MATRIXSYNTH

estradin 2 (kraftwerk-robots)

Published on Apr 2, 2016 conor paxton

"quick video demoing the vcf, envelopes and vca of my Estradin, russian MiniMoog clone. sadly the vcos are not operational at the moment but i am sure it is only something small. unfortunately i cannot read russian so any help with schematics would be great appreciated. 2 vco's from my MiniMoog voyager old school are feed into the external input. (straight from the mixer out of the voyager, just pure oscillators)

terrible tribuite to the kraftwerk, just so i don't get sued, i did not write any of this music :)"

Lost Years - Nuclear (Tiergrinder Synth Cover)

Published on Apr 2, 2016 tiergrinder

"My adaptation from Lost Years track Nuclear.

Gear used :
ROLAND JUNO-106
ROLAND SH-01 GAIA
JUPITER CLONE
KORG VOLCA BASS
LEXICON MPX100
TASCAM 16x08"

Volca FM Day 1 - With Korg Minilogue, Roland TR8 and RE-301

Published on Apr 2, 2016 Earmonkey Music

"Got the Korg Volca FM yesterday. It is extremely musical and easy to approach, even if you don't completely understand what's happening under the hood. I can't say I can make it do what I want, but I can make it do all kinds of things and that may be even better. Sometimes inspiration and order comes from chaos. In this video here's what's going on:

I'm controlling the Volca from the Mopho SE keyboard. The Volca is clock-synced from the Minilogue via the Minilogue's Volca sync output. The TR8 is synced also from the Minilogue via MIDI. Those Korg blokes are so damn smart.... The Volca and Minilogue are both running into the Roland RE-301, and get some chorus from Valhalla Ubermod.

I am only manipulating four different parameter settings on the Volca to get this huge variety is sound. There are two sliders, one for Transpose, which (surprise) transposes the notes up or down octaves, and one for Velocity control. The Velocity gives velocity info to your incoming notes played and can significantly vary the sound. I have not found a way to get the FM to respond to velocity in from the keyboard so if anyone out there knows how to do that please make a comment and let me know.

The other two parameters I'm messing with in the video are the Modulator Attack and Release. As I understand FM, you have a sine wave (operator) that acts as a Carrier, then additional waves (Modulators) that act as, well, modulators. By manipulating the modulator waves, you get a huge variation in the timbre.

Honestly, I'm not really sure what's happening on the technical level, but I do know it sounds totally bitchin.

Finally, the FM has an arpeggiator which I engage at about 3:50. Add some Minilogue lead, and later a beat from the TR8, and this little box is one of the most musical, most inspiring pieces of kit I have bought in a long time. It's just fun. Hope you enjoy."

KORG ELCTRIBE 2 // CWEJMAN QMMF-4 // HOUSE LOOP FILTERED

Published on Apr 2, 2016 LESINDES

"Analogue at its best: KORG ELECTRINE 2 HOUSE loop gets some filter treatment from CWEJMAN QMMF-4 4 band multimode filter + a little help from MAKE NOISE ECHOPHON"

KORG MINILOGUE // ASSOERTED OWN SOUND CREATIONS

Published on Apr 2, 2016 LESINDES

"Programming an tweaking sounds on the MINILOGUE is lots of fun.
Combining the poly SEQUQNCER set to quarter or half notes with the ARPEGGIATOR is creating very long patterns in the KORG MINILOGUE.."

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Korg minilogue demo

Published on Apr 2, 2016 Michael Kukat

"Okay, why not? I usually don't do synth reviews because i have more clue about their inner workings than the sound quality. So this one is more from an engineer's point of view than from a musician's one, but maybe someone finds it interesting.

I usually avoid buying more studio gear because i neither have the talent nor the time to make music besides my other hobbies, but Korg is very successful in selling me stuff like Volcas and now this minilogue, because you get a serious amount of fun for the money. While Volcas are simple plastic boxes and (besides the fun factor) not much more than you would expect for the price, the minilogue really has an impressive overall quality for the money and while it still has some minor firmware bugs here and there, it's stable enough meanwhile to have lots of fun with it.

I recorded audio from the synth in higher quality, but as the audio path was different from than the one i heard on my speakers, i didn't notice that my level adjustment i performed before wasn't optimal for some situations. So there are some distortions here and there that don't come from the synth. But most of the audio track sounds okay."

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Pro One super synthbass

Published on Apr 2, 2016 SYNTH GURU

"a great synthbass patch fro Pro-One!"

Knas Ekdahl Moisturizer 'demo'

Published on Apr 2, 2016 Peter Maas

"Some folks on the 'Synthesizer Freaks' group were interested in practical use of the the Knas Moisturizer in a synthesizer context. Made a quick video while working on a patch to illustrate this. No post processing, all reverb/overdrive/filtering done by the Moisturizer. Filter amount is modulated lightly by an LFO in the Modular."