"Like nearly all the high end vintage analog synths we sell, this item has been METICULOUSLY disassembled, cleaned inside and out, FULLY serviced by professionals who’ve been servicing and selling vintage synths for more than the last 3 decades, and systematically tested multiple times over a long period to ensure it’s working exactly as it should. No BS. No ebay surprises. We’re perfectionists and don’t cut corners. Although this instrument came to us in relatively good shape, we want our items to be better than the rest and invested *many* hours of tech time plus parts costs to fully overhaul this unit so it would be clean, working like new again and as reliable as possible for its next owner. This was a serious investment of time, love, and money, and was definitely worth the effort and is of course reflected in the higher than usual price. If you’re looking for a great sounding example of this model that works just like it should without needing to invest hundreds or thousands of dollars in tech fees and waiting from weeks to years, this one should make you very happy.
Our tech did the following work to this unit to make it better than the rest / promote longevity:
Power supply capacitors replaced. Battery replaced. Patches reloaded. Cleaned all switch contacts. Cleaned unit inside and out. Installed new encoders to prevent the usual glitchiness one often experiences with original 40 year old encoders (changed ceramic caps in circuit for compatibility). Cleaned key contacts and PCB. Cleaned sensor. Replaced pitch and mod lever potentiometers with new ones since the originals are often problematic these days. Multiple systematic burn in tests to ensure stability.
OS ROM 1.1, voice 1.6.
Selling fees here are over $1000, and professional servicing by perfectionists and future-proofing is costly."
"We’re excited to once again be at @superbooth_berlin next week! For the lucky ones who are going to be attending, come and see us at the usual booth (bungalow π‘ ) B005."
"This one has the amazing TAUNTEK upgrade installed on it which adds these unique features:
MIDI clock, in, sync. Custom Patterns program editing using the WS-1 method, but now without needing the rare WS-1!! MIDI module mode, which let you control and play each individual sound (kick, snare, hi hat, tom, ecc) 15 User programs for saving your patterns no battery installed anymore FULLY SERVICED by pro tecnician
100% perfectly working conditions
Amazing aestetics conditions (just some marks on the wooden case)
This one was lucky to not suffered of usual battery leakage. Inside circuitry is perfect."
A few sections of this vid contain strobing and flashing images. If susceptible to seizures then viewer discretion is advised.
Amiga/P3 W95 demoscene spec run down and demo. Created due to a request to demo the module in a way that wasn't 'just noise'. Initially intended to be one part made from the best track out of three that i came up with. Later deciding to shoe horn the two reject demo tunes into it, which lead to it becoming a ramshackle lesson in polygons and 3d. It also caused the whole thing to end up panning out like some kind of messed up fever dream ππ€£
Drail is an fx processor module based on a fixed chip set containing 100 preset effects. Reverbs, delays, pitch shifters and modulators of various types, such as flangers and phasers. More details are over on the bigcartel link. Hacked referring to the hardware hacking principles applied in reclocking the cpu and messing with the phase in the signal path to turn it into the somewhat weird thing it is now. Hacked also sounds better than circuit bent, which has been done to death as a term and wouldn't fit on the front panel anyway ππ
A bit of a departure from my usual powerelectronix/sound design outings when it comes to modules. Right now this is the only demo i have complete. I'll upload some stuff soon that's more in line with the roots of where i came from, and which features some other new stuff that got completed in the somewhat hell froze over time it took me to complete this outing π₯π₯
As always - enjoy - or don't. The sun rises in the morning either way π☀️π
Cheers for checking it out."
"The module is based on a fixed stereo fx processor chip which contains 100 presets. These presets consist of numerous reverbs, delays, harmonizer/pitch shifters and modulators such as flangers and phasers.
It has a mono input, a summed L/R mix output with dry wet control which covers 0-100% wet, Two 100% wet stereo outputs give access to the ping pong delays and different phases of panning in the stereo field that some of the effects use, The combination of summed dry wet and separate stereo fx ouputs offers some variation in how you might hook the module up to achieve different results in a setup.
Patches can be selected manually, or by gate inputs with an input to cycle each way through the patches and an input to select them.
In stock form it's a fairly vanilla and quite unremarkable, all be it useful set of fx. By applying some of the tricks learned in my time in the circuit bending arena the whole thing becomes a Swiss army knife of weirdness and opens up to some bizarre effects and unruly behavior. With the principles of hardware hacking applied and the cpu reclocked, along with some creative phase altering in the signal path, the processor takes on an entirely new life. Still being able to run as a useful set of stock reverbs, delays or modulators, but doubling up as an interesting sound design tool. All sorts of mad sounds and unexpectedly good processing can be achieved. Great for soundscapes, turning basic sounds into things that are bigger than the sum of their parts, making guitars sounds insane, it can even be used to turn a saw into a pseudo supersaw that somehow looks like a kind of mutated pwm square by using the modulator fx. This kind of thing gets fat when you start using both the dry wet mix output and the 100% wet L/R outs. With 100 fx to choose from, there's generally something interesting and at times fascinating to be found when messing around with it.
From experience, different fx chip sets behave in radically different ways when attempts to circuit bend or reclock them are made. Some prove to be pointless and uninteresting, others become prone to crashes and are rendered too unpredictable.and useless beyond extreme noise This one happens to be an excellent target for a bit of creative alteration. When underclocking the cpu, a kind of subtle low pass filtering effect is applied. Not enough to make the effect undesirable, but enough to eliminate the unwanted noise inherent to underclocking. In testing this chip set and discovering it's predictable, but quite abstract nature when abused, it became obvious that it would make a brilliant target for an interesting module. One which i'm finding to be an excellent addition to my own rigs. Given the roots of how it came about and how that ended up sounding, it is i imagine an acquired taste, but a quite unique acquired taste in the scheme of things."
Excited to announce the release of Sonorous Volume.2 for the UB-Xa and what a great synth it is too.
Full of the usual carefully programmed lush pads, keys, basses, leads, Strings and more.
I have had quite a few requests to make my banks smaller to allow people to buy the patches in stages, so Volume.1 is also just complete and live on the Site,
The entire of Vol.1 and Vol.2 are using UB-Xa Atrophy setting No 1 - Ue/XW so no need to change any settings. I supply my voice panning settings in the pack instructions, but that can be changed to suit the users taste :)"
Excited to announce the release of Sonorous Volume.1 for the UB-Xa and what a great synth it is too.
Full of the usual carefully programmed lush pads, keys, basses, leads, Strings and more.
I have had quite a few requests to make my banks smaller to allow beople to buy the patches in stages, so Volume.2 is also Complete and Live on the Site, Video for Vol.2 to follow.
Oli Freke is the man behind the "Synthesizer Evolution", "Vintage Synths", and "Drum Machines and Samplers" books previously featured here.
"In which I have a first play with a Prophet 5 rev 3 (a friend's, not mine!). As you can tell I have a predilection for hard sync / FM type sounds, which may not be the usual lush analogue chords you might initially be expecting!
It was actually quite a lot more digital sounding in that way - cross-modulation and FM giving rise to those harsher/brighter sounds I guess.
I'll have to do another one that's a bit more 'Stranger Things'! :-)"
Adam B. presents the Kraft Music exclusive Standalone Rig for the JoMoX Mod FM.
JoMoX Mod FM is a complete 8-voice FM synthesizer in eurorack format that promises enormously powerful sounds out of the box without forgoing the usual CV modulation options. Mod FM has 4 operators and 2 LFOs/VCOs per voice as well as 2 analog filters per voice and analog VCAs, which give Mod FM analog depth and warmth even though the FM engine is digital.
Get more for your money with an exclusive JoMoX Mod FM 8-voice 4-operator FM synthesizer bundle from Kraft Music. These package deals include the accessories you'll need to get the most out of your new synth, all for one low price. If you have any questions, please contact us. Our knowledgeable Sales Advisors will be happy to assist in choosing the bundle that's right for you!"
"It's a rare day that I'll abandon the superb sequencers of the DB-01 for an external source. Much is lost when you go external - accents, filter modulation and pitch envelopes just for starters. Yet the MidiCake Arp gives in return: Powerful one-finger pattern-play, gate length modulation, 32nd notes and even patterns with portamento.
So here are five example Arp patterns ranging from somewhat cheesy to somewhat dark. Ideally I would have used lots of other effects, but I wanted to keep everything compact so one DB-01 gets the DM-2w delay, the other gets either the Astronaut reverb or Nemesis delay.
For some reason the Arp locks the DB-01s LFO sync to one rate, so the LFOs are always free-running. Other than that it was very smooth. The DB-01s are of course in "key" mode because that's what's needed to trigger them. A useful byproduct of this is that the DB-01 portamento can now be used in sequences!
The MidiCake Arp is an amazing little machine. Complex, but amazing. After many hours I know I'm just scratching around doing pretty obvious things yet that's still very satisfying. I rather like that its possibilities are so vast you can choose your own way into its abilities. In the five examples I mostly have 'play' mode enabled which means the patterns run as a continuously synced whole. In others 'play' mode is off and I manually trigger things (tracks 4 & 5), which is much more unforgiving, but gives a little more flexability. In any case you can see how simple the basic notes are against the complexity of the result.
As usual I've kept everything simple (ie without drums etc) so you can get a good idea what's going on. And no DAW post-processing of any sort.
"Here's the new PONY VCF from Befaco. It's a compact yet fully featured Eurorack filter that's 6HP with good hands on control and modulation. It's a Dave Rossum based filter design (the SSI FATKEYS chip), 3 channel mixer (with feedback) and VCA. An impressive trio of functions for many uses in Eurorack ... as usual I will explore lots of this in the video."
**TIMING INDEX // CHAPTERS**
00:00 Hello & patch previews
01:07 Pony VCF feature run down
02:27 Raw sound demo - filter sweeps and feedback
03:39 Dancing filters with mixed modulation - Moog inspired!
05:11 Audiorate overtones for a DNB ditty
07:16 A simple Pony voice
08:47 A mixer/processor for beats
- high end excitement, VCA compressor & feedback saturation
11:07 Beautiful feedback loops
13:18 LPPGs - low pass pony gates
15:23 Pony kick drums
16:31 Two voice paraphonic articulation - fun times!
"The setup is a little different then usual since I'm using a Mackie 1202 mixer with multiple routings. The Prophet Rev2 is connected to a stereo bus, Send 1 is going into the TKOG Oxford Drive, Send 2 is connected to the Strymon BigSky(not in frame) and the ALT output is going into the Red Panda Particle 2 and the Strymon Volante.
The main reason for using a mixer is the lack of a mix knob on the Oxford Drive. It also allow me to tweak dial the effects better."
"I've always wanted ferocious feedback on a synth, just like them geetar players get. The obvious choices are a FreqOut or even an old Boss FB-2. But how about a Gamechanger Audio Light reverb pedal and a Rat ? One reason I got the Light pedal was its interesting modes, gate and drive. By itself a lot of the options feel very underpowered when fed by the DB-01. But add a Rat after the reverb and everything comes alive.
Here I first try the Light pedal's Reflect mode which is a dirty delay, then the Feedback mode. The Rat is vital to crank the Light pedal's effect although it does add a huge amount of noise. Ideally I'd add a noise gate after the rat and then a delay. Perhaps even a pitch shifting delay to try to get a little more pitch control over the feedback.
With it's little Rat friend the Light pedal now seems a lot more useful.
As usual there's absolutely no other audio processing than what you see.
"This jam is a little weird. My phone was on low battery which made the video slightly glitchy. I was a bit distracted during this recording so it's maybe a bit more boring than usual. There is also a couple mysterious audio drop outs near the end of the video. I didn't notice these prior to uploading so it's possible something went wrong when combining the audio and video files or something.
5U Modular (Synthesizers.com, STG Soundlabs, Synthetic Sound Labs) Akai MPC X Behringer Pro-1 (Sequential Circuits Pro One clone) Clavia Nord Wave Cherry Audio Voltage Modular (software modular) cre8audio East Beast Elta Music PF-3 Stereo Multimode Filter (Formanta Polivoks chips) Erica Synths Syntrx II Landscape Noon Korg Delta Korg Mono/Poly (x2) Make Noise 0-ctrl (analog sequencer/touch keyboard) Moog Source Roland TR-55 Simmons SDS-V Studio Electronics Boomstar 5089 mk11 Yamaha CS-15 (with UAD Bermuda Triangle distortion plugin)"
"I recently made the somewhat rash suggestion to try an LXR-02 emulation of the DFAM. Here it is, sort of. At first I thought I'd use only one voice of the LXR. So in all five kits demoed here Voice 1 or 2 tends to claim almost all the LFOs and be a clock-synced complex sound.
But the LXR-02 and DFAM are such very different beasts it seemed odd to be so restrictive. Instead I've gone for a two or three voice 16-step kit and pattern that attempts to capture the flavor of the DFAM rather than strict technical parameters.
The speed of all parts is 73bpm, a couple of the kits use the internal ping-pong delay, and where there is definite pitch it's always on C - just makes things easier for sampling and later processing.
The result is not exactly DFAMish. Demo 2 even sounds bit chiptune to me. But I've never yet owned any two machines which could exactly replicate the other. As an exercise though it's a bit of fun! All LXR-02 challenges happily considered.
On the plus side the LXR-02's ability to store presets is a massive bonus but the constant click-and-twiddle is no match for the knob-filled interface of the DFAM/Edge.
All five kits are on my Patreon. Unused voices (typically 4, 5 and 6) are mostly on the default sounds.
As usual there is absolutely no extra processing of the sound. It's all completely raw LXR-02.
"The easiest way to get the classic Gary Numan CARS Vox Humana sound is to download Alex Ball's sample pack. Sampled from a vintage PolyMoog, and all proceeds go to the Bob Moog Foundation. A worthy cause, so download it even if you won't use it! https://bobmoogfoundation.myshopify.com
Here's Alex's demo... very nice as per usual: [posted here]
But if you want to have ago yourself, this is the second easiest way.. just follow these 10 easy steps. It's a simple enough tone to recreate, but to get it as close as possible you'll need 3 LFOs. If your synth only has 1 LFO you can get close enough for a bit of Numanesque electro synth hero action."
"Here's something a little different ... a 'remaster' of an older design and a new synthesiser guild that act as a crack team super group of modular builders who are handling this exclusively.
The Oct Tone is a remaster of an early design by Jason Lim (Instruo) that has been brought back to life by the Glasgow Synthesiser Guild. In this video I'll demo the Oct Tone, in my usual style with musical approaches to the features and uses. But we'll also have a little story time looking and who and what the guild are and why they exist.
"Insider performs at the Erica Synths Garage with Erica Synths PΔrkons HD-01, Bassline DB-01, Zen Delay as well as Roland SH-101, Solid State Logic SiX SuperAnalogue and Ableton
''The live performance, though different from my usual style, turned out to be an exhilarating experience perfectly tailored for the stage event. The atmosphere was electric, and the new headquarters provided a unique backdrop that added an extra layer to the performance. Exploring a different musical direction for this event will allow new listeners to connect with me in a fresh and exciting way.'' - Insider"
"Like nearly all the high end vintage analog synths we sell, this item has been METICULOUSLY disassembled, cleaned inside and out, FULLY serviced by professionals who’ve been servicing and selling vintage synths for more than the last 3 decades, and systematically tested multiple times over a long period to ensure it’s working exactly as it should. No BS. No ebay surprises. We’re perfectionists and don’t cut corners. Although this instrument came to us in relatively good shape, we want our items to be better than the rest and invested *many* hours of tech time plus parts costs to fully overhaul this unit so it would be clean, working like new again and as reliable as possible for its next owner. This was a serious investment of time, love, and money, and was definitely worth the effort and is of course reflected in the higher than usual price. If you’re looking for a great sounding example of this model that works just like it should without needing to invest hundreds or thousands of dollars in tech fees and waiting from weeks to years, this one should make you very happy. 
