live synth pub - featuring Akai AX80

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Hardware Jams - Guess the Jammer (WIP)

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"Maschine+

Quick and dirty jam with almost no time to finish it completely before the upload deadline. I know mine is very easy to guess. :-P"

live synth pub - featuring the Korg DSS-1

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Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge: Galaxies - Clusters, Walls, & Filaments

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"Maschine+

Galaxies - Clusters, Walls, Filaments, and Superclusters

Spacey jam, builds as the larger structures are revealed.

Andromeda Galaxy (similar to our Milky Way) ---

152,000 light-years diameter (8.93 x 10^17 miles)
2.5 million light years from Earth

Virgo Supercluster---

Concentration of galaxies containing the Virgo Cluster, Local Group (including Milky Way), and other galaxies.

110 million light years in diameter (6.47 x 10^20 miles)

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Pro Synth Network LIVE! - Episode 208 - 4th Anniversary Episode - SPECIAL GUESTS!

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SynthAddict's MATRIXSYNTH cap from 19:05 on gets the post. :)

"Music Technology Discussion with Kent Spong, Andrew Longhurst & Rob Puricelli!

It's our birthday!! 4 years ago, we decided to start doing a livestream and here we are, 4 years and 208 consecutive episodes in! Join us as we celebrate 4 years of mayhem, nonchalance, sarcasm, wit, vim and vigour and the occasional discussion about synths and music tech!"

Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge - Water

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"Lots of homemade watery samples to celebrate International Water Day. :-)

Mostly made in harmonic minor."

Live synth pub/demo - Alesis Metavox Vocoder & Erica Synths Pico System III

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Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge - Places (Palo Alto Baylands)

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"OP-Z
Bird sounds here are Clapper Rails and a Song Sparrow.
See the large, majestic white Great Egret in the distance here...

These special salt marsh areas are biological treasure troves producing a ton of oxygen and biomass and help to process pollutants that can run off into the bay and ocean.

Palo Alto Baylands was a great place to work and there I regained my love for microscopy, making me motivated to create my MicroAddict YouTube channel a few years later.

I had to redo this one as the first attempt yesterday was messed up, and I noticed after I got home. Sadly this morning's version has a stereo issue and my panning and other cool stereo FX were destroyed. oh well... also the volume is a bit low and I had no time to adjust before uploading."

Live synth pub - Yamaha Tenori-on and TNR-i/TNR-e iOS tips and tricks, Snuggle Sounds

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"Deep dive into the Yamaha Tenori-on hardware, with MIDI control and other tips and tricks. I also cover the TNR-i/TNR-e iOS apps and their differences from the hardware.

Then I demoed Dom Hawken's Snuggle Sounds iOS app, which is no longer available after Dom's passing, but it's a great little app that more people should see and hear.

At the end, I demoed a few random iOS music apps that I really like."

Hardware Jams Weekly Challenge - 303 Day

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"Maschine+

I'm faking several TB-303 style sounds and layering it with others and some TR-909 perc stuff.
YMMV :-)"

Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge - Moon Landing, Alien Concert (focus issue)

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"Two box jam, make in under 1 hour (or totally live).

Osmose and RC-505

Sadly my best take was just before this one, but I forgot to hit record!
Kids, always remember to hit record. What a dope I was... this one has some timing issues and messy playing. It's OK but I'm sad I messed up the best take. :-(

Also, sorry I messed-up the focus, not my day. :-P"

Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge - Cockroaches in Jail

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"End of the kebab series - in jail with cockroaches :-)

so I made a scenario with the local pet store's Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches shipment escaping into the jail all the sounds including perc are samples of stuff found in a prison cell (bed parts, metal tray or bowls/utensils, and bars of course) and sounds of the hissing cockroaches annoyed and getting squished over and over - the synth part is a cheat and is supposed to be a high human voice or something 😛 enjoy"

Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge - Kebab Chase

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"Mixed some Middle Eastern instruments and vibes for a building-up chase, sort of... perhaps the kebab bandit got away. :-P

I had a weird audio issue but no time to fix it for the upload deadline. :-("

Hardware Jams Kebabs Challenge - Don't Steal Kebabs :-(

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"I fell asleep last night on Mulholland Drive and woke-up to sunlight - had to
rush this little guy out on my OP-Z. 🙂
It was a very busy few days at NAMM.

OP-Z track is dark and brooding to scare you into not stealing
that kebab!
Notice the use of the pitch bender that no OP-Z user seems to use.
Had some glitches but no time for a re-take."

What It's Like Walking to NAMM From Your Hotel

NAMM 2024 day one late start, pt1 (signal issues around NAMM)

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Interesting for anyone who hasn't been to NAMM. It brings me back. The video is by supporting member, SynthAddict.

NAMM inside, day one

#jamuary2024 14 HWJ "Remix" (FOCUS ISSUE) of Noisevember 22 w/ GForce Axxess & Tenori on

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"Sorry I had a camera fixed focus issue and it's a bit fuzzy - no time to re-make the jam...

Unsure of what to remix, I grabbed some looper stems from my "all Osmose" Noisevember 22 video to mix live on Maschine+ and also added some other live bits:

- GForce Axxess synth
- Tenori-on factory drum kit in layer 16 live mode

It ran a bit long as I got carried away, but it generally repeats around 6:20...
The Axxess patch gives it a Vangelis vibe 🙂"

#jamuary2024 13 Make Noise 0-Coast & Erica Synths Pico System 3 - more Buchla-style fun

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"More Buchla-type wild and strange timbres and patterns.

The Pico bucket brigade delay always provides some cool and unpredictable patterns and frequencies, under full manual control.

Pico System 3 even includes factory and "programmable" voice cards like the real Buchla Music Easel had, so you can avoid all the usual manual cable patching... Buchla was way ahead of its time in this and other ways."

#jamuary2024 12 Ripplemaker ('Buchla Easel') & Korg Volca Modular (Mini 'Buchla')

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"Time for some 'west coast' synth action...

Enjoy the wierd, wacky, and sometimes noisy timbres from Buchla-style digital synthesis with complex oscillators, wavefolding, etc.

The Volca Modular is running a modified Krell patch.
Krell patch is a generative style patch based on the amazing sound design from Louis and Bebe Barron for Forbidden Planet in 1956, where the characters discover the old Krell civilization."

#jamuary2024 11 PlantWave (PentMin F, 528Hz) & Wavedrum Global

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"Yet another St. John's Wort jam buddy session with PlantWave.

Now using A 528 Hz and F Pentatonic Minor.

Various live perc on the Korg Wavedrum Global..."

#jamuary2024 10 PlantWave (PentMaj D, 440Hz) & Wavedrum Global

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"Another St. John's Wort jam buddy session with PlantWave.

Using A 440 Hz and D Pentatonic Major.

Various live perc on the Korg Wavedrum Global..."