Synths + Pedals: Vintage Boss DSD-3 & RV-3 as delay/Reverb w/ analogue MiniMod Eurorack synth

video upload by DreamsOfWires

"Trying out 2 80’s/90’s Boss guitar pedals on simple synth notes using the 3-VCO MiniMod voice from AJH Synth for some fat Minimoog sound. This video was mainly to hear what the delay of the DSD-3 sounds like, but I thought I’d add the RV-3 on the end of the signal for some reverb too, to keep it all-guitar pedal. No post-processing, just the raw output of the pedals.
The 1987 Boss DSD-3 is apparently internally identical to the 1985 DSD-2, and shares the ‘long chip’ of the rack-mount SDE-3000. Here I’m just using it as a delay effect, but I’ll experiment with the sampling function in a future video. Excuse the typo in the on-screen titles - this was an 80's pedal, not 90's.
The 1994 Boss RV-3 however is quite a lot different from the 1987 RV-2 - a later and more advanced processor, so it’s bound to sound a little more modern, although it does seem to have that vintage digital metallic quality to the reverb tails sometimes, at least to my failing ears.
You buy these pedals for their character, not their realism, but for me they’re also pedals I wanted when I was a broke teenage guitarist back in the day, so there’s nostalgia and curiosity in them too.
The Synth: The MiniMod is a Eurorack modular synth system, accurately based on the vintage circuitry of the original R.A. Moog Minimoog. It has that huge, rich, warm sound, but with the open architecture/flexibility that modular offers.

My music is available here: https://tomorrowthecure.bandcamp.com"

X1L3 - MX2 - manipulator expander - latching gates - eurorack module

video upload by X1L3

"Spec run down. Eye candy and chill tune.What it is and where to get it - below:

Available at:https://x1l3.bigcartel.com/

MX2 is an expander for the manipulator module.
It adds six toggle/latching gates to the main module.
These are tied to the momentary triggers of keys C1 - D3.

The vid run says the module is 8hp. It's actually only 4hp.
Funny enough, i'm not feeling too inclined to re render it all and re-upload the lot for a typo 🙈🙈🤣

Useful for additional control of anything requiering a constant gate.
The frag/shard gates of the shard module being a good example.

Half demo vid - half chill run with some visuals for a bit of fun.

Cheers for checking it out. I hope you enjoy the vid and find the module useful if you choose to pick one up 😊"

"MX2 is a 4HP,, 37mm deep expander for the manipulator module.
Available in yellow or black.
Current draw: V+ 30MA / V- 20MA

MX2 adds six toggle/latching gates to the gate array of the manipulator. The latching gates are tied to the keys C1 - D3.

Power is provided via the expander header. No additional power cable is required.

Works well with shard when the latches are tied to the frag/shard gates and the four CV outputs from manipuilator are used to control the atrophy and osc pitches of the module."

Abyss Dreadbox Demo

video upload by Panu Savolainen

"Multitracked demo with internal and additional effects: Blackhole and Waves delay. Ps. Nice typo in the end texts (deadzonemusic.com)."

Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge - Drones&Beats

video upload by SynthAddict

"Drones from Hainbach's Fundamental test equipment app mixed with beats and tones from Maschine+

video title card has a typo :-("

Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge: Pirate Shanty jam

video upload by SynthAddict

"Maschine+ and aFrame jam, creating a modern take on a classic sea shanty: Hi-ho, Come Blow Me Over (the title card has a typo)

'Ambience, Seaside Waves, Close, A.wav' by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org
- sorry I forgot to put that in the title card as well for the ocean clip at the end..."

Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge: Scales

video upload by SynthAddict

"Happy scale turned dark/sad in Bb Major

Quick-n-dirty jam, almost couldn't find the damn time this weekend.

Virus TI, TheoryBoard, Roland TR-8s, Arturia Keystep Pro, Boss M10MX Mixer

damn Roland typo on the title card :-P"

Sequential Prophet-10 Demos by Postmodern Machine

Playlist:
1. 5 Pixels of you - A Holiday Meditation [Dec 25, 2020]

Thinking about how grateful I am for reflective time, and the seasons.
I miss so many of my favourite humans this year. I wish you all peace and reflection.
'Remember to extend grace because we're all just walking each other home.'

Prophet 10 / Meris Polymoon / AwTAC channels / AwTAC compressors / Elysia Xpressor 500 / Burl Mothership / Reaper / Kush Audio

2. Low Cyan - Sequential Prophet 10 / MFB Tanzbar / Arturia Keystep Pro

Sequential Prophet 10 / MFB Tanzbar / Arturia Keystep Pro / Meris Polymoon / AwTAC Channels / AwTAC Compressors / Elysia Xpressor 500 / Chandler TG Channel / Burl Mothership / Reaper / Kush Audio / Soundtoys

3. Typo Negative - Prophet 10 / Arutria Keystep Pro / MFB Tanzbar / Meris Polymoon

My second day jamming with the new Prophet 10!

Prophet 10 / Arutria Keystep Pro / MFB Tanzbar / Meris Polymoon / AwTAC channels / AwTAC compressors / Elysia Xpressor 500 / Chandler TG Channel / Burl Mothership

4. Triple One - first sounds on the prophet 10

I received the prophet 10 yesterday. it's an inspiration / motivation machine / time portal. what a stunning instrument!

Prophet 10 / Strymon Deco / Meris Polymoon / AwTAC channels / AwTAC compressors / Elysia Xpressor 500 / Burl Mothership / Reaper / Kush Audio

2021/09 DAWless Summer Session - Styleflip

video upload by Stereoping

"I always disliked the dirty, scratched look of my black #MPC1000XL i once bought 2nd hand. In summer 21 i finally found the time to give it a decent styleflip. I planned to make it look a bit like the gorgous #MPC-60. First the original frontpanel was scanned to have a Photohop background. After all outlines and typo were added i gave a faceplate sticker with cutouts into production. Then the case and the acrylic window with it's deep scratches were sanded. The case got a white painting, the window was polished to high gloss. The window did not come out 100% perfect but much better than before. Btw... toothpaste does NOT do the job. Then I made some 3D-prints for nicer Data and Volume knobs, first in fancy transparent blue and red, later dark grey. Not sure which i like more, tending to the red/blue ones. The last step were some woodcheeks - difficult because the 1000 does have strangely formed sides with all kinds of edges and corners.

Featured gear besides the MPC: #OSCar, #JV-1080, #NordDrum2, DIY-MPC-MuteScener"

Roland MKS-80 Super Jupiter | The Prince of Analoge 80s Power!

video by Espen Kraft

[Clarification in case the synth police shows up: The MKS-80 is closer to the Jupiter-6 than the Jupiter-8.

Internal chips:
Jupiter-6: 12x CEM3340 VCO, 6x IR3109 VCF, 6x CEM3360 Dual VCA
MKS-80 (to serial #511799/early models): 16x CEM3340 VCO, 8x IR3109 VCF, 8x CEM3360 Dual VCA (4 for X-Mod)
MKS-80 (serial #511800 and higher/later models): 16x IR3R03 VCO, 8x IR3R05 VCF/VCA, 4x CEM3360 Dual VCA (for X-Mod)

The Jupiter-8 also used a Roland IR3109 IC for the VCF, BA662 for the VCA, and IR3R01 for Envelopes.

Via wikipedia: "The voice architecture is almost identical to the Jupiter-6 synthesizer, the service manual states that "The module board of MKS-80 features the following in addition to that of JP-6, its brother module. 1) HPF. 2) Low boost circuit in the 2nd VCA. 3) DC supply current boost circuit (IC50)." The unit is fully capable of producing most of the Jupiter-6's signature sounds, in addition to many sounds unique to the MKS-80. In February 1985, Roland started producing a new revision of MKS-80, known as "Rev 5", that had no ties with any previous Jupiter's hardware, as it used a new generation of both Roland VCO's, VCA's and filter. The Rev 5 filter was also used in JX-8P, JX-10 and MKS-70 synthesizers."

And the following which I thought intersting:

"Confusion with Jupiter 8
In 1998, UK magazine Sound on Sound published an article about MKS-80. It contained a critical typo. Instead of referring to Jupiter 6, the comment about the rack version constantly referred to Jupiter 8, leading to serious confusion and even spreading myths across various online forums. However, once we read that article and replace numbers 8 and 6, the whole part of the article suddenly makes sense: 'The MKS80 delivered the entire Jupiter 6 wish-list and more, including a much larger memory and upgraded internal electronics. Now let's get one thing clear -- despite a few commentators postulating otherwise, the MKS80 had nothing to do with the Jupiter 8. Although there were ultimately to be two versions of the instrument (one with the Jupiter 6's Curtis oscillators, the other with custom chips developed by Roland themselves) both retained the architecture of the Jupiter 6, sounded identical to the Jupiter 6 and, apart from their many enhancements, were the rackmount module versions of the Jupiter 6.'." Also see this post for The Story of the Roland JUPITER-8 & JUPITER-6.]

--- That said, here is the description for the video above:

"Roland MKS-80 - the Super Jupiter. Rolands last analog VCO synth and one that packs all the punch of the mighty Jupiter 8 and 6 into one box

With 8 voices, 16 VCOs, fast envelopes, cross modulation, sync, 2 ADSRs, a very flexible LFO and velocity and pressure sensitivity over Midi, the Super Jupiter was the professional musicians dream module in the mid 80s. Used on countless hit records.

Support this channel on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/espenkraft​

Through the years the MKS-80 came out in a Rev.4 and a Rev.5 and the debate over which one sounds the best never seems to stop. I don't care about that at all. The versions used in this video are both Rev.5, but as I actually compare these to a Jupiter 8 here, no one should tell me that the Rev.5 can't sound like it. It DOES sound like it, down to 99% and that's enough for me.

A big thanks to Joakim Tysseng for the loan of the Jupiter 8 and a big thanks to Brynjulf Blix for the one MKS-80 and the MPG-80 programmer. Anders Jensen has as always been very kind too and thanks for the other MKS-80 Anders, as well and for all the driving!

The other MKS-80 programmer I use here is from Retroaktiv and that's a new one. I did a demo of that just a couple of videos before this so check that out if you want to."

Arturia KeyStep 37 Chords with Scale Quantizer Demo (Feat Novation Peak Synth & Boss DD-8 Delay)

Sound Provider

Update: moved this post up as I had a typo in the video ID. It should play now.

"After my video about the "One finger Chord" with Arturia KeyStep 37 controller & Sequencer Keyboard ( below ) some people asked me how the keyboard manages chords with the scale quantizer , because doing maj 7 (for exemple) on every key is cool (and lot of good house or rave tracks we were made that way) but most of the time it's better to have chords that fit with the scale you use.
So I did this quick exemple , hope it can help some of you.
Little reminder, on Chord mode you can choose 12 differents chords type and on the Scale Quantizer you can choose between Chromatic /Major/Minor/Blues and User Scale.
For this video I also use the Novation Peak Synth and the Boss DD-8 delay.

Voila.

Leonard de Leonard"

Easy Chords with one finger with Arturia "KeyStep 37" (Feat Novation Peak Synth)


"Quick test of the Chord feat from the "Arturia KeyStep 37" The new Arturia 37 keyboard controller and Sequencer.
For this test the Arturia Keyboard control my Novation Peak Synthesizer."

Salyut space child (Sneaky Alien) Kawai SX-240 Synthesizer.

Sneaky Alien

"Slow breaks/abstract type intro/interlude, made using one of my fave Synthesizers - The 1980's Kawai SX240. (C)2020 Porter."

Typo in the original title for the video. It's Kawai SX-240 not Kaiwa.

Roger and the Korg MD-20 Synthesizer

The Lickerish Quartet

"Roger Joseph Manning Jr. explains all the wonderful sounds and features of one of his favorite vintage synthesizers, the Korg MD-20"

Yes, it's an MS-20. Looks like it's a typo sort of day...

Noise Engineering Basimilus Iteritas Alter

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via this auction

And some beer. Man that looks good. Almost time for the weekend! :)

"Noise Engineering Basimilus Iteritas Alter with extra black faceplate

Our recommended beer is the Again The Grain 35K!"

Typo: should be Against The Grain. Credit goes to gridsleep in the comments for catching it.

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Quasimidi Polymorph Anarog Emulation Synthesis

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via this auction

Yes, I'm aware of the typo. That's how it's listed.

There's also Korg's new fripSide, which isn't a typo. Not sure if that was a reference to "flip side" or other. It would be interesting if using "r" instead of "l" is a new thing and simply a new embracement of the phonetic abroad. If anyone knows feel free to comment. It's silly, but kind of interesting...

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A DIY Prophet-4

Published on May 11, 2020 Harumio 1529

Update: moving this one up. Looks like I had a typo in the embed code.

[Synth DIY] I made a Prophet-4 at home Published on May 11, 2020 Harumio 1529

Four voice DIY version of the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5.

This one was spotted and sent in via Soviet Space Child.

Blofeld K+STrong Typo

Published on Aug 3, 2019 Edward Jones aka Loscha

2 must be sTronger than 1 and 3.

Keen Association Buchla 268e tutorial 3

Published on Jul 11, 2018 Todd Barton

"Looking at patching all 4 oscillators of the 268e. Enjoy! Ooops, typo on first screen should read 268e"

LayR - Multi Timbral Synthesizer Updated to v1.0.3

iTunes: LayR - Multi Timbral Synthesizer - Living Memory Software

Living Memory has submitted update v1.0.3 for LayR to the App Store for release.

Squashing all known bugs and adding several new features including some great new preset banks.

NEW FEATURES:
– New preset banks created by Red Sky Lullaby and Brice Beasley.
– FX sends added to Layer Strips.
– An option to select an alternative dials view for Envelope, allows assigning MIDI to A,D,S and R.
– Added IAA transport buttons and time display when hosted in IAA.
– Improved IAA beat Sync for Arpeggiator. ( in preparation for Live Link and Audiobus 3).
– Slightly improved reverb with a pre-delay parameter.
– You can now assign MIDI and link controls in Layer Strips by long pressing.
– New shortcut in MIDI Assign View: Repeatedly double tap range dial to set various default ranges. – Added a toggle switch to enable/disable Pitch Bend in Layer Strips
– Added a Reset Factory Presets button to Settings for updating/restoring latest presets.
– Small improvement to note stealing algorithm.
– Increased threshold for closing FX view with a swipe.
– Arpeggiator: Hold mode can now be set by a Sustain Pedal message over MIDI.
– Settings option to save state on quit and restore on launch.
– Settings option to ignore all notes off over MIDI
– Settings option to not reset master volume when loading performance.
– Settings option for iPad UI: swipe left or right on background to change layers
– Settings option for iPad UI: swipe down on background to exit layer editor

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Dragonfly by mudlogger - Featuring ER-301 Eurorack Sampler Module

Dragonfly by mudlogger from mudlogger on Vimeo.

"Live modular improv using monome modular isms system and er301 sampler module"

Update: There was a typo in the video title and description. This video featured the existing Orthogonal Devices ER-301, and not a new ER-302. See the comments below for additional details including links.

Futurama: Moogfest vs Simpsons: Hapsichordfest

This one spotted by creekreee who had the following to say:

"The Futurama Facebook page posted a short video called 'Happy backwards day'. This is essentially the intro to each show, with a special intro music that was used on only one episode.

The video is horizontally mirrored, thus the caption, which is unique for each episode, is not as easily readable.

I took a screenshot and mirrored it again - and guess what?

The caption says

Futurama: Moogfest
as
Simpsons: Hapsichordfest"


I found that interesting and thought I´d share it with you. (I guess there is a typo in there.. 'as' should probably read 'vs')"