Pads Of The Blind

"Having a chill Saturday morning jam with the Animoog. Man, this synth rules. Beats from Elastic Drums. All sounds from the iPad."

iTunes:
Animoog - Moog Music Inc.
Elastic Drums - O-G-SUS

Percussa Synthor Digital Modular Synth Demo #1

Published on Aug 16, 2015 Percussa AudioCubes

"Quick demo of the new Synthor digital modular synth for the Percussa AudioCubes.
https://www.percussa.com/2015/08/16/h...

Synthor runs on Macs and PCs as a standalone audio application and communicates wirelessly with the AudioCubes hardware interface. When cubes are placed next to each other, new patch connections are created, and moving cubes closer and further away change parameters such as modulation depth. Synthor is a free download for all AudioCubes users! Learn more at http://www.percussa.com/"

Some additional info via the Percussa News Letter:

"You can see different synth cubes in action: red/orange cubes are wavetable oscillators, purple one is a step sequencer, green ones are LFOs (frequency and amplitude modulation) and the cyan one is a toggle noise cube (white noise with variable frequency). The wavetable oscillator cubes are set to do frequency modulation, the step sequencer does frequency modulation, as well as the noise cube. There is also a waveshaper and state-variable filter (SVF) which are not demo'ed in this video but will be in upcoming videos.

The Synthor synth runs inside MIDIBridge so there is no additional software needed beyond our MIDIBridge software. There is an audio settings control panel now in MIDIBridge which lets you select the sound card driver to use (CoreAudio, ASIO, etc) as well as the sample rate and buffer size to use. The processing in Synthor is all done at audio sample rate, so you have really fast and smooth modulation possibilities and low-latency.

In Synthor, you first assign a synthesizer module to a cube (oscillator, LFO, noise gererator, etc) and decide what other cubes it can modulate. As soon as you’ve done that, you can start putting cubes together to create a modular synth patch.

As soon as cubes are placed next to each other, a connection is made between the synthesizer modules linked to the cubes. So for example, if you configured two cubes to be oscillators, one oscillator will start to modulate the frequency of the other oscillator (you can also set it to modulate amplitude if you prefer). It works the same way when you place multiple cubes together: even if you are only placing one cube next to a group of cubes, you will be creating multiple connections! All without needing real hardware patch cords. Try doing that in a traditional hardware modular synthesizer with only two hands.

Synthor also automatically scales parameters as you move cubes closer together: If you have two oscillator cubes next to each other, the modulation depth will change depending on the distance between the cubes. This is done completely automatic without you having to configure anything. Parameters can also be set using sliders in the Synthor user interface if you need to set them to specific values.

Last but not least, the signal output of each of the synthesizer modules is automatically connected to the brightness of the colours of the cubes. This way you can see how fast your LFOs are running for example, or you can see the steps of the step sequencer as they play back.

I’ve also built a default patch into Synthor / MIDIBridge, such that when you start the software and connect your cubes, they are all set into Synthor mode and a synthesizer processor has been linked to each cube (oscillator, noise, etc). This way you can immediately start making sound with the cubes without having to configure anything (don’t forget to set up your sound card - you only need to do this once). If you customize the default setup of Synthor you can save your settings and load them using the LOAD/SAVE buttons in MIDIBridge.

Bonus tip: if you go play live with Synthor, you can load different settings files for different songs, and each of those settings files can assign the cubes to different synthesizer modules! This is like having 10 different modular synth setups with you which you can instantly switch to within a few seconds. Impossible to do with a traditional hardware modular synth.

I need your feedback on the above video

I’ll be adding more synthesizer modules to Synthor over the next month. I have plans for granular processors, mixers, delays, etc. It’s going to be super exciting working on this. Please reply to this email and send me your feedback about the above video!"

You can contact Percussa at https://percussa.com/contact

New Basestar FV-1: POT3 control & LFO

Published on Aug 16, 2015 pz314

"Basestar FV1 is a part of my new modular DSP development system. Built around the Spinsemi FV-1 and Cypress PSOC4 (Cortex M0) MCU.
It uses a trick to get one more control input on the FV1 at the price of one audio channel. Here i'm testing it with a short loop processed with peaking lowpass filter program."

Demora as a CV controlled synth

Published on Aug 16, 2015 Data Broth

"All sounds are from Demora, microbrute is just used for pitch cv and envelop cv also sequencer.

I made a patch using the aira customizer app with the lfo as an oscillator, being key-tracked from the microbrute.

it seems a little buggy, the patch wont load when powering on demora, also routing back into the demora's delay seems to cause some issues. However I was able to get a simple delay tone to use in this video

otherwise I think it sounds pretty nice actually, and has a nice wave shape from saw to sine to noise"

J74 ISO Controllers - Version 2.0

Published on Aug 16, 2015 Fabrizio Poce

J74 ISO Controllers - Tutorial for version 2.0


"The J74 ISO Controllers package turns the popular Launchpad controllers into multi-template isomorphic controllers. By re-assigning notes to the pads and using colors to give essential and intuitive information about the harmonic characteristics, the layouts turn both controllers in easy to play instruments for harmony and melody.

More on:
http://www.fabriziopoce.com/download....

Features
- 9 modes interchangeable isomorphic layouts
- 40+ musical scales applicable to the layouts
- Each layout can be transposed to any key root (+/- 64 semitones)
- Key back-light feedback and output velocity control
- Pitch bender
- Custom scale definition
- Circle of Fifths navigation
- Possibility to jump (toggle/momentary) between any two scales

Launchpad Pro Features:
- Support of Velocity
- Support of After-Touch
- Pitch Bend virtual wheel
- Modulation virtual wheel
- Program Changes control buttons"

Red Martian's Roland TR-808, COMMODORE SX-64 SID Prophet Synth, & 1974 Minimoog Model D

Note: Auction links are affiliate links for which the site may be compensated.

Just a heads up. Red Martian (don't miss this post!) wrote in to let me know his Roland TR-808, COMMODORE SX-64 SID Prophet Synth and 1974 Minimoog Model D have been re-listed for sale. Click through the links to get to them. You'll find videos and pics for each at the auctions and previously captured here, here and here respectively.

Pittsburgh Modular New Products Demo by Richard Nicol at TFoM 2015,Tokyo, Japan

Published on Aug 16, 2015 ED電音頻道 E.D.Music Channel

"Copyright: E.D.Music Co.
BGM: Timmy Lok using Roland AIRA TR8 & TB3 (Special thanks to Tom Lee Music)
Special thanks: Richard Nicol of Pittsburgh Modular, Dave Skipper, Kenichi Hata"

TellHarmonious

Published on Aug 16, 2015 kuxaan sum

"All sounds originate from tELHARMONIC.
Erbe-verb/Echophon/Modcan Dual Delay on Aux bus of dubmix.
Sequence from René (Maths drives clock)
Modulation from Maths/PressurePoints/Brains w/ Analog Memory
FM from DPO sine in LFO mode"

tELHARMONIC VS Teleplexer VS Echophone

Published on Aug 15, 2015 DrOne Drone

Cool pad comes right after 3:50.

"Is this real music? Of course it is, anything that makes a sound or even just vibrates is music. Same as ART, anything you can see or touch is ART... Screw the rules"

http://danhamilton.bandcamp.com/

Giron Music 4 focus dance 2015

Published on Aug 15, 2015 Giron

"Music for a contemporary dance of Isabel Martin Consuegra Barrajon.... It was a pleasure to work in this project during june 2015 in Madrid.

If you want to hear more of my electronic, ambient music, you can do it at: http://giron.bandcamp.com

Synths: "sci sixtrak, vermona perfourmer mkII, waldorf streichfett, tenori-on orange, doepfer schaltwerk, monotron delay."