New Grove Audio WS-104 FM Operator aka the FM Ogre & GMS-1340 Polywav™ In the Works

via Grove Audio (no pics):

"FM Operator, WAV Player, VCO In Prototype

There is progress on the FM Ogre, officially the WS-104 FM Operator. The EU version prototype is up and running. Boards are in progress for the MU version which has some sub--assemblies. Hopefully, a demo and pictures of the panels will be up soon.

The GMS-1340 Polywav™ Player WAV sample player module prototype is coming together. This module will play back up to 14 16 bit 44.1 KHz stereo WAV files simultaneously, each with independent volume level under trigger or MIDI control. The first version for MU will use a 2MU panel. 16 1/4 inch jacks will allow gate triggers to start predefined sample playback. Two sets of CV and trigger inputs will allow voltage controlled initiation of sample playback from the current selected sample library. This will allow a group of samples representing a scale such as the Mellotron three violin sample set to be played from a CV source.

There is a MIDI DIN input that will accept note and control commands from a controller device to play sample sets. A separate sample set can be assigned to each of 16 MIDI channels. MIDI bank select commands can change the assigned sample bank for each channel.

A front panel OLED display and encoder will allow setting sample sets, MIDI channels, trigger assignments and other parameters. The SDHC card reader, accessible through the front panel will accept a card with up to 32GB of WAV samples. The user will then be able to select from a pool of 2048 samples to combine these into sample sets. Samples need to be recorded as 16 bit 44.1 KHz stereo WAV recordings. The sample length is not limited.

The GMS-321b Voltage Controlled Oscillator module is coming along. I have located a source for one of the last remaining NOS parts needed to build up the module. This is a recreation of the Moog 921b VCO and will be available as a 1MU module."

Elements of Eckshar

Elements of Eckshar from Bryan Noll on Vimeo.

"Performed live on a modular synthesizer. Ableton Live feeds notes to Yarns which enables three triggers. All sounds from guitar and modular.

Patch Notes:
Yarns in 4T mode sends triggers running three different Euclidean Rhythms to A) unused, B) Peaks Ch1 Kick, C) Peaks Ch2 Snare, D) Tides trig.

The primary voices are:
A) Jaguar Baritone > Axis > Streams Compressor > Clouds
B) Jaguar ... Compressor > Multed to Disting Pitch Follower > Elements V/Oct*
C) Peaks Kick & Snare > Rosie > Erbe-Verb

*Disting tries to pitch follow the guitar, but it can't, so it glitches.

Trigger Part (Euclidean Length/Fill:Clock Division)
A) unused
B) 9/5:1/4
C) 32/17:1/16
D) 14/12:1/1

René passing 16th note clock on to Elements TRIG

Tides modulating Erbe-Verb – UNI to DCY & inverted BI to TLT

87 bpm"

Molecule Wall - "Snap Circuits" Installation

Molecule Wall - "Snap Circuits" Installation from Molecule Synth on Vimeo.

Peterz 101 DIY Modular Synthesizer

Published on May 22, 2015 Pedro Perez Machado

"My home made synthesizer in progress... Waiting for more cabinets...

I'm using circuits mostly form MFOS and Thomas Henry.

5 VCO, 3 LFO, 2 ADSR, 2 VCF, 2 Noise Gen, 2 Sample Hold, 1 Wave Shaper, 1 Delay, 1 Phase Shifter, 1 Multi Function, 1 8x Atenuator and a 16 step VariClock Sequencer"

Modular Monthly: Creating strange oscillators

Published on May 22, 2015 Future Music Magazine

"With careful patching and modulation, it’s possible to push modules that aren’t necessarily oscillators, into oscillator-like behavior. Let's examine some alternative noise generators...

Modular Monthly continues in every issue of Future Music."

Sparkle 1.2 Features

Published on May 22, 2015 Alessandro Petrolati

iTunes: Sparkle - Advanced Cross-Synthesis - apeSoft

"Sparkle is a tool for advanced spectral hybridizations made of several algorithms that operate on frequency domain. By means of envelope preservation and phase-sync processing it can creates high-quality sound transformations.

The basic idea is to transfer the temporal structure of a sound (source) onto another sound (target) of which the spectral properties are preserved.
Simply put, you can take a voice and make it sing a Beethoven’s symphony!"

Korg Odyssey+ KorgVolca Beats+Korg SQ1

Published on May 22, 2015 SYNTH GURU

"just testing .."

Roland System 1M Audio External Audio Input Demo

Published on May 22, 2015 zibbybone

Audio starts after :14.

"This was WAY more complicated than what I wanted it to be. I was thinking it'd be cool to run a drum machine through the Sys1M's filter and FX. The Sys1M does not have an envelope follower, so it has to be triggered. I run 16th note trigger pulses from the 606 to the 101's external sync. The 101's CV&Gate are run into the Sys1M to trigger the unit and send CV to the filter cutoff. Added a little Jupe 4 through Strymon BigSky and some SH-2 bass."

The above is common with many synths that have an audio input. Some synths like the ARP Odyssey have a VCA gain that does not require an envelop trigger so you can turn it up, turn the internal oscillators down and then feed something through it.

Frankfurt Messe Elements and Test Seq1

Published on May 22, 2015 macbethsynthesizers

"Just going through photos and videos from the Frankfurt Music Messe from the Friday that I was there- this short video from when I was there at the Alex 4 booth....camera shooting- not so good....but you see it in the trade fair environment"

outside jam #1

Published on May 22, 2015 Matthew Tyas

"a short jam using a miselu c24 and a touch board by bare conductive (arduino mode) controlling tabletop app on an ipad mini"