Persephone by Carbon111

Persephone is the latest release from Carbon111. Long time readers of the site will know Carbon111 from his awesome synth (and more) resource site Carbon111.com. If you are not familiar with the site, do check it out. You will find in-depth resources on Serge, Mattson Mini Modular, Waldorf's Microwave series (including wavetable charts!), and much more.

But this post is about his latest release, Persephone. The official release date is tomorrow, however, the Bandcamp release is up now (embedded above). CD preorders are currently live and will ship by early December. The CDs will be a limited edition of 300, with custom handcrafted packaging, liner notes, and track list, all signed and numbered. They are professionally replicated CDs, not burned CDRs, and will come in a lovely handcrafted black case. The gorgeous cover painting is by Mike Dubisch.


"The music on this album was created with love and the following instruments:

John Bowen Solaris
Waldorf Microwave mk1
Waldorf Microwave XT
Vermona '14
Vermona Perfourmer
Vermona Mono Lancet
Serge Modular
Sequential Circuits Prophet 600
Sequential Circuits Six-Trak
Analogue Solutions Leipzig SK
Kawai K3 and K3m
Industrial Music Electronics "Azathoth"
Ensoniq VFX
Yamaha VL1 and VL1-m
Yamaha TG33
Nord Stage 76
Korg MS20
Korg Electribe ES-1
Korg Electribe ER-1
Acidlab Miami
Native Instruments Absynth
Native Instruments Kinetic Metal
Bowed Dulcimer
Critter & Guitari Kaleidoloop

All music written, produced and recorded by James Maier
Mastered by Hermetech Mastering

Copyright (c) 2017 James D. Maier

Public Domain animal sounds on 'Spring' courtesy of the US National Park Service

released November 9, 2017"

Glowing Euorack Patch Cables

Published on Nov 8, 2017 Reckless Experimentation Audio LLC

"Don't try this at home.
You will ruin your gear and burn down your house.

http://recklessexperimentationaudio.com

Trigger pulses generated by a modified sequencer drive a triac array that sends 120V AC to electroluminescent wire. The EL wire is wrapped around the patch cables. The patch cables use stereo jacks on one end and send the 120VAC though the middle ring."

Playing With The Stylophone Gen X-1

Published on Nov 8, 2017 Perfect Circuit Audio

"The Stylophone Gen X-1 is a battery powered synth with a stylus keyboard and ribbon touch pad. The Gen X-1 has a built in delay and an aux input that runs through the filter and delay. This video shows some sounds from the Stylophone as well as a Korg Volca Sample going into the aux input.

Available here: https://www.perfectcircuitaudio.com/d..."

Smokey Quartz - Pneumata #11

Published on Nov 8, 2017 Smokey Quartz

"In this Pneumata video the Metasonix S-1000 screams along with it's D-1000 drummer brother and Knas Ekdahl Polygamist lover friend. Also, I go playing in the rain."

Future Retro Revolution Analog Synthesizer

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Yamaha CS01 Monophonic Analog Synthesizer

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Yamaha SK10 - Vintage Strings Organ Brass Synth SN 8549 w/ Original Case

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Novation Circuit Patch Store - Sonic Horizons - Emynona

Novation Circuit Patch Store - Sonic Horizons - Emynona from Isotonik Studios on Vimeo.

"Sonic Horizons is the follow up to Mind Travellers from Emynona! 64 Patches / 16 Sessions / 64 Samples it’s a massive pack for the Novation Circuit.

MORE DETAILS - https://isotonikstudios.com/product/sonic-horizons-emynona/"

Lost In The Shadows 11-08-17 v1

Published on Nov 8, 2017 Marc S. Langelier

"Video Etude #1 - 'Lost In The Shadows' - Yeah, I know, I'm a week late on this one, but life is like that sometimes. What started out as an exploration of iOS 11's new screen record function, grew into a larger exploration of VegasPro 14, my own sound & video library and various audio software including AudioThing's Fog Convolver and Apps4iDevices' iPulsaret.

Featured Instruments/software: Borderlands, BoardWeevil 2015, iPulsaret, Animoog, Oscarizor, GRM Tools Evolution

Other instruments and effects: Fog Convolver, Reaktor, iDensity, Paul's Extreme Sound Stretch...

Other important software for this project: AudioShare, iFunBox, AudioBus, Aum, Sony Soundforge 11

Video sources: DJI Phantom 4, Sony NX70U, iPhone & of course an iPad

Video creation & editing software: Magix VegasPro 14

***Very importantly I must say many, many thanks to dancer Monte Jones who graciously allowed me to video him with the Phantom4 on a sunny day, some time ago.***

Note that I had also wanted to add some EWI phrases to this video sound track. As of yet I haven't recorded anything I like, so I'll post this as is for now. I'll hope to upload an updated version with some EWI soon.
It's easy to forget (I know I'm guilty of it), but if you like this video please press the like button. Thanks for taking the time to watch & listen."

Nexus2 Demo - Hollywood Synth Edition

Published on Nov 8, 2017 Synth & Sundry

"A demo of 5 different sounds from the Hollywood Synth Edition 1 expansion pack for reFX Nexus2 VST. I'm using Ableton Live 9, Alesis Q61 keyboard and a Korg Nanokontrol which I set up to work with Nexus2 (work in progress). In the video I'm using the Nanokontrol mainly to control the cutoff and resonance in the filter modifier section of Nexus2. I also briefly try out the arpeggiator feature in Nexus2.

I used quite a few of these sounds extensively in my previous music album which can be heard here: [embed below]

Link to the expansion pack: https://refx.com/nexus/expansion/holl...

Sounds:
SY Soft Soul
SY The Abyss
SY Pearl Synth
BA Muffled and Distorted
LD Passive Saw

I recorded the video with a Canon 50D using magic lantern (h.264) - a bit cumbersome but had no other camera!"