NES Chiptune Synth w/ custom arcade button MIDI controller

Published on May 11, 2016 Arcano Systems

"The Arcano MIDI NES Chiptune Synth 2 is an AVR-based MIDI music synthesizer for creating Nintendo NES-style chiptune music. Project page: http://kck.st/26aHK9e"

1985 - CZ-101 - bitleyTM's first synth

Published on May 11, 2016 bitleyTM

"This one was my first synth. Lots of love for it still to this day, MUST spend more time using it, completely stupid to leave it DUSTING! Here's a 1980's kid presenting... the Casio CZ-101!"

Modular Synth - Patch in Progress 31

Published on May 11, 2016 isvisible / isinvisible

"Working on a track with the Folktek Triad (Materia, Mentalis & Aether) and various Eurorack modules.

Cheers."

Live Korg Volca Jam 38 : Korg Volca, PO-12, Arturia Microbrute and MicroKorg.

Published on May 11, 2016 Todd Smith

"All the boys are in the same room with a new friend , the Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator ‑ Rhythm (PO‑12) !! I took out the Volca Beats and replaced it with the PO-12 for this jam. I was busy learning the PO-12 so I left the Roland Boutique out of this jam.The Korg Volca Keys, Teenage Engineering PO-12 and Arturia Microbrute are all on sequencer duty.The Arturia Microbrute supplies the low end bass. The Korg Volca Keys handles the lead synth, while the Teenage Engineering PO-12 takes a test ride as drums, I switched between 3 patterns and practiced using chain mode live. The Microkorg and Korg Volca Bass are linked by midi and both are played live from the Microkorg. My main goal with this jam was to see how the Teenage Engineering PO-12 would fit into my setup. Ableton live was used as a multi tack recorder and added VST effects. Waves Supertap6 supplied the delay."

Call to Help the SynthFreq & MsMotif-6s

Published on Dec 18, 2015 TheSynthFreq

This one is in via Greg Cole with the approval of Crystal Morales aka MsMotif-6s. Many of you will be familiar with the SynthFreq and MsMotif-6s work over the years. If you are in a situation where you can help, please do.

"Many of you know Danielle Morales, also known as SynthFreq on Youtube. Danielle and her sister Crystal have been making fantastic synth videos and great tunes for years now, check out their work here if you haven't already 'Filtered Maze' by TSF.

They both have quite serious ongoing health problems and have been going through some very hard and frightening times lately with these and also accomodation issues and the potential need to sell off their beloved synths to try and keep their apartment. They are struggling to resolve this themselves as Danielle has had to be rushed to hospital a number of times recently.

I'm hoping people would be willing to donate a small amount to help out and make sure the synth freqs get to keep the gear which makes them so happy and a roof over their heads. Danielle also creates fantastic art, some of which is synth-related so alternatively you could help out by purchasing some of her work.

You can make a donation to her paypal address which is: Danielledell123@yahoo.com [or Crystal's here: crystalumbro@yahoo.com]

Any amount would be helpful, I'm sure. I'm hoping the community can get behind this and make sure these girls can keep their gear and keep making awesome synth videos. I'm sure we all understand what a difference creating music can make to our lives when times are tough.

On behalf of Danielle and Crystal, thankyou for your help."

Radiohead in the Studio with SCI Prophet-5 & Moog Voyager

via @NME

".@Radiohead in the studio where they recorded #AMoonShapedPool - taken by Colin Greenwood at La Fabrique Studios"

Modular Minutes: Pentatonic Rubicon Octones by Tempi & Batumi

Published on May 11, 2016 Analogue Zone Showroom / Synths and Studio

http://www.analoguezone.com/

"Modular Minutes: Pentatonic Rubicon Octones by Tempi & Batumi

A poetic sequence with an Intellijel designs - Rubicon, a Pentatonic Qu-bit Electronix - Octone, a Make Noise - Tempi & XAOC Devices - Batumi

In this episode of Modular Minutes we are back with a unique combination of modules: The sound source is the Rubicon of which 4 different wavesforms are faded after one another with great amplification thanks to the exclusive de-emphasis circuitry of the Erica Synths Black Quad VCA. The timing of the waveform fades are controlled in a twisted way by the Make Noise Tempi, which modulates a slaved Batumi next to it. The tones are created by the Octone which is also clocked by the Make Noise Tempi. The higher notes are, the longer the reverb time and the Dry/Wet amount on the Black Hole DSP by Erica Synths, which sits at the end of the signal chain. Further modulation is added to the MMG to which the VCA's sum output is patched into. More details and nice features are in the comments section!"

DSP Synthesizers Splits Into 2 Sites

Just a heads up, there are now two DSP Synthesizer sites. One dedicated to DIY and one to prebuilt modules.

http://www.dspsynth.eu is the DIY site with chips.

http://www.dspmodular.eu is the site that sells prebuilt euro modules based on my chips.

Novation Circuit Test

Published on May 11, 2016 molotovsystem

"Picked this up yesterday 2nd hand for ridiculously cheap.
https://soundcloud.com/lukes-anger"

Novation Circuit Review & iPad Editor
https://us.novationmusic.com/circuit-components-components
Novation Circuits on eBay | Novation Circuits on Amazon

Andreas Schneider: "We should stop buying shit from China"

Published on May 11, 2016 Hispasonic

"Andreas Schneider, the mind behind Superbooth —the new trade show for synthesizers, based in Berlin—, talks about his reasons for leaving Musikmesse, an some other hot issues about the synth manufacturing sector."