SFF2022 - Démo Arturia Polybrute

video upload by Les Sondiers

"Une démonstration du Polybrute par Michael Geyre et Lily Jordi."

SFF2022 - Démonstration du NONLINEAR LABS C15 par DEEP FOREST

video upload by Les Sondiers

"DEEP FOREST nous fait une démonstration du C15 de Nonlinear Labs"

SFF2022 - MODOR NF1 et DR2

video upload by Les Sondiers

"Démo des produits MODOR par leur concepteur, Marcel GROSS"

SFF2022 - Présentation du SYNTHR4

video upload by Les Sondiers

"Présentation du tout nouveau SynthR4 par son concepteur, avec une d"mo de Kurtz Mindfields."

SFF2022 - Présentation du KODAMO INFINI

video upload by Les Sondiers

"Présentation par Stéphane et Masami du tout nouveau Kodamo Infini."

See the Kodamo label below for more.

Moog Grandmother | Analog Bonanza x4

video upload by Mamotreco

"Four layers of unadulterated analog majesty thanks to the Moog Grandmother and its rich synth tones unleashed. Bask in the meaty synthesizer timbres of this unique Moog synth. This eminently playable electronic instrument confidently handles leads, bass, and synth sequences without breaking a sweat.
#moog #analog #synth
Moog Grandmother is a worthy descendant of the Moog modular synths of yore. It's semi-modular design along with sequencer and spring reverb makes a sound synthesis lab par excellence.

However, it's not just all blips and bloops, the Grandmother is begging to be played. Make no mistake this is a complete synthesizer instrument. Monophonic for sure, but a player's delight nonetheless. To be clear, this synth was purchased with our own money but that doesn't stop us from waxing lyrical about its musical capabilities.

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

Introducing the New Powerful SYNTHR4 Desktop Analog Synthesizer

SYNTHR4 "COSMIC" DEMO video upload by KurtzMindfields

"Introducing the new powerful SYNTHR4 !
I sounds designed and recorded the new Synthr4 from SynthR & Ozoe. This musical piece was recorded with 4 synthr4 tracks, and one midi connected (NR)synth at the end (sequenced), without nothing else more, exept little limiter/compressor for youtube.
4 VCOs, 2 filters (8 choices), 3 LFOs, pans, Mono/Paraphonic 4 voices, split mode, powerful mono & poly sequencer, step sequencer (like 960 moog), Arpeggiator, aftertouch mono, patch memories and 2 internal effects (reverb, delays, flanger, phaser, chorus and Shimmer! from Yves Usson), ring mod, 4 portamentos ...."

Pre-wired analog compact synthesizer with interchangeable filters** and MIDI control Paraphonic synthesizer possédant the suivants modes:
• paraphonic 4 voies,
• duophonic 2 voices bi-timbrale,
• Bun
• accord 4, accord 3+1
• Arpeggiator
• Sequencer
• Sequenceur d'accord
• Step sequencer interactive
• Song : chainage of several sequences of a type.

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Loumavox Mystery Forgotten Synth is a Fake After All

Loumavox : Révélations video upload by Loumavox

Follow-up to this post. Should have saved it for April fools.

Googlish (original French below):

"So here it is, it's over, off the masks. You've been looking, you may have found. Like us for over two years now.

The story of Louise and the Loumavox, this is the most beautiful of stories: an idea imagined by two young girls who firmly believed that a little Moselle girl helped by her brother could have revolutionized the history of electronic music, almost exclusively reserved for men, with her campaign. their teacher and their class ended up believing it too.

We all dreamed it together and we told our dream. Made, built, tinkered between two or three confinements and re-confinements with the help of a mad scientist of sound, a patient director and a few enthusiastic accomplices.

The Loumavox exists, we have met it. Ok, it is not that old but it has already matured well and he sings like no one else!
As for Louise, something tells us that she is no longer very far from us."

French:

"Alors voilà, c’est fini, bas les masques. Vous avez cherché, vous avez peut-être trouvé. Comme nous depuis plus de deux ans maintenant.

L’histoire de Louise et du Loumavox, c’est la plus belle des histoires : une idée imaginée par deux jeunes filles qui croyaient dur comme fer qu’une petite mosellane aidée par son frère aurait pu révolutionner de sa campagne l’histoire de la musique électronique, presqu’exclusivement réservée aux hommes. Et leur prof et leur classe ont fini par y croire aussi.

Nous l’avons tous rêvé ensemble et nous avons raconté notre rêve. Fabriqué, construit, bricolé entre deux ou trois confinements et reconfinements avec l’aide d’un savant fou de son, d’un réalisateur patient et de quelques complices enthousiastes.

Le Loumavox existe, nous l’avons rencontré. Ok, il n’est pas si vieux que ça mais il a déjà bien muri et il chante comme personne !
Quant à Louise, quelque chose nous dit qu’elle n’est désormais plus très loin de nous."

Loumavox : the Forgotten Synthesizer

video upload by Loumavox

Featuring Jean-Michel Jarre.

"Discovery of a forgotten synthesizer!
Students from the agricultural high school in Courcelles-Chaussy (France) discovered by chance a synthesizer from the 1960s. They went in search of Louise and Marc Voksinski [Wolzinski], the genius creators of this machine. During their investigation the high school students will cross paths with Jean Michel Jarre. The documentary produced as part of a video workshop turns into an exceptional dive into the world of electronic music."

French:
"Découverte d'un synthétiseur oublié !
Des élèves du lycée agricole de Courcelles-Chaussy (France) ont découvert par hasard un synthétiseur des années 60. Ils sont partis à la recherche de Louise et Marc Vokzinski, créateurs de génie de cette machine. Durant leur enquête les lycéens vont croiser la route de Jean Michel Jarre. Le documentaire réalisé dans le cadre d'un atelier vidéo se transforme en une plongée exceptionnelle dans le monde de la musique électronique."

L'enquête Loumavox - Bande annonce

video upload by

Note this is the first Loumavox post on the site. See the "New Old" and "exlcusive" labels below for additional discovered gems in the synth world.

Note http://wavesandmind.org featured in the film comes up with a WordPress placeholder, not the site in the film. A search on Louise Wolzinski doesn't bring it or other references up either.

Update: Loumavox Mystery Forgotten Synth is a Fake

Ciclos by Par

Estreno de Ciclos (full album - visualizer)

video upload by Par

00:00 intro
00:20 Fin
03:10 Silencio
06:26 Días
10:37 Atravesar
14:17 No estar
16:52 Disrupción
20:09 El otro día
24:02 Ya
27:26 El túnel
33:10 créditos

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Par - Ciclos
Con:
Vera Sienra (voz en Días)
Lucía Torrón (letra y voz en Días)
Camila Rodríguez (letra y voz en Ya)
Pedro Dalton (voz en El túnel)

Luis Angelero (guitarra en Días)
Gabi Lucena (guitarra en Disrupción)
Candela Cibrián (coros en Ya, recitado en El otro día)

Voz de Vera Sienra grabada en El liebregal por Federico Coore y Haugussto Brazlleim
Voz de Lucía Torrón y Camila Rodríguez grabada en Basurita por Guillermo Berta
Voz de Pedro Dalton grabada en La encrucijada por Orlando Fernández

Producción, grabación, texto en El túnel y mezcla: Par
Master: Emiliano Zapata.

Arte y diseño: Nacho Adda.

Grabado entre 2019 y 2021

Gracias a Vera, Lucía, Camila, Pedro, Luis, Gabi y Cande por sumarse y elevar la idea; a Lu y Feli por acompañarme, y a todos los que de alguna manera u otra colaboraron para que este trabajo salga a flote.

Para Bruno.

Par - Ya (c/ Camila Rodríguez)

video upload by Par

Dirección: Nacho Adda
Dirección de fotografía: Nacho Farías

Asistente de cámara, producción y fire bender: Matías Cavelli
Vestuario: Lu Cossani - Diseño de producción y VFX: Nacho Adda
Color grading: Colour

► BANDCAMP: https://parmusic.bandcamp.com/
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Par Live AV Set at the Architecture School in Montevideo, Uruguay

Trama_Liminal.mp4 from ciudadn lab on Vimeo.

Live AV set by supporting member, Par (aka Nacho Ada) at the Architecture School in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Credits:

Concept & production: ciudadN
Music: Par
Visuals: C03RA
Footage: Luis E. Sosa, Pedro Grolla, SMA

Par is the project of Nacho Adda (Montevideo, 1983) focused on conceiving spaces and concepts with electronic music. Par has 4 studio albums, 2 EP and 3 remixes albums with 6 nominations to the "Graffiti Awards" for Uruguayan Music as well as soundtracks for several short films and drama plays.
https://linktr.ee/parmusic

Mathías Chumino aka C03RA (Montevideo, Uruguay) is a multimedia artist, director, editor and musician, specialized in experimental image and sound manipulation, using state of the art software and hardware. His work delivers captivating, dark and mysterious immersive experiences achieved by a combination of heavy image processing with polished aesthetics and a poetic vision of the world.

His work in film and visual arts has been showcased and awarded in traditional and digital media and in many festivals around the world.

C03RA.COM

Mystery Vintage Drum Machine Spotted in "What We Started" Documentary

Update: video added above.

This one was spotted by @DyLAB

It comes in at 11:36 in "What We Started" on Netflix. Cool documentary with tons of synth spotting BTW.

Anyone know what it is? I thought it might be a mixer but in the film you can see the LEDs moving left to right as in a sequencer.

As some of you know Moby was a huge collector of drum machine. He sold them off in 2018. I captured them here. What's pictured to the left here isn't in that post. If you know what it is, leave a comment.

Update: and it's an ETA Stage Lighting System 1234 controller. Thanks to those that left a comment.

Some pics and details via this auction

"Professional lighting system comes with 8 channel 4 scene ETA Stage Lighting System 1234 controller with ETA 1235 remote footswitch stage controller. Two Model 1250 600 watt dimmer packs, two tripod stands and light bars, 8 PAR 56 light cans with slides and gels, cables and chords Controller can be used by sound board with 50 ft snake to stage remote override. All channels can be individually dimmed. Controlller has both scene and channel chase features, fade to black. Channel and scene chase can be triggered remotely with an input from a sound board."

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XILS-lab Introduces KaoX Virtual FM Instrument

video by xilslab

"XILS-lab creates KaoX as virtual instrument inspired by legendary FM synthesizer bolstered by virtual analogue and chaotic algorithms


GRENOBLE, FRANCE: virtual instrument- and effect plug-in-specialising software company XILS-lab is proud to announce availability of KaoX — a virtual instrument inspired by a legendary FM (Frequency Modulation) synthesizer, albeit bolstered by virtual analogue sound synthesis and additional chaotic algorithms in an advanced two-layer architecture allowing for a powerful sound creation tool to fuel DAW-driven synthesizer dreams with a much more easily understood signal path than its iconic FM forefather — as of April 12…

To appreciate its iconic inspiration is to truly appreciate the power of KaoX, XILS-lab’s latest virtual instrument. Indeed, the early-Eighties synthesizer market was dominated by analogue synthesizers using analogue circuits and analogue signals to generate sounds electronically, which, when made available as programmable polysynths with patch storage, were costly with limited polyphony. Putting paid to that dominance, an Eighties-dominating 16-voice FM synthesizer changed course — changing the course of musical history in the process — by generating sounds via frequency modulation, a form of sound synthesis whereby the frequency of a waveform is changed by modulating its frequency with a modulator. Mass manufactured using very-large- scale integration chips by a Japanese giant of a company who had licensed the technology from Stanford University, California — composer, musician, and professor John Chowning developed the digital implementation of FM synthesis while there, the world’s first commercially-successful digital synthesizer subsequently sold over 200,000 units within three years — around 20 times more than the most iconic analogue synthesizer of all time sold in its impressive decade-long lifespan — and its preset sounds soon became staples of the Eighties pop pantheon with E PIANO 1 purportedly ending up on 40% of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart toppers throughout 1986. Therein lay the rub. Really complex menus and a lack of conventional controls meant that few learned to program the comparatively keenly-priced instrument in depth — despite FM synthesis lending itself to creating brighter, glassier sounds, as well as imitative acoustic sounds so much better than its instantly unfashionable analogue adversaries, programmable polyphonic or otherwise. Of course, fashions change with time and technology; the instrument in question has long since fallen out of favour. Although analogue synthesizers — somewhat ironically — are now more commonplace than they ever were with a perceived warmth of sound and appealing hands-on control working in their favour, the convenience of an ITB (in the box) workflow with DAW-driven virtual instruments and effect plug-ins has far from lost its appeal for today’s music-making masses. Time to revisit the wonderful world of FM synthesis with a modern-day twist? Knowingly, KaoX does just that. After all, as a virtual instrument- and effect plug-in-specialising software company, XILS-lab loves to create tools that inspire its users to create more imaginative music than they ever dreamed possible!

Put it this way: with KaoX, XILS-lab has created a virtual instrument inspired by that legendary FM synthesizer, albeit bolstered by virtual analogue sound synthesis and additional chaotic algorithms in an advanced two-layer architecture allowing for a powerful sound creation tool to fuel DAW-driven synthesizer dreams with a much more easily understood signal path than its iconic FM forefather since said signal path is easily understood through the use of illuminated modules in a GUI (Graphical User Interface) that is equally easy on the eye. KaoX’s knowing nod towards the preset-powered popularity of its iconic FM forefather is immediately obvious for all to see and hear in an easy-to-tweak simplified view allowing its UP (upper) and LO (lower) synthesizer layers — each with independent synthesis modules — to be combined in three different ways. Working in single mode, only the selected layer is active and heard, while both layers are active and heard in SPLIT and DOUBLE modes — the lower part of the keyboard playing the LO layer and the upper part of the keyboard playing the UP layer in the case of the former, while both the UP and LO layers are simultaneously played across the keyboard in the case of the latter. Limited controls are available in this simplified view, including TUNE, DRIFT, GLIDE, VIBRATO, FREQ (vibrato frequency), DEPTH (vibrato), W (wheel), TREMOLO, FREQ (tremolo frequency), and DEPTH (tremolo), plus CHORUS, DELAY, PHASER, and REVERB effects, enabling users to easily play presets and to tweak them accordingly — adding vibrato and tremolo or switching effects on and off, for instance.

Alternatively, activating an advanced settings view brings the wonderful world of KaoX into full view, allowing more adventurous users access to the virtual instrument’s internal modules to tweak or change any parameter therein, aided by contextual help windows, while active modules are helpfully illuminated. FM synthesis options are available on each of the two available layers with eight operators grouped in two banks with independent pitch — perfect for creating chorus-like FM sounds or punchy stereo patches — and two outputs (O1 and O2). Each FM OPERATOR features one LFO (Low Frequency Oscillator), one envelope, WHEEL and VEL (velocity aftertouch) access, two user-definable external modulators (assignable to any KaoX modulation source), KEYB (keyboard follower) 2D pad, RATIO or FIXED frequency selection, and a lowpass filter. Furthermore, virtual analogue synthesis options are also available on each of the two available layers with two continuous waveform analogue oscillators (ANALOG OSCILLATOR 1 and ANALOG OSCILLATOR 2), two zero-delay-like analogue filters (FILTER 1 and FILTER 2), four D-ADSR envelopes, and four VCA outputs for bringing a depth and warmth to the sound creation table. That said, KaoX also allows its users to create sounds that they had never thought possible, thanks to two chaotic oscillators (CHAOS OSCILLATOR 1 and CHAOS OSCILLATOR 2) and two chaotic ring modulators (CHAOX 1 and CHAOX 2). And as if that was not enough to keep committed sound creators seriously satisfied, KaoX comes complete with a flexible four-track step SEQUENCER, where each track can be assigned to the UP or LO layer with independent sustain and gating or used as a modulation source.

Sound-wise, KaoX comes packed with 500-plus presets programmed by world-class sound designers Mikael Adle, Soundsdivine, Status, Nori Ubukata, Tom Wolfe, Xenos, Yuli-Yolo, Zensound, and many more — more than enough to point anyone of any ability in the general direction of where they might musically want to go. Getting there is made much easier with its integrated single-window preset manager making finding the right patch for the task, managing presets and sound banks, as well as creating custom tags, an efficient easy-going experience that could barely be dreamt of back in the early Eighties. Today the time has clearly come to revisit the wonderful world of FM synthesis with a modern-day twist and appreciate the power of KaoX, XILS- lab’s latest virtual instrument par excellence — from France with love... and all without the need for very-large-scale integration chip mass manufacture!"

Par - X (Sesión 02)

video by Nacho Adda

"Live ambient performance with the 0-Coast and the Digitone.
(No talking)

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Par - X (Sesión 01)

video by Nacho Adda

"Live ambient performance with the 0-Coast and the Digitone.
(No talking)

► BANDCAMP: https://parmusic.bandcamp.com/​
► SPOTIFY: http://bit.ly/par_music​
► INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/par_music​"

MUTATIONS - Frédéric GERCHAMBEAU

video by GruithuisenCityMan

MUTATIONS

Composé et interprété par :
Composed and played by :
Frédéric GERCHAMBEAU

Système modulaire Eurorack
Eurorack modular system

Par - Puentes (ft. Farah Kaddour)

Nacho Adda

"New EP Puentes, out now!

Video: Eduardo Adda
Edit: Nacho Adda


► BANDCAMP: https://parmusic.bandcamp.com/
► SPOTIFY: http://bit.ly/par_music
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Korg Trident Synthesizer Brass String Machine SN 331819

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via this auction

"Condition is excellent for a 40 years old synth, shows a few splinters in the wood here and there but overall great shape for its age. Good: All keys work. All buttons and knobs work well, some scratchyness in some but would be cleaned up from a good cleaning. The "write program" button doesnt seam to work but maybe Im missing something.. Not so good: tested it out on a tuner last night, the lower two octaves show about from 5-10 cents flat, one was closer to 15 on the tuner, seems to be on par with a synth this old from what I hear but being the bass notes its harder to hear the pitch being out.. I would assume some capacitors on the synth probably need to be changed now or in the future due to its age, which might “tighten” it up. The headphone out works great but the mix out seems to be finiky sometimes but messing with the plug seems to work, probably another deep cleaning needed issue, the direct outs from each of the voices work well from what I can tell. With that all being said, understand this is 40 year old board and there might very well be issues arising that Im not aware of or noticing at the moment or will happen in the future so this board is being sold as is. Purchased 2 years ago from Tokyo Japan, comes with Korg road case with casters, Im assuming thats original from 1980. 100V but works well on American 120V but keep that in mind, theres conflicting opinions about analog gear being 'ok' with that small of a difference, Ive had a couple other old synths and it wasnt a problem."

Curious if the tuning issues are related to the power discrepancy.

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"Yankee Dollar" Opening (Miami Vice) "Last Call" Jan Hammer Cover w/"Par Avion" Mike + the Mechanics

Retro-Dade

"I made this Jan Hammer cover many years ago, but it was long-overdue for an update now that I have the mk1 DX7 and Memorymoog. I just ran my original midi file through the new instruments, so no performance video of me in this video--just some stills of the updated instruments along with the original images from the episode, synced to the correct time code. The "Par Avion" song compliments the Jan Hammer song so well, I decided to add/sync that audio as well, and just let the scene play out, as it's one of the more memorable openings of the entire series. Enjoy!

I do not own the video images of Miami Vice or the audio of 'Par Avion', and the original Miami Vice score was composed and performed by Jan Hammer. This video is strictly for entertainment purposes. All rights belong to Universal and Atlantic Records."