Alan Wilder with Roland Jupiter 8

Published on Feb 25, 2016 AreggerOrchestra

"Taken from an American TV feature."

This might have been the original video previously featured here. That video was pulled from YouTube so I went ahead and replaced it with the video above. The old description is there.

TRAX Retrowave R-1 Demos & Overview

Published on Jan 22, 2015 AreggerOrchestra

"Quick sound demo made with the Retrowave R-1 analog monosynth. Triggered via MIDI. No external processing except a little reverb / delay."

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Casio CZ3000 Synthesiser Demo

Published on Nov 3, 2015 AreggerOrchestra

"Short demo of sounds programmed on the Casio CZ3000 phase distortion synthesiser. No external processing apart from a little reverb..."

KORG MINILOGUE // 1st SEQUENCE // TRINAGLE WAVE SHAPE MODULATION

Published on Mar 3, 2016 LESINDES

"1st TIME EXCITEMENT -- BEZERKING CAMERA"

KORG minilogues on eBay | Korg minilogues on Amazon

Dave Smith Instruments Begins Shipping OB-6 Analog Synth

The new DSI OB-6 in conjunction with Tom Oberheim is now shipping! Remember to check prices with the MATRIXSYNTH sponsors on the right. I do not get a commission from them, rather they support the site directly, so please support them in return.

Here is official press release from Dave Smith Instruments:

"Highly Anticipated Tom Oberheim/Dave Smith Collaboration Now Available

San Francisco, CA—March 3, 2016—Dave Smith Instruments today announced that the OB-6, a new 6-voice analog synthesizer with discrete VCOs and filters developed in collaboration with Tom Oberheim, has begun shipping. Boasting a sound engine inspired by Oberheim’s original SEM (the core of his acclaimed 4-voice and 8-voice synthesizers), the new instrument is designed to provide true, vintage SEM tone with the stability and flexibility of modern technology.

Said Smith: “It’s been great fun working with Tom to create this synth. People are going to be blown away by how awesome the OB-6 sounds.” Added Oberheim: “The classic, unmistakable SEM tone is all there. It’s big and bold and it’s going to turn a lot of heads.”

The OB-6 features two discrete voltage-controlled oscillators (plus sub-oscillator) per voice, with continuously variable waveshapes (sawtooth and variable-width pulse, with triangle on oscillator 2). There is a classic SEM-inspired state-variable filter (low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, and notch) per voice. Voltage-controlled amplifiers complete the all-analog signal path.

Present also is X-Mod, with filter envelope and oscillator 2 as modulation sources (with bi-polar control). Destinations include oscillator 1 frequency, oscillator 1 shape, oscillator 1 pulse width, filter cutoff, and filter mode. The knob-per-function front panel puts virtually all parameters at a user’s fingertips. Toggling on the Manual switch enables live panel mode, in which the OB-6 switches to the current settings of its knobs and switches.

A dual effects section provides studio-quality reverbs, delays (including standard and BBD), chorus, and faithful recreations of Tom Oberheim’s acclaimed phase shifter and ring modulator. The effects are digital, with 24-bit, 48 kHz resolution, but a true bypass maintains a full analog signal path. Additionally, the OB-6 features a multimode arpeggiator and a polyphonic step sequencer with up to 64 steps (and up to 6 notes per step) plus rests. It allows polyphonic keyboard input and can sync to external MIDI clock.

The full-size, four-octave, semi-weighted keyboard is velocity and aftertouch sensitive. Said Dave Smith, “As with the Prophet-6, we made size a primary concern on the OB-6. It’s the right mix of power and portability and it fits right in on-stage or in the studio.”

The OB-6 is manufactured and sold by Dave Smith Instruments. It has a US MAP of $2,999."

http://www.davesmithinstruments.com/product/ob-6/

Electribe 012 Processing the Monotribe

Published on Mar 3, 2016 Computing.Sound

"Thanks to tarekith for the idea to do parallel processing with the Electribe 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF9DK... [featured here in order]

Check out his videos, they're really good and in-depth.

The Korg Monotribe is routed into the Audio-Input of the Electribe 2.
On the first eight pads OSC TYPE is set to "409 Audio In".

Each part is filtered. 1 by a low-pass filter, 2-7 by a band-pass and 8 by a high-pass. These filters are modulated by mod type 67 Random.
Additionally the IFX is on and set to 24 Short Delay.

On the master I used 01 Mod Delay.

Recorded this with my phone and a Zoom H-5."

Novation // Launchpad Pro Techno-Jam by Alexander Franz

Published on Mar 3, 2016 NovationTV

Walkthrough in German below.

"In this performance, our very own Alex Franz performs with the Launchpad Pro and Bass Station 2. Utilising the MIDI i/o of the Launchpad Pro, he controls the Bass Station 2 to create some morphing white noise and manipulate the synth's patches.

Free Project File available here:
https://www.novationmusic.com/communi...

For more information on the Launchpad Pro, please visit:
https://www.novationmusic.com/launch"

Novation // Launchpad Pro - Techno-Jam Performance Explained by Alexander Franz

Uploaded on Jan 25, 2016

"In this tutorial video, Alexander Franz takes us through just some of the functionality of Novation's expansively updated product by explaining in-depth his Launchpad Pro performance."

Modular Jam 48

Published on Mar 3, 2016 ngarjuna

"Patch Notes:

Guitar Loops
Guitars performed and recorded by the fabulous Rich Prewett before being chopped and mangled

Lead Voice
The Rene pattern starts to feedback (via Woggle CV from the Wogglebug being fed Rene's pitch output and clock) at around 4:30 or so. From there the pattern continues to bend and wind as the attenuator gets wiggled until it gets snapped back to the familiar refrain

The patch itself consists of Rene driving the STO and Rubicon which are cross modulating:
Rubicon's sine is going through the uVCA (enveloped by Intellijel ADSR) into the STO linear FM
STO's sine goes through Optomix ch 1 enveloped by Maths into the TZFM input on Rubicon (full CW so not through zero)
The cross modulated output of the STO is additionally shape modulated by SUM out from Maths (which includes some offset and some PEG) and piped into the Optomix ch 2 enveloped by other Maths with Sequencer 1's LFO providing Damping modulation

Unlike most of my patches this one has not been subjected to any post processing: no reverbs, no delays or phasers; processing only seemed to obscure the nicer details of this particular patch.

West Coast Bass Patch
STO vari out to Optomix 2 enveloped and struck by Maths. STO sine out to Timbre input. Dynamic (uVCA opened by Woggle stepped out) FM from Sputnik 2
Timbre modulated by Maths
Optomix 1 opened by Intellijel ADSR and Damp modulated by Sequencer 1
Sequencer 1 LFO modulating Maths fall (Optomix ch 2)

East Coast Bass Patch
Rubicon square out and some noise from the Quantum Rainbow put through the Post Lawsuit Filter into the AJH Minimod VCA enveloped by Minimod EG and Intellijel ADSRs with some gentle PEG'ing and Pittsburgh Oscillator LFO'ing

Robot Humming Patch
In Kaivo I ran modulating Compressor Hiss through the metal string and one of the chambers
Then that rich timbre dancing mess got put through Array where the spectral filtering was sequenced

Pluck Patches
Fairly straightforward Ngarjuna Make Noise plucks: STO FM'd by Rubicon into Optomix, add Maths and PEG
The alternating line with the more common 3 note pluck is a variation using the two Sputniks cross modulating through the Timbre and into the other Optomix channel. Quantum Rainbow provided some additional modulation

Acid cooked in Klanghelm SDRR
Drums in Spark (electronic) and Jamstix (shakers and hand percussion)

and of course my trusty Tektronix 422 scope providing the trippy light show."

David Burgess Moog Solo

Published on Feb 24, 2016 David Burgess

"This is just a basic tune I started knocking around when I first got my MiniMoog Voyager Old School..."

And a Sequential Circuits Prophet-600.

This one in via Soviet Space Child.

After Hours - Three synth Jams

Published on Mar 3, 2016 GForce Software

"Good hardware and good software should always play well together.

Here are three examples of what we get up to after-hours as the sun sets and we start to wind down. The first two tracks are totally live improvisations using both software and hardware instruments, while the third track was initially recorded as a live 808, Oberheim 8 Voice & Modular synth jam, before several extra overdubs were added.; again, some software and some hardware.

Because it all has to come from the music, we don't only use GForce plug-ins either and here you'll find other good food from plug-ins such as Soundiron's Emotional Piano, Spectrasonics' Omnisphere & Stylus, iZotope's Iris, plus the AAS Lounge Lizard (through iZotope's wonderful DDLY), all sitting alongside impOSCar2, Minimonsta and Oddity2.

For the hardware fetishists, instruments include the Roland Jupiter 8, Oberheim 8 Voice, Prophet 5, Yamaha CS-80, Roland TR-808, Minimoog, Moog Sub37, EMS AKS, Simmons SDS-V, Roland SH-101 and a modular synth so special we daren't speak its name.

All music by GForce's Dave Spiers."