MATRIXSYNTH

Synth song #9

Published on Nov 21, 2016 organfairy

"The rhythm of this melody is a little unusual: It is made by running a simple low frequency square wave through a homemade spring reverb. I have never tried that before.

Another first for me is to connect an envelope generator to the pitch control so that each notes starts by the tone generator ramping up the frequency from zero and ramping down again when the note is released.

Finally I am using the little "cigar box synth" for the solo in the middle."

Soundfly Launches New Free Course on Ableton Live with Andrew Huang

via Soundfly:

"Soundfly launches new free course with YouTube star Andrew Huang on making music with found sounds in Ableton Live

Andrew Huang has gotten millions of views on YouTube for making creative songs using only balloons, glasses of water, dental equipment, pairs of jeans, and much more. Soundfly's brand new series Any Sound Will Do, launching today, will pull back the curtain on how he does it — and teach you how to turn everyday objects into musical instruments using a microphone and Ableton Live.

Pretty much anything can be a musical instrument, with the right knowledge and a copy of Ableton Live. In this series, some of the world's best at using found sounds in their music take you through their approaches to capturing, manipulating, and shaping everyday items to make more interesting music. The free series includes two micro-courses: "Capturing and Warping Samples in Ableton Live" with Ableton Certified Trainer, Brian Jackson, and "Making Music From Everyday Items" with YouTube star Andrew Huang. Both courses are completely free and take only an hour of your time!

https://soundfly.com/series/any-sound-will-do"

Bottom pic: Ableton Certified Trainer Brian Jackson

Deluge by Synthstrom Audible

Published on Nov 21, 2016 Synthstrom Audible

"Deluge by Synthstrom Audible. Portable sequencer, sampler and synthesiser.
Pre-orders close midnight Nov 25th (US ET)
For more info: www.synthstrom.com"

NOISE & BLOCKS: Groove Kits

Published on Nov 21, 2016 ROLI

"You barely need to lift a finger to make catchy, rhythmic grooves with a NOISE Groove Kit. When you press the Lightpad Block surface, you trigger drum patterns that evolve and interact as you use your fingers to slide and glide.

Every movement takes your groove in a new direction, and subtle changes in pressure vary the rhythm and timbre of each drum pattern."

theseathesea

Published on Nov 21, 2016 UncertainMusicCorps

"Short excerpt of a self-playing system that has been evolving here over several days. Chordal structures from OSC-02+ Quantimator, side processed through Elements. Other random elements also appear from time to time thanks to some very fuzzy logic processing. Audio taken direct to camera with no overdubs or post-processing."

DreamsOfWires - Intellijel Atlantis & iPulsaret (iPad)

Published on Nov 21, 2016 DreamsOfWires

"Here's one I prepared earlier...

Ingredients: 1 sound of your choice, recorded into iPulsaret (any onboard mic will suffice). Mix and fold into a rough dough using iPulsaret's many parameters. Set to one side to cool. Then introduce some noodlings of filter resonance from the Atlantis, followed by a simple sequence of notes, into which you blend various waveforms until it starts to get boring.

Fortunately for me at least, such things don't seem to get old.

Recorded into Cubasis on an iPad with Virsyn's Audio Reverb. This composition started life as an iPulsaret recording, but in this version the Atlantis part was actually recorded first, then the iPulsaret overdubbed afterwards (thus making timing easier). Just a few recent, contextual video clips this time. It never seems to stop raining.

Thanks to everyone for your continued support, it means a lot."

iTunes: iPulsaret - apeSoft

Roland TR-8, TB-3, Ju-06, VP-03 + Novation Circuit + Korg Volca FM Acid House Jam

Published on Nov 21, 2016 anode8

"Here's another hardware live acid house session featuring the Roland TR-8, TB-3, JU-06, VP-03, Novation Circuit, Korg Volca FM, and Suzuki RPM-40. This is just one or two elements from each machine, blended together to make the groove.

Roland TR-8: Kick, hats, ride, clap, snare
Roland TB-3: acid bassline
Roland JU-06: LFO pad
Roland VP-03: string layer over pad
Novation Circuit: kick, clap, bleep, & midi trigger for JU-06 & VP-03
Suzuki RPM-40: preset disco rhythms
Korg Volca FM: melodic beeps"

Tangle VSTi - Modular FM plugin for VST/AU

Published on Nov 21, 2016 Computing.Sound

Patch 20112016 A // A Bunch of Waves, Tangle VSTi (Beta)
Patch 20112016 B // Synth Kalimba, Tangle VSTi (Beta)

"Just a little patch I did using the Tangle VSTi by Sound Guru.
http://sound-guru.com/software/tangle/

Needs some further exploration."

"TANGLE

Modular FM plugin for VST/AU

You don't usually see the words 'simple' and 'modular synth' in the same sentence. But that's what Tangle aims to be. Just 12 components, and a canvas to put them on. Hook them up to explore with new combinations and cross-pollinations of FM, AM, subtractive, and comb delay synthesis.

Tangle is in early access beta, and has a reduced price. Beta buyers will receive free updates including all 1.x releases. Contribute to development and influence new feature

Meet the team...

Screenshot of waveform browser.
Components

On the canvas, minature components represent elements in your sound. They show information about the object's settings, and quick controls for important parameters. Selecting one or more objects brings up a detailed panel for each object, which exposes the full controls.

Components are built for simplicity and flexibility. For example, each oscillator has an internal ADSR envelope to reduce clutter on the graph. But if you want, you can turn it off and plug in a multi-stage envelope instead. Another example is a delay component which can be used both in a regular way and as comb filter for Karplus string synthesis.

Oscillator blend between several waveforms, use as audio or LFO
Filter choose from zero-delay, warm 24db, or 12db SVF types.
Noise includes unusual types like crackle, hiss & pink.
Envelope infinite curve and step stages, loops, modulatable times.
Sequencer modulatable 'Cartesian' style inspired by MakeNoise.
Macro knob and XY Pad for control and DAW automation.
Quantise for restricting control signal values
MixPan with several algorithm for unusual mix & pan modulations
Delay in seconds, beats or hertz, with modulatable time & cutoff
Expression capture velocity, aftertouch etc.
Scope view signal from any component on the canvas.

Oscillator

The Tangle's oscillator functions both at audio rates and as an LFO. All the standard waveshapes are here... plus about 5,000 more from Adventure Kid. You can easily add your own to the waveform folder too.

The handy waveform browser loads, displays, scrolls and searches thousands of waves as smooth as butter. Each oscillator can load and blend dynamically between 4 waveforms.

In addition, the oscillator includes optional extras to reduce the number of components on your canvas: a simple ADSR envelope, stereo outputs, and 'slop' controls for unstable frequency and envelope times.

Screenshot of the synthesiser in action.
Polyphony & live patching

The Tangle is programmed in efficient native C++ and most patches can be played polyphonically with little CPU usage. To make things even more fun, there are several polyphonic glide algorithms and temperament selector allowing you to experiment with just intonation and other tunings.

If you want to get lost in some modular-style live patching, hit the 'start' toggle at the top of the screen and The Tangle begins droning a note. Add components and connect them on the fly – it'll be midnight before you know it! When you've added enough connections you'll understand why it's called Tangle...

Graph interactions

Several well-known music applications use the 'boxes and cables' approach. It allows the user a huge amount of freedom and creativity in exploring ideas, in a similar way to hardware modules. But in many cases the interaction in these programs is complex and slow.

The Tangle aims to simplify, streamline and beautify. Many small details add up to a smooth workflow.

Connect multiple objects to a single input. There's little need for mixer objects.
Blend signals by changing each input's strength and range, then adding or multiplying with other signals.
Oscilliscopes everywhere! Easily inspect the signal at different points.
Zoomable components with no loss in quality. Everything is drawn in vectors, so it looks gorgeous on today's high resolution screens.
Helpful tooltips give additional information on almost every control."