Moog Opus 3 Synthesizer Overview

Published on Dec 19, 2016 ProckGnosis

"WARNING: yet another LENGTHY, "for synth geeks" focused vid (see menu below to select other parts of the video). Also another sort-of retro review (like the Yamaha CS-5 overview), this time with the Moog Opus 3, an underrated polyphonic/paraphonic Moog synth from the early 80's. Great for the 70's "string machine" style chorus sounds and some punchy, synthy sounds running through that 24dB Moog filter. Though the synth is a bit limited in capability, it makes up for it in the "how it sounds" department.

00:00 Intro
03:12 The Strings Section
08:08 The Organ Section
12:00 The Brass Section
16:35 Modulation and Running the Organ thru Filter and Chorus
25:05 The Articulator (VCA) and the Output Mix

And just in case it wasn't clear the couple times I mentioned it in the video, the reworked ProckGnosis opening theme was done entirely with the Moog Opus 3 and some Reason drums."

Roland TB03 Bass Line

Published on Dec 19, 2016 3rdStoreyChemist

"Messing around with a TB03 synthesiser.

No further processing used except for normalisation."

Adventures in Synthesis: Glitchy Shift Register Feedback

Published on Dec 19, 2016 Chris Beckstrom

"I'm finishing up a techno album at the moment (which we be available for free at chrisbeckstrom.bandcamp.com soon!), and thought it would be refreshing to make some nonrhythmic music with my modular. This is a patch that some might not even consider music- and that's ok. We can agree to disagree.

These glitchy, distorted blips and beeps are a pretty good aural expression of how I feel about 2016.

PATCH NOTES
This patch is based on a bunch of feedback: things modulating other things modulating other things which eventually find their way back and modulate the first thing. When I try to do this on the computer I end up crashing everything. With analog circuits there is nothing to crash: it sounds awesome.

The pitch of an oscillator is modulated by the output of an R/2R resistor ladder, which is receiving gate signals from a 4-step shift register. The shift register is clocked by a square oscillator. The input of the shift register- the thing that gets it going, so to speak- is the output of a clock divider which is listening to the triangle wave coming out of the original oscillator. (It's not really a triangle wave- it's more of a rounded square wave, so the clock divider has no trouble spitting out divisions.) In this way there is a feedback loop: the oscillator speed is controlling its own rate of modulation! This accounts for the periods of silence or relative stasis. A few times throughout the video I make the oscillator go faster, which in turn modulates itself more, causing more activity. Turning the big oscillator knob to the left slows everything down.

Two wave outputs of the main oscillator- square and triangle- are routed into three inputs of a sequential switch. The third input to this sequential switch is the output of a saw wave oscillator. This saw wave oscillator's pitch is modulated by a 10 step sequencer, which in turn is clocked by the pulse output of the main oscillator. The sequential switch is clocked by another divided output of the main oscillator, again causing a feedback loop. The fourth input to the switch is the output of a module I call "space noise," which is really just a bunch of square wave oscillators making clicking sounds. I often use it for random modulation at slower rates; at faster rates, it's just noisy clicking.

As the sequential switch steps through each of its four channels, we're basically hearing each input in order: first the "space noise" clicking, then the main square wave oscillator, then the saw wave, then finally the triangle from the main oscillator. When the sequential switch is clocked slowly, we can hear each wave as if we were muting and unmuting four channels on a mixer in order. At fast speeds (audio rates) we hear the four outputs as a single wave. This phenomenon- things sounding completely different depending how quickly we hear them- never ceases to amaze and entertain me.

Finally, the saw oscillator (step three in the sequential switch) is being modulated by another 10 step sequencer, which is in turn clocked with yet another square wave oscillator. The clock divider which is clocking the sequential switch is receiving reset messages (gates) from the "space noise" module, which causes the clock division to become a bit random and glitchy.

The mono output of the modular goes into a mixer and some of the modular is sent to a vintage (90's!) Alesis Microverb II digital reverb, which is brought back into the mixer on two channels for some nice stereo. I like the combination of gritty analog sounds and gritty digital reverb. The Microverb came from a church, and I can guarantee they never put anything like these sounds through it."

Elastic Drums 2nd birthday update 1.9.5

Published on Dec 19, 2016 Oliver Greschke

iTunes: Elastic Drums - O-G-SUS

"Elastic Drums Version 1.9.5 comes with new presets and some bugfixes and improvements. Additionally there is now a sample kit available via InAppPurchase by German sound designer Matthias Sauer aka App Sound, that offers a broad variety of sounds (170 samples), usable for all kind of music styles. See a video about the sample kit here: https://youtu.be/Cz9X_pntbFs"

App Sound Sample Pack for Elastic Drums

Published on Dec 16, 2016

"A collection with 170 new samples (acoustic + electronics drums, fx + chords) and 12 presets for iOS Elastic Drums. Get this sample pack via In-App-Purchase."

SHOWTIME - Tiergrinder (Ensoniq EPS , Jupiter Clone, Roland GAIA)

Published on Dec 19, 2016 tiergrinder

'Gear used :
Synth Hit - Ensoniq EPS (DX7 Clav Sample)
FX Melody - Ensoniq EPS (DX7 Sitar Sample)
Bass line - Korg Polysix VST
Intro Theme - Roland SH-01 Gaia
Synth Lead - Roland SH-01 Gaia
White noise swoosh - Roland SH-01 Gaia
Arpeggio line - Jupiter Clone
Bended Synth - Jupiter Clone
Poly chords - Jupiter Clone
Toms - Simmons SDSV samples
Kick and Snare - TR-707 (Compressed, EQ'd and layered)
Hihats - Alesis HR-16 samples"

The Jetsons - Featuring Korg Electribe 2

Published on Dec 19, 2016 JediSid

"Electronic music featuring the Korg Electribe 2 on its own. No external effects of processing."

ARP Odyssey - Jam

Published on Dec 18, 2016 Adam Borseti

"Got my ARP Odyssey right here, baby! I was working on a track using the ARP for all the synth stuff, and the Yamaha CP-20 (underneath it) for the Piano stuff when I decided to record my progress. Before anyone asks, no - I didn't save this track..... it was too loud!"

OSCiLLOT Modular System v 1.1.2

Published on Dec 19, 2016 max forcats

"OSCiLLOT v. 1.1.2 - New Modules and Features! Gesture following, Chaos Modulations and more....
http://www.ableton.com/en/packs/oscillot

See the full changelog here: http://maxforcats.com/forums/topic/la...
Max for Cats crafts Software Instruments, Effects, MIDI devices, Sound Design and Samples for Ableton Live."

Tonnetz Game

Published on Dec 19, 2016 voltlife

"A mellow ambient track, based around simple harmonies from Tonnetz Sequent driven by a Pittsburgh Game System. More patch details to follow."

"Farfalle Bianche" - theme with JP-8, OB-Xa, DMX, MSQ-700

Published on Dec 18, 2016 SynthMania

"This song is born from a memory that I have as a child. I spent the summers of my childhood in the late 1970s in Punta Ala, a nice coastal town in Italy. There were many meadows where kids, including me, played. In the summer, there were lots of beautiful white butterflies, and we children had so much fun looking at them and chasing them. This theme is dedicated to those butterflies, in remembrance of those happy days, and has influences of the music I heard in those days, especially John Barry's theme to "The Persuaders", the "Guardiano del Faro", and a bit of later Synth Pop. I used two of my favorite synths in combination, the Jupiter-8 and the OB-Xa. Thank you and I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed composing this piece."