Hollow Chorus Bass - A Supercritical Neutron Flux piece

video by Supercritical Synthesizers

"A quick jam around a chorus-y bass patch idea. The Sour 3 Pole mode has a nice hollow square waveform when the resonance is fully up. Stereo control is used to fine tune both channels. When both channels are patched in stereo, they drift just enough to form a wide stereo image.

The Antumbra ROT8 sequencer is to blame for this patch. It’s fantastic!

Throw in a bit of cheap dirty 909 samples and finally have the exponential VCA distort too. Why not"

Stacking polyphony - A Supercritical Demon Core Oscillator thing

video upload by Supercritical Synthesizers

"Here’s a different approach. The expander is set to the alternative CV mode (hold FN and click MODE) and inputs 3 and 4 are used to control the octave stack size and the interval. Interval is set to a fifth with a static CV and the stack size is randomized. Transpose the whole thing with the main 1V/oct input and it gets jazzy. The patch has some PWM action on the DCO, a wide 2 pole LP / 2 pole HP (Yellow Mean 1 Pole setting) on the Neutron Flux, some reverb and octave shimmer from the Beads. This is how a weird orchestra would sound tuning up."

Soundtrack for the huge planet in our solar system - A Supercritical Neutron Flux Piece

video by Supercritical Synthesizers

"Liquid is my and Timo’s favorite character to benchmark the Neutron Flux with. I happen to have a Feedback 106 chorus in the rack so of course I had to patch it in. This time it’s before the filter to alter the raw Demon Core Oscillator sound rather than effect the filtered sound.

I also patched in a S&H to randomize a voltage in the stereo CV with each gate signal. The change is subtle but the stereo offset makes the envelope to act asymmetric, changing from chord to chord. It animates the stereo image subtly but effectively in the mix."

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Ping-Ping Pong - A Supercritical Neutron Flux study

Supercritical Synthesizers

"I tried to think of the cheapest trick in the modular synthesizer cookbook. Well, the cheapest trick without Rick Nielsen.

Space. Not that fancy let’s-grab-a-bite-of-that-asteroid-while-we’re-there modern space exploration. The ye-olde-paper-mache-flying-saucers type sci-fi. In Finnish we’d use the word ”Pulputus” which means a sort of a bubbling sound but far more useless. The right kind of useless.

Filter pings! Oh what fun with the Liquid 4 pole setting. This patch has a LFO modulating the Antumbra Knit (a miniature Mutable Instruments Plaits) which has a single low frequency saw wave triggering the filter pings. Both cores of the filter are in use and spread with the stereo control.

After the filter it goes to a miniature Clouds. My own hacked kinda-kammerl-parasites firmware. Only verb this time from it. Then it’s routed to the miniature parasite Warps. Tape echo there. Holy mackerel it sounds good!

Oh the ring? The nice folks at Iceland’s Genki Instruments sent us a couple of their products. The Wave ring’s rotation movement controls the filter FM and the gate starts and stops the tape. Controlled directly from the Wavefront module. Ég tala ekki íslensku but damn this thing is expressive and easy to use. You’ll see more of this in our demos later.

-Heikki

Check Genki out at https://www.genkiinstruments.com
Check our Neutron Flux at http://supercriticalsynthesizers.com/..."

”We put a DJ filter in it” - A Supercritical Neutron Flux Filter thing

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"In the yellow factory bank, there’s an oscillator character, Mean. We thought we’d put a safety switch in it. A default pole setting that could also not oscillate. We decided to put a variable width bandpass filter in the Yellow Mean 1 pole setting. In stereo of course. Resonance controls how steep it is and Mode controls the bandwidth. Effectively you can use this like a DJ filter. At first this idea was partly a joke but this character is really convenient and effective.

Here I’m doing some bleepy bloopy matchbox scale beats in the Nanoloop app on an iPhone. It’s amplified a bit with the Beads (doing some beat repeating and reverb) which is then connected to a mixer and a parallel line run through the Neutron Flux. Parallel patching is very effective with filters. Dry and processed lines are just behind their own faders."

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It’s midsummer midnight and the mosquitoes are bitey and hungry for distortion.

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"This one is for Erica Synthesizers and Gamechanger Audio. Erica’s Pico series is a fantastic concept. RND and DSP are my favorites. And then Gamechanger. What on earth are you doing??? The plasma things are so nasty they must be illegal somewhere. Some of Twin Peaks season 3 must be trapped in the tube.

In this patch I’m layering some rich stack things from the DCO. That’s run through the Erica/Gamechanger Plasma Drive. The drive is like 40-grit heavy metal sandpaper. I stereoize it with the Neutron Flux’ mean mode. By splitting the mono to stereo with two analog circuits and letting them do their magic separately does wonders. Then animate the stereo control a bit with a LFO. All Ornaments & Crime users: Do check out the Logarhythm firmware for it. The 3 sequencer is crazy good."

Supercritical Synthesizers Redshift 6: SUPERBOOTH 24

video upload by Bonedo Synthesizers

"Thanks to our sponsors: Kurzweil, PWM and ESI."

Jupiter Clone - Sound Demo 2

tiergrinder

"Some Fat analog sounds from my home brew Jupiter 8 'inspired' synthesizer.

My friend Timo from Supercritical Synthesizers took the JP Clone for a test drive. if you like synthesizers and hardware, check out their website and youtube channel. They make really cool and awesome sounding gear :)

http://supercriticalsynthesizers.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI8356speG70sNPMCbdHoOg

ps. Don't mind the wobbly keybed. I did some last minute tuning before Timo started to play and in all the excitement I forgot to secure the screws :D

Supercritical Synthesizers 16 Voice DEMON CORE OSCILLATOR sweep & unison test

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La Baguette - A Neutron Flux Filter piece

Supercritical Synthesizers

"A small nod to the french beat.

Crisp mode this time and some bandpass filtering. Two saw waves and a clocked decay envelope is used. The bandpass mode has a good thump even without the boost mode. A bit of stereo widening for sauce.

The horn-like part on the Antumbra Knit is sequenced by Ornaments & Crime Hemispheres' trigger sequencer and then driven in a distortion box that started as a RAT but then evolved into something else.

-Heikki"

I’m at the summer cabin and I really really like delays and granular stuff.

video by Supercritical Synthesizers

"This is a Mutable Instruments appreciation post. Émilie Gillet’s work for eurorack synthesis is a major inspiration for us. I’d be still scared about SMT hand soldering unless of her effect on the synth community. Their sonic concepting is beyond amazing. Thank you Émilie.

I recently got the pinnacle in Mutable’s eurorack range, the Beads texture synthesizer. I could have conversations for days and days with this device. Here it is patched with our Neutron Flux in series. First one half of the filter, then one side of Beads. Back to the ’Flux and finally the other side of Beads. Blend in a DIY mini Warps with Parasites’ stereo delay.

#mutableinstruments #supercriticalsynthesizers #emiliegillet #eurorack"

Polyphony in Eurorack with The Patch Pals

video by Perfect Circuit

"If you’ve ever thought about exploring polyphony in Eurorack, chances are you might have felt some level of intimidation in terms of which method of generating 'chords' and 'harmony' works best. But in reality, there’s no one right way to go about it, and in this video our Patch Pals Wes and Jacob share a few of their favorite ways to make polyphonic patches without too much fuss.

A modular synthesizer’s open-ended patching workflow encourages new ways to think about creating sounds, and polyphony is no different. From Supercritical Synthesizers’ MIDI-controllable Demon Core oscillator to a chord or multi-note oscillator such as the 4ms Ensemble Oscillator, or even making use of loopers or other effects to approximate polyphony, there’s no shortage of creative ideas waiting to be explored.

Read the article here: https://www.perfectcircuit.com/signal...

Modules Featured in this video:
- Demon Core: https://www.perfectcircuit.com/superc...
- Chainsaw: https://www.perfectcircuit.com/acid-r...
- Morphagene: https://www.perfectcircuit.com/make-n...
- Mimeophon: https://www.perfectcircuit.com/make-n...
- Ensemble Oscillator: https://www.perfectcircuit.com/4ms-en...

Timeline:

00:00 - intro
01:30 - overview
02:21 - super saw oscillators
03:43 - polyphony or paraphony
04:30 - Demon Core
05:37 - Chainsaw
09:00 - approximating polyphony
09:59 - looper (Morphagene)
11:00 - delay (Mimeophon)
12:18 - chord oscillators (Ensemble Oscillator)
14:51 - outro"