Tiny Ego Kommander - Modular Synth Jam (w/ MicroBrute, Tinysizer, etc.) #TTNM

Published on Aug 26, 2014 The Tuesday Night Machines

"Another jam with the gate-modded SuperEgo pedal on the main audio out. Tinysizer, MicroBrute and Eurorack are playing together, while I control some of the sounds' pitches with the Koma Kommander.

Questions or comments? Go ahead and post them below! :) Thanks for watching! Check out my channel for more Synthesizer Music.

MORE INFO:

Gear used in this video:
- Eurorack Modular Synthesizer (with Malekko Wiard Anti-Oscillator, Intellijel Dixie, Koma Kommander, Plague Bearer, Ataraxic Translatron, Erica Polivoks VCF, etc. see: http://www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/vi...)
- Anyware Tinysizer (modular synth)
- Arturia MicroBrute (analog synthesizer)
- Electro Harmonix EHX SuperEgo (sustain effect with gate input mod: http://nightmachines.tv/post/94563795...)
- Zoom R16 (recording & mastering)

Filmed with a Canon EOS 550D (Rebel t2i)."

An Octonaut on my Korg Monopoly

Published on Aug 26, 2014 Miguel d'Oliveira

"little animation I made at the request of my 3yo daughter"

Drop Science - Matthew Dear + The Sounds Of GE

Published on Aug 26, 2014 General Electric

Track made using samples of GE's machines.  Above is the "making of" promotional video.  Further below is the track.  There's some synth spotting in the video including a Minimoog Voyager, Elektron boxes & more.  I'm guessing the track features extensive processing along with the synths and isn't composed of GE machine samples only.  It is still interesting and worth noting that sounds in nature and via physical/mechanical means can compliment music as well as those via purely synthetic means.

"Every machine has its own acoustic signature - a precise frequency that indicates whether that machine is operating at peak performance. GE engineers monitor and record these sounds to perform real-time diagnostics on airplane engines, locomotives, power turbines, and medical equipment. Musician Matthew Dear and GE Acoustic Engineer Andrew Gorton teamed up to collect and compose thousands of audio emissions from the world’s most powerful machines. The result is an original track of music titled 'Drop Science.'

Follow Matthew Dear:
www.soundcloud.com/matthewdear
www.facebook.com/matthewdear
www.twitter.com/matthewdear

GE works on things that matter. The best people and the best technologies taking on the toughest challenges. Finding solutions in energy, health and home, transportation and finance. Building, powering, moving and curing the world. Not just imagining. Doing. GE works."

1985 E-mu Emulator II German Ad

via synthmuseum.de

Meng Qi with His Squishable Modular Synth Workstation

via StromKult

"Already a few weeks ago Meng Qi from China was introducing his Squishable Modular Synth Workstation in Schneidersladen. Product specialists Thomas and Carlo both was quite impressed by his ideas and innovations realized in this unit. Meng Qi wa talking about finishing some first models before the end of this year, were looking forward to get one."

Additional pics posted here.

Gumdrops Drum Sequencer For iPad

Gumdrops * beats so sweet, you're bound to get ill.™ Teaser from CJ Hanson on Vimeo.

iTunes: Gumdrops * beats so sweet, you're bound to get ill.™ - Hanson Interactive

"Gumdrops takes your beats to the next level with the power of a 64 track / 32 step sequencer combined with the expressiveness of a hand-crafted instrument.

[ Video ]
https://vimeo.com/103625142

[ Listen on SoundCloud® ]
https://soundcloud.com/groups/gumdrops-sweet-beats

[ Features ]
* Inter-App Audio
* Audiobus
* AudioCopy/Paste
* MIDI Clock
* WIST
* SoundCloud®

I am a drummer and the idea for Gumdrops came to me when a friend and I were discussing making beats using devices like the Roland TR-808 and the Native Instruments Maschine. Gumdrops exists because tapping out beats on pads in time is very hard to do and programming in steps on a sequencer then playing it back to see how it sounds is boring.

When I'm on a drum kit I can play quarter, eighth or sixteenth notes easily with either of my hands and feet. If you have your right hand holding steady eighths on the hi-hat, introducing your left hand in between produces sixteenths. Then removing your right hand leaves eighths but on a syncopated pattern. This sort of natural pattern adaptation is what makes Gumdrops so revolutionary.

There are eight groups of eight pads on the board. By default, each group is assigned to a single sampled sound. The two pads at the bottom of a group are half notes, then moving up to quarters, then eighths, then sixteenths. The left column of pads is filled with the patterns that would be played by your right hand if you were on a drum kit, and the right column has what would be played by your left hand. Playing both the left and right together produces a pattern twice as fast. You could think of the left column as down beats and the right as up beats. So playing a pad in the right column will sound funky and off beat. Playing a pad in the left column will sound solid and on beat. Making up combinations of different patterns is easy by just tapping multiple pads.

Of course Gumdrops offers so much more than the defaults. You can edit the 32 step pattern on all 64 pads. Set the velocity for each step by just dragging across the pattern with your finger. Assign samples to pads by recording directly or by AudioPaste. You can synchronize with other apps and equipment using MIDI clock. Record and apply effects using Inter-App Audio and Audiobus. Upload your recordings to SoundCloud®.

All product and company names are ™ or ® trademarks of their respective owners. WIST is a trademark and software of KORG INC.

Special thanks to David Demeter of The Drum Lab, Sahir Hanif of Masters of Maple, Brady Drums, and the awesome beta test team."

iTunes: Gumdrops * beats so sweet, you're bound to get ill.™ - Hanson Interactive

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Michael Iceberg Tries Out His New Synthesizer

Published on Aug 25, 2014 Janeen Goike

If you don't know who Michael Iceberg is, check out this post, followed by other posts here, and his official website here. He was responsible for many a child's first exposure to the magical world of synthesizers.

Tootles synthesizer jam

Published on Aug 26, 2014 keepitacrime

Roland Juno-6, KORG MicroKORG & grey cockatiel. Who needs synth cats. Check out it's hand!

Dan Snazelle alias Snazzy FX introducing phonegames on NAMM 2014

Dan Snazelle alias Snazzy FX introducing phonegames on NAMM 2014 from Andreas Schneider on Vimeo.

Winter NAMM January 2014. This video just went up 3 hours ago from Andreas Schneider of Schneiders Beuro.  I always wonder when the last NAMM post for the year will go up.

"On the NAMM 2014 the manufacturer of eurorack modules Danny Snazzelle aka Snazzy FX was introducing the world to his Telephne Game .. The situation is a bit amateur but you can hear some sounds at the end of this clip. Later on in 2014 he made a podcast about his work that can be found here .. http://artmusictech.libsyn.com/podcast-041-dan-snazelle .."

Sintetizando: Acid Bassline

Sintetizando: Acid Bassline from Icaro Ferre on Vimeo.

Googlish below.

"Este é meu primeiro de uma série de vídeos sobre sintetizadores modulares em português chamada Sintetizando. Em cada um dos vídeos, vamos começar com uma ideia do patch e durante o decorrer do vídeo irei fazendo alguns patches e explicando os passos e a teoria por trás das conexões. O objetivo desses vídeos é ensinar como sintetizadores analógicos funcionam e como são criados alguns timbres bastante utilizados em diversos tipos de gêneros musicais.

Neste primeiro vídeo, vamos criar um bassline tipo acid usando alguns módulos eurorack como o Mutable Instruments Braids, Intellijel Metropolis, MakeNoise Maths, TipTop Audio Z4000 e o Toppobrillo Multifilter. Também usaremos uma TR-606, bateria eletrônica analógica criada pela Roland, para criar um loop de bateria e sincronizar o sequenciador do modular (Intellijel Metropolis).

Ícaro Ferre
http://icaroferre.com
http://spektroaudio.com/"

Googlish:
"This is my first in a series of videos on modular synthesizers in Portuguese call Synthesizing. In each of the videos, let's start with an idea and the patch during the course of the video I will doing some patches and explaining the steps and the theory behind connections. The purpose of these videos is to teach as analog synthesizers work and how some voices are raised widely used in various types of musical genres.

In this first video we will create a bassline acid type using some modules like the XENYX Mutable Instruments Braids, Intellijel Metropolis, MakeNoise Maths, TipTop Audio Z4000 and Toppobrillo Multifilter. We will also use one TR-606 analog drum machine created by Roland, to create a drum loop and sync modular sequencer (Intellijel Metropolis).

Icaro Ferre
http://icaroferre.com
http://spektroaudio.com/"