MATRIXSYNTH

SH 3acid workout

Published on Jun 9, 2016 Unun Septium

"I keep coming across these 'expert' opinions telling me that the Roland SH-3a doesn't really make a very good bass synth. Well, I suppose it depends what kind of bass you're after.

If you ever hear this myth being perpetuated, just remember these two words: Distortion pedal. It was good enough for the TB-303.

This little workout uses the valve distortion of a Digitech BP8 (hence the noise). Since the SH-3a doesn't have CV and Gate, I'm not using a sequencer here, it's just the Sample & Hold and the LFOs generating that annoyingly repetitive pattern."

Live Synth Jam 43:Korg Volca, Roland Boutique, Renoise

Published on Jun 9, 2016 Todd Smith

"The Roland Boutique JP-08 arrives !! This jam uses the tracker based sequencer, Renoise. I've been ripping my studio apart left and right trying to find the best setup for me and Renoise. In this quickie I only use the Korg Volca Bass, Roland Boutique JU-06 and Roland Boutique JP-08. Renoise supplies the drum samples and all the sequencing. Renoise is slaved to Ableton via Rewire, Ableton handles the multi track recording. I kept most of the gear out because I wanted to focus on the Roland Boutique sounds. The Korg Volca Bass Supplies the bass. The Roland Boutique JU-06 takes on the lead synthesizer sequence and the Roland Boutique JP-08 handles the pad In this jam my max loop with Renoise is 128 steps. I plan on controlling the drum mutes in future jams but with this one I just laid everything like one big track and played live over it. After this jam I have a very good idea how my final setup will be with Renoise. Thank you for watching, please subscribe.

: Gear Used :

Korg Volca Bass
Roland Boutique JU-06
Roland Boutique JU-08
Alesis QX49
Midi Solutions Quarda Thru
Behringer Micromix MX400
Tascam US-144mkII Audio Interface
Waves Supertap6 ( VST )
Waves Trueverb ( VST )
Ableton Live 8 ( Used as digital mixer / multi track )
Ozone"

Tone2 Icarus 3D Wavetable Synthesizer - Vocoder

Published on Jun 9, 2016 Synth Anatomy

"Icarus 3D Wavetable Synthesizer is the new plugin from the German developer Team Tone2. This Wavetable Synthesizer brings this synthesis technology to a new level. In this video, I demonstrate the Vocoder inside this new plugin. With the cross-mod possibility, you can create very unique sounds.

More informations here: https://www.tone2.com/html/icarus.html"

Jeff Babko Interviewed by Dave Smith Instruments

You'll find the full interview here.

On the Prophet-6 and OB-6:

"DSI: You’ve been a vocal promoter of the Prophet-6.

Yes. The OB-6, too. They’re a beautiful team. The synths feel natural. They’re warm, they’re thick. Both the Prophet-6 and the OB-6 have different characters, a different color. Clearly when you A/B them, they are different instruments. The layout is different, but the character is different, too. They are both solid, super exciting instruments. They are like children to me; I cannot choose one over the other. I think they are both really intuitive, remarkably musical instruments. They’re really great to have in my arsenal, because I feel like I connect with these instruments.

I have Mono backpack bags for both synths. If I can show up with just a backpack and the raddest piece of equipment, that’s a pretty good day! I feel like I have this whole world of opportunity on my back. It takes me back to what initially excited me about synthesizers.

Once I turn them on, it’s difficult to leave. The gates of opportunity just open and immediately these warm, interesting, dimensional sounds cause me to want to write music. They are a composer’s best friend.

I’ve never been a real soft synth guy. Some composers like soft synths because they need to call up a sound, grab it, plug it in, and it works. I’ve always looked at it as: “I want to provide a sound — my sound.” If you’re a guitar player, you choose your Strat or your Tele or your Les Paul and you decide what you’re going to run it through. I’ve always felt that I was coming from the same direction. With these synths, I turn them on and call up a sound, but then I immediately tweak and get it to where it feels good to me and then that’s my instrument. It’s not just fulfilling a role, that’s my voice. Both of these synthesizers are such unique voices. They’re just brilliant instruments."

Sneak Peak at Ken MacBeth's Upcoming M7-D Synthesizer

Some pics of Ken MacBeth's latest creation. Note this is clearly in development stage. You can see the paper face in the last pic. Some notes from Ken:

"Here's the upper section of what I'm working on- I call it M7-D. Infact- try to imagine 4 rows of slider parameters and you are getting there!.....more to follow!........this is at a very experimental stage, but it's up, running!- this by the way- a card fronted prototype.....let's me visualise things !"

Top Row:

LFO
VCF
VCF CONTROL MIXER
VCF ENVELOPE GENERATOR
VCA ENVELOPE GENERATOR
EXTERNAL MOD-1

Bottom Row:

LFO CONTROL
KBD
VCO1
VCO2
NOISE/RING MOD
EXTERNAL MOD 2

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LondonModular @ BLOC WEEKEND

Published on May 4, 2016 London Modular

"Footage from Bloc Weekend 2016 in Minehead, UK. Chats with Carl Craig, Surgeon, Blawan, Ansome, Defekt and... former snooker World champion Steve Davis"

Teenage Engineering OP-1 Downtempo Dub

Published on Jun 9, 2016 RemixSample RemixSample

"Downtempo beats harvested from the tape of my OP-1.
http://instagram.com/remixsample"

Update:

Teenage Engineering OP1 More Downtempo Beats

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"星流" Vox Starstream (using Sustain Model) played by Yuichi Onoue(尾上祐一)

Published on Jun 3, 2016 TorigoyaSound

This one in via TorigoyaSound. Filing this one under guitar synths. Listen to the sustained synthetic tones coming out of it.

"星流" - Star Stream
written and performed by Yuichi Onoue(尾上祐一)

Yuichi Onoue plays Vox Starstream VSS-1 Modeling Guitar. Using 'Sustain Guitar' model. The notes(chords) you play are sustained.

Starstream is basically electric/acoustic modelling guitar.
It includes 27 preset tones processed by a powerful DSP engine AREOS-D system. But there are three synthetic sound presets, too. 'Sustain' is one of them. The notes you play are sustained with vibrato(or without vibrato). Of course, this sustain sound is processed by DSP engine AREOS-D system."