MATRIXSYNTH

SEMI MODULAR ANALOG SYNTHESIZER

Published on Oct 9, 2014 SYNTH GURU

Futuretro XS Semi modular Analog Synthesizer

Published on Oct 9, 2014

"some tweakings,
arpeggio via midi by Moog Sub 37"

A Noisy Farmyard Poster!

A Noisy Farmyard Poster! from Bare Conductive on Vimeo.

"We were delighted when Michael Feser sent in this video of his daughter and the Touch Board. They decided to make an interactive farmyard scene by stencilling Electric Paint animal shapes (to become sensors) and connecting them to the Touch Board electrodes via crocodile clips. When the little girl places her finger on an animal it triggers the mp3 on the Touch Board sd card to sound!

Check into our website for more details on how this was made! http://www.bareconductive.com/make/a-noisy-farmyard-poster/"

Steim Summer Party 2014 (Aftermovie)

Steim Summer Party 2014 (Aftermovie) from STEIM Amsterdam on Vimeo.

"On the 18th of June 2014, STEIM invited former artistic director Jan Werner to curate the concert portion of the STEIM SUMMER PARTY. He came iup with a great lineup including Peter Kirn, Kathy Alberici and ofcourse the man himself. Next to these performances there was also the Soundart installation LINES by Ivo Bol and Katinka Marac and Tapage closed the evening with some downtempo grooves. This aftermovie includes several interviews that provide an insight into the creation process of the artists."

Akai Professional Rhythm Wolf - In the Studio with Big Black Delta

Published on Oct 9, 2014 AkaiProVideo

Akai Rhythm Wolfs on eBay - Wolfs or Wolves?

"Jonathan Bates, aka Big Black Delta, takes you inside the studio for an up-close look at how he uses Rhythm Wolf's sounds, pads, and sequencer in his work.

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Analog Bite

Rhythm Wolf combines a drum machine, bass synthesizer, and step sequencer into one rugged device with a fierce, 100% analog signal path.

Take the beat off the leash with fully tweakable kick, snare, open and closed hi-hat, and accent percussion sounds. Use the oscillator with selectable waveforms – sawtooth/square wave – and analog filter to create bass sequences that squelch and growl. Gate Trigger In/Out, USB MIDI, and 5-pin MIDI In/Out enable Rhythm Wolf to join your inner-circle of vintage and modern gear to integrate with hardware synthesizers, sound modules, DAWs, and more.

Into the Wild

A 32-step standalone sequencer and six custom-calibrated MPC-style pads are onboard for extensive programming and finger drumming. Mute/solo, intro/fill and sequence A/B switches give you the space to roam with complete control over your beat.

Torn into Parts

Carve out the perfect drum textures with continuously variable volume and tuning for each part. The kick drum attack and decay are adjustable for transients that hang, bang, and crush. Snare and open hi-hat also feature decay controls for unique sound design while the adjustable accent percussion can be modulated to click, punch, knock, "shush" and more.

The Face of Bass

Make menacing basslines with a tweakable, onboard bass synth. Envelope, filter and waveform controls let you design low-end that goes from liquid-smooth to bone-crushing and everywhere in between. Filter Resonance and Cutoff add distinction and movement to live or studio performances, while the step-sequencer keys let you program parts across a 3-octave scale.

Trigger Happy

Rhythm Wolf mates with your collection of synths that support Gate Triggers to create exclusive sonic offspring. Use it with supported homebrew hardware, classics or modern machines and infuse Rhythm Wolf DNA into all of your creations.

Let it Howl

Get your hands dirty with a custom noise, grit and distortion effect completely unique to this breed of instrument. The Howl knob lets you mangle the music into all-new textures, transitions and progressions that snarl, bark and howl. Use it as an effect or a part of your signature sound that stands alone on the food chain.

Outputs:

5-Pin MIDI Out/Thru
USB MIDI
1⁄8-inch Gate Trigger Out
1⁄4-inch Bass Synth Out
1⁄4-inch Main Out

Inputs:

5-Pin MIDI In
USB MIDI
1⁄8-inch Gate Trigger In
DC power In"

Arturia and Me Contest Videos

Published on Oct 9, 2014 by Arturia Web

16 videos in the playlist as of this post.

MicroBrute's on eBay | MiniBrutes on eBay

Arturia MiniBrute Demo

Published on Oct 9, 2014 Kotro Laszlo Lehel

MicroBrute's on eBay | MiniBrutes on eBay

Pi at the absolute limit!

Published on Oct 9, 2014 Pi Synth

"Brought a desktop environment back onto my Pi for this test, which saw it right on the edge of collapse. Apologies for the carnage on my desk by the way, I have a cable hell thing going on ...

But here is a Pi clocked at 'High' / 950MHz, *JUST* getting through the Slade test - in fact you can hear me laugh at one point when the handclap comes in and the 3D 'hello_triangle' test visibly stutters horribly! But you can't really hear any glitches, even though some events definitely got backed up as synthesis took too many cycles.

But a fine achievement for the little Pi - desktop environment, plus top -H, plus a 720p full-screen 3D demo, PLUS PIANA playing 7 notes of polyphony from 7 independently-configured synths.

A bit more detail for the obsessives -

The 'tune' was sequenced in Logic. Logic is playing it out of my Mac as a MIDI stream, which is routed for a variety of odd reasons through an M-Axiom Axiom 49 (USB input, out through Physical MIDI 5-pin DIN) into an inexpensive USB to MIDI adapter so that it can then be seen by the Pi as USB MIDI. The Pi synthesizes the sound and emits it through a USB audio adapter into my lovely little Minirig. The fact that a CME Pro, the USB adapter, a Bluetooth keyboard and USB audio are all hung off the Pi speaks volumes to how much they have improved USB performance in the last 2 years. The Pi is running whatever the stock desktop is that came with it, and to monitor CPU usage I have a terminal running top -H, and to really stress the cack out of it, particularly the memory interface, I have a full-screen OpenGL ES thing running.

And it works fine, but hell's bells it is redlining - the green CPU monitor bottom right shows nothign left, and that is reflected in both top -H and in my own monitoring within PIANA which tells me how close to 44100 the achieved sample render rate was, as a percentage. So the lower the better, and you can see numbers of 64-70% on screen as I lean in. 100% is bad, and it does exceed 100% at times, meaning some packets ate into the insurance policy, which is about 8 packets wide - so if 8 packets back to back average at 100% or greater, you will hear a glitch.

Impressive though, the Pi, despite being feeble and useless, is also pretty damn great. See how conflicted I am?!?!"

Elektron Analog 4 & Rytm - Feedback 2

Published on Oct 9, 2014 DJjondent

"The Elektron A4 & Rytm are a great pair. They are made for each other.
Though the video is processed, the audio was done in a single live take.
I'll put a free link to some high quality Wav files of this video on my blog later. If you wanna have a go at remixing this be my guest"