Happy The Man - Knee Bitten Lymphs in Limbo Solos

Published on Sep 20, 2016 Reuben Jones

"All hail Kit Watkins' MiniMoog playing, and Happy The Man in general!

Easily my joint favourite prog band along with Gentle Giant and National Health.

Anyone who has played a Korg MS10 will know that it doesn't have the most playable keybed around, so that's my excuse for any mishaps!"

@knobcon: Kilpatrick Audio - Carbon - Sequencer and Performance System - Midiverse - TV

Published on Sep 20, 2016 MIDI-VERSE TV

"What's up everyone, Welcome to Midiverse - TV. Today we're at Knobcon 2016 at the Kilpatrick Audio Booth checking out their brand new sequencer, Carbon."

@knobcon: Qu-Bit Electronix - Wave & Chord - Eurorack Modules - Midiverse - TV

Published on Sep 20, 2016 MIDI-VERSE TV

"What's up everyone, Welcome to Midiverse - TV. Today we're at Knobcon 2016 at the Qu-Bit Electronix Booth checking out The Wave, and also The Chord."

@knobcon: Tsyklon Labs - BTN MASHR & Custom Chaos Divider Panels - Midiverse - TV

Published on Sep 20, 2016 MIDI-VERSE TV

"What's up everyone, Welcome to Midiverse - TV. Today we're at Knobcon 2016 at the Tsyklon Labs Booth checking out The BTN MASHR and also some cool custom panels for the Chaos Divider Eurorack Module."

FeelsGoodMan - #Eurorack Jamsession

Published on Sep 20, 2016 Colin Benders

"what started as a clean setup escalated into this song."

MATRIXSYNTH Review and Overview of the Novation UltraNova - Filters & Voice Sections

You'll find the next installment of my Novation UltaNova review here. In this round, we take a look at the UltraNova's filters & voice sections. Note, the link will take you directly to the start of the Filters section. If you want to start at the beginning of the review click here. You can also scroll up of course. This is a long review, so to make things easier on you, and me :), it's going up in sections.

Soundfly: 606–909: THE LEGENDARY ROLAND DRUM MACHINE SERIES

Soundfly just posted an article featuring the classic Roland x0x drum machines, including videos, interesting bits of history, and tons of links. Click through for the full post.

"Ah, that classic beat, marching ever onward, familiar as the beat of our own hearts. But the beats we’re so consumed with, the sounds that so commonly drive our daily lives, are not only not the sound of a beating heart (a robot heart, maybe), they’re not organic sounds at all.

Yes, yes, whether you like it or not, the music we consume is predominantly set in time by that which we call the drum machine.

And while there are an infinite number of analog and digital drum machines on the market, most tend towards the ephemeral, finding favor among a few artists for a few years, before the sound becomes dated and the artists move on. But owing to some mystical fake-drum alchemy, for nearly 40 years, the Roland series of 606s through 909s have managed to find relevance again and again."

Mune: Sneak Peek #5

Published on Sep 20, 2016 Mune

"We took the Mune for a spin by performing a song Josh Bourden composed on Ableton Live!

This video illustrates the ability to change modes based on the orientation of the Mune. We used the Combo Mode to play the synth pad live while changing the cutoff and resonance of a separate pad. We also used Mixer Mode to fade in certain tracks during the intro and outro.

Finally, specific buttons on the Mune were mapped to launch the next scene in our Ableton set and trigger beat repeats for the hi-hats.

Order the Mune on Kickstarter today!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/9..."

Vintage Synth Lab - VCF 74 *First Patch*

Published on Sep 20, 2016 DivKidVideo

Watch your volume levels for this one - some glitchy sound at times.

"The VCF-74 from Vintage Synth Lab is a discrete diode filter inspired by the 1970s Mini-Korg 'Traveller'. I think it's ace! Here it is sounding thick and bulbous with my *First Patch*. The idea with the *First Patch* videos to to share a quick demo showing off the direct sound and the first few things the module makes me want to do. Full overview coming soon."

Details on the Vintage Synth Lab VCF 74 previously posted here.

New HexInverter Red Dragon - Soviet Filter Core Eurorack Module

HexInverter - Red Dragon Prototype - MVM #47

Published on Sep 20, 2016 MIDI-VERSE TV

"What's up everyone, Welcome to Midiverse - TV. Today we're at Knobcon 2016 at the HexInverter Booth checking out The Red Dragon prototype module."

Details via Hexinverter:

"The Red Dragon is a 24dB/oct 4-pole low-pass filter realised with a unique Soviet-era filter core. The curious filter structure of the Red Dragon favours character over precision; sure to impart colourful tone in your source material.

During the 1980's, a Russian electronics designer realised that one could build a musical filter using a fairly unconventional method. Unlike most other filter topologies, this method did not use capacitors to employ an RC time constant in its core filter stages. Instead, the internal properties of a programmable amplifier chip are modulated by a special "programming" input found on these devices. One of the modified properties is bandwidth of the amplifier. Changing this particular attribute over time effectively limits the frequencies that can pass through the amplifier, resulting in filtering! Because attributes other than bandwidth are also changing at the same time, this filter stage has instabilities at certain frequencies along the audible spectrum, resulting in colourful distortions and a character all of its own. The resonance's character is especially profound, resulting in bubbly and sometimes screeching sci-fi tones. The Red Dragon achieves a 24dB/oct resonant low-pass response by cascading four of these stages. What's more, you can morph between the two pole extremes (6dB and 24dB) to change the slope of the filter on the fly, either manually or through voltage control.

Rich 4-pole filtering with a control set made just for modular synthesizers
Designed from the ground up for versatility in the modular system, the Red Dragon features bipolar attenuverters on its many CV inputs
Voltage controlled resonance
Resonance is capable of self-oscillation. A resonance clipping switch can tame the resonance feedback at extreme settings, resulting in different tone
Built in VCA (with disable) after filter saves you the use of a dedicated VCA module
Signal and CV levels optimised for the contemporary eurorack modular system (+/-5V CV, 10Vpp+ audio)
Filter morphing
Morph between 6dB and 24dB filter slopes, or set it in-between. While 24dB excels at meaty bass sounds, the brighter filter slope of 6dB is sometimes desirable for signals with higher frequency content
Filter morphing is voltage controlled, and results in some interesting effects when modulated
A dual colour LED indicates filter morph position and VCA level
Core overdrive
Built-in filter core overdrive at the input stage allows you to vary your signal's level up to full saturation. No need to boost signal level before filtering for those classic overdriven sounds!
Voltage control of input drive lets you modulate the saturation of the filter over time. Useful for the "velocity" modulation needed to produce acidic basslines!"