Mcdonald's song, modular synth

video upload by Meng Qi

"Chinese singer Eason Chan playfully changed the words of his love song to 'Mcdonald's is fantastic' @mcdonalds in a concert 16 years ago just for fun, and no-one-know-why it's suddenly gone viral recently, with many singers of varied styles imitating and recreating it online but none of them representing synthesizer players! That's why I made this to get involved in this exciting game."

The Golden Rabbit Welcoming Spring Synthesizer! 金兔迎春，但是合成器

video upload by Meng Qi

"Happy new year of the Rabbit! 🐰 Best wishes from the not-far-away Horizon!

Features:

Dual osc per voice, cross and self phase modulation;
Keyboard-triggering sounds;
Low to high and tonal to firecracker by just one parameter.
Gaussian-distributed pan modulation simulates a real-life situation when a few firecrackers in a string fly sideways to explode separately ;
Blessings from the dancing Golden Rabbit!

Download: https://mengqimusic.com/2023

Sound FX at the end: Wing Pinger"

Meng Qi - Wing Pinger (banana version)

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video upload by Martin Pas Synth Shop

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"Meng Qi - Wing Pinger (banana version) in mint condition.

Power supply not included."

You can find pics, details, and additional demos of the Wing Pinger in previous posts here.

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Anookum/Snookum/Anushri Desktop Synth & Drum Machine w/ Meng Qi Dual Passive LPG

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"Anookum/Snookum/Anushri Desktop Synth & Drum Machine with Meng Qi DLPG

Excellent condition, Fully functional, professionally built (not by me). Comes in Metal Case with Wood Panels, a Meng Qi Dual Passive LPG for using with your favorite envelopes (added with stand-offs, removable), aluminum gold knobs, and Power Adapter.

From the Mutable Instruments website:

Anushri is a monophonic synthesizer with an all-analog signal path, paired with a lo-fi digital drum synthesizer. These two sections are controlled by an on-board sequencer/arpeggiator, featuring generative drum pattern sequencing. Anushri is open to the modular world thanks to its analog patching area."

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Moog synthesizers & Meng Qi Wing pinger #synthesizer #jam #experimental #music

video upload by Endless Arp's

凉风 Breeze

video upload by Meng Qi

"This song was composed last year, one day just like today——autumn starts in late summer, with cold breezes gently blowing day and night. So I named it 凉风 (Breeze). Also, I got inspiration from an ancient Chinese poem called 夏日南亭怀辛大 (Longing For Xin The Elder In The Southern Pavilion On A Summer Day). Besides, the song uses a vocoder from Madrona Labs Virta to modify my voice, shaping it into a thick and thus emotional sound.

Lyrics by Annqi

山光池月微凉一场 如梦
初晓 / 清音响 / 庭院夜来霜
启幽窗 / 帘卷浮香半添妆
清影荡漾 / 水木澹澹

无据 / 不思量
清影印杯 / 杯复一杯
云气冉冉渐隐渐暗
踏着 / 阶前 / 点点星乱
乱无绪

闲风拂散 / 簪花落去 / 乘夕凉
夜来 / 几度寒 / 风飒飒
还尽一杯 / 杯复一杯
寄愁无绪

夜微凉 / 难思量"

Meng Qi Wingie 2, Norns (Awake), Digitakt | run

video upload by patchesinblue

"@Meng Qi 's #Wingie 2 is one of the most deeply gratifying instruments i've interacted with in the last few years; it feels personal, intimate and experimental all at the same time. when i began sketching, i missed being able to add notes from a lower octave, while keeping most of the melodic content in the upper registers. so - i went out and got another Wingie 2. they make a beautiful pair together

for this piece, i tried to push the Wingie out side its usual familiar territory, and it responded very well. both Wingie's are receiving input from the monome norns awake synth; the black Wingie resonating an octave below the silver one, subtly, with a shorter decay time. i also added some color to the original sound from the wingie; the silver wingie is going through an electro-harmonix big muff guitar pedal (just off camera on the top). there's also an mxr dyna comp pedal (also slightly off camera) that is boosting the right-channel of the silver wingie.

there's also a norns shield (next to the silver Wingie), running an arp from Awake, tempo-linked to the standard black norns. ironically, the norns shield display went to sleep sometime before i started recording.

the expressive e touché is controlling the filter cut off of the norns awake synth. as the cut off changes, the wingie resonates accordingly.

lastly, there's digitakt for rhythm. yet another wonderful instrument that never fails to deliver.

this piece was a bit outside the usual for me, but so are the times we live in and everything i'm experiencing. i hope you enjoy listening."

Meng Qi Wing Pinger & Soma Lyra 8 #drums with BIA & Trigger riot #music #experiment

video upload by Endless Arp's

Meng Qi WINGIE 2 Resonator // Demo Tutorial Walkthrough

video upload by Dexba

"It's here, I love, and I hope I can spread some extra love with this video about the @Meng Qi Wingie 2, or Wing 2, as YouTube keeps suggesting.
It is a lovely, tiny, portable, stereo resonator, that is giving me more joy and exploration than a lot of many, 20 times more expensive, other instruments.
I am demoing it both with the onboard microphones and some samples coming from the Digitakt.
All the demo is the dry sound of the Wingie, except for the last part, where it is also stated I have added a reverb to the demos you've heard at the beginning.
I hope you will find something useful here, and as always I am more than ready to answer your question, if I can 🧡

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Demo of the 4 algorithms
0:46 What is this?
2:01 Noise
2:44 Proper notes
3:40 3rd and 5th are your friends
4:18 Sinewaves?
4:49 MIDI sequencing
6:12 Instrument Overview
7:18 Poly mode
8:42 Strings and Note Cycling Threshold
10:25 Bar mode
10:49 Cave mode
12:44 Microphone Gain
13:56 Line Input Gain
15:09 Connectivity
15:24 Careful, always careful
15:57 Demo with Valhalla reverb"

Wingie2 listening to mechanical keyboard

video upload by Meng Qi

"Ever played music on the keyboard? Wait, I mean the one for typing. 😄 I wrote a pd program to change your computer keyboard into an Autoharp. Here's the link to download the patch:

https://mengqimusic.com/autoharp

It all started when I bought a mechanical keyboard that can joyfully produce mahjong-like sounds. Why haven't I ever tried to play music with Alphabet and numeric Keys? This idea suddenly came to my mind and here we are! The chord layout I used in the patch is designed by the autoharp virtuoso Lindsay Haisley."

The doubted go electric

video upload by UncertainMusicCorps

"A longer form drone work derived from the Grendel Drone Commander processed through the Meng Qi Wingie and Qu-Bit Aurora. Final reverb courtesy of Happy Nerding FX Aid."

REGENT OF WANDERING SOULS - Wing Pinger, Wingie 2, Tetrax Organ, Fjærlett, PLAY

video upload by thenoiztemple

Update: links below updated.

"Noiz circuit performance using a few duplicate noiz weapons.

Meng Qi Wing Pinger - x2
Meng Qi Wingie 2 - x2
Tilde Elektriske Kretser - Fjærlett - x2
Korg KP3+
FaderFox PC12
1010Music Bluebox
Polyend PLAY
norns running Cheat Codes 2 (offscreen)

The Wing Pingers are being fed into the Wingies.
All four have been set to eight separate MIDI channels which are being controlled by PLAY.

website: http://manipulate.net
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/ast..."

SOMA Pulsar-23 + Meng Qi Wing Pinger // Synthetic Forest

video upload by Dexba

"I can feel it: it's the sensation of moving in the right direction with my setup and my musical scope.
I'm no producer, I think you already grasped that from my channel's general vibe, so what I really like to do is as little planning as possible and just follow the stream, the dialogue between me and the instruments.
And this is like... the goal! I can finally see the end of the tunnel, now I only have to work on the relationship with my gear, learn, practice, and improve.
This idea was born after stumbling upon some recordings of birds in a song from Pere Ubu, and I was pretty sure they were doable with a synthesizer too!
The Pulsar-23 by SOMA was the closest thing to a modular I had, so I went for that, but it wasn't without challenges, since there is only one LFO and the polarity/wave shape has no modulation control, so a simple task like alternating rhythmically up and down pitch synchronized with the gates got way more challenging than it sounds :) Wing Pinger is my new crush, no need to hide it, and even though (surprisingly enough) it doesn't pair well with the Hologram Microcosm, I really wanted to give more ambiance, a more washed feeling to the lonely upper filter playing. I think you'll see this setup again and again, so I hope you enjoy ✨"

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..."