Meng Qi Wing Pinger // Pingless Lullaby

video upload by Dexba

"IT'S HERE! I GOT IT!

I've probably never wanted an instrument so much like the Meng Qi's Wing Pinger (and I can't wait to get the Wingie2 and expand everything with some modular gear in the future)

I am both a sine guy and a ping guy, I love sines, sweet curves, blipblops, perforating my ears with awesomeness!

So, I had to start somewhere, and I started from a... pingless little tune, on an instrument called PINGER: life's strange.

Recordings don't make justice to the experience; for a distracted listener it would probably sound like some strange phone tone moving around, but there is something magical about the approach, the experience of touching and subtle movements required to create delicate balances, both for the pinging and the FM interaction. But we start here today! Only a very minimal drop of Chase Bliss' CXM1978 for the reverb, conveniently cutting the booming basses, but I wanted to keep it clean!"

Modular Synth Meet in Fischbach/Germany 2022

video upload by Wein Glas

"Happy Knobbing 2022: The annual modular synth meet in Fischbach with
lots of modular synthesizers, modules, synths in a small town in Germany - a short tour!

The Soundtrack was made on a Meng Qi WIng Pinger and the DSM & Humboldt Simplifier DLX."

Meng Qi Wingie 2, teenage engineering Op-1 | sunlit stream

video upload by patchesinblue

"streams of water, lit by the sun. the Mengqi Wingie 2 continues to inspire, producing the most unexpected and wonderful of musical moments. the teenage engineering op-1 provides the original sound through an arpeggiated synth sequence, and the Wingie 2 resonates with beautiful sounds

thank you for listening.

@patchesinblue on instagram, twitter, bandcamp and soundcloud"

立夏赏小羽 Summer Begins, Wingie Upgrades

video upload by Meng Qi

"Link to v1.1 firmware & manuals: https://github.com/mengqimusic/Wingie...

// Summer's greetings from Synthesis Minority (合成少数派)

Today is LiXia (立夏), the 7th solar term of the lunar caledar, marking the beginning of Summer.

It was also in a summer when Wingie's first prototype came out.

So I thought summer must be a season of rich sounds—cicadas singing, birds chirping, poets from the past chanting besides instruments.

I wonder if the poet a thousand years ago, when he wrote: 'The lotus wind delivers its fragrance, the bamboo drops make a clear sound", was in a summer more pleasant than where I'm. But Meng Haoran (孟浩然) must have been lonely, that's why when he "wanted to make music," he hesitated because ''there was no bosom friend who can resonate with him'.

Maybe he should have resort to something else? May it be a resonator?

Just kidding. But Wingie is a resonator. It resonates with all frequencies it receives (take it rationally or subjectively).

Anyway, we make it to come to a new summer. Also, the Wingie firmware is updated. I've added a couple new features.

Probably, I do have some expectations on people who got Wingie—No matter there's someone who can resonate with your feeling, just feel free to make music!

// New Features of Wingie2 v1.1

- Customizable Caves (setting via instrument interface & MIDI)
- 6 Caves
- Adjustable Pre / Post Clipper Gain (from clean to saturated to destroyed sound)
- Global Tuning
- Customizable MIDI Channels (setting via MIDI)
- Storable Settings"

Meng Qi Wingie 2 getting very excited by Novation Circuit Rhythm and some help from Just Friends

video upload by -CALC-

"A little demo track with the fantastic new Wingie 2 from Meng Qi Music.
Two resonators that are getting excited by audio inputs.
In many ways its a very simple box but it has some magical and musical secrets hidden within.
This track is really just Wingie 2 being excited by a beat from Circuit Rhythm. Wingie is also being handed a MIDI sequencer from Circuit Rhythm to form the Chord progression.
Wingie is set to the String algo and I genuinely love the way a heavy input overdrives and 'blows out' the sound."

Wingie automation

video upload by UncertainMusicCorps

"Digging deeper into the midi implementation of Wingie v2 led to this little proof of concept.

As in the previous video, Wotja is providing the audio for Wingie to feed on and is generating midi to control the pitches of its two voices.

This time, Wotja is also using midi CC0 to change at random the voice types used by Wingie's two channels. The changes are flagged by colour changes of the LEDs on the right side of Wingie's front panel.

I limited the change options to exclude 'cave' mode on this occasion."

See the Meng Qi label below for more.

Meng Qi DPLPG

video upload by NOISEBUG

"Using the Meng Qi DPLPG to create all the percussion based tones in this patch.

The DPLPG is a dual 1-pole vactrol based LPG / VCA module that only takes 2 HP space, and requires no power supply.

https://www.noisebug.net/products/men..."

All you wanna know about Wingie2

video upload by Meng Qi

"In this video, I show the basic functions of Wingie2 by performing it with Kalimba, Wing Pinger & Mannequins modules. However, I'm expecting you to be more creative with Wingie2. Looking forward to your performance. Wish you enjoy!"

Wingie 2

video upload by Robin Rimbaud-Scanner

"First play with the Wingie 2 designed by the even inspiring Meng Qi. This is a handheld stereo resonator with built-in microphones that also doubles as a development board. Its dual onboard microphones allow you to interact and enrich vocals as well as the sonic environment around you. So, as an experiment I decided to only use the microphone and create a piece in 30 minutes. What a wonderfully inspiring little instrument/processor this is!

More on Meng Qi's work here
https://www.mengqimusic.com"

Wing Pinger + Iridium = NOISE

video upload by Wein Glas

"Let's make lots of noises with the Meng Qi Wing Pinger together with the Strymon Iridium and a little help from caffeine:
A match straight out of hell!

If you only want to hear the Iridium with

0:00 Start slowly with the Meng Qi Wing Pinger alone
0:56 Add the Strymon Iridium
1:40 More Noises"

Additional Wing Pinger posts. Remember you can search on any synth on the top right of the site. You can also click on manufacturer labels at the bottom of posts.

Analog Four, JV-880 & Modular Synths | Live on MIDI Channel 13

video upload by Mamotreco

"The Analog Four synth (out of frame) is pulling double duty, both sequencing the analog modular (pictured) bass sequence as well as playing some additional melodic sequences. The Octatrack is just passing through MIDI coming from the Push 2 grid controller through the RME Fireface UFX (out of frame) onto the Roland JV-880 synth that is right above the modular synth and is responsible for warm synth pads being played live over the modular synth and Analog Four.
#analogfour #jv880 #synths

Eurorack module list (left to right):
1. TipTop Audio Z3000 Oscillator
2. SSF Ultrafold Wavefolder
3. Eowave Titan Oscillator
4. ALM Busy Circuits O/A/x2 Attenuverter
5. Mutable Instruments Links Buffered multiples and utility module
6. Eowave Zone B.F. dual digital LFOs
7. Intellijel Quadra envelopes
8. Toppobrillo Multifilter SVF multimode filter
9. Meng Qi DPLPG Dual Low Pass Gate module
10. MakeNoise ModDemix Dual VCA module
11. SSF Mixmode and expander mixer and output
12. TipTop uZeus power supply

Current channel music compilation: https://mamotreco.bandcamp.com
Previous music releases available here: https://synthandsundry.bandcamp.com"

Wingpinger meets Simplifier DLX and Nanobox Lemondrop

video upload by Wein Glas

"Some fun with the awesome Meng Qi Wing Pinger going into the DSM Humboldt Simplifier DLX. The 1010Music Nanobox Lemondrop is in the Stereo-Send-/Return-Loop of the Simplifier. And lots of special cables ;)

Flanger and Delay are from the Lemondrop, Reverb ist from the Simplifier.

As always: No overdubs, no post processing. Just a Ristretto ;)"

Zen Garden

video upload by Stefano Bertoli

"Ciat Lonbarde Cocoquantus, Plumbutter and Sidrax with Meng Qi Wing Pinger"

The Magical Sound of the Wing Pinger

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video upload by Robin Rimbaud-Scanner

"First proper play with the Wing Pinger, an outstanding new instrument from Meng Qi. It can move from very gentle arping melodies to harsh noise in the blink of an eye. You can play the keyboard and latch the notes on each and build up layers of sound. Here I'm using it with the Bugbrand PT Delay and a little bit of reverb from the Eventide H9. Try and listen in stereo or on headphones if you can, to feel the sound move around you. More of this here: https://scanner.bandcamp.com/album/wi...

And yes, there was an earth hum issue here with noise. I'm aware of this and apologise!"

via this auction w/ original box

Note this listing is not for the same unit in the video above; it was just included in the listing as a demo of the Wing Pinger in general and hasn't been featured here before.

"The Wing Pinger is a remarkable new analog music instrument that allows you to combine melody and noise in perfect harmony. Thanks to a highly playable interface, this latest product offering from Meng Qi is actually many things all at the same time.

The Wing Pinger is designed for musicians and non-musicians alike. It’s composed of a pair of 4-pole resonant low pass filters and a network of peripheral logic circuits. The filters can be cross “pinged” and modulated, both directly and by generated step signals.

Plain and simple, this delivers an instrument capable of producing continually evolving music across the spectrum, from controlled to chaotic. The finely tuned parameter range and intuitive interface allow players to perform entirely on intuition, producing ever-changing and rich-sounding ambient, noise or meditative music with minimal or zero user interaction.

The Wing Pinger is also at home in any musical environment. For example, it can be used as a stand-alone instrument or with whatever gear you have. The unit is equipped with both MIDI and CV I/O and can ping literally anything that has an audio or trigger input and output or emits a decaying sound."

Winter Playtime Wing PInger

video upload by Todd Barton

"More playtime with Meng Qi's Wing Pinger.

My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/synthtodd"

Wing Pinger Second Moves

video upload by Todd Barton

"Day 2 new moves. The discoveries and explorations continue with this amazing instrument by Meng Qi https://www.mengqimusic.com

My Patreon https://www.patreon.com/synthtodd"

Meng Qi Sidrolz5 (Ciat Lonbarde Sidrax + 5-rolz)

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via this auction

"Sidrolz5 is a beautiful one off instrument built by Meng Qi, containing a Sidrax board and 1 set of 5-rolz per Sidrax oscillator. Can be played by touching the bare nana sockets or rhythms can be set up with patching banana cables (not included).
Requires 12vdc power with positive tip (not supplied) and has stereo 1/4" out.

A little more background-
Each sidrax oscillator has a triangle oscillator output, FM in, and two glitch inputs.
The FM inputs have a cap on input to work with the 5-rolz sandrodes below each oscillator to allow for for momentary pitch movements in time with the rolz rhythms (without the caps the rolz just send the oscillators straight to lowest pitch). Some of the FM ins have had the caps bypassed so they can be sequenced via an external, more traditional step sequencing method - e.g. I was using bugbrand CTL1s but korg SQ-1s and whatever else works with appropriate cabling with 0-10v CV range).

The two right most banana sockets are master pitch and master chaos CV inputs. The two large black knobs are master volume and master chaos. The right most knob is master pitch, all other knobs are individual oscillator pitches. Each of the bare potentiometer stems in the pictures have now been capped with knobs.

Each 5-rolz column is hardwired internally to the piezo in/vca of each oscillator- so touch playing is possible, but patching rolz together can yield both repeating and non repeating patterns. No touching and no patch cables means the instrument is silent."

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Meng Qi Wing Pinger

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via this auction

Banana version
100% mint. less than 2-3 hrs use.

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Meng Qi Rollz-5 | Peter Blasser circuit design

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via this auction

"'Ancestor of the Plumbutter' and it definitely shows. Great unpredictable and experimental 'drum machine' (as much as you can call anything Ciat Lonbarde that). The one issue I've had is the left ultrasound section is very low output. The case shows wear and debris hence the 'good' quality."

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Generative Nightmare Music: Minimal Eurorack Synthesizer + Buddha Machine | Simon Hutchinson

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video upload by Simon Hutchinson

"Some generative music with a minimal Eurorack synthesizer and a cheap Buddhist prayer machine (processed heavily with Schlappi Engineering Interstellar Radio).

In this synth (left to right): STG Labs .Mix, Recovery Effects Analog Kick (unused), SnazyFX Dual Multiplier, Make Noise Maths, Zlob Diode Chaos, Schlappi Engineering Interstellar Radio, Doepfer Wasp Filter, 2hp VCO, Meng Qi DPLPG (unused), and Tesseract Blinks."