Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge - Disruption

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"Maschine+ - featuring Ney (flute) and Oud (lute)

Messing around with tempo FX to add some disruptive surprises to a quick hybrid jam with an Arabic scale."

Stanford CCRMA open house, day 1

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The above is a walkthrough of a Stanford CCRMA open house from Thursday the 16th by supporing member SynthAddict. Take a look at what he walks into when he enters the building. A Yamaha GS1 with working voice programmer. The GS1 was the first commercial FM synthesizer released in 1980, three years prior to the DX7. John Chowning, discoverer of FM synthesis performed that night. According to SynthAddict: "The Chowning curated show last night was very eye opening - so much cool electronic music even going back to the 60s and it was digital."


And below :) "Today I got a shot of the Yamaha power synth stack in the lobby, with the best baseball cap on top. 😀"

Update: looks like the stream was here: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/live/. It's not working for me at the moment, but feel free to check and comment if it works for you.

Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge - Microstep/Microtonal

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"Maschine+ with Amritavarshini scale (pentatonic)
and some microstep perc and "microtonal" elements."

live synth demo/pub - Korg Z1

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Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge - Orbital Mechanics (Mars)

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"Maschine+

Mars orbital mechanics (diff. 3 body config.).

I used the closest reasonable multiple of Mars' orbital period for the tempo - 114 bpm

I used the closest reasonable multiples of the orbital period of Mars' 2 moons, Phobos and Deimos.
3 and 2 respectively for a 3/2 time signature (limited options on M+ for custom tempos).

Some odd LFO modulations added on FX too for a little chaos. :-)"

Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge - Polymeter 5/4 with 4/4

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"Maschine+

Arabic scale fun with non-Arabic drums/perc"

live synth demo - Waldorf Microwave XT, etc.

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Patch demos start at 7:00, but the talk up to it is worth a listen. He mentions the Nextel paint which breaks down over time. I was able to remedy my Pulse+ with a specific brand of cleaning wipes. See this post for details.

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. :-("