POLYGAMIST LOVE 5

Published on Feb 12, 2015 Smokey Quartz

"Come take a bath with us and the Ekdahl Polygamist! What does the sun card have to do with it? WE DON'T KNOW! More ridiculous synth noise and drones from Smokey Quartz."

POLYGAMIST LOVE 4

Published on Feb 11, 2015 Smokey Quartz

"Getting all lovey with the Ekdahl Polygamist. What new things will it say to us when it's knobs & ribbons are turned & stroked the right ways? and the wrong ways? Stick around as Ashley starts to rock the ribbon."

POLYGAMIST LOVE 3

Published on Feb 9, 2015 Smokey Quartz

"I get a little help from the wife for Polygamist Love 3 and things get a bit crazy! The Ekdahl Polygamist is fun for the entire family!"

Polygamist Love 2

Published on Feb 8, 2015 Smokey Quartz

"Another love song with the Ekdahl Polygamist. This using some of the ribbon."

Polygamist Love Drone #1

Published on Feb 7, 2015 Smokey Quartz

"I love the Ekdahl Polygamist. This is one of it's love drones. Even unpatched and unsequenced it still sounds amazing."

v u o s i k o n s e r t t i i n v a l m i s t a u t u m i s t a

Published on Dec 15, 2014 Ilpo Numminen

"polygamist & moisturizer"

v u o s i k o n s e r t t i i n v a l m i s t a u t u m i s t a [3]

PolygaSid, Ekdahl Polygamist vs MidiBox SID 6582

Published on Nov 23, 2014 d4nnyp

"Ekdahl Polygamist + ribbon midi out plays drum bank on MB6582"

modular carousel

Published on Oct 3, 2014 diafragma365

"An unprocessed recording of a rather simple but musical patch on my eurorack.

It started as a test of the Scale Select Mode of the Intellijel μScale II, with the Make Noise Pressure Points & Brains used to step through a simple sequence of eight chords.

A Make Noise Maths in combination with a Doepfer S&H were used as a random arpeggiator for the organ-like sound from the Synthesis Technology Morphing Terrarium, going through the E440 VCF to the Make Noise Echophon and Erbe-Verb in order to create some room around the sound.

The rhythm for the “organ” arpeggios is somehow randomized by applying a randomized Ginkosynthese TTLFO multiplication function to a tempo from the ALM Pamela’s Workout, the basic tempo engine for this patch.

While the bass kick sound is a straight 4/4, the hi hat is triggered by a patch on the 4MS QCD, partially controlled per measure by the Make Noise Pressure Points and Brains.

This patch was a nice experiment for me to introduce some randomness in a limited musical framework of eight chords and the sound reminds me of the organ going mad with its short notes on the carousel on the fair where I used to go as a child."

Ekdahl Polygamist in there as well.

via PatchPierre.Net

Knas Ekdahl Polygamist Discontinued

via Knas

"I have decided to discontinue the Ekdahl Polygamist until further notice. It breaks my fucking heart, but i see no alternative. Long story short, the Polygamist in its current form is much too complicated to build, takes too long, have too many things that can go wrong with it, is nowhere near generating enough cash - and all this, makes it infuriatingly frustrating to build. Nevertheless, there might be another Ekdahl Polygamist in the future if i can change production methods. Sorry to disappoint, but nobody's as disappointed as me :("


Click here for previous posts of the Polygamist including video. Another synth lost to complexity. The Jomox Sunsyn suffered a similar fate if I recall correctly.

Some cheerful noises from Knas Polygamist

Published on Apr 13, 2014 AudioCentralMagazine·207 videos

"Say "Hello" to the brand new Ekdahl Polygamist Analog Synthesizer; we are just scratching the surface of this wonderful noise machine. Definitely, not an ordinary synthesizer, not for faints of heart.
Audio and video straight from ubiquitous smartphone... sorry."

Ekdahl Polygamist Exploration

Published on Jan 31, 2014 d4nnyp·33 videos

"Making some noise with the Ekdahl Polygamist, trying to get to know it."

The Ekdahl Polygamist - Sister Wifes / Brother Husbands take two

Added here. Remember to check the Updates label daily.

The Ekdahl Polygamist - beats and noises with the ribbon

Published on Mar 7, 2013 elektrodwarf·8 videos

"A slight improvisation with the Ekdahl Moisturizer, live only, no overdubs or other stuff used. featuring Roxy the cat."

Update:

The Ekdahl Polygamist - Sister Wifes / Brother Husbands take two

Published on Mar 7, 2013

"Another video of two Ekdahl Polygamists partnering up. Everything is poly-poly-fun-fun, put through an old & dirty Alesis 3630"

Sister wives / brother husbands POLYGAMIST BATTLE

Published on Dec 19, 2012 by elektrodwarf

"boo boo i should have tuned the oscillators before i did this, oh well. all MIDI-live fun fest, polygamists for all!! oh and those tr-808 samples indicate that someone should probably gimme a real 808"

Also see:
The Ekdahl Polygamist - a Synthesizer for the Whole Family
Introducing The Ekdahl Polygamist - Debut at The Control Voltage Faire

The Ekdahl Polygamist - a Synthesizer for the Whole Family

Poster via the knas blog.

Bottom pic and details via the KNAS site.

"Owning a couple of analog synths i was getting a little bored with all of them just sounding nice. Owning a bunch of circuit bent gear i was tired of them only sounding circuit bent and not reliably repeatable or controllable. Out of this combined frustration, the Ekdahl Polygamist was born. THIS is not your typical synthesizer.

The Ekdahl Polygamist is mainly designed with experimental / drone / noise / improv in mind but can really take you wherever you wana go. The basic architecture is classic VCO/VCF/VCA design but all of the building blocks have been designed to allow for much more interesting / chaotic sounds then you get from your bread-and-butter synth.

Highlights includes VCO1 which features a "Tilt" output which is a triangle wave that can be *tilted* from sawtooth, to triangle, to ramp. VCO2, the "Pitch multiplying oscillator" consists of a fundamental and three "sub harmonics" that mimics additative/FM synthesis for very complex waveform and chaos generation. The ADSR is loopable and can be used as an oscillator, it can also be paused in its transition. The three LFOs all go to audio range and two of them go down to about 4 minutes for one waveform period. It also features a duophonic, pressure sensitive ribbon controller which sends MIDI data. It has two independent MIDI/USB-to-CV converters which can be ganged in duophonic mode. And there is of course, much, much more.


For detailed specifications go here.

The list price for the Ekdahl Polygamist is $1450, due to the fact that this is higher then anticipated, and that Knas has no interest what so ever in just pandering to people with unlimited funds, I will introduce a tiered pricing system for musicians who have a limited income. If this applies to you, please stay tuned as this will be introduced some time after the initial sales.

PLEASE NOTE, as of this moment the Ekdahl Polygamist is open for PRE-sale. Basically this means that i haven't yet finished every detail of the synthesizer and that it will take a couple of months until delivery. As of this moment, the hardware seems to all be working properly but needs more testing and there are still a few bugs in the software that pertains to the USB/MIDI."

Control Voltage Faire Pics from Wire to the Ear

flickr set By oliverchesler
(click for more)

Write-up on wiretotheear

Pictured here:

Mark Verbos Buchla Concert


Karl Ekdahl demoing the Polygamist

Oliver Chesler at the Pittsburgh Modular booth.

Introducing The Ekdahl Polygamist - Debut at The Control Voltage Faire

via Knas:

"The Polygamist is *almost* done and will make it's debut in the wild tomorrow at the Control Voltage Faire in New York City. The fair is located at Seaport, 210 Front Street, and goes from 3pm - 8pm (www.harvestworks.org/control-voltage-faire-concert/) - swing by and poke at it."

Note the Control Voltage Faire is the Source of Uncertainty event announced here.