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Saturday, October 03, 2015

"Silicon Bells" -- Soundtrack style with DSS-1, CS-10


Published on Oct 3, 2015

"Beautiful digital bell patch on the DSS-1.

Inspired by SynthMania's '1970s style soundtrack with Minimoog and Prophet-5'" [see this post]

X1L3 - circuit bent - synth mod - yamaha DD-7 drum machine with midi

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video here and here.

"The big sister of the yamaha DD-6 with a more varied and larger sound set.
Lots of good percussive sounds and a variation of synth and voice samples.
It's also one of the finest in the DD range for glitch generation and ease of
which the glitching can be shaped and moulded into unique fx, incidentals and noise.

Modifications and embedded circuitry:

Analogue resonant filter with high pass and low pass bands
Gain, resonance, low pass/high pass toggle and cutoff
A nice warm filter based on the synthacon.
Lot's of resonance and a unique character of it's own.
Violent, squelchy and crunchy when overdriven in this machine.

Digital 'death industrial' delay
Rate, noise, feedback, off/on toggle
This delay variant is based on the formula applied and the output of circuit bent delay pedals which have been sold in the past.
A versatile and if desired aggressive set up that can drift between ambience, echo and all out harsh noise wall and power electronics.

Analogue distortion
Dual mode distortion with diode clipping, filter and gain.

PSU - DC hum suppression circuitry
A regulated psu is now built into the machine.
This gives a stable and quiet power supply to both the drum machine and additional circuitry as well as
providing a quiet output and excellent noise floor.
Input voltage is +12V tip positive running 2 amps.
Please be aware of the amp rating of your adapter. It MUST run 2 amps or above.
Suitable adapters are available at low cost on ebay.
if Shipped within the UK i'll include a suitable adapter.

Midi retrofit & Gate output
The drum machine now has midi capability by means of an embedded microcontroller.
The four drum channels can be triggered via a sequencer or daw.
Trigger notes are: C3, C#3, D3, D#3 and F3 for the gate output.

Midi is set to CH16 but if you'd prefer a different channel for convenience i can flash the firmware before shipping for you
and assign it to what ever channel is best for you.
The gate outputs at +5v and can be used to trigger other devices such as adsr's and also drive eurorack sequencers.
One of the videos below demonstrates the gate output driving a sequential circuits pro one sequencer.
The gate isn't locked to a time signature so if driving a sequencer you can advance it however you want.

Master pitch control
Gives a large global pitch range - demonstrated in the demo videos
The pitch has a high and low setting and a coarse and fine control.
The fine control gives you conventional pitching of the drums, the coarse will take them down to vicious noise, droning and glitching.
The drum machine now serves not only as a percussive instrument but a generator of abstract sounds and textures.

4x4 glitch matrix
The glitch matrix disrupts the percussive sounds and warps them into various forms of data crash and glitch.
A very interesting modification on it's own. It takes on a whole new level when the fx chain is applied.

Cnc machined aluminium panel work with blue anodize and engraved text and graphics

The DD range of drum machines are some of the best for glitched circuit bent sounds. They achieve a bizzare edge
without becoming too unruly and hard to control. With midi now added you can create nicely spaced patterns which accomodate the glitch matrix and fx chain nicely. It's no longer restricted to it's preset patterns. The pads can still be used with drum sticks and the preset patterns are still intact. It will still run as intended if you choose to use it this way."

Doepfer A-188-2 Feedback (662)


Published on Oct 3, 2015 Computing.Sound

"White Noise - VCA - BBD - Delay

Feedback Line: 662 Single Out - S&H modulated Bandpass Filter A-108 - Feedback In

Clocked/sequenced via Korg SQ-1"

Nano SwinSIDb tutorial: how to build your own units of nano SwinSIDb


Published on Jul 25, 2015 Tolaemon

"As you know, SIDs are one of the most popular sound generators used in chiptune, but they are very dificult to find and expensive. I created a tutorial that explains how to build nano SwinSID from scratch. nano SwinSID is a clone of the SID dessigned by Swinkel"

"All the information and resources necessary to assembly your nano SwinSIDs is available at the site of this tutorial: http://www.tolaemon.com/nss

The information of Swinkels original SwinSID project is available at: http://www.swinkels.tvtom.pl/swinsid/

Soundtrack: Chiptune by Dubmood from the album "Lost Floppies Vol 2 (DATA027)": http://dataairlines.bandcamp.com/albu..."

UNTOUCHED BLISS ( Instrumental Cut )


Published on Aug 26, 2015

"Instrumental edit of the song from the motion picture Poet of Sound and Image by KiNo

All Music & Lyrics by KiNo

Written in New Vague City
Recorded in Los Angeles

Produced by KiNo

See more at: http://poetofsoundandimage.com/releas...

RCDATA005
Untouched Bliss — KiNo"

OPUS 3 — 0:33 / 1:48 /
High melody 1:53
Low organ jabs

SUB PHATTY —
bass and alto pulses
High pitched organ-like sweeps 0:46

ROLAND CR-78
LINN DRUM Snare and hat

Acoustic guitar filtered by Custom Analogue Processors by Jeff Blenkinsopp

Moog Prodigy Vintage Synthesizer SN 1174

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Tama Techstar Analog Drum Synth Module

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" Tama Techstar TS204 analog drum synthesizer module with original manual. Very cool 2 channel drum synth. One channel covers a variety of analog drum sounds (bass, snare, tom, etc...) and the other is dedicated to claps. Trigger inputs, individual outs and master out.

You can trigger this from a drum machine or sequencer and get those classic analog drum sounds."

Vile Electrodes: Empire of Wolves (live in our studio)


Published on Oct 3, 2015 Vile Electrodes

"Empire of Wolves, performed and recorded live (with zero overdubs!) in our studio.

This version will be available as a bonus track on the limited edition acrylic sleeve Stark White double CD, which is available to pre-order now: http://vileelectrodes.bigcartel.com/p..."

Matrix Code Music 01 - 'ALIAS' the One Line Code Music matrix sequencer



"Example of 'ALIAS' the One Line Code Music matrix sequencer. Coming Early 2016. It uses a 'pin board' matrix to select bitwise operators and sources to feed in. IT also has aliased and anti-aliased oscillators and analogue modelled filters."

Synth Jam - 7


Published on Oct 3, 2015 Synth Jam

Moog Voyager - FX
Moog Little Phatty - Lead
DSI Evolver - Synth
DSI Prophet 08 - Chords
AKAI VX 90 - Chords
Novation Bass Station 2 - Seq.
Roland Alpha Juno 2 - Gated Pad
Novation Drum Station V2
Jomox AirBase 99
Roland TB 3 - Bass
FX:
Boss CE 20 on Prophet 08
Boss CS 3 on Kick Drum
Lexicon MX 300
Tc Electronic Falshback
TC Electronic M 350
TC Electronic Hall of Fame
EHX Small Stone on Juno 2
Alesis Philtre on Drum Station & AKAI VX 90
Allen & Heath Zed 428 mixer
Audio directly from the mixer
Sequenced and Synced with Ableton Live midi only
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