"Excellent condition 309 - it looks and feels almost new - see photos. There are no wobbly pots or faulty switches and the screen is perfect. It has all the factory expansions and contains hundreds of classic sounds for electro, techno and electronic music, including all the classics - Roland TR-909, 808, 606, 303, 101, Juno, Jupiter, Moog etc. There is a great onboard sequencer and three built-in FX units, plus an 'Overblast' feature which is like a combined bass boost and overdrive.
The drum/percussion expander provides hundreds of extra drum sounds. The synth expander inreases the number of synth channels from one to three and adds lots of extra waveforms. The Audio expander includes four extra outs and also two inputs for processing external signals."
"Just having a little fun with the onboard sequencer on the first synth I ever bought back in 2000, the Roland JX3P. I’m using the onboard sequencer to play a little melody over some soft pad chords and when they are played over each other it’s this nice mushy rhythm that I think sounds pretty cool. Hope you enjoy it!"
"The little joke in the video stems from Swedish House Mafia and their track 'One'. This was a big club hit that sped up a looping bass drum sample into an audio rate tone and then the main riff was made from that. That's what I'm doing here with a looping sample chopped up into increasingly short loops to form a steady tone then using the pitch manipulation (which is wide ranging and amazing quality!) to create perfectly 1v/oct tracking new synth tones, really cool. The joke about Pharrell needing to sing on it so the radio will play the track (it's just a video demo patch, no real 'tracks') is down to the track 'One' having Pharrell added to a version of the track and then radio playing the track everywhere, all day for a long time. I thought I best explain that as I know some of you won't be interested in or follow much from the "pop world". Just having some fun with the patch, it's a great way to create new tones. Next video will be looking at one shot drum sounds and the linear FM.
Insane. Here is something you do not see everyday.
"Albert Van Abbe has been releasing gritty, atmospheric techno for over a decade on underground labels like Semantica and his own No Comment imprint, so we figured he'd know his way around a synth well enough to make a track in 10 minutes for our Against The Clock series.
However, we were completely unprepared for what we got when we caught up with him at the Willem Twee studios in the Dutch city of 's-Hertogenbosch. There, he opted to make his track on a giant wall of oscilloscopes, pulse generators and filters from the 1950s and '60s along with an ARP 2500. Eurorack this is not."
soundmachines (arches) tactile universal interface is now on Kickstarter. Click through for full details. Additional demo videos further below.
"Blending inspiration, power and ease of use, we created the perfect evolution of the concept of tactile controller. Built on the foundation of our first class touch interfaces (LS1lightstrip and LP1lightplane), found today on thousands of eurorack systems around the world, we designed a beautiful work of art and technology.
(arches) put a never seen before set of controllers at your fingertips. Sliders, lightstrips (with rec/loop capabilities), lightplanes/thumbpads with z-axis sensitivity and a row of pressure sensitive buttons. Behind those state of the art touch controllers lies a high-speed microcontroller that joins the elements to create keyboards, sequencers, arpeggiators and, finally, your perfect performance setup.
Soundmachines know-how in capacitive touch control surface is unparalleled in eurorack. With thousands of LS1lightstrips and LP1lightplanes in the market, is the name to consider when talking about reliable, simple and flawless touch CV generators/recorders. Following customer’s requests and nurturing interest for integrated, easy to use and alternative control interfaces, we came up with a series of ideas that adapted our robust technology to earlier concepts developed by the fathers of the modular synthesizers. The key target was the design and implementation of a carefully conceived product with the maximum attention to usability, highest possible degree of functionalities and an affordable pricing."
Published on Apr 24, 2018 Davide Mancini
Playlist:
1. (arches) demo #1
(arches) controlling a modulör114 vcos and filter...
Soundmachines universal tactile interface is alive!
(arches) demo #2
A more complex demo using the arches as the centerpiece of an improvisation. Left part is used as a position sensitive keyboard that drives one of the Modulor114 oscillators and the cutoff of the other oscillator (driven by a TuringMachine and the internal M114 quantizer). The second lightstrip opens the drum VCA, the third drives the bitcrusher that shreds a rhythmic pattern generated with a filter. The last lightstrip is used as a quantized controller that controls an SD1simpledrum in synth mode with a string patch bathed in the SD1 internal reverb....
3. (arches) prototype demo 3
(arches) demo #3
A dual voice, dual machines, demo (just the Modulör114 as sound source). Lefthand drives the main voice (saw wave and vcf) and three lightstrips used as: #2:pitch(quantized) to the second VCO, #3: triangle waveshaping and #4: triangle LFO amount to voice1 VCA. Internal Modulör114 effect used for the delay.
4. (arches) prototype demo 4
Left pad gate pings the filter of the Modulör114 with a short envelope and the Y axes modifies the filter freq. Right pad plays a whole tones scale on the X and changes the freq of the second VCO used as an LFO 9 on the X axis. The second lightstrip on the right side modulates the PWM of VCO1.
On the ((arches)) thumbpads are always available at outputs (x,y and pressure). You can choose individually to use a gate output or not.
5. (arches) prototype demo 5
Two keyboards drive two voices of the Modulör114. Left keyboard (KB3) drives the first VCO and sets the pwm with the slider position. Left thumbpad drives the VCF of the second VCO that is driven by the upper buttons keyboard (KB1).
6. (arches) prototype demo 6
In this ambient/melodic oriented demo, the (arches) controls three voices coming from two Modulör114 synths, a shaped triangle for the "solo" part, a composed heavily pwm'd bass and a saw/sub arpeggio. Each of those parts are controlled in timbre by some features of the (arches). Enjoy.
"Running a couple of Tiptop Audio Z3000 oscillators via TG3 bandpass filter and TG4 VCA from Future Sound Systems. First the low pitched one and later adding a hi pitched second oscillator. Manually changing the pitch of the first oscillator to check how it sounds at different frequencies and with sliding pitch. TG3 and TG4 are a part of Eurorack GRISTLEIZER modules.
TG4 is modulated by Z4000 (triggered by Trigger Riot)
