Drax Response Jam Clips

Published on Mar 12, 2018

"Jamming at Thomas Heckmann’s studio for our Drax Response release"

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Some major synth spotting in these. Check out the wall of Roland System 100m.

DAF-style crossover acid with Deluge, Moog Sub Phatty, MBase 11, 303 etc

Published on Mar 12, 2018 Shimanski Beats

"Trying out the new 1.4 firmware of the Deluge with the new note probability & iteration dependence functions which I consider a real blessing! This song consists of only one 1-bar-pattern but several tracks contain some conditional notes and notes with 1/x iterations which make the whole thing sound like longer patterns or complex pattern chains.

Furthermore, this is the first time I use my recently acquired Jomox MBase 11 in a live jam. Damn this thing has analog power.

Instruments used:
Jomox MBase 11: Bass drum
Synthstrom Audible Deluge (additional drums; hardware sequencer)
Moog Subphatty: Lead bassline
Cyclone Analogic Bassbot TT-303: acid line 1 (through TC Dark Matter and TC Vintage Delay X4)
MAM MB33 Retro: acid line 2
Waldorf Streichfett: strings

external effects: Lexicon MX200 (chorus & delay), TC M350 (delay), TC M-One XL (reverb)

If you like this music, please give a thumbs up, leave or comment and/or subscribe.

Cheers!

(c) Shimanski Beats 2018"

The Digitone Experience

Published on Mar 12, 2018 MrDataline

"Download the 4-track EP and Sysex file used in this session for your own Digitone.
16 Patterns (4 of them from the EP) and 32 Sounds.
https://dataline.bandcamp.com/album/t...
The download comes with a set of instructions on how to transfer the Sysex data on to your Digitone."

Dave Smith Instruments In The Spotlight With the REV2 and Cypriot Pianist Nicolas Melis

You can find the full interview on DSI's website here.

"Cypriot Pianist Nicolas Melis enjoys an international career performing as a concert soloist as well as a keyboardist. At a young age, he represented Cyprus at the international music festival Steinway for Young Pianists in Hamburg, Germany. A graduate of the University of Music and Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy,” Melis, who has studied Piano Performance in Classical music and Contemporary Improvisation, has won numerous competition awards both at a national and international level including the 1st Prize at the International Piano Competition for young musicians of H.O.N in Athens, Greece and a special prize at the 1st international piano competition of E.P.T.A. in Zagreb, Croatia amongst others.

He is a founding member of Cyprus’ leading blues band, The Zilla Project, who released their first album This One’s for the President in 2014. The band has successfully collaborated with a number of international artists including Adam Levy (USA), Bex Marhsall (UK), Gil Edwards (N0R), The Blues Wire (GR), and Panos Mouzourakis (GR). After having toured Greece in 2016 they perfomed at the Palais Des Natios in Geneva, Switzerland and enthused their audience with three more performances in the city. The band has also performed in London and headlined the August Full Moon festival in Crete.

Recently Melis collaborated and recorded keys for Loizos Pafitis’album The Underdog, and is slated to record for alternative rock band Belua’s second album. The Zilla Project’s next album is expected to be released in 2019.

We chatted with him about how he’s using the Prophet Rev2."

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You can find previous posts featuring DSI's Spotlight series here.

Strymon Magneto Eurorack 4 Head Tape Delay & Spring Reverb

Published on Mar 12, 2018 Perfect Circuit Audio

"This video shows a few of the sounds you can get with the Strymon Magneto which is Strymon's first eurorack module, an emulation of a four head tape delay with spring reverb. The Magneto can go from clean delays to saturated old crinkly tape in a broken warbly tape machine. The Magneto also has looping and sampling modes where the tape transport can be controlled with buttons or cv gates.

Magneto ordering information here: https://www.perfectcircuitaudio.com/m..."

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MTBLSM MECHANISM Demo Videos & New Pics

Published on Sep 19, 2017

"Please visit http://www.mtblsm.com for more info"

This is a follow-up to the announcement post yesterday. P.S. Some of you might have noticed the link to MTBLSM re-directed back here. I missed the "http://" in the link and Blogger doesn't handle it when you do. Apologies for that. The link is fixed. Thanks goes to John L Rice for catching it.

The following are few new pics captured from the MTBLSM website. It's cool to see some of the people behind the project!

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New Loops Announces Release of Trap Construction Kits

"New Loops has announced the release of Trap Construction Kits.

Included is over 400 Trap samples (including multi-samples) and more than 150 Trap loops as well as over 80 sampler patches. You’ll find huge Trap kicks, rolling hi hats, punchy snares, melodic plucks, epic sound effects, vocals, basses and loads more.

New Loops Trap Kits is available in 2 separate formats - Wav Pack, and Reason ReFill (sold separately).

Price: £20. More info and free demo pack available from New Loops."

Newloops.com

Mutable instruments Rings vs Yamaha Reface CP

Published on Mar 12, 2018 ollilaboratories

"If you like my stuff please support me on http://music.ollilab.com/ and https://www.patreon.com/theBURG

A thought hit me, one of the modes in the MI rings has a striking resemblance to a wurly sometimes when played in a special way.. so, i thought, what the heck, lets pair it up with the reface CP and see what happens. :)

The reface CP goes into the modular, it gets processed with a Sound on Sound delay reel in the morphagene in reverse. The reface also controls the Mi Rings via the uMIDI interface. Now since the rings technically is monophonic (eg just one note per note pressed) but when in poly mode four notes will overlap creating this weird flow when i play it like a piano. Also if i do trills legato style the character becomes flutelike when the transients cannot be heard. So cool!

MI Rings is getting a slight bit of modulation on brightness, position and damping.. but only when is start the sequence with PAM, this to help change the reaction of the sound compared with the intro.

MI Braids has a saw/square setting, where i morph between the waveforms using an LFO. Filter is uVCF, 2 oclock on resonance. Sequenced by octone, a 5-step sequence (of course).

Expert sleeper disting, does the bass note, randomly triggered by the 2hp TM. Ripples filter, and a bit of overdrive into the uVCA.

Two channels come out from the modular, Reface CP + RIngs into the keeley caverns for some modulated reverb plus delay. MI braids and ES disting into the RE-20 for a fast TD style berlin school delay.

This setup is super creative, and really begs to play ambient noodles for ages and ages.. but i had to stop at some time to not bore you guys. :)

Gear used:
* Reface CP
* modular - https://www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/445007

FX used:
RE-20 space echo
Keeley electronics caverns

BooOoM!"

Moog DFAM Review

Published on Mar 12, 2018 Ask.Audio

"The Moog Drummer From Another Mother (DFAM) is here. Another semi-modular synthesizer following the same form factor as the Moog Mother 32. Aside from the onboard surface controls you get a 24 point patchbay for interconnectivity with other modular devices. Just like the Mother 32 this is a stand alone synthesizer but you can also use it as a Eurorack module."

Haz Mat's Arsenal of Synths, Drum Machines, Controllers, and Sequencers | The Process Episode 2

Published on Mar 12, 2018 Reverb

"Haz Mat dropped by to show us how to 'tame the beast' in the latest installment of our new series, "The Process." The live techno wizard from Detroit unleashed his magic in our studio, building beats and crafting textures on his impressive collection of sequencers, samplers, MPC, and invited us to watch him while he works.

Read more on Reverb:

View Hazmat's albums on Reverb LP: https://goo.gl/jgFJF4

Haz Mat's Set Up:

1:50 - Roland JD-Xi
2:05 - Pioneer Toraiz SP-16
2:25 - Roland TR-8
2:38 - Akai MPC Live
3:12 - Arturia Beatstep Pro, Moog Minitaur
3:30 - Roland MC-505 Groovebox
4:27 - Korg Mono/Poly
5:46 - Yamaha Motif
7:26 - Talkbox"