Analog Secret Weapon

Published on Jul 13, 2014 ginsengbob

"Rheem Kee bass into a Moog Low Pass Filter.
Everything is better with a Moog!"

Ableton's impulse for modular percussiv entertainement

Published on Jul 13, 2014 Robotopsy Robotopsy

"Ableton Live's impulse going with gate follower in Silent way to trigger rythm elements into modular system. Rythmic patern going into the Harvestman's Tyme Sefari MKII for some beat repeat and chaotic effex."

Animodule Clock Multiplier Eurorack Module in the Works

Published on Jul 13, 2014 JRock17991's channel

"Just a quickie showing my clock multiplier R+D.
http://animodule.bigcartel.com/ Check out AniModule's Lineup"

Update: one more test video (no audio):

Clock Divide and Multiply

Evaton Technologies at Summer NAMM

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"Going to Summer NAMM 2014 in Nashville? Go see Evaton Technologies' MKAdapter at our partner EurekaSound's booth 634 in Exhibit Hall A. And, check out EurekaSound's own cool products! The MKAdapter is a mechanical adapter that allows using any standard microphone gooseneck in place of the flexible microphone that comes with the Korg MicroKorg. Use your favorite mic directly on your favorite vocoder synth!"

MOOG TAURUS 2 ll BASS PEDALS & CONTROLLER

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The Bumblebee by Plankton Electronics

"Demos for The Bumblebee. A DIY modular drone / noise machine. Ideal for beginners and noise makers. More info @ www.planktonelectronics.com/bumblebee"

"The Bumblebee has 3 oscillators, 3 LFOs a high pass filter and a low pass filter...

The first of the Plankton Noise series. This is a super easy to mount and play DIY drone ‘n’ noise machine. A simple but powerful design capable of generate the most annoying sounds of the neighborhood. Designed for DIY beginners, noise makers, and weird sound enthusiasts, it’s modular design converts it into a very versatile machine capable of multiply its power when connected to other modular systems...

Each oscillator generates an audible tone (a square wave) controlled with the Rate potentiometer. With the Vol pot the signal is sent to the filters and then to the main output. Each osc has its own output, which is independent of the volume control.

With the CV inputs we can control the tone of the oscillator with antoher signal. This is usually done with the LFO’s or another oscillator but you can use any signal from 0 to 5V. When a signal of more than 0V feeds an oscillator its tone will increase. With the CV potentiometer we can attenuate the amount of the modulation.

OSCILLATOR MODULATION

With the gate input we can switch on and off the oscillator creating gate and ducking effects. This only accepts 0 or 5V inputs because it acts as a switch. Anyway you can experiment with other signals.

OSCILLATOR GATE

We can create a very weird patch connecting each OSC to the CV IN of the next one (OSC1 -> CV2A, OSC2 -> CV3A, OSC3 -> CV1A ). This way we create feedback between the 3 oscillators. Tweaking the RATE and CV potentiometers the machine will produce very rare sounds.

LFOS

The LFOs, Low Frequency Oscillators, are essentially the same design as the oscillator, but with a lower frequency (the lower settings are not audible). It only have one CV IN each and no GATE input. Each LFO have its own led to see the frequency. The LFOs are not connected anywhere like the Oscillators, just to its outputs.

Filters

The high pass filter cut all the frequencies below a point which is set with the HPF pot. It is usually used to remove the non desired lows and to create a thinner sound.

The low pass filter works the oposite as the HPF, cutting all the freqs over a point. Besides it have the RESO pot which produces a feedback near the cuttof frequency creating a very popular and nice gritty sound.

Setting all the volumes of the oscillators to its maximum position will cause the filters to distort.

Output

The main output sums everything and sends it to the OUT connector via the MAIN pot."

Jomox Sunsyn - RCO (Ramp Controlled Oscillator) Demo

Published on May 22, 2014 Brandon Byrd

"Explaining the functionality of the digital oscillators on the Jomox Sunsyn."

Stanford Laptop Orchestra | Twilight (2013)

Stanford Laptop Orchestra | Twilight (2013) from Ge Wang on Vimeo.

Twilight (2013) for laptop orchestra
by Ge Wang
performed by Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk)
Bing Concert Hall @ Stanford University, May 2013.

Inspired by the classic science-fiction short story “Twilight” by John W. Campbell (published in 1934, under the pseudonym “Don A. Stuart”), this piece ruminates not of the dawn, ascension, nor triumph of the human race, but of one possible demise set seven million years in the future. This end is not one of annihilation through war, nor decimation from famine or disease, but a golden decrescendo of defeat brought on by the gradual, peaceful, but unstoppable usurping of technology and machines -- and the loss of man's curiosity and sense of wonder. From the original text:

“Twilight – the sun has set. The desert out beyond, in its mystic, changing colors. The great, metal city rising straight-walled to the human city above, broken by spires and towers and great trees with scented blossoms. The silvery-rose glow in the paradise of gardens above.”

i. The Dead City
“And all the great city-structure throbbing and humming to the steady gentle beat of perfect, deathless machines built more than three million years before – and never touched since that time by human hands. And they go on. The dead city. The men that have lived, and hoped, and built – and died to leave behind them those little men who can only wonder and look and long for a forgotten kind of companionship. They wander through the vast cities their ancestors built, knowing less of them than the machines themselves.”

ii. A Song of Longing
“And the songs. Those tell the story best, I think. Little, hopeless, wondering men amid vast unknowing, blind machines that started three million years before – and just never knew how to stop. They are dead – and can't die and be still.”

This is the first installment in the Twilight series for various and mixed media. The cycle explores the psychology, longing, beauty and sadness of a twilight of humanity ending not in a bang, but an irreversible powerdown, basked in the golden, lingering, dying glow of man’s dusk.

TECHNOSAURUS MICROCON II

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VERMONA SYNTHESIZER RARE VINTAGE ANALOG GDR SN 211289

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"One of the only analog synthesizers produced by German music company Vermona throughout the 1980's. It is a 2-VCO monophonic analog synthesizer.  It has most basic analog edit parameters. A 24 dB/oct analog VCF (filter) with 4 knobs (Brilliance, CutOff, Resonance, Contour), a single LFO to modulate the VCO or VCF sections and a typical ADSR VCA envelope.  There are preset VCF and VCA settings as well as a Manual mode. There is also a possibility to split the keyboard to 2 section (with setting up different timbres of sounding)"

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