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YouTube Uploaded by TheZombiest on Sep 13, 2011

"Two quad nand mood cube synths.
These two are different from the others as they have CV in/out n'
they're totally modulating each other. Hurray. Gotta love them nands!"

Ned Rush = MaxVlog Auto Vocoder.

YouTube Uploaded by MrNedRush on Sep 13, 2011

"a little vocoder audio effect i'm wokring on where you can choose the tonic and scale, and sweet sweet music comes out. well almost."

Ned Rush = Auto Vocode Sports Radio

Uploaded by MrNedRush on Sep 13, 2011

"just dicking about with my new vocoder i built feeding sports radio into it."

Audio Damage Filter Station

via Analogue Industries

"Here's a screenshot of our upcoming plug, Filterstation, running in Studio One on PC as a VST3. From the UI, you should be able to get a pretty good handle on what it's all about.

As you can see, it is a pair of filters that can be configured as serial, parallel stereo, and true stereo (one filter for each side). Each filter can be one of 12 types, including our usual 2P, 3P, and 4P models, the bandpass filter that 914 Fixed Filter Bank is made up of, the original 4P LP from FilterPod (our first product, and the first filter we coded), a monster face-melting MS20 LP and HP that Adam built a month or so ago, and a VCA type.

The latter is useful if you'd like to do a filter-vibrato thing like some amps and electric pianos do (notably the Fender Vibrolux, but many others as well). It can also be used for rhythm gating and rudimentary panning. (Nothing near as sophisticated as Panstation, of course.)

The LFO has the usual suspects, and four rhythm patterns, one of which you can hear in this demo:

Phosphor to Filterstation by Chris Randall. Uploaded with Studio One

In that demo, you hear Phosphor dry for a measure, then three measures of the 914 types in true stereo, being modded by the LFO on Pattern 3. I am sweeping both filters via the link knob (the little box between the "1" and "2" boxes in the image above), which is what is causing the general sweep from high to low.

We've also taken the opportunity to (finally!) implement our own preset handling mechanism that is separate from the host. So presets can now be dealt with like any other file, and they are completely cross-DAW, cross-OS. Very excited about this.

Anyhow, the Windows VST3 is pretty much done except for little stupid things. We're using Steinberg's provided VST2.4 and AU wrappers this time, and this is a first for us, so we're not sure how well everything is going to work out. You'll know when I do. So I don't have a time-frame for release, and we haven't settled on a price. But "soon" and "not much" are both perfectly acceptable answers for both those questions."

Virus TI Programming Boot Camp Episode 8 - Working with Grain Oscillators

"This video is all about the Grain and Formant Simple Oscillator in the Virus TI. In this example we construct a smooth and fat lead sound."

All parts here.

Tristan Perich: Impermanent (excerpt) at the Stone

Tristan Perich: Impermanent (excerpt) at the Stone from Tristan Perich on Vimeo.

"Tristan Perich: Impermanent
For tubular bells and 1-bit electronics
At The Stone, NYC

Performed by Doug Perkins, Nathan Davis, percussion

2011.

Tristan Perich: tristanperich.com
Doug Perkins: dougperkins.com
Nathan Davis: nathandavis.com"

Tristan Perich's 1-bit Music was first featured on MATRIXSYNTH back in August of 2005, only one month after the site launched. You can find more posts via the 1-bit label below.

"Firecracker" (by YMO) - played on an ARP Axxe

YouTube Uploaded by EnvelopeGenerator on Sep 14, 2011

"I recorded this two years ago using only analogue equipment. The audio is entirely digital-free, except for the transfer to PC and YouTube's compression. No sequencing here!

I reluctantly sold the Axxe earlier this year (but she's gone to a good home!), so I dug out this old recording and added some very silly images for a quick video to put on YouTube as a tribute to this great beast of a machine.

All parts played on an ARP Axxe monoophonic analogue synthesizer
All effects from an Electro-Harmonix Memory Man delay pedal
Recorded and mixed on a TASCAM Portastudio 414 mkII 4-track cassette deck

"Firecracker" performed by James Cronin, written by Martin Denny, based on the cover by Yellow Magic Orchestra."