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Thursday, May 03, 2018

Superbooth 2018 - Spectrasonics Ominisphere 2.5


Published on May 3, 2018 sonicstate

Auto-mapping for your hardware synths. This is actually pretty interesting. In essence you can give your current hardware synths new synth engines. Yes, they are software hosted in Omnisphere, but as far as interface and interaction goes, it is your hardware. It's also worth noting some existing hardware synths require software editors to access hidden features, so this in essence allows you to access hidden synth engines? Pretty interesting when you look at it from that perspective. I wish all software synths did this. Yes you can map controls manually, but this is a little different when you think about it. Not only is it auto mapped for you, but the synth engines essentially become their hardware equivalents.

"New hardware templates allow control for similar voiced software voices within Ominsphere - its a really interesting idea and maps contrtols 1 for 1 of the hardware to Ominisphere - Eric Pering shows us what this means."

Superbooth 2018: Pittsburgh Modular Sequence Designer


Published on May 3, 2018 sonicstate

New Electronic Sequencer Designer 128.

See this post for a promo video from Pittsburg Modular.



4 Channel Performance Sequencer

• 4 Channel Sequencer
• Availabe as a eurorack module for $649 or in a standalone Blackbox enclosure for $699.
• Each channel up to 32 steps.
• Save and recall 32 sets of 4 sequences.
• Unified "Live Mode" or multiple "Page Mode" UI.
• Live mode divides us the 32 sliders between 2, 3, or 4 sequencers. It assigns the 32 sliders to the sequencers in 1 of 3 ways (2x 16 step sequences, 1x 16 step sequence and 2x 8 step sequences, or 4x 8 step sequences).
• Page Mode allows for 4x 32 step sequences at once.
• 11 quantized scale options with 2 programmable custom scales.
• Slider range assignable to 1, 3, 4, or 5 octaves.
• 8 sequencer direction modes. (forward, reverse, pendulum, stagger, skip, transpose, random, brownian)
• Start/stop all or just 1 sequence at once.
• Reset all or just 1 sequence at once.
• Shift notes between beats.
• Euclidean pattern generator for each sequencer.
• Independently assign swing to sequences.
• Independeltly assign scales and slider ranges to sequecnes.
• Independently assign gate length accents to sequences.
• Independently assign ratchet steps to sequences.
• Independently assign repeat steps to sequences.
• Almost all functions can be randomized for evolving sequences.
• Sliders output CV and Midi pitch changes when clock is stopped.
• Manually select active step when clock is stopped or running.
• 2 assignable CV inputs can modulate and/or trigger just about anything.
• Clock divider output with assignable and modulatable clock division.
• Dedicated CV and gate outputs for each sequencer.
• Independently assigned midi in channel and midi out channel for each sequencer.
• Each sequencer is assigned to a midi out channel and an assignable midi cc#.
• Midi input for sequence transposition.

153 mA +12V
49 mA -12V
0 mA 5V
40 mm deep

Superbooth 2018 - U-He CVilization Eurorack Module


Published on May 3, 2018 sonicstate

"Clever 4x4 io matrix with audio and CV processing and an innovative GUI is U-he first Eurorack module."

You can two previous posts featuring U-He's first entry into hardware here.

Superbooth 2018: Polyend & Dreadbox Medusa - More Synth and Sequencer Than You Can Imagine!


Published on May 3, 2018 sonicstate

Polyend Dreadbox Medusa Superbooth 2018 (no talking)

Published on May 3, 2018 Bonedo Synthesizers


And a pic.

Note there was a previous incarnation of the Dreadbox Medusa announced back in July of 2017. That one was an orange on black stand alone version lacking the additional Polyend sequencer.

KEYBOARDS: Superbooth 2018: First impressions in 3D-Audio


3. Mai 2018 Published on May 3, 2018 KEYBOARDS

"Superbooth 2018: First impressions in 3D-Audio - Recorded with the Sennheiser AMBEO Smart Headset"

Another Superbooth floor video to give you and idea what it would be like to attend.

Superbooth 2018 - Set Up Day Walkthrough


Published on May 2, 2018 DivKidVideo

"Here's a preliminary look at Superbooth 2018. A walk across the park into the FEZ (the venue) and off we go! Great to see familiar and new faces and meet people we only tend to see once or twice a year if at all. There's some hellos, silly stories including modular cases flying out of the back door of a rental car on the motorway and just some good fun all round. We walk through the venue, have a look at a few bits of gear before getting into the mass of videos to follow.

We're proud to have our Superbooth 2018 content sponsored by www.thonk.co.uk"

New Bastl Instruments TIMBER Introduction - Dual Waveform Lumberjack


Published on May 2, 2018 Bastl Instruments

"This is a walkthrough of Timbers features with short sound examples and waveform visualisation.
All parameters are explained briefly to give an insight to how Timber can be used to add harmonics
to simple waveforms or any signal."


via Bastl Instruments

dual waveform lumberjack

Timber is very flexible wave shaping module that can produce rich timbres by adding harmonics to simple waveforms (triangles and sinewaves) or any other signal. It has 2 different unique wave shaping circuits – I. – the WAVE DRIVER and II. -the WAVE FOLDER and voltage controlled crossfader to fade between the different circuits or between one of them and the clean input signal.

Both circuits share the same control voltages: the SHAPE which sets the input amplification before the wave shaping circuit and the SYMMETRY control which adds voltage offset to the input signal to provide various asymmetric overdrives or wave folding sounds. There is also voltage FBK CV jack which when provided with positive voltages feeds respective portion of the output signal back to the input which results in chaotic and aggressive behaviours. It is calibrated to work well with 5V gate voltages.

I. the WAVE DRIVER is an overdrive circuit with one folding stage and it has 2 configuration 3-way switches (9 different configurations). The drive switch can set the overdrive character to SOFT or HARD or something in between. The FOLD switch can set the folding threshold to HI or LO or it can turn the folding stage off in the NO position.

II. the WAVE FOLDER is a novel take on the serge style wavefolding circuit which has specific behaviour to abuse the high gain of the input amplification stage to provide rich high frequency timbres with higher settings of the SHAPE parameter. It has a configuration switch which can either activate clean 4 stage wavefolding in the OK position or highly asymmetric folding stage in the KO position that provides strange metallic character. The NO position provides only the very last overdrive-folding stage.

FEATURES:

I. WAVE DRIVER is overdrive circuit with one folding stage.
3-way DRIVE SWITCH to set character of overdrive (SOFT-MID-HARD)
3-way FOLD SWITCH to configure the folding threshold level (LO-NO-HI)
independent output I. OUT
II. WAVE FOLDER is 4 stage wavefolding circuit
3-way FOLD SWITCH to set character of folding stages (OK-NO-KO)
independent output II. OUTcommon INPUT for both circuits
SHAPE sets input amplification before signal enters waveshaping stages
SYMMETRY adds voltage offset to the input signal
SYMMETRY becomes bipolar attenuator when the jack is connected
X-FADE voltage controlled crossfader with bipolar attenuator
switch to select between INPUT and I. WAVE DRIVER for the left side of the X-FADE
X-FADE IN jack breaks normalisation of II. WAVE FOLDER on the right side of X-FADE
positive voltage at FBK CV jack sends signal from the output or II. back to the INPUT
TECHNICAL DETAILS:

7 HP
PTC fuse and diode protected 10 pin power connector
24mm deep
power consumption +12: < 50mA, -12: <50 mA

THYME - 20 SOUNDS - NO TALKING


Published on May 2, 2018 Bastl Instruments

"In this video we show some sound examples of THYME our robot operated digital tape machine.
All sounds are recorded directly from thymes stereo output. The examples feature varrious
settings resulting in different textures and rhythmic delay patterns. Certain parameters
are being changed over time by thymes internal automation units - the robots. The changes
can happen slower or in the lower audio domain synced to clock or in free run. Settings
are saved as "sounds" which can be recalled sequentially. THYME can make a delay sound like
its a totally independent track in the music and thus can be used in a very creative way."

More posts featuring THYME here.

New 2 05 18 Serge Modular System Videos by batchas


Videos [1] & [2] have been added to this post. I also created a playlist for all four videos.

Roland D-05 Boutique Part. 3


The third demo of Roland's D-5 from DKS SYNTH LAB has been added to the playlist here.
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