Korg Kronos 2 Review and Sound Demo

Published on May 11, 2018 Pure Ambient Drone

"Korg Kronos 2 review and sound demo. A demo of sounds and review of the Korg Kronos 2."

Meet the New Moog Grandmother

Update: official announcement with videos here.

This one in via MATRIXSYNTH reader, mario.

Update: Two new stock pics, and one in the box via JMP in the comments.

$899.00 List $999.00

"Limited-edition design created exclusively for Moogfest 2018.

To celebrate Grandmother’s debut at Moogfest 2018, the first 500 units have been marked with a limited-edition Moogfest 2018 badge and include a custom denim jacket from Moog. Get your Grandmother Moogfest 2018 Edition before they're gone!

Retro looks, cool vibe and a sound that's all Moog. Grandmother is a direct reflection of Moog's modular heritage, where the journey to creating sound is as much fun as the end result. There are no presets, so you'll have to rely on creative exploration and a basic understanding of synthesis to achieve any desired results, but nothing can compare to the joy and satisfaction of creating your own custom sounds. Just like its vintage predecessors, Grandmother's sound engine, modulation engine and onboard spring reverb tank are 100% analog. Want proof? Just give the desk a bump and listen to its springs rattle inside. With Grandmother, what you see is what you get. No menu diving, no recall, nothing to get in the way of you and your sound.

The Grandmother is a semi-modular synth, which means you can start playing it right out of the box without any patching. But if you want to experience the full creative potential of Grandmother, just use any of its 41 patch points to override its internal circuitry and create your own complex signal routing. Choose from 21 inputs, 16 outputs and a parallel-wired 4-jack mult. The options are only limited by your imagination, and with the ability to integrate Grandmother into other modular synths like the Mother-32 or DFAM, or even into larger Eurorack systems, the possibilities are infinite.

Analog Architecture
All the basic building blocks of a modular synth are included in the Grandmother's design, and even some welcomed extras. There are two analog oscillators each with their own selectable waveforms including triangle, sawtooth, square and pulse, with a hard sync button to align them appropriately. The analog LFO is perfect for adding some movement to your sound and with its audio-rate capability, it can act as a third oscillator for bigger, more aggressive sounds. There's also a classic Moog 4-pole 10Hz-20kHz Ladder filter, patchable 1-pole high-pass filter, and an analog ADSR envelope generator ready to sculpt your sound.

Beyond The Basics
The Grandmother would be an excellent machine with only the essentials, but Moog innovates further by adding in an analog hardware spring reverb tank that can add a subtle shine, while taming any harsh frequencies. The reverb tank can also be used to process external sources as a standalone effect. Grandmother also has a built-in arpeggiator that's easy to use and an onboard sequencer that can store up to 3 sequences with up to 256 notes each.

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Panoramic View by Codec 562

Published on Apr 22, 2018 Codec 562

"Majestic clouds after rain storms, rolling past towering wind machines, with birds hovering on the wind, enjoying a panoramic view."

Gear: Sequentix Cirklon. Vocal bit: NI Kontakt instrument: Voices of Rapture, by Soundiron, a nice sounding operatic singer sample-software instrument.

John Bowen Solaris - Analog Imitations 2016 by F5D

"A short track consisting of my custom Solaris patches, most imitating analog synthesizers. Includes also tracks with Waldorf wavetables. Some tracks have additional analog chorus and BBD delay in use + Relab LX480 as reverb. Limiting with Sonnox limiter."



"Some of my custom Solaris programs recorded in mono with and without fx, through modified Toft ATB analog mixer. Musically not very interesting, but to give an idea of how close to an analog synthesizer the fully digital Solaris can sound. Most sounds have been recorded without fx, but after 2:40 I introduce some analog Electro Harmonix guitar pedal fx (commented in the timeline). In the last two sounds I used the Waldorf wavetables and 'Jaws' (JP-80x0 supersaw) waveforms with logic digital stereo delay and Relab LX480 reverb. Some of the sounds utilize the built-in eq of the Solaris, but not the fx."

EMS SYNTHI 100 Livestream Coming Wednesday May 16

Synthi100 - prep for new show streamed live next week

Published on May 11, 2018 Honeysmack

"Streamed globally from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (University of Melbourne), this online event presents new interactive works featuring live performances on the Synthi 100 by Interactive Composition staff David Haberfeld, Anthony Lyons and Mark Pollard with pre-show talk by Les Craythorn.

More details here: http://precinct.finearts-music.unimel...

Where: This concert will be streamed here: mcm.unimelb.edu.au/community-engagement/concerts

Streamed live on Wednesday May 16 at:
3:00-4:30pm Melbourne (Australia)
2:00-3:30pm Tokyo
6:00-7:30am London
1:00-2:30am New York
10:00-11:30pm Los Angeles (Tuesday May 15)"

Qu-Bit Nebulae v2 Press Release & Pics

You can find previous posts featuring demos of the Qu-Bit Electronix Nebulae V2 here.

"Nebulae is a granular sampler and DSP platform. Its phase vocoder audio engine provides elastic audio, which can be time stretched, granularized, and mangled to no end. With independent control over pitch and speed, and granular controls such as overlap, window, and density, finding new sonic territory is only a knob turn away. Nebulae can use live audio input, a recorded buffer, or audio files as the source material for its powerful audio manipulations. The live input buffer can record up to five minutes of stereo audio at 48kHz, 24 bit. In addition, up to 75 MB of stereo audio can be loaded simultaneously through the USB port. No naming convention or special formatting necessary; just plug and play.

Nebulae lives a double life as an open source DSP platform with an extensive library of off the shelf alternate instruments. You can turn the module into a lush reverb, spectral delay, or tape-style looper simply by loading a new file onto the flash drive. Do you want to tweak one aspect of an existing instrument, even the default functionality? No problem. No prior coding knowledge is necessary to tweak and refine existing firmware to your liking or start with one of our templates. Alternate firmware files can be written with Pure Data, Csound, SuperCollider, and even bare-bones C programs.

- Granular sampler with time stretching capabilities
- 5 minute stereo recording buffer at 48kHz, 24 bit (In addition to file playback buffer)
- No naming convention or special formatting necessary for file playback
- Supports Pure Data, Csound, and SuperCollider alternate instrument files
- Ships with loaded USB flash drive ready to use
- Black aluminum front panel"

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GHOST IN THE MIRROR// OB-6, Prophet-6, Prophet-12, Juno-106, MS2000

Published on May 10, 2018 MR TUNA Music

"Getting geared up for an all new jam. Capman dances with his ghost and there's some totally bitchin' riffs in there somewhere!"

DSI Prophet Rev2 (Presets Part 3)

Published on May 11, 2018 3rdStoreyChemist

"Going through the preset sounds & sequences on the Rev2 synthesiser (8 voice).

No further processing used except for normalisation."

All parts here.

Superbooth 2018: Soulsby Synths Atmultitron 8 Voice Poly Synthesizer | SYNTH ANATOMY

Published on May 11, 2018 SYNTH ANATOMY

"Soulsby Synths presented the Atmultitron, a 8 voice digital poly Synthesizer based on the Atmegatron technology. One of the very unique synths on this year's Superbooth !

Join the Patreon page to get access to free sound content (sample & preset libraries, free plugins... & participate on exclusive giveaways) https://www.patreon.com/synthanatomy"

ELKA OMB 5 Review - Italo Disco from hell! Or heaven?

Published on May 11, 2018 Espen Kraft

"Elka OMB 5 - One Man Band. Released somewhere in the mid to late 80s and is somewhat of an enigma to me in terms of usage.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1dMWi...

It has the drums from the excellent Drumstar 80 drum machine, but without individual outs and only a balance fader between kick/snare and the hats, it falls kind of short in the "usable" category. The bass preset bank is ok and has some fine FM basses to chose from. The two synth preset banks is nothing to focus on and they should really be left out of the eqation. There are no analog sounds here, it's all digital.
Another sound that don't come through in the video is the fantastically annoying built-in fan that sounds like a defect car exhaust system. This makes the OMB 5 pretty useless in any studio situation unless you're fine with getting a permanently hearing damage.
However, if you find the right balance between the drums, program your own pattern, and play the bass part over an external sequencer you'll find that the OMB 5 has very nice low end and lots of "oompf" to get a solid Italo Disco going!
As you can sync the drums to external clock it's a breeze to integrate this machine into your setup and it's will hold it's own!

My tracks pay homage to all synth-pop acts of the 80'ies like Howard Jones, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Thompson Twins, Tears for Fears, Ultravox, OMD, Euryhmics, Duran Duran, Giorgio Moroder, Jean Michel Jarre, Jan Hammer, Alphaville, A-ha and many more."