RYK Modular Night Rider extended sound demo

video upload by Molten Music Technology

"No talking, just full-length experiments with the Night Rider."

A walking talking tour of Synthfest UK 2023

video upload by DivKid

"Freshly back from Sheffield and my second weekend of synth event here in the UK ... Here's a walking talking tour of Synthfest UK 2023.

You can play along with people and gear spotting as I show you the venue, layout and exhibitors at the show. I had to stop to take a picture of Alex Ball & RYK, as you do."

SynthFest 2023 walk through and poking about

video upload by Molten Music Technology

"Here's me walking through SynthFest 2023 with me 360 camera. It's full of fabulous distortion but should give you an idea of what it's all about.

Index:
Intro - 0:00
Main Hall - 6:10
Yamaha - 19:55
Korg - 21:03
Source - 21:46"

Neutral Labs Elmyra 2 DIY Build and demo

video upload by Molten Music Technology

"Come and watch my build of the latest Elmyra noise and drone machine from Neutral Labs. Filled with far more modulation and melody than the original and all you have to do is solder in a fist full of patch sockets, knobs and switches."

Index - 0:00
What's in the kit - 2:31
Touchpads - 9:07
Pot rotational tag dismembering - 12:32
Eurorack power header - 13:25
USB power connector - 16:19
Buttons and caps - 17:58
Sockets and Pots - 20:32
LEDs - 26:00
Put on the front panel - 29:12
Soldering sockets and switches - 35:59
Soldering pots - 42:53
Soldering LEDs - 45:13
Headers - 52:01
Case power connector - 53:55
First test - 54:52
Firmware update - 59:47
Fixing it in the case and putting on the knobs - 1:03:48
Demo - 1:09:04
Conclusion - 1:17:41

Winter Plankton ZAPS - Jamming with the banks and slots

video upload by Molten Music Technology

"Just a quick demo of the ZAPS banks while the slots are being manipulated."

Winter Plankton Zaps - Some melodic meanderings

video upload by Molten Music Technology

"I'm working on a full review of the ZAPS and thought I'd share a few minutes of unexpected loveliness."

You can find additional demos and details on Winter Plankton Zaps here.

Molten Motion Meter 1U Overview

video upload by Molten Music Technology

"The Molten Motion Meter has gone horizontal to give you four channels of modulation visualisation, mixing and attenuation. It's a visualiser of voltage and a seer of signals. It's a VU meter and CV attenuator; it can mix and offset and looks lovely in a rack.

It should be available in June 2023 direct from Befaco and their dealers."

Befaco 7U Case: DIY Build

video upload by Molten Music Technology

See this post for additional details on the Befaco 7U case.

"Let's slowly meander through the building of the new Befaco 7U Eurorack Case. You get to build the TrolleyBus power supply, the I/O board and then bring it all together into a fabulous case that can be mounted on a modular arm.

https://www.befaco.org/

Index - 0:00
The case - 1:21
What's in the kit? - 3:41
Building the Trolley Bus - 5:49
IDC Connectors a.k.a. black boxes - 7:25
Trolley Bus Resistors and LEDs - 19:54
2 x 3 Molex Connector and terminal block - 23:45
Power regulators - 25:33
I/O Board - 27:46
I/O Board Resistors - 29:06
I/O Board Mini Switch - 30:15
I/O Board IDC Connectors and other headers - 31:29
I/O Board Molex Connector - 35:49
JST Connectors - 36:18
I/O Board Back Panel Hardware - 40:43
Power Switch Cable - 53:35
Assembling the case - 58:52
Installing power switch - 59:03
Installing I/O board - 59:51
Mounting the TrolleyBus - 1:06:16
Installing the rails - 1:10:30
Feet - 1:24:06
Testing the TrolleyBus Power - 1:24:45
Conclusions and monitor mount - 1:28:36

Support my video making with a dollar or two:
► http://patreon.com/robinvincent"

OXI Instruments Coral - Polyphonic Multitimbral Eurorack Synth Review

video upload by Molten Music Technology

"Coral has 10 sound engines, 8 voices and can be split into 8 parts for multitimbral playing over MIDI. Or use it as a massive mono synth over CV. It has a filter, effects and sockets for modulation. In this extensive review I go through all the sound engines, giving some demos on the range of sounds, and show you how to navigate the interface and set it up into parts. There's a lot of ground to cover."

Index - 0:00
Overview - 3:31
Sound Engine 1 - Virtual Analogue - 5:03
Adding Reverb and Chorus - 12:21
Sound Engine 2 - Triangle Waveshaper - 14:21
Sound Engine 3 - FM - 22:57
Sound Engine 4 - Wavetable - 27:29
Sound Engine 5 - MDO - Multiple Detuned Oscillator - 32:36
Sound Engine 6 - String - 38:07
Sound Engine 7 - Hi Hat Synth - 42:31
Sound Engine 8 - Snare Synth - 43:33
Sound Engine 9 - Kick Synth - 44:22
Sound Engine 10 - Wave Player - 45:11
Getting Multitimbral - 52:19
Playing it with CV - 1:00:36
Accessing parts via CV - 1:06:31
Conclusions - 1:10:50

OXI Instruments Coral - quick multi-part jam

video upload by Molten Music Technology

"A quick off-the-cuff jam between the OXI Coral multitimbral synthesizer and the Erica Synths Black Sequencer. All sounds coming from the Coral, all at once using four of the eight sound engines."

TiNRS Wobbler2 jam with Mandrake and Pony VCO

video upload by Molten Music Technology

"A bit of a play on the This is Not Rocket Science Wobbler2 with the Malstrom Mandrake on kick and the Pony VCO making tunes through the British Noise Engineering Grit filter."

Synth East 2023 Highlights

video upload by Molten Music Technology

"Here's a roundup of what happened at Synth East 2023 at the Norwich Arts Centre."

Synth East - Show Report

video upload by sonicstate

"@GazWilliams was at Syntheast this weekend - organised by @MoltenMusicTech it was the first held at Norwich Arts Centre in the UK. With a daytime session and evening performance session the event was sold out, by all accounts a lot of fun.

Gaz Williams talks to Steve Davis, @DivKid , @MoltenMusicTech , @LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER and others. http://syntheast.com"

RYK Vector Wave in Multi Mode

video upload by Molten Music Technology

"Getting deeper into the Vector Wave with 4 independent voices being randomly sequenced and toyed with. Two of them are in FM mode."

See the RYK label below for more.

Jamming with Dreadbox Erebus, and Hades, and a bit of Modbap Trinity

video upload by Molten Music Technology

"Trying to pull myself together with an improvised noodle on the fabulous Erebus and Hades synths and I pulled in some Trinity for good measure while dusting off my SQ-64 to try out the v2 firmware."

Deckard's Dream DIY Build 12 - Voice card transistors and film capacitors

video upload by Molten Music Technology

"Oh yes, another go at the voice cards. This time we're putting in the 2N3906 and 2N3904 transistors, followed by the blocky film capacitors. Just the electrolytics to go!"

Dreadbox Hades DIY Kit Build and demo

video upload by Molten Music Technology

"The Hades is an awesome analog bass synth that, for a limited time, you can get as a kit. It's a simple assembly job with no soldering involved and results in a phenomenal little beast of a machine. I'll take you through the build, the tuning and calibration and spend some time giving you an idea of what it can sound like.

I understand that the kits are sold out, but maybe Dreadbox will make some more and if not, then there will be fully assembled versions available soon.

https://www.dreadbox-fx.com/

Index
Intro - 0:00
What's in the box - 1:55
Preparation - 5:26
Assembly - Step 1 - 8:19
Step 2 - 9:25
Step 3 - 10:59
Step 4 - 14:21
Step 5 - 15:02
Step 6 - 16:02
Step 7 - 16:23
Tuning - 20:35
VCA Clicking adjustment - 31:44
Final assembly into case - 33:46
Conclusions - 37:02
Hades demo - 40:14"

Synth East - Introducing Norwich's first synth festival

video upload by Molten Music Technology

"Synth East is a synthesizer exhibition and performance event taking place at the Norwich Arts Centre on the 4th of March 2023. In this video I'd like to introduce to the idea, the concepts and the venue.

Tickets aim to be on sale from Friday the 9th December

https://syntheast.com/"

New Motion MTR Eurorack Module From Befaco & Molten Modular

Molten Motion Meter Overview video upload by Molten Music Technology

"A quick overview of the Molten Motion Meter designed by myself and Befaco Modular. It's a visualiser of voltage and a seer of signals. It's a VU meter and CV attenuator, it can mix and offset and looks lovely in a rack.

https://www.befaco.org/motion_mtr/"

Molten Modular - My first Eurorack module launch show!

video upload by Molten Music Technology

"Join me to explore my first Eurorack module - it's a beautiful and exciting thing! Designed in collaboration with Befaco, and Manu will be joining me to talk about the process and how it all works. It's not complicated; it's a simple and useful module that I hope will bring joy to every modular user.

The module will become available to buy during the live stream in assembled and kit form. An overview video and DIY build video will appear after the live stream.

Divkid also has a video:"

Audio & CV VISUALISED I love a Eurorack utility! // Motion Meter (MTR) from Molten Modular & Befaco
video upload by DivKid

"Here we have the new Motion MTR Eurorack module from Molten Modular (Molten Music Technology, Robin Vincent) and Befaco. The Motion MTR is your classic modular synth utility provided attenuation, inversion, offset voltages and mixing with the addition of lots of blinking lights!

More than a pretty light show the LED rings work as a VU meter (audio mode) or CV monitor and show your input voltages so you can better trace a patch, track down that feedback getting out of hand, or simply stared at blinky lights because secretly we all want out modulars to look like Christmas tree. They look great and perform well as you’ll see in the video.

Motion MTR MMT site // https://bit.ly/MotionMTR-molten
Motion MTR Befaco site // https://bit.ly/MotionMTR-Befaco

To gain access to the exclusive full patch breakdown for the audio visualiser patch as well as accessing more exclusive videos, PDF patchbooks, joining the DivKid community adn more. Consider supporting on Patreon // https://bit.ly/DK-patreon"

MOTION MTR

CV AND AUDIO UTILITY / REALTIME VISUALIZER

Motion MTR allow you to mix, attenuate and invert signals while having clear visual feedback of their levels. Each channel can function as:
Audio level control with VU meter
CV attenuator with voltage meter
CV inverter with voltage meter
Each input is normalled to 10v, so you can
use each of them to generate fixed voltages.
Also, the outputs of channels 1 and 2 are summed into Out 3 to be used as a mixer.
Patch it wildly to make it work as an attenuverter with offset, as a mixer, a VU meter or a combination of them all!

This module is our first collaboration with Robin Vincent from Molten modular.

PWM Malevolent semi-modular synthesizer review

video upload by Molten Music Technology

"Malevolent is a synth with an unhealthy dose of attitude. Let me take you through the hot spots and weak spots of this gnarly beast of dual-oscillator loveliness."

PWM Malevolent synthesizer - just the sounds please

"Here are some longer examples of the sounds I was making with Malevolent during my review. It's a pretty darn awesome little fidget bunny of a synthesizer."

MOOG'S Moogerfoogers Back in VST Form

video uploads by Moog Music Inc

Playlist:
Ty Segall | Frog Meets Fly | Moogerfooger Effects Plug-ins

Ty Segall invites you inside Harmonizer Studio, home to his wonderland of custom and vintage instruments. Witness the musician and producer’s creative process as he builds an original composition piece by piece using guitar, bass, electric piano, synthesizer, a mix of percussion, and Moog’s new software effects plug-ins. ​

In the making of 'Frog Meets Fly,' Ty demonstrates the sonic range and transformative potential of Moogerfooger Effects Plug-ins. Using the MF-107S FreqBox to morph metallic percussion into synth voices and imitate 60s-style fuzz tones on the track’s bass line, adding depth to his Rhodes with multiple instances of the MF-108S Cluster Flux, transforming clean electric guitar into alien lead lines via the MF-102S Ring Modulator, and adding vintage-toned delay to his Minimoog Model D with the MF-104S Delay, Ty puts the processing power of these effects on full display over the 15 separate tracks in this arrangement.

More about Ty Segall: https://ty-segall.com

Moogerfooger Effects Plug-ins | Installation & Activation
Moogerfooger Effects Plug-ins | CV Interconnectivity
Moogerfooger Effects Plug-ins | DAW Automation
Moogerfooger Effects Plug-ins | Sidechain Capabilities

MiniFreak meets Moogerfooger VST effect plugins

video upload by Molten Music Technology

"Moog has released a bundle of seven Moogerfooger pedals as VST plugins. They are faithful recreations with some cool digital spin for inter-plug interactions and automation. In this video, I'm using the Arturia MiniFreak as the sound source to step through all the effects to give you an idea about how good they sound.

The Moogerfooger VST plugins run on macOS and Windows - the computer I'm using is a Microsoft Surface Pro - it's not an iPad."

And the press release w/ pics:

CLICK FOR MORE »

Befaco PONY VCO Review

video upload by Molten Music Technology

"Pony VCO is a compact analogue oscillator with wave folding, through zero FM and a built-in VCA. Let's put it through its paces.

http://www.befaco.org

Index - 0:00
Sound example - 0:33
Intro - 4:06
Overview - 4:33
Tuning knob - 5:16
Waveforms - 7:21
Timbre - Wave Folding - 8:30
VCA - 12:07
Modulating Timbre - 14:17
Add a filter - 19:36
Thoughts so far - 26:38
Thru-Zero FM - 28:17
More sound examples with filter and effects - 31:33
Conclusions - 38:45"

Update: pic and info via Befaco:

Analog Thru-Zero Wavefolding VCO/LFO

Pony VCO is a fully analog Thru-Zero oscillator with wavefolder and dedicated VCA in only 4HP. The module offers great stability and tuning capabilities thanks to its powerful core, based on Sound Semiconductors IC. It comes with range selector, that allows it to go down to LFO range, as well as octave and waveform selectors.

Pony VCO is also available in 1U format keeping the same functionality and control layout.