCO-DCO. Let me try and make the whole chain from "analogue" to "digital" (Though I wouldn't say strictly from "good" to "bad" ;->)

(1) free running analogue oscillator, controlled by analogue voltage divider keyboard. (Minimoog, ...)

(2) free running analogue oscillator, controlled by digital via a D/A converter without correction, and analogue modulation (Oberheim n-voice (?) )

(3) free running analogue oscillator, controlled by digital via a D/A converter, with autotune, scale correction and stuff, but still analogue modulation (Sequencial Circuits Prophet5 rev. 3)

(4) free running analogue oscillator, controlled by digital via a D/A converter, with autotune, scale correction and digital LFO / Sample&Hold / Glide modulation, but with analogue ADSR->VCO modulation (Oberheim OB-8).

(5) free running analogue oscillator, controlled by digital via a D/A converter, with autotune, scale correction, and all modulations including ADSR via DAC (Sequential Prophet 600).

(6) free running analogue oscillator, controlled by digital via a D/A converter, with autotune, scale correction, and all modulations including ADSR via DAC, plus automatic autotune in the background from time to time (Oberheim Matrix12 (?)).

(7) Simple Ramp-Oscillator that is synced by a counter every cycle, but with different clock/divider tree for both DCO's in a voice (Oberheim Matrix 6, EDP Wasp)

(8) Simple Ramp-Oscillator, that is synced by a counter every cycle, but with one single clock/divider tree for both DCO's in a voice (Oberheim Matrix 1000)

(9) Staircase Waveform stuff (as described in different recent mails)

(10) Wavetable stuff (also as described in recent mails)

These are the different types I know of. Maybe there are still others in between. Speaking in the word's original sense, (2) - (6) would be something like "DCVCOs" ("digital controlled VCOs") in the sense of a digital word forms an analogue voltage that controls an oscillator. (7) and (8) would be real "DCOs", cause they are still oscillators, only under the iron grip of digital clock, which makes them sound thin and lifeless. (9) and (10) shouldn't be called "controlled oscillators" anymore, perhaps just call them "DOs" ("digital oscillators") or even closer to the point, "DDs" (digital dividers) or "DS's" (digital scanners). Well, but that would go too far then.

Oh, I forgot another interesting variation:

Analogue oscillators with digital dividers / waveforms:

(11) analogue VCO with dividers (some ARP-synths - thank You Joachim, for the schematics! - and of course the Suboscillators in various VCO- based synths)

(12) 12 analogue VCOs for the 12 top-octave-semitones and digital dividers (Farfisa VIP 245, Korg PS-3x00 series)

JH."

KORG iMS-20 & DS-10 Dubstep

KORG iMS-20 Dubstep tune "midnight operation"
Uploaded on Nov 11, 2010 mryat·72 videos

"yeah, this is the iMS-20!!

you can get(download) this session data via iMS-20(SoundCloud) if you have a iMS-20
mp3:http://www.muzie.ne.jp/artist/a026538"

iTunes:
KORG iMS-20 - KORG INC.


DS-10 original Dubstep tune "Secret Fes"
Published on Jan 7, 2013

"made in January of the last year, 2012

Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/mryat/ds10dubs..."

3DS on eBAy - 3DS on Amazon
DS-10 on eBay - DS-10 on Amazon

KORG DS10 "Won't Let Go"

Published on Aug 13, 2013 j j·101 videos

Juicy intro...

3DS on eBAy - 3DS on Amazon
DS-10 on eBay - DS-10 on Amazon

KORG DS10 + KP3-CHILLED ACID TUNE "LOST DAYs"

Published on Aug 7, 2013 j j·99 videos

Korg ds10
Korg Kaoss pad kp3
UA-25-EX

3DS on eBAy - 3DS on Amazon
DS-10 on eBay - DS-10 on Amazon
Kaoss on eBay

KORG DS-10 Industrial Acid Electro Tune

Published on Aug 2, 2013 j j·85 videos

"my 1st real tune with this little beauty so sorry if its not prefect ...plus have not made any music in a little while their will be more to come ..

peace out Conradz"

KORG Volca Beats Videos by karenevil

Playlist:
KORG Volca Beats : Unboxing and Test Drive
KORG Volca Beats : MIDI Sync Test with KORG KROME
KORG Volca Beats : STUTTER and PCM SPEED
KORG Volca Beats : Sync In Test with MS-20 mini
KORG Volca Beats : Sync test with KORG DS-10 Plus
KORG Volca Beats : Play with small Boombox
KORG KROME + Volca Beats
KORG Volca Beats : Trio Jam: KROME/Volca Beats/MS-20 mini

Korg Volcas on eBay

Korg DS-10 Showcase Live Mini Mix - HarleyLikesMusic

Published on Jun 26, 2013 HarleyLikesMusicUK·10 videos

"HarleyLikesMusic doing a 15 minute mini mix live using 2 Nintendo DS Lites both running Korg DS-10.
This is very similar to the set I did when iI supported The Happy Mondays and 808 State in Scarborough this year.
www.harleylikesmusic.com"

3DS on eBAy - 3DS on Amazon
DS-10 on eBay - DS-10 on Amazon

Snow (Korg DS 10)

Published on May 21, 2013 ratface1987·65 videos

Track 7 in Electric Circus EP. Enjoy!

Daft Punk - Tron Legacy End Titles - Korg DS-10+

Published on Jul 3, 2012 Pandurris·41 videos

"And finally, there's my version of the End Titles of Tron Legacy remade completely in a Nintendo DSi with Korg DS-10+ software. The audio was just recorded in DAW without post processing or effects adding.

Sorry for the mistakes while I'm playing, those keys are very tiny ahahaha.

Thanks for watching!!!"

3DS on eBAy - 3DS on Amazon
DS-10 on eBay - DS-10 on Amazon

LovinU - Korg DS-10

Published on Apr 13, 2013 ratface1987·62 videos

"Track 2 in my Electric Circus EP (all Korg DS-10, all inspired by Paris). Please enjoy!"

Electric Circus - Korg DS-10 (Paris 1)

Published on Mar 11, 2013 ratface1987·61 videos

"I'm working on a concept album of sorts about the city of Paris, made and performed live on Korg DS 10. This is track 1. It is called Electric Circus, which is what the name of the album will be. I'm not sure how many tracks there will be total, but at least 8 so I can call in an EP.

Let me know what you think."

佐野電磁 meets KORG MS-20 mini

Published on Mar 1, 2013 KORGINC·337 videos

"MS-20 mini：http://www.korg.co.jp/Product/Dance/MS-20mini/

KORG DS-10やiMS-20などの製作に携わり、MSシリーズを異なるプラットフォーム­で現代に蘇らせてきた佐野電磁氏（株式会社DETUNE）。ついに本物のアナログ・シ­ンセサイザーとして復活したMS-20 miniを、佐野電磁氏はどう見るか？"

KORG MS-20s on eBay